Noémie Bialobroda has been the violist of the Aviv Quartet since 2014, leading an active international career with the ensemble. Their performance of Beethoven’s complete string quartets at the Ansermet Studio in Geneva in 2018-2019 was a great success and strengthened their presence in French-speaking Switzerland.

Noémie Bialobroda, passionate about teaching, is since 2025, viola professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon. She is also Chamber Music Professor and Chamber Music Coordinator at the Haute École de Musique de Genève. Previously, she taught at the Conservatoire de Lausanne and the Conservatoire de Genève. During the summer, she teaches at the Flaine International Music Academy. Her students have won prizes in prestigious national and international competitions.

In recognition of her contributions to music, Noémie Bialobroda was awarded the Leenaards Foundation cultural grant in the music category in 2024.

As a performer, she is invited to renowned concert seasons and festivals, including Wigmore Hall (London), the IRCAM Manifeste Festival, and the Cité de la Musique (Paris), among others. She performs with artists such as Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Yovan Markovitch, Luis Claret, Boris Garlitsky, François Guye, Philippe Müller, Tedi Papavrami, Jean Sulem, Jean-Pierre Wallez, and the Rosamonde Quartet, giving concerts across Europe, Israel, and the United States.

Dedicated to contemporary music, Noémie has premiered two solo viola pieces at IRCAM: Caprice for Solo Viola and Electronics by Japanese composer Keita Matsumiya (2012) and Drifting by Pierre Stordeur (2013). She is also regularly invited to perform with the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt and the Contrechamps ensemble in Geneva.

Noémie Bialobroda studied with Nobuko Imai and Miguel Da Silva at the Haute école de Musique de Genève and later at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where she completed an Artist Diploma (third cycle) with Professor Jean Sulem.

Noémie Bialobroda is the co-founder and artistic director of the Geneva International String Academy.

This is one of the best CD recordings of the year – perhaps of the decade […]. Here we encounter the closest we have witnessed […] to a new Casals.”

(Early Music Review on the CD recording of J.S. Bach’s 6 Suites for Solo Cello)

“Peter Bruns does what he does best on his Tononi cello from 1730: he declaims, just like Pablo Casals, who also used to own the instrument. Peter Bruns once confirmed the closeness to Casals, saying: ‘I also try to speak with the instrument.’”

(Maja Ellmenreich in Deutschlandradio Cologne)

The cellist Peter Bruns has established an excellent reputation in the international music world as one of Germany’s leading cellists. Born in Berlin, he studied with Professor Peter Vogler at Berlin’s “Hanns Eisler” Academy of Music.

Peter Bruns has performed as soloist and chamber musician in renowned concert halls throughout all continents, including the Berliner Philharmonie, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wigmore Hall in London, concert halls in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul, in the Semperoper Dresden, in the Leipziger Gewandhaus as well as at the most important festivals including the Kuhmo, Bergen, Berlin and Dresden Music Festivals, the Budapest Spring Festival, the Seoul Spring Festival and Gidon Kremer’s Lockenhaus festival.

The artist has also performed as soloist with many major orchestras and has toured with the Staatskapelle Dresden as well as with the RAI, MDR and Berlin symphony orchestras. He has collaborated with conductors such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Eliahu Inbal, Gianandrea Noseda, Christoph Prick, Marc Albrecht and Bruno Weil.

His fascination with the ancient language of music and the instrumentation of the various stylistic periods has led to close collaboration with renowned orchestras in this field, in particular with the “Akademie für Alte Musik” Berlin, with whom Peter Bruns has played for CD productions, concerts and festivals (Bergen, Brügge, Berlin, Regensburg, Köthen).

From 1993-2000, Peter Bruns was Artistic Director of the Moritzburg Festival. From 1998 to 2005, he was Professor for Cello at the Dresden School of Music and, since 2005, has held the same position at the Academy of Music in Leipzig.

Master classes led Peter Bruns to many German cities as well as to London, New York, France, Sweden and Australia.

Developing also a career as conductor, Peter Bruns is the Artistic Director of the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig since 2014, and performs regularly in its own concert series in the Gewandhaus Leipzig as well as on tours.

Peter Bruns has recorded a series of award winning CDs including Brahms’s Cello Sonatas, Bach’s Six Suites for Cello Solo, the works of Gabriel Fauré, Ernest Bloch, Charles Koechlin and Robert Schumann, a recording of a Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach concert which won the Cannes Classical Award for “Best CD of the Year”, Antonin Dvorak’s works for cello and orchestra with the Staatskapelle Dresden and his highly acclaimed recordings of Haydn’s, Schumann’s and Volkmann’s Cello Concertos with the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig.

