Alexandre Brussilovsky
Born in Ukraine, Alexandre Brussilovsky completed his musical education at the Moscow Conservatoire under Yuri Yankelevich, Maya Glezarova and Felix Andrievsky. After winning grand prizes at several international competitions, including the Grand Prix at the International Prague Competition in 1969, and the Grand Prix and Albert Roussel Special Prize at the Jacques Thibaud Competition in 1975, he continued his advanced studies at the Moscow Conservatoire with Leonid Kogan until 1979. In 1985, after having been prohibited from performing abroad for eight years, Brussilovsky was able to leave the USSR and establish his residency in France. He rebuilt his career, dividing his time between concert halls and teaching. At the same time his dream of having his own ensemble came true: RICERCATA DE PARIS was created. Since 2000 he has been invited by the Ensemble DEL ARTE Neuburg ( Germany) as the principal conductor. An international soloist, Alexandre Brussilovsky is invited to give a master-classes in Bloomington ( Indiana University) and the Summer Academies in Geneva, Nice and New-York. He has played with renowned artists such as Yehudi MENUHIN, Neeme JARVI, Emmanuel KRIVINE, Misha MAISKY, Gary HOFFMAN, Eduard BRUNNER, Kun-Woo PAIK, Pierre- Laurent AIMARD, Patrick GALLOIS, ZHU Xiao-Mei, Nathaniel ROSEN, Francoise POLLET, Natalia GUTMAN, Boris BEREZOVSKY, The LINDSAYS and FINE ARTS quartets... Alexandre Brussilovsky is the founder and artistic director of the Suoni e Colori recording label, of the international music academy Masters de Belesbat and of chamber music festivals Les MusiCimes in Courchevel (France) and the Moscow "Pont Alexandre III" French music Festival.
http://www.brussilovsky.canalblog.com

Christos Galileas
Christos Galileas is string coordinator for the Georgia State University School of Music. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, he took his first violin lessons at the age of four with his father Kosmas Galileas, the distinguished Greek violinist and conductor, and continued studying with Professor Stelios Kafantaris.Dr. Galileas was awarded first prize and the gold metal for his outstanding musical abilities upon graduating from the Conservatory of Athens in 1994. While still a student he began an active career with international solo appearances, and individual recitals. His first public appearance at age 16 was with the Symphony Orchestra of Thessaloniki with an impressive performance of the Paganini violin concerto No 1. From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Galileas studied with Zachar Bron in Lubeck Germany. He continued his studies with the renowned professors Roland and Almita Vamos at the Oberlin Conservatory where he received the Dean's Talent Award and his Bachelor of Music degree. In 1995, he won the first prize at the National Competition for Scholarships of Greece, and two years later he was awarded the Alexandra Triandi scholarship of the Megaron of Athens.Since then, he has appeared as soloist with many orchestras and Festivals including the State Orchestra of Athens, Prague, Thessaloniki, Armenia, Toronto, Fort Lauderdale, Sofia ,Lisbon ,Stuttgart Vienna, Dr. Galileas won first prize at the Greek National Competition for violin, held by the Cultural Association TECHNI, in collaboration with the State Orchestra of Thessaloniki and the Cultural Capital of Europe Thessaloniki 1997.In May 2001 he received the master's degree at The Juilliard School where he studied with the distinguished professors of violin Dorothy Delay and Naoko Tanaka. In March 2001 he had the honor of receiving the first prize in the Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship competition of the University of Illinois. In 2002, Dr. Galileas founded the Hellenic Camerata, a chamber orchestra with 22 members, and had an extensive tour of North, Central and South America in many countries, including the U.S., El-Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Uruguay, and gave more than 35 concerts in seven weeks. In December 2005, he received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in violin performance from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Galileas has taught violin and chamber music in many masterclasses in various venues, including the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki, City Conservatory of Thessaloniki and the Athens Conservatory, as well as masterclass series held at the Music Society of Macedonia, Brasov Symphony orchestra in Romania and Symphony of the Americas in Ft.Lauderdale. He has also taught as an assistant of Almita Vamos and Naoko Tanaka. Since 2003, Dr. Galileas has served as the artistic director of the Chamber Music Series at the Dimitria International Festival of Thessaloniki. His most recent appearances included the performance of the Brahms Double Concerto with Misha Maisky, and the collaboration with the Borodin Quartet and the George Enescu Philharmonic of Bucharest. Christos plays on a 1705 Joseph Guarneri violin.

