TEACHERS
MARIA MASYCHEVA
Maria Masycheva, the Winner of the prestigious Marguerite Long – Jacques Thibaud International Competition and the Second Prize Winner of the famous Concours de Genève, has gained an international reputation as an outstanding piano performer with a versatile talent and wide-ranging musical interests.

Concert performances take Maria to the distinguished halls worldwide, such as the Salle Cortot and Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Great hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, the Konzerthaus and the Great Hall of the Philhramony Berlin, Tonhalle Zurich. She has performed at important music festivals worldwide, such as Klavier Festival Ruhr, "Young Euro Classic", "Les pianos folies", "Musique en cote de Nacre" and "Un violon sur le sable", where Maria played in front of an open air audience of 60.000.

Maria Masycheva regularly gives master courses in Europe and Russia. She is a permanent professor of the summer music academy, "Musique en côte de Nacre" in France. Having more than 15 years of pedagogical experience, Maria combines phenomenal knowledge of music methodology and vividness of thinking. In her lessons, she helps find a right balance between the logic and intuition, concentration and relaxation. Her way of teaching brings students to another level of understanding music and nature of playing piano.

She graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire by Professor Elisso Virsaladze and the Berlin University of Arts by Professor Klaus Hellwig. She is also a certified music physiologist.
ADAM BONCZ
Adam Boncz is a New York based actor and producer. He started his career at the Szeged National Theater in Hungary where he played in numerous productions including Total Eclipse, Lovers of Ancona, The Lower Depths, Clockwork Orange and Fiddler on the Roof. In 2007 he got accepted to the world renowned Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.

He served as the producer of Fatelessness and was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for his performance. As a producer he also worked on productions such as O.Rex, Goblin Market and the staged reading of the Hungarian-American co-production To Dance.
Adam has facilitated shows for the Times Square International Theater Festival and created productions for the New York Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Adam is a graduate of the Broadway League's Commercial Theater Institute, which mentors young theater producers in New York City and is a member of Theater Resources Unlimited, where he was awarded the New Producer Endowment Award in 2016. He holds a certificate in Arts Management from the SUNY Purchase College.

As a casting associate he worked on several feature films (The Independents, Impossible Monsters) and large scale video-installations such as Figure Studies and Groove.
TOMI JANEZIC
Tomi Janežič is a theatre director, university professor and psychodrama psychotherapist (ECP). He obtained his degrees in theatre directing from the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, and was additionally educated through a period of twenty five years in Slovenia and abroad, particularly in the field of numerous acting techniques, psychodrama and group analysis.

Janežič is one of the most recognized Slovenian theatre directors abroad and an internationally recognized expert in the field of acting. He has lectured and collaborated as an invited artist in several countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Italy, Austria, France, Belgium, Norway, Portugal, Russia and USA). His performances toured on dozens of festivals in the countries of ex Yugoslavia, around whole Europe, in Russia and USA. Janežič has received over thirty international prizes and awards for his artistic work. He has directed Studio for Research on the Art of Acting within the framework of which - and in collaboration with parallel foreign organisations and experts - he has done research projects in the field of acting since 1996.

An Italian documentary La cura del Teatro (Care for the Theatre) about his work recently premiered in Paris and Italy.
Janežič directed at Bolshoi Drama Theatre in Sankt Petersburg the performance Man (based on Viktor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning) which was nominated for the Golden Mask in four categories (best drama large scale production, best directing, best set-design, best costume-design).
ESZTELLA LEVKO
Esztella Levko received a BA degree in European Theater Arts from Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance London, where she explored the famous training methods such as the Meyerhold and Chekhov techniques. She also studied in Moscow at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (ВГИК). She has worked with several European theater companies since 2008. She gave over 200 performances in Europa, Asia and in Northern Africa.

The content of her multidisciplinary work experience has ranged greatly and encompasses a broad spectrum. She has been working with the well known Polish avant-garde theater company OPT Gardzienice. She has played in the production of William Shakespeare's Henry the V. directed by Pippo Delbono (Italy), worked with the critically acclaimed Compagnie Philippe Genty (France), as well as ViaNegativa (Slovenia.)

In recent years, she has led physical theatre workshops in Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Japan and the US, sharing her method and techniques with students from all over the world. Besides her professional career she is a PhD student of sociology at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest.