Contrabass. Born 1974 in Leningrad.

Graduated from the Mussorgsky college of music.

Studied in St. Petersburg Conservatoire under A. Shilo.

Worked in Mozarteum orchestra in St. Petersburg.

1996 - 2001 worked in Leningrad dixieland; cooperated with famous jazzmen D. Goloshchokin, I. Butman, G. Gaivoronsky.

Percussion. Born 1965 in Leningrad.

Graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov college of music. Studied in St. Petersburg Conservatoire under A. Ivanov. Directs a percussion ensemble.

1990 - played as a soloist in Carnegie-hall, New York.

Since 1999 works in the Hermitage Orchestra of the Hermitage Academy of Music.

Recorded Shchedrin's "Carmen-suite" for Mazur Media togather with the "Madrigal" ensemble.

Composer. 

Viola. Andrey Dogadin was born in 1961 in Perm, Russian Federation. In 1985 he graduated from the Lenigrad State Conservatoire named after Rimsky-Korsakov, where he studied under supervision of the Professor Youri Kramarov and Professor Vladimir Stopichev. Mr. Dogadin completed his graduate degree in music in 1998.

During 1986 and 1995 Andrey Dogadin was a member of the "Saint-Petersburg String Quartet" which won several national and international chamber music competitions: First Prize at the All-Union String Quartet Competition (1987), the Second Prize and Special Award at the Chamber Music Min-On Competition (Tokyo, Japan, 1989), the Grand prix and two Special Prizes at the Vittorio Chui Chamber Music Competition (Florence, Italy, 1989) and the First Prize and Grand Prix at the Melbourne Chamber Music Competition (Australia, 1991).

Since 1995 Andrey Dogadin is Principal Viola in the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. With this Orchestra he toured the world and performed in major concert venues of Europe, USA, Latin America, Japan, Republic of Korea, Taiwan.

Mr. Dogadin often performed with Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic orchestra as soloist in such pieces as Mozart's Concert Symphony for Violin and Viola, the viola concertos of Paul Hindemith, Martinu, Britten, Berlioz's "Harold in Italy" etc.

In 1986 Andrey Dogadin became a faculty member of the "Violin and Viola" Department in the Saint-Petersburg Conservatoire, where he is currently Professor. Twelve of his students became winners of international musical competitions. Many of them became members of the leading Saint-Petersburg symphonic and chamber orchestras as well as in orchestras in Finland, Germany, USA, Austria and Spain. Mr. Dogadin gave viola and chamber ensemble master classes in USA, Germany, Republic of Korea and Peru.

Andrey Dogadin is well known internationally as ensemble player in chamber music festivals in Germany, UK, Finland, USA, Israel etc. He participated in the famous festival "December Nights of Sviatoslav Richter".

Mr. Dogadin has an outstanding list of CD releases with such labels as "Melodia", "Sony Classics", "Audio Visual de Sarra" and many others. He has also recorded all the viola sonatas of the American composer, Irving Schlein.

Piano. Inga Dzektser was born in 1963 in the Ukraine. She began studying music when she was five years old and in 1984, while studying at St.Petersburg State Conservatory, began performing concerts in the USSR and in Europe. In 1989 she graduated with Honors from the Conservatory and enrolled in a Postgraduate Course. Since 1989 she has worked as a teacher at the St.-Petersburg Conservatory.

In 1994 Inga Dzektser won an International Chamber Music Competition in Trapani, Italy.

In 2003 she won an International Piano Duo Competition in Tokyo,Japan.

Mrs. Dzektser has played with many symphony and chamber orchestras and has participated in music festivals in Spain, France, Holland, Finland and Portugal. She played at the Kissinger Sommer festival in Bad Kissingen, Germany, and also participated in the International Chamber Musuc festival in Italy (Fermo, Camerino, Tagliacozzo) and in the festival organized by Yuiri Bashmet on the island of Elba. The latter concerts were broadcast by Italian TV. She regularly performs in Germany. She has played with such well-known musicians as Philip Hirshhorn, Dora Schwarzberg, Alexander Knyazev, Zachar Bron.

In 1998 Mrs. Dzektser toured several cities in the United States.

Inga Dzektser has been a jury member of the International “European Music Prize for Youth” competition in Linz, Austria. She has given master classes and concerts in Japan, Korea and Portugal. She has worked as an accompanist at the master class of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s quartet and is an official pianist of the International Lilpizer Violin competition in Gorizia, Italy, and in the International David Oistrakh Violin competition of in Odessa, Russia.

Her repertoire includes music of all styles.  

1998 - documentary about St. Petersburg culture filmed by NHK-Japan TV. It received UNESCO Annual Award in New York.

