Experience Robin Paillet, trumpet (*2002, Grenoble/France) and Mathilde Nguyen, piano (*1993, Paris/France). In 2025 Paillet won the 1st Prize at the renowned ARD International Music Competition, as well as the Audience Prize and the Special Prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned composition. Mathilde Nguyen comes from a family of piano tuners, studied in Amiens, Boulogne-Billancourt and Paris, and is a prizewinner of international competitions as well as a sought-after chamber musician.
Winners & Masters: In 1985 the Kulturkreis Gasteig e.V. was founded in Munich to support highly gifted young musicians. The concert series „Winners & Masters“ came into being in 1989 on the initiative of Dr. Andreas Krause and has since offered a stage to up-and-coming talents from around the world. Former participants include, among others, Igor Levit, Alice Sara Ott and Jan Lisiecki. Since 2023 the extraordinary series has found its perfect setting in the Festsaal of the Münchner Künstlerhaus.