Shin Sihan (1994) begon op 6-jarige leeftijd met vioollessen onder de hoede van Coosje Wijzenbeek aan het Conservatorium Amsterdam. Hij vervolgde zijn studie bij Vera Beths aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag, waar hij na zijn afstuderen de Fock-medaille kreeg voor het hoogste cijfer van het jaar en een onderscheiding voor zijn “fenomenale virtuositeit, gecombineerd met een fenomenale muzikaliteit”.

Momenteel volgt hij de Solisten-Master studie bij prof. Kolja Blacher aan de Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlijn. Hij ontving talrijke prijzen, waaronder de Dutch Classical Talent Award, Elisabeth Everts Award en de Kersjes Vioolprijs en won prijzen op de Oskar Back, Kloster Schöntal en Iordens Vioolconcoursen. Shin trad op als solist met tal van orkesten waaronder het Koninklijk Concertgebouw Kamerorkest, Nederlands Symfonieorkest, Nationaal Jeugdorkest van Nederland, Residentie en het Gelders Orkest. Tijdens het Grachtenfestival 2020 won Shin de GrachtenfestivalPrijs, en is hiermee benoemd tot Artist in Residence van de festivaleditie in 2021. Een eerdere residentie vervulde hij tijdens de NJO Muziekzomer 2016

Als gepassioneerd kamermuzikant speelt hij regelmatig met veelgeprezen artiesten uit de hele wereld en was hij te zien op festivals als het Internationaal Kamermuziekfestival Utrecht, Grachtenfestival Amsterdam, Gent Festival, Festival Musique de chambre a Giverny, Harmos Festival Porto en het Internationaal Festival Campos do Jordão. Samen met pianist Yang Yang Cai en cellist Alexander Warenberg vormt hij sinds 2017 het Amsterdam Pianotrio. Ook maakt hij deel uit van het Chianti kamermuziekensemble, een groep van vijf muzikale vrienden die hun krachten bundelen in trio’s, kwartetten en pianokwintetten. Shin speelt een prachtige viool, gemaakt door Nicolò Amati in 1675, Cremona, die in bruikleen is gegeven door de Caldic Collectie.

Yamen Saadi was born in Nazareth in 1997. He started to study the violin at the Barenboim-Said Conservatory in Nazareth, and after that he began to study under the guidance of the renowned Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra Concertmaster, Chaim Taub.

Yamen joined the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, at the age of 11 in 2008); 6 years later , he served as concertmaster of the orchestra.

Yamen has been a winner of the AICF’s scholarships multiple times. He also won 1st prize at the Paul Ben Haim Competition, 2nd prize at the Clermont Competition, 1st prize at the Aviv competitions and was awarded the Prinz von Hessen Prize.

His first solo concert was when he was 11 with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra.

He has played as a soloist with the Haifa Orchestra, Galilee Chamber Orchestra, Harvard Orchestra, Netanya Kibbutz Orchestra, Jerusalem orchestra, Israel Chamber orchestra, Orchestra de Valencia.

Yamen is an active chamber music player, touring in the USA, Europe and Asia with different chamber music ensembles in halls such as Paris Philharmonie, Boulez Saal. he has participated in many festivals such as Rolandseck festival, Grachten Festival, Hamburg chamber music festival, Gotland festival, Kfar Blum festival and Jerusalem festival and played with distinguished musicians such as Daniel Barenboim, Guy Braunstein, Amichai Grosz, Alisa Weilerstein, Sergei Krylov. Yamen is also part of the Pierre Boulez ensemble since 2016 and part of Musethica since 2017.

Together with four other musicians they formed the Chianti Ensemble, a piano quintet ensemble that plays mostly in holland in all settings possible, duos, trios,quartets….

Yamen has completed his Bachelor in the Barenboim-Said Akademie and is currently studying in Kronberg Academy under the guidance of Prof.Mihaela Martin. These studies are funded by the Jürgen Fitschen/Friederike Lohse Stipendium.

He is currently playing on a violin made by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda 1823 previously owned and played by Chaim Taub and a Jacob Eury bow, both generously loaned to him by Stephan Jensen.

