As a young artist who is naturally gifted, inquisitive and charismatic, Viviana is blessed with everything necessary to have a beautiful career as a concert pianist.

– Gabriela Montero

An internationally sought-after pianist, Viviana-Zarah Baudis recently gave her sold-out solo debut concert in the Goldener Saal, Musikverein in Vienna. Further highlights were solo and chamber music concerts in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Gasteig Philharmonie, and Berlin Konzerthaus.

Born in 1999, Viviana-Zarah played her first piano concert at the age of 5 and won 1st prizes at national and international competitions. At the age of 13, she was selected by Lang Lang to be among the best young artists from all over the world for his 30th birthday concert at the O2 Arena in Berlin. She has performed with artists such as Herbie Hancock, Igudesman & Joo, Gabriel Prokofiev, and Arabella Steinbacher, amongst others. Viviana-Zarah Baudis played her orchestral debut with the Munich Radio Orchestra and has since performed with orchestras such as SUK Symphony Orchestra Prague and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She is a full scholarship graduate of the Yehudi Menuhin School in London and is currently pursuing her Artist Diploma at the OAcademy with a full scholarship with Gabriela Montero.

Ido Ramot is a German–Israeli pianist, composer, and improviser known for his genre-bending and innovative approach to performance. Seamlessly blending original composition with real-time improvisation, he creates concert experiences that are both deeply personal and artistically bold. As an ambassador for Jewish and Middle Eastern musical culture, he brings rich traditions into fresh, contemporary contexts.

Ramot made his orchestral debut at age nine with the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra and has since performed across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. He has appeared at the Berlin Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, Stuttgart’s Liederhalle, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Dubai Opera, and is frequently featured on Israeli, German, and Italian radio and television.

He is a laureate of numerous national and international competitions, including the Gold Medal at the Maria Canals International Piano Competition (Barcelona), First Prize at the Chopin Competition (Tel Aviv), double winner of the “Piano Forever” Competition (Ashdod), a prizewinner at the European Piano Competition (Bremen), and Third Prize at Les Étoiles du Piano (Lille).

Ramot has worked closely with Dr. Itzhak Kossov, Prof. Alexander Korsantia, and Prof. Eldar Nebolsin, and continues his artistic collaboration with renowned pianist Gabriela Montero

The Viatores Quartet is a young string quartet based in Berlin, founded in 2023. In 2024, the ensemble was awarded First Prize and a Special Prize at the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition. This success was followed by Second Prize at the Irene Steels-Wilsing String Quartet Competition in Heidelberg in January 2025, and two Special Prizes at the prestigious Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in London in April 2025. Most recently, they were awarded the DC Anderson Foundation Family Prize as well the Career Development Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQ).

In 2024, they were selected as SWR “New Talent,” a three-year development program by Southwestern Radio in Germany. The following year, they were awarded a residency at ProQuartet – Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre in Paris, where they will further their artistic growth through intensive coaching and concert engagements during the 2025–2027 seasons.

Recent performances include appearances at the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Villa Musica, AIMA Festival in Turkey, Mainau Castle, St. Lukes Music Society London and SWR Television Tower Stuttgart. They will also perform at the Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele in 2026. They released their first CD-Album in February 2026 which is available for streaming on all major streaming platforms.

The quartet takes its name from the Latin term "Viatores", which means travelers. As the name suggests, the quartet proudly represents four different origins and cultures, united by a common goal.

Halle Puckett is a concert pianist known for her fiery energy, captivating presence, and thoughtful programming. She made her orchestral debut with the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of sixteen after winning first prize in the Nelda Hodges Young Artist Competition. Since then, she has performed extensively across the United States and Europe, appearing as a soloist with esteemed orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Alicante, Virtuosi Brunensis Orchestra, McCall Festival Orchestra, and Round Rock Symphony Orchestra.

