Violin

Tatiana Samouil leads a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician and professor. Born in St. Petersburg, she studied in Moldova before continuing her education at the Moscow Conservatory. She later became a student of Igor Oistrakh at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. Samouil has won seven international competitions, including the Queen Elisabeth, Tchaikovsky and […]

Fedor Rudin is acclaimed for his technical brilliance, stylistic sensitivity and expansive musical vision. He was a prizewinner at the Premio Paganini and George Enescu competitions, and has performed as a soloist with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, SWR Symphonieorchester, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras under conductors including Anja Bihlmaier, Eivind Gullberg Jensen and Vladimir Jurowski.

Christoph Poppen is a conductor, solo violinist, chamber musician and teacher. He is Music Director of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Principal Conductor of the Kölner Kammerorchester, Artistic Director of the Marvão International Music Festival, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. He has been Guest Conductor with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden,

Mark Karlinsky studied with Anna Rosnovsky at the ‘Musicians for Tomorrow’ School founded by Maxim Vengerov, and continued with Irina Etigon, a former student of David Oistrakh, and with Michaela Martin at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin. He has participated in the Jerusalem Music Centre’s David Goldman Programme for Outstanding Young Musicians, and has received

Born to Croatian-Japanese parents, Latica Honda-Rosenberg studied with Tibor Varga and Zakhar Bron. In 1998, she won the silver medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, paving the way for an international career which has won her accolades for the strength, eloquence and expressiveness of her playing. She made her debut as a soloist at

Born in Sion, Switzerland, Madeleine Carruzzo studied with Tibor Varga at the Music Academy of Detmold and served as Concertmaster of the orchestra from 1978-1981. In 1982, she became the first woman to join the Berlin Philharmonic, then under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. She has performed as soloist with various orchestras, and is

Boris Brovtsyn is a fourth-generation musician. After graduating from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, he made his UK debut with the BBC Philharmonic under Rumon Gamba, and relocated to London. He completed his studies with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he taught from 2010-2016. He is currently Professor at the

Born in Jerusalem, Nitzan Bartana received her first violin lesson at the age of five from her grandfather. She continued her studies with Yair Kless at the Tel Aviv Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, and at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts, the Freiburg University of Music, and the Salzburg Mozarteum. She made her