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Festival Artists
2024
This year's festival features some of the world's finest young artists: we welcome back Luke Hsu and Emma Roijackers (violins), Coby Mendez (viola/guitar), Rainer Crosett and Lydia Hillerudh (cello), Ziteng Fan (piano) and Mila Piano Trio. Joining us for the first time are Caspar Vos and Michael Cohen-Weissert (piano), Thomas Guthrie (baritone), Sophia Yan Jin (soprano), Imogen Whitehead (trumpet), and Natalie Loughran and José Nunes (viola).
![Caspar Vos (1988) started his piano education with Frank Peters at the Artez Conservatory in Arnhem. He continued his studies with Jan Wijn at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where he concluded his Master studies in 2014 with the Highest Distinction.
Caspar has competed successfully in numerous national and international competitions, including the Grand Dominique Competition in the Netherlands, the 18th International Piano Competition Jean Francaix, and the 8th International Mayenne Piano Competition, both of which were in France. In 2017, Caspar received the Dutch Classical Talent Audience Award for his original new concept 'a programme without a programme.'
As a soloist, Caspar has performed piano concertos by Prokofiev, Mendelssohn and Poulenc. He is also a passionate chamber music player and frequently plays with acclaimed musicians from all over the world. Caspar was invited to play at several national and international music festivals, such as the International Chamber Music Festival Schiermonnikoog and Wonderfeel in the Netherlands, the Aurora Festival in Sweden, the International Medtner Festival in London, and Verão Clássico in Lisbon.
In February 2018 Caspar’s debut-album Ego was released by 7MNTN Records. The CD featured works by the Russian composer Nikolai Medtner. The recording was received with critical acclaim; Luister rewarded it with a 10 and Gramophone wrote "Vos brings out [the music's] constantly changing moods with flair and clear affection. Caspar conveys the sense of surge and repose, mystery and exaltation that is such a hallmark of this composer."
In March 2019 Caspar released his second album Restart, dedicated to the Catalan composer Frederic Mompou. The Dutch newspaper NRC called Restart "an album to cherish" and Trouw wrote "Vos proves himself to be one of the best Dutch pianists of his generation."
Caspar followed masterclasses with internationally renowned pianists like Dimitri Bashkirov, Ferenc Rados, Pavel Nersessian, Matti Raekallio, Eldar Nebolsin, Denis Pascal, Noam Greenberg, and Pascal Devoyon. Caspar has worked extensively on Medtner’s music with Nikolai Lugansky and Severin von Eckardstein.
Caspar has been invited to teach at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Besides performing and teaching, Caspar is also the director of the Schiermonnikoog Festival.](https://www.casparvos.nl/media/download_gallery/Caspar%20Vos%202%20fotograaf%20Foppe%20Schut.jpg)
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