Leonidas Kavakos / Enrico Pace

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS

Born in Athens in 1967 he began studying music with his father, who at five years, gave him a violin, then continued his studies at the Hellenic Conservatory with Stelios Kafantaris. Winner of the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in 1995, three years later was awarded the Premio Paganini and the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation. Under the leadership of figures such as Valery Gergiev, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Simon Rattle, he plays with groups such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony Orchestra. Alongside his career as a violinist, as a conductor takes the podium conducting orchestras such as the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Since 2012 has an exclusive contract with Decca, with which records works of Brahms and Beethoven. 

ENRICO PACE

Born in Rimini in 1967 he studied piano with Franco Scala, first at the Gioachino Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, and later at the Piano Academy of Imola. After winning the 1989 International Franz Liszt Competition in Utrecht, he performs regularly in major halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Teatro alla Scala, the Sala Verdi in Milan. Conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, Eliahu Inbal, Andrej Borejko, he plays with prestigious orchestras, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic.