Wayne Marshall OBE (born 13 January 1961) is an English pianist, organist, and conductor.

British conductor, organist and pianist Wayne Marshall is world-renowned for his musicianship and versatility on the podium and at the keyboard. He served as Chief Conductor of WDR Funkhaus Orchestra Cologne 2014-2020, became Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi in 2007 and is a celebrated interpreter of Gershwin, Bernstein and other 20th century composers.

As organ recitalist, he has an exceptionally varied repertoire and performs worldwide and online to an audience of millions. He gave a spectacular online recital at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg in the 19/20 season and future plans include returns to Philharmonie de Paris and Royal Albert Hall.

Recent conducting highlights include his critically-acclaimed debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker at the famous Waldbuhne concert featuring Martin Grubinger, a widely-praised new production Porgy and Bess at Theater an der Wien, Tonkunstler Orchestra, Czech, Rotterdam, Oslo and Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestras, SWR for a special Frank Zappa project, touring Bernstein’s Wonderful Town with Het Gelders Orkest and ReisZuid-Nederland, Shanghai Philharmonic, a concert version of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess with the Prague Radio Philharmonic and UK touring with Chineke! and BBC Singers.

David Briggs (b. 1962) is one of the world’s foremost concert organists, renowned for his electrifying improvisations, masterful transcriptions, and deeply expressive performances. With a career rooted in both cathedral tradition and international concert stages, Briggs has captivated audiences worldwide through his artistry and innovation.

A former organ scholar at King’s College, Cambridge (1981–1984), Briggs began his professional journey as Assistant Organist at Hereford Cathedral, followed by appointments as Organist at both Truro and Gloucester Cathedrals. His playing reflects a profound influence from French masters Jean Langlais and Pierre Cochereau—mentors whose legacy he has championed through study, performance, and transcription. His eleven-year project transcribing Cochereau’s recorded improvisations is widely considered a landmark achievement in organ literature.

Briggs studied improvisation in Paris with Langlais, and in 1993 became the first British organist to win the coveted Tournemire Prize for improvisation at the St Albans International Organ Festival. Today, he is in high demand as a soloist, performing across Europe, North America, Australia, and beyond.

In addition to his performance career, Briggs is a prolific composer of organ and choral works, many of which are widely performed and recorded. His approach to music is defined by emotional depth, technical brilliance, and a refusal to present the organ in purely academic terms—each concert is a dramatic, immersive experience.

Jean-Paul Imbert was born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1942. He studied piano and organ and at the age of 15 he became the organist of the church of Saint Joan of Arc.

He studied in Paris from 1962 to 1965 and received tuition from Pierre Cochereau and Jean Guillou. In 1971 he became a substitute for the great organ of Saint-Eustache in Paris and remained so until 1993.

In 1988 he had the honour of playing at the opening concert of the World Congress of Organists on the great organ of Kings College in Cambridge and in 1993 he was appointed the titular organist of the Kleuker organ of Notre-Dame des Neiges in Alpe d'Huez, responsible for the organisation of concerts with renowned organists from all over the world.

In 1988 he had the honour of playing at the opening concert of the World Congress of Organists on the great organ of Kings College in Cambridge and in 1993 he was appointed the titular organist of the Kleuker organ of Notre-Dame des Neiges in Alpe d'Huez, responsible for the organisation of concerts with renowned organists from all over the world.

From 1997 to 2006 he was the organist of Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours in Paris He has performed all over the world. France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland, England and is a professor at the Schola Cantorum in Paris.

Jean-Paul has made several organ transcriptions of symphonic works: Liszt's Preludes, Prokofiev's Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Richard Wagner's Prelude de Tristan and Isolde, Verdi's Ave Maria and an introduction to the Seven Last Words of Christ by Haydn.

In 2004 he was appointed Knight of Arts and Letters and in 2010 he was promoted to the rank of Arts and Letters Officer by the Minister of Culture. In 2014, he was awarded the medal of knight of the Palmes Académiques.

