Anna Tsybuleva was born in 1990 and grew up in the small town of Nizhny Arkhyz (Russia). At the age of six, she started her piano studies with her mother, Svetlana Tsybuleva. From 2000 to 2003 she studied at the Shostakovich Music School in Volgodonsk (Russia) in the class of Elena Vorobyova. From 2003 to 2009 Anna continued her music education at the Moscow Central Music School and from 2009 to 2014 at the Moscow State Conservatory, always under Prof. Ludmila Roschina. She graduated in 2014 with top honours and “the best student 2014” award. At present Anna Tsybuleva is a post-graduate student at the Moscow Conservatory, while also studying at the Basel Music Academy with professor Claudio Martinez Mehner.

Since the year 2000, Anna has been giving many solo piano recitals as well as performing with a number of Russian orchestras and in Japan with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra under Inoue Michiyoshi and with the Takamatsu Symphony Orchestra under Hideaki Hirai. She recently performed the Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto with the Halle Orchestra under Sir Mark Elder in Leeds

She has participated in a number of International Music Festivals in Russia, United States, Europe and Japan.

In 2012 Anna Tsybuleva won the 1st prize in the International Gilels Piano competition in Odessa (Ukraine). In the same year, she was one of the winners of the Hamamatsu Piano competition in Japan.

In June 2015 Anna Tsybuleva won the 1st Prize at the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition in the United Kingdom, leading to many important engagements both in the UK and internationally.

Future engagements include debuts with the Mariinsky Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and appearances in Paris, Germany, Luxemburg, Belgium, Hong Kong and the UK.

安娜 • 舒貝莉娃

1990年出生, 成長於俄羅斯小鎮Nizhny Arkhyz。

六歲始，隨其母親Svetlana Tsybuleva學琴。2000至2003年期間，於Volgodonsk蕭斯達高維契音樂學校學習。2003至2009年期間，於莫斯科中央音樂學校學習。2009-2014年期間，於莫斯科音樂學院學習，師從 Ludmila Roschina教授。2014年以最高榮譽畢業並為「年度最佳學生」。

舒貝莉娃現在該音樂學院繼續攻讀碩士課程，同時亦於巴塞爾音樂學院深造，師隨Claudio Martinez Mehner教授。

2000年始，舒貝莉娃開始舉辦大量鋼琴獨奏會，同時與俄羅斯數個樂團、井上道義指揮的東京交響樂團及平井秀明指揮的高松交響樂團合作表演。近期表演包括在利茲與馬克•藹爾德爵士指揮的哈雷樂團合作，演奏布拉姆斯第二鋼琴協奏曲。同時，她亦獲邀參加俄羅斯、美國、歐洲、日本等地舉辦的各大音樂節。

2012年，她贏取烏克蘭敖德薩「吉列爾斯國際鋼琴大賽」冠軍，同年，於日本「濱松國際鋼琴大賽」獲獎。

2015年6月，舒貝莉娃贏取於英國舉行的著名「利茲國際鋼琴大賽」冠軍，引起英國及國際古典樂壇關注。

近期合作包括與馬林斯基交響樂團及與聖彼得堡愛樂交響樂團的首演，演出足跡遍及巴黎、德國､ 盧森堡、比利時､香港和英國。

Ivan Agafonov - Viola

Born in Moscow in 1992 he undertook his musical education at the Moscow State Conservatory from 2005 where he studied viola with Mariya Sitkovskaya and Alexander Bobronsky, graduated with honors and is now, at present, a graduate student there, while continuing in parallel his studies at the Zurich University of Arts under Christopher Schiller.

He has won prizes in numerous competitions in viola and violin while his very wide repertory for viola has made him equally popular with chamber ensembles and audiences across Russia and in several European cities. He has also played with orchestras such as the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Ivanovo, the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic and the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, among others.