Gulrim Choi, France

Cello

Born in 1989 in South Korea, Gulrim started to studying music in France at the age of nine. After graduating in modern cello in 2005 she discovered jazz and free improvisation and has worked with numerous artists such as Joëlle Léandre, Peter Brötzmann, George Lewis and Lê Quan Ninh. She rapidly became interested in historical performance and in 2009 she started playing baroque cello with David Simpson at the Conservatoire de Paris. She received musical tuition from Gaetano Nasillo, Jean Tubéry, trio Almaviva, Barthold Kuijken, Eugène Ferré and Amandine Beyer. Gulrim also plays in a string quartet on period instruments. From Autumn 2011 she will study with Christophe Coin for a masters degree at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. Particularly interested by Italian music from 17th century, she was invited in 2010 to play in the “young talent” concerts at the early music festival in Lanvellec, and recently performed with the ensemble La Fenice directed by Jean Tubéry.

Federico Toffano, Italy

Cello

Federico Toffano gained a diploma in cello performance in 2009 from the Conservatory of Music of Vicenza (Italy), where he studied with Gianantonio Viero. He then attended further courses and masterclasses with Franco Maggio Ormezowsky, Enrico Dindo, Rocco Filippini, Thomas Demenga, Enrico Bronzi and Laszlo Fenyo. His interest in and love for early music performance also lead him to attend courses of baroque cello with Gaetano Nasillo, Stefano Veggetti and, later, with Marco Frezzato. In 2010 he was selected to play with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Mozart by Claudio Abbado. In 2011 he was selected by audition to work with the Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona. Federico is currently a member of the music academy “Incontri con il Maestro” of Imola (Italy), where he studies with Giovanni Gnocchi, as well as of Mario Brunello’s academy “Antiruggine”.

Magdalena Brostek, Germany

Cello

biography to follow

Pippa Macmillan

Double Bass

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