"A pianist with great promise" ("Music Weekly")
"An undoubtedly gifted musician" (Prof. Lev Vlasenko, "Moscow Music Revue")
"Fantastic richness of colourful music palette, real wisdom of interpretation" ("Urals' Daily")

Address - P.O.Box 99, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia

Soprano. Victoria Evtodieva is a graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. She is a laureate of many international vocal competitions including the Endschede Chamber Music Competition in 1994 (First Prize), the Hannover Schostakovich Competition in 1997 (First Prize) and the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1998.

Her repertoire covers almost five centuries of European and Russian music. On the one hand, Ms. Evtodieva is soloist with Musica Antiqua Russica under the direction of Vladimir Shulyakovsky, which specializes in 16th-18th century music. On the other hand, she frequently performs contemporary works by Part, Kanchelli, Taverner, Kurtag, and Desyatnikov.

As a regular guest of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, she has performed a wide range of cantatas, oratorios, opera and symphonic compositions by J.S. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Verdi. She has been a regular guest of Gideon Kremer at his festival in Lockenhaus, Austria. She also participated in Contemporary music festivals in Belgium (Ars Musica), Russia (“From Avant Guarde up to now”), and in early music festivals in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Slovenia and Spain.

She has sung a number of title operatic roles at the St. Petersburg Conservatory Opera Studio (Iolanta in “Iolanta”, Margaret in “Faust”, Tatiana in “Eugene Onegin” and the Countess in “Le Nozze di Figaro”). Besides her concert career, Ms. Evtodieva also teaches chamber singing at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

Violin. Ilia Ioff was born in 1966 in St.Petersburg where he began studying the violin at an early age. In 1973 he entered the Special Music School. His rich sound and mature interpretations were noticed by the outstanding Soviet violinist, Professor B. Gutnikov. He continued his studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire with Professor V. Ovcharek and graduated in 1991.

In 1988 Ilya Ioff entered the ARD-Competition (Munich) with a piano-trio which was awarded the Special Prize. In 1991 he was a member of the piano-trio which won the First Prize in the "Vercelli Chamber Ensemble Viotti Competition" in Italy.

Ilia Ioff has toured Europe, South Korea and Turkey. He has performed with Mariss Jansons, Yury Temirkanov, Martha Argerich, Julian Milkis and others in many European countries and the United States.

Contemporary St. Petersburg's composers, such as National Artists B. Tischenko, S. Slonimsky, G. Korchmar, and L. Desyatnikov, entrusted premiere performances of new compositions to him.

Among lya Ioff's CD recordings are Paganini's Concerto No. 1, sonatas of Mozart, Tartini and Brahms, trios of Schubert and Tchaikovsky, chamber music of Dvorak, Brahms, Arensky and Borodin, and Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No. 1.

In 2002, Ilya Ioff was awarded the title "Honored Artist of Russia".

Apart from his performing activities, he teaches violin at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire and is Artistic Director of the Divertissement State String Orchestra. It's large repertoire and the sound 'all-absorbing' approach have won well-deserved successes with Russian, European, and American audiences.

Violin, born in 1978 in Habarovsk.

Studied in St. Petersburg Conservatoire under A. Kazarina.

1994 - diploma-winner at the all-Russia competition in T. Petersburg.

Works at the orchestra of the Mariinsky theater in St. Petersburg. 

Flute. Born 1973 in St. Petersburg. Studied Flute in Mussorgski College of Music and in St. Petersburg Conservatoire with the leading Russian flute professor Gleb Nikitin (graduated 1998 "summa cum laude").

1990 - won Second Prize at the National Wind Competition in St. Petersburg.

1997 - participated in the master-class of Aurele Nicolet.

1999 - attended the Holland Music Sessions and studied with Prof. Rien De Reede

Currently - teaches flute at the St. Basil's Arts School in St. Petersburg. Has personal educational programs and methodics (published).

Since 1992 - soloist in the noted chamber ensemble "MUSICA DA CAMERA" (since 1999 - an Ensemble of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society). Many concerts and recitals in St. Petersburg and other Russian cities, also toured Germany (1994, 1997) and The Netherlands (1996, 1999).

1999 (November) - tour performing flute concertos of Mozart and Tishenko.

1997 - documentary on the cultural life of St. Petersburg filmed for NHK-Japan TV. In 1998 this documentary was awarded the UNESCO Prize in New York.

1999 - received fellowship from the Open Society Institute (New York).

2000 - won Richard Wagner International Scholarship Competition in Bayreuth.

