Born in Novosibirsk, Tatiana Chernichka won First Prize at the International Chopin Competition in Göttingen when she was only ten years old. Two years later, she gave her first solo recital and made her debut with the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra. She studied at the Novosibirsk State Conservatory under Mary Lebenson, then under Elisso Virsaladze in Munich, where she was awarded a grant by the Live Music Now Foundation. She finished her master’s at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she was taught by Klaus Kaufmann. Since then, Tatiana Chernichka has won prizes at many competitions: she won Third Prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano and at the Maria Canals International Music Competition in Barcelona. She is also a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition. She has since performed in Germany mainly, and all over Europe and in Russia. She has been a guest artist at festivals such as Armonie sotto la Rocca in Italy and the Ruhr Piano Festival in Essen. Tatiana Chernichka has performed with orchestras such as the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Musica Viva Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Academy Orchestra, and the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra.

Thomas Hoppe has collaborated with many renowned musicians and singers, including Itzhak Perlman, Antje Weithaas, Tabea Zimmermann, Alban Gerhardt, Jens Peter Maintz, and Frans Helmerson. After studying under Lee Luvisi, he continued his training at the Juilliard School of Music, where he worked for Dorothy DeLay and Itzhak Perlman’s studio. As a pianist for the ATOS Trio and for the wind ensemble 4.1, he has performed to acclaim at many concerts all over the world. For almost twenty years, he has accompanied the candidates at international competitions such as the Queen Elisabeth Competition, the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hanover, and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. He teaches masterclasses in musical accompaniment and in chamber music all over Europe, and also performs with quartets such as the Shanghai Quartet, the Modigliani Quartet, the Mandelring Quartet, and the Simply Quartet. Thomas Hoppe lives in Berlin with his family and has been a professor of chamber music at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen since 2018.

Boris Kusnezow is one of the most sought-after piano accompanists of his generation. His performances have taken him to such renowned concert halls as New York City’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Berlin’s Philharmonie. Boris Kusnezow was born in Moscow and has lived in Germany since the age of eight. He completed his musical studies in Hanover under Bernd Goetzke. Besides taking first place at the German Music Competition, he has won international prizes like the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and has been awarded scholarships from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. Besides being active as a musician, Boris Kusnezow is also the founder of the Chamber Lab chamber music academy, the artistic director of the IMAS international masterclass series, and the Schaumburger Schlosskonzerte chamber music series. Teaching has become an important part of his artistic career: in 2020 he was appointed professor of piano and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig.

The winner of both the Sixth Prize and the Audience Award at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort has established a solid reputation as a soloist. His repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary composers and includes more than forty piano concertos performed with numerous international orchestras under such renowned conductors as Brossé, Herreweghe, Hrusa, Kochanovsky, Mazzola, Varga and Weller. A keen chamber musician, he regularly appears alongside Ning Kam, Timothy Chooi, Severin von Eckardstein, Thomas Blondelle, Roeland Hendrikx and Yibai Chen. Many of these collaborations feature prominently in his internationally acclaimed discography. Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort perfected his skills under renowned teachers such as Jan Michiels, Menahem Pressler, Russell Sherman and Elissó Wirssaladze. He has also benefited from the invaluable advice of outstanding figures like Leif Ove Andsnes, Jacques De Tiège and Hans Leygraf. A Steinway Artist, he teaches piano at the LUCA School of Arts in Leuven and sits on the juries of several piano competitions. He is the artistic director of both the Klassiek Leeft Festival in Knokke-Heist and the international Piano LAB in Alden Biesen.

After studying at the Conservatoire de Lyon, Élodie Vignon went on to study under Daniel Blumenthal at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. In 2010 she crossed the path of Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, an outstanding artist who inherited from his masters Claudio Arrau and Georges Cziffra a profound knowledge of the repertoire and the instrument. She became artist in residence at the Fondation Bell’arte, founded by Delle-Vigne Fabbri. Since then, she has performed extensively in Europe, the Philippines and the United States, under the baton of such conductors as Ramon Tebar and Philippe Entremont. In recent seasons, she has performed at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, on tour in Italy with the Orchestra del Teatro Goldoni in Livorno, in Luxembourg, and in France (Cesson Sévigné, Thionville, Avignon, Institut Hongrois de Paris). In February 2025 she will be a guest at the Flagey Piano Days for the launch of her recording of the complete works of Claude Debussy, the first part of which will be released by Cypres. Élodie Vignon was awarded the Octave Point Culture for her album D’ombres, released in 2020, featuring works by Dutilleux and Ledoux.