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solo lessons SIMA 2024 (photo: Marco Blessano)

Faculty 2025

Violin

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Prof. Nora Chastain - violin masterclass 2025

Professor of violin at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and the Zurich University of the Arts

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Prof. Ana Chumachenco - on leave at SIMA 2025

Violin Professor at the Munich University of Music and at the Reina Sofia University of Music Madrid

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Prof. Philip A. Draganov - violin masterclass 2025 and artistic director SIMA

Professor for violin at the Bern University of the Arts. 

Violin Faculty at the Zurich University of the Arts (Pre-College Division) 

and the Zurich Conservatory (MKZ), Violin faculty Winterthur Conservatory until 2021 

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Prof. Andreas Janke - violin masterclass 2025

Professor at the Hochschule der Künste Zürich and first concertmaster of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich

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Prof. Mihaela Martin - violin masterclass 2025

Professor at University of Music in Cologne, at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin and at the Kronberg Academy

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Jose G. Flores - assistant to Philip A. Draganov (application for solo lessons not possible)

Professor for violin and viola at the Austin Community College Music Department

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Viola

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Prof. Hartmut Rohde - viola masterclass 2025

Professor at the UdK Berlin since 1993 and honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music London

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Prof. Thomas Selditz - viola masterclass 2025 and faculty chamber music 

Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

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Violoncello

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Prof. Thomas Grossenbacher - violoncello masterclass 2025

Professor at the Hochschule der Künste Zürich and former principal cellist of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich

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Prof. Frans Helmersson - violoncello masterclass 2025

Professor at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin. Frans Helmerson has been teaching on the Kronberg Academy Study Programmes as a principal professor since 2006

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Prof. Troels Svane - Violoncello masterclass 2025

Professor at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin and at the Musikhochschule Lübeck

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Faculty chamber music and piano accompanists 2025

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Tamara Chitadze - faculty chamber music and piano accompanist

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Anna Draganov - faculty chamber music and piano accompanist

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Ayumi Janke - faculty chamber music and piano accompanist

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Yoko Kuwahara - faculty chamber music and piano accompanist

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Petya Mihneva Falsig - faculty chamber music and piano accompanist

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Yukako Morikawa - faculty chamber music and piano accompanist

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Ken Nakasako - faculty chamber music and piano accompanist

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Kateryna Tereshchenko - faculty chamber music and piano accompanist

Special guests

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Julia Fischer - Special master course for selected participants

One of the world´s leading violinists, Julia Fischer is a versatile musician also known for her extraordinary abilities as a concert pianist, a chamber musician and a violin teacher

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Stefan-Peter Greiner - SIMA sound adjustment center

Internationally acclaimed violin maker

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Zeljko Haliti - SIMA sound adjustment center

Internationally renowned sound specialist

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SIMA - physiotherapy

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Brigitte Gerber-Zaugg - Physiotherapist

Physiotherapist HF, member of the Swiss society for music medicine SMM

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