Michaela Georgi was born in Munich in 1982. She began playing the violin at the age of three and received lessons from her mother, a trained violinist. A scholarship enabled her to enter the "Bavarian Early Training Class" in Regensburg in 1996. For the next six years, Prof. Conrad von der Goltz was her teacher, first in Regensburg and then, from 1998, at the University of Music in Würzburg. She received additional inspiration by attending master classes given by renowned musicians and teachers such as Tibor Varga and Igor Ozim. After graduating from high school, she continued her studies with Prof. Herwig Zack at the University of Music in Würzburg.

Michaela Georgi has won several awards in the "Jugend musiziert" competitions. She received a federal prize as a soloist and chamber musician in 2000 and 2001. She has performed repeatedly as a soloist with various orchestras in Germany and abroad and has given recitals. The press praises the purity and soulfulness of the young violinist's playing. Despite her youth, she already has a wide-ranging repertoire of compositions from various stylistic periods, ranging from Baroque to contemporary music. In 2003, she recorded works by Debussy and Lutoslawski for Bavarian Radio. Several solo performances followed, including Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. In 2005, she was accepted into the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and participates in the "live music now" project.

So-Young Kim, born in Düsseldorf in 1981, began her musical training at the age of six. At fourteen, she was accepted as a junior student in Prof. Michael Gaiser's class at the Robert Schumann Music Academy in Düsseldorf.

In 2000, she began her studies with Prof. Igor Ozim (Bern, Switzerland) and completed her intermediate diploma in the summer of 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she studied in Lübeck with Prof. Shmuel Ashkenasi at the Lübeck University of Music and is currently studying at the Richard Strauss Conservatory with Markus Wolf (1st concertmaster of the Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich). So-Young Kim has been performing as a soloist since the age of eleven, including with the Cologne Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra in 2002.

She has won several first prizes at the national competition "Jugend musiziert" (including solo and chamber music) and, in 1948, the Art Promotion Prize of the City of Neuss. She also won the chamber music competition of the Düsseldorf University of Music with her piano trio and was awarded third prize at the International Chamber Music Competition "Charles Hennen" in the Netherlands.

She took part in masterclasses with renowned teachers such as Thomas Brandis, Miriam Fried, Franco Gulli, Miroslaw Lawrinowicz, Hermann Krebbers, Yfrah Neaman and Igor Ozim.

In 1998, she participated in the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina (USA), where she was selected as concertmaster of the Guilford Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Chelsea Tipton. She also took part in the Holland Music Sessions in 2000.

Numerous concerts have taken her to Poland, Slovenia, Kuwait and South Korea, among other places. Television and radio recordings have also been made.

As part of the German Music Foundation/Hamburg, she was provided with a Nikolaus Gagliano violin from the second half of the 18th century and an Antonio Gragnani violin for two years. She currently plays a Mathias Albanus violin from 1693.

Since 1998, she has also been supported by the "Art and Culture Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia".

So-Young Kim completed an internship with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and has been an academician at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich since January 2005.

Mariel Müller-Brincken received her first violin lessons at the age of five from Nora Jaffé in Berlin. Since 1992, she has been a student of Max Speermann in Würzburg. From 1994 to 2000, she was a special student of music at the University of Music in Würzburg. She has won several prizes at "Jugend musiziert" in both solo and chamber music competitions.

In 1999, she made a recording for Bavarian Radio. Since 2000, she has been studying at the Würzburg University of Music in Max Speermann's class. She graduated in 2005. She has attended masterclasses with Thomas Brandis, Eduard Schmieder and Florian Meierott. She received first prize and an additional prize for the best performance at the 2005 Ochsenfurt violin master class with Florian Meierott. She is currently studying with Max Speermann in the master class.