Danielle Salamon studied piano at the Royal Manchester College of Music and subsequently at the Guildhall School of Music. She is an experienced recitalist, as a solo player and also as a song accompanist and in chamber music.

After winning the Mozart Memorial Prize competition, she performed several concertos with the London Mozart Players throughout England and subsequently moved to Sheffield where she held a post as Convocation Pianist in Residence to Sheffield University where she worked closely with Lindsay String Quartet.

studied piano at the Royal Manchester College of Music and subsequently at the Guildhall School of Music. She is an experienced recitalist, as a solo player and also as a song accompanist and in chamber music.

After winning the Mozart Memorial Prize competition, she performed several concertos with the London Mozart Players throughout England and subsequently moved to Sheffield where she held a post as Convocation Pianist in Residence to Sheffield University where she worked closely with Lindsay String Quartet.

In more recent years she has become a much sought-after piano teacher in London, working in top schools and in the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music. She has a particular interest in the training of gifted children and also in working with adults in the field of Piano Pedagogy, lecturing on many aspects of piano history, repertoire and technique.

She had recently returned from her first tour of Australia and New Zealand where she gave recitals,masterclasses and teaching workshops.

Marika Lombardi  studied the oboe in Milan (conservatorio ‘Giuseppe Verdi’) and in Paris, graduating with the highest awards in her instrument and in chamber music. She has been a prize winner at several international oboe and chamber music competitions including that of the Cziffra foundation.

Marika has been resident in Paris since 1989: she performs regularly as a chamber and orchestral player around Europe, as well as giving masterclasses. She is the artistic director of both the international music academy and festival ‘Risonanze Armoniche’ in Lasino, Italy and of the ‘OBOE’ annual festival in Paris.

She teaches oboe at the Schola Cantorum, and at the Conservatoire Municipal du Centre du Paris as well as at national schools of music in Pantin and Chantilly.

Marika plays on a Marigaux oboe.

Sylvie Gazeau was born in France and studied violin at the Nice Conservatoire and subsequently at the Paris Conservatoire, where she won the Premier Prix de Violon.

She was first violinist of the Melos Ensemble for many years, and was violin soloist for the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris.

She has been a professor of violin and chamber music at the Paris Conservatoire since 1985. She is also an accomplished and experienced viola player.