Scholarships 2024

The Fedorova&Takser Piano Duo, known for their original transcriptions and creative media projects, was formed in 2010 by Daria Fedorova and Ilya Takser – Canadian musicians with Russian heritage and Ukrainian and Polish ancestry.

Daniel Philipp Witte took his musical training at the University of Music and Drama in his home city of Hamburg, as well as with Carol Meyer-Bruetting in Frankfurt am Main. He has sung Faust by Gounod to great acclaim at the Wernigeröder Schlossfestspiele. Guest appearances have also taken him to numerous German and international stages, including the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Theatre National de Bretagne, the Theater Lübeck, and the Volkstheater in Rostock.
In his early years, he was already involved in masterclasses connected with the Bayreuth Festival, the French Royaumont Foundation, and the International Vocal Competition in Hertogenbosch. He also was the recipient of prizes and scholarships from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz, as well as Neustart Kultur. As a lieder singer, he has worked with Irwin Gage, Rudolf Jansen, Julius Drake, Robert Holl, Edith Mathis and Burkhard Kehring.
Witte is presently active as a freelance singer, director, and project developer for cultural productions.

The talented musician who has the rich sound with a sensitive touch, pianist Jinah Kwon, a native of Korea, was born in 1984. She began playing the piano at the age of five. At the age of 12 years old, JinAh has since received the spotlight in many domestic and international competitions. During her youth, JinAh earned acclamations as the winner in the 1996, 1997, 1998 National Piano Competition in Korea, 2001 Ge Cheon Art Competition, 2001 National Piano Competition in Gyeong Sang Province, and 2001 Seo-Gyeong Newspaper competition. One newspaper quoted that she appears as a comet.