The cellist Alexander BOYARSKY graduated from the Gnesin Academy in Moscow in the class of Professor Alexander VLASOV and also took lessons from Natalia GUTMAN, Victor KUBATSKY, Alexander FEDORCHENKO and Svatoslav KNUSHEVITSKY and attended Open Classes given by Mstislav ROSTROPOVITCH, Gregor PIATIGORSKY and Gaspar CASSADA.

He has a substantial repertoire of concerto solos, recitals and chamber music including many premières of contemporary music in Moscow, St Petersburg and other towns of the former USSR and Europe.

Alexander BOYARSKY taught at the Moscow Music School and Gnesin Academy and for 25 years held positions in Moscow Symphony orchestras including 16 years as co-principal cellist. Alexander BOYARSKY became a UK resident in 1991 and in parallel with performance her has become well known for his teaching. He taught the cello at the Yehudi Menuhin School and at the Purcell School. In 1993 he was engaged as professor of cello at the Royal College of Music.

He has given Master Classes in France, Italy, England, Germany and Spain. His pupils have won prizes and awards at festivals and competitions and have become members of chamber groups and prestigious orchestras.

He begins his lessons of cello at the age of five and integrates, three years later, Yehudi Menuhin School where he studies with Maurice GENDRON and with William PLEETH. Later, he will practice through the planet so much as musician that professor.

Soloist, Colin CARR played with orchestras such as Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic, and orchestras of Los Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia and Montreal. He(it) twice went in Australia and concertos in South Korea, in Hong-Kong, and in New Zealand. The recitals brought him in big cities such as London, New York and Boston.

Member of Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio, he registers(records) and gives representations for twenty years before creating the formatio Sequenza. Invited in festivals of music of room(chamber) worldwide, he(it) also played with Quartet Guarneri and Emerson as well as to the Chamber Music Society of New York. Colin CARR received numerous international prices(prizes) among which the first prize of Naumburg Competition, the price(prize) Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial, and the second Prize Rostropovitch International Cello Competition.

He was named a professor to Royal Academy of Music in 1998, after sixteen years of teaching profession at the University of Boston and at New England Conservatory. The same year, the Saint Of John College of Oxford has create a post for him and since September, 2002 he teach the Stony Brook University of New York.

Young-Chang CHO was born in Seoul in 1958. He started piano lessons at the age of 5 and three years later began with cello lessons. Young-chang CHO gave his first public performance as a soloist with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12. The following year, he went to the United States to study with David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music of Philadelphia, and later with Laurence Lesser at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In 1980, he continues his studies in Europe with Siegfried PALM and Mstislav ROSTROPOVITCH.

Between 1981 and 1985, Young-Chang CHO won numerous prizes at international competitions, including the “Rostropovitch International Cello Competition” (Paris), “Pablo Casals International Cello Competition” (Budapest) and the “ARD International Cello Competition” (Munich). Also, he received prizes from international competitions for piano trio, in Geneva and Munich together with his two sisters in the Cho Piano Trio.

His musical activities in different parts of the world include solo recitals, chamber music concerts, radio and television appearances, CD recordings and concerts as a soloist with prominent orchestras such as : Washington National Symphony (with M. ROSTROPOVITCH conducting), NHK Symphony in Japan, Sofia Philharmonic in Bulgaria, Teatro Communale Bologna in Italy. Young-Chang CHO has been invited to several international music festivals, including the Kronberg International Cello Festival (1993 - in memory of Pablo CASALS, 1995 - in memory of Emmanuel FEURMANN and Jacqueline DUPRE, 1997 - celebrating 70^th birthday of M. ROSTROPOVITCH), where he gave solo recitals and master classes.
In 1987, Young-Chang CHO was appointed professor at the Folkwang Hochschule für Music in Essen, Germany.

He started his cello’s studies at the age of eleven with Mihai BESEDOVSCHI. In the first years of his career he obtained the highest qualifications, all the “Honnor Award” corresponding in unanimity. He has studied, between 1988 and 1996, with Radu ALDULESCU, a cellist who deeply marked his artistic trajectory. In October 1992, he obtained a place to study at the International Yehudi Music Academy of Gstaad (Switzerland), where he attended the courses of Alberto LYSY and Radu ADULESCU during three years. He obtained the “Diplôme Violoncelle” at the European Conservatory of Paris. Then, he attended “Cycle Supérieur de Violoncelle” at the Conservatoire National Supérieur of Paris, where he had Philippe MULLER, Bruno PASQUIER, Pierre-Laurent AIMARD and others as professors, obtaining in June 2000 the Violoncello Award with the highest mention.

He occurred in soloist with two orchestra like the Orchestre de la Cité de Paris, the Orchestre Symphonique of Bilbao, the Orchestre Extremeño-Alentejana and with the Camerata Lysy.

Il est reconnu à travers l’Europe et les Etats-Unis comme soliste. Il joue en tant qu’invité à l’Orchestre Philharmonique d’Israël, l’Israel Broadcasting Orchestra, l’Israel Sinfonietta , Hanover Symphony Orchestra, Radio Orchestra of Hamburg, et l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Fribourg. Wolfgang LAUFER a parcouru l’Europe avec le Wührer Chamber Orchestra et les Etats-Unis avec l’Israel Chamber Orchestra. En tant que soliste, il s’est produit à travers le Nord et le Sud du continent américain, ainsi qu’en Europe.

Il émigre de Roumanie, son pays natal, en Israël en 1961, et complèteson cursus musical à la Tel-Aviv Academy, jouant comme premier violoncelliste de l’Israel Chamber Orchestra, Malmo Symphony, Orchestre de Suède, Hamburg Philharmonic, et State Opera en Allemagne.

Depuis 1979, Wolfgang LAUFER est artiste attitré de l’Université du Wisconsin, Milwaukee, et joue en tant que membre du Fine Arts Quartet. Par ailleurs, il y exerce en tant que professeur de violoncelle.