"Apparition from the depth of the Russian soul"
"Emotional devotion, piercingly intense"
"Every affect was finely detailed and convincingly presented"
"Utmost technical sovereignty and deep feeling"
"Brilliant and smart music-making"

("Westfallen-Blatt", "Neue Westfalische", "Rotterdams Dagblad")

Address: P.O. Box 99, St. Petersburg 199034 Russia

Piano. Graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatoire with a Doctorate in Music in 1993, having studied piano with Oleg Malov and Eduard Bazanov. In 1992 she was invited to teach Solo Piano students in the Piano Department of the Conservatoire and continues in this position.

In 1997 she was a prizewinner of the German Gartof Stiftung Competition. In 2000 she won first prize for solo piano at the National Beethoven Competition in St. Petersburg, which was open to pianists worldwide.

Aside from her wide classical repertoire, Ms. Sandovskaya also specializes in the performance of contemporary music. She has participated in many contemporary music festivals, such as: "From Avant-garde to Today", "Sound Waves" and "Musical Spring" and "Sergey Oskolkov and his Friends" (St. Petersburg), "Art Genda" (Copenhagen), "Mozart and Modern" (Switzerland), "Simeon ten Holt" (Holland).

She has released other CDs. One contains her performance of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata. Others contain her performances of compositions by the Russian composers, Ustvolskaya, Korolev and Izosimov. In South Korea she recorded 12 instructional videos based on Beethoven's sonatas.

She has also recorded the complete piano works of the American composer, Irving Schlein.

She frequently performs in recitals and with orchestras. In St. Petersburg, she has performed with the Radio and TV Orchestra under Gorkkovenko, with the Orchestra of the Music College under Paulavitschus, with the Orchestra of the St. P. Conservatory under Rybalko, with the Academia Orchestra under Yakubovsky, and with the Children's Philharmonic Orchestra under Bchirova and Gustin. She has also performed in The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Ukraine and Belarus.

Oboe. Born 1970 in Shimkent, Kazakhstan.

Studied in St. Petersburg Conservatoire under V. Sobolev.

1994 - II prize winner at the all-Russian woodwind players competition, St. Petersburg.

Participates in the "5 corners" woodwind quintet. 

Violin. Born in 1968 in Leningrad.

Studied in St. Petersburg Conservatoire as a student and later as a post-graduate student under A. Kazarina.

In 1992 - 1993 studied in Frankfurt/Main High school for music and arts as a post-graduate student under E. Peinemann and L. Breit.

In 1993 worked at the Frankfurt Radio orchestra.

Since 1990 - concert-master of the Hermitage Orchestra of the Hermitage Academy of Music.

Frequently plays as a soloist in Russia and abroad.

1995 - recorded W. A. Mozart's Konzertante sinfonie with the Lithuanian Camber orchestra (cond. S. Sondeckis) for Mazur Media

Composer and conductor. Professor at St.Petersburg Conservatory.

Born 1965.

Graduated from St.Petersburg Choir College (1986), St.Petersburg Conservatory (1990) and Postgraduate Program of the Conservatory (1992).

Author of opera: "Elizaveta Bam", ballet "Kamenny Gost", Chamber Symphony, Concertino for flute and string orchetra, three concerts for choir, sonatas for piano, cello, vocal cycles, some instrumental miniatures, books and articles about Russian musical avant-garde.

Performed as composer, pianist and conductor in Russia, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia.

Awards: diplomas at All-Russian Competition (1988) and Competition of Young Composers of St.Petersburg (1989); Grant of Russian Humanitarian Scientific Fund (1998-99), Grant of Ministry of Culture of Russia (1998-2000).

Viola. Born in Leningrad 1966.

Graduated from the Mussorgsky college of music.

Since 1987 studied in St. Petersburg Conservatoire as a student and later as a post-graduate student under V. Stopichev and A. Dogadin. Since 1991 works as a first violist in the Hermitage Orchestra. Since 1992 teaches viola at the Mussorgsky college of music.

1990 - First prize at the all-Russian Tchaikovsky quartet competition

1992 - First prize at the International competition in Murcia

1994 - recorded P. Hindemith's Trauermusik with the Hermitage Orchestra for Sony Classical

1994 - recorded D. Shostakovich's Viola sonata for Mazur Media.

Participated as a teacher in master classes at the Ost-West Musikfest (Krems, Austria) and at the Summer chamber music academy in Niedersachsen.

Frequently plays as a soloist in Russia and abroad.

Cello, Born in 1976 in Leningrad.

Graduated from the Mussorgsky college of music.

Studied in St. Petersburg Conservatoire under A. Nikitin.

Works at the Hermitage Orchestra of the Hermitage Academy of Music.

1994 - prize-winner at the I chamber music competition in St. Petersburg.

1999 - special prize at the international chamber music competition in Kuhmo (Finland) as a member of Florestan-trio.

1999 - worked as 1st cello at Mozarteum orchestra (St. Petersburg).

Since 2001 participates in the "Remolino" ensemble.