Podium Auxesis Artists
Xenia Gogu
Violin
Xenia is a Moldovan-Spanish violinist and has been a member of the Noord Nederlands Orkest since 2019. Her passion for historically informed performance has led her to found several chamber music ensembles, with which she has won numerous prizes, including the York Young Artist International Competition 2024, the International Early Music Biagio Marini Competition, and the Handel Competition in Göttingen. The debut CD recorded by Linn Records (Outhere) of her group Ayres Extemporae is out in June 2026.
In addition, she has participated in many renowned festivals across Europe, such as Laus Polyphonae in Antwerp, MA Brugge, Brighton Early Music Festival in the UK, the FestiVita Festival in Brussels amongst others.
In addition, she has participated in many renowned festivals across Europe, such as Laus Polyphonae in Antwerp, MA Brugge, Brighton Early Music Festival in the UK, the FestiVita Festival in Brussels amongst others.
Victor Garcia Garcia
Violoncello
Víctor is a Spanish cellist specializing in historically informed performance. Since September, he has been appointed as the new professor of Historical Cello at the Utrecht Conservatory. Alongside his teaching activities, he has built a rich career as a soloist with his various chamber music ensembles and with some of the finest orchestras on the historical music scene. He has won numerous prizes, including at the International Bach Competition 2024 in Leipzig and the Lutosławski Cello Competition. His interest in scholarly research led him to complete a PhD at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, focusing on the performance practice of cellists in Beethoven’s time.
Artem Belogurov
Fortepiano
Artem is equally at home on the modern piano as on the harpsichord, clavichord, and the many types of historical pianos. His repertoire spans four centuries of solo, concerto, and chamber music. Artem has recently performed concerts with Concerto Köln at Lincoln Center in New York and at the Library of Congress in Washington, as well as with Camerata RCO in Sofia, Bulgaria.
As a soloist and chamber musician, both as a duo partner of cellist Octavie Dostaler Lalonde and as the founder of the ensemble Postscript, Artem has appeared at numerous international festivals, including the Montréal Baroque Festival, the Royaumont Festival, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Musica Antiqua Bruges, and at venues such as Wigmore Hall, Jordan Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam, and TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht.
He is an active researcher, particularly in the field of Romantic performance practice, and enjoys experimenting with it and breathing new life into long-forgotten expressive means. He has made recordings for BIS, Piano Classics, Berlin Classics, Challenge Classics, and TRPTK.
As a soloist and chamber musician, both as a duo partner of cellist Octavie Dostaler Lalonde and as the founder of the ensemble Postscript, Artem has appeared at numerous international festivals, including the Montréal Baroque Festival, the Royaumont Festival, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Musica Antiqua Bruges, and at venues such as Wigmore Hall, Jordan Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam, and TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht.
He is an active researcher, particularly in the field of Romantic performance practice, and enjoys experimenting with it and breathing new life into long-forgotten expressive means. He has made recordings for BIS, Piano Classics, Berlin Classics, Challenge Classics, and TRPTK.
Javier Lupianez
Violin
Javier studied Baroque violin at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Enrico Gatti, and also obtained degrees in violin, musicology (University of Salamanca), and a doctorate (cum laude) from the University of Guanajuato.
He won, among other awards, the International Van Wassenaer Competition and the Göttinger Reihe Historischer Musik, and in 2021 was nominated for the Opus Klassik Awards as Best Performer and Revelation Artist. His recordings have received praise from the international press and multiple nominations for the ICMA and Opus Klassik Awards.
As a researcher, he specializes in 18th-century ornamentation and improvisation. His dissertation on Vivaldi, Pisendel, and ornamentation will be published soon by the Vivaldi Institute in Venice. In 2024, he launched the Historical Ornamentation Sources Catalog, an open-access database for sources from the 17th to the early 20th century, with a focus on ornamentation and improvisation.
He won, among other awards, the International Van Wassenaer Competition and the Göttinger Reihe Historischer Musik, and in 2021 was nominated for the Opus Klassik Awards as Best Performer and Revelation Artist. His recordings have received praise from the international press and multiple nominations for the ICMA and Opus Klassik Awards.
