Anna Danilevskaia - Head Jury
Sollazzo Ensemble - Director

Fiddle and vihuela de arco player, Anna is specialiszed in repertoires from the fourteenth to the sixteen century. She grew up in Metz, France, in a family of musicians and played medieval music since her childhood. Since 2014, she has been leading the Sollazzo Ensemble, a group recognized as one of the leading voices in the field of medieval and renaissance music.

Karin Cuéllar Rendón is a Bolivian historical violinist and academic. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in music at McGill University and her research focuses on performance practices in South America during the first half of the nineteenth century, using the music of nineteenth-century Peruvian composer Pedro Ximenez Abrill Tirado as a case study.

Phaedrus / The Fine Hand - Director

Mara Winter is a performer, composer and photographer. She directs her Renaissance traverso consort, Phaedrus, based in Basel, Switzerland, and co-founded The Fine Hand in 2023, an artistic collective dedicated to the exchange of historical musical repertoire between Europe and North America.

Federico Rinaldi
European Concerts Hall Organisation - Manager

Federico runs the European Concert Hall Organisation, notably the Education, Learning and Participation (ELP) as well as the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) working groups. He's engaged in the promotion of music as a means for social change, serving as board member of the International Music Council and advisor of the paper lantern collective. He holds three master's with honors in communication, arts and politics, as well as extensive musical training in piano, cello, singing, and choir and orchestra conducting.

{oh!} Orkiestra - Networking Manager

Joanna Broniec coordinated concert and festival productions of early and classical music, film music and contemporary music for the Buro Festival in Krakow before taking up the post of manager of the Misteria Paschalia Festival. Today, she is ... for {oh!} Orkiestra.

B.O.X (Baroque Orchestration X) - Director

Pieter Theuns began his career as a self-taught electric guitarist before graduating in classical guitar at the LUCA school of Arts (Leuven) and theorbo at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. In 2010, he founded B.O.X (Baroque Orchestration X), a hybrid baroque band that aims to create genre-bending new sounds, and to build bridges between audiences. Since 2022, they operate from Casa Saga, their own residency place and concert hall located in Antwerp, Belgium.

Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century - Director

Kate Rockett trained as a trombonist at the Royal Academy of Music in London and specialised in historical performance at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She also holds an MA in Musicology from the Open University and has performed with orchestras and ensembles such as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Gabrieli Consort, the B'Rock Orchestra and Concerto Köln. Before taking up her current position Kate combined performing with her role as Executive Producer and Artists & Repertoire manager for a record label.

La Fonte Musica - Director

Michele Pasotti is a lute player and director. He is founder and leader of La Fonte Musica, with which he performs, since almost 20 years, music from late Middle Ages to Early Baroque. He is professor of lute at Cesena's Conservatorio.

Jan de Winne - Head Jury
Passacaille Records - Artistic director

Jan De Winne is a flute player and musicologist and is the artistic director il Gardellino baroque orchestra. He teaches at the CNSMD in Paris and at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and is actively involved in artistic research in the field of Early Music. As the CEO of Passacaille Records, he plays a pivotal role in promoting classical and baroque music, nurturing emerging talents, and preserving musical heritage.

Radio Clásica (RTVE) - Director and presenter of "Grandes Cicios"

María del Ser holds a doctorate in music education from Madrid's Complutense University and is a journalist at Radio Clásica. She is currently newsreader, director, presenter and scriptwriter for "Grandes ciclos", "El jardín de Voltaire" and "Suite española", as well as concert broadcasts for "Fila cero" and "Los Conciertos de Radio Clásica".

Circostrada - Coordinator

Stéphane Segreto-Aguilar is Head of International Development at Artcena, the French national centre for circus, outdoor arts, and theatre, and Coordinator of Circostrada, the European network for contemporary circus and outdoor arts. He holds a master's degree in European cultural policy and management, and has spent the last fifteen years exploring the interconnections between culture and international relations. He is a board member of On the Move and Perform Europe.