Hannah Kandinsky, born in 1996 in Bremen and raised in Salzburg and Vienna, began playing the violin at the age of ten in the class for highly gifted of Arkadij Winokurow in Vienna. In 2013, she joined the class of Cornelia Löscher at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory as a pre-college student, before continuing her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2016. There, she completed her Bachelor and Master degrees under the guidance of Lothar Strauß and Georg Hamann.

In addition to numerous orchestral projects under renowned conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Lorenzo Viotti, and Kirill Petrenko, Hannah has participated in masterclasses with musicians including Vadim Gluzman, Eszter Haffner, Dora Schwarzberg, Asya Kushner, and Antje Weithaas. In 2017, she made her debut with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and has been invited to prestigious festivals such as Aurora (Sweden), Piano Prestige (France), New Age Festival (Spain), and the Gustav Mahler Academy (Italy).

Hannah has also performed as guest concertmaster with the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra and is a member of the Les Essences Chamber Orchestra. As a co-founder of the Kandinsky Quartet and the Vienna-based concert series Outta Tune—which is dedicated to engaging new and younger audiences with classical music in unconventional ways—Hannah is deeply committed to the promotion and revitalization of the classical music scene.

Israel Gutiérrez Vildosola, born in 1996 in Chillán, Chile, received his first violin lessons at the age of nine from Carmen Gloria Meya at the “Claudio Arrau León” School of the Arts in Chillán.

He has performed as a soloist with various orchestras in Chile, including the OSEM, the Chamber Orchestra of the Catholic University of Chile, and the Concepción Symphony Orchestra.

He is currently studying music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Eszter Haffner and Maighréad McCrann, and is proud to play an 18th-century violin by Michaelo Angolo. Israel has already participated in various competitions and festivals across Europe and the United States, performing in concert halls and venues in cities such as Lucerne, Bern, Vienna, Tokyo, Bogotá, Budapest, Belgrade, and at renowned festivals including the Davos Festival, Lucerne Festival, and Schleswig-Holstein Festival.

He has received artistic inspiration and guidance from musicians such as Mayumi Seiler, Gerhard Schulz, Eva-Christina Schönweiß, Kurt Nikkanen, Fabio Biondi, Gregory Kalinovsky, and members of the Carmina Quartet and the Jerusalem Quartet.

Born and raised in Italy but with an international background, Ignazio Alayza graduated with distinction in 2014 from the Giacomo Puccini Conservatory in La Spezia, Liguria, where he studied viola with Fabrizio Merlini. He completed his master’s degree in 2017 with a specialized thesis on the composer Bohuslav Martinů. He went on to earn a second two-year master's degree with Gertrud Weinmeister at the MUK – Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna, where he currently resides.

In addition to receiving coaching across Europe from violists such as Maxim Rysanov, the Zemtsov family, David Šlechta, and Milan Radič, from 2013 to 2018 he also gained teaching experience through a social project based on the Abreu system, aimed at children and adolescents from non-traditional family and social backgrounds in his hometown of La Spezia.

He has collaborated with numerous European orchestras, including the EUYO – European Union Youth Orchestra (Italian tour 2020) and the Synchron Stage Orchestra (Vienna). In Italy, he has performed with the Filarmonica Pucciniana and the Sinfonica di Sanremo (where he also served as principal violist); in the Czech Republic, with the Filharmonie Brno (as an academy member and substitute) and the Filharmonie Hradec Králové (where he was a full member during the 2021/22 season). He currently holds the position of assistant principal violist (3rd chair) with the orchestra of the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien.

As an active chamber musician, he regularly collaborates with musicians from various backgrounds, including Valentina Ciardelli, with whom he has also recorded two CDs.

After beginning his studies at the conservatoire of his hometown Granada, Spain, 1994 born cellist Antonio Gervilla furthered his studies at the Higher School of Music Musikene of the Basque Country under there guidance of Asier Polo and a master degree at Viennese MDW in the class of principal cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic, Péter Somodari, besides receiving classes on both Violoncello and baroque violoncello from renowned cellists such as Peter Bruns, Gary Hoffman, Lluís Claret, Gaetano Nasillo or Christophe Coin.

At the moment he collaborates with professional orchestras such as Basque Country Symphony, Spanish Radio and Television, Spanish National and the Bilbao Symphony.

He plays a cello by Martinus Stoss made in 1826.