Sa curiosité et son exigence lui font travailler toutes les subtilités de la technique du violon moderne grâce à Anne Marie Morin (Paris). Puis, elle apprend le violon baroque auprès d'Alice Piérot, et découvre le répertoire d'alto en musique de chambre.

He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hiphop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble who have released cd's on Col-legno and Innova Records. Gene's music has been performed all over the world at various festivals and by many ensembles and performers, including the Adelaide Symphony, The Athen

The New York Times described him as "...audacious...multitalented." Joseph Pehrson, writing in The Music Connoisseur, described Pritsker as "dissolv[ing] the artificial boundaries between high brow, low brow, classical, popular musics and elevates the idea that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre". Raul d'Gama Rose writes in All About Jazz: "Barring the obvious exceptions, much of 21st century composition appears to be thinning in significance, but this might be about to change. Gene Pritsker is one of a very spare handful of composers effecting this change."

As Enzo, I am one half of Duo Piccolo e Grande playing Italian baroque sonatas on mandolino and hurdy-gurdy, accompanied by theorbo. As Dante Ferrara, I play for costumed special events and concerts using my huge repertoire of late Tudor and Jacobean entertainment. This includes a 1-hour solo comedy show based around Henry Purcell.

I have recorded seven albums, the most recent three being solo (as DF). My TV appearances are numerous and my most recent session was for the film 'The White Princess' - a Tudor drama by Philippa Gregory.

Helen has a flute and harp duo, with Catherine Goodman. They specialise in themed recitals; two recent projects have been Regency flute & harp and music by film composers. These recitals are accompanied, where appropriate, by detailed programme notes explaining the ideas, themes and key issues behind the programming. Sample notes are available on Helen's website.

The relationship with his instruments is focused in sonic and textural elements. Electronic music was an early influence on his approach to violin playing, which challenges traditional romantic concepts of the violin/viola through use of preparations and micro tuning.

Has created music for films, dance, performance, video, etc. Active in different settings on the Portuguese scene for free improvised music, both as a collaborator and in leading his own groups.

He was the 1999 National Winner at the MTNA Collegiate Artist Piano Competition, and has been a guest artist at the Georgia, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, and Washington State Music Teacher's Conventions. His performances have been broadcast world wide as part as the WGBH Boston Program, Art of the States.

Thomas has worked with some of the most important composers of today, including John Adams, George Crumb, and Frederic Rzewski. He recently performed Rzewski's epic piano work "The People United will Never Be Defeated!" at Albright and Moravian Colleges in Pennsylvania and his performance was described as "a towering, passionate interpretation that made the concert one that will be very hard to shake off"- (Reading Times)

At the moment I am working on my second project, orchestral music for film, television and contextual music. I have written four pieces, Metropolis - the sights and sounds of a metropolitan city, Pluto - the icy planet, Iridescence - changing colours and a substantial work called Overtones which uses the harmonic series.

As a soloist Andrey has performed with Russian National Orchestra, Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow Symphonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic, Musica Viva ensemble and other orchestras. His concerts took place in different Russian cities, several ex-USSR republics, England, Scotland, Italy and Germany. In 2001 he was invited to join the oboe section of the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Plentev as an associate principal and became the youngest artist ever in the history of RNO. The following year he became a founding member of the RNO Wind Quintet.

Andrey is a participant of Pacific Music Festival 2001 (Sapporo, Japan) and UBS Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra - 2002, 2003 (Verbier, Switzerland, Artistic Director - James Levine).

His exceptionally broad repertoire (including more than 35 cello concertos) ranges from the Baroque to contemporary works, containing the main standard repertoire together with a particular interest in rarely played works of the 19th and 20th centuries and the cross-over to Jazz and Popular Music. Another important part of his work is the collaboration with composers, which so far has resulted in ca 20 premieres, amongst them Graham Whettam's Solo Cello Sonata (1993) and the Cello Concertos by Helmut Rogl (1994), Helmut Schmidinger (1994) and Graham Whettam (2000). Martin Rummel has also played many national first performances, e.g. Sofia Gubaidulina's "In Croce" (China 1999), Morton Feldman's Piano Trio (Italy 2000) and Howard Blake's "Diversions" (Germany 1993 and Austria 1997). During the last few years, he has played in Düsseldorf Tonhalle, Vienna Konzerthaus, the Krannert Center in Urbana, at the "Carinthischer Sommer", the "Varna Summer" and "La Biennale di Venezia".

Chamber music with distinguished partners such as pianists Yuri Boukoff, Paul Gulda and Ian Hobson, violinists Dénes Zsigmondy and Nora Chastain, clarinetist Eduard Brunner or the Anton Bruckner Quartett is also a major part of his concert activities. Since 2000, he has been artistic director of the festival "kammerMUSIK" in Wilhering, Austria.

He has been the subject of two books, Jonathan Pieslak's Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War and Martin Daughtry's Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq, which he also edited.