Born in Esparreguera (Barcelona) in a musicians' family, Maria started her violin studies at the age of four with her father, cellist and conductor Cristian Florea, and was only seven years old when she performed her first concert as a soloist. She studied in Barcelona and at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. She completed her master's degree in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music of London and postgraduated at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the Musik-Akademie in Basel. As a soloist and chamber musician she has performed in concert halls in Europe such as Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori in Barcelona, Teatro Monumental and Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest and Wigmore Hall in London; she has recently been on a 19 concert tour as a soloist in China. She’s a member of Trio da Vinci, founded in 2018.

Sofía Raichenko, originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, discovered her love for the piano at the age of 4. Her passion for music led her to pursue studies at the Kiev Music Institute with Anna Smekhova, at the Tchaikovsky Academy in Kiev with Yuri Kot, at the Maastricht Conservatory with Katia Veekmans and Henk Guitart, and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln under the guidance of Anthony Spiri and Harold Schoneweg.

While studying, she became a winner of international competitions such as the Prokofiev Piano Competition, the Bortniansky Chamber Music Competition, the Vincenzo Scaramuzza Competition, the Maastricht Music Prize, the Storioni Trio Competition, the Taneyev Chamber Music Competition, and the Kammermusik Wettbewerb in Cologne.

As a member of chamber music ensembles, Sofía participated in the Chigiana Academy in Siena, Italy, and at the Orlando Festival in Kerkrade, the Netherlands. She had masterclasses with Michael Kugel, Alexander Zemtsov, Bruno Giuranna, Lilya Zilberstein, Jean-Bernard Pommier, and Enrico Pace.

Miguel is currently the First Concertmaster of the Spanish National Orchestra and Choir (OCNE). He has been awarded at the Max Rostal International Competition, First Prize at the Ibolyka-Gyarfas Violin Competition in Berlin, First Prize at the Musical Youths of Spain Competition, Prize of the Fermo State Conservatory at the Andrea Postacchini International Competition (Italy), as well as First Prize, Special Prize and Prize for the best interpreter of Spanish music at the “Villa de Llanes” International Violin Competition. He recently performed at Carnegie Hall in New York as the winner of the Orpheus Award at the 2021 Manhattan International Competition.

As a soloist, Miguel Colom has performed with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Spanish National Orchestra and Choir, the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia, the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra, the Kölner Kammerorchester, the ADDA Symphony Orchestra, The World Orchestra, the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, the El Salvador Symphony Orchestra, the Vallès Symphony Orchestra and the Andrés Segovia Chamber Orchestra, among others.

Diemut Poppen is one of the most outstanding violists of her generation.  Born into a well-known musical family in Germany she started playing the violin at the age of seven, giving her first concerts as a soloist at the age of nine. She learned several instruments of which the viola became her favorite.

Diemut Poppen studied in Düsseldorf, Aachen, Cologne, Berlin, Bloomington (USA) and Paris. Amongst her teachers were the finest violists of our time: Y.Bashmet, K.Kashkashian, B.Giuranna, H.Schlichtig, P.Schidlof from the Amadeus-Quartet.

Nowadays, Diemut Poppen is one of the most sought after violists, playing concerts worldwide. As a soloist and chamber musician she has appeared in the most important music centres around the world. In London she appeared as a soloist at the Barbican Centre, the Queen Elisabeth Hall and she gave chamber concerts, amongst others, at the Wigmore Hall. Well-known musicians have invited Diemut Poppen to participate in their festivals – amongst others – C.Abbado, A.Schiff, G.Kremer, T.Mork, L.Kavakos, N.Gutman, A.Chaushian.

At the age of eight, Joaquín Riquelme García was actually hoping to take up the violin, but because all the openings for that instrument at the music school had already been filled, he decided for the viola – and immediately fell in love with its dark, warm sound. When he was twelve, he decided to become an orchestral musician. After completing his training with distinction at Madrid’s Royal Conservatory of Music under Emilio Mateu and Alan Kovacs, he undertook postgraduate studies with Hartmut Rohde at Berlin’s Universität der Künste, finishing with his graduate recital. He also participated in masterclasses given by, among others, Jesse Levine and Jean Sulem.

Joaquín Riquelme García began his orchestral career as assistant principal viola in the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, moving directly from that position to the Berliner Philharmoniker. The violist also frequently appears as a soloist, with orchestras including the Philharmonie Baden-Baden and the Asturias Symphony Orchestra in Spain. As a chamber musician he collaborates with various ensembles and musicians, including Christian Zacharias, Natalie Chee and Mikhail Kopelman.

Born in Munich and raised in Spain, Sebastian Klinger received his first cello lessons at the age of six. He later studied with Heinrich Schiff in Salzburg and Vienna and with Boris Pergamenschikow in Berlin.

After winning numerous national and international awards at various competitions and foundations, he won the German Music Competition in Berlin in 2001. This was followed by debuts at important German festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Ludwigsburg, as well as multiple recitals at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. On the initiative of the Philharmonie in Cologne, he was then invited to perform as part of the Rising Stars Series of the European Concert Hall Organization, which eventually took him to some of the most important music centers in Europe and the United States - Carnegie Hall New York, Wigmore Hall London, Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Konserthus Stockholm, Konzerthaus Vienna, Concert Hall Athens and others.

Meanwhile Sebastian Klinger performs as a soloist with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome, the Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Munich and Hamburg Symphony Orchestras, the National Orchestra of the RAI Turin, the Orchestra of the Beethovenhalle Bonn, the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar and the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked with conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Antoni Wit, Mario Venzago, Christoph Poppen, Joseph Bastian, Daniel Cohen, Simon Gaudenz, Pedro Halffter, Antony Hermus, Oksana Lyniv, Markus Poschner, Michael Sanderling, Shiyeon Sung, Constantin Trinks, Joshua Weilerstein and Yip Wing-sie.