Stefano Bollani
Stefano Bollani started studying the piano at the age of six and, in 1993, received his piano diploma at the Conservatory of Florence. After a first period dedicated to the pop music, he established his reputation in the jazz world performing with very famous musicians (Richard Galliano, Gato Barbieri, Pat …
Markku Luolajan-Mikkola
Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, bass viol, studied cello with Arto Noras at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, which awarded him its diploma in 1983. An interest in baroque music led him to a summer course in Norway with Laurence Dreyfus and later to Holland where he studied with Wieland Kuijken at the …
Mikko Perkola
Mikko Perkola, tenor and bass viols, studied viola and viola da gamba at the Sibelius-Academy and at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. His teachers were Arvo Haasma, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola and Wieland Kuijken. Perkola has given concerts and recorded chamber music in Europe with the Norwegian baroque orchestra, the Icelandic …
Emily Van Evera | soprano
Emily Van Evera has appeared as a soloist throughout Europe and her native North America with ensembles including the Taverner Consort, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Hilliard Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Tragicomedia, Circa 1500, Musicians of Swanne Alley, Sequentia, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Gothic Voices and …
Philippe Graffin | violin
French violinist Philippe Graffin began learning the violin with his father, a jazz musician and sculptor. He entered the Marseille Conservatoire, followed by the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 13 in the class of Michèle Auclair. Upon graduating he studied in Bloomington, Indiana, with Josef Gingold, a pupil of …
