We are delighted to invite you to our Spring Violin Masterclass at the Zakhar Bron School of Music in Zurich from May 1–5, 2025!
What to expect:
Wang Xiaoming: First violin of the Stradivari Quartet, Concertmaster of the Philharmonia Zurich, founder of the Swiss Chinese Chamber Orchestra, and founder of the Ming Classics Festival & Academy. He competed with great success in Beijing in 1998, winning first prize at the Mi-Do International Violin Competition. The following year, he also won first prize at the Stephanie Hohl Violin Competition in Vienna and received the special award at the Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition in Augsburg.
These awards enabled him to perform as a soloist with orchestras such as the Philharmonia Zurich, Poznań Philharmonic, Belgrade Philharmonic, Vienna Webern Symphony, China NCPA Orchestra, and Guiyang Symphony. Concert tours have taken him across Asia, the USA, Australia, South America, and throughout Europe. He regularly appears as a soloist and chamber musician on major stages worldwide, including Lincoln Center in New York, Vienna Concert Hall, Vienna Musikverein, Wigmore Hall in London, Kioi Hall in Tokyo, China NCPA, Seoul Arts Center, Shanghai Symphony Concert Hall, and Sydney Opera House. He has also performed at prestigious festivals such as the Verbier Festival, Lucerne Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Kissinger Sommer, Macau Music Festival, and the China NCPA May Festival.
Xiaoming currently serves as the Concertmaster of the Philharmonia Zurich. He has been Concertmaster of the Verbier Festival Orchestra and regularly appears as a guest concertmaster, working with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Hamburg Philharmonic, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Bern Symphony Orchestra, China NCPA Orchestra, and Singapore Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Zubin Mehta, Bernard Haitink, Daniele Gatti, Gustavo Dudamel, Myung-Whun Chung, and Valery Gergiev.
Liana Tretiakova: The founder and lead violin teacher of the Zakhar Bron School of Music in Zurich, Liana is known as one of the finest violin teachers of her generation in the world today. Having worked as a teaching assistant of the legendary Professor Bron for 15 years, Liana – also as the Professor’s alumna and his successor – continues the unique teaching methodology of one of the greatest violin teachers in music history.
Having more than a quarter-century of teaching experience under her belt, Liana is equally comfortable in working with the beginners and highly advanced students, and she can guide them from the violin basics to solo performances in some of the most prestigious concert halls in Europe and Asia. Over the years, her violin students have won almost a hundred prizes at various Swiss national and international music competitions.
As alumna and successor of Professor Bron, Liana sees her vocation in continuing the Professor’s life work – preparing the next generation of violin soloists and bringing professional violin education closer to all young violin students, everywhere. She regularly conducts violin masterclasses in Switzerland, China, and across the European Union.
Inna Khriplovich: Inna has been teaching violin at the Zakhar Bron School of Music in Zurich since 2014. Since then, many of her students have won prizes at competitions such as the Swiss National Youth Music Competition, the Grumiaux International Competition in Brussels, and the Prodige Competition in Paris, to name a few.
Her violin students have participated in the Stage4Kids International Festival in Hamburg and the Lucerne Festival Children’s Concert and have performed as soloists with chamber and symphony orchestras in Switzerland, UK, France and Russia. Since 2021, Inna has also been on the faculty of the Ming Classics Summer Festival and Academy in Switzerland.