Yury Favorin was born in Moscow in 1986. Graduate of the Gnessin Moscow Middle Special School of Music (class of Lidia Grigorieva). In 2009 he graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (class of Mikhail Voskresensky). Has taken part in master-classes conducted by Paul Badura-Skoda, Stephen Kovacevich, Sergei Babayan, Ferenc Rados, Irina Kataeva and Noel Flores. Since 2016 he has taught at the Moscow Conservatory. Prize-winner at the Nikolai Rubinstein and the Moscow School of Composition international competition of composers and pianists in Moscow (3rd prize, 1998), the Nikolai Rubinstein Young Pianists’ Competition in Moscow (1st prize, 2001), the Olivier Messiaen International Competition in Paris (4th prize, 2007) and the international Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (4th prize, 2010). Has appeared in Germany, Austria, Norway, Hungary, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium and Poland. Has collaborated with Pierre Boulez, Marin Alsop, Paul Goodwin and Kazuhiro Koizumi. Together with the composer Alexey Sysoev and the percussionist Dmitry Shchyolkin he established the ERROR 404 ensemble of freely improvised music.

Ivan Rudin, conductor and pianist, studied in Gnessin Music School at Piano Department with Professor Tatiana Zelickman. He graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatoire (classes of Lev Naumov and Sergey Dorensky). In 2018, he entered St Petersburg Conservatory to study conducting with Professor Vladimir Altschuler. Ivan Rudin embarked on his professional career in the tender age of 11 It was then that he made his debut with a symphony orchestra. He has collaborated with symphony and chamber orchestras, such as Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, State Symphony Orchestra Novaya Rossiya and others. He has performed with such musicians as Natalia Gutman, Vladimir Kraynev, Eduard Brunner, Ysaye Quartet, Alexander Rudin, and others. He performs on a regular basis at greatest venues and festivals both as solo artist, or with best symphony or chamber orchestras. In 2011, he founded International Music Festival “Ars Longa”. Over the years, the festival evolved into one of the large scale events that take place in Moscow and Russian regions. In the summer of 2017, Ivan Rudin was appointed art director of Moscow State Symphony Orchestra.n 2020, Rudin is a laureate of Moscow Prize in the field of music. From 2017 on, Rudin is a member of the Public Council of The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. He is a member of Expert Council of the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives. He successfully combines touring and organizing and producing of large scale culture and educational projects.

The Moscow State Symphony Orchestra (MGSO) was founded in 1989 as the only symphony orchestra in the world that devotes a significant part of its concert activity to the musical and aesthetic education of the younger generation.In the span of 2017 – 2022, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra was one of the most rapidly developing symphony collectives here in this country; it made its way to the greatest festivals and culture projects on the best Russian concert venues. The ensemble's repertoire includes masterpieces of Russian and foreign classics, works by contemporary composers.The orchestra successfully performed in Italy, Spain, Germany, Bulgaria, Turkey, China, Korea, successfully tours the cities of Russia. The orchestra is a regular participant of the annual international music festival ArsLonga (main and regional programs) and the International Grand Prix Competition "Golden Talents", regularly holds concerts with young soloists - winners and laureates of prestigious all-Russian and international competitions.