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.

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.

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.

Born in 2001, in Kyiv, Ukraine in a family of musicians Georgii received his early music education at Kyiv Lysenko State Music Lyceum under Olha Korinets.

From 2019 to 2023 Georgii got his Bachelor degree at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Singapore) in a class of Professor Qian Zhou where one started actively performing and establishing himself on the internationally recognized stages.

Georgii is a top prize winner of Singapore International Violin Competition (2026) - Singapore; 3rd Alberto Lysy International Violin Competition (2024) - Gstaad, Switzerland; 9th Munetsugu Angel Violin Competition (2023) - Nagoya, Japan; International violin competition "Grumiaux" (2017) - Brussels, Belgium as well as a semi-finalist of Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition (2024) and prize winner of the XII International Jean Sibelius Competition (2022) - Helsinki, Finland;

Georgii has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Chubu Philharmonic Orchestra, and more.

Georgii was a concertmaster of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and performed in many orchestras such as Berliner Philharmoniker and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

As well as a part of various chamber ensembles such as string quartets, piano trios, duos, etc.

Georgii was mentored by artists such as Shlomo Mintz, Midori Goto, Chaim Taub, Vilmos Szabadi, Ilia Kaler, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Vadim Gluzman, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Dmitry Berlinsky, Sergei Ostrosky and many others.

Georgii is currently studying at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin in the class of Professor Antje Weithaas. Georgii is playing on the 1829 J.B. Vuillaume violin kindly loaned by Camerata Lysy.

Born in Paris in 2005, Clara Messina began playing the violin at the age of six. She studied successively with Rodica Bogdanas, Christophe Poiget and Agnès Reverdy at the regional conservatoires (CRR) of Boulogne-Billancourt and Paris, before entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris at fifteen, in the class of Stéphanie-Marie Degand.

In 2022, she won second prize and the audience prize at the Cambrai International Violin Competition, followed by second prize at the Concours Jeunes Talents in Paris.

In 2023, she was the only French violinist selected for the semi-final of the Mirecourt International Competition, on which occasion she was entrusted with a violin by Andreas Guarnerius.

Selected for several international academies (Santander, Villecroze, Tibor Varga in Sion, Sincronia Musica in Rome), she obtained her Bachelor's degree in 2024 by unanimous decision of the jury, with its congratulations, and took part in the Caunes-Minervois festival, playing in duo with cellist Edgar Moreau.

Clara performed Nun komm by Thierry Escaich at the “Thierry Escaich and Friends” recital in January 2025, and in July once again takes part in the Santander academy, where she will have the opportunity to play in six chamber music concerts, including one with clarinettist Gabor Varga.

In January 2026, she took part in the Musikfest at the Philharmonie de Paris, playing alongside Liya Petrova, Alexandre Kantorow, Daniel Hope, Jean Rondeau and Lise Berthaud, among others.

Porté, avant même sa naissance, par les harmonies de l’alto, guidé par une mère musicienne et accompagnatrice au CRR de Toulouse, Baptiste s’est naturellement laissé envoûter par cet instrument. À peine âgé de six ans, il franchit les portes du conservatoire, comme on entre dans une maison familière, rejoignant la classe de Valérie Apparailly.

Passionné par le quatuor à cordes, il cofonde le Quatuor Amalthée au CRR de Toulouse, puis le Quatuor Solveig au CNSMDP, avec lesquels il se produit notamment au festival Cordes sur Ciel, au festival ClassicaHors, aux côtés du Quatuor Dutilleux, et prochainement au festival Les Chaises Musicales, par invitation du quatuor Ébène.

Il aura également l’occasion de perfectionner son jeu et sa personnalité artistique à travers plusieurs résidences et académies, notamment à Genève, où il participa avec son quatuor et en solo à l’académie d’été 2025, à Manchester dans le cadre du programme international ECMA 2025 et, toujours avec son quatuor, à Bourg-en-Bresse aux côtés de Louis Rodde, avec qui il aura la chance de jouer le quintette de Schubert dans le cadre des sessions internationales Musethica.

