In 2012 Vilde Frang was unanimously awarded the Credit Suisse Young Artists Award which led to her debut with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Bernard Haitink at the Lucerne Festival.

Baiba Skride’s natural approach to music-making has endeared her to many of today’s most prestigious conductors and orchestras worldwide. She performs regularly with orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker,

Vladimir Balshin was born in 1973 in Moscow. After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory he continued his postgraduate studies there in the class of Prof.

Born in Moscow in 1969 in a doctor’s family, Igor Naidin’s musical studies included violin and viola with Professor M. Glezarova and Yuri Bashmet at the Moscow Conservatory aged seven and continued under the tutelage of Yuri Bashmet until graduation in 1994 from Moscow Conservatory.

Born in Moscow, Sergei Lomovsky graduated from Moscow Conservatory studying with Professor Beshkina and, in post-graduate studies, with Professor Kravchenko.

As a string trio member,

Graduated from the Moscow Central Music School and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Nicolai Sachenko studied with Zoya Makhtina, Sergei Kravchenko, Vladimir Ivanov and Alexander Bonduriansky.

He has won prizes at several international competitions,

Nikolai Sachenko, 1st violin

Sergey Lomovsky, 2nd violin

Igor Naidin, viola

Vladimir Balshin,

Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen is one of the leading conductors of his generation. Highly acclaimed for his “thinking on a grand scale” and exceptional technique,