Irina Zahharenkova
Irina Zahharenkova is one of Estonia’s most outstanding international artists and a virtuoso pianist who also performs earlier music on the harpsichord and fortepiano. Based in Finland, Zahharenkova appears actively as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral soloist, collaborating with many of Finland’s leading musicians.
Zahharenkova has performed extensively throughout Europe and Asia. Her solo recitals have been heard at numerous prestigious festivals, including Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Göttingen Händel-Festspiele, Moritzburg Festival, MDR Musiksommer, Mendelssohn Festival, Solsberg Festival, Spoleto Festival, Serate Musicali, Accademia Chigiana, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Naantali Music Festival, Mikkeli Music Festival, Prades Pablo Casals Festival, and Festival de Música Antigua.
She has also appeared in renowned concert halls such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Wien Konzerthaus, Louvre Museum Paris, the Troldhaugen (Grieg Museum), and Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
As a soloist, she has performed with many leading orchestras, including the BBC Ulster Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the North Carolina Symphony, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Kymin Sinfonietta and Sinfonietta Riga. She has collaborated with conductors such as Olari Elts, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Olli Mustonen, Jun Märkl, Juha Kangas, Robert Treviño and Leif Segerstam.
During the 2024–2025 season, Zahharenkova served as Artist-in-Residence with the Tapiola Sinfonietta, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1–4. In autumn 2025, she performed Violin Concerto in its piano version.
Since 2022, she has been Artist-in-Residence with the California-based chamber music series and ensemble Camerata Pacifica. Her musical collaborators have included Sebastian Jacot, Paul Huang, Nicholas Daniel and Timothy Ridout.
Between 2020 and 2025, her solo repertoire has included both books of J. S. Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Klavier and the complete 32 piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven. She was awarded the Annual Prize of the Estonian Cultural Endowment for her interpretation of Book I of Das Wohltemperierte Klavier.
Zahharenkova is also an active chamber musician. She has performed with artists such as Sergey Malov, Baiba Skride, Sol Gabetta, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Daniel Rowland, Aylen Pritchin, Daniel Müller-Schott, Andreas Brantelid, Klaus Mäkelä, Jan-Erik Gustafsson and Christofer Sundqvist.
In 2025, she recorded sonatas by Vivaldi, Boccherini, Geminiani and Bach together with Daniel Müller-Schott. That same autumn, she joins Sol Gabetta’s concert tour Following the Footsteps of Lisa Cristiani, appearing at venues including the Elbphilharmonie, Kölner Philharmonie, Tonhalle Düsseldorf and the Palais des Beaux-Arts.
Fenomen Artists represents Irina Zahharenkova worldwide.
Artists pictures: Matti Kyllönen
Vincent Dubois
Vincent Dubois, titular organist at Notre-Dame de Paris since 2016 and recognized as one of the most brilliant organists on the international scene, has enjoyed an intensive concert career since winning first prizes in 2002 at the prestigious Royal Bank International Organ Competition of Calgary (Canada) and the Xavier Darasse Competition in Toulouse (France). He was also appointed Professor of Organ Interpretation and Improvisation at the Hochschule für Musik (University of Music) in Saarbrücken, Germany.
Vincent Dubois has been invited to perform as a soloist with prestigious orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Korean National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Orchestre Les Siècles, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Orchestre National de Bretagne, the Orchestre de Picardie, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, and the Athens State Orchestra.
He has collaborated with conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Myung-Whun Chung, Evgeny Svetlanov, Edo de Waart, François-Xavier Roth, and Stéphane Denève.
Vincent Dubois has also been a guest at numerous international festivals, including those in Vancouver, Budapest, Stuttgart, Montreal, Chartres, Cambridge, Lisbon, Ottawa, Dresden, Merseburg, and Roskilde, as well as at the 2018 American Guild of Organists Convention in Kansas City.
He has performed in renowned venues such as the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Spivey Hall in Atlanta, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Musashino Civic Cultural Hall in Tokyo, the Maison Symphonique in Montreal, King’s College in Cambridge, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral in London, St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Bartók Béla National Concert Hall (Müpa) in Budapest, the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, and the Auditorium of Radio France in Paris.
Vincent Dubois has recorded programs for Radio France, ORF Vienna, SWR Munich, CBC/Radio-Canada, and the American media outlet Pipedreams.
The expressiveness and poetry of his playing, unanimously praised by critics, are strongly influenced by the pianist Pierre Froment, his teacher and a disciple of Alfred Cortot, making Dubois one of today’s most original and influential organists. At the same time, passionate about improvisation from a young age and profoundly influenced at the age of 16 by Philippe Lefèbvre, titular organist at Notre-Dame de Paris, he is now considered one of the most brilliant improvisers of his generation.
A former student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he won five first prizes—including First Prize in Organ in Olivier Latry’s class—he passes on his dual passion for performance and improvisation through masterclasses regularly given at prestigious universities and conservatories in Europe, North America, and Asia. He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, and since 2022 he has held the chair of the organ class as Professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Saarbrücken.
In addition, his interest in contemporary creation has led him to premiere Guillaume Connesson’s Concerto da Requiem, works by Thierry Escaich for solo organ and for organ with ensembles, and to participate in the creation of original artistic performances such as Liturgie équestre, presented as part of Automne en Normandie in Saint-Ouen de Rouen with equestrian choreographer Bartabas, as well as the show Chœur d’étoiles with actor Michel Duchaussoy.
Vincent Dubois has made numerous recordings for various labels (Alpha, JAV, Aeolus, Calliope). His most recent recording, released for the Erato/Warner Classics label on the occasion of the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris, is entitled Eternal Notre-Dame.
Fenomen Artists represents Vincent Dubois in the Nordic countries, Europe, Asia, South-America, Australia and New Zealand.
Artist pictures: Tuomas Tenkanen
