Andrea Cellacchi is principal bassoonist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra since April 2022. His journey with the bassoon took off at the age of ten. At sixteen, he graduated with the highest possible grades at the Ottorino Respighi Latin Music Conservatory. Meanwhile, he was admitted to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome for his masterstudies with Francesco Bossone. In 2020 he continued his studies with a master Specialized Music Performance, studying with Matthias Rácz at the Zurich University of the Arts. 
In 2016, Andrea Cellacchi gained international prestige after winning first prize at the Aeolus International Competition in Düsseldorf and the Muri Competition in Switzerland, the first Italian ever to win both prestigious awards. He was also the winner of the Premio Abbado 2015, the Audimozart! bassoon competition 2016 and the International Fox-Gillet Competition in Granada in 2018. At the the Internationaler Instrumentalwettbewerb Markneukirchen in 2019 he won second prize.
At nineteen years old, he was appointed principal bassoonist of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Between 2019 and 2021 he held the same position at the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Turin.

Mirko Landoni, born in 1988, graduated in horn at the Conservatorio 'G. Verdi' under the guidance of Maestro Brunello Gorla. Landoni furthered his studies by attending the 'Scuola di Musica di Fiesole' and the 'Master of Art in Music Performance' at the Conservatory of Lugano. After attending numerous Masterclasses with internationally renowned musicians, he won an audition at the 'Teatro alla Scala in Milan' in 2010, where he remained until 2013. Over the years he has collaborated with major orchestras such as the 'Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI', the 'Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi' and the 'Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini'. He is currently a member of the 'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia' and gives lessons in both horn and the psychology of musical performance.

Liya Petrova was revealed to the international scene in 2016 when she took First Prize at the Carl Nielsen competition in Denmark. 

Two years later, she recorded the Nielsen and Prokofiev’s first concertos with the Odense Philharmonic and Estonian conductor Kristiina Poska for Orchid Classics. This first album earned her international acclaim from the press. 

As a soloist, Petrova is the guest of orchestras such as the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de RadioFrance, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Antwerp Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, Staatskapelle Weimar, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Brussels Philharmonic (…).

She plays chamber music regularly with French Tchaikovsky competition 1st prize winner Alexandre Kantorow and performs with many wonderful musicians like Beatrice Rana, Emmanuel Pahud, Pablo Ferrandez, Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky, Renaud Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, James Ehnes, Nicholas Angelich, Frank Braley, Yuja Wang, Gérard Caussé, Antoine Tamestit, Bruno Philippe, Aurélien Pascal and Gautier Capuçon. Petrova is a regular guest of chamber music festivals like the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festspiele, Rheingau Festival, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival, La Folle Journée, La Roque d’Anthéron International Festival and the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian. 

Liya Petrova was born in Bulgaria into a family of musicians and studied with Augustin Dumay at Brussels’ Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik Hans Eisler Berlin and Renaud Capuçon at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne. She now lives in Paris. Liya plays the Helios, a magnificent instrument made in Cremona in 1735 by Stradivarius’ disciple Carlo Bergonzi, on generous loan by private sponsors.

At the age of 17 he graduated in violin and viola with honors and distinction from the Conservatorio "N.Piccinni" in Bari under C. Scarpati, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Hochschule der Künste in Bern. 

He received the Sinopoli Prize from President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano for artistic merit. He also studied piano and Letters and Philosophy, lectured for Latin Literature at the University of Bari. He also collaborates with the Ludosofici and with magazines on philosophy and the art-divulgative sector for Corraini and Feltrinelli editions. He attends the contemporary poetry course of Alessandro Baricco's Holden School.
He has been a member of the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan since 2010. He has performed as a soloist for Rai Radio3 Suite, Prague National Radio, Irish National Radio, Swiss Radio and Television, at the Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Carnegie Hall in New York, Boston Auditorium, Santa Cecilia Auditorium and Parco della Musica in Rome, Società dei Concerti and Società del Quartetto in Milan and in Switzerland, France, Japan and South America. He has won the Vittorio Veneto, Castrocaro Classica, Società Umanitaria, F.Gulli, Ibla Grand Prize-New York, Geminiani, Palmi competitions, awarded prizes at the V.Gui and Pinerolo competitions.

He has collaborated on numerous tours in quintet and sextet with the Cremona Quartet and Andrea Lucchesini. He has performed Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with Marco Rizzi and then with Salvatore Accardo and the ORT and Padua and Veneto orchestras, Hindemith's "Der Scwanendreher" concerto with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, and his Variations on Themes by Rossini with the Cameristi della Scala at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan as soloist and conductor. In June 2021 he will perform pieces for solo viola at the Swiss Radio in Geneva at a concert with verse readings by poet Maria Russo Rossi.

Cellist Aleksey Shadrin, who was a member of the Kronberg Academy Master Program, was born into a family of musicians in Ukraine. He won the first prize of the 4^th M. Lysenko International Music Competition in 2012. In 2018, he has been awarded the 3d Prize at the Prague Spring competition.

Following his early successes in numerous competitions, including the National Ukrainian Competition for Strings in Lvov/Lemberg and the 8th National Ukrainian Competition “New Names” in Kiev, he became in 2004 a scholar of the International Foundation of violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov.

In 2005, Aleksey Shadrin was a finalist in the 3rd David Popper International Competition in Hungary, and in 2008, he won the 2nd prize at The International Competition in Minsk. Following his competition successes, he has performed in major concert halls of Ukraine, Russia, Germany, France, South Korea, China, Vietnam, Holland and Portugal.

Aleksey Shadrin has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, the National Opéra national de Montpellier, and the Sudwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz.

In 2016, he made his debut appearance at the Berliner Philharmoniker. In 2017, he appeared as a soloist with the NDR Radiophilharmonie with Andrew Manze in the Grosser Sendesaal in Hannover, and made his debut appearance at the Hamburg Chamber Music Festival.

Aleksey Shadrin received his Bachelor and Master of Musical Arts at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover with Prof. Leonid Gorokhov.

He is currently studying with Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy.

Since September 2020, he’s an Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, studying with Gary Hoffman.

Aleksey benefits from a scholarship granted by M. & Mrs. Charles Adriaenssen. Aleksey plays on a cello generously loaned by the Guttman Foundation.

Born in Milan in 1996, he started his double bass studies at the age of sixteen at the Liceo Musicale F. Casorati in Novara, and later continued in the same city at the Conservatoire G. Cantelli. He graduated with honours in 2020 under the guidance of M. Roberto Panetta.

He attended Masterclasses with some of the most important international double bassists, such as Enrico Fagone, Giuseppe Ettorre, Edicson Ruiz, Thierry Barbè, Milto Masciadri and others.

He has played in professional orchestras, including Filarmonica del Teatro alla Scala, Orchestra del Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, OSI Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, collaborating with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Christoph Koenig, Markus Poschner, and others.

Active chamber musician, he performed with different ensembles many important pieces from the repertoire for double bass. These include Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet, Schubert’s Octet, Prokofiev’s Quintet, Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat and many others.

Together with the pianist Greta Raciti, he founded the duo Magistroni Raciti, to explore the solo repertoire for double bass, often performing in concerts and recitals.

In 2022 he was selected as double bassist at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan after an international double bass audition.He is currently attending the Master of Arts and Performance at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in the prestigious class of M. Enrico Fagone.