~ ICPA 2020 Young Artists ~

AARUN MONTEIRO KASSAM, Portuguese, was born in Brussels. He began piano study with Alice
Di Piazza at the age of five, continuing later with Orit Ouziel, and obtained his first diploma in 2016.
Simultaneously, he earned the European School Baccalaureate in July 2016 at the European School of
Brussels. In October 2015, Aarun was awarded 1 st prize at the Andrée Charlier Piano Competition. In
September 2016, Aarun entered the Brussels Conservatory, studying with Daniel Blumenthal. He has
participated in the SIPO-Semana Internacional de Piano de Óbidos (International Piano Masterclasses in
Óbidos-Portugal) in the summers of 2016 and 2017 where he had piano masterclasses with Paul Badura-
Skoda, Luis de Moura Castro, Boris Berman, Manuela Gouveia and Michiko Shoji. He joined the ICPA
program in 2017 and performs regularly in Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Russia, the U.S. and Lithuania.

CORINNA SORESSI was born in Codogno, Italy. She began piano study at age six and soon entered
numerous Italian piano competitions (2004—National Piano Competition “Val Tidone”, 1st place; 2005
—International Piano Competition “Val Tidone”, 3 rd place; National Piano Competition “Città di
Cesenatico”, 2nd place; National Piano Competition “J. S. Bach”, Città di Sestri Levante, 3rd place). She
has participated in numerous masterclasses with Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, Paola del Giudice, Chiara
Cipelli, Eugen Indjic, Mikhaïl Karpov, Natalia Trull, Maurizio Moretti, and Roberto Cappello, to name a
few. She has performed in Italy, Belgium, Russia, Poland, the U.S and Lithuania. She studies at the
Conservatory "Nicolini" in Piacenza, and detains also a bachelor’s degree in Languages and Literature.
Currently, she’s on “Erasmus” at the Brussels Royal Conservatory in Daniel Blumenthal’s class and
joined the ICPA program in 2018.

SIMON-PIERRE POLLIN was born in 2000. He is currently studying at the Royal Conservatory of
Brussels with Piet Kuijken. Motivated by his teachers, he participated at several national and international
competitions where he won the first prize in his category in Paris. He also took part to several master
classes with renowned artists such as Daniel Blumenthal, Markus Groh, Vitaly Samoshko and Alexander
Romanovsky. He had the honor to play many times in the beautiful hall of “De Markten” in Brussels and
was frequently invited to play in trio for the Rotary Club, as well at special events for the organization
‘GO! (Education of the Flemish Community-Equal opportunities”). Simon-Pierre Pollin joined the PRE-
ICPA program in September 2019.

KYUNG-AH KIM, Korea, praised for her "a part of the wave of new pianists with an ability to act the
part of a star" (Suburban Chicago News), has won numerous competition awards including the USA
Beethoven Competition, the Leos Janacek International Competition, the Sorantin International
Competition, and the St. Charles International Competition among others. Since having been selected as
the 2013 artist in the Seoul Arts Center, she has concertized extensively throughout the United States,
Europe, and Asia. She has collaborated with leading conductors including John Williams, James Orent,
Petr Atrichter, and has performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, NEC
Philharmonic Orchestra, BU Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Symphony
Orchestra, Busan Philharmonic Orchestra and Kyunggi Philharmonic Orchestra among others. She
received the Bachelor of Music, Master of Music and Graduate Diploma from New England
Conservatory, and the DMA from Boston University where she studied with Russell Sherman, Wha
Kyung Byun, and Boaz Sharon. Kyung-Ah works with Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri as an ICPA artist in
residence since 2016, representing the ICPA program in South-Korea, together with Korean pianist Yujin
Lee, also an ICPA pianist. She currently teaches at Seoul National University and has been an ICPA artist
since 2016.
ALLAN DUARTE MANHAS is a Brazilian prize-winning concert pianist and conductor. He has been
performing in Europe, USA and South America, in such venues as Curt-Sachs-Saal in Berlin, Scriabin
Museum in Moscow, Chopin House in Zelazowa Wola, Georg-Friedrich-Haendel-Hall and Haendel
House in Halle, and Mendelssohn House in Leipzig. Born in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, he first got in
touch with the piano at the age of 7. Years later he would earn his Bachelor’s degree in piano with honors
from the University of São Paulo, under Prof. Fernando Corvisier. After an intense semester as a visiting
scholar in Ukraine (National Academy of Music "Peter Tchaikovsky", Kiev) he finally transferred to
Germany to pursue graduate studies. There he earned his Master’s Degree and Konzert Examen from the
Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, under Prof. Marco Antonio de Almeida. Since 2015 he is
a member of the ICPA program and an Artist-in-Residence of Fondation Bell'Arte (Belgium), under the
guidance of Maestro Nelson Delle-Vigne (École Normale).

