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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

Sherzod Abdiev was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1999 and began studying the violin at age 6. He attended the Academic Music High School under the Moscow State Conservatory, studying with L. Slavyanova, then the YST Conservatory of Music under Professor Qian Zhou, and currently studies with Professor Sergey Ostrovsky at HEM Geneva-Neuchâtel.

He performed a recital with the State Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan in Tashkent at age 19 and won first prize in the 'Merzlyakovka priglashaet' competition in Moscow (2018), first prize in the 'III Marine Iashvili International Competition' in Tbilisi, Georgia (2025), and third prize at the '13th Marie Cantagril International Violin Competition' in Toulouse, France (2025). In addition, he was a semifinalist in the Odesa and Markneukirchen International Violin Competitions, where he received a special prize from iPalpiti Artists International provided by E. Schmieder (2025).

He has participated in masterclasses with Ilya Kaler, Dora Schwarzberg, Sergey Ostrovsky, Shlomo Mintz, Dmitriy Berlinskiy, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Koichiro Harada, Tatiana Samuil, Sarah Nemtanu, Guillaume Chileans, and others. He took part in the Keshet Eilon Summer Mastercourse in 2022 and 2025.

He plays a Petrus Gaggini violin generously loaned by the LaLive Foundation (Geneva).

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.

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.

Amalia Bosch, born in Seville, is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree at the Reina Sofía School of Music under the guidance of the professor Diemut Poppen.

She has been a member numerous chamber groups, currently performing with the Viardot Trio. Also member of the School’s Camerata, and Historical Performance ensembles.

She has received masterclasses from distinguished musicians including Joaquín Riquelm, Jonathan Brown Heime Müller, Gérard Caussé, Gregor Sigl, Tomoko Akasaka, Wenting Kan, Laure Gaurdon, and Carla Marrero. She has also participated in programmes such as the NHC Master Course, the Ribeira Sacra Festival, Barenboim Said Fundation and the Santander summer orchestra.

In 2024, she was awarded First Prize and Audience Prize at the Ribeira Sacra festival. 

Vincenzo Keawe Calcagno is currently pursuing a master’s degree with Ettore Causa at the Yale School of Music, where he was a finalist in this year’s concerto competition. He received his bachelor’s degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory. 

An expressive and versatile musician, Vincenzo has performed in numerous recitals and concerts as a soloist. Recently, he has featured works by new composers and played recitals collaborating with clarinet and guitar. He has served as principal violist with the Yale Philharmonia, Juilliard Orchestra, and the Music Academy of the West Chamber Orchestra. With his string quartet, he performed in the Master Class Series at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with the Calidore Quartet and at Carnegie Hall in A Celebration of Meredith Monk. 

Last year, Vincenzo studied at the Verbier Festival Academy, where he participated in masterclasses with Antoine Tamestit, Lawrence Power, Máté Szücs, Isabel Charisius, Ilya Gringolts, and Gábor Takács-Nagy. Earlier the same summer, he attended the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, where he had the great privilege of performing with legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman. In previous summers, Vincenzo has studied at the Taos School of Music, the Perlman Music Program (the “Littles Program”), and the Music Academy of the West, where he was invited to work intensively with the Takács Quartet. Vincenzo is also honored to have been invited to the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program and the Ravinia Steans Institute. 

He is tremendously grateful to have also had the opportunity to study with luminaries such as Cynthia Phelps and Richard O’Neill, received chamber music coaching from Nina Lee, Merry Peckham, Darrett Adkins, Molly Carr, Joseph Lin, Robert McDonald, Martin Beaver, and Rainer Honeck, and has played in masterclasses for Hartmut Rohde, Richard O’Neill, Kim Kashkashian, Toby Appel, the Cavani Quartet, the St. Lawrence Quartet, and the Takács Quartet. 

Vincenzo comes from a long line of Kanaka (Native Hawaiian) musicians and entertainers and grew up surrounded by his family’s music, along with the diverse sounds of the San Francisco Bay Area. He commenced his classical music training with the San Francisco Boys Chorus, where he had the opportunity to sing in the San Francisco Opera’s production of Mefistofele. Not long after, he began his studies in violin and soon after discovered the compelling and rich sonority of the viola. At 15, Vincenzo was accepted into the studio of Helen Callus, Professor of Viola at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, whose mentorship inspired him to fully dedicate himself to the viola and played a pivotal role in shaping his musical path.

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.

Daphne Richman Poleg (2003) an Israeli cellist based in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Thelma Yellin School of art, The Israeli Conservatory of Music in Tel Aviv, The Jerusalem Music Centre which included, The excellence program "Huberman", the "Goldman" chamber program and the Young Israeli philharmonic orchestra. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University, where she studied with Prof. Hillel Zori.

Winner of the Golden Baton Soloist Competition and played in concerts the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Israel Sinfonietta Be'er Sheva (2025), First Prize at the Paul Ben-Haim Competition (2020), First Prize at the Israel Conservatory of Music Competition (2015, 2019), and winner of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music String Competition (2024). In 2023, she was selected by audition to perform as a soloist in a project led by Kati Debretzeni. A scholarship recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF), with special distinction (2019–2026). Receiver of certificate for outstanding achievement - the BMSM symphony (2024)

Performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician in live broadcasts on “Kol HaMusica.” As a chamber musician, she is a Part of the Chamber Series in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. She played with artists such as Sergey Ostrovsky, Noémie Bialobroda, Boris Brovtsyn, Chen Halevi and Hillel Zori.

Daphne has served as Principal Cello of the Buchmann-Mehta Symphony Orchestra (2022–2025), the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra (2019–2021), and the Thelma Yellin Symphony Orchestra (2019-2022) under the baton of conductors such as Lahav Shani, Zubin Mehta and Karl-Heinz Steffens. She has also taken part in projects with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra.

She participated in the "Geneva International String Academy" (2024), Keshet Eilon Summer Mastercourse (2023–2024), and the AIMS Festival (2015–2022).

She participated in masterclasses with Prof. Peter Bruns, Prof. Danjulo Ishizaka, Prof. Leonid Gorokhov, prof. Claudio Bohórquez, Prof. Gary Hoffman, Prof. Frans Helmerson, Prof Hans Jürgen Jensen, Prof. Jens Peter Maintz and Prof Yitzhak Perlman.

Philadelphia-born cellist Eliana Razzino Yang has performed solo recitals in London, Paris, Rome, Brussels, Frankfurt, New York, Helsinki, Boston, and Philadelphia and concertos with orchestras in Italy, across the US, and England. She has also performed as part of Harrisburg’s Market Square rising star series and the Taos Chamber Music Group, and has received top prizes in the Adelphi Orchestra, All City Orchestra, YCVT, Caprio, Charleston, and Vivace competitions.

Eliana has collaborated with members of the Emerson, Tokyo, Borromeo, Vermeer, Audubon, Aizuri, and Momenta string quartets, Ensemble Epomeo, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). Recital partners include pianists Ieva Jokubaviciute, Amy Yang, and Clare Hammond.

In 2015 she traveled to Budapest, Hungary, to play for composer György Kurtág and cellist Miklós Perényi and in 2016 she played for composer George Crumb. Past programs include IMS Prussia Cove, La Jolla Music Society Fellowship, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, Kneisel Hall, Perlman Music Program, Sarasota Music Festival, Heifetz Institute, Castleman Quartet Program, Thy Chamber Music Festival, Colorado Music Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, and Carnegie Hall’s New York String Orchestra Seminar.

Eliana received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard under the tutelage of Natasha Brofsky, Richard Aaron, Zvi Plesser and Clara Kim.