Marianne Piketty
Marianne Piketty gives her first concert as soloist at the Salle Pleyel of Paris at the age of 7. She enters first nominated at the Paris CNSMD - Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse - at 13 years old and obtains the First Prizes of violin and music chamber in Pierre Doukan and Jean Hubeau's classes. She meets Dorothy Delay and follows her teaching at the Juilliard School in New York as she is also regularly playing in masterclasses for Itzhak Perlman. She wins the « Artists International » Contest and makes her beginning at the Carnegie Hall Recital. Back in France, she wins the First Prize of the Bordeaux young soloists Contest as well as the SACEM Prize and becomes prizewinner of the Colburn Foundation and of the « Action Musicale Phillip Morris ». She meets Yehudi Menuhin who invites her to interpret the Brahms concerto under his direction and to became one of the soloist of his foundation. Marianne Piketti is at that time regularly invited to perform in famous concert halls and festivals: Salle Pleyel, the Champs-Elysées theater, Salle Gaveau, the International Festival of Istanbul, Radio-France and Montpellier Festivals, the « Orangerie de Sceaux » festival, Flâneries Musicales (Reims), Chopin Festival, Nancyphonies... She plays as a soloist with the National Orchestra of Lille, the Concerts Lamoureux Orchestra, Concerts Pasdeloup Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Saint Petersbourg, the Sinfonia of Manchester, the « Simon Bolivia » Symphonic Orchestra ( Caracas)... She is on the front page of norvegian newspapers during her recital and soloist tour with the Stavanger Orchestra. In Kiev, she creates the violin concerto of Renaud Gagneux playing with the National Orchestra of Ukraine Philarmony. Marianne Piketty develops an intensive activity as a chambrist. She created the « Solistes de la Villedieu » where she is accompanied by talented french soloists: Paul Meyer, Eric Le Sage, Laurent Verney, Xavier Phillips. She also plays with Pascal Amoyel, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Juliette Hurel, Pierre-Olivier et Jean-Guihen Queyras, Antje Weithaas... Marianne Piketty performed several times in France and in USA the complete of the Six Sonatas for solo violin composed by Eugène Ysaÿe. Her recording for Maguelone is unanimously acclaimed by journalists as well as her second record of Lekeu and Pierné sonatas recorded with the pianist Laurent Cabasso. Her eclectic tastes brings her to create an original duet with the accordionist Pascal Contet which repertory goes from Bach to Piazzolla but is also composed of Bernard Cavanna, Graciane Finzi, Renaud Gagneux and Laurent Mettraux creations. This season, Marianne Piketty appears in many radio shows on France-Musique, she is invited to Musicora Festival (Paris) and to the first edition of the « Festival des violons de la paix » ( Boulogne sur Mer). Artistic director of the « Musicales de l'Abbaye d'Auberive », she performed in many music chamber concerts and as a soloist with Marc Coppey during the double Brahms concerto. Marianne Piketty is teaching at the Lyon CNSMD.
http://www.antinea.com/mpiketty

Yuri Volguin
Yuri was born in Russia in 1958. He started his violin classes at an early age of five under the guidance of professor A.Gvoseev. Yuri continued his studies at the Novosibirsk Music Highschool and graduated his music education under the guidance of professor Zakhar Bron. Yuri, as one of the most outstandingly gifted young violinists, was a prize-winner of many national contests in his country. Yuri Volguin was soloist of the State Philharmonic Orchestra in Novosibirsk. Between 1979 and 1984 Yuri V. was soloist of Russian State-run company “Philharmonia” and took part in the great concert tour. around Europe and Russia as a concert violinist playing the most distinguished concerts for violin. When a member of a string trio “Ural ”, Yuri got the major part of the repertoire recorded. His teaching activity starts at High Music School under the Novosibirsk State Conservatoire in 1981 . Since 1981 he has been a professor of violin at the Novosibirsk Music Highschool and Superior Conservatoire. Yuri’s repertoire as a soloist embraces grand concerts for violin, sonatas and chamber music. From 1085 to 1994 he was violin professor at the Tschelyabinsk and the Ekaterinenburg Music Conservatoires. During this period he performed as soloist and member of the Ural trio.Yuri Volguin’s students such as Denis Goldfeld, F.Kabelsky, A.Tzachnikov, D.Ahanova have become the First pize-winners at the main international violin contests. In 1995 Yuri V. was awarded with the Praze of the Arts by the Ministry of Culture of Russia. uri Volguin is invited to take part in the Juries of International and National Contests with great regularity as well as requested to give master classes in Sweden, Russia, Germany, Estonia, Spain, Portugal. He has been living in Madrid since 1995 giving soloist concerts in the main Spanish cities (Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra, Ponferrada, Santander, Madrid.). Snce 1995 Yuri Volguin has been a Professor at “ Reina Sofia Higher Music School” where Zakhar Bron is the Professor. At the same time Yuri Volguin has been teaching in the Higher Musical School in Catalonia

Keiko Wataya
Keiko Wataya studied violin with Josef Szigeti, Ferras, N. Boulanger and S. Végh. Since 1968 she performed as solo violinist in Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, Portugal, the Netherlands and United Kingdom. She made various radio and television broadcastings of performances and participated on international tours as a soloist of Camerata Academica de Salzburg. Keiko has been invited to numerous festivals such as the Chamber Music Festival (UK, with S. Végh, A. Schiff and others), Mozart-Woche (Salzburg), Italian Music Festivals (with B.Giurrana, P. Amoyal, A. Meunier, C.A. Linale, and others). In 1981-82 she began her teaching career at the Mozarteum ( Salzburg) as teaching assistant of professor Sandór Végh and at the Conservatory of Utrecht (HKU) (the Netherlands). Actually, she is professor at the Amsterdam Conservatory, at the Conservatorio Superior Musikene ( San Sebastian), in Hochschule für Musik Köln (Standort Aachen)... She gives many master classes in Spain, France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Portugal and Estonia. Violin students from over 40 different countries attended her classes. Many of them are now professional violinists at well known orchestras around the world, including some concert masters in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan and the U.S.A. Also many of her former students have careers as chamber music players.

