Daniel GOTTFRIED studied organ with Michael Gailit and composition with Christian Minkowitsch at Musik und Kunstuniversität Vienna where he graduated from with honors in 2015 and 2016 respectively.
Since 2015, Gottfried is titular organist of Vienna’s Jesuit Church.

Since September 2016 he is pursuing thorough studies of French music as well as its tradition on the organ in the class of François Espinasse and Liesbeth Schlumberger at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon. He has participated in numerous master-classes of the world’s best organists and has received important artistic advice from Louis Robilllard.

Daniel Gottfried has appeared in concert as a soloist at renowned organ festivals in France and Austria as well as in Italy and the UK. He is engaged in several chamber music projects and has been part of orchestra productions of, among others, the Orchestre National de Lyon.
Solo Recitals in the Auditorium National de Lyon and in Saint-Séverin church in Paris mark recent highlights of his active career as performer. This summer he will be organist in residence at the festival Chaise Dieu in Auvergne.

Barbara CORNET started the organ at Besançon conservatory of music with Bernard Coudurier and Pierre-Yves Fleury. She was later accepted at the Saint-Maur-des-fossés conservatory pursuing her studies with Éric Lebrun and obtained an organ diploma, whilst improving her knowledge in musical analysis, writing and accompaniment.

She regularly performs in various concerts and festivals (« Orgue en Ville » festival, « Bach en Combrailles » festival, Besançon, Paris, Fontainebleau…)

In 2018 she was awarded the young musician prize by the Deutsch-Franzözische Gesellschaft (French-German alliance) of Freiburg.

She is also organist of the historical Saint-Remi church organ in Maison-Alfort and is the founder of the « Saison musicale de l’église Saint-Remi ».

At the same time she is undertaking a bachelor’s degree in management at the Paris-Dauphine University, with a flexible timetable that allows her to fully develop her musicianship.

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Johannes SKOOG (born 1992), is an organist from Stockholm, Sweden.

He is an international recitalist as well as a student of the Paris Conservatory (Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris) in the organ class of Olivier Latry and Michel Bouvard.

Johannes Skoog has studied organ interpretation for Mathias Kjellgren and organ improvisation for Nils Larsson at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (Kungliga Musikhögskolan).

He will graduate from the organ class of Michel Bouvard and Olivier Latry in the summer of 2017. He is also studying organ improvisation with Laszlo Fassang and Thierry Escaich.

In the year of 2016, he has given recitals in Notre-Dame de Paris, Chapelle Royale in Versailles, Royaumont abbey, cathédrale de Chambéry, as well as in London, Stockholm, Toulouse…

Born in 1993 in Montpellier (France), Emmanuel CULCASI began his musical studies at age 6 in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille in piano performance under the instruction of Michel Bourdoncle and in the organ classes of Chantal De Zeeuw and André Rossi.

From 2004 to 2011, he was awarded a dozen of first and second prizes at several levels of national or international piano competitions, such as Claude Kahn, Steinway & Sons, Simone Delbert Fevrier among others.

In 2012, he then attented the organ class of the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique (CNSMD) of Lyon under the tuition of François Espinasse and Liesbeth Schlumberger.
In 2015, he obtained his Bachelor of Music in organ performance and a Bachelor’s degrees in musicology at Lyon 2 University, both with highest honour. He is currently in the second year of his Master’s degree program in organ performance at CNSMD in Lyon.

Upon being awarded in 2014 a two-years research fellowship, he attented the CNRS-Aix-Marseille University and began a research program focusing on the impact of music training on brain’s structural plasticity and long term memory interactions.

Emmanuel is currently learning music pedagogy as a graduate teaching assistant in piano, with a research program aiming at defining improved music based therapies to help children with autism.

Trained as a musician and a scientist, he is planning a versatile career as a concertist, collaborative scientist, and educator.

In parallel, Emmanuel CULCASI is currently pursuing his musical studies in Pierre Pincemaille’s class of Fugue and Counterpoint in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and he is still studying piano with Romano Pallottini in Paris.

From 2004 to 2015, he has attended numerous masterclasses and participated in summer programs under the tuition of renowned concertists such as Ingo Bredenbach, Bernard Foccroulle, Paolo Crivellaro, Jacques Van Oortmerssen, Jean-Baptiste Robin, and pianists such as Vladimir Viardo, Paul Posnak, Konstantin Lifschitz, Jacques Rouvier, Jean Martin, Sylviane Deferne, Carlos Roque Alsina, Romano Pallottine, among others.

Emmanuel Cculcasi has performed in many festivals and recital series as pianist (Nuits pianistiques in Aix-en-Provence, Honegger’s King David (an European Project under Jean-François Senart) or as organist (Abbaye Saint-Victor in Marseille, Estivales in Megève, Collégiale du Château in Grignan, Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris, Ars Sacra Fesztival in Budapest, Hungary, etc…). His activities also include concerts with orchestras, and several duet projects and concerts as a piano accompanist. He is pursuing intense collaborations with saxophonists, oboists and trumpetists.

Since 2016, Emmanuel Culcasi is appointed as one of the organists “co-titulaires” at the 1854/80 Ducroquet/Cavaillé-Coll organ at Saint-Sauveur cathedral in Aix-en-Provence with Chantal De Zeeuw.