Jury Edition 2024

In 1996, his recording of sonatas and pieces of Schubert was recognized by the Viennese Schubert Institute like the best Schubert’s records in the world, season 1995/1996. He finished the Moscow State conservatory Tchaikovsky. His teachers were A.Artobolevskaya, A.Mndoyants, A.Nasedkin, T.Nikolaeva and M.Voskresensky. Yury Bogdanov was awarded several prizes and ranks of the winner at the international competitions: I.S.Bach in Leipzig 1992 (III Prize), F.Schubert in Dortmund 1993 (II Prize), F.Mendelssohn in Hamburg 1994 (III Prize), F.Schubert in Vienna 1995 (Grand Prix), E. Honens in Calgary (IV Prize), S.Seiler in Kitzingen, 2001 (IV Prize). Bogdanov is the winner of the Festival «April spring» in Pyongyang in 2004 and the owner of a special prize at the international competition of pianists in Sydney in 1996. In 1992 the pianist was awarded with the 1st grant A.Scriabin. In Scriabin house-museum in Moscow Yuri Bogdanov in 1989 played his first solo recital. Since then the pianist made concert activity, played more than in 150 cities of Russia and abroad. He had been on concert tours in Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Norway, North Korea, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay, USA and many other countries. He is the soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic society. He had recorded 10 CDs. 
Yuri Bogdanov is a professor of Gnessin Russian Music Academy. His students won a lot of prizes of many international piano competitions. He also participated like a jury member of many international piano competitions. The pianist got the honorary title «The honored artist of Russia». Steinway & Sons company chosen him as the «Artist of Steinway». He headed the international organization «Ecology of culture» and international piano festival «Evenings of Art around Moscow» and international festival «Musical Krasnogorsk».

He is also Co-Artistic Director of the Rencontres musicales du Negresco and of the Samson François International Competition with pianist Olga Monakh, with whom they form the Siloti Duo.
After studying with Christine Gastaud at the Nice Conservatory, he entered Bruno Rigutto’s class at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 13, where he was awarded a 1st Prize in piano at 16 and completed the Cycle de Perfectionnement at 18.
He then continued his training at Berlin University of the Arts with Klaus Hellwig, graduating with top honors.
During master-classes, he also benefited from the advice of masters such as Dimitri Bashkirov, Oleg Maisenberg, Dominique Merlet, Jean-Claude Pennetier, John Perry, Charles Rosen, Kristina Steinegger and Vladimir Viardo.
A laureate of the Banque Populaire, Cziffra, Langart and Yvonne Lefébure foundations, Nicolas Bringuier has also distinguished himself in major international competitions: the youngest participant selected in 1998 for the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, he won the Grand Konzerteum in Greece in 2000 and was a finalist in the Pro Piano Competition in New York. 
In 2004 he won 2nd Prize and the Silver Medal at the prestigious Robert Schumann International Competition in Zwickau. He was also a medalist at the Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona, a semi-finalist at the Monte-Carlo Piano Masters and at the Warsaw Chopin Competition in 2005. 
Bringuier has a repertoire of over 30 Concertos, which he has performed with numerous European and Asian orchestras: the Berliner Symphoniker, the Wiener Concertverein, the Prague Philharmonic, the Toulouse Capitole, Zwickau-Plauen, Nice, Wuhan, the Cannes National Orchestra, the Avignon Symphony Orchestra of Castilla e Leon, the Balearic Symphony Orchestra and the Euro-Asian Orchester. ..
He is a guest at the most prestigious festivals, including Printemps des Arts in Monte-Carlo, Nuits du Suquet in Cannes, Festival de Colmar, Radio-France in Montpellier, Génération Virtuose in Antibes, Serres d’Auteuil, the Schwetzingen Festival in Germany, Mosel Festwochen and Klassik Festival Ruhr, Sonoro in Romania, Schermonnikoog in Holland, Alba in Italy and many others around the world.
His recordings of Schumann, Bartók and Fauré for the Audite and Klarthe labels have met with great critical success, winning the highest awards.
With pianist Olga Monakh and their Duo Siloti, they have performed at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Germany at his Schloss Bellevue residence, toured China 3 times and played together in most European countries.
A chamber music enthusiast, he has also performed with Andrej Bielow, Alexandra Conunova, Nicolas Dautricourt, Philippe Graffin, Julien Hervé, Gary Hoffman, Esther Hoppe, Alissa Margulis, Raphael Oleg, Régis Pasquier, Razvan Popovici, Estelle Revaz, François Salque, Istvan Vardai, Ukjin Yang, Alexander and Dana Zemtsov…
Lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts, Guest Professor at Inje University in South Korea, Nicolas Bringuier is now Professor at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. 
He is regularly invited to sit on the juries of prestigious international competitions.
His students have won numerous awards in recent years.

 He has won various piano and chamber music prizes, both at national and international competitions, and has performed both solo and as a member of various chamber music ensembles, in Italy and abroad, where his work has been greeted with acclaim by the public and critics alike.
 He has made recordings for the Italian State Broadcasting company RAI, and has edited the works of several lesser-known 19th century Italian composers for the “Quadrivium” record label.
As a member of a number of duos featuring Ciro Scarponi, Mario Ancillotti, Lorenzo Lucca, Guido Arbonelli and Roberto Fabbriciani, Michele Rossetti has recorded works for the Hyperprism record label.
Since 2006 he has been performing in duo with the violinist Katia Ghigi.
As well as playing as a concert pianist, Michele also teaches, regularly holding specialization courses at the Foligno International Music Master ( Italy), at the Poros Summer Piano Academy (Greece), at the Tirana Music Festival (Albania), in Gubbio Summer Festival (Italy), at the Académie Musicale Internationale de Colombes (Paris) and elsewhere.
 He edited the anthology “Conoscere Suonando” – a guided journey through the world of the piano – for the publishers Nuova Carisch-Warner Bros.
He is the Artistic Director of the International Piano competition “Città di Spoleto” held in Città di Spoleto (Italy) www.strumentiemusicafestival.com  and Artistic Director of the International Courses held in Foligno (Italy) www.umbriaclassica.com
He is often invited to be a member of the jury at National and International Competitions.