Alexander Boyarsky
The 'Cellist, Alexander Boyarsky graduated from the Gnesin Academy in Moscow in the class of Professor Alexander Vlasov and also took lessons from Natalia Gutman, Victor Kubatsky, Sviatoslav Knushevitsky, Alexander Fedorchenko. He has a wide range of repertoire of concerto solos, recitals and chamber music including many premiers of contemporary music in Moscow, St-Petersburg and other towns of the former USSR and Europe. Boyarsky taught at the Moscow Music School and Gnesin Academy and for many years held positions of Co-Principal 'cellist in Moscow State Symphony Orchestras. These were conducted by Yuri Aranovich, Veronika Dudarova, Maxim Shostakovich and Gennady Rozhdestvensy. He has taken part in many orchestral tours throughout the world playing with most famous conductors and soloists: Z. Metha, Y. Menuhin, M. Rostropovich, V. Gergiev, E. Gilels, D. and I. Oistrakh, N. Jarvi, A. and M. Jansons, P. Tortelie, V. Postnikova, D. Geringas, N. Gutman,T. Grindenko O. Krysa, V. Spivakov, V. Tretiakov, V.Repin, B. Pergamenshikov, N. Petrov and others. Alexander Boyarsky became an UK resident in 1991. He has performed with musicians such a Simon Rownald-Jones, Colin Bradbury, the Belcea Quartet, Eleftheria Kotzia and others at the Britten Theatre, Fairfield Hall, South Bank, St. Davids Hall and many another places. In parallel with performance Alexander Boyarsky devotes most of his time to teaching. He taught the cello at the Yehudi Menuhin School and now teaches at the Purcell School and was for a few years music director of "Cadenza"- summer school. In 1993 he was engaged as professor of Cello at the Royal College of Music, London where he is in great demand as teacher and where in 2004 he was made an Honorary Member, in recognition of his services to music. His pupils have won prizes and awards at Festivals and Competitions and have become members of chamber groups and prestigious orchestras. Alexander Boyarsky has given Master Classes in France, Italy, England, Germany, Spain and Croatia and has been a juror at several international cello competitions. "Anything you do in music is wonderful…" Yehudi Menuhin "He is really wonderful musician - gifted virtuoso with fine taste and feeling of style." Gennady Roshdestvensky

Pierre Doumenge 
Pierre studied at the Ecole Normale in Paris with Geneviève Teulières. He moved to London in 1996 to study with Raphaël Sommer and Oleg Kogan at the Guildhall School, where he received five awards, including first prize in the three internal cello competitions. His busy schedule is now divided between solo work, chamber music and teaching. As a member of the acclaimed Dante Quartet, he is frequently heard on BBC Radio 3 and has recorded quartet and cello works of Edmund Rubbra, a project that was initiated in 2001 to coincide with the centenary of Rubbra's birth. A CD of works by Russian composers Lyaponov and Gretchaninov is due this spring. He is also a member of the Nabarro Piano Trio, performing in venues such as the Wigmore Hall or St David's Hall in Cardiff and appears regularly with his wife, the pianist Annika Palm, giving together a highly praised debut recital at the Purcell Room in London in 2001. He has been invited as guest artist with many groups such as the Endymion Ensemble, Chamber Domaine, the English Chamber Orchestra Chamber Ensemble and the Nash Ensemble. Pierre is also a regular guest at the International Music Seminars in Prussia Cove, Cornwall, and performed in their autumn tour in 2003. Future performances include the Schubert Quintet with the Allegri Quartet at the occasion of its 50th Anniversary (Richmond and St John's Smith Square) and a new series of themed concerts, the Night and Dreams Project, with singer Gweneth-Ann Jeffers. Pierre has taught cello and chamber music at Junior Guildhall for three years and was invited to give public classes by the Oxford 'Cello School in 1998. He has also coached chamber groups in many courses such as 'Pro Corda', 'MusicWorks', and 'Cadenza'. Pierre Doumenge is a professor of cello at Guildhall School of Music & Drama and teaches at the Yehudi Menuhin School.

Eduardo Vassallo
Eduardo studied the cello with Nicolas Finoli and chamber music with Ljerco Spiller. At 17, he was a founder member of the String Quartet of the National Radio, and the solo cellist of the National Symphony Orchestra. In 1980 he continued his studies at the International Menuhin Music Academy and was taught by Radu Aldulescu and Pierre Fournier for cello, and Yehudi Menuhin and Alberto Lysy for chamber music. As a member of the Camerata Lysy Gstaad he took part in numerous recordings and tours and in 1986 he studied with Boris Pergamenschikow and members of the Amadeus Quartet at the Hochshule für Musik. Since 1989 he has been Principal Cellist of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and is also one of the founding directors of the Birmingham Ensemble. In 2002 he formed El Ultimo Tango, a quintet dedicated to music from Buenos Aires and they have released two CDs, El Ultimo Tango Plays Piazzolla and Le Grand Tango. Since 2006 he has been a regular guest artist with Ensamble de Granada.