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George Borisov
Dr. George Borisov received his professional training in the Soviet Union and since the 1980s has been performing in solo and ensemble concerts throughout the United States, Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, France, Norway, Romania, China, and Indonesia. He is a founder and president of the International Golden Key Musical Festival at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center (USA), and also affiliated with it the Golden Key of Vienna Music Festival (Austria) and Golden Key Piano Composition Competition (USA). George Borisov is frequently invited as a jury member for International piano competitions and, as a judge, he is a member of Rosario Marciano Piano Competition since 2012.
George Borisov received a Doctoral degree in Musicology (Ph.D.) from the All-Russian Institute of Musicology (Moscow, USSR), with a dissertation on the history of musical culture in the southern areas of the Russian Empire. He contributed numerous articles on musicological subjects in professional journals both in the United States and Russia. Dr. Borisov is the author of the books and music albums From the Past of Kuban’s Culture (USSR, 1989), Domenico Alberti and His Sonatas (New York, USA 2007), From the Cradle of the Classical Music (USA 2013), Vladimir Drozdoff: Selected Piano Miniatures (Sydney, Australia 2018), and 24 Preludes for Piano by Vladimir Drozdoff (Sydney, Australia, 2023). He has been invited to give master classes and performances at academic institutions such as Yale University, the University of New Heaven, the City University of New York, the University of Tennessee (USA), Tongji University (Shanghai, China), West Australian University (Perth, Australia), Ovidius University (Constanta, Romania), and others.
Chema Casanova
José María (Chema) Casanova Ródenas combines a solid musical background with training in economics and management. He graduated in Piano from the Murcia Higher Conservatory of Music in 2009 and obtained a diploma from Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA) in 2010. He later completed an MBA at ENAE in 2011. Alongside his artistic career, he serves as Managing Director of Actividades e Inversiones Muralmur S.A., whose cultural division has been ClaMo Music (Classical and Modern Music) since 2014. In 2014, he founded ClaMo Music together with his sister Victoria Casanova, also a pianist and music educator. Since its creation, ClaMo Music has developed an intense artistic and educational activity with a strong focus on piano. This work expanded through the organization of piano masterclasses and, in 2015, the creation of the ClaMo Region of Murcia International Piano Competition. Driven by his musical versatility, Casanova founded Unrisen Queen, a tribute band recognized by Queen’s original circle as one of the most prestigious Queen tribute projects worldwide. In 2017, Casanova stepped away from Unrisen Queen to focus on his artistic and cultural projects, marking the beginning of a long-standing collaboration with Pro Música Águilas, through which prize-winning pianists from the ClaMo Competition were regularly invited to perform piano and orchestra concerts and recital series. Between 2015 and 2022, ClaMo Music and Casanova maintained a close collaborative relationship with Pro Música Murcia. Since 2017, he has served as Artistic Director of the ClaMo Region of Murcia International Piano Competition and, at the recommendation of the competition’s jury members, has also held the position of President of the Jury, a role he continues to hold today.In 2018, Chema Casanova was named Musician of the Year by Pro Música Murcia. That same year, he was invited to Berlin as a jury member of the 1st International Mozart Competition and to Barcelona to attend the world’s first piano competition convention, organized by the ALINK–Argerich Foundation.In 2022, he was invited to Utrecht and Amsterdam in connection with the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition, participating both as an attendee and as a guest speaker. In parallel, he collaborated for five consecutive years in the successful “Pianos in the Street” initiative. To date, thanks to the ClaMo Competition, more than 300 international pianists from over 30 countries have participated in events in the city. This activity has included numerous masterclasses, over 40 musical events, and 48 piano-and-orchestra concerts with symphony orchestras, jointly organized by ClaMo Music and Pro Música Águilas. Since 2015, Chema Casanova has worked with renowned figures in the piano world such as Aquiles Delle Vigne, Boyan Vodenitcharov, Milana Chernyavska, Gabriel Escudero, Pilar Valero, Olivier Cazal, Yves Robes, Vitaly Pisarenko, Tamara Kordzadze, Roland Pröll and Pedro Valero, as well as conductors including Félix Ardanaz, Salvador Brotons and Julio García Vico, among others.
