Friday August 28th, 9:00 PM
Chiostro di San Domenico, Fondi
In the evocative setting of the Cloister of San Domenico in Fondi, Julian Kainrath, Ruslan Talas and Luigi Carroccia give voice to the French repertoire for violin and piano composed between the 19th and 20th centuries, in the transition from late Romanticism to Symbolism.
Although Franck, Chausson and Debussy lived within a similar cultural world, each of these composers speaks a very different musical language while sharing the same poetic perspective in which violin and piano dialogue on a level of full expressive equality.
Sonata in G minor
Poème op. 25
Sonata in A major
Born in Kazakhstan in 1998, Ruslán Talas’ musical journey has been shaped by the European, Russian, and Kazakh violin traditions, which continue to inform his multifaceted and passionate approach to the instrument. He began his studies at the Kazakh National Academy of Music in Astana, before continuing at the Central Music School and later at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow. He then pursued further studies at the HEMU Conservatory in Switzerland and is currently studying at the Kronberg Academy in Germany, in the class of Janine Jansen.
Ruslán is a laureate of several international violin competitions, including the Queen Elisabeth Competition (2024) and the Stuttgart International Violin Competition (2024). He has performed at major venues such as Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Konzerthaus, Bozar in Brussels, the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, and MSO in Montréal. In 2025, he made his debut at the Salle Cortot in Paris. In addition to his solo career, he is an active chamber musician and has collaborated with artists such as Janine Jansen, Denis Kozhukhin, Antje Weithaas, Jens Peter Maintz, Daniel Blendulf, Timothy Ridout, Boris Brovtsyn, Gareth Lubbe, Belcea String Quartet, Quartetto di Cremona, and Leonkoro String Quartet. Ruslan is Artist in Residence of the Fondazione Nicola Bulgari in Rome.
In April 2022, the Luxembourg-based International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) awarded sixteen-year-old Julian Kainrath the 2022 Discovery Prize. Julian studied violin with Dora Schwarzberg in Vienna and was admitted to Boris Kuschnir's class at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, at the age of twelve. Since 2023, he has been a student of Marc Bouchkov at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, Belgium, and was selected in 2026 as Young Artist of the Nicola Bulgari Foundation in Rome.
He has already performed in some of the most renowned concert halls and music festivals. Highlights of his 2025/2026 season include a performance with Daniel Hope and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra at the Kursaal Merano, an appearance at the Smetana Hall in Prague with the Northern Czech Philharmonic, his debut at the Miami Piano Festival and a recital tour in Italy, Austria, Germany and Spain. In 2026/2027, he will embark on an extensive tour of Italy with pianist Lilya Zilberstein.
