Chamber music

As a string quartet, we find ourselves at the core of the classical music world. On a daily basis, we delve into works by great masters such as Beethoven and Mozart, but we also play the occasional folk music gig. Over the years we have been fortunate to study in many different places, in masterclasses with renowned teachers and have had opportunities to perform in major concert halls across the world.

The three of us met very early in our lives in the Danish countryside at a summer camp for enthusiastic amateur musicians. Not yet teenagers, we were the youngest players, so we hung out all the time playing football and chamber music together

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Violin

Latvian violinist Vineta Sareika's multi-faceted career spans a wide range of activities from soloist to orchestra concertmaster, primaria of the Artemis Quartet, professor and jury member. Laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition in 2009 and recipient of several Echo Classic Awards, Vineta Sareika was the first woman to hold the first concertmaster position in the history of the Berlin Philharmonic.

In addition to her concert activities Vineta is teaching chamber music at the Universität der Künste Berlin and serving as a jury member in the most prestigious violin and chamber music competitions worldwide.

https://www.vineta-sareika.com

Violin and viola

Violinist/violist Yura Lee is a multifaceted musician, as a soloist and as a chamber musician, and one of the very few that is equally virtuosic on both violin and viola. Her career spans through various musical mediums, captivating audiences with music from baroque to modern, and enjoying a career that spans three decades that takes her all over the world.

At age 12, she became the youngest artist ever to receive the Debut Artist of the Year prize at the Performance Today awards given by National Public Radio. She is the recipient of a 2007 Avery Fisher Career Grant; she has received numerous other international prizes, including top prizes in the Mozart, Indianapolis, Hannover, Kreisler, Bashmet, and Paganini competitions.

https://www.yuralee.com

Cello

Swedish cellist Mats Lidström has given masterclasses at conservatories around the world and is the founder of the annual summer course for cellists, ‘EXPANSION’ in his native Sweden. He coaches the London Schools Symphony Orchestra and at the National Centre for Music Talent in Sweden. His company cellolid.com publishes, besides his original compositions and transcriptions, the pedagogical works for cello The Essential Warm-up Routine for Cellists, The Beauty of Scales (which consists of all the standard scales, but also pizzicato and artificial harmonic scales, blues and whole tone scales, scales of 2nds, 4ths, 5ths, 7ths, 9th and 10ths), the etude compilation Heritage, and a book with orchestral excerpts. Other transcriptions appear on the Schott, International Music Company and Gehrman editions.