Stuttgart Philharmonic

Recognized by critics worldwide with the ECHO Music Prize, the German Record Critics’ Award, and the KONEX Prize in Music, Mariano began his international career by winning the 1st prize at the Teatro Colón Conducting Competition. This led to collaborations with the most prominent conductors of today, such as Sir S. Rattle, P. Boulez, P. Eötvös, R. Chailly, R. Muti, and B. Haitink; and to work with the most renowned orchestras and ensembles, including the Hong Kong Phil, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Russian State Orchestra, Philharmonique de Radio France, WDR Sinfonieorchester, German Radio Phil, Gulbenkian Orquestra and the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker.

He has been invited to major festivals and concert venues, including the Lucerne Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Young Euro Classic, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Elbphilharmonie, Konzerthaus Vienna and Berlin, Tchaikovsky Hall Moscow, Teatro Colón and l’Opéra Bastille.

Mariano has served as Music Director of Trier University, as Conductor of Ensemble Garage, since 2014 began his cooperation with the National Symphony in Argentina and with the Lucerne Festival Academy.

Most recently he was selected by Barbara Hannigan’s Momentum Project, named as a member of the German Music Council, as “Outstanding Personality of the Culture” of his hometown and awarded with the Premio Nacional Clásica.

In 2025, he received the Music Critics Association Award as “Conductor of the Year” at the Parliament of Buenos Aires.

Since 2022 Mariano Chiacchiarini was chosen Musikdirektor of the University of Bremen.

Alim Beisembayev is “classical music’s next big thing” (iNews) and was recently named one of the “10 most exciting young musicians in the world” (The Telegraph). He rose to international prominence after winning First Prize at The Leeds International Piano Competition in 2021 with a performance of Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Manze. He was also awarded the medici.tv Audience Prize and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society Prize for Contemporary Performance.

In 2023, Alim became one of the highlights of the BBC Proms when, with just two days’ notice, he stepped in to perform Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Sinfonia of London and John Wilson. The performance was hailed as “the kind I thought we could hear only in our dreams” (iNews) and BBC Radio 3’s Georgia Mann proclaimed that “a star is born”. Later that season, Alim received the prestigious Critics’ Circle Young Artist Award.

A popular guest with many top UK orchestras, Alim’s recent and upcoming concerto highlights include the Philharmonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, and Ulster Orchestra. Further afield, he works with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony, Belgrade Philharmonic, Macedonian Philharmonic, , Sinfonietta Cracovia, and Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, amongst others. He has performed at major venues and festivals worldwide, including the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Seoul Arts Centre, Carnegie Hall, Chopin Institute (Warsaw), Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris) and Klavier-Festival Ruhr, and Cliburn Concerts. He has toured Europe with the Steinway Prizewinner Concerts Network and South Korea with the World Culture Network.

Alim’s recordings receive consistently outstanding critical acclaim. Having listened to his debut recording, of Liszt’s 12 Transcendental Études (Warner Classics, 2022), Colin Clarke of Classical Explorer proclaimed that “Alim Beisembayev is the real deal”. Alim’s next recording, Mozart’s Piano Concerti Nos. 25 & 26 with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Howard Griffiths (Alpha, 2026), was described as “fresh”, “alive” and “original” by The Spectator.

Born in 1998, Alim began his musical education in Kazakhstan and Russia before continuing at the Purcell School for Young Musicians in the UK. As a young pianist, he won numerous awards, including at the Junior Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. A major part of Alim’s musical training took place under the guidance of Tessa Nicholson, with whom he studied from the age of 14 and throughout his undergraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2023, he completed both a Master of Performance and an Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music under the guidance of Professor Vanessa Latarche.