Mikhaïl Bezverkhny was born in 1947 in Saint-Petersburg.  At the age of 5, he started his studies with Prof. Liubov Sigal, student of Leopold Auer.

After having completed his studies at the Central Music School of Leningrad, he joined the Tschaikowsky Conservatory of Moskow to study with Prof. Yuri Yankelevitch, one of the most prominent violin professors of the 20th century.

His career started already at the Moscow Conservatory.  He won several international first prizes: the Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznan (1967), the Chamber Music Contest in München (1969), the Chamber Music Contest in Belgrade (1972), the Violin Contest in Montreal (1972), the Interforum in Budapest (1974) and the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition in Brussels (1976).

Since 1957, he has toured in Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Belgium, Hungary, Germany, Yugoslavia, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Israel, England, Mexico, Columbia, the USA, etc.

During all these years, he has recorded over 40 albums with different recording companies, such as: Melodia, Deutsche Grammophon, Victor and Pavana.  He has been the director of the "La Campanella" record company since 1993.

Over the course of his career, Mikhaïl Bezverkhny has been very active as violinist, viola player, composer, director, cinema actor and as President of the Artists for Artists ES-SO-ES association.

Jacek Klimkiewicz was born in Warsaw, where he studied with Irena Dubiska, a pupil of Bronislav Huberman and Carl Flesch. He soon won first prize at a competition in Lodz and became leader and solo violinist with the Polish Chamber Orchestra.

He made his orchestral debut at the age of eighteen, performing Paganini's First Violin Concerto in the National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw.

He completed his studies by attending the master classes of Ilona Feher (Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv) and Henryk Szeryng and taking his concert examination with Wolfgang Marschner in Freiburg.

Jacek Klimkiewicz has been professor of violin at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen since 1992, serving as dean from 1998 to 2000.

He played first violin with the Sonare Quartet. In addition to making radio and commercial recordings (German Record Critics' Prize, Prix Répertoire Paris and the "Favorites of 1989" record of the year in Miami), he has undertaken several extensive concert tours of most European countries and of Japan and South America, and has taken part in interesting music festivals (Holland Festival, Musicfestival in Akiyoshidai (Yamaguchi) Japan.

Jacek Klimkiewicz plays a violin by Januarius Gagliano, Naples 1770.

Gian Paolo Luppi was born on 9th March, 1959 in San Giovanni in Persiceto, near Bologna.  After classical studies he graduated in Piano, Choral Music, Instrumentation for wind ensemble, Composition and Conducting.  His teachers were B.M. Furgeri, B. Bettinelli, F. Donatoni and A. Solbiati for Composition and T. Gotti, G. Bellini and P. Olmi for Conducting.  During his studies he also attended courses at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna and the Accademia St. Cecilia in Roma.

Since 1984 he has been awarded many prizes in Composition Competitions: 1984, "Città di Belveglio"; 1985, "Città di Castagneto Carducci" (Peters-edition prize in Italy); 1986, "B. Brecht prize" in Milano and "Città di Belveglio"; 1987, "Biennale87" of Barcellona; 1988, "Viotti-Valsesia" prize in Vercelli and "G. Briccialdi" prize in Terni; 1989, "E. Porrino" prize of Cagliari; 1990, "V. Bucchi" prize in Roma and "E. Toldrà" prize in Barcellona; 1991, "S. Guzzi" prize in Lamezia Terme; 1992, "F. Civil" prize in Girona; 1995, "Festival de Musique Sacrée" in Fribourg; 1996, "Città di Viareggio" prize and "A.GI.MUS Varenna" prize in Como; 1998, "Abbazia di Villanova" prize in Verona; 2002, "Salvatore Quasimodo" prize in Cesena; 2004, "International Competition of Sacred Composition" in Lugano and "Ivan Spassov Foundation Prize" in Plovdiv (Bulgaria); 2005, "Città di Cesenatico" Composition Prize.

Several of his compositions were performed at Italian, Belgian, Spanish, Vatican and Romanian radio, and in a lot of important festivals in Italy, Spain, Greece, Belgium, Hungary and Romania as well.

His musics have been recorded by Edipan-Roma; Crescendo-Bari; Quadrivium-Perugia and Pentaphon-Roma.  His works have been published by Peters-Francoforte and Edipan-Roma.

Since 1980 Gian Paolo Luppi has worked as a teacher in various Conservatories, and since 1996 he is teacher of Composition at "G. B. Martini" Conservatory of Bologna.  In 2002 he has taught as guest professor at the Royal Unversity of Stockolm.  In 2003 he has thaught as guest professor at the Royal Conservatory of Bruxelles.  In 2005 he has taught Composition at the Summercourse of Mirecourt (France).

