Asia Jiménez Anon de Vez, from Barcelona, is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Performance at the Royal College of Music, London, with Leonid Kerbel and Daniel Rowland, kindly supported by the Henry Wood Trust.

 

Asia started her musical studies at the age of four at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona, Spain. She received an honours degree from the institution when she graduated in 2015 after studying with Kai Gleusteen while also studying with Sergey Fatkulin in Madrid. Asia has given recitals in Europe and Asia, in countries including Italy, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and China, and has won prizes in several competitions, having the opportunity to perform in halls such as La Fenice Theatre in Venice, Palau de la Música in Barcelona and the National Theatre in Shanghai.

 

 

Craig White gained a BA in Music at St Catherine’s College, Oxford in 2005. Following a Postgraduate Diploma in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying with Michael Dussek and Diana Ketler, he was also a Fellow in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Conservatory of Music. His Wigmore Hall debut was in October 2010, with oboist James Turnbull. In 2011, he toured Japan with soprano Erika Colon, and conducted London Youth Opera's The Magic Flute. In 2012, Craig won the accompanist prize at the centenary Kathleen Ferrier Awards, following accompanist prizes at the Thelma King Awards, Great Elm Vocal Awards and AESS Finals. In 2014, he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London.

 

Craig White has worked as an official accompanist at a number of International Music Academies including the Schiermonnikoog Kamermuziek masterclasses in Holland, Rencontres Musicales Internationales D'Enghien in Belgium and the Lake Ossiach Masterclasses in Austria. In 2017, he adjudicated the Con Brio Piano Competition in Mumbai, India and for the past two years has been Official Accompanist for the Summer Academy Voksenåsen in Oslo, Norway. He has also worked at the Aix-en-Provence Académie, collaborating with artists such as Dame Kiri te Kanawa and Waltraud Meier.