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.
Steven Kleeven (piano)
Steven (2005) started as a 7-year-old in the young talent class of Marijke Oers. He spent the last four years of his secondary education studying at the Musica Mundi School in Waterloo. Here he studied piano with maestro Jacques Rouvier and Hagit Kerbel and chamber music with Leonid Kerbel. At the same time, he studied at the Centre Musical Eduardo del Pueyo in Brussels with maestro Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. Since 2023, he has been studying piano with Prof. Björn Lehman at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. He is a laureate of "La Fondation Chopin Belgique". He won many national and international prizes such as EPTA Belgium (2nd), 3x Cantabile (1st), Concours de Liège (1st), 2x Steinway Belgium (1st), Feurich Vienna (3rd). He was finalist at "Thomas Speelt Het Hard" of the Flemish Canvas television. With his Musica Mundi Piano Trio he won 1st prizes at the International ISCART Competition 2021 and at the International Music Competition 2021 for both the Music & Stars Awards and the Grand Prix Crown of Stars. Steven could play with orchestras such as the Limburg Youth and Music Orchestra, the AMAJ Young Symphony Orchestra, the Arenberg Orchestra, the Sonores Symphony Orchestra Ghent and the Musica Mundi Orchestra. In 2020 to 2023, Steven participated in the annual Musica Mundi festival. He was also invited several times to play at Musicorum concerts in Brussels. He has also played concerts and recitals in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Austria, England and Poland.