Every year, the AIMM is recruiting professors from all over the world for its Summer Master Classes !
Reknowned stars of Classic Music but also true teacher, it is with a lot of enthousiasm that they are coming to Montpellier in summer with their precious teaching methods.
** You will find in the next pages, the biographies of the professors of the 2011 Master Classes **
Akiko Ono
Akiko Ono launched her successful after winning numerous prizes in prestigious competitions such as the Yehudi Menuhin, the Queen Elisabeth, the Szigeti, the Paganini, the Viotti-Valsesia and the Forval-Scolarship Stradivarius Competition.
Since then she has performed throughout Europe, the Middle East, Central America and Japan with major orchestras including the Belgian National Orchestra, Weimar Staatskapelle, Lille National Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra amoung others with conductors such as Yehudi Menuhin, Shlomo Mintz, Saulus Sondeckis, Hans Drewanz, George Alexander Albrecht, Mattias Bamert, James Judd and many others.
Petru Munteanu
Petru Munteanu received his professional training in Bucharest from Prof. G. Manoliu (pupil of Enescu) and took part in Master Classes with J. Jankelevitsch (Moscow) and M. Weimann (St. Petersburg).
Armin Sesek
Armin Sesek graduated violin in Faculty of Musical Arts in Belgrade (Serbia) under Professors Vladislav Bobic and Aleksandar Pavlovic. He worked as violin player in Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra for 12 years.
Nobuhiko Asaeda
Né en 1955 à Tokyo, Nobuhiko Asaeda commence le violon à l'âge de 4 ans. Il étudie jusqu'en 1971 au Conservatoire National de Tokyo puis à partir de 1975, il part à Vienne suivre l'enseignement du Professeur Odnoposoff.En 1979, il intègre l'Orchestre National de Mannheim en Allemagne et y devient le supersoliste de 1981 à 1999. Parallèlement il approfondit sa formation en devenant l'élève de Nobert Brainin et de Nathan Milstein à Londres.De 2000 à 2007 il est violon solo de l'Orchestre Tokyo City Philharmonic.
So-Ock Kim
Born in Seoul in 1982, So-Ock Kim moved to London at the age of three. At 15, she was the youngest ever winner of the gold medal in the prestigious Shell/LSO Competition.
Jean Lenert
Jean is from Metz, in the north of France where he started to play violin with Léon Tillion before to work with Marcel Reynal and Enrik Szering.
Natasha Boyarsky
Natalia Boyarsky graduated in Moscow under Professor Isaac Urovetsky, Maya Glezarova,Yuri Yankelevich, Felix Andrievsky and Mark Lubotsky.

