Formed in 2010, the Goldmund Quartet is now counted amongst one of the most exciting young string quartets in Europe. Educated by Günther Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia and the Artemis Quartet in Berlin, the Quartet has received important artistic impulses in master classes with the Hagen, Borodin, Belcea, Ysaÿe and Cherubini quartets. The Quartet has been awarded several prizes including the second prize at the International Wigmore Hall String Competition 2018 and the first prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2018. They have also been named Rising Stars 2019/20 by the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) as well as recipients of the 2020 Jürgen Ponto Foundation music prize. Since their debut, the Quartet has appeared at numerous international festivals such as Rheingau, Festival Aix-en-Provence, Festival de Música y Danza Granada as well as notable halls including Musikverein Graz, Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, Elbphilharmonie and the KKL Lucerne. Named ECHO Rising Stars of the 2019/20 season, the Goldmund Quartet will perform in many of the most prestigious halls around Europe such as the Philharmonie de Paris, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. In October 2016 NAXOS released their debut CD with works by Joseph Haydn which garnered great reviews from the BBC, The Strad Magazine, Gramophone Magazine, American Record Guide. Their second album including string quartets by Shostakovich was released on Berlin Classics in July 2018.

She won the grand prize of the Yfrah Neaman International Competition in Mainz in 2003. At the age of sixteen, she performed Beethoven's violin concerto with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, which brought her to international attention. Her appearances with the world's leading orchestras are such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Ochestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. She regularly performs with Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Robin Ticciati and Allan Gilbert. She received awards including the Audience Awards at the Schleswig-Holstein and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festivals. Also as a dedicated chamber musician, she performs with distinguished musicians such as Shai Wosner, Lars Vogt, Renaud Capuçon and Antoine Tamestitk, and appears at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Summer Festival as well as the Mozart Week 2015 in a trio project with Mitsuko Uchida. She received support from the Borletti Buitoni Trust between 2008 and 2011 and was selected as the artist of the BBC young generation scheme and the "Junge Wilde" in Dortmund.

After having obtained her master's degree in 2010 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich under Ana Chumachenco, she participated in the Further Masters Studies at Kronberg Academy until summer 2012. As her talent has already drawn international attention in her early years, she was referred to as a "brand new world star" by Danish "The Jutland Post" in 2003. In the same year, she won the first prize as well as the audience award and the prize for the best interpretation of Contemporary Music at the Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition. She was also the first prize winner of the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition, Hannover in 2006. She has performed with internationally acclaimed conductors such as Kurt Masur, Eliahu Inbal, Myung-Whun Chung and Andris Nelsons. Also as a passionate chamber musician, she performed with renowned musicians such as Marta Argerich, Yuri Bashmet and Myung-Whun Chung recently. Her first album of Hartmann's "Concerto funebre" with the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and Pietari Inkinen was recommended by BBC Radio 3 as the best available recording of this concerto. Her latest recording of Beethoven's violin concerto and two Romances was released by Deutsche Grammophon in March 2016. She became a first concertmaster of the Konzerthausorchestra Berlin in 2018 and a member of Artemis Quartett in 2019.

Currently, she is a C.V. Starr doctoral fellow at The Julliard School studying under Li Lin, Donald Weilerstein, and Catherine Cho. She has received numerous prizes at competitions such as the 2017 Tibor Varga International Violin Competition and the 2008 Menuhin Competition. Her appearance with world renowned orchestras includes the Belgian National Orchestra, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Orquestra Filarmónica de Medellín, London Chamber Orchestra, and Welsh National Symphony Orchestra. She has also appeared at notable festivals such as Music@Menlo, the Perlman Music Program, the Sarasota Music Festival, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, and YellowBarn. She has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Itzhak Perlman, Robert Levin, Roger Tapping, Miriam Fried, members of St. Martin in the Fields, and the Silk Road Ensemble.

His international career was launched after winning two first prizes at the Montreal International Musical Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York both in 2010. In 2014, he was chosen as a fellowship of London’s prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust which supports outstanding young musicians. He was also recognized as the young promising musician by the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Strad magazine. He has performed with notable conductors and orchestras including Sir Neville Marriner, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He also performed at the Louvre and Wigmore Hall, as well as the Marlboro Music Festival, Music@Menlo (California) and Verbier Festival. His debut album “Spectrum” was released from Warner Classics in March 2016.

