Alexander Ramm is one of the most in-demand cellists of his generation. In Tchaikovsky Contest in Moscow, he was awarded Silver Medal in 2015. He is the winner of the Beijing International Competition, and 1^st All-Russia Music Contest. Ramm is the first and only Russian to become a laureate of Helsinki’s Paulo Cello Competition (2013), one of the most prestigious cello contests of the world. The musician tours the greatest venues, and collaborates with leading orchestras and famous conductors. He participated in festivals and clinics of Courchevel Academy, as well as Holland Music Sessions, while also honing his playing skills in Verbier youth academy. Since 2011, he takes part in Moscow Philharmonic concerts, and is a permanent participant of the project “21^st Century Stars”. In 2012, he became a soloist of St. Petersburg House of Music. In 2018, his solo album with complete cello suites solo by Britten was released by “Melodia” label to great critical acclaim in Russia and abroad.

Timur Zangiev was born in 1994. He began to study music at the age of three, and at the age of seven he conducted the Symphony Orchestra of the Vladikavkaz Philharmonic for the first time. In 2011 he entered the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (class of Gennady Rozhdestvensky), already having experience of appearing with Russia's leading orchestras, among them the Mariinsky Orchestra. Since 2012 he has been a staff conductor with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre. Conducts such operas as Carmen by Bizet, Manon by Massenet, Jenůfa by Janáček, Otello by Verdi, Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini. For the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress in 2019 Mr. Zangiev was nominated for the Russian National Theatre Award Golden Mask as Best Opera Conductor in the season 2019/20.

The Russian National Orchestra was founded in 1990 by pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev. Maintaining an active international schedule, the RNO appears in the music capitals of Europe, Asia and the Americas, is a frequent guest at festivals such as Edinburgh, the BBC Proms and presents the RNO Grand Festival each September to open the Moscow season. Their discography, launched with a highly praised 1991 recording of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique, now numbers more than 80 critically acclaimed recordings. Their recording of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and Beintus' Wolf Tracks, conducted by Kent Nagano and narrated by Sophia Loren, Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev, received a 2004 Grammy Award, making the RNO the first Russian orchestra to win the recording industry's highest honor.  Their recording of Shostakovich Symphony No. 7, conducted by Paavo Järvi, was awarded the Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2015 as the year's best symphonic album, and was nominated for a 2016 Grammy Award.