Hailed as “one of the most thoughtful and sensitive of British pianists” (The Times), MISHKA RUSHDIE MOMEN captivates audiences with her expressive playing.
Mishka Rushdie Momen’s wide repertoire focuses on Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, whilst reaching back to Gibbons and Rameau. Also committed to performing new music, Mishka Rushdie Momen has commissioned works by Nico Muhly and Vijay Iyer, and premiered An Inviting Object by Héloïse Werner at the Lucerne Summer Festival.
Recent and upcoming concerto highlights include debuts with Hiroshima Symphony, Royal Danish Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and Mannheim Chamber Orchestra. Further orchestral engagements to date include City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Orchestre Nationale d’Ille de France, Britten Sinfonia and play/directing Mozart with Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, working with Dinis Sousa, Anu Tali, Christoph Koncz, Case Scaglione and Natalia Ponomarchuk.
Rushie Momen’s recital highlights include Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Lucerne Festival, Tonhalle Zurich, Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Festival, Antwerp’s deSingel, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Leeds Piano Competition and in the US, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Phillips Collection in Washington DC, New York’s 92Y, Carnegie Hall, The Frick Collection, Portland Piano and The Maestro Foundation in Santa Monica. Her 2025/26 recitals include Wigmore Hall, Musashino Civic Cultural Center, Washington Performing Arts Society, London Piano Festival at Kings Place, and International Piano Series in Oxford.
Equally at home as a chamber musician, Rushdie Momen’s chamber partners include Ian Bostridge, Mark Padmore, Joshua Bell, Midori, Angela Hewitt, Steven Isserlis, Timothy Ridout and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, with recent and upcoming festival performances including Rheingau Festival, Risør Festival, Chamberfest Cleveland, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, and regular appearances at IMS Prussia Cove.
Rushdie Momen’s last release Reformation (Hyperion, 2024) presents the works of William Byrd, John Bull, Orlando Gibbons and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, performed on the modern piano. The album was described in The Times’ selection of the best releases of 2024 as “a triumph”, as “quietly beguiling” (The Guardian), “performed with thrilling exuberance and subtlety” (The Spectator), topped the Classical Charts in July 2024 and chosen to be as a Classic FM Discovery of the Week. Her debut solo recording, Variations, was released in October 2019 by SOMM Recordings, featuring works by Robert and Clara Schumann, Brahms, and Mendelssohn.
Mishka Rushdie Momen studied with Joan Havill and Imogen Cooper at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She also studied periodically with Richard Goode, and at the Kronberg Academy with Sir András Schiff, who has presented her in recital and orchestral dates across the USA and Europe. Mishka Rushdie Momen’s studies at the Kronberg Academy were generously funded by the Henle Foundation.
Rushdie Momen was selected for the Emerging Artist: Piano award by the Music Section of the Critics’ Circle. In 2021, Mishka Rushdie Momen was The Times Arts critics’ chosen nominee in the field of classical music for their Breakthrough Award, given by Sky Arts and The South Bank Show, who profiled her for an episode of the programme broadcast that summer.
Polish-American pianist ADAM GOLKA has appeared as soloist with dozens of orchestras, including the BBC Scottish Symphony, NACO (Ottawa), Warsaw Philharmonic, Shanghai Philharmonic, as well as the San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, New Jersey, and San Diego symphonies. Adam performed cycles of Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas in NYC, Orlando, and Houston in 2020, and he also performed recitals as part of the “Sir Andras Schiff Selects” project at Klavier-Festival Ruhr (Essen), Tonhalle Zürich, Maison de France (Berlin), and 92Y Subculture (NYC). Chamber music is an integral part of Adam Golka’s musical life. He performs frequently with the Manhattan Chamber Players, participated in Marlboro Music, and he is a regular of the Krzyżowa-Music “Music for Europe” festival. Adam has also created a series of 32 short films about preparing to perform the 32 Beethoven Sonatas, called “32@32” (available on YouTube). Adam is an Artist Teacher at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI has emerged as one of the most intriguing pianists among the newest generation of Hungarian musicians. Winner of the 2017 Concours Musical International de Montréal and recipient of the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2016, Zoltán Fejérvári has appeared in recitals throughout the Americas and Europe, at prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Canada’s Place des Arts, Gasteig in Munich, Lingotto in Turin, Palau de Música in Valencia, Biblioteca Nacional de Buenos Aires, and Liszt Academy in Budapest. His latest recording, Schumann, was released for the Atma Classique label in May 2020 and was again praised by Gramophone: “Fejérvári is a deeply communicative artist who combines an imperturbable yet magisterial command of his instrument with impeccable musicality. Those who have yet to hear him are in for a rare treat.”