Peter Bruns plays on a cello from Carlo Tononi, Venice 1730, which was once owned by Pablo Casals.

Natalia Grines is a graduate of the Nizhny Novgorod piano school. In 2004 she graduated the Nizhny Novgorod State Glinka Conservatory (Academy) with professor Bella Alterman. In 2006 she followed her post-graduate courses at the chamber music faculty (studio of Natalia Matveeva) and straightaway began to work at the homeland Academy, where she was working until her repatriation to Israel in 2022.

Being a professor of music (chamber music and piano duo departments), she brought up a lot of students – prize winners of international piano competitions, served in jury in different contests, travelled with master-courses all over Russia, as well as in Armenia, Bosnia, South Africa, Spain, USA.

Natalia has performed in Russia, Israel, USA, Taiwan, Spain, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Africa, Armenia, Ukraine.

At the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition (2019) she played together with a cellist Anastasia Kobekina, who was eventually awarded the title of the 3rd prize winner. Natalia also took part as an accompanist of the XIII and XV Tchaikovsky competitions and was awarded the diploma of the best accompanist.

Since 2007 she was regularly collaborating with Vladimir Spivakov foundation.

Since 2016 Natalia has been tutoring a chamber ensemble at the AIMS Academy-Festival in Catalonia (Spain). She is also taking part at the Keshet Eilon string Academy as an official accompanist.
In 2017 together with Evgeny Brakhman and the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra of soloists, she took part in a series of concerts in Taiwan, including a performance in one of the best halls in the world - Taipei National Concert Hall.

Among Natalia’s chamber partners are violinists Alena Baeva, Daniel Lozakovitch, Sergey Ostrovsky; trumpetist Sergey Nakariakov, clarinetist Valentin Urupin, cellists Anastasia Kobekina, Alexander Ramm, Boris Andrianov, Zvi Plesser and others.

Since 2016, together with Evgeny Brakhman, Natalia has been a founder and codirector of the unique festival and art project in Russia - “Musical Landscapes” www.musiclandscape.ru The project combines arts of music and painting, consists of concerts with world-famous classical artists and mastercourses. In 2022 the 5th edition of “Musical Landscapes” brought together more than 150 participants.

HunJu Sohnn, Korean born pianist, has been performing both solo and chamber music concerts in Switzerland, England, Germany, France, South Korea, Thailand, Costa Rica, as well as throughout the United States.

Highly appreciated for her qualities in collaborative work, HunJu has been invited to appear with various instrumentalists and performed with the wind ensemble Ensemble Five ±, as well as the European-based Varias Ensemble at the New Year’s Music Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland. HunJu has collaborated in masterclasses for world-famous artists such as Pinkas Zukerman, Nobuko Imai, Kyung-Wha Chung, Tabea Zimmermann, Yuri Bashmet, as well as Yo-Yo Ma, Franz Helmerson, and Ralph Kirshbaum. She has been the pianist/coordinator of the viola masterclass at the Verbier Music Festival and Academy. HunJu has participated in a television documentary featuring Nobuko Imai, which was distributed worldwide and performed with Ms. Imai for France Musique Radio program during the Verbier Festival.

HunJu Sohnn continues to perform in Europe and the US, while holding a teaching position at the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique Danse et Théâtre in Geneva. She also participated in studio recordings, most recently in a project of complete works for piano and winds by Francis Poulenc released by Kleos Classics. HunJu Sohnn received her Master's degree from New England Conservatory and holds a Doctoral degree for Piano Performance from Rice University.

“Annegret Kuttner’s playing is characterised by considerable professionalism and perfection, by her contagious electrifying joy in performing music and by the great stylistic sureness of her interpretation.”
Sächsische Zeitung

„...Kuttner's ... light-fingered playing was impressive for its airy clarity..."
Irish Times

Pianist Annegret Kuttner impresses the audience with the naturalness of her interpretation and the lightness and clarity of her playing.

After successfully participating in the Robert Schumann Piano Competition in Zwickau, Annegret has performed already at the age of 16 as a soloist in concerts in Germany and other European countries, including with the European Union Youth Orchestra. She completed her piano studies at the Dresden Academy of Music with Professor Peter Rösel, and received further musical impetus from masterclasses with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Pavel Gililov and Amadeus Webersinke. Annegret augmented her training with postgraduate studies on piano accompaniment (as a répétiteur) with Professor Monika Raithel as well as studying harpsichord with the internationally renowned expert on ancient music, Professor Ludger Remy.