Mi Ja KIM Born in Korea, Kim received a singing diploma from the music department of the National University of Chonnam in 1991 and the highest degree in singing lessons from the National Conservatory of Chalon-Sur-Saone, France.

Kim graduated with singing, harpsichord, musical analysis, theory, chamber and choir degrees at the National Conservatory of Dijon.

Kim has also studied at the music therapy department of the Schola Cantorum in Paris from 2004 to 2006. Kim is soloist at the recital and currently directs the choir of Amis Voix in France.

Jean-Marie Fritz studied classical philology and french literature at Paris (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Agrégation, PhD) and also studied the organ with Pierre Vidal at the Conservatory of Strasbourg, and then with Jean-Paul Imbert at Schola Cantorum in Paris in 1987 where Fritz unanimously received his concert diploma.

From 1986 to 1988, Fritz studied with Jean Guillou during the Summer Master Classes course at Alpe d'Huez and Zurich.

In 1991, he won the first prize at UFAM's Saint Competition at the Saint-Eustache church (Paris).

Jean-Marie Fritz is currently organist of the Saint-Bernard church in Fontaine-lès-Dijon, France, and professor of French medieval literature at the University of Burgundy.

Darius took up the post of Leeds City Organist in 2017, programming the very successful Town Hall recital series and giving regular solo concerts. Recent performances include the Saint-Saens “Organ” symphony with the CBSO, and recitals at Durham Cathedral and the Grand Temple of Freemasons Hall in London, as well as the premiere of Cinema by Philip Wilby, composed for Darius to perform with the Black Dyke Band, and a gala concert in the Great Hall of the Moscow conservatoire. This year sees recitals at the cathedrals of Coventry, Lichfield, Ripon and Lincoln.

He has appeared as soloist with the Halle - most recently in a live broadcast of Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass with Sir Mark Elder - and London Philharmonic Orchestras, and is a regular orchestral organist and pianist for the BBC Philharmonic and Halle orchestras. As a pianist, he gives regular chamber concerts with members of the Manchester orchestras, and on the harpsichord he has played continuo with many UK orchestras, and performed and broadcast harpsichord concertos: most recently soloist in Frank Martin’s Harpsichord Concerto for the Northern Ballet Theatre.

Jean-Baptiste Monnot is currently the titular organist of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at St. Ouen Church in Rouen.
Born in 1984 in France, he began studying piano and organ at age 12 and started the École Nationale de Musique of Dieppe at age 13, then he started the Conservatoire National de Région of Rouen at age 15. In 2002, at age 18, he won the 1st prize awarded unanimously by the jury of the 4th edition of Young Organist Competition presided over Marie-Claire Alain and he received his Bachelor in Music degree (Diplôme d’études musicales régionales).In 2003 he was awarded the 1st Prize of perfection in organ.

He gained entrance to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 2004, at age 19, and was awarded the 1st Prize of excellence in organ. In May 2007 he received his Master’s Degree (Diplôme de Formation Supérieure) in organ with first class honours, in the class of Olivier Latry and Michel Bouvard before he improved his skills from Bernhard Haas in the Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik. He participated several times between 2003 and 2005 in master classes given by Jean Guillou at the Zürich Tonhalle and at St. Eutasche Church (Paris) in 2007. From 2004 to 2014 he was Jean Guillou‘s assisstant at St. Eutasche Church.

As a soloist, he performs regularly with ensembles or orchestras all over the world. He also performed during festivals such as : La maison de la radio in Paris, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Naumbourg, Piacenza, Ostrava, Vienna, Sydney, London, Kiev, Kazan and in the US in New-York, Cleveland, New Orleans, Boston… In 2010 he managed the creation of the incidental music for Macbeth by Jean Guillou in the framework of a Japanese tour (Kyoto concert Hall, Nagoya concert Hall) under the supervision of Masaru Sekine. Soon after, he was appointed as artiste-in-residence in St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans. In 2011 he gave a concert as a soloist with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2014, he gave a concert at the Österreichischer Rundfunk of Vienna (Austria), broadcast live.

