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Born in 1992, Natania Hoffman completed her bachelor’s degree in 2014 studying with Troels Svane and Gustav Rivinius, and currently studies at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth with Gary Hoffman, and at the Brussels Conservatory with Jeroen Reuling. She participated in masterclasses and festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Music Acadamy of the West, and the Kronberg cello masterclasses, studying with Janos Starker, David Geringas, and Frans Helmerson, and others. As a soloist, Natania recently performed alongside her brother Benjamin Hoffman in the premiere of Joel Hoffman’s “sizzle” in Beijing, China. Additionally, she has performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and with the Lakeland Civic Orchestra, among others. Competitions won include the international ‘Giovani Musicisti‘-Città di Treviso and “Premio Crescendo” Firenze, in 2013. As a chamber musician, Natania has toured Europe, the USA, China, and India and is currently in residence at "Villa Musica” (Germany).

 Lithuanian pianist Morta Grigaliūnaitė has given concerts in various venues such as Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, National Gallery in London, Batumi Centre of Arts in Georgia, Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall in Vilnius, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall in Baku and others. Morta’s performances have been broadcast live to 40 countries of the world, and as a soloist she has played with Georgian Chamber Orchestra, Azerbaijan State Chamber Orchestra and most major Lithuanian chamber and symphony orchestras. Born in Lithuania in 1991, Morta started her studies with Lolita Trepekūnienė and later continued at the National Čiurlionis School of Arts with Jūratė Karosaitė. She currently studies with Claudio Martinez Mehner at the HfM Köln and with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. Morta has performed with such distinguished artists as Zakhar Bron and Valentin Erben, and taken part in masterclasses with Mstislav Rostropovich, Menahem Pressler, Mūza Rubackytė, Cristopher Elton, Pascal Devoyon, and others. She is a recipient of the Mstislav Rostropovich Help and Support Foundation and Michel Sogny Foundation scholarships.

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