Born in Algeria in 1963, he began to play the violin at the age of seven, but, as he says it he even, put himself it with heat that at the age of new(nine) thanks to Gaby GAGLIO of the Academy of Nice and Veda REYNOLDS of the Academy of Lyon.

Gilles APAP takes away(gains), in 1985, the first prize of Contemporary Music in the Competition Yehudi MENUHIN. He begins to play a classic directory, SEVCIK and KREUTZER, and at the age of twenty six, he begins to play the fiddle - the other term to indicate(appoint) the violin in the Irish and British traditional music.

It is known for its taste of the traditional musics (folk song, jazz, blues) that he(it) does not hesitate to integrate(join) into more classic compositions what is worth to him(her) severe criticisms(critics). Finally he has create the Company Apapaziz Production to keep(preserve) a certain freedom of production.

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1941, he enters to the Musical Academy (Regional education authority) of Tel Aviv and made very young his(its) first public appearance. The obtaining of a scholarship allows him to leave to the United States to study with Efrem ZIMBALIST to the Institute CURTIS. The international music community quickly discovers Shmuel ASHKENASI during competitions in Belgium, Contribute(Compete) Queen Elizabeth, in Washington during the Meriwether Post Competition (first prize) and in Moscow during the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1962.

Shmuel ASHKENASI made two tours in Soviet Union and occurs every year in Europe, in Israel, and in Far East. He often plays with orchestras of good name such as Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, National Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, but also orchestras of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Zurich, Rotterdam, Geneva and Stockholm. He was chosen by some of the conductors the most distinguished from the world in particular STOKOWSKI, BOEHM, KEMPE, LEINDSDORF, KUBELIK, SKROWACZEWSKI and ANCERL.

He acquired, as leader of famous Vermeer Quartet, the reputation to be one of the most exceptional chambristes world. Shmuel ASHKENASI is a music professor and an artist in residence of the University of Illinois of the North, Kalb.

He enjoys an international career that has included solo appearances under conductors Zubin MEHTA, Carlo Maria GUILINI, Claudio ABBADO, and Erich LEINSDORF, and performances with Daniel BARENBOÏM, Radu LUPU and Pinchas ZUCKERMAN.

After receiving his musical training in his native Russia, he emigrated in 1967 to Israel, where he was appointed Principal Second Violin of the Israel Philharmonic – a position he held for eleven years. In 1971, he joined the Tel-Aviv Quartet as second violinist, touring the world with guests artists such as André PREVIN and Vladimir ASHKENAZY. In 1979, Efim BOICO was appointed concertmaster ans soloist of the Orchestre de Paris under Daniel BARENBOÏM , positions he held until 1983, when he joined the Fine Arts Quartet.

Efim BOICO has been guest professor at the Paris and Lyons Conservatories in France, and the Yehudi Menuhin School in Switzerland. He is also a frequent juror representing the United States in the prestigious London, Evian, and Shostakovitch Quartet Competitions. As music professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, he has received numerous awards, including the Wisconsin Public Education Professional Service Award for distinguished music teaching, and the Arts Recognition and Talent Search Award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.

Natalia BOYARSKY began her musical education in Moscow first at the Gnesin School of Music under Professor Isaac UROVETSKY, then at the College of Music, which is affiliated to the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, under Professors Maya GLEZAROVA and Yuri YANKELEVICH. She then studied at the Gnesin Institute under Professors Felix ANDRIEVSKY and Mark LUBOTSKY.

In 1965, Natalia BOYARSKY began teaching the violin at the above mentioned school and college, where she was appointed the Head of the String Department. She has distinguished herself by introducing a new method of teaching, based on all the traditions of the legendary Russian School of Music.

Natalia BOYARSKY became a UK resident in 1991 when she was invited by Lord MENUHIN to teach at the Yehudi Menuhin School. In parallel with her continuing appointment at the Menuhin School, she teaches at the Purcell School and in 1996 was appointed as violin professor at the Royal College of Music. Many of her pupils have won prizes at national and International competitions, won other awards and become members of prestigious orchestras. She has also given Master Classes in France, Japan, Spain, Italy and England.

Young Mi CHO, one of the sisters of Young Chang CHO, is awarded a diploma by the Peabody Conservatory, by the Curtis Institute of Music and of Staatlichen Hochschule fur Music Rheinland. From 9 years she takes away(gains) prices(prizes) of which the first prize of Ewha-Kyonghyang Music Competition - in Seoul, that of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music Competition - in 1971, of the Philadelphia Orchestra Music Competition -, without counting those taken away(gained) with her brother and her sister, Young Bang CHO, in the Cho Trio.

She begins her concerts of soloist and chamber music in 14 years in Asia, in Europe and in the , with, among others, Philadelphia Orchestra, the KBS Orchestrated, Seoul City Orchestra, the Rumanian National Philharmonic Orchestra, and participle in of numerous festival within Cho Trio which makes its recordings in Germany.

She goes to the education in 1983, to begin with Yonsei University of Seoul where she is at present a professor, the summer Academy(Regional education authority) of Nice and Korean National Conservatory.

Prizewinner in the 1982 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, he concertized as soloist throughout Europe and North America before becoming first violinist of the Fine Arts Quartet. He has recorded sixty solo and chamber works to date. These include the two Bartok Sonatas for violin and piano, whose performance the New York Times enthusiastically recommended for its “searching insight and idiomatic flair”, and three virtuoso violin pieces by Lukas FOSS with the composer at the piano.

Ralph EVANS received a doctorate from Yale University, where he also graduated cum laude with a specialization in music, mathematics, and premed. While a Fulbright scholar in London, he studied with Szymon GOLDBERG and Nathan MILSTEIN, and soon won the top prize in a number of major American competitions, including the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York, and the National Federation of Music Clubs National Young Artist Competition. His award winning composition “Nocture” has been performed on American Public Television and his String Quartet No1 has been recently premiered in the U.S., Germany, Israel, and France, where it was warmly greeted in the press.