Annegret Kuttner now teaches at the Academy of Music and Theatre, Leipzig.
In addition to her teaching post, the highly sought-after pianist regularly performs as a soloist and chamber musician in diverse musical and cultural centres in Germany and abroad.
Concert tours have taken her to the Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, Latvia, Ireland, South Africa and the USA.

Annegret performs regularly with Benjamin Schmid, Antje Weithaas, Natalia Prishepenko, Pauline Sachse, Ivan Zenaty and Robert Oberaigner. In New York, she played Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano together with cellist Peter Bruns. This concert was extremely well received by the public and press alike (New York Sun). Various internationally acclaimed CD recordings are released, including works for cello and piano by Louis Vierne and Charles-Marie Widor, by Robert Schumann and Robert Volkmann as well as for the Beethoven anniversary in 2020 together with Peter Bruns/cello the cycle "Beethoven – Most Complete 1-3“, expanding his known repertoire of five cello sonatas and three sets of variations with another three sonatas and arrangements by Beethoven himself and by composers from his context, for instance the sonata op. 64 (!) and the "Kreutzer“- sonata arrangement for cello by Carl Czerny.

Sofya Vardanyan is a violinist from Yerevan, Armenia, currently based in Vienna, where she is pursuing her Master’s studies at the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna (MUK).

She began playing the violin at the age of seven in a musical family and studied at the Tchaikovsky Specialized School for Music. She later continued her studies at the Detmold University of Music with Prof. Maria-Elisabeth Lott, and is currently studying with Prof. Boris Brovtsyn and Prof. Pavel Vernikov.

Sofya has participated in numerous international festivals and academies, including the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, the Moritzburg Festival, the Blaricum Music Festival, the Prussia Cove Masterclasses, the Yerevan International Music Festival, and the Sion Festival. She was also selected to participate in the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées Academy, touring under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe.

She has performed as a soloist with the Armenian National Orchestra and is actively engaged in chamber music projects across Europe.

Deeply devoted to chamber music, Sofya finds her greatest inspiration in collaboration and in exploring the emotional depth of the repertoire. Her playing seeks to reveal the inner world of the music, creating a sincere and communicative experience with the audience.

Violinist Haerim Oh, born in Daejeon, South Korea, began her musical journey at the age of four. Renowned for her brilliant artistry and passionate interpretations, she has received numerous distinctions, including Laureate and Excellent Performance of Virtuoso Pieces at the Munetsugu Angel Violin Competition (2015), First Prize at the Ewha Music Competition (2017), Winner of the New England Conservatory Concerto Competition (2021–22), Special Prize at the Ysaye International Music Competition (2022), and Second Prize at the Chicago Violin Competition (2024). She was selected through the Kumho Art Hall audition in Seoul to present a solo recital.

As a soloist, she has appeared with ensembles such as the Bucheon Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Teleradio-Moldova, the Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, and the New England Conservatory Symphony. She has also participated as a fellow in prestigious festivals and projects such as ICEP Music Sharing (2025), Ravinia Steans Institute of Music (2023–25), IMS Prussia Cove (2024), the 8th Emirates International Peace Music Festival, the SUMMIT Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival (2018), and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

Haerim has been actively participating in various international violin competitions, such as Queen Elisabeth Competition, Isang Yun International Violin Competition, Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition, Heifetz International Violin Competition, and Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition for Young Musicians.

Haerim earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in violin performance at the New England Conservatory, studying under Miriam Fried. She continued her study at the Curtis Institute of Music with Midori Goto, and is currently an Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel under the class of Augustin Dumay.

Born in London into a family of musicians, Léa Bensaid began playing the violin at the age of four using the Suzuki method. After graduating with distinction from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, where she studied with Virginie Robilliard, she is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at the same institution.

She has served as concertmaster of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra for two consecutive years, as well as of the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lausanne for the Route Lyrique in June 2025. Since 2023, she has held the position of concertmaster of the Lausanne Soloists under the artistic direction of Xavier Phillips, with whom she recorded a CD dedicated to Piazzolla, to be released in September 2026, alongside concerts in Switzerland and Paris.

She performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician at prestigious festivals, including the Festival Puplinge Classique, Festival Stravinsky, Nice Classic Festival, Lavaux Classic, Festival Pablo Casals in Prades, and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

As a chamber musician, she was selected to participate in the Académie internationale Lumières d’Europe in Bucharest in 2025, where she performed as part of the Enescu Festival. She has also been invited to perform this summer at the Geneva International String Academy and the Fiskars Summer Festival.

