Since 1993 he has been Artistic Director of the the Duszniki International Chopin Festival and since 2004 he also is the Artistic Director of the Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz. Piotr Paleczny conducts the piano class at the Chopin University in Warsaw. In 2017 he was awarded with prestigious Diploma and Title of Honorary Professor of the Chopin University of Music. His students have already won dozens of awards at the international and national piano competitions. In April 2017, the Board of the Polish Phonographic Academy awarded Piotr Paleczny with the prestigious Golden Fryderyk award.

In addition to his concert life, Boris Petrushansky is active in teaching field: from 1975 he was teaching in Moscow Conservatory and now gives master classes in the Royal Academy of Dublin and London, the Royale College Music of London, Rowan University of USA (New Jersey), and in many cities of Italy and Japan. He is now resident in Italy and since 1990 has held a position at the Academia Pianistica Incontri col Maestro in Imola. He has made various recordings with Melodia, Symposium, Fone, Agora, Dynamic, Stradivarius, Art&Electronics. He is a member of jury of many international competitions such as Busoni (Bolzano), Viotti (Vercelli), Casagrande (Terni), Tongyeong, Orlèans, Chopin in Warsaw, Paris etc.

His students repeatedly took part in music festivals of Europe, Asia and America, performed with orchestras conducted by Yuri Bashmet, Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev, Alexander Rudin, Yuri Simonov, Saulius Sondeckis, Vladimir Spivakov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Vladimir Ziva and others. Jury member of many competitions, such as Grand Piano Competition, Astana Piano Passion, International Youth Tchaikovsky Competition and others. Piassetski is a recognized chamber musician. During many years he was a partner in the duet with the People’s Artist of Russia Mikhail Homitzer (cello). He arranged master classes Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Slovenia, France and Japan. Director of Central Music School, professor.

Vladimir Ovchinnikov’s appearances include the Chicago Symphony, Montreal Symphony, all major London orchestras, Bournemouth Symphony, Hague Residentie Orkest, Hallé Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Zurich Tonhalle. He appears frequently with such leading Russian orchestras as the Moscow Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, The State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia. He has collaborated with many renowned conductors, among them Vladimir Ashkenazy, James Conlon, Alexander Dmitriev, Vladimir Fedoseev, Valery Gergiev, Mariss Jansons, Neeme Järvi, Yakov Kreizberg, Valery Polyansky, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Sir Georg Solti. Festival appearances include Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Schleswig-Holstein, Singapore, to name a few.

Among his recordings are compilations of Liszt, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto and Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux. For several years he worked at the Royal Northern College of Music in the UK. Vladimir Ovchinnikov is resident professor at the Moscow Conservatory.

Pavel Nersessian has been touring Russia and surrounding states from the age of eight, and has given performances in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Cannes, Leipzig, Vienna, Budapest, Madrid, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Dublin, Muenchen, Caracas, Rio de Janeiro, Belgrade, Cairo, Kiev, Beijing and many other cities. By special invitation from the Mariinsky and the Perm Ballet, he has performed solo part in Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial based on Tchaikovsky’s 2nd Piano Concerto with performances in the Mariinsky, Bolshoi, Châtelet and Covent Garden. He also played a solo part in Jerome Robbins’ ballet The Concert, or The Perils of Everybody.

Pavel Nersessian served as a jury member in many international piano competitions: Dublin, Valencia, Sendai, Astana, Almaty, Hilton Head, Hamamatsu, Barcelona and many others. In 2005 he became a merited artist of the Russian Federation.

