The Ensemble
"The Ars ad Mundum Ensemble was founded in 2024 by violinist Anna Kaczmarek-Kalandarishvili and oboist Giorgi Kalandarishvili. Shortly after its founding, the ensemble has already been heard in major concert halls and at festivals, including the Bagno Konzertgalerie and the Summerwinds Münsterland Festival."
Oboe and Strings
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Giorgi Kalandarishvili
Oboe
Giorgi Kalandarishvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and began learning piano at the age of six at the "Wano Sarajishvili" Music School for Gifted Children. At eleven, he switched to the oboe. By the age of 13, he won the Piccoli Mozart Festival in Monte Carlo and became a prize winner at Jugend musiziert.
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Anna Kaczmarek-Kalandarishvili
Violin
Anna Kaczmarek-Kalandarishvili, born in Żyrardów, Poland, is a violinist with great stylistic range and international experience. At the age of nine, she debuted as a soloist with the Witold Lutosławski Symphony Orchestra Plock in her hometown. At 13, she was accepted at the Zenon Brzewski Music School for Gifted Children in Warsaw.
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Hindenburg Leka
Viola
Born in Elbasan, Albania, Hindenburg Leka began his musical training at the age of six on the violin before switching to the viola. He first studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana and later at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid with Diemut Poppen, Nils Mönkemeyer, and Yuval Gotlibovich.
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Shengzhi Guo
Cello
Shengzhi Guo was born in China's Hunan Province and began his studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 1995, graduating in 2001. He then studied at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in the class of Prof. Maria Kliegel. He attended masterclasses with Mstislav Rostropovich, Natalya Shakhovskaya, Laurence Lesser, Janos Starker, and Mischa Maisky.
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Dmitry Ablogin
Piano
Dmitry Ablogin, born in Moscow, is regarded as one of the most brilliant and creative keyboard artists of his generation. The Frankfurter Rundschau credits him with the 'Abloginian fine articulation.'
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Alex Gurfinkel
Clarinet
Born in 1992 in Tel Aviv, Alex Gurfinkel began his musical training at the age of eight. At twelve, he was invited by Zubin Mehta as a soloist for the annual concert for young musicians with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
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