Nargiz Aliyeva (piano)
Nargiz Aliyeva was born on December 1, 2001 in Moscow (Russia). She started music lessons at the age of 7. In 2009-2019 she studied piano at the Kara Karayev Central School of Arts in Baku. In 2019-2020, she continued her studies at the Baku Music Academy. Since 2020, she is a student at the Mozarteum University Salzburg . She is a laureate of republican and international competitions, such as: II Republican Competition of Young Pianists (Baku, Azerbaijan, 2012), 5th International Piano Talents Competition (Milan, Italy, 2015),»Rising stars» (Berlin , Germany,2016) ,XVI International Competition «Islamic World» (Baku, Azerbaijan, 2017), The XVI Art Duo Music Festival (Barcelona, Spain, 2019), «World harmony» (Baku, Azerbaijan,2019), «Russian Alborada» (Barcelona, Spain, 2020), etc. She has performed concerts in such countries as Austria, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Italy, Spain, Kazakhstan. Since 2011, she has regularly performed as a soloist with the Azerbaijan State Chamber Orchestra and the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra. Since 2016, she has been a regular participant of the international Chamber Music Festival «Musica Mundi» in Waterloo, Belgium.
Maximilian Maisky (piano)
Maximilian Maisky, born in 2004, is a Belgian-Italian pianist. He started playing piano at the age of 4 with Lyl Tiempo, and for several years he was a student of Hagit Hassid-Kerbel. At the age of 13 he became one of the first students of the newly opened Musica Mundi School in Waterloo, Belgium where he continued to study with Hagit Hassid-Kerbel and took regular masterclasses with Jacques Rouvier. He performed numerous times around Belgium with the school, both chamber music and solo pieces, and he enjoyed participating regularly in the Musica Mundi Course and Festival during the summer. Maximilian regularly performs with his father, Mischa Maisky, and his older sister, Lily Maisky. He has performed in concert halls such as Suntory Hall in Toyko, Philarmonie of Berlin and Bozar in Brussels. In the summer of 2024 he made his debut in the Verbier Festival performing chamber music with his older siblings Lily and Sascha Maisky. As of September 2023, Maximilian is an undergraduate RCM Scholar at the Royal College of Music under Prof. Dmitri Alexeev and Prof. Vitaly Pisarenko.
Işı Tuncer (violin)
Born in 2005, Turkish violinist Işı Tuncer began piano at the age of four and violin at seven, entering the Bilkent University Music and Performing Arts Primary School. She later continued her studies with Prof. Leonid Kerbel at Musica Mundi School in Belgium, graduating in 2025. She has performed in major venues such as the Berlin Konzerthaus, Prague Rudolfinum Smetana Hall, Santa Cecilia in Rome, and the Presidential Symphony Orchestra Hall in Turkey. Tuncer has participated in festivals including the Istanbul Music Festival, Musica Mundi Festival, and Young Euro Classics. She has taken masterclasses with renowned violinists and pedagogues such as Midori Goto, Boris Kuschnir, Mihaela Martin, and Dylan Blackmore. She is a prizewinner at several competitions, including 1st prize at the Serbia International Music Competition, the Grand Prix and 1st prize at the National Young Talents Competition, 3rd prize at the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra National Competition for Young Musicians, and the “Wiener Klassik Prize” at the 3rd Arnold Rosé International Violin Competition. Since September 2025, she has been studying at the Royal College of Music in London with a full tuition scholarship, continuing her undergraduate studies with Prof. Leonid Kerbel. As an RCM Scholar, she performs on a 1925 W. E. Hill & Sons violin, generously on loan from Florian Leonhard Fine Violins through the Royal College of Music.