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, and Lumis Ensemble. At the moment, she is currently working on Women in Society and Mindful Image and Unique Beauty, which are two interdisciplinary projects. Currently, she is also teaching voice at Rockskolan (Malmö, Staffanstorp, Lund) and teaching flute, voice, and piano at Akademiska Musikskolan (Lund). She also teaches privately, both in person and online. 

With her exceptional musicality, Annina Pritschow has established herself as a versatile orchestral and chamber musician. She is currently a member and section leader of the second violins in the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and regularly performs as a substitute in professional orchestras, including the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and the Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin, where she also served as section leader of the second violins. During the 2022/23 season, she was part of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Academy, gaining valuable experience in one of Germany’s leading orchestras. Her extensive orchestral career has allowed her to perform under world-renowned conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Alan Gilbert, Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Järvi, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. She was also a longtime member of prestigious youth orchestras, including the Bundesjugendorchester, NDR Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Landesjugendorchester Bremen. As concertmaster of the NDR Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Landesjugendorchester Bremen, she left a lasting impression with performances such as Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben. As a passionate chamber musician, Annina frequently performs in string quartets and other ensembles, including her own Ispirato Quartet. She has refined her chamber music skills in collaboration with Prof. Eberhard Feltz, Prof. Michael Mücke, and Prof. Stephan Imorde. In addition to her orchestral and chamber music activities, Annina is also an accomplished soloist. She has performed works by Glazunov, Bruch, Saint-Saëns, and Sarasate with orchestras such as the Kammersinfonie Oldenburg, Schlossorchester Oldenburg, and Neubrandenburg Philharmonic. Annina began playing the violin at the age of five and was accepted into prestigious early training programs, including VIFF (Pre-Institute for the Early Promotion of Highly Gifted Musicians) at the HMT Hannover and the Young Academy Rostock (yaro). In 2019, she began her Bachelor studies at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre under Philipp Bohnen and Prof. Henja Semmler, and she has participated in masterclasses with Prof. Stephan Picard, Prof. Elisabeth Kufferath, and Prof. Ingolf Turban. She is a multiple prizewinner at Jugend musiziert at both state and national levels and, together with pianist Akine Yoshihara, won 3rd prize at the HMT Prize competition in Rostock. Currently, Annina is a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Rostock and has received support from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, the Rotary Club Oldenburg, and the Foundation for the Promotion of Young Musical Talents in Oldenburg. 

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.