Takehiro Konoe was born 1997 in Amsterdam. He started playing violin at the age of four with Professor Coosje Wijzenbeek. A few months later he became a member of Prof. Wijzenbeek’s string ensemble Fancy Fiddlers where he played until 2015. In 2003, he played with his twins sister Mayu a duet at a legendary dutch Violinist Theo Olof’s 80th birthday party and one year later, they played a duet again with Daniel Wayenberg. Two years later they were invited to play in Monaco at Monique Collignon’s fashion show.

In August 2008, he and his sister were chosen to perform at the Kinder Prinsengracht Concert in Amsterdam. They played J.S. Bach’s concerto for 2 violins in front of more than 3000 people, which was also live broadcast on TV. Later in that year, Takehiro and Mayu performed the same piece in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the Nederlands Theater Orkest, and a year later they performed there again with their quartet, Quartetto Piccolo.

In 2011, Takehiro and his sister were honored to play Schumann’s Piano Quintet with Lucas Jussen at Menahem Pressler’s masterclass in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. With this piece, they have performed with amazing pianists, such as Menahem Pressler himself at the 125th anniversary of the Concertgebouw in December 2013, Nino Gvetadze, and Paolo Giacometti.

In February 2014, he gave a repeat performance with this piece at the NEXT GENERATION Festival Bad Ragaz in Switzerland. Since then he has been invited every year to take part in this festival. He was also a member of the “Ensemble Esperanza”of the Internationale Musikakademie Liechtenstein, with students from around the world from the age of 17 to 25.Their debut CD has released in 2017 that was presented with the “Special Achievement Award” at the International Classical Music Awards 2017.

In May 2015, Takehiro and Mayu won the first prize at the Prinses Christina Competition, thereby they performed Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante K.364 with the Hague Philharmonic Orchestra (October 2015, Conducted by Richard Egarr), Sinfonietta Rotterdam (November 2016, Conducted by Conrad van Alpen) and Dvorak’s String Quintet with the Rubens Quartet in different halls, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw (February 2016). Also they were invited from “Musica Classica” International Music festival at Joao Pessoa in Brazil in December 2015.

Since September 2016 he is studying viola at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Nobuko Imai & Francien Schatborn. In February 2017 he won the first prize at the 5th National Viola Competition in Amsterdam. In summer 2017, He had a recital tour in Japan.

June 2018 he became a finalist at the 4th Tokyo International Viola Competition where he was awarded ‘Suntory Foundation for Arts’ and in September he won the third prize at the 67th ARD International Music Competition at Munich (Munchen). November 2018 He played the viola concerto of Max Knigge at the 45th International Viola Congress in Rotterdam.

Beginning of 2019 He was invited to play the Bowen viola concerto with the Schleswig-Holstein Symphonie Orchester.
Later in October he made his debut in Naples where he played a recital and Hoffmeister concerto with the Chamber orchestra of Caserta, he took part of the String Quartet class at the Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland in 2018 and 2019.

In 2020, he won the 1st prize at the 27th Johannes Brahms Competition. He plays on a copy of a “Carlo Bergonzi” viola made by Roger Hargrave in 1991

Alexander Warenberg (1998) is geboren in Voorburg en komt uit een muzikale familie. Sinds zijn vijfde jaar speelt Alexander cello en kreeg de eerste lessen van zijn oom. Vanaf zijn achtste tot zijn achttiende jaar kreeg hij les van Monique Bartels aan het Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Vanaf 2016 tot 2019 studeerde Alexander bij Frans Helmerson aan de Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlijn. Sinds 2019 studeert Alexander aan de Kronberg Academy bij Frans Helmerson.

In oktober 2016 won Alexander de eerste prijs en de publieksprijs op het concours van de Cello Biënnale in Amsterdam. Daarnaast is hij eersteprijswinnaar van het internationale celloconcours Antonio Janigro in Kroatië en won hij eerste prijzen op het Britten cello concours, het nationaal concours van de Stichting Jong Muziektalent en het Prinses Christina Concours.

