Mirabelle Kajenjeri & Elias David Moncado
Biographie Mirabelle Kajenjeri & Elias David Moncado
Mirabelle Kajenjeri
is a French pianist “with a unique touch, manipulating some of the most challenging acrobatics with a (discreet) smile, disarmingly natural and generous” (La Libre Belgique)
Born in 1998 to Burundian and Ukrainian parents, Mirabelle draws deep inspiration from her multicultural heritage, a theme she explored as a guest speaker at TEDxRoubaix.
The year 2024 marks a turning point, with a growing international recognition. She began an Artist residency at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium and joined the Fondation Gautier Capuçon. In 2025, she was named a Laureate of the Queen Elisabeth International Competition and made her debut at the Berlin Philharmonie with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, under the baton of Tianyi Lu.
Her first album, “Étincelles” was released in collaboration with the label KNS Classical (2022), and traces a journey from Beethoven to Fafchamps.
She was recognized in numerous international competitions, including 1st Prize at the Santa Cecilia International Piano Competition (2021), 2nd Prize at the Kissinger KlavierOlymp (2023), and was a semi-finalist at both the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition (2023) and the Cleveland International Piano Competition (2024).
She has been supported by institutions such as the Fondation Safran, Wilhelm Kempff Foundation, Lieven Piano Foundation, and Yamaha Music Europe Foundation.
Mirbelle Kajenjeri performs internationally at festivals including Le Piano Symphonique Luzern, Flagey Piano Days, Kissinger Sommer, and Piano Days Cleveland, and has collaborated with orchestras such as the Brussels Philharmonic, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Orchestre de Picardie, and the Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa.
Alongside her concert career, she is actively engaged in music outreach and education, regularly taking part in projects for young audiences and interdisciplinary collaborations.
A graduate of the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, she studied with Anna Malikova, Ewa Kupiec, Mikhail Faerman, Vladimir Soultanov ,and her discovery of the piano at the age of 5, was initiated by Natalia Grebennikova in Kyiv.
A multifaceted musician, she is also a passionate violinist, having studied both instruments from an early age. In 2018, she obtained a Bachelor’s degree with great distinction. Lorenzo Gatto, Olga Zolotareva, Ning Kam, and Elizabeth Degrenand were her teachers.
Mirabelle Kajenjeri
The 25-year-old German-Spanish-Malaysian violinist, currently a scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie-Mutter and the Gautier Capuçon Foundation, is considered “one of the greatest talents of his generation” (Anne-Sophie Mutter). As the youngest winner of the 1st Grand Prix and 10 special prizes at the Int. Karol Lipinski Competition 2019 in Poland, as well as winner of the Int. Valsesia Musica and Int. Vladimir Spivakov Competition 2021, his playing is characterized by a “sound that electrifies, that moves.” (Badische Zeitung).
He is a guest at various festivals such as the Lucerne and Gstaad Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Kissinger Musiksommer, the Rheingau Music Festival and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Solo projects in his young career include concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Baden-Baden Philharmonic, Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, Brandenburger Symphoniker, Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra Japan, Sofia Philharmonic and Budapest Symphony Orchestra with conductors such as Sascha Goetzel, Vladimir Spivakov, Nayden Todorov, Ken Takaseki, Fabrice Bollon, Thomas Guggeis, Nicolás Pasquet, Heiko Mathias Förster and Ryusuke Numajiri.
Together with Anne-Sophie Mutter and “Mutter’s Virtuosi” he appears at international concert stages (such as Musikverein Wien, Philharmonie Berlin, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie Luxembourg and Roy Thomson Hall Toronto).
Other highlights include his debut 2026 with the Museumsorchester Frankfurt at Alte Oper, his debuts 2025 at Carnegie Hall New York, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris with l‘Orchestre National d’Ile de France, with the Korean Chamber Orchestra in Seoul, with the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at Smetana Hall Prague, his debut at the Tonhalle Zurich in January 2024 with the Zürcher Symphoniker, his debut in 2023 at the Konzerthaus Vienna (recorded by Medici TV) as part of a tour to Germany, Austria and Bulgaria with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, his concerts as a debut artist at the Nikolaisaal Potsdam 2020-2022 as well as his Japan debuts at the Hitachi Systems Hall Sendai and Meguro Persimmon Hall Tokyo.
Elias David Moncado’s critically acclaimed debut CD was released in 2022 by Avi-Music with works by Hindemith, Poulenc and Bartók.
Elias David Moncado developed an intensive concert career while studying with Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Zakhar Bron, Pierre Amoyal and currently at the Kronberg Academy with Mihaela Martin. His studies are funded by the Benno and Ursula Stork-Wersborg patronage.
He performs on a collection of fine violins, including a Giovanni Battista Rogeri, Brescia (around 1700), from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben Hamburg, a G.B. Guadagnini, Turin (around 1771) from a private patron, as well as the 1724 „Ludwig, Ex-Szigeti“ Stradivarius, provided by the L-Bank Baden-Württemberg.