He has won numerous prizes at many international competitions including the Indianapolis, the Long-Thibaud, and the Melbourne Chamber. In 2001, he won the first prize as well as the special audience prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of a Bach concerto at the first Sendai International Music Competition in Japan. As a soloist, he has performed with the world's renowned conductors such as Leon Fleisher, Yehudi Menuhin, Myung-Whun Chung and François-Xavier Roth. Greatly trusted by the conductor Myung-Whun Chung, in 2005, he was appointed as the concertmaster of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. He was also a concertmaster of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra from 2007 to 2015. Aside from his concert activities, he became a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris as the successor to Kantorow in 2008. Since April 2015, he has been serving as the artistic director and the artist in residence of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria.

He is the First Prize winner of the 2010 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, as well as a recipient of the 2019 Avery Fisher Career Grant and 2019 Lincoln Center Emerging Artists Award. He has recently performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Houston Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, as well as the Shanghai Philharmonic, Auckland Philharmonia, Norwegian Radio Symphony, New Zealand Symphony, Munich Chamber Orchestra, and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. As an active recitalist and chamber musician, he has performed in numerous world-renowned venues such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Louvre Auditorium in Paris, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Oslo Opera House, Allice Tully Hall, and Boston Symphony Hall. He has also appeared as a guest artist at leading music festivals worldwide, such as Verbier, Ravinia, Music @ Menlo, Sarasota, Bergen, and Aspen Music Festivals. In 2017, he joined the roster of the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Her career was launched in 2004 with an extraordinary debut with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Neville Marriner in Paris. Since then, she has performed with distinguished conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, Riccardo Chailly and Herbert Blomstedt and with world leading orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra. Since 2009, she has recorded exclusively for Pentatone. In the same year, her CD of Dvořák and Szymanowski's violin concertos with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra led by Marek Janowski was published and won her second ECHO Klassik Award. Her CD of Mozart concertos with the Festival Strings Lucerne was nominated for the Gramophone Award as the recording of the year 2014. She is also active as an ambassador for CARE, a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty and providing lifesaving assistance in emergencies.

She has won the first prize at the 2015 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition in Belgium and the 2013 Euroasia International Competition in Japan. She has also received a number of prizes at international competitions including the Indianapolis, the Montreal International and the Henri Marteau. Already active internationally, she has toured in Japan, the U.S., Canada, Germany, Switzerland and other European countries. She has also been invited to international music festivals where she performed with famous violinist-conductors such as Maxim Vengerov, Joel Smirnoff, and Koichiro Harada. She released her debut album of Mozart and Beethoven sonatas from Warner Classics in July 2017.

He has worked with conductors including Lorin Maazel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Kent Nagano, Fabio Luisi and Leonard Slatkin. In the 2015/16 season, he made his debuts with the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) under the baton of Andres Orozco-Estrada as well as the Philadelphia Orchestra with Yannick Nezet-Seguin. In 2010, he launched "Ryu Goto Excellence In Music Initiative Scholarship" with the NYC Department of Education and provides scholarships to students every year. He does extensive musical outreach and cultural exchanges in Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa. He records for Deutsche Grammophon in collaboration with Universal Classics Japan and 8 CDs have released so far. In May 2011, he graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Physics.

In 2017, she gave a recital at the Vienna Musikverein. In the summer of the same year, she performed with the prestigious Moscow Philharmonic on their Japan tour and received critical acclaim. Since 2017 she has been invited each year to appear with the Kiev Philharmonic, and perform with the orchestra for the third consecutive year in Ukraine in November 2019. In May 2019, she collaborated with Pianist Itamar Golan on a Nationwide tour (12 cities) and released a CD on August 21st of the same year. Ohtani’s numerous CD releases include bestseller “La Traviata fantasy”, as well as her highly regarded “R.Strauss/Beethoven Sonata No.5 (Pianist: Itamar Golan)”, among others. Her autobiography “Violinist, kyo mo hashiru!/ Violinist runs today!”(KADOKAWA) was released in July 2018. She is also an MC and regular performer on the TV music program “Ongaku Kosaten”. Yasuko Ohtani is a recipient of the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ “Art Festival Award.” She is a professor at Tokyo College of Music and a lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts. She also serves as Chair of the Nerima Cultural Promotion Association, Cultural Ambassador of Kawasaki City, Kochi Prefecture Tourism Special Envoy, and Chair of the Japan Symphony Foundation.

He has performed with prestigious orchestras such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly, the Orchestre National de France, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, and the National Symphony Orchestra (USA). On Bastille Day in 2015, he joined Daniel Gatti and the Orchestre National de France for a televised concert on the Champs-de-Mars in Paris in front of an audience of over 800,000. His premiere album "Virtuoso" released on Sony Classical in 2011 received glowing reviews from major publications and won the Germany's prestigious ECHO Klassik Award of the same year. His third recording, an all-Mozart's album with Christoph Eschenbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra, was released in 2014.

In 2001, she won the highest score at the Bundes-competition, followed by many first prizes at international competitions such as the Louis-Spohr Competition in Weimar and the Johannes-Brahms in Pörtschach. In 2004, she won the second prize (with no first prize winner) at the International Paganini Competition as well as all three special prizes. In 2007, she was awarded the third prize at the 13th International Tchaikovsky Competition and the first prize at the Sarasate International Violin Competition. As a soloist, she has performed with notable orchestras such as the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and the National Philharmonic Orchestra (UK). She had served as the first female concertmaster in the 460-year-history of the Staatskapelle Dresden for two years since 2012. In August 2015, she was appointed as the concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Berlin.

He is the first prize winner of the 2008 Liezen International Cello Competition. In 2013, he received the second prize at the International Paulo Cello Competition and the Edmond de Rothschild prize at Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad. Also, he was the prize winner at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015. He has performed with notable orchestras including the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, the Orquesta Nacional de España, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Both as a soloist and a chamber musician, he is regularly invited to international music festivals such as the Rheingau, the Verbier, the Casals, the Spivakov, the Santander and the Kronberg. He also frequently performs with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Mutter's Virtuosi, and in March 2017, he performed Brahms' Double Concerto with her and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2014 she was chosen by Musiq'3 - RTBF to represent Belgium at the European Broadcasting Union Competition, where she was awarded the 1st prize and named “New Talent of the Year”. That same year, she was nominated Newcomer of the year 2014 by the French-Grammys ‘ Les Victoires de la Musique’. In 2017 she was awarded an ECHO Klassik Prize and subsequently became the first cellist in 40 years to be signed as an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon. She has worked with conductors including Paavo Jarvi, Mikko Franck, Marc Soustrot, Darrell Ang, Kent Nagano, Stephane Deneve and with orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmoniem Bremen, Academia Santa Cecilia, Sinfonia Varsovia, Staatsorchester Hamburg in the Elbphilharmonie, the Lucerne Festival Strings, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, and the Brussels Philharmonic. In April 2018, she gave the world premiere of Fazil Say’s Cello concerto “Never Give Up”, which was dedicated to her, in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris under Douglas Boyd. In 2018 she was named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30, the “annual encyclopedia of creative disruption and youthful visionaries featuring young stars across 20 different industries.”

In 2017, she was the youngest recipient of the Kronberg Academy “Prince of Hesse” Prize. She has also won the first prize at the Fidelio Chamber Music Competition in 2017 as a member of Hamamelis Quartet. Notable recent and upcoming solo engagements include a debut performance with the Russian National Orchestra under Vladimir Spivakov, Galician and Lahti Symphony Orchestras, San Francisco Symphony with Marek Janowski, and a tour with the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Her debut recitals include performances in the Vienna Musikverein and Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg as well as at the 2019 Verbier Festival. She has also collaborated with the Catalonian composer Jordi Cervelló and premiered his works which were dedicated to her. She plays on the Guarneri del Gesu 1736 Violin “Muntz” on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

He has performed with the world's leading orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and all major orchestras in London.With his pianist sister Lusine Khachatryan, he has performed recitals at renowned halls including Wigmore Hall, Theatre des Champs Elysees, Palais des Beaux Arts and Carnegie Hall. In 2014, he received the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award and awarded a performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel at the Lucerne Festival. His CD albums including the most recent album "My Armenia" released in December 2015 have been highly praised by the world's major music magazines and press.