Bram Invites

Suite Delights

The program includes 3 special suites. A suite is a series of dances set to music. Mikayel opens with a cello suite by Bach, one of the Baroque icons of the cello repertoire. Bram continues with Schubert's Moments Musicaux; Finally, they play Schnittke's polystylistic Suite im alten Stil together;

About Mikayel Voskanyan

The Armenian cellist Mikayel Voskanyan (2003) is 2nd prize winner of the International Chieti Classica Cello Competition. Mikayel has played chamber music with renowned artists such as Kristóf Baráti, Shunske Sato, Kyoko Yonemoto, Mihai Cocea and Shuann Chai. He is currently continuing his cello studies with Professor Alexander Chaushian in the master's program at the Maastricht Conservatory.

Bram de Vree: “Mikayel is pursuing a master's degree in cello at the Maastricht Conservatory and is the kind of student you only meet once every few years. A natural talent on the cello, with great storytelling power and the necessary Armenian enthusiasm. It's nice to be able to offer such a young talent a stage before he spreads his wings.”

“A cellist with fantastic technique and great intensity” - Gustav Rivinius (cellist)

About Bram de Vree

Bram de Vree plays many concerts both in the Low Countries and worldwide. As pianist of the Belgian-Dutch Mosa Trio, he tours internationally and has been a guest at festivals such as the Grachtenfestival, Klarafestival and the Festival International de Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron. Bram made his debut as a soloist at the age of thirteen with a piano concerto by Haydn and has since performed with, among others, the Orchester de l'Opéra de Lyon, the Amman Symphony Orchestra and various Dutch and Belgian orchestras.

As a soloist and chamber musician, he has played in halls such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Bijloke, BOZAR and Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, and has performed in Germany, France, the UK, Austria, China and Australia, among others. Bram recorded his solo debut CD in 2010 and released an internationally acclaimed debut album with the Mosa Trio in 2018. He has won prizes at prestigious competitions in Lyon, Brussels, the Netherlands and Australia, and regularly judges at (chamber) music competitions.

Bram obtained his master's degree with distinction at the Maastricht Conservatory, where he studied with Tonie Ehlen and Håkon Austbø, and took lessons with, among others, Jacques Ogg and the Trio Wanderer. With the Mosa Trio he was a member of the European Chamber Music Academy for three years. Bram is Chamber Music Coordinator and Master Research Supervisor at the Maastricht Conservatory and was a piano teacher at the CMD in Valkenswaard for many years.

"Extremely compelling, imaginative and vivid" - Mark Steinberg, Brentano Quartet

"Unter the fear of the fingers, the keyboard sounds so good that it is easy to understand, so it is possible to use the sound of the string, and, if you wish, it is also possible, so percussive, so annoying." - Hannah Schmidt, Niusic

"They play as if they have dissected and boned Shostakovich's trio, the wonderfully promising Mosa Trio." - Biëlla Luttmer, De Volkskrant

"Ein youth und erstaunliches new Trio!" - Uwe Krusch, Pizzicato

"An incredible virtuosity" - Henk Pruijsen, Wieringer Courant