Louisa is the Artistic Director of Past Echoes, a Melbourne based group of specialist early musicians performing music mostly of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Programs and venues for their concerts are wide ranging, and festival performances include: Melbourne Autumn Music Festival, Ballarat Organs of the Goldfields, Ballarat Winter Festival, Melbourne Proms, Sacred Heart Early Music Festival and Monash Lunchtime Concerts.

Ms. Ingolfsson made her solo orchestral debut in Germany at the age of eight, and has subsequently been a guest soloist with some of the finest orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony and the National Symphony. Of her performance of the Barber Violin Concerto with the National Symphony, The Washington Post declared "she played with just the right mixture of easy grace, sonic luster and patrician refinement." In October 2000, Ms. Ingolfsson embarked on a critically acclaimed 15-city North American tour with the Iceland Symphony that included the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. In reaction to her performance of the Khachaturian Violin Concerto, the Los Angeles Times noted "...an individuality one cannot ignore." She has collaborated with many renowned conductors, including Leonard Slatkin, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Gerard Schwarz.

Ms. Ingolfsson's Carnegie Hall debut recital in April 2000 affirmed her ascendancy as a rising star. The New York Times declared "Judith Ingolfsson gave a technically assured and interpretively astute recital...and made her performance a journey to the soulful core. She gave a sizzling account, producing both fireworks and a singing tone." As a recitalist, she has performed throughout the United States and abroad, including the La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Grand Teton Music Festival, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Reykjavík Arts Festival in Iceland, Pro Arte Musicale in Puerto Rico, and Macau Cultural Center. Her festival appearances include the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, the Khumo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, the Menuhin Festival in Switzerland, and the Orlando Festival in the Netherlands. Beginning in the 2002 - 2003 season, she has been invited to become a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two.

Isaac’s specialist field is in contemporary music and the use of live electronics. He has won prices at renowned contemporary music competitions such as the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2001 in The Netherlands and the Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition of Contemporary Music in Poland. As a soloist, Isaac has given a variety of performances in The Netherlands, Germany, England, Belgium, Ireland, Poland, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. He has participated in varied recording productions, such as radio broadcast for the Hessen’s radio (HR4) in Germany, the company Shell (Mexico/ The Netherlands), Teldec (Germany), blockflute samplers in the USA, and his own music together with pianist/composer Elik Alvarez (Venezuela).

He has participated in several International Music Festivals such as Hessen’s Festival (Korbach-Germany, 1997), Second International Blockflute Festival (Amsterdam, 1998), From Distant Lands (London, 1999), Festival Internacional de Puebla (Mexico, 2000), Ultima Festival (Oslo, 2001), Music for Galway (Ireland, 2002), Gaudeamus Music Week (Amsterdam, 2002), Spazio Musica (Cagliari, 2002), International Youth Music Forum (Kiev, 2003), Time of Music Festival (Finland, 2003).

As Associate Concertmaster of the Ann Arbor Symphony and substitute violinist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Adrienne performs regularly on the symphonic stage. Recently Adrienne participated in an Eastern European tour as a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Kammerorchester under the direction of Heinrich Schiff, highlighted by an appearance at the prestigious Prague Spring Festival.

Since her solo debut at age 13, Adrienne has performed as soloist with many of Southeastern Michigan’s orchestras, including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on two separate occasions. However, her passion for recitals and chamber music has lead her to collaborate with many of the DSO’s members as well as Pinchas Zukerman. Notably, Adrienne was the Grand Prize winner of both the 1998 and 1999 American String Teachers’ Association Michigan Chamber Music Festival Competition which lead to many subsequent performances across Michigan including a performance at Rackham Auditorium presented by the University Musical Society of Ann Arbor. Also an avid performer of music from the Baroque, Adrienne has performed and coached with members of Cleveland’s Apollo’s Fire, and Edward Parmentier.

Abigail has taken part in solo masterclasses with Hubert Käppel, Alirio Diaz, Julian Byzantine, Berta Rojas and in ensemble workshops with John Williams. She has been a finalist in the South East Music Schemes' Musicians' Platform and String Semi-Finalist in the Royal Overseas League Music Competition. Abigail was also chosen for the prestigious Park Lane Group Young Concert Artists Series at The Purcell Room.

Abigail has performed as a soloist in a wide variety of venues up and down the country including The Purcell Room, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James's Church Piccadilly, Barbican foyer, Brighton Chapel Royal, Conway Hall, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Bristol and in music clubs, festivals and guitar societies. In recent years she has performed Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez' with orchestras in London and has also toured with two opera groups.

Paul studied from 1986 to 1991 with Renna Kellaway at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he was awarded all the College's major prizes. He has won numerous other awards,including scholarships from the Countess of Munster and Ian Fleming Trusts, and prizes in many international competitions, including Dudley, Terni (Italy)and Glasgow.

He has performed at many of Britain's major concert halls, including the Royal Albert Hall (London), Symphony Hall (Birmingham), Bridgewater Hall (Manchester) and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. He has played concertos with orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Worthing Symphony, Lakeland Sinfonia and City of Glasgow Philharmonic. Conductors he has worked with include Yan Pascal Tortelier, Leonard Slatkin, Richard Hickox, Martyn Brabbins, James Loughran and Barry Wordsworth. Paul is equally at home in solo and chamber music recitals, having appeared at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Cheltenham International Festival and Lake District Summer Music. He took the solo piano role in the BBC Phiharmonic's 1995 Proms performance of Stravinsky's Petrushka, where his performance was hailed by the press as 'dazzling'.