As a researcher, he specializes in 18th-century ornamentation and improvisation. His dissertation on Vivaldi, Pisendel, and ornamentation will be published soon by the Vivaldi Institute in Venice. In 2024, he launched the Historical Ornamentation Sources Catalog, an open-access database for sources from the 17th to the early 20th century, with a focus on ornamentation and improvisation.
Gijs Laceulle
natural horn
Gijs Laceulle was born in Haarlem (the Netherlands), where his love for the horn began at an early age. He studied modern horn and natural horn in Amsterdam and Dresden, with teachers including Teunis van der Zwart and Peter Damm. Early in his career, he decided to specialize in the historical horn and historically informed performance practice.
Since 2006, he has been a permanent member of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, and since 2011 of the Freiburger Barockorchester. In addition, he is a highly sought-after guest musician with ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the English Baroque Soloists, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and the Utopia Orchestra.
With these and many other ensembles, he has given concerts throughout Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania, under the direction of conductors including Frans Brüggen, René Jacobs, Sir Simon Rattle, and Teodor Currentzis. He also performed for several years with the wind sextet Nachtmusique, led by clarinetist Eric Hoeprich.
In addition, Gijs has given masterclasses in natural and Baroque horn in Amsterdam, Freiburg, and Montreal. He plays an original historical horn built by Antoine Halari (Paris, c. 1820).
Since the 2024/2025 season, Gijs has been affiliated with the Noord Nederlands Orkest as a member of the horn section.
Since 2006, he has been a permanent member of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, and since 2011 of the Freiburger Barockorchester. In addition, he is a highly sought-after guest musician with ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the English Baroque Soloists, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and the Utopia Orchestra.
With these and many other ensembles, he has given concerts throughout Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania, under the direction of conductors including Frans Brüggen, René Jacobs, Sir Simon Rattle, and Teodor Currentzis. He also performed for several years with the wind sextet Nachtmusique, led by clarinetist Eric Hoeprich.
In addition, Gijs has given masterclasses in natural and Baroque horn in Amsterdam, Freiburg, and Montreal. He plays an original historical horn built by Antoine Halari (Paris, c. 1820).
Since the 2024/2025 season, Gijs has been affiliated with the Noord Nederlands Orkest as a member of the horn section.
Robert de Bree
Oboe, recorder
Robert is a Dutch oboist, recorder player, improviser, and teacher. Robert has performed around the world with leading ensembles such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Pygmalion, AKAMUS, L’Arpeggiata, and Holland Baroque. He has played solo concertos with ensembles including the Dunedin Consort, Arcangelo, the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO), Luther’s Bach Ensemble, and many others.
As co–artistic director of The Scroll Ensemble, he focuses on the largely unexplored art of ensemble improvisation in classical music and audience interaction. The ensemble has performed, for example, at Festival Classique with writer Guus Kuijer, in the film Michiel de Ruyter, and for Queen Beatrix. The group presents original programs such as Bach’s Workshop, which sheds new light on Bach’s composing and improvising practices.
As a teacher, Robert is active in many fields. He teaches historical improvisation at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and has visited numerous academies to give workshops, including the University of Texas at Austin, the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Amsterdam Conservatory, the music academies of Warsaw and Katowice, and the Dutch Society for Music Theory.
As co–artistic director of The Scroll Ensemble, he focuses on the largely unexplored art of ensemble improvisation in classical music and audience interaction. The ensemble has performed, for example, at Festival Classique with writer Guus Kuijer, in the film Michiel de Ruyter, and for Queen Beatrix. The group presents original programs such as Bach’s Workshop, which sheds new light on Bach’s composing and improvising practices.
As a teacher, Robert is active in many fields. He teaches historical improvisation at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and has visited numerous academies to give workshops, including the University of Texas at Austin, the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Amsterdam Conservatory, the music academies of Warsaw and Katowice, and the Dutch Society for Music Theory.