On 9 April 2011, Masataka Goto was awarded First Prize at the 9th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, Utrecht. The jury compared him to “a young samurai defending the honour of music.” He also received the Van Lanschot Bankiers Audience Award as well as the Prize of the Junior Jury. In 1996, Masataka Goto has received his first piano instruction under Fumiko Eguchi at the Showa Graduate School of Music and the Piano Art Academy, where he is still a student. In 2004, he won the Grand Prix at the 28th Competition of the Japanese Piano Teachers’ National Association and in 2005 was awarded first prize at the Ennio Porrino International Piano Competition in Cagliari, Italy. As First Prize winner in the Liszt Competition, Masataka is to embark upon a world-wide concert tour.

A native of Lithuania, now, a resident of Paris, Mûza Rubackyté performs orchestral concerts regularly throughout the world and heard frequently on Radio France and Radio Classique. Her continental recital tours have taken her to such venues as Wigmore Hall (London), Beethoven Haus-Bonn, Germany, Salle Gaveau (Paris), Concertgebouw (Netherlands). Lithuania honored Ms. Rubackyté with the country's highest cultural award the "Legion of Merit" for their extraordinary international musical accomplishments. She is heard on highly praised and acclaimed recordings for Lyrinx, Marco Polo, Melodia and Hungaroton in the works of Liszt, Schubert, Brahms, Ciurlionis and others. Fanfare Magazine wrote: “SHE IS SIMPLY ONE OF THE GREATEST LISZT PLAYERS ALIVE”. The Bermuda press headlined her review as "Passion, fire and thunder from a musical magician." “Her “Annees de Pelerinage” rises to the top to the cycle’s short list” (BBC Music). Besides her active concert career, Ms. Rubackyté is a postgraduate professor at the Lithuanian National Academy of Music and serves as a Jurist throughout many of Europe's piano competitions. Mûza Rubackyté is a true and brilliant artist in every sense of what the word "artist" represents to the world of great music.

Balázs Szokolay was born into a family of musicians in Budapest (his father is composer Sándor Szokolay). Following his graduation from  the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in 1983, he won scholarships for two more years of studies in Munich and Moscow. From 1973 to 1990, he has been a prizewinner at many international piano and chamber music competitions. More recently, he has been a frequent juror in major music competitions. He has given concerts and offered masterclasses in over thirty countries on four continents. His repertoire covers a wide range of styles with a strong focus on chamber music. As a soloist, Mr. Szokolay has performed with many orchestras, including the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra and the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. He has recorded extensively with Naxos , Hungaroton, and other recording companies. One of his Grieg-Naxos CDs was named “Record of the Year” by London ’s Daily Telegraph in 1992. He has been a piano professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest since 1987, a guest professor at Yeungnam University , South Korea, and a Visiting Scholar and piano professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey, USA . In 2001, he was awarded the prestigious Liszt Prize by the Hungarian Government.