The six voices
Six students, six backgrounds, one question. We take the first step — and invite you to add your voice.
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Cello / Voice
South Africa
Christopher is a South African Master's student in the MA Music Performance & Career Development with a focus on Violoncello. He is driven by a passion for projects that serve, uplift and empower young people in the classical music world. The shame and insecurity that surround financial realities in music inspire him to create a safe — yet irreverent — dialogue around what we are actually worth.
02 / 06
Violin
Spain
Inés started her violin studies at 6 years old with Sergio Castro in Madrid. She then studied for several years with Olga Vilkomirskaia and Mikhail Pochekin, after which she went on to earn her Bachelor's Degree in Madrid Royal Conservatory with Sergey Teslya. She is now pursuing her Master's Degree with Prof. Rudens Turku in Stella Vorarlberg Privathochschule für Musik. As a lover of orchestral music, she has played in several Youth Orchestras, including Neue Philharmonie München, Pforte Kammerorchester and JMJ Orchestra, where she was Concertmaster. She also earned a position as I Violin in La Mancha Philharmonic Orchestra in Spain. Furthermore, she has played in Chamber Music concerts with artists such as Matthias Schorn, Tatiana Chernichka, and Maria Włoszczowska. She has had the opportunity to play in concert halls such as Herkulessaal, Festspielhaus Bregenz, Markus-Sittikus Saal, Madrid National Auditorium and Teatro Real, among others.
03 / 06
Violin
Finland
Jasmin Mönkkönen is a Finnish violinist who graduated from the Sibelius Academy in 2024 and is now studying her second master’s degree, Music Performance & Career Development, at Stella Vorarlberg Private University of Music with Professor Sophie Heinrich. Mönkkönen is one of the Stella Preis winners from January 2026 and will be heard next October as the soloist of the Stella Sinfonietta. She will record her solo recital with ORF radio in September as part of the “Talente im Funkhaus” concert series. Both in Finland and in Austria, she performs actively as an orchestral and chamber musician. Her not-so-secret passion is to be involved in renewing and improving the education of classical musicians, and in that way to be a small part of making the field more human.
Photo: Aron Polcsik
04 / 06
Clarinet / Sound Engineer
Japan
Kenichi is a Japanese clarinetist, Tonmeister and recording producer. After completing a Master's in clarinet with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music London, he completed a Master in Tonmeister at the Zurich University of the Arts as first in class. He is currently pursuing another Master's at Stella Vorarlberg Private University of Music. For him, playing, listening, and shaping spaces all lie along a single line. He has come to believe that music, and likewise "Aporia" (the question without an answer), can only come into being in rooms that allow what optimisation and efficiency cannot bring forth: ambiguity, room to breathe, and chance. As the salons of the nineteenth century were, places not where something was decided, but where something was allowed to arise, opening such spaces once again in our time stands at the heart of his work. "What Are We Worth?" is, for him, one of the forms this attempt takes.
kenichi-kawabata.com ↗
05 / 06
Flute
Colombia
Maria is a Master's student in Flute at the Stella Vorarlberg Private University of Music in Austria, originally from Colombia. Recently, she has become especially interested in how differently the conditions in music study can vary — and how strongly financial questions shape everyday life and personal development. She is part of this project because she believes it is important to create an honest space where these experiences can be shared and made more visible.
06 / 06
Soprano
Japan
Sahori is a Japanese soprano pursuing an MA in Music Performance & Career Development. Through this project, she hopes to make visible inequalities and previously tabooed realities, while fostering an open and safe space for dialogue. A successful music education serves here as an example of broader societal questions of access, privilege, and visibility. Art, and music in particular, is intended to act as an impulse and initiate a sustainable process of social reflection.
Supervisor
Dr. Martina Taubenberger
KulturKonzepte München · Stella Vorarlberg
