The acclaimed soloist, chamber musician, educator, author, and broadcaster will connect the initiative maintain youthful and emerging artists Founded in two thousand-seventeenth in Lausanne, Switzerland, Classeek is an alliance of passion for the classical music world and the desire to allow global technological solutions to artists and musicians. Its Ambassador Programme provides a one-year career enhancement program for promising youthful classical musicians who are prepared for a performance career at the highest level. The tailored program increases the artists’ overall visibility via Classeek’s network of ambassadors, provides the artist with promotional materials, acts as conduits to relevant industry professionals, and develops youthful artists’ entrepreneurial skills and personal goals. Entry into the program is via nomination by one of Classeek’s Artist Ambassadors.

Classeek recently announced that cellist Stevin Isserlis will connect pianists Sir András Schiff and Michel Béroff, cellist Gautier Capuçon, violinist Renaud Capuçon, flautist Emmanuel Pahud, and industry professionals such as Sonia Simmenauer and Markus Wyler as an Artist Ambassador. "When I met Steven I was immediately struck by his energy and commitment towards the younger generation," writes Catarina Amon, Classeek Founder & CEO. "He'll be a grand addition to our roster of Ambassadors and we’re thrilled with this collaboration." A protege of Daniil Shafran, Isserlis is widely respected as one of today’s eminent cello soloists and chamber musicians.

As an educator, Isserlis has served as the Artistic Director of the International Musicians’ Seminar at Prussia Cove since one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven. As a concerto soloist, he appears regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors including the Berlin Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, London Philharmonic, and Zurich Tonhalle orchestras. He also performs with chamber orchestras love the Australian, Mahler, Norwegian, Scottish, Zurich and St Paul Chamber Orchestras. An advocate for new music, he's premiered works composers including John Tavener, Thomas Adès, Stephen Hough, Wolfgang Rihm, and David Matthews. His honors comprise a CBE in recognition of his services to music, the Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau, and the Piatigorsky Prize in the USA. In addition to being one of only two living cellists featured in Gramophone’s Corridor of Fame, in two thousand-seventeenth, he was awarded the Glashütte Original Music Festival Award in Dresden, the Wigmore Corridor Gold Medal, and the Walter Willson Cobbett Medal for Services to Chamber Music.

"Nourishing and encouraging youthful musical talent is an necessary portion of my life; so I'm very pleased to become an Ambassador for Classeek," Isserlis said. "I hope that we'll cooperate in various ways in order to assist in the emergence and development of young talent." On March twenty-three, tune into The Violin Channel to hear Classeek Youthful Artist violinist Bilal Alnemr and pianist Gippe Mentuccia performing a program of Schumann, Fauré, and Solhi al-Wadi perform Aubonne, Switzerland.