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   TRIO AROSA - piano trio
Frederieke Saeijs - violin
Maja Bogdanovic - violocello
Nino Gvetadze - piano
The ladies of Trio Arosa first got together for a musical adventure on invitation by the ‘Dutch Orchestra and Ensemble Academy’ in summer 2009. Frederieke Saeijs was ‘Artist in Residence’ during this Academy. She was supported by the Academy in making her dream come true of playing and performing together with two greatly appreciated musical friends: Georgian pianist Nino Gvetadze and Serbian cellist Maja Bogdanovic. The ladies of Trio Arosa experienced a magical musical click right away during the summer of 2009, and decided to stay and grow together as a musical team. In 2011 the trio had a 9-concert tour through The Netherlands, of which the last one was recorded for Dutch radio. The name Trio Arosa is linked to Achille Arosa, who was the godfather of Claude Debussy and an art-collectioneur of impressionist paintings.
Frederieke Saeijs (born 1979 in the Netherlands) started to play the violin aged seven. Her violin teachers were Lex Korff de Gidts, Peter Brunt and Jaring Walta.
Frederieke has won several prizes at (inter)national violin competitions: at al. Prinses Christina Concours (1995, 1998), Georges Enescu International Violin Competition (Bucharest, Roumania 2003).
In October 2005 Frederieke won the first Grand Prix-Academie des beaux arts at the International Jacques Thibaud-Marguerite Long Competition in Paris, France. Next to that she has been awarded 4 extra prizes: Prix de SAS le prince Albert II de Monaco, Prix Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer, Prize of the members of the Orchestre National de France and Prize of the students of the Conservatories of Paris. As a result Frederieke played recitals and performed as a soloist in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Scotland, Switserland and the USA.
As a soloist Frederieke performed with a lot of orchestras in Europe, Asia and America. She collaborated with conductors Matthias Bamert, Jonathan Darlington, Neeme Jarvi, Friedemann Layer, on Marin, Christoph Poppen, Vassily Sinaiski and Jaap van Zweden.
Maja Bogdanovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1982. After finishing studies at the Kosta Manojlovic Music School, she went to Paris, at the age of 16, to Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse, where she graduated and won 1st prizes for cello and chamber music. In Paris, where she now lives, she studied in the class of Michel Strauss, and post graduated studies with Itamar Golan and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. She continued the studies in UDK of Berlin with Jens Peter Maintz. In 2007, she won first prize in the Aldo Parisot International Cello Competition in South Korea, second prize and the audience award at the Gaspard Cassado Competition in Japan in 2006, where she performed with Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. She was awarded the 3rd prize at the Jeunesses Musicales competition in Belgrade in 2005, as well as 3 special prizes.
Maja has played with Serbian Radio Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, Munchenner kammerorchester, St George Strings, St Bartholomew orchestra, Aguascalientes Symphony, Monterrey Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Wonju Philharmonic, Sejong soloists, Garde Republicaine.
Her chamber music partners throughout many concerts and festivals include pianists Masha Belooussova, Jean Claude Vanden Eynden, Julien Gernay, Sanja and Lidija Bizjak violinists Nemanja Radulovic, Frederieke Saeijs, Gil Sharon, Grigory Zhislin, violist Vladimir Mendelssohn, cellists Michel Strauss and Alain Meunier, clarinettists Philippe Berrod, Sandrine Vasseur as well as string quartets Talich and Ebene.
Nino Gvetadze's career blossomed after winning the Second Prize, Press Prize and Audience Award at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht in 2008. Soon after her success at the Liszt Competition Nino received a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2010.
Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, Nino Gvetadze studied with Veronika Tumanishvili, Nodar Gabunia and Nana Khubutia. After her graduation in the Tbilisi Conservatory, Nino moved to the Netherlands, where she studied with Paul Komen and Jan Wijn.
From the age of 6 Nino has performed with orchestras. She has played with such conductors as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Michel Plasson, Michel Tabachnik, Jansug Kakhidze, Martin Sieghart and John Axelrod, and performed with such orchestras as the Brussels Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Dutch Radio Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hague Residence Orchestra, Limburg- and Brabants Symphony, Rheinische Philharmonie and Seoul Philharmonic.
She has participated in various music festivals around the world including chamber music with Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the Spoleto Festival, Bayreuth, Germany, , Pro Musica Preisträger am Klavier-Zyklus in Hannover, Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin, Germany, Brahms Festival in Brussels, Belgium and many others.
In 2009 Nino was appointed as Artist in Residence in the Anton Philips Hall, The Hague, Netherlands.
In March 2010 she performed on the famous Grand piano of Vladimir Horowitz live on Dutch Television. In 2009 Brilliant Classics released a CD of Nino Gvetadze featuring the piano repertoire of Modest Mussorgsky. Together with violinist Frederieke Saeijs, she recorded complete Sonatas of Carl Maria von Weber for Naxos. Her radio recordings are frequently broadcast by different channels of European TV and Radio.
 CLARINOTTS - clarinet trio
The clarinet trio "Clarinotts" with Ernst Ottensamer (solo clarinet player of the Vienna Philharmonic) and his sons Daniel (solo clarinet player of the Vienna Philharmonic too) and Andreas (solo clarinet player of the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin), founded in 2005, wants to make public the rare literature for three clarinets and for related instruments as bassett horn, bass clarinet or Es-clarinet.
The repertoire of the trio includes original compositions for one till four clarinets and also arrangements, also with piano, played by guests and the members of the trio.
Numerous concerts in some countries of Europe, Japan and USA and in famous concert halls as in Wiener Musikverein, Brucknerhaus Linz, Musikverein Graz, Innsbruck, etc. and at festivals (Pannonisches Forum, Gottfried v. Einem Tage, Salzburger Schlosskonzerte, Internationale Musiktage Dürnstein, etc.).
2009 appeared a CD with works for 2 clarinets and basset horn at Octavia Records.
 WIENER VIRTUOSEN - members of the Vienna Philharmonic
The basic cast of the ensemble is a string quartet with double bass and a wind quintet, regarding the repertoire it can be made bigger or smaller. The literature includes works from Viennese classic till music of the 20th century, played with single strings and winds as in the score written and also arrangements made for the ensemble.
Many well known soloists appeared in many concerts with the Wiener Virtuosen in several countries of Europe, USA and Japan.
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