Denys Stetsenko, violin. Natural from Ukraine, grew in a family of musical tradition. He initiated his studies at the age of 6 with his uncle. He lives in Portugal since 1995. Studied in the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra and in the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, where he concluded his master in violin. He was concertmaster of the Orquestra Académica Metropolitana and Orquestra Sinfonica Juvenil. He participated in several master-classes with Felix Andrievsky, Zakhar Bron, Gerardo Ribeiro, Richard Gwilt, Chiara Banchini, Vittorio Ghielmi and Enrico Onofri. He integrated the Orquestra de Câmara de Coimbra. He is a violin and music ensemble teacher at the Academia de Música de Santa Cecília. Currently, he collaborates with Capela Real and Divino Sospiro baroque orchestras and performs in chamber music recitals as well as in traditional music and dance projects.

Raquel Cravino, violin. She was born in Covilhã. Initiated her musical studies at the age of 5 in the Conservatório Regional de Música da Cobilhã, in piano. Later, started her violin studies at the Escola Profissional de Artes da Beira Interior with António Oliveira e Silva. She continued then her studies at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