Michael Korstick
Michael Korstick, born in Cologne in 1955, studied among others with Hans Leygraf in Hanover and Tatiana Nikolaieva in Moscow, before completing his training with a seven-year course of study at The Juilliard School in New York under Sascha Gorodnitzki. He is a prizewinner of major international piano competitions and performs worldwide, with a repertoire that includes 140 piano concertos as well as solo works from all musical periods.
Among the more than 100 orchestras with which Korstick has collaborated are such renowned ensembles as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, Seoul Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. He has appeared in major music centers including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Cologne Philharmonie, Herkulessaal Munich, Musikverein Vienna, Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City, Seoul Arts Center, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Beijing, and the National Concert Hall in Taipei.
In addition, Korstick has established himself as one of Germany’s leading pianists through more than 60 award-winning CD recordings to date (Echo Klassik, German Record Critics’ Award, Cannes Classical Award). Alongside his cyclical performances of the complete piano concertos by Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff, Korstick has consistently championed rarely performed works and has appeared as soloist in several world premieres.
A particular focus of his repertoire is the music of Ludwig van Beethoven. Korstick has performed the complete cycle of the 32 piano sonatas numerous times in public and recorded them for the Oehms Classics label; in 2021, a complete recording of the piano concertos followed, made with the ORF Radio-Symphony Orchestra Vienna. Critics have praised his recordings for setting “new interpretative standards” (Stereoplay) and have described him as “one of the most important Beethoven interpreters of our time” (Fono Forum). In 2022, the jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) honored him with the Special Achievement Award for his recording work.
Stephan Möller
Stephan Möller was born in Hamburg, Germany. He studied piano performance and orchestra conducting in Hamburg, Bremen and Salzburg. In 1985, he was a prize-winner at the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna, Austria; from 1983 until 1989 he worked at the Salzburg Festival, assisting Herbert von Karajan and other world-famous conductors. Stephan Möller has been busily concertizing all over Europe, the USA, Japan and China; in 2020 he planned a tour with 32 performances of Beethoven's 32 sonatas on 6 continents. Among his CD recordings, there are such rarities as Beethoven’s "Grosse Fuge" and the complete piano music by R. Wagner. From 1990 until 2020, Stephan Möller was on the faculty of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. He is president of the association "Vienna International Pianists"; in 2009 he founded the Rosario Marciano International Piano Competition.
Tetiana Shafran
Ukrainian pianist Tetiana Shafran is the prizewinner of 30 international piano competitions, including First Prize and the Gold Medal at the Olga Kern International Piano Competition (USA, New Mexico).
Tetiana has appeared as a guest artist at numerous international festivals, among them the Shenzhen International Music Festival (China), Bosnia International Music Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Tolima International Piano Festival (Colombia), Portland Piano International (USA), Gabala Music Festival (Azerbaijan), Milan Piano Series (Italy), and the Odyssey International Music Festival (USA).
She has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls across Europe, North and South America, Africa, Australia, and Asia, including the Shenzhen Grand Theatre (China), Lindeman Hall (Oslo, Norway), Llewellyn Hall (Canberra, Australia), Popejoy Concert Hall (New Mexico, USA), the Lied Center (Kansas City, USA), the Main Hall of Palau de la Música (Valencia, Spain), Theatre Mohammed V (Rabat, Morocco), Sala Cecilia Meireles (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Felicja Blumental Music Center (Tel Aviv, Israel), and the Congress Hall in Gabala (Azerbaijan), among many others.
Tetiana has performed with numerous orchestras and renowned conductors, including maestros D. Yablonsky, V. Sirenko, H. Earle, F. Krager, G. Glinka, R. Minczuk, and M. Dyadyura. Her performances have been recorded and broadcast by radio and television in the USA, Italy, Israel, Spain, and Ukraine.
In 2023, Tetiana’s debut CD album was released on the Steinway & Sons label in New York and received outstanding reviews from music critics.
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tetiana Shafran began playing the piano at the age of three. She graduated from the Lysenko Special Music School and later from the National Music Academy of Ukraine, where she studied with A. Vasin (2012). From 2013 to 2018, she continued her studies at the Oxana Yablonskaya Piano Academy (USA–Israel, Spain–Israel) under Professor Oxana Yablonskaya. Since 2025, Tetiana has been the resident pianist of the Fryderyk Concert Hall in Warsaw.