Il se produira également en sonate et en trio au Festival de Toulouse avec Constant Després et Claire Bouyssou.

Depuis 2022, il poursuit ses études au Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, dans la classe de Jean Sulem, et, depuis 2024, en licence de quatuor à cordes auprès de Louis Rodde et Jean Sulem. Depuis février 2025, il joue sur un alto signé Stephan von Baehr, prêté par la Fondation d’entreprise Société Générale.

Carried, even before his birth, by the harmonies of the viola, guided by a mother who is both a musician and accompanist at the CRR of Toulouse, Baptiste was naturally captivated by this instrument. At just six years old, he entered the conservatory, as one enters a familiar home, joining the class of Valérie Apparailly.

Passionate about string quartet repertoire, he co-founded the Amalthée Quartet at the CRR of Toulouse, and later the Solveig Quartet at the CNSMDP, with whom he has performed notably at the Cordes sur Ciel Festival and the ClassicaHors Festival, alongside the Dutilleux Quartet, and will soon appear at the Les Chaises Musicales Festival by invitation of the Ébène Quartet.

He has also had the opportunity to refine his playing and artistic personality through several residencies and academies, notably in Geneva, where he took part both with his quartet and as a soloist in the Summer Academy 2025, in Manchester as part of the international ECMA programme 2025, and, again with his quartet, in Bourg-en-Bresse alongside Louis Rodde, with whom he will have the opportunity to perform Schubert’s String Quintet as part of the international Musethica sessions.

He will also perform in sonata and trio formations at the Festival de Toulouse with Constant Després and Claire Bouyssou.

Since 2022, he has been studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in the class of Jean Sulem, and since 2024, he has also been pursuing a bachelor’s degree in string quartet performance under the guidance of Louis Rodde and Jean Sulem. Since February 2025, he has been playing a viola made by Stephan von Baehr, generously loaned by the Fondation d’entreprise Société Générale.

Sophie Kiening is a German violist based in Frankfurt am Main. She studied with renowned musicians including Tabea Zimmermann, German Tcakulov, Pauline Sachse, and Jean Sulem, and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in chamber music under the guidance of Tabea Zimmermann.

She has received additional artistic inspiration from Prof. Sào Soulez Larivière, Prof. Simone von Rahden, and Prof. Roland Glassl. A multiple first-prize winner at the Bundeswettbewerb Jugend Musiziert, Sophie was awarded the Deutschlandstipendium by the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin for three consecutive years. She subsequently received scholarships from the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation and the Rotary Club Siena, as well as first prize at the XV International Szymon Goldberg Competition in 2024.

In 2025, she was awarded a scholarship at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, where she was also admitted to the concert promotion program and received a special prize from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Sophie has a particular passion for exploring unconventional chamber music formations and discovering lesser-known repertoire. Recent engagements include performances at the Con Spirito Festival Leipzig (2025), the Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele in a viola quartet alongside Tabea Zimmermann, Jelena Antić, and Arcan İsenkul, participation in Sol Gabetta’s CD production “Lise Christiani” with Cappella Gabetta, and a string sextet performance at Musique à Flaine.

Born in Budapest to a Korean family, Jinseok Jeong began playing the cello at the age of five, quickly discovering his affinity to music and the instrument. His mentor, Kian Soltani, has described him as “a cellist with exceptional musicality and remarkable technical abilities.”

Jinseok received his first cello lessons from Krisztina Dávid, later continuing his studies with Zsuzsanna Antók. At the age of eight, he won first prize at the Hungarian National Youth Cello Competition, and three years later was admitted to the Young Talents Program of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied with Professors György Déri (2017–2020) and István Varga (2020–2024).

He is a laureate of several international competitions, including the Buchet International Cello Competition (2024), the Antonio Janigro Junior Competition (2022), the Jan Vychytil International Cello Competition (2021), and the David Popper Competition (2021). Most recently, he was awarded the Kodály Prize at the Budapest International Competition. His concert appearances have taken him to venues such as the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Kurhaus in Baden-Baden, Bulgaria Hall in Sofia, and the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn in Vienna. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Sofia Philharmonic, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic, Zugló Philharmonic, and Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra.

