TANEYEV: Piano Quartet in E major, Op. 20
DVOŘÁK: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 87
Hyeyoon Park is an artist of “technical brilliance and overwhelming virtuoso fire” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Her performances are distinguished by a “vast range of tonal colours” and “expressive intonation”, captivating audiences around the world (The Guardian and Coburger Tageblatt).
During the 2025/26 season, Hyeyoon Park made her debut with the Bursa State Symphony Orchestra and performed with the European Doctors’ Orchestra at Cadogan Hall under Grant Llewellyn. The current season also sees the release of the album Silenced for Linn Records, featuring Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto and Bosmans’ Concert Piece for violin and orchestra with the WDR Symphony Orchestra.
Recent highlights of Hyeyoon Park’s career include performances with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, Mainz Orchestra and Poznań Philharmonic, as well as appearances at the Hitzacker Festival and Cologne Philharmonie, with the Zuger Sinfonietta and Iași Philharmonic at the Classix Festival. She has also performed with orchestras including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Mariinsky Orchestra in St Petersburg.
A passionate chamber musician, Hyeyoon Park has developed a strong artistic partnership with Kian Soltani, Timothy Ridout and Benjamin Grosvenor, performing with them at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Philharmonie Luxembourg and Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. Park and Grosvenor also regularly perform at the Risør Chamber Music Festival in Norway, both as a duo and in other chamber formations. Other recital appearances include Grieg’s Violin Sonata No. 3 at the IMUKO Festival in Koblenz, FIMUV24 in Portugal and the Nymphenburger Sommer Festival in Munich.
In 2022, Hyeyoon Park released an album for Decca Classics to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Vaughan Williams, recording The Lark Ascending in its original version for violin and piano with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. The recording was praised for its “sweeping beauty with an almost conversational intimacy” by Record Review on BBC Radio 3, further consolidating Park’s position among the most compelling violinists of her generation.
Recognised as a distinguished soloist by many leading conductors, Timothy Ridout collaborates with Richard Egarr and the Residentie Orkest, Roberto Abbado and the Orchestra Filarmonica di Bologna, Mark Wigglesworth and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Hermus and the Ulster Orchestra, as well as Sir Simon Rattle and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
A highly accomplished chamber musician, Timothy Ridout continues to present both solo and ensemble programmes in major concert halls.
From March 2026, he is Guest Artistic Director at Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Frühling. He also continues his three-year residency with Junge Wilde at the Konzerthaus Dortmund and performs three different programmes at Wigmore Hall.
In 2025, Timothy Ridout won the Opus Klassik Award in the category “Young Instrumentalist of the Year” for his first solo viola album, featuring works by Telemann, Bach, Britten and Shaw.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and Kronberg Academy, Timothy Ridout has received numerous distinctions, including First Prize at both the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the Cecil Aronowitz Competition. A former BBC New Generation Artist, he has also received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and the 2023 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Young Artists. He was the first recipient of the Sir Jeffrey Tate Prize from the Hamburger Symphoniker and took part in the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Timothy Ridout plays a viola made by Peregrino di Zanetto between 1565 and 1575, generously loaned by a patron of the Beare’s International Violin Society.
Described by The Times as an “outstanding cellist” and by Gramophone as “sheer perfection”, Kian Soltani combines depth of expression and technical mastery with a charismatic stage presence. He is currently a regular guest of leading orchestras, conductors and concert halls around the world, establishing himself as one of the most prominent cellists of his generation.
Kian Soltani has performed with renowned orchestras including the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Staatskapelle Berlin, Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National de France and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
He is also a regular guest at major festivals including the Verbier Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Dvořák Prague Festival, Bregenzer Festspiele, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Grafenegg Festival and Salzburg Festival.
In 2017, Kian Soltani signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon, releasing his acclaimed debut album Home in 2018, featuring works by Schubert, Schumann and Reza Vali. Gramophone described the album as “sublime”. In 2020, he recorded Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim. In 2024, he released an album devoted to Schumann with Camerata Salzburg, featuring the Cello Concerto and transcriptions of Lieder. His 2021 album Cello Unlimited earned him the Innovative Listening Experience Award at the 2022 Opus Klassik Awards.
Born in Bregenz, Austria, into a family of Persian musicians, Kian Soltani began playing the cello at the age of four. At just twelve, he entered Ivan Monighetti’s class at the Basel Music Academy. In 2014, he received a scholarship from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation and completed his studies at the Kronberg Academy in Germany and the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein.
Kian Soltani plays the 1694 “London ex Boccherini” Stradivari cello, generously loaned by the Beare’s International Violin Society.
British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has built an acclaimed international career as both a soloist and chamber musician, reflected in his extensive discography for Decca Classics.
During the 2025/26 season, Benjamin Grosvenor performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Rouvali, Filarmonica della Scala and Honeck, and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and made his debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He also performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the London Symphony Orchestra and toured Australia and New Zealand.
Previous concert engagements include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre National de France and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
In the United Kingdom, Grosvenor has performed with all the major London orchestras and has appeared repeatedly at the BBC Proms, including both the First Night and Last Night. In addition to a solo recital at the Royal Albert Hall, his Proms appearances have included works by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Busoni, Shostakovich and Britten.
Benjamin Grosvenor has collaborated with conductors including Marin Alsop, Elim Chan, Edward Gardner, Paavo Järvi, Nathalie Stutzmann, Krzysztof Urbański and Kazuki Yamada.
In 2011, Benjamin Grosvenor signed an exclusive contract with Decca Classics, becoming the youngest British musician ever to sign with the label and the first British pianist to do so in almost sixty years. His extensive discography includes solo, chamber and concerto recordings and has received numerous distinctions, including Chocs de l’année, Prix de Caecilia, Diapason d’Or de l’Année and Gramophone Awards. His most recent release focuses on Chopin’s solo piano repertoire.
Benjamin Grosvenor is an ambassador for Music Masters, a charity dedicated to making music education accessible to all children, regardless of background, while supporting diversity and inclusion.
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