Emilia Baranowska is a Franco-Bulgarian concert cellist and pedagogue. Having started her international career at the age of 19, she has performed and collaborated with prestigious artists, orchestras and important festivals around the globe. She has recorded with Deutsche Grammophon, Beaux, Festivo. As a cello professor has taught in well known music academies and master classes.

In 2012 a French film company Inthemood, dedicates the documentary film “Chez elle: Ailleurs – Les voyages d’Emilia Baranowska” to her. Born in Sofia, Emilia Baranowska, began piano lessons at the age of 4 with her mother. At the age of 9, Emilia switched to the cello, and became a student of the great Bulgarian cellist Zdravko Yordanov, a disciple of Rostropovitch. Her encounter with the cellist Eleftherios Papastavro (disciple of Pablo Casals) and, the patrons of the arts, Ernst and Margrit Hermann at a master class in Yugoslavia changed the course of her life. They encouraged 18 years old Emilia to pursue her musical studies with Papastavro at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Musique in Paris. Emilia's international career was launched as soon as she moved in Paris.

In 1969 she first appeared at the “Donauseschinger Musiktage” festival in Germany. In 1975 Emilia won the Special Prize for the Best Interpretations of Spanish Music at the International Music Competition of Granada. In 1977 Deutsche Grammophon publish her recording with a Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff “Cello and Voice”. In 1979 she was invited to perform Bach’s Suite No 5 in a musical program of the French Television. Her performing drew the attention of Leonard Rose, who invited her to perfect her artistry at the Juilliard School in New York. Upon returning 1981 to Paris, a new stage of her life began as she met various composers who wrote and dedicated works to her. Gheorghe Zamfir composed Three Pieces for Cello and Pan Flute where the world Premiere took place in the Basilique de Saint‐Maximin in France. He subsequently wrote a Concerto for Cello, Pan Flute and Symphonic Orchestra.

The Argentinian composer Sergio Calligaris in 1991 dedicated his Suite op 28 for solo Cello to her and premiered at the Mozart Foundation in Lausanne. In 1993 Djansug Kakhidze invited Emilia to the brand new Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra for the first series of concerts together with Vadim Repin and Eliso Virsaladze. The following year Vahtang Kakhidze dedicated his new composition Moon Dances for Cello and Chamber Orchestra to Baranowska premiered in Paris. In 2003 started her fruitful collaboration with William Bolcom whose Suite No1 for Cello Emilia performed in New York Carnegie Hall concert, in 2008, along with Brahms and Shostakovich Sonatas. Baranowska appears as a soloist with numerous orchestras: Chamber Orchestra or Europe; Sudwestrundfunk Radio Orchestra; Sofia Philharmonic orchestra; Bulgarian Radio Orchestra; Sofia Solists; Plovdiv Symphonic Orchestra; China National Symphony Orchestra; Prague Philharmonic Orchestra; Tbilissi Symphony Orchestra; Orchestre de Chambre de Versailles; Les Solistes Francais; Bodensee Symphony Orchestra; French-German Youth Orchestra; performing concerti from Haydn, Schumann, Elgar, Lalo, Brahms etc. She has also performed in the USA, Mexico, Canada, Morocco, Israel, Lebanon and China. Parallel with her concert career, Emilia has also a rich activity as a pedagogue. As a cello professor she has taught at Conservatoires de Musique de la Rochelle; de Region de Lille; Gabrliel Faure de la Ville de Paris. Emilia’s upcoming activities are related with her concert performances which include amongst others recitals dedicated to the 100 years anniversary of Le Groupe des Six, and performances of cello and orchestra works of the American composer Miguel del Aguila, the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis and French composer Guilaume Connesson.