Moeko Sugiura studied at Tokyo University of the Arts (BA), and at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna with Thomas Christian and Pavel Vernikov, where she completed her master’s degree with honours in 2015.
During her studies, she frequently played with the Vienna Symphoniker, including on tours in Japan and Germany as well as on concerts in the Vienna Musikverein and the Konzerthaus with renowned conductors.
During her studies, she received First Prizes in Edogawa Philharmonic Orchestra Soloist
Competition, Kobe International Competition and Nagoya Student Competition in Japan.
In 2014 she became a member of the Philharmonic Baden-Baden, after that in the year 2019 she became a member of the first violin group, Philharmonic Graz, Austria.
Nejc Kuhar (www.nejckuhar.com) received his master’s degree with honours in guitar and in composition in Vienna (guitar with Prof Alvaro Pierri and composition with Dr Reiner Bishof and Prof Christian Minkowitsch). He is currently pursuing his PhD in composition in Surrey, England.
As a guitarist as well as a composer, he has won numerous first prizes, such as Altheim in Austria, Changsha in China, Treviso and Acerra in Italy etc. His music has been performed in prestigious venues, on concerts in the Vienna Musikverein, Vienna Konzerthaus, Washington National Gallery of Art, Rachmaninov Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Slovene Philharmonic Hall etc.
His works have been published by Canadian publisher Les Production d'OzHe is also an active lecturer, giving lectures about composing for guitar on various European and USA universities, such as The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Vienna and Frankfurt Universities etc.
In 2018 he was appointed guitar professor at Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt, and in 2019 he became a Senior Lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
„Masterworks Reimagined“(sets of Sonatas)
Barok reimagined
Paganini reimagined
Schubert reimagined
Piazzolla reimagined
Opera reimagined
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750):
-Sonata a minor BWV 1020, Arr. Hoppstock
Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840):
-Sonata Concertata (1. Allegro spiritoso, 2. Adagio, assai espressivo, 3. Rondo. Allegretto con brio, scherzando)
Christopher Brandt (1969):
-Pavane *
Manuel de Falla (1876 – 1946)
-La vida breve
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Jules Massenet (1842 – 1912)
-Méditation (Thaïs)
Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992):
-Histoire du Tango (1. Bordel 1900, 3. Night-club 1960, 4. Concert d'aujourd'hui)
Nejc Kuhar:
-Air String (1. Largo, 2. Vivace)
* written for EMINENT Duo
Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840):
-Sonata Concertata (1. Allegro spiritoso, 2. Adagio, assai espressivo, 3. Rondo. Allegretto con brio, scherzando)
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828):
-Sonata in D Major, D 384 (1. Allegro molto, 2. Andante, 3. Allegro vivace)
Jules Massenet (1842 – 1912)
-Méditation (Thaïs)
Nejc Kuhar:
-Air String (1. Largo, 2. Vivace)
Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992):
-Histoire du Tango (1. Bordel 1900, 3. Night-club 1960, 4. Concert d'aujourd'hui)