A pianist of the generation of Marguerite Long, laureate of the the Prix de Rome, Eliane Richepin founded the Annecy International Musical Center and The International Music University of Paris. She acted as both trigger and spur in Escande's decision to give the piano a place of fundamental importance in his life. He followed her to Paris and to Annecy, and became one of her closest disciples. While he was still young, she entrusted him with the artistic direction of the UMIP Parisian season at Theatre 13; she also arranged a meeting with the Reverend Father Emile Martin, founder of the choirs at Saint-Eustache, who appointed Escande artistic advisor to the Bach Festival at Mazamet, where he was able to cut his teeth in festival organisation. Later, in 1988, Eliane Richepin asked him to take over the Annecy International Musical Center, her former creation in Annecy, which, without changing the spirit of the event, he then transformed into the Annecy Festival summer academy, thus ensuring the festival's continuation.

In 2010, thanks to his pianist friend Denis Matsuev (who Escande had helped to bring to the attention of the French public), he benefitted from the generous patronage of the AVC Charity Foundation, enabling a new chapter to unfold for the organisation, under its new title of "Annecy Classic Festival", which, in a few years, has become one of the most important festivals in France, embracing symphonic and chamber music as well as recitals. Following piano studies under the guidance of Eliane Richepin and Pierre Sancan, musicology at the Sorbonne University and with instrumental diplomas and a Masters in musicology successfully accomplished, many people already considered him a concert pianist. However, this was not Escande's own vision. There was nothing of the anchorite, the reclusive, about the future founder of the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise. He likes people, needs to listen to, to meet, to teach and to exchange ideas with others. He also enjoys constructing and creating, so from early on he foresaw his future role as, above all, a builder. While Professor at both the Institut Notre-Dame de la Compassion at Pontoise, where he founded and directed the choir school and produced the Story of Stravinsky ’s Soldier with a cast of pupils, and at the Conservatoire National of Cergy-Pontoise (a post he holds to this day), Pascal Escande threw himself into a new project that – to the great astonishment of all – took off: a chamber music festival in one of the most beautiful villages in the Vexin region and haunt of impressionist painters, Auvers-sur-Oise. Once again, an encounter was to prove a pivotal moment in his career.

The Festival was founded in 1981. For the 10th anniversary of the Festival, Mstislav Rostropovitch gave an unforgettable cello recital at Auvers-sur-Oise, in a church full to bursting. Since then, artists the world over have come to consider Auvers as an indispensable venue in their professional itineraries: Sviatoslav Richter, Denis Matsuev, Maurice André, Alexis Weissenberg, Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Evgeny Kissin, Ivo Pogorelich, Nikita Magaloff, Teresa Berganza, Vadim Repin, Natalie Dessay, Maxim Vengerov, Hélène Grimaud, Cecilia Bartoli, Renée Fleming, Aldo Ciccolini, Renaud Capuçon, Zoltan Kocsis, Patricia Petibon……..

For the public, as well as the artists, the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise has become an indispensable experience. But he is not a man to look back. He likes action, he likes to invent, design and build. In this spirit he has steered the Festival towards the future, with the intention of creating a laboratory for musical experimentation and exploration, a propagator of young talent. This is the DNA of the Festival. And, the initiatives do not stop there! His hometown, Pontoise, invited him to design a large-scale annual musical event.

Thus in 2002 he created Piano Campus – International Piano Competition, to include a new style of international competition for young soloists and to present the piano in a range of formats throughout the town and neighbouring urban community of Cergy- Pontoise, from the university to the conservatoire, from schools to clubs, from shops to artisans' workshops, in the streets and in the museums….. Respected by his peers, Pascal Escande has been invited to take part in numerous high-level national and international juries (Paris, Shanghai, Astana, Moscou), whence he has championed several young pianists, promoting them through the record label « DiscAuverS ».

He was president of the jury for the first season of the European chamber music competition for students, « Sforzando », and was part of the administrative committee of French Federation of International Music Festival, In recognition of his activities and grassroots initiatives, he has received several distinctions, including those of "Commander of Arts and Letters" and "Chevalier of the National order of Merit ". Very attached to the Russian culture, the Festival of Auvers-sur-Oise has just obtained in 2021 the label “Le Dialogue de Trianon”, a Franco-Russian initiative promoting the development of cooperation in various fields such as culture.