Inês Paiva is a musician and teacher from Portugal. She started her music studies at Conservatório Regional Maria Campina, Faro, Portugal, when she was nine years old. Her instrument has been the flute since the very beginning of her studies, but she has since developed her piano skills and invested in her singing techniques by being part of several choirs and participating in multiple masterclasses. Her flute studies began with flautist Luís Miguel Garcia, the principal flautist of Orquestra Clássica do Sul, finishing her secondary studies at the conservatoire with flautitst João Lourenço, currently teaching at Conservatório de Música de Loulé.

After applying for her bachelor degree in 2018, she started her studies at the University of Évora, Portugal, with flautist Monika Streitová, researcher of CESEM, INET-MD and Assistant Professor of the University of Évora. During this time, she participated in several festivals, including FLAUTUÉ and FLAUTUENCONTRO, and masterclasses. She graduated in 2021, starting her master studies at the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts–Lund University, Sweden, with Prof. Dr. Anders Ljungar-Chapelon. She completed her master’s degree in 2023, played with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, and since then has also concluded an Independent Course on Interpretation in 2024. Her thesis Women in music: are they absent from Western Music History? focused on women and gender equality, which she expects to develop more in the future. She is currently and actively involved in several different projects and ensembles in Malmö, like Reaktion! Ensemble, Lunae Duo, 2ofHeartsDuo, Lumis Ensemble and Moderna Musica. At the moment, she is currently working on Women in Society and Mindful Image and Unique Beauty, which are two interdisciplinary projects. She was awarded multiple scholarships since coming to Sweden, including Malmös Kulturkraft Stipendiet in 2025 and Helge Ax:son Stipendiet in 2026.

Teaching wise, she has worked with schools around Skåne as a substitute teacher, including Kulturskolan in Malm. Currently, she is teaching singing at Rockskolan (Malmö, Staffanstorp, Lund), while also teaching privately, both in person and online. 

Anja Rajić is a violinist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. She finished her studies at the Academy of Music of the University of Sarajevo with teacher Jeong YeonJu. During her studies she was part of many festivals, summer schools and orchestra projects such as Austrian Baroque Academy (AU), EUphony Symphony Orchestra (CRO), Sonemus festival (BiH), Musica Riva Festival (IT) and many others. She took Erasmus year in Vigo (ESP) at Music Conservatory of Vigo with teacher Mario Peris Salom where her musicianship changed and she switched more towards 20th century music. She was part of the OV430 orchestra and she worked closely with Martin Creed on his show “Amigos” in Santander (ESP). After studying in Spain, she decided to move and study in Malmö Music Academy (SWE) where she finished her master degree and Western Art Music program. While she was studying she also worked in Christianstad Symfoniker as a concert master and in a new orchestra Moderna Musica that was established in Malmö 2023 and orchestra focus was on 20th century music made by women. She studied with Wieslawa Szymczynska and Eric Heide where both of the teachers gave her confidence in teaching and playing in orchestras. She did some tunes for movies and video games and was part of European Masterclasses in Stockholm. While studying she had many school scholarships but the main were from Helge Axson Johnsson and Alice Goldschmid och Eva Lewins fund.

Currently, she is teaching in the Music School in Skurup (SWE),is still an alternating concert master of Moderna Musica and freelancing in the Skåne region. In May 2026 she had her first concert with LUMIS ensemble and already in July she was invited to play with them.

Described by music authorities as a remarkable, sensitive and deeply musical performer, with extraordinary technical mastery and an outstanding international reputation despite her youth, Claudia Besné has developed an intense career as a soloist in Europe, sharing her passion for expanding and raising awareness of the current and little-known repertoire for the harp.

Among her recent milestones are the world premiere of Cuatro Historias Gallegas for harp and string orchestra by Federico Beilinson with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia, and the premiere of the Concerto for Harp and Orchestra by Aita Madina with the Andrés Egiguren Orchestra. She has also participated in prestigious festivals such as the Quincena Musical de San Sebastián, the Noia Harp Fest and cycles such as MusaE and Musiklasik, as well as maintaining an active presence in church music cycles in Sweden.

Born in Donostia-San Sebastián in 1997, she began her musical studies at the Francisco Escudero Conservatory and, at the age of 18, she enrolled at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where she studied with Stephen Fitzpatrick, principal harpist of the Staatskapelle Berlin, obtaining a Bachelor's, Master's and Postgraduate Degree in Performance, with the support of the Nicanor Zabaleta Scholarship and the CH Estudios Scholarship. During her years of study, she won third prize at the International Harp Competition of the Slovenian Harp Association (2023) and was a finalist in Juventudes Musicales de España (2022), in addition to receiving various awards in national and international competitions during her early years of training. It is worth noting that during these years, she was invited to perform at the award ceremony of the Norwegian Music Competition for Young People (Oslo), alongside EMCY. She has also been an active musician with Live Music Now Salzburg, a member of orchestras such as the Philharmonie Salzburg, the EGO and the JONDE, and has received masterclasses from prestigious musicians such as Cibrán Sierra (Cuarteto Quiroga), Isabelle Perrin, Letizia Belmondo, Fabrice Pierre, Gabriella Dall'Olio and Anneleen Lenaerts, among others. In 2022, she completed a Master's Degree in Music Pedagogy at UNIR.

Astrid Nyborg Berg is a young classical guitarist who also specializes in arrangement and composition. After leaving her home country of Norway to study the guitar with Prof. Göran Söllscher, she now works full time as a freelance musician based in Malmö, Sweden. Experiments with form and structure in the classical concert has been a red thread through projects such as the ensemble (o)MEGA-4, and concert concepts like “Tegnekonserter” and “Hvilepuls”. Astrid is both active as a solomusician and in groups such as Bacchus Gitarrkvartett, Ensemble Místico, Duo Nära and Lumis Ensemble. In 2021 she established Malmö Gitarrforum, and in 2024 she led the group’s most ambitious project in arranging a guitar festival in memoriam of Ida Presti’s 100 year anniversary. Her education in classical guitar performance started at Norges Musikkhøyskole, Oslo, and ended with a master’s degree from Malmö Musikhögskola, Lund University, 2021. During these years she studied with guitar teachers like Erik Stenstadvold, Geir-Otto Nillson, David Hanson, Gunnar Spjuth and Göran Söllcher. After this she also completed a postgraduate course in culture project development. As a composer she has completed a residency in the arctic city of Hammerfest, which resulted in an entire concert program inspired by the far north. Her music has been commissioned by Drammen Arts Festival, Kvinnelige Spor concert series and Duo Mardi. All of these different project has brought Astrid Nyborg Berg to big stages all over Scandinavia such as Malmö Live, DKDM Konsertsal, Tromsø Kulturhus, Uppsala Gitarrfestival and Helsingborg Gitarrfestival.