Imusic International Music Festival

In the organizer's words:

iMusic International Music Festival.

The festival takes place at the Palais Wittgenstein in Düsseldorf.

Musical excellence and the promotion of young talent are combined in an inspiring setting

Artists:

Rhythmie Wong - The award-winning pianist from Hong Kong studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, among others. She regularly performs internationally as a soloist and is known for her expressive interpretation of classical and contemporary works. She is actively involved in music education for young musicians. She has won first prizes at numerous competitions: the Valletta International Piano Competition, the New York International Artist Piano Competition, the Aloha International Piano Competition and the Kawai Piano Competition Asia. She has performed in master classes with John Bayless, Andrei Gavrilov, Eduardus Halim, Ivan Moravec, Jon Nakamatsu and Paul Badura-Skoda.

Toni Gu - Toni Gu was born in Essen an der Ruhr in 2015 and received his first piano lessons from Rhythmie Wong at the Imusic music school in Düsseldorf at the age of 4. Since April 2024, he has been a junior student in the piano class of Prof. Hisako Kawamura at the Folkwang University of the Arts. Before that, he was accepted as a junior student in Prof. Heribert Koch's piano class at the Münster University of Music at the age of 8. He has already won prizes at several national and international piano competitions. Among other things, he won first prize in the final of the Steinway Piano Competition in Hamburg. For this he was awarded the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation Hamburg scholarship. He recently won the special prize of the Schumann Society for the highest score in the small Schumann competition in Zwickau. He recently won the special prize for the best interpretation of a classical work for his performance of Haydn's Piano Sonata in B minor at the International Piano Competition Kronberg.

Vidal Aguirre - The Spanish pianist has won prizes at several international competitions and studied at leading music academies in Europe. As a sought-after soloist and chamber musician, he performs throughout Europe and Latin America.