Alex Olmedo Duynslaeger was born in Barcelona in 2001.

He started playing the cello with his teacher Gaëtane Duynslaeger at the “Institut Escola Artístic Oriol Martorell” in Barcelona, and then continued his training with Lluís Claret at the Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona with a grant from the Ferrer-Salat Foundation. He is currently taking a Master’s degree at the CNSMD in Paris in the class of Jérôme Pernoo.

Filipe Raposo took his bachelor’s degree at the National Academy of Advanced Orchestral Studies, in Lisbon, with Aníbal Lima. More recently, he finished his master’s degree in Violin Performance at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen. His mentors were Tatiana Samouil, Alexei Moshkov, Benjamin Braude and Alissa Margulis. Filipe is a member of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra (Violin I Tutti) since January 2022.

Florianne Remme (Zutphen, 2000) started playing the cello at the age of 8. At the age of 14 she was admitted to the Young Talent Department of the Prins Claus Conservatorium in Groningen. Shortly after she continued her studies with Lucia Swarts at the Young Talent School of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She is currently studying with Jeroen Reuling at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. Florianne received several prizes during competitions and summer courses, including prizes at the Prinses Christina Competition (First Prize Regional Finals, Second Prize National Finals 2016), the Peter de Grote Festival (Gasterra Award 2014) and Festival Verao Classico in Lisbon (Student award 2019). In 2019 she received a scholarship from the Herbert Duintjer Foundation.

Jacob Van Durme (b. 2003) began his higher education at the School of Arts in Ghent at age 16. Since 2020-2021, he has been studying in the class of Jeroen Reuling at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he is currently pursuing his undergraduate studies. In recent years, Jacob refined his talent during master classes… Read more »

Wolfram Van Mechelen (1995, Leuven) began playing the violin at the age of six. In 2005, he was admitted to the conservatory of Avignon (FR), where he graduated with great distinction after five years of study. He then continued his musical studies at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten of the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven with Lei Wang as his violin teacher, earning his degree with the highest distinction. Wolfram later studied at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp with Professor Tatiana Samouil. In 2018, he received his master’s degree with great distinction.

Born in Amsterdam in 1994, Ella van Poucke is one of the leading cellists of her generation. Praised for her musical integrity, flawless instrumental abilities as well as her performing presence and intensity, she is the winner of the prestigious Premio Chigiana 2017, the first prize winner of the International Isang Yun cello competition 2015, Grachtenfestival Prize, the Leopoldinum Award 2015, Prix Nicolas Firmenich 2013, Elisabeth Everts Award 2014, Prix Academie Maurice Ravel 2012, Dutch Musician of the Year 2012, first prize winner of the 2008 Princess Christina Competition and recipient of the special prize in “recognition of an outstanding performance” at the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann 2014.

Rhea Vanhellemont obtained her master’s degree in viola from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp under the guidance of Leo Deneve and Steven De Roeck. She gained orchestral experience in the Youth and Music Orchestra of Antwerp under the direction of Ivo Venkov and in the orchestral academy of the Philharmonie under the guidance of Edo De Waart, Martyn Brabbins, and Philippe Herreweghe. Rhea interned at Opera Vlaanderen in the production of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten and participated in IOIA in Vienna under the direction of Leopold Hager.

Romée Verbeeck Ghoos (Leuven, 2000) started playing the violin at the age of 7. At the age of fourteen she was admitted to the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, department ‘School for Young Talents’. Shortly afterwards she studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek at the Sweelinck Academy of the Amsterdam Conservatory. After her studies she was accepted at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels under the guidance of violinist Yossif Ivanov. She also regularly takes lessons with Olivier Charlier, professor at the CNSM in Paris.

As a Belgian violinist and violist, son of musical parents, Diede grew up in a house filled with music. He received his very first violin lessons from his father. Later, he studied with Eric Sluys and graduated with great distinction from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels in the class of Philippe Graffin. He also took viola lessons from Tony Nys. After his studies, he served as an assistant to violin professor Naaman Sluchin at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels for two years.

Ting-Wei Wu (Taipei, 2000) began playing the violin at the age of six. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel under the tutelage of Prof. Yossif Ivanov and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in orchestral playing at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Prof. Susanna-Yoko Henkel. Ting-Wei has performed… Read more »