The Belgian violinist Henry Raudales was born in Guatemala of a musical family. His father Enrique Raudales - violinist, pianist, conductor- (Student of Zino Francescatti, Henryk Szeryng, violin and Erich Kleiber conducting), started Henry on the violin at the age of four. Having made an astonishing progress, he played at the age of seven his first concert; Motto perpetuo of Paganini with the North Carolina Symphonie Orchestra. A few years later he received lessons from Erick Friedman (student of Jascha Heifetz). In that same period, he played for Yehudi Menuhin who invited Henry to study in London. Henry played Mendelssohn's concerto for violin at the age of 9 in North Carolina, and Wieniawski´s concerto nr.2 at the age of 11 with the Charlotte symphony orchestra. Successively he played the concertos of Tchaikovsky, Paganini, Sibelius, Brahms, Beethoven, Bartok etc. with different orchestras throughout the American continent. When Henry was 14 he played for the panamerican union receiving an award for the best young violinist of the year.That same year Spanish television filmed Henry interpreting Sibelius' concerto for a Program televised in all Hispanoamerica. Besides learning the piano and oboe Henry also studied conducting with his father, and finished his studies at the conservatory of Guatemala. When Henry was 16 years of age, he travelled to Europe where he was member of the Royal Flemish Opera of Antwerpen Belgium, and studied at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerpen, obtaining first prize and higher diplomas with the highest distinction. That same year he studied with Henryk Szeryng, and Mrs Kogan. Some years later he received a scholarship to study at the Guildhal School of Music and Drama, where he studied conducting, and general musicianship. In 1984 Henry was a member of the Brussels Radio Orchestra. One year later he won the radio competition in Brussels, the concertmaster position at the Royal Flemish Opera -where he conducted a couple of years later- and the 2nd prize exequo (given 3th) at the renowned Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Since then, he has been playing innumerable concerts and recitals throughout the world (including playing Bach's double concerto with renown artists such as Pierre Amoyal, Nigel Kennedy, Yehudi Menuhin and cellists Anner Bylsma and Leonard Rose). Henry Raudales was concertmaster of the chamber orchestra I Fiamminghi which he conducted in many occasions, including tours in Germany. He was founder and conductor of the chamber orchestra Celestial Consort (1995-1999). Henry has won throughout his career 12 different concertmaster places in different countries (Belgium, Holland, Italy, Germany). He was asked to be primarius of the Orlando Quartett, sponsored by the Concertgebouw Foundation. In 1993 he obtained the position as concertmaster of the Essener Philharmoniker and in 2001 he obtained that same position at the Munich Radio Orchestra, where he gets to conduct 2 productions a year. Since 1985 Henry has combined conducting, and playing as a soloist, concertmaster and chambermusic-musician.Henry has conducted and played with orchestras at festivals in the U.S.A., Belgium, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Holland, Spain, Argentina, Venezuela, Guatemala, France, Russia, etc. Henry has in his repertoire 80 operas, 50 violin concertos, more than 200 solo pieces, orchestral works from baroque till modern music, extensive chambermusic repertoire. His conducting repertoire extends from the one act operas, to the Shostakovich symphonies. Henry has made recordings as a conductor, a chambermusic player and a soloist. In 2006 he founded the chamber orchestra Camerata Enkabara. Since 2007 he is professor at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.

Dirk Verelst, violinist and conductor, studied at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp with Franz Wigy and in Geneva with Henryk Szeryng.  Afterwards he specialized in the performance of 18th century music with Sigiswald Kuijken and became a member of the Baroque Ensemble "La Petite Bande".  With this ensemble, he played concerts all over the world and was able to perform on radio and television and to record for well-known labels such as Erato, Telefunken, Harmonia Mundi, Philips and Séon.  He was guest professor and conductor at the Xing-Hai Conservatory of Guangzhou (China), guest professor at The Korean International University of Arts in Seoul and guest-conductor of the Collegium Musicum of Kyiv.

Since 2003, he is the artistic director and conductor of the Love2Arts Company.  In collaboration with the famous Lakatos Ensemble he was conducting concerts and live TV and DVD productions in Leipzig, Prague, Poznan, Beograd, Cannes, Ankara, Istanbul and Brussels.  He was invited as a jury member during different international competitions such as the International Shabyt Violin competition in Astana (Kazakhstan), and the International Violin Competition in Cremona (Italy).

During Summer Courses he is guest professor and conductor on different Master-Classes with his friends and colleagues, such as M. Bezverkhny, H. Krebbers, Ph. Hirschhorn, R. Lakatos, I. Frolov, I. Oistrakh, S-J Lee and many others.

Presently, Dirk Verelst is violin and chamber music professor at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp and at the University of State (department Conservatory) in Maastricht.

Since 1991, Dirk Verelst is the president of the International Academy of Arts and since 2006 the President of Love2Arts.