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Masters of Choreography is an Australian dance theatre production company and a global leader in commercial dance fusion entertainment. They have toured Australia and Singapore, performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and had two highly successful seasons in London's West End. An electrifying fusion of commercial street dance and ballet, featuring beatboxing, singing, comedic moments, and numerous 5-star reviews, has received standing ovations at every single performance! They present an exciting commercial rock ballet with elements of street dance, comedy, and dance theatre - an energetic show that makes you dance in your seat. With a great mix of classical rock and commercial music and a wonderful cast of versatile performers, Masters of Choreography offers cutting-edge entertainment and the finest dance fusion entertainment.

Lily Maisky was born in Paris but raised in Brussels where she is currently still based. She began her pianistic studies at the age of 4 with Lyl Tiempo as well as Alan Weiss. Lily was a pupil at the “Purcell School of Music” from 2001 to 2005.
Lily features on several Deutsche Grammophon and EMI recordings. Her latest release is on Avanti Classics with Grammy award winning violinist Philippe Quint. She has performed concertos under the batons of maestros Thomas Sanderling, Leonard Slatkin and Gabor Takacs-Nagy, among others. The young pianist has toured many of the worlds leading concert halls and has been invited to such renowned festivals as the Verbier Festival, Progetto Martha Argerich, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Schlesswig-Holstein Music Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Gstaad Festival, Bergamo-Brescia, Miyazaki Festival as well as the Beijing Piano Festival to name a few. Lily enjoys playing chamber music and forms a regular duo with Mischa Maisky, as well as the Maisky trio with her brother. She has also performed with such artists as Martha Argerich, Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Renaud Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich, Daishin Kashimoto and Maxim Rysanov amongst many others.

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Acclaimed as “a player of impressive authority and presence” (The Strad), Yossif Ivanov quickly established himself after winning First Prize at the Montreal International Competition aged 16, and Second Prize, as well as the Public Prize, two years later at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, Brussels. He has performed with orchestras such as Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, as well as all major Belgian Orchestras. As a recitalist and chamber musician, Yossif Ivanov has been invited to perform at the Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Mozarteum Salzburg, Musikverein Vienna, Paris’ Louvre and Cité de la Musique, Philharmonie Essen, Beethovenfest Bonn, Schloss Elmau,  Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, Menton and Montpellier Festivals, Teatro Carlo Fenice Genova, Ravenna Musica, Ferrara Musica, Kioi Hall Tokyo,Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall, Ravinia festival, Washington Phillips Collection, and the Ladies’ Morning Musical Club in Montréal. Yossif’s recording catalogue boasts high critical acclaim, including a  Diapason d’Or de l’Année for his collection of Belgian sonatas (Franck, D’Haene and Ysaÿe) on the Ambroisie/Naïve label, as well as a Diapason d’Or in 2020 for the recording of a newly discovered Ysaÿe concerto on the Fuga Libera label. Since 2008 he has been teaching at Queen Elisabeth College of Music, as well as at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he is head of the violin department.

Photocredit: Tom Barnes