Anya Alexeyeva, piano

Born in Moscow into a family of musicians, Anya Alexeyev started studying at the Gnessin Music School at the age of five, and in 1989 entered Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory to become a student of the renowned professor Dmitri Bashkirov. The following year she was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied with Irina Zaritskaya. During her student years, Anya Alexeyev won numerous prizes including the John Hopkinson Gold Medal (Royal College of Music), Elizabeth, The Queen Mother’s Award for ” the most outstanding contribution to the Royal College of Music”, the First prize at the Newport International Piano Competition, Young Concert Artists Trust, and The Capital Radio/Anna Instone Memorial Prize.
Alexeyev has performed extensively in many countries across Europe (Britain,
France, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Finland, Ireland,
Greece, Germany, and Macedonia), as well as in the USA, Canada, Mexico,
Argentina, Malaysia, and South Africa.
She has performed as a soloist on numerous occasions in all of London’s major concert halls – Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elisabeth Hall, and Barbican Hall. Throughout her career, she has also appeared in such venues as Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Herodes Atticus Theatre at the Acropolis in Athens, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Great Hall in Moscow Conservatory, Philharmonia Hall in St. Petersburg, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Johannesburg Symphony Hall, Dewan Filarmonik in Kuala Lumpur, Palais Montcalm in Quebec City, Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, and Bargemusic in New York.
She has performed concertos with many distinguished orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony, Vienna Chamber, The Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National, Deutschland Radio, City of Birmingham Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony and Sinfonietta, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, English Chamber, Belgian National Symphony, and Quebec Symphony, collaborating with such conductors as Temirkanov, Simonov, Oramo, Bakels, Judd.
Alexeyev has an extensive solo repertoire, ranging from baroque to cutting-edge contemporary music. In addition to enjoying playing standard concert repertoire,she has been following her passion for discovering lesser-known music, which resulted in performances and recordings of rarely played works and premieres. 
As a collaborative musician, she has participated in many chamber music festivals in Europe and North America.
Alexeyev has recorded for EMI, Dutton Epoch, Toccata Classics, and Marquis Classics labels. Her performances have been broadcast by BBC Radio 3 (UK), GMTV (UK), CBC (Canada), Deutschland Radio, and numerous other radio stations around the world. In 1995, she premiered Paul McCartney’s first solo piano piece, A Leaf, which was later released on CD for EMI Classics.
She is a faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University, the Glenn Gould School, and the Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists.

Dhyan Toffolo, violin

Dhyan Toffolo was born in 1982 in São Paulo. He began his musical studies when he was only 2 years old and chose the violin at four. At the age of eight, he entered the Tatuí Conservatory, São Paulo, and completed his studies at the age of sixteen. She was the shoulder of the Sorocaba Symphony Orchestra, São Paulo. He participated in important music courses and festivals in several Brazilian cities, as well as the Youth Orchestra of the Americas.

It has been perfected in courses abroad, such as Laboratorio Musicali I was in Cortanze - Italy and the Exchange Visitors Program at Georgia University - USA.

Dhyan Toffolo taught violin at the Sorocaba Musical Institute, gave master classes in violin and viola at the 21º Winter Festival of São João Del-Rey and master classes in camera music at the Mayor University in Santiago - Chile.

In 2003 he won the special award "Ole Bohn" in the Paulo Bosisio International Contest. In 2005 he won another award in the same competition. In 2009 he participates in the judging committee of this same contest.

Dhyan completed his undergraduate studies in 2007, in the class of Paulo Bosisio, at the University of Rio de Janeiro - UNIRIO.

As a soloist, he performed the Concerto Grosso and the four stations of Vivaldi, Mendelssohn's Concerto in D minor, Rondo by Schubert, Concerto nº1 by Max Bruch and the Concerto in D minor by Tchaikovsky, accompanied by several orchestras from Brazil.

Currently Dhyan Toffolo is a member of the Petrobras Symphony Orchestra, a founding member of the Uirapuru Quartet (formed in 2002) as a violinist and a member of the Bosisio Quartet as a violist.

Hugo Pilger, cello

Hugo Pilger began his cello studies at the Arts Foundation of Montenegro with Milton Bock. In 1987 he went on to study in Rio de Janeiro with Marcio Malard and in 1994 in the class of Professor Alceu Reis. He graduated from the Bachelor's Degree in Cello Instrument at UNIRIO, where he completed his Master's Degree in Music in 2012.

As a soloist he performed in front of several orchestras, among them: Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, Municipal Symphony Orchestra of Campinas, Chamber Orchestra of the City of Curitiba, Symphony Orchestra of Bahia, Petrobras Symphony Orchestra, Ouro Preto Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro, Orchestra of the Teatro São Pedro de Porto Alegre and Symphony Orchestra of Porto Alegre. In 2006 he made the debut in Brazil of the important work for cello and orchestra Tout un Monde Lointain by the French composer Henri Dutilleux and in 2009 the South American debut of the concerto for cello and orchestra Pro et Contra by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Of the works that have been specially dedicated to him, the following stand out: Sonata nº 2 for Solo Cellocello by David Ashbridge, Oregano by Ricardo Tacuchian, Melorythmias nº 10 by Ernani Aguiar, Serenade pro Pilger by Maurício Carrilho, Reflections on the Oyster and the Wind by Wagner Tiso and Sortilégios by Marcos Lucas.

He had his first appearance as a soloist in 2007 on the album Latinidade da Orquestra Experimental UFOP. In 2012 he participated in the CD Alma Barroca within the project "Villa-Lobos e as Crianças" directed by Turibio Santos. In 2013 he participates in the recording of the album Oito Estações - Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla of the Ouro Preto Orchestra. With pianist Lúcia Barrenechea released in two volumes (2013 and 2015) the album Presença de Villa-Lobos na Música Brasileira para Cello e Piano, a project that was among the three finalists of the Brazilian Music Award of 2015 and that contains the first record of the cello that belonged to the composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, a Martin Diehl of 1779. He recorded solo in 2016 the album Hugo Pilger interprets Ernani Aguiar with works for cello by composer Ernani Aguiar. With Guilherme Sauerbromm released in 2017 the album Ernst Mahle, the integral for cello and piano. In 2020 he released with Ney Fialkov the album Claudio Santoro: the integral work for cello and piano, which competed in the category "Best Classical Music Album" at the Latin Grammys of 2021.

In 2013 he published the work Heitor Villa-Lobos: the cello and its idiomatism, which aims to analyze and discuss the importance that the cello had in the trajectory of the composer Villa-Lobos, as well as identifies the main idiomatic elements that he applied and developed in his numerous compositions for the instrument.