Vadim Repin was born in Siberia in 1971 and won all categories of the Wienawski competition at the age of eleven. His debuts in Moscow and St. Petersburg followed immediately, and at the age of 14 he made his debut in Tokyo, Munich, Berlin and Helsinki and one year later at Carnegie Hall in New York. At 17 he was the youngest ever winner of the Reine Elisabeth Concours. Since then he has performed with the world's most important orchestras and conductors and in all the major music centres.

Mikhail Tatarnikov studied opera and symphony conducting at the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. He made his debut as a conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre in 2006. In 2007 he conducted his first opera – a new production of Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges. He has subsequently conducted a large number of operas and concerts. Past invitations have included orchestras such as Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Russian National Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestra Filharmonica di Bologna.

The State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov” is one of the oldest symphony ensembles in the country. In 2021, the Orchestra celebrates it’s 85th anniversary. The first performance of the orchestra conducted by A. Gauk and E. Kleiber, took place on October 5th, 1936 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.