Her training has been further enriched through masterclasses with Tabea Zimmermann, Marc Danel, Vincent Coq, Gilles Apap, Olivier Charlier, and Raphaël Merlin.

In September 2025, she was awarded a distinction by the Rotary Club of Lausanne, which has entrusted her with a 19th-century Charles Jacquot violin.

Dániel Hodos was born in Hungary and studied at the School for Exceptional Young Talents of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. In 2021, he received a Kohl Scholarship to study at the Colburn Music Academy in Los Angeles, where he studied with Joan Kwuon. He is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree in the studio of Prof. Tobias Feldmann at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.

Hodos is a winner of the 2023 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant and was invited to perform at the Salon’s annual Gala Awards Concert at Merkin Hall in New York. His performances have been featured on The Violin Channel and on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase. He is also a recipient of the 2023 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Scholarship, an honor awarded annually to 20 outstanding young musicians by NPR’s From the Top. This year, he was selected as a Student Artist for the 2025 Starling–DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at The Juilliard School.

He is a prizewinner of several international competitions, including the Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competition, the Jenő Hubay International Violin Competition, and the Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition. He was also winner of the Colburn Academy Concerto Competition.

As a soloist, Hodos has appeared with leading orchestras such as the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, the Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, and the Hungarian Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. He has participated in masterclasses with Midori Goto, Catherine Cho, Philip Setzer, Tatjana Masurenko, Kirill Troussov, Shlomo Mintz, and Barnabás Kelemen.

Hodos has attended several prestigious summer programs, including the Aspen Music Festival and School in 2023, where he studied with Robert Lipsett as a Starling Fellow. In 2022, he attended the Meadowmount School of Music on a full scholarship, studying with Gerardo Ribeiro. In 2024, he was selected to participate in the Carl Flesch Academy in Baden-Baden.

Yiqun Huang (born 2002) began studying the violin at the age of eight. At fourteen, he was admitted to the Middle School affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Ms. Shuting Wu. Since 2018, he has pursued viola studies under the guidance of Professor Nian Liu, violist of the Han Quartet and a member of the Imai Viola Quartet.

In 2021, he was admitted to the Bachelor’s program at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as the top-ranked candidate in the national entrance examination. In 2025, he was accepted into the Conservatory’s Master’s program, ranking first in viola, and continues his studies with Professor Nian Liu.

As a soloist, he received the Grand Prize in the Strings Category C at the 2020 “City of Barletta” International Youth Competition (Italy), the First Prize in Category E at the 21st Valsesia International Music Competition (Italy), and the Second Prize at the 5th Moscow International Music Competition (Russia). During his undergraduate studies, he participated in several international competitions and was awarded the First Prize at the 2023 UK International Music Competition, subsequently becoming the Quarter II Grand Prize Winner.

In chamber music, his quartet won Second Prize at the 5th Moscow International Music Competition in 2021. In 2023, he joined the Vitality Trio and toured Serbia and Montenegro, where the ensemble was awarded Second Prize in the Chamber Music Category at the Bridge International Music Competition.

Adi Varon began her cello studies with Luba Rabin in 2011. She studied with Zvi Plesser between 2016 and 2022.

Adi is currently a student of prof. Hillel Zori at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University.

Adi won the First Prize at the Paul Ben-Haim Competition in 2022 and at the BMSM String Competition in 2024. She has been a scholarship recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation since 2015 and of the Ronen Foundation since 2024. Adi was awarded the 2025 Music Prize of the Bruno Frey Foundation in Germany.

In 2025, Adi was selected by Maestro Lahav Shani, and performed as a soloist under his baton with the School of Music Symphony Orchestra at the annual gala concert at the Heichal HaTarbut, Tel Aviv.

Adi is a member of the The Musethica international program. She is also among the alumni of the Perlman Music Program and of the Keshet Eilon Mastercourse. In 2022, she served as principal section leader in the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra.

Adi took part in the David Goldman Program, the Israel Philharmonic Young Orchestra, and the Huberman Program of the Jerusalem Music Centre.

Adi has performed in live chamber music radio broadcasts on Kol HaMusica in the “Young Artists at the Centre” program of the Jerusalem Music Centre (2020, 2025, 2026) and the “Excellence - The Next Generation” program of the Eden-Tamir Music Center (2023, 2025).

Adi has participated in masterclasses with world-renowned musicians such as Frans Helmerson, Gary Hoffman, Hans Jørgen Jensen, Orfeo Mandozzi, Clara Kim and Chaim Taub, among others.

Beginning in October 2026, Adi will join the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Academy Program.