Halle earned her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance, graduating magna cum laude, from Texas Christian University under the tutelage of John Owings. During her time at TCU, she was the recipient of several distinguished awards and scholarships, including the prestigious Nordan, Lili Kraus, and Spitler Piano Scholarships, as well as the TCU Academic Scholarship. She also received the Judith Solomon Piano Award for her excellence in chamber music playing.

She continued her studies at the Peabody Institute, where she completed both her Master of Music and Graduate Performance Diploma in Piano Performance with Dr. Steven Spooner. During her time there, she served as a Graduate Assistant in the Keyboard Studies department and maintained a private teaching studio at The Gilman School in Baltimore. She frequentlycollaborated with the Peabody Percussion Group (PPG) and also worked as a Music Research Assistant for the Yellow Barn Music Festival. Her artistic and pianistic excellence at Peabody was honored with the Pauline Favine Award and Frances M. Wentz Turner Prize in Piano.

She recently graduated with her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Frost School of Music in Miami where she studied with Tian Ying and Kevin Kenner. Awarded a Full Teaching Assistantship, her roles encompassed a wide range of teaching, performance, and collaborative responsibilities. She maintains a private studio and teaches at the Frost Preparatory Program. Most recently, she was featured in the Florida Premiere of Alejandro Viñao’s “Patterns and Form” with the Frost Percussion Studio. The work was professionally recorded and will be released in the coming months.

Internationally recognized, including by The Jewish Chronicle, Bar Zemach is the first known musician to perform the shofar melodically and chromatically as a concert soloist.

Over the past two years, two pieces
were written especially for him, one of which he premiered in his Berlin Philharmonie debut, performing on both shofar and horn. This year, he also appeared as a shofar soloist with the Israel Symphony Orchestra and as a horn and shofar soloist with the
Thüringen Philharmonie.

Next year, he will debut with the Nürnberger Symphoniker, the Sächsische Bläserphilharmonie, and more, and will continue his collaboration with one of his mentors, Giora Feidman, as a member of the Klezmer Virtuos Quartett and Giora
Feidman’s Trio.

Bar Zemach is Principal Horn of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim. He previously played on contract with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and gained further experience as a guest horn player with the Staatskapelle Berlin, recording a CD and performing in both opera and symphonic repertoire.

He studied with Prof. Christian Friedrich Dallmann and is currently pursuing a Master in Religion and Culture at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award, First Prize Winner of the Walter E. Naumburg Viola Competition and the Avery Fisher Career Grant, David Aaron Carpenter is widely considered one of the most talented and charismatic musicians of his generation.

David is a former Rolex “Protégé” for which he was mentored by Pinchas Zukerman. David made his solo debut at the Kennedy Center after winning the Presidential Scholar Award and the first-ever Gold Medal Award at the National Foundation For Advancement In The Arts. Since then he has performed with leading musicians and orchestras around the world, from the Philadelphia Orchestra to the Philharmonia, the Dresden Staatskapelle to the Lucerne Symphony.

As a chamber musician, David has collaborated with such renowned artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Sarah Chang, Leonidas Kavakos, Gidon Kremer, Alan Gilbert, Julian Rachlin, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jan Vogler, and Yuja Wang. He is a regular guest artist at the Verbier Music Festival, and was proud to be an integral part of their 20th anniversary season.  He is currently the Artistic Director of the Salomé Chamber Orchestra, which he co-founded with his brother Sean and sister Lauren.

David received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and International Relations from Princeton University in 2008.  David was featured in The New Yorker article “Musical Gold” by Rebecca Mead in July, 2014, on the cover of The Strad magazine in August 2013, and a few months earlier was the subject of a three-page article in The New York Times.  Along with the Salomé Chamber Orchestra, David released his Warner Classics recording featuring Vivaldi, Piazzolla and Shor's Twelve Seasons. His newest release on Warner Classics features the Bartok, Walton, Shor and Dvorak Concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Maestros Vladimir Jurowski, David Parry, and Kazushi Ono.

David plays on a viola made by Michele Deconet, Venice (1766)