Urška Horvat is a young Slovenian cellist. She finished Postgraduate Artist Diploma in 2016with Distinction and Director’s Prize for Excellence in Strings at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance with internationally renowned cellist David Cohen.
Urška has worked with other great musicians such as Rick Stotijn, Ofer Falk, William Hagen, Valery Gergiev, Enrico Bronzi, Maria Kliegel, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Natalie Clein. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes from national and international competitions: 1st prize at the Music Club of London Competition 2017, Live Music Now 2017 supported by Yehudi Menuhin, Concordia Foundation 2017, 1st prize at the Soloists' Competition 2016, 1st prize at the Leonard Smith and Felicity Young Competition 2016, 1st prize at the Vera Kantrovitch Bach Competition 2015, TEMSIG national competition (Slovenia), Wettbewerb fur Violoncello Liezen (Austria), Young International Janigro Competition (Croatia).?
She has performed in Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Slovenia, Croatia and Turkey, both as a soloist and in various chamber ensembles and orchestras. Urška has appeared in venues including the Wigmore Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, St. James's Piccadilly, Cadogan Hall, King's Place, St. John's Smith Square, Southbank Centre, Flagey (Belgium).
Urška has been invited as a soloist and a chamber musician to participate in various festivals, such as Trondheim Chamber Music Festival (Norway), Borough New Music (London), Davos Festival (Switzerland), Les Sons Intensifs (Lessines, Belgium), Seeklang Hergiswil (Switzerland), 'I Giardini della Filarmonica' in Rome, Festival 'Côté Cour, Côté Jardin' (Belgium), Virenze Concerts Series (Netherlands), Glasbena mladina Ljubljanska (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Festival Lent (Maribor, Slovenia).?
She has recently become a member of Avant Piano Trio with whom they were selected as one of the four ensembles for prestigious Trondheim Chamber Music Academy in Norway in September 2018. They were also invited as Musicians in Residence for the Indian October Festival 2018, which took place all around India in a three week period consisting of concerts and masterclasses.
She is a member of Young European String Camerata, and a founder, with pianist Francesca Fierro and violinist Andrea Montalbano, of Tamesis Piano Trio, which has been awarded 2nd prize at TIM International Competition 2016, has been selected to play in the semifinal of St. Martin in the Fields Competition and became part of The Richard Carne mentorship programme at Trinity Laban. Urška is a member of the Aureus Trio, with Susannah Walsh (flute) and Alessandro Viale (piano), exploring works for flute, cello and piano. She is also playing in a cello duo, Duo Furioso with another young Slovenian cellist, Helena Švigelj. They performed in festivals in Belgium and Slovenia.
Among other performances, she appeared in a duo with accordionist Klemen Leben with whom she played German contemporary music in very successful concerts in Germany (Weimar, Dresden, Halle, Leipzig...).
Urška was also a member of a piano trio Amarilis (2008-2015) with whom she has received many rave reviews for their artistic pursuits and awards, including Prešeren Award of the Faculty of Music Ljubljana in the year 2011/12.
In June 2016 she performed Dvorák's Cello Concerto with Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra at Cadogan Hall. After she was invited to play the concerto again with London Euphonia Orchestra.
She plays a precious cello by JB Vuillaume dating from 1815.
Pinar Celik Warsi began playing the piano at the late age of 15. Her studies started at Istanbul Anatolian Fine Arts High School. In 1994 she was accepted to Turkey’s most prestigious conservatory, Istanbul University State Conservatory. She studied with the conservatory’s former principal, the renowned Professor Meral Yapali, one of Turkey’s most distinguished teacher. Pinar obtained her BMus with honours in 2000.
She continued her P.G. Diploma in performance at Royal Northern College of Music with Renna Kellaway in the UK. From 2001 to 2006 she worked at the Istanbul University State Conservatory as an accompanist and teaching students of varying ages and levels.
The highlights of her many solo and chamber music recitals in Turkey and abroad include the 26th Istanbul International Music Festival and the International Interfest Bitola Music Festival (with her trio, Trio Academia). Pinar has played in Istanbul’s most important venues such as Cemal Resid Rey Concert Hall, Is Sanat Concert Hall, Ataturk Cultural Centre, Caddebostan Cultural Centre and Austrian Cultural Centre. She played with Istanbul and Adana State Symphony Orchestras and Istanbul Chamber Orchestra. As well as in Turkey, Pinar has performed in Germany, Macedonia and London.
She has participated in master classes with Professor Sergei Dorensky, Irina Zaritskaya, Huseyin Sermet, Barry Synder, Andrei Diev, Leontina Margulis and Dianne Andersson.
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