As an Artist-in-Residence of the Fondation Bell’Arte, established by Maestro Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri,

ELODIE VIGNON’s career as a soloist has had significant success in Europe and the United States. Ms.
Vignon discovered her love for the piano and its endless possibilities at the age of four. In 2001, she was
awarded a Gold Medal for her studies at the Conservatoire Régional de Lyon with Hervé Billaut. She was
invited thereafter to study with Daniel Blumenthal at the Brussels Conservatory, where she obtained two
Masters, in Piano Performance and Chamber Music. On many occasions over the last years, Ms. Vignon
has been performing as a soloist with important orchestras under the baton of distinguished conductors
such as Ramon Tebar and Philippe Entremont. She has performed in such halls as the Salle Cortot in
Paris, the Musée des Instruments de Musique in Brussels, the Teatro Nacional de Funchal in Madeira, the
Ciurlionis Museum of Vilnius in Lithuania, and the Roerike Museum of Moscow in Russia to name a
few. As a chamber musician, she has performed with the Oxalys Ensemble, the Quartett Coryfeye, the
Quartett Amôn, and frequently with the Belgian pianist Julien Libeer. In 2018, Ms. Vignon released her
first recording for Cypres Records (Debussy Complete Etudes for Piano and Twelve poems by Belgian
poet Lucien Noullez). The recording received many rave reviews in Europe, as well as ‘Four Stars’ in the
famous French Magazine Classica. On 1st February 2020, her second album (Dutilleux-3 preludes and
piano sonata and a commissioned a solo piece from the Belgian composer Claude Ledoux.)

KYUREE KIM started to play the piano at age of 7. She graduated from Yewon School and Seoul Arts
High School. She has won several prizes including the First Prize at the International Youth Piano
Competition in Singapore, and the 4th prize at 13th Chopin International Piano Competition in Asia as
well as numerous competitions in Korea. She made her debut at Lee Won Art Hall, at age 15. She
performed in recital at Valldemossa Chopin’s Catedra, Young Artist Concert in Seoul Arts High School,
the Complete Scriabin Etudes Recital at Seoul National University and as a soloist of the Seoul Orchestra
and Music Perugia Orchestra. She also followed master classes with Michel Béroff, Inna Faliks, Bruno
Rigutto, Boris Berman, Eugen Indjic and Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri. Since 2017 she has been studying at
the Seoul National University College of Music with Prof. Hee-Sung Joo, Kyung-Ah Kim and joined the
Pre-ICPA, Korea.

YEDAM KIM started playing the piano at the age of 6 and graduated from Seoul Arts High School. She
performed at the Central Music School of Moscow Conservatory, NTNU (TAIPEI), Valldemossa, Paris,
Seoul Arts Center. Yedam won numerous awards at the Seoul Orchestra Competition, Young-Chang
Music Competition, Beethoven National Piano Competition, Taipei Maestro Music Festival. She has been
awarded a full scholarship at Musicfest Perugia. As a soloist she performed with the Perugia Orchestra,
Seoul Arts High School Orchestra, Seoul Orchestra, Gang-Nam Symphony Orchestra. She also takes
master classes with Michel D’Alberto, Françoise Thinat, Jörg Demus, Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri and
joined the Pre-ICPA program in Korea.