Students

Elizaveta Cibotaru was born on November 15th , 2003, in Chisinäu, Moldova. At the age of five, she started learning the violin at the Liceul Republican de Muzicä ”C.Porumbescu” in Chisinäu, in the violin class of Nikolai Buinovschii, who was a student of Igor Oistrakh. Later, she studied with his wife, Galina Buinovschii, and their son, Vadim Buinovschii. She is a laureate and prize winner of various competitions in Moldova and Romania, such as the “Zlata Tkach” competition,” Paul Constantinescu” competition in Ploiesti, among others. Elizaveta played in the Moldovan National Youth Orchestra and supported charity projects in her hometown.

Flora has studied with Ani Schnarch since 2019, firstly at the Royal College of Music. She has attended the Bowdoin International Music Festival, New Virtuosi, and Keshet Eilon, participating in masterclasses of Vadim Gluzman, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Felix Andrievsky, Cihat Askin, Kurt Sassmanshaus and Tasmin Little. She has given recitals in the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall, the chapels of Christ’s and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge, and St George’s Chapel, Bristol, and has performed the Korngold Concerto in Clifton Cathedral with the Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra. As a chamber musician she has performed in the Wigmore Hall. Flora has recently performed

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