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Diana was born in Yerevan and started playing the violin in P. Haykazyan’s class. Since 2017, she has studied at the Yerevan Conservatory with E. Tadevosyan. She has been a laureate of several international competitions, including the Nutcracker 13th TV competition and the 9th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young...
Jiyee Jen Ahn was recently chosen as a winner for NPR's From the Top, and the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship programme where she was awarded $10,000 to invest towards her music education. Jiyee made her debut at Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall aged 11. She has performed with the Union City Philharmonic in New York and New Jersey in...
Otto Antikainen started playing violin at the age of five. In 2012 he was accepted to the Sibelius Academy youth department to study with Prof. Réka Szilvay and also to the Violin Academy, where the teachers are Ilya Grubert, Elina Vähälä and Janne Malmivaara. In 2016, Otto won 1st Prize in the Jyväskylä Violin Competition. Otto has...
Born in Okayama, Japan, Non Aoyama began playing the violin at the age of four and is currently studying under Masaaki Tanokura, Machie Oguri and Takashi Shimizu. In 2016, she won the 1st Prize along with many special awards at the 70th All Japan Students Music Competition. In 2017, she won the 2nd Prize, with the Virtuoso Prize at...
Rio was born in Tokyo, and is currently studying as a first-year student of violin at the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, where she holds a Tokuji Munetsugu special scholarship. She has won multiple awards, including the 1st Prize and the Audience Prize at the 15th Tokyo Music Competition in the string section in...