American pianist Claire Huangci gained international recognition by winning first prize and the Mozart Prize at the 2018 Concours Géza Anda, as well as awards at other major competitions.

Claire Huangci has been working with Alpha Classics since the 2024–2025 season. A highly acclaimed recording with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg featuring Mozart's piano concertos was followed by the release of her solo album Made in USA, featuring works by American composers Gershwin, Beach, Barber, and Wild. Another recital album focusing on German and American female composers is planned for 2026.

Kicking off a series of international orchestral engagements, Claire Huangci will make her debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rheinische Philharmonie, the Santa Rosa Symphony, and the North Carolina Symphony in 25/26. Another highlight was her performance at the closing concert of the Carinthian Summer with Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F together with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Marin Alsop.

Claire Huangci has performed solo recitals and as a partner to international orchestras in major concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Wiener Konzerthaus, and the Festspielhaus in Salzburg. She is a welcome guest at renowned festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, and the Ruhr Piano Festival.

Felix Klieser is an extraordinary artist in every respect. He took his first horn lessons at the age of 4 and became a junior student at the University of Music, Drama, and Media in Hanover at the age of 13. In 2014, he received the ECHO Klassik award for Young Artist of the Year and the Music Prize of the Association of German Concert Agencies. He is also an author: his second book, Stell dir vor es geht nicht, und einer tut es doch (Imagine it's not possible, and yet someone does it), was published by Ullstein Verlag in the summer of 2024.

In the summer of 2022, he made his debut at the Ravenna Festival at the invitation of Maestro Riccardo Muti. At the end of his two-year residency with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, he made his brilliant debut at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in the summer of 2023. The concert was broadcast live on both radio and television.

Highlights of the 2025/2026 season include a tour with the Italian ensemble “I Solisti di Pavia” with concerts at the Prinzregenten­theater in Munich, among other venues. The program of Italian opera arias, transcribed for horn and orchestra, will also be released in spring 2026 on the Berlin Classics/Edel label.

Felix Klieser will also return to Glasgow and Edinburgh with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the baton of Thomas Søndergård and will also perform with the Pfalzphilharmonie Kaiserslautern and the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker.