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.

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. Key orchestra collaborations include the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. She has collaborated with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Christian Thielemann, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Kent Nagano, Paavo Järvi, Alan Gilbert, and Sir Roger Norrington. She won the grand prize of the Yfrah Neaman International Competition in Mainz in 2003 and was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2011 to 2013.

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.

Stella has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, and the Luxembourg Philharmonia, among others. Collaborators include Itzhak Perlman, Osmo Vänskä, Robert Levin, and Matthew Lipman.
A graduate of the Harvard/New England Conservatory Dual Degree Program, Stella received her doctorate at the Juilliard School and was concurrently a professional studies candidate at the Kronberg Academy. Teachers and mentors include Li Lin, Mihaela Martin, Donald Weilerstein, Itzhak Perlman, Catherine Cho, and Miriam Fried. Stella is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and serves as a teaching assistant to Li Lin at Juilliard.

He has won First Prize at the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in 2018 and Second Prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition in 2019, as well as other awards at various prestigious competitions including the Michael Hill International Violin Competition (New Zealand), and the Montreal Symphony Manulife Competition. He is also the recipient of the Prix Yves Paternot, which recognizes a promising and accomplished international artist at the prestigious Verbier Festival in Switzerland. Recent solo engagements with orchestras include concerts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Motreal Symphony Orchestra, Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Timothy is an advocate for music as a way to connect with communities. His ensemble, The VISION collective, was the recipient of the 2020 Harold W. McGraw Family Foundation's Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach. As an avid educator, he is currently the Professor of Violin at the University of Ottawa.

In addition to her success in the Menuhin Competition, 2021 saw the Grand Prize at the Viktor Tretyakov International Violin Competition, and the career advancement prize at the Rheingau Music Festival. She was also named as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist 2021-23. She has given her appearances with, among others, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Oslo Philharmonic under Manfred Honeck, the Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Järvi and the Dresdner Philharmonie and Marek Janowski. María also made her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl in 2021 and joined them again in 2022 to give the world premiere of Gabriela Ortiz’s violin concerto Altar de cuerda, of which she is the dedicatee, at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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.

She won the numerous prizes at the prestigious competitions such as the Montreal International Music Competition in 2016, the Sibelius International Violin Competition in 2015 and the Music Competition of Japan in 2014. She also received the 3rd Arion-Toho Music Award, the 7th Tokiko Iwatani Award Foundation for Youth, and the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant Award. She is a recipient of scholarships from the Tan Family Education Foundation and Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation. After her debut with the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12, she has continued to be featured with orchestras including the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and many orchestras in Japan..

In 2015, she won the first prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition in Belgium. She has also received a number of prizes at international competitions including the Indianapolis, the Montreal International and the Henri Marteau. She is active performing with the prestigious orchestras and touring worldwide as a recitalist. She also appears in numerous international music festivals. She released her debut album of Mozart and Beethoven sonatas from Warner Classics in July 2017.

She started to capture top prizes in competitions in Japan at the age of 10 and at the age of 17, she won second prize at the 2018 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Later that year, she won first prize at the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Audition along with special prizes which offer career management and recital debuts in NY, Washington DC and Boston.
She has performed with notable orchestras including Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Muncie Symphony Orchestra, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and Sapporo Symphony Orchestra.

2022-23 season highlights include return engagements with NHK, Yomiuri, Tokyo Metropolitan and Sapporo Symphony Orchestras as well as debuts with the Göttinger Symphonie Orchester, Pilsen Philharmonic, and Japan Century Orchestras. Various recital and chamber music projects will bring her to Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Japan. Mayumi has performed with many orchestras including the Mariinsky Orchestra, Belgian National Symphony, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others. Her unique talent for communicating the love and joy of music making in varied repertoire and venues has also brought her to many outreach programs and schools around the world, from San Francisco to Novosibirsk. Mayumi's musical education has been shaped by Kolja Blacher, Yoshiko Nakura, Masao Kawasaki, and Robert Lipsett.
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In 2022-2023, he will make his solo recital debut in Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington D. C., as well as his concerto debut at the Lincoln Center. Also, he will be on tours performing chamber music with Marlboro Music Festival and Young Concert Artists bringing him to Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y, Kimmel Center etc. Lun holds degrees from Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. His mentors include Ida Kavafian, Catherine Cho and Joseph Lin. He is currently at the Juilliard School as an artist diploma candidate under the tutelage of Catherine Cho.

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.

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, the Lucerne Festival Strings, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, and the Brussels Philharmonic. In 2017, she became the first female cellist to be signed as an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon. In her second album “Voice of Hope” released in June 2020 includes Cello Concerto “Never Give Up” written expressly for her by Fazi Say.

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.