Christophe Quatremer started to play as a soloist at the early age of thirteen years the “Max Bruch” Violin Concerto with the “Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France”.
Key players
Diana Pasko was born in Crimea and commenced violin and piano studies from the age of four.
Born in Paris, violist Noémie Bialobroda performs worldwide on stages such as London's Wigmore Hall, Geneva's Victoria Hall, the Tel Aviv Museum, Rotterdam's Concertgebouw, Salle Gaveau, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Théâtre d'Aix-en-Provence, and the Alte Oper Frankfurt.
Since 2014, she has been the violist of the Aviv Quartet, with whom she has enjoyed an international career.
A committed educator, she is Professor of Viola at the CNSM in Lyon and Professor and Coordinator of Chamber Music at the Geneva University of Music.
Involved in the creation and performance of contemporary music, she has forged close relationships with key players in this repertoire. She regularly collaborates with the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt and the Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva. In 2020, alongside violinist Sergey Ostrovsky, she founded and served as artistic director of the Geneva International String Academy.
Noémie Bialobroda trained with Nobuko Imai at the Geneva University of Music, before pursuing a postgraduate degree in Jean Sulem's class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
She plays a Carlo Giuseppe Testore viola and a Benoît Rolland bow.
Originally from Reims, Auguste Rahon began his cello studies at the age of five in a municipal music school in France.
Uxía Martinez Botana was the first principal double Bass at the age of 23 of the Grammy Award Winner Kremerata Baltica, under the direction of Gidon Kremer, working with soloists such as Martha Argerich, Emmanuel Pahud, Khatia Buniatishvili, Daniel Baremboin, Mario Brunello, Mikhail Pletnev, Heinrich Schiff, and many other renowned artists.
Since January 2016 she has been the principal Double Bass of the Weinberger Kammerorchester (Zurich) under Gábor Takács-Nagy's direction and the Brussels Philharmonic's principal double bass until 2020. She also became a member and solo double bass in 2019 at the Oxford Philharmonic until nowadays.
Other work with orchestras includes The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic, the Budapest Festival Orchestra under the direction of Ivan Fischer, and guest principal double bass at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Belgium National Orchestra. She is also a Double Bass professor at the ESMUC College of Music of Catalonia in Barcelona (Spain) and a guest professor at the foundation Barenboim-Said. In 2021 She joined as well the Stauffer Center Academy for strings, in Cremona (Italy) together with other renowned artists such as Sol Gabetta, Michael Barenboim, Lisa Batiashivili, Daniel Hope, Julian Rachlin, Lawrence Power, Antoine Tamestit, Steven Isserlis, Mischa Maisky, Alissa Weilestein.
Besides her work in orchestras, Uxía Martínez Botana has developed a brilliant career as a soloist and as a chamber musician. As a bass soloist, In 2010 Her interpretation of Parable XVII by Vincent Persichetti has been acclaimed by international critics as ¨astonishing emotional intensity and master control over the instrument”. 2012 the premiere of works by composer Wladimir Rosinskij in the festival ¨Two Days and Two Nights of New Music” Odessa (Ukraine) acclaimed as ¨powerful and breathtaking”. In 2014 She had her solo debut at the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) with “The New European Ensemble”. In February 2017 she had as well her solo debut with the Symphony Orchestra of Galicia under the baton of Dima Slobodeniouk premiering works by Wladimir Rosinskij. In 2018, she had her solo debut with Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and violinist Josef Spacek. In 2019, she had her solo debut with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra (Budapest), same year, she debuted with Stellenbosch Chamber Orchestra (Stellenbosch, South Africa). She has also performed solo recitals in the Luxembourg Philharmonie Hall, Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain.
As a chamber musician, Uxía has played with prominent musicians such as Maxim Vengerov, Veronica Eberle, Julia Fischer, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Anna Chumachenko, Yuri Bashmet, Natalia Gutman, Andras Schiff, Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt, Nobuko Imai, Tabea Zimmermann, Gary Hoffman, Kian Soltani, Ante Weithaas, Mischa Maisky, Sol Gabetta, Bertrand Chamayou, Alina Abragimova, Laurence Power, Amihai Grosz, Frans Helmerson. In 2022 She joined as well as Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital in his chamber music ensemble “Between Worlds” releasing in 2025 a recording with Deutsche Grammophone.
Uxía Martínez Botana is regularly invited to participate in important festivals all over Europe: The Gergiev Festival (Netherlands), Schleswig Holstein International Chamber Music Festival (Germany), Spanungen (Germany), Gstaad Menuhin Festival (Switzerland), Solsberg (Switzerland), Kuhmo International Chamber Music Festival (Finland), The Kronberg Academy ¨Chamber Music Connects the World¨ and ¨Masters in Performance of the Kronberg Academy¨(Frankfurt, Germany), Musiq 3 Festival (Belgium), Stellenbosch International Music Festival (South Africa) Schubertiade Schwarzenberg Hohenems (Austria) among many others.
Uxia is also the founder of the Rubik Ensemble Ensemble formed by six international soloists: Nikita Boriso Glebsky (violin), Solenne Paidassi (violin), David Cohen (cello), Dana Zemtsov (viola), Uxia Martinez Botana (Double Bass) and Andreas Hering (piano).
In February 2016 she was selected by The National Dutch Musical Instrument Foundation as one of their sponsored artist: Uxia Martinez Botana. 2016 Muziekinstrumenten Fonds Artist who loaned her the English Double Bass known as “The English Lady ¨(1800 c.a), the instrument belongs to the ¨Willem Vogelaar¨ collection. She also plays a “Ludwig Neuner” (1854) loaned by a private sponsor.
Uxia’s big passion for film music drove her to collaborate on many recordings of soundtracks with the Netherlands Film Festival such as the movie “No Estoy Muerto, solo Estoy Dormido” (“I am not Dead, I am just Asleep”) by de Dutch/Mexican filmmaker Juan Sebastian Lopez Maas, awarded at the Berlinale Film Festival with the “Canon Award” for young talents.
Anastasia Schmidlin is a multiple international award-winning clarinetist, performing regularly as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. She is the principal clarinetist of the Ensemble Symphonique de Genève, a member of the contemporary music ensemble Dissolution, and performs with her duo partner, pianist Denis Zhdanov.
The Luzerner Zeitung praised her for her “fascinating tone quality in all registers, stupendous technique, and immense expressiveness” and emphasized: “Schmidlin has [...] star charisma.”
As a soloist, she has performed with renowned Swiss orchestras such as the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and the Argovia Philharmonic and has collaborated with distinguished artists including Yuri Temirkanov, Heinz Holliger, and Dieter Ammann. She has also played with esteemed ensembles and orchestras, including the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and the Collegium Novum Zürich.
Anastasia has appeared at prestigious festivals such as the Lucerne Festival and has been awarded multiple prizes at international competitions. She is also a recipient of various scholarships and foundation grants.
Natan Ca’ Zorzi is currently studying at the Hochschule für musik und theater münchen under the guidance of prof. Andrea Lieberknecht.