About the performers:
Juliet Wolff:
Juliet Wolff is currently studying with Prof. Claudio Bohórquez at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Previously, she was studying at the Juilliard School in New York with Prof. Adkins, supported through the Helen P Houle Scholarship, the George H Gangwere Scholarship and the M&E Cohen Scholarship. Juliet regularly performs as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician. She has performed in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, the King's Place, the Menuhin Hall and St Martin in the Fields in the UK, the Wiener Saal of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Alice Tully Hall in New York, and the Joseph Joachim Saal in Berlin. Juliet has been invited to masterclasses with Steven Isserlis, Prof. Frans Helmerson, Prof. Gary Hoffman, Prof. Wen-Sinn Yang, Prof. Raphael Wallfish, Prof. Colin Carr and Prof. Julian Arp and has participated in several music festivals such as the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the Zermatt Festival & Academy, and the Stift International Music Festival in the Netherlands, where she performed and collaborated together with well-known musicians, such as Renaud Capuçon, Ton Koopman, Pēteris Vasks, Avi Avital, Gary Hoffman, Emma Johnson, John Lenehan, Jeremy Menuhin, Daniel Rowland and Maja Bogdanović. Most recently Juliet has successfully demonstrated her talent at the international ESO Young Soloist Competition where she was awarded both 1st prize and audience vote. In 2017 she was awarded the Jellinek Award at the Una Clark Young Artists Competition and in 2015 she was awarded the ‘Marlow Young Musician of the Year' prize. Juliet received her first cello lessons at the age of five with Erik Richter at the Feuermann Conservatory of the Kronberg Academy. Only ten years old, she was accepted into Prof. Gunda Altmann’s class at the specialist music-school Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, and from 2012 Juliet studied with Prof. Geneviève Tullières - Sommer at the Junior Guildhall School for Music and Drama in London. In 2015, Juliet joined the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School and studied there with Prof. Thomas Carroll, supported by a generous scholarship from the Music and Dance Scheme.
Horacio Fernandez:
Horacio Fernández Vázquez is a Mexican pianist and composer who is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in musical composition at The Juilliard School of Music, class of ’22. He has also studied at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and the Lyon Conservatory in Lyon, France. His mentors and teachers include Robert Beaser, Alan Belkin, Gonzalo Macías and Arturo Márquez. He writes music that is proud of the urban culture and richness of colors of Latin America and expresses it by mixing modern dance styles and rhythms with western forms and techniques as well as popular music styles from outside Latin-America. Although he is Mexican by birth and upbringing, he identifies more strongly as an international composer, one who is as interested with other cultures as he is with his purely Mexican heritage.