San Diego’s Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez leads a concert artist career that takes him to major festivals and concert halls around the world. He also regularly gives master classes on both sides of the Atlantic. At only 27, as the first Organist of Spain’s National Concert Hall in Madrid, he was described as one of the most exciting talents on the music scene, and his performances have been described by critics as “sizzling”, iconoclastic”, “impeccable”, and “transcendent”.   Ramírez studied with Ludger Lohmann and Leonid Sintsev, perfecting his historically informed performances with Marie-Claire Alain, Guy Bovet, Lionel Rogg, Zsigmond Szathmáry, and Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, among others. Also a composer, his works have been premiered and broadcast in Spain, including a Concerto for Organ and Orchestra.   Ramírez’s first albums on Brilliant Classics were recorded at Milan Cathedral and at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona. He is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.

Voted "Revelation" (Breakthrough Artist) at the 2016 Victoires de la Musique Classique awards, French trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary, "trumpet enchantress" according to Le Monde, possesses a unique artistic identity which has enabled her to conquer both the classical and jazz scenes the world over. At 24, Lucienne has already recorded four albums for Warner Classics, each one to critical acclaim. She was awarded the Prix OPUS Klassik 2021 in the Young Artist of the Year category and is the winner of the 2019 Arthur Waser Prize, becoming the first woman to receive this coveted award. Lucienne Renaudin Vary is a guest of leading orchestras and ensembles internationally and collaborates with the most renowned conductors - Paavo Järvi, Barbara Hannigan, François-Xavier Roth, Eun Sun Kim, among others.  In the summer of 2018, she made her debut at the Jazz in Marciac Festival. Such was her success that she was invited back in 2022 to open for Wynton Marsalis in Marciac.