Maia received a Bachelor of Arts with honors in May 2003 from Yale University, where she was awarded the Master’s Prize for her contribution to the musical life of her college. While an undergraduate, she served as the youngest member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, in which she held the Jeanet S. Curtis Chair. She spent her junior year at the Paris Conservatoire as a scholarship student of Gérard Poulet.

Maia is committed to bringing not only artistic integrity but also relevancy to art music in contemporary society. She recently gave the U.S. premier of Constantinidis’ “Folk Suite” and the West Coast premier of Periklys Koukous’ Violin Sonata in San José. At the 2004 Los Angles Philharmonic International Gala, she performed music of Piazzolla alongside her teacher and Philharmonic Concertmaster Martin Chalifour. She served as concertmaster of and soloist with the Timothy Dwight Chamber Players, Yale’s contemporary music ensemble. For two years she hosted her own radio program, Listening to the Guys Who Invented Music, on WYBC New Haven, AM 1340. An avid chamber musician, Maia will perform sextets with the Ysaye String Quartet when the group performs in Los Angeles this October. As first violinist of the Sonus Quartet in 2003 – 2004, she participated in the Juilliard Quartet Seminar, the Yehudi Menuhin Emerging Artists Seminar, and the Banff Centre Quartet Residency. Other chamber music performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio, KCSN, KKGO, and KUSC. She is also developing a taste for early music, performing as baroque violinist with Los Angeles’ early music ensemble Musica Angelica and as leader of the Thornton Early Music Ensemble. She was recently awarded a generous scholarship to support her studies with renowned baroque violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock.

Education and Competitions 1990 Finished middle school and entered the music faculty of the ShanDong Institute of Arts 1994 Graduated from the Shandong Institute of Arts as a singer 1995 – 1999 Studied towards and completed a postgraduate course at the Shanghai Conservatory in the class of Professor Liao ChangYong 2000 – 2004 Studied towards and completed both a postgraduate course and a Masters Degree at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Professor B.N.Kudryavtsev.In this period, ShangRong Jiang also took part in the vocal section of the Tchaikovsky International Music Competition (Moscow,2002), laureate of the international competition “Bella Voce”(Moscow,2001 2002), laureate of the international competition named after Sobinov “Competition of Competitions ”. (Saratov, 2003) and also was a third in the M.Glinka International Competition (Astrakhan,2003), 2004– Work in The Stat Symphony Capella of Russia as a soloist and a vocal teacher.

Performance ShangRong is very active in the musical life of Moscow, frequently appearing on the stages of the Rakhmaninov and Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, the Bolshoi Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, the International House of Music, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Concert Hall named Glinka of Russian national museum of music, great hall of conservatory name after Gnesin, as well as performing in the St.Petersburg Philharmonic 's Small Hall. He has also sung in the Chekhov Museum, the concert hall of the Archangelskoye Estate, the Taneev House-Museum (“Diudkovo ”), the Glinka House-Museum (“Spasskoye ”), and the concert hall of the Glinka in the city of Smolensk, ShangRong made a very successful appearance at the festival “Stars of the XXI Century ” in the city of Samara Philharmonic 's Great Hall, and international festival of opera in Cheboksary`s Opera House.

MA in Performance and LRSM Percussion Performance. Currently working towards PhD in Performance and Composition. Studying with Simone Rebello and Dr Pwyll ap Sion.

I play or have played with numerous orchestras and Brass Bands e.g. Ensemble Cymru, Welsh Chamber Orchestra, Welsh Sinfonia, Beaumaris Silver Band (Soloist). Numerous television appearances as soloist

Ms. Kafarova was born in Azerbaijan to a musical family of Armenian descent. Her mother was a noted cellist and her aunt a well-regarded composer and pianist. In 1983 Ms. Kafarova won the top prize at the prestigious First Chamber Music Festival in Baku, and in l985 she was awarded a special prize at the Caucasus Piano Competition. A frequent performer with the Azerbaijan Philharmonic and the European Union Chamber Orchestra, she has toured many parts of the former Soviet Union and has performed in Canada, Germany, Turkey, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway. She was invited to perform for his Honor the German Ambassador and for his Honor the British Ambassador in Istanbul. In March 2001 she was chosen as a finalist to perform at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York. Ms. Kafarova has premiered several works by contemporary composers for solo piano and for piano and orchestra. On this continent, she has been named Music Ambassador of Nova Scotia, Canada, and has performed frequently with the New Brunswick Symphony. On numerous occasions, she has been featured live on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television.

In 1992, Yuri began studying at the Royal College of Music (London) with Professor Itzhak Rashkovsky, winning several major College prizes, including the Foundation Scholarship,W.H.Reed,Isolde Menges prizes and Leonard Hirsch Prize for the outstanding string player of the year.In 1994,he won major prizes at the Bromsgrove and Watford Music Festivals in England and received the Yehudi Menuhin Award from the Sudborough Foundation.

These achievements led to invitations to work with many different ensembles and orchestras such as the I Fiamminghi Chamber Orchestra, London Concertante, London Schubert Players,The New Professionals Chamber Orchestra, Schleswig - Holstein Festival Orchestra,Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra etc, performing at the major London venues and in several European cities.