The EMCY Stars of Tomorrow Tour 2011 was held from 26th June to 5th July.

Four wonderful musicians from Croatia, France, FYR Macedonia and Spain enchanted audiences in Starnberg, Bad Ischl, Eggenfelden, Passau and Seefeld.

Mireia Frutos, piano (Spain, prize winner of the Concurso Permanente de Jóvenes Intérpretes), Hrvoje Hresc, cello (Croatia, prize winner of the International Radio Competition for Young Musicians 'Concertino Praga'), Leá Hennino, viola (France, prize winner of the European Competition for Young Soloists) and Sofija Nikoska, violin (FYR Macedonia, prize winnerof the International Competition for Young Musicians 'Ohrid Pearls') met for the very first time at their workshop, Starnberg near Munich.

Although rarely knowing each other they set out to play together two chamber music pieces of the 19th century: Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E flat Major (Op. 47)  and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Piano Trio in c minor (Op. 66). As well as this all of them played a solo piece, most of them from their home countries.

The first three days they prepared together the chamber music pieces with a professional piano and violin player in the Music school Starnberg located by the beautiful Lake Starnberg. Then they played concerts at the Trinkhalle Bad Ischl (Austria), the Bösendorfer Saal Eggenfelden, the Große Redoutensaal Passau and the Schloß Seefeld (all in Germany). It was a great pleasure to witness how the musicians grew closer and closer together on a personal and musical level and how they improved from concert to concert. It was clear in their playing that this group enjoyed making music together and were all very sad when the tour came to an end!

EMCY is already very much looking forward to the next tour in 2012.