Igor Volochine
After studies at the Tchaïkovski academy of Moscow in the class of Solomon Snitkovski, the pulpit of David Oïstrach where he obtains the title of supersolist, interpreter and professor of chamber music, Igor Volochine begins a brilliant career as soloist with the Collegium musicum chamber orchestra. Super soloist of the national symphony orchestra of Moscow and the national orchestra of chamber music, he performs around the world in the largest halls. He takes part in very many recordings for television or disc. Youri Bashmet guests him in 1986 to join to the soloists unit of Moscow performing in the Gaveau hall, in the theatre of the Champs-Elysées, in the Concertgebauw and the Albert Hall. Residing in France since 1991, he is a member of the soloists orchestra of Moscow-Montpellier. He is also the guest of many international festivals as soloist and chamber musician. His teaching activity is very rich: he teaches in the conservatoire national supérieur de Paris and the Versailles and Paris national conservatoires. He also gives advanced courses and master classes at the Music Academy of Santa Cecilia in Italy.

Zacharia Zorin
A disciple of the Stolarski-Oïstrakh school, Zacharia Zorin enjoyed exceptional tuition: the Stolarski school, the Odessa Conservatory, the Moscow Gnessine Institute. Concert and chamber performer as well as conductor, Zacharia also holds a doctorate in musical pedagogy. His career began in the former USSR as soloist in the agency Mosconcert. He also conducted the Chamber Orchestra of Odessa and was professor of violin at the Novosibirsk conservatory. Having been awarded for the best interpretation of the works of Szymanowski at the Warsaw “Autumn Festival” and at the height of his musical career, Zorin decided to leave the USSR for political reasons. Having had his Soviet citizenship withdrawn, Zorin moved to Israel where he continued his international career as soloist in various prestigious institutions : the Jerusalem Soloist Ensemble, the Kol-Israel Orchestra, and the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he performed all over the world under the direction of the greatest conductors of the XX century : Metha, Bernstein, Solti, Barenboïm, Abado… Inspired by other soloist friends from this legendary orchestra, he founded the  “Zorin Quartet”. Invited to France in 1980, he became the concertmaster of the Bordeaux National Orchestra, without jeopardising his solo career. Highly sought-after by various contemporary composers, J. Dorfman dedicated his concerto for violin to Zorin who performed its world première with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. The era of Perestroïka gave him the opportunity to return to his country of birth to give a triumphant tour in 1989. Since his first steps on the professional stage at the age of 10, Zorin has interpreted almost the entire violin repertoire with symphony orchestras and in recitals on all five continents.
 Conscious to share his immense experience with young musicians in France, Zorin founded the Professional Institute for Violin in Bordeaux, and is artistic director of the Rencontres Internationales des Graves , a fitting synthesis of his passion for stage and pedagogy.

Max Zorin
Né en Israël dans une famille russe de musiciens professionnels, Max Zorin a commencé à étudier le violon à l'âge de cinq ans avec son père et a donné ses premières représentations à huit ans. Il est diplômé de la Juilliard School, de l'université de Yale et Stony Brook. Il a subjugué le public et les critiques sur trois continents grâce à sa superbe technique et sa personnalité. Il s'est produit récemment avec Maxim Vengerov en France, au Alice Tully Hall de NY en musique de chambre et en solo, au festival de musique de chambre de Luzerne, au Summit Music Festival, au festival de musique d'Aspen, au Prince Music Theatre de Philadelphie et sur diverses stations de radio classiques. Aimant la musique de chambre, Max Zorin a participé en tant qu'artiste invité au Philadelphia Piano Quartet, Omega String Quartet, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players et a ,notamment joué avec des artistes tels que la violoniste Susanne Hou, le contrebassiste Thomas Martin (symphonie de Londres) et Martha Katz (quatuor de cordes de Cleveland).
Il a reçu de nombreuses récompenses telles qu'un premier prix pour la division pré-université de la Corpus Christy International Competition (USA) (Etats-Unis) et une médaille d'or du Conservatoire National de Bordeaux (France). Il est co-fondateur des Rencontres Musicales Internationales des Graves et a enseigné à l'Académie de musique d'été du Festival Luthérien et du Festival de musique de chambre de Luzerne. En 2005, il a été nommé à la faculté de violon à la Penn State University.
www.maxzorin.com