Students

Anna Zilberbord, born in Saint-Petersburg Russia in 2006, began studying the violin at age 5. She attended the Special Music School of the State Petersburg State Conservatory, under Larisa Baranova, also she has been regularly working with prof. Grigory Kalinovsky. Currently Anna studies with Robin Wilson at Yehudi Menuhin School.

Elie Hackel was born in Haguenau/France in 2000. He began studying the violin at age of 6 years old and join CNSM of Paris with Jean Marc Phillips and Svetlin Roussev where he obtained his master’s degree. Now he currently studies with Svetlana Makarova Vernikov in HEMU in master’s degree and in chamber music master’s degree with Claire Désert in CNSM de Paris. Elie performed in 2021 the Tchaikovsky Concerto with Appassionato Orchestra and Mathieu Herzog but also alongside Marc Copey, François Salque, Yovan Markovich. He participates in numerous festivals, Académie Jarrousky, Seiji Ozawa Academy, Festival Pablo Casals or Festival

Fiona Khuong-Huu, born in New York/United States in 2007, began studying the violin at age 3. She currently studies with Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School in New York. She has performed with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Thomas Wilkins in David Geffen Hall at age 16, with the Oxford Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Marios Papadopoulos at the Windsor Castle, Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, and Buckingham Palace along with Maxim Vengerov, the Flanders Symphony Orchestra at the Bozar Concert Hall in Brussels, and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra with Maestro David Danzmayr.

Leonhard Baumgartner, born 2007 in Vienna, is studying with Dora Schwarzberg at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Studies led him also to Universities for Music Graz and Munich with Regina Brandstätter since 2019, and Ingolf Turban, with whom he is studying since 2022. Leo is a major prizewinner. Latest news are he will represent Austria after winning the national audition, at Final of Eurovision Young Musicians in Norway. In June 2022 Leo won Wiener Symphoniker Talent Award and debuted as soloist with the Wiener Symphoniker (Vienna Symphony Orchestra-WSY) at Konzerthaus Vienna. In season 2023/24 he returns thereat

Michelle Bushkova, born in Moscow in 2004, is a violinist, pianist, and conductor. She is a graduate from both the Gnessin Music College and the Central Music School by the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Currently she studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Ilya Kaler and Olga Dubossarskaya-Kaler on the violin; and Antonio Pompa-Baldi on the piano. In 2023, Michelle has received conducting guidance from Carlos Kalmar and Victor Yampolsky. She has played with the “Moscow Virtuosi” and “New Russia” Symphony orchestras in Moscow, and philharmonic orchestras of Saratov, Yaroslavl, Ankara, Istanbul, Portland. She has participated in international music festivals