Lecture and Workshop :
Jean Binet and Frank Martin

Jacques Tchamkerten was born in Geneva. After studying organ with Pierre Segond at the Conservatoire de Genève, he began learning the Ondes Martenot under Jeanne Loriod, where he received a unanimous gold medal at the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur (France) in 1986. Since then, he has performed in a dozen European countries, both with orchestras and in chamber music ensembles. From 1990 to 1996, he was a member of the Sextuor Jeanne-Loriod, a sextet of Ondes Martenot.

As the head of the Library at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, Jacques Tchamkerten also pursues a career in musicology. He has published monographs on Arthur Honegger, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, and Ernest Bloch, along with numerous articles on music in French-speaking Switzerland in the early 20th century, as well as on French music from the 19th and 20th centuries. He has contributed to the Dictionnaire du Théâtre en Suisse, the Dictionnaire de la Musique française au XIXe siècle, and the new edition of the New Grove Dictionary. As a researcher, he is regularly invited to participate in various conferences. In 2011, he was awarded the Pierre-et-Louisa-Meylan Foundation Prize for his body of work.

Latvian pianist Georgijs Osokins has gained international attention through his participation at age of 19 in the XVII^th International Chopin Piano Competition where he quickly became an absolute Audience Favorite. Shortly after the Chopin Competition, Osokins made important debuts at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Laeiszhalle and Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, International Piano Series in Bern, Lockenhaus Festival, Gstaad Music Festival, Narodowe Forum Muzyki in Katowice, the Vancouver Playhouse, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Hall, Tongyeong Hall in South Korea. In 2021 Georgijs Osokins performed at the 101^st Salzburger Festspiele.

Georgijs is actively collaborating with Gidon Kremer, touring in the UK, Ireland, Russia, Poland, Germany, Asia and US. Alongside Lucas Debargue, Georgijs Osokins was announced the first permanent Guest Artist of Kremerata Baltica in its 25-year history. In 2024 Georgijs makes his solo debut at Pierre-Boulez Saal in Berlin and returns to Milan’s Serate Musicali Festival and London’s Wigmore Hall.

UK’s label “Piano Classics” released Osokins’ two CD albums focused on Chopin’s Late Works and works of Rachmaninoff. These recordings received brilliant reviews from important British, Canadian, German, Danish and French music magazines. German label Accentus has released the first chamber music album of Georgijs Osokins alongside Gidon Kremer containing trios of Chopin and Beethoven – this CD was nominated for both International Classical Music Awards 2020 and Opus Klassik 2021. He received the Cross of Merit awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland and the Latvian Grand Music Award – highest honour in music in Latvia – and remains youngest recipient in the Awards’ history.