Composer-pianist MICHAEL STEPHEN BROWN, hailed by The New York Times as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers,” is a 2025 MacDowell Fellow and 2024 Yaddo Artist. He is currently composing Endangered Carnival, a four organization co-commission premiering in 2026. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center, he has performed with major orchestras and venues worldwide, is an artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and regularly tours with Pinchas Zukerman. Brown’s compositions have been commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Gilmore and Bridgehampton festivals, Osmo Vänskä and Erin Keefe, the SPA Trio, and pianists Anne-Marie McDermott, Jerome Lowenthal, Ursula Oppens, Orion Weiss, Adam Golka, and Roman Rabinovich, soprano Susanna Phillips, and cellist Nicholas Canellakis. Two albums of his music including his Piano Concerto with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra will be released in 2025. A native New Yorker, Michael lives in New York City and Wallkill, NY with his two nineteenth-century Steinway D pianos, Octavia and Daria.
AHMED ALOM is a pianist, composer, and conductor whose artistry bridges classical and popular traditions, earning him recognition as “one of the most versatile artists in the Western Hemisphere” (Diario de Mallorca). His unique voice blends the rigor and structure of classical training with the rhythmic and harmonic richness of his Cuban heritage, forging connections between the past and the music of today.
NOLAN JUAIRE is a Cleveland-based classical guitarist. He is an active solo and chamber musician, with performances ranging from solo recitals to world premieres of guitar and orchestra works. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music with a Bachelor of Music in guitar performance. While there, he studied with Bill Kanengiser, Scott Tennant, and Pepe Romero. He recently completed his Master’s degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Jason Vieaux. In addition to performance, Nolan is also an active teacher, sought after for his enthusiastic approach to sharing the study of both musicality and technique.
DEREK ZADINSKY has performed in the Cleveland Orchestra as the Assistant Principal Bass since 2021, and as a section member previously, starting in 2012. Derek currently teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, and Cleveland State University. Derek has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Harold Robinson and Edgar Meyer. As a chamber musician, he has performed with Carter Brey, Ray Chen, Jinjoo Cho, Vadim Gluzman, Ida Kavafian, Joseph Silverstein, and members of the Dover Quartet. As a soloist, he has performed twice with orchestras in Carnegie Hall, and has also recorded an album on the Oberlin Music Label, available for streaming on Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon Music. Additionally, he has an edition of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 5 published on Apple Books. 
GABRIEL POLINSKY joined The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2022. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, having studied with Harold Robinson and Edgar Meyer. Some meaningful experiences have taken place at the Tanglewood Music Center, the New York String Orchestra Seminar, and the Lucerne Festival. Additionally, he enjoys playing on occasion with the Jupiter Chamber Players in New York. In 2019 he won The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Albert M. Greenfield Student Competition.
NATHAN FARRINGTON is a bassist, singer, and composer living in Los Angeles. He regularly appears in the bass sections of many of America’s top orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and the Seattle Symphony. Nathan was recently named the Principal Bass of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra under James Conlon and Placido Domingo, and pursues chamber music and solo opportunities avidly.