MASTERCLASS for PIANO, VIOLIN and CELLO
August 7 to August 12, Bad Goisern- Austria 

FACULTY:
Prof. AYAMI IKEBA, Piano- University of Music Graz 
Prof. GEREON KLEINER, Piano, University of Music, Mozarteum Salzburg
YVONA TIMOIANU, Cello, Upper Austrian Government Music School
Prof. PETER LANGGARTNER, Violin, Viola- University of Music, Mozarteum Salzburg
Dr. PETER BRUGGER, Culture and Interpretation, Piano, Upper Austrian Government Music School

Ayami Ikeba was born in Yokohama, Japan. She studied with Akiko Iguchi in Tokio, Ludwig Hoffmann in Munich, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hannover, Regina Smendzianka in Warsaw and Alfons Kontarsky in Salzburg.
Graduated at the Munich and Hannover Musikhochschulen, she won the second prize (first not assigned) at the age of 18 in the "Busoni" Competition in Bolzano. Since 1999 she is piano professor at the "Universität für Musik" in Graz, Austria. Ayami Ikeba played in international piano festivals like "Festival Pianistico Internazionale di Brescia e Bergamo", "Schleswig Holstein Festival", "Münchner Biennale", "Musik Triennale Köln" and "Festival Internacional de Inverno de Brasília". She has also performed as Piano-Duo with Alfons Kontarsky and played chamber music concerts with eminent soloists such as Anne-Sophie Mutter. 2009 she played with the famous NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo with the conductor Andre Previn.
She worked for many years as assistant pianist for Wolfgang Schneiderhan at his master classes in Luzern.
Ayami Ikeba has recorded CDs as well as performed for several radio Japan, Germany, Austria and Italy.

Yvonne Timoianu- Cello, studied at the Music Academy of Bucharest and at the Mozarteum of Salzburg, receiving her diploma with highest distinction in 1983. At the same time she was awarded the Prize of Distinction from the Federal Ministry of the Arts and Research in Vienna. Her most influential teachers were Serafim Antropov, Stefan Popov and Mstislav Rostropovitch. Her concerts have taken her from Tokio to Quito, from Capetown to Mexico, from New Delhi to Santiago de Chile, from Seoul to Panama. Yvonne received several international awards, among which First Prize at the International Cello Competition of Vina del Mar, Chile, 1986 and two years later, the Gold Medal and First Prize of the International String Competition of the University of Pretoria. Regular participation in renowned Festivals as well as intensive appearances as soloist or in chamber music concerts in most European countries, in the Americas, Southeast Asia and the Orient are the hallmark of her musical career. Given her dedicated involvement in contemporary music, a number of works were written for and first performed by her. Yvonne Timoianu has led master classes and workshops in Austria, Belgium, India, Korea, Luxemburg, Spain and South-Africa. She plays on a cello by Giovanni Grancino, Milan, of 1721.