Mikhail Lidsky is a professor of the Special Piano Department at P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow State Conservatory. Lidsky graduated from the music school and the State Music Pedagogical Institute (now – Gnessins State Music College) (class of professors M.Marshak and V.Tropp).Since 1992 Mikhail Lidsky has been involved in a wide-scale concert activity in Russia and the ex-USSR countries as well as in other foreign countries (Great Britain, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, The Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey). Since 2000 Mikhail Lidsky is a soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic. In 1995 – 1998 he collaborated with the “DENON” label that resulted in the release of the 6 CDs. In the recent years he has recorded the whole of the violin and viola sonatas together with an Italian musician Domenico Nordio (DECCA), Chopin program and Liszt’s Etudes d’execution transcendante (produced by Wakabayashi-kobou, Japan).

Alexey Lundin graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. In 1998 the violinist was invited to the Moscow Virtuosi Orchestra, and since 1999 Alexei Lundin has been the first violinist and soloist of the orchestra. During this time he has played many concerts around the world with the best musicians. Maestro Vladimir Spivakov gave double concerts with Bach and Vivaldi, as well as various chamber works; CD and DVD discs were recorded. A. Lundin pays great attention to the music of composers of XX-XXI centuries, performing works by V. Krivtsov, R. Ledenev, E. Denisov, D. Krivitsky, V. Tarnopolsky, G. Kancheli, V. Torchinsky, K. Khachaturian, A. Tchaikovsky, K. Penderecki, A. Mustukis. The composer Yury Butsko dedicated his Fourth Violin and Orchestra Concerto to A. Lundin.