Kristina Georgieva (violin)
Kristina Georgieva was born in 2001 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She started playing the violin and percus-sions at the age of six at the National Music School ” L. Pipkov” in Sofia. She performed as a so-loist of many orchestras from which highlights are her performance with the National Belgium Or-chestra and conductor Maxim Vengerov. She participated in the chamber music festival “ Musica Mundi” since the age of 11 and became the student of Leonid Kerbel, Co-Founder of this program. In this course and festival she had the opportunity of playing chamber music on stage with artists such as Misha Maisky, Maxim Vengerov, Ivry Gitlis, Ivan Karizna, Jerome Pernoo, Alexanda Soumm and many others. Highlights of her awards include the Award – Young Musician of the year 2016 from the Bulgarian National Radio, first prize at the competition “Rising Stars” – Berlin 2017, 1st prize in "Marie Can-tagrill International competition" in 2019 in France and 2nd prize at the Leopold Auer competition in St. Petersburg, Russia. The violinist Alexandra Soumm praised Kristina “Her natural curiousity of all forms of Art , her wish to learn from the best musicians in the world, and incredible humility will bring her to be one of the big names of tomorrow”. Kristina finished her high school education at the Musica Mundi school in Waterloo, Belgium and is now a student in the Barenboim Academy in Berlin in the class of Michaela Martin.
Nargiz Aliyeva (piano)
Nargiz Aliyeva was born on December 1, 2001 in Moscow (Russia). She started music lessons at the age of 7. In 2009-2019 she studied piano at the Kara Karayev Central School of Arts in Baku. In 2019-2020, she continued her studies at the Baku Music Academy. Since 2020, she is a student at the Mozarteum University Salzburg . She is a laureate of republican and international competitions, such as: II Republican Competition of Young Pianists (Baku, Azerbaijan, 2012), 5th International Piano Talents Competition (Milan, Italy, 2015),»Rising stars» (Berlin , Germany,2016) ,XVI International Competition «Islamic World» (Baku, Azerbaijan, 2017), The XVI Art Duo Music Festival (Barcelona, Spain, 2019), «World harmony» (Baku, Azerbaijan,2019), «Russian Alborada» (Barcelona, Spain, 2020), etc. She has performed concerts in such countries as Austria, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Italy, Spain, Kazakhstan. Since 2011, she has regularly performed as a soloist with the Azerbaijan State Chamber Orchestra and the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra. Since 2016, she has been a regular participant of the international Chamber Music Festival «Musica Mundi» in Waterloo, Belgium.
Quintijn van Heek (violin)
Quintijn van Heek, 2003, born in Vlissingen, started playing the violin when he was 6, at the local music school, where he was quickly put in the young talents class. He started having lessons from Coosje Wijzenbeek at the age of 9, and when he was 11 he continued his studies in Manchester at Chetham's School of Music, with Jan Repko. When he was 15, he moved to Waterloo, Belgium, to start studying at the Musica Mundi School, with Leonid Kerbel. Quintijn made his solo debut at the age of 13 with Het Zeeuws Orkest, playing Wieniawski's Legende, and since has played more times with orchestra and has given many more concerts. He has followed many masterclasses and summer courses where he was mentored by great musicians such as Ivry Gitlis, Alexandra Soumm, the Leipzig Quartet, and many more. Since 2021, Quintijn studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Maria Milstein, Ilya Grubert, and Tim Kliphuis. Quintijn van Heek plays on a 2013 Gaybaryan violin, with a Morizot bow.
Hugo Llanos Campos (piano)
born in 1994 in Rancagua, Chile, his first approach to music was the folklore of his homeland. He began playing the piano at the age of seven and later completed piano studies with Victoria Foust at the Universidad Mayor Conservatory in Santiago de Chile. His enthusiasm for the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and his desire to immerse himself in European musical culture led him to Vienna in 2014, where he completed a bachelor's degree, a master's degree and a postgraduate in piano at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien with Klaus Sticken. Later he completed a postgraduate in Chamber music at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, where he currently teaches as a Piano Accompanist and Couch.
He has been a laureate of numerous competitions in his career, such as Claudio Arrau" Piano Competition in Quilpué (Chile), the music competitions in Osaka (Japan), "Delia Steinberg" in Madrid (Spain), Bechstein-Bruckner Piano Competition in Linz (Austria) and “Luis Sigall” International Music Competition in Viña del Mar (Chile). Through performances at the Texas State International Piano Festival, the chamber music festival "Musica Mundi" in Belgium, in theaters in Egypt, Turkey or at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, he attracted international attention. He has also collaborated as a performer in concerts with the Bösendorfer Piano Factory.
Llanos Campos gives special importance to chamber music. With cellist Nicole Peña Comas, he released the album "El Canto del cisne negro" in 2020 under the ARS Produktion Label, with recordings of works by Latin American composers. He has been also awarded with prizes at international chamber music competitions, such as European Music Competition Città di Moncalieri, FIDELIO Music Competition 2018 in Vienna, among others.
Hugo draws essential impulses for his artistic projects from his engagement with the classical Chilean musical tradition. His debut album "Un corazón al fin del Mundo" (2017) was the result of his own musical research with the aim of enriching today's concert repertoire with the musical heritage of Chile. In 2022 he released a new album, "Fantasía Chilena", on the ARS Produktion Label which is a tribute to 19th century Chile. Hugo Llanos Campos' roots in both European tradition and Latin American repertoire have established him as a musical ambassador for his region and country.