Alexander treedt zowel solistisch als in kamermuziekverband op. Als solist speelde hij met orkesten in binnen- en buitenland. Hij trad verschillende keren op in het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam en was meerdere malen te zien op Nederlandse televisie en te horen op de radio. In kamermuziekverband trad Alexander o.a. op met Janine Jansen, Menahem Pressler, Denis Kozhukhin, Paolo Giacometti en Liza Ferschtman.

In de zomer 2017 nam Alexander deel aan het prestigieuze Verbier Festival Academy. Ook heeft hij gespeeld op verschillende festivals zoals het Internationale Kamermuziekfestival in Utrecht, het Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, het Festival Bad Ragaz in Zwitserland, de Cello Biënnale in Amsterdam, Chamber Music Festival Amsterdam, Delft Chamber Music Festival, Festival Wonderfeel en CelloFest in Finland. In 2016 is aan Alexander op het Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, de Bunschoten Jonger Talent Prijs toegekend.

Alexander ontvangt een studiebeurs van de VandenEndeFoundation. Daarnaast kreeg hij ook een beurs van de International Music Academy Liechtenstein. Daarmee kan Alexander masterclasses volgen bij gerenommeerde musici zoals Professor Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt en Jens-Peter Maintz.

Alexander speelt op een Jean Baptiste Vuillaume uit 1845 die ter beschikking is gesteld door het Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds

Born in 1995 to a family of musicians, Nathalia Milstein starts the piano at the age of 4 with her father Serguei Milstein and enters his class at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. Nathalia continues her studies at the Geneva Haute Ecole de Musique with Nelson Goerner. After obtaining a Bachelor and Master’s degree with distinction, she moves to Berlin to continue her studies at the Barenboim-Said Akademie with Nelson Goerner. In 2018, still at the Barenboim-Said Akademie, she joins the studio of Sir András Schiff.

Throughout her studies, Nathalia Milstein has received valuable advice from renowned professors and pianists such as Daniel Barenboim, Mikhail Voskressensky, Elena Ashkenazy, Jan Wijn, Enrico Pace or Menahem Pressler.

Nathalia launches her international career in 2015 by winning 1st Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition and has been since then invited to halls such as the National Concert Hall in Dublin, the Zankel Hall (Carnegie Hall) in New York, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin or the Radio France Auditorium in Paris.

Nathalia is a prizewinner of several youth competitions, among others the “Flame” Competition in Paris and the Manchester International Concerto Competition. Later on she became laureate of the 2013 Grand Concours International de Piano in Corbelin (France) and the 2014 Adilia Alieva Piano Competition in Gaillard (France).

She was also awarded the Young Soloist Prize by the Médias Francophones Publics in 2017.

Nathalia performs in France and abroad, giving recitals all over Europe, appearing in major festivals such as La Roque d’Anthéron, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, La Folle Journée, New Ross Piano Festival, Lille Piano Festival, Zaubersee Festival or Radio France Festival.

A keen chamber music player, Nathalia also performs regularly with renowned musicians and is invited to international chamber music events, such as the Intonations Festival in Berlin, the West Cork Festival in Ireland, Lavaux Classic in Switzerland, the Schiermonnikoog Festival or the Scaldis Festival in the Netherlands. She also appears on the last CD recording of the Prazak Quartet dedicated to works of Smetana.

For several years she has been playing in duo with her sister violinist Maria Milstein. Besides a busy concert schedule, they have also recorded two albums together – “La Sonate de Vinteuil” (2017) and “Ravel Voyageur” (2019) – both on the French label Mirare and praised by international critics.

In the 2020/21 season, despite a paused cultural life, Nathalia has had the chance to appear on stage with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Mikko Franck and the Geneva Chamber Orchestra with Arie van Beek.

In 2021/22 Nathalia will play in various venues across Europe as part of the “Building Bridges” concert season, curated by Sir András Schiff.

Supported by the Safran Foundation (Paris) and the Foundation “Tempo” (Geneva), Nathalia’s debut solo CD, featuring works of Prokofiev and Ravel, is released in 2018 on Mirare. A second thematic album, “Fugitives Visions”, will be released in september 2021 on Mirare.