Jinseok has been invited to participate in leading international festivals and academies such as the Verbier Festival Academy, Gstaad Festival Academy, Cello Biennale Amsterdam, Seiji Ozawa Academy, IMS Prussia Cove, Schiermonikoog Festival, NUME Festival, the Geneva International Strings Academy, and the Musikakademie in Liechtenstein. He is currently studying with Prof. Peter Bruns at HMT Leipzig and Prof. István Várdai at MdW Vienna. He has gained further inspiration through masterclasses with esteemed cellists including Frans Helmerson, Miklós Perényi, Ivan Monighetti, Gary Hoffman, Steven Isserlis, László Mező, Reinhard Latzko, Wen-Sinn Yang, Alban Gerhardt, Anne Gastinel, László Fenyő, Claudio Bohórquez, Marc Coppey, Leonid Gorokhov, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, and Nicolas Altstaedt.

Born on La Palma in 2009, Anouk began playing the cello at the age of six.

Since autumn 2025, she has been pursuing her bachelor’s degree with Prof. Danjulo Ishizaka at the Musikakademie Basel.

She has received important artistic guidance from Antonio Meneses, Conradin Brotbeck, Wen-Sinn

Yang, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Jens-Peter Maintz, Troels Svane, Thomas Grossenbacher, Robert Levin, Claudio Martínez Mehner and Dénes Várjon.

As scholarship holder of the International Music Academy Liechtenstein, she regularly participates in its masterclasses and concert series.

She first came to public attention when, at just 7 years old, she won the International Rising Star Competition, which included a performance at the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie. She subsequently won numerous first prizes with distinction at the Swiss Youth Music Competition and at the German Jugend Musiziert, in the categories cello, baroque cello, duo and piano trio.

Due to her achievements she has been a scholarship holder of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation for young artists from 2022 to 2025. In duo with her sister, she also received the WDR Classical Music Prize, with the performance broadcast by WDR.

In 2022, she won both First Prize and the Jury Special Prize at the International Dotzauer Competition, as well as First Prize at the International Luigi Cerritelli Competition, where she additionally received the Young Artist Award. Further distinctions include prizes at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition and the International Young Ludwig Competition, and she was awarded the Lions Music Prize 2024.

Anouk Toth has already established a vibrant concert career, performing throughout Europe. She made her orchestral debut at the age of 10 with the Budweis Symphony Orchestra and has since appeared as a soloist with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie under Marcus Mast at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Lyra Chamber Orchestra Vienna, and the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra at the Schwetzingen Mozart Festival. She is regularly invited to renowned festivals including the Gstaad Baroque Festival, Festival Automne Musical d’Olon (AMO) and the Chios Music Festival. In 2025, she was featured as Duo with her sister in the Jeunes Découvertes series in La Prairie, Biel.

As a passionate chamber musician, she has performed at the YARO Excellence Chamber Music Forum alongside artists such as Valeriy Sokolov, Friedrich Thiele and Julia Hamos. Anouk Toth performs successfully with her siblings Anatol and Manoush in the Toth Piano Trio Toth, which has received multiple awards as best ensemble at the Swiss and the German Youth Music Competition . In 2019, the trio was invited to the Trame Sonore Mantua Chamber Music Festival. This was followed by performances of Beethoven’s triple Concerto with the Erzgebirgische Philharmonie under Jens Bachmann, as well as at the opening concert of the Murten Classics Festival 2025 with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Hradec Králové under the baton of Christoph-Matthias Müller.

Since November 2025, she has been a member of the LGT Young Soloists, with whom she tours internationally.

She performs on a fine cello by Sébastian Philippe Bernadel (1838), generously on loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Alongside her musical career, she is deeply devoted to classical painting.

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.