Chamber Music Evening N° 3

Federico Kasik

Federico Kasík began his musical career at the age of 7. After being taught by Tibor Varga in Sion (Switzerland) from 1992, he took lessons with Igor Pylatyuk and Bogodar Kotorovych at the National Academy of Music in Lviv and Kiev from 1994. Due to this long-standing connection, Federico Kasík is a direct successor to the artistic and didactic lineage of Avram Jampolski and Yuri Yankelevich, two of the most successful teachers of the Russian violin school.

In 2008, he moved to the masterclass of the leading Czech violinist Ivan Zenaty at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden. He received further musical impulses in various masterclasses with Ivry Gitlis, Kevork Mardirossian, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Pavel Vernikov, Igor Oistrakh, Robert Canetti, Yfrah Neaman, Jiří Tomášek and Michael Frischenschlager, among others. Federico Kasík won the International Lissenko Competition in 2002 and the Carl Flesch Violin Competition in 2003.

Since 1998, he has performed as a soloist in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Russia and the Ukraine, as well as in Asia, particularly China and Japan.

In 2011, at the age of 26, Federico Kasík won the position of 1st Deputy Concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Dresden.

He is a passionate chamber musician who has performed with musicians such as Igor Levit, Denis Matsuev, Tatyana Mazurenko, Yuryi Bashmet and Oleg Krissa, as well as with the orchestra.

Lukas Stepp

Lukas Stepp has been concertmaster of the 2nd violins of the Staatskapelle Dresden since the beginning of 2019.

He received the most important impulses for his violin playing from Stephan Picard and Feng Ning at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and from Ida Kavafian at the Juilliard School of Music in New York from 2016 to 2018.

Lukas Stepp is a multiple first prize winner and special prize winner of the national competition ‘Jugend musiziert’. He has won further prizes as a soloist at international competitions such as the Johannes Brahms Competition (2010), the ‘Julio Cardona’ competition in Portugal (2011) and the ‘Schoenfeld International String Competition’ (Harbin/China 2014).

Lukas Stepp has performed as a soloist with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra, the Young Ensemble Berlin, the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Orchestra, the Hildesheim State Theatre, the Baden Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hamburg Camerata, among others.

Lukas Stepp was first violinist of the ‘Stepp Quartet’, which performed at festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival between 2001 and 2012.

Ami Yumoto

Ami Yumoto completed her bachelor's degree at Tokyo University of the Arts with Prof Kazuki Sawa, Gerard Poulet and Oleh Krysa. In 2011, she transferred to the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. There she initially studied with Prof Saschko Gawriloff. Under Prof Mark Gothoni, she successfully completed her master's degree in the instrumental soloist programme and her concert exam.

In 2011, she won 1st prize at the Queen Sophie Charlotte International Violin Competition. In 2015, she was a semi-finalist at the 54th International Paganini Competition and was awarded 3rd prize at the Ibolyka Gyarfas Foundation Violin Competition.

At the Carl Flesch Academy in Baden-Baden, she was honoured with the Carl Flesch Academy Sponsors' Association Prize and the Brahms Prize.

She has performed as a soloist with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra and the Salzburg Soloists, among others.

She has been a member of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden since 2017 and 2nd concertmaster of the 1st violins since 2021.

Teresa Beldi

Teresa Beldi, born in Hamburg in 1993, studied with Prof. Hillel Zori in Tel Aviv, with Frans Helmerson at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin and with Claudius Popp at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. She also received important musical inputs from David Geringas, Arto Noras and Jens Peter Maintz.

Teresa’s concert engagements as a soloist and chamber musician have taken her outside Germany to France, Holland, Romania, Bulgaria, Israel and Italy.

Teresa has performed as a soloist with the Banatul Timisoara Symphony Orchestra, the Oltenia Craiova Symphony Orchestra (Romania), the Philharmonic Orchestra oft he Plovdid State Opera (Bulgaria) and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, among others, in venues such as the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Halle aux Grains Toulouse and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. In addition to Haydn’s cello concerti (D major), Shostakovich No. 1 and Lalo, she performed Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C major under the baton of Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv in 2016 and Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and Ion Martin in 2019.

As a chamber musician, Teresa performed several times in the Pierre Boulez Hall, in various groups and as part oft he Boulez Ensemble, at the Whitsun Festival Schloss Ettersburg, at the Usedom Music Festival and at the Mozart Festival Würzburg (in collaboration with the Minguet Quartet).