Highlights of the upcoming seasoning are going to be 3 performances in the Great Festival Hall Salzburg with the ,Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg‘, conducted by Carlos Domínguez-Nieto as well as concerts in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain, China, Japan and the USA.

The press names Peter Sadlo “talent of the century”.

A hit with the public and critics alike, Peter Sadlo’s extraordinary musical intuition and virtuosity have made him an internationally sought after artist.

Born in Salzburg in 1992, he now studies marimba (Bogdan Bacanu) and percussion (Josef Gumpinger) at the Anton Bruckner Private University.

Other instructors were Martin Grubinger and Leonhard Schmidinger on percussion instruments.

Vladimir Petrov is percussionist in the famous Bruckner Orchestra in Linz / Austria. He was born in Pleven / Bulgaria in 1986 and began studying percussion at the age of nine with Simeon Serafimov. He has performed with many orchestras such as the Opera-Philharmonic Society Ruse, Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Wien, Bruckner Orchestra Linz and was solo timpanist of the Junior Philharmonic Orchestra “Emil Chakarov”.

Emiko Uchiyama was born in Okayama / Japan in 1983. Emiko Uchiyama began her musical studies at the age of three receiving tuition on marimba and piano.

From a very early age she appeared as a soloist with many orchestras including the Tonkünstler-Orchestra Lower Austria, Osaka Philharmonic, Hong-Kong Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Metropolitan Police, the Sapporo Symphony and the Okayama Symphony orchestras.

The Wave Duo
"Emiko Uchiyama and Vladimir Petrov " came into existence in the year 2007.

They had their debut at the International Marimba Duo Competition in Belgium, where they were awarded the first prize. They also secured themselves the audience prize, the prize for the best interpretation of a set-piece and were the recipients of the Keiko Abe prize.

He has been professor of marimba at the famous Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz (Austria) starting when he was 23 and is thus the youngest professor of his kind, world-wide. He was given piano instruction at the age of five in Bucharest, his birthplace, and was already a percussionist with the George Enescu Bucharest Philharmonic at age 13. Bogdan Bácanu studied marimba at the Mozarteum University in his present hometown with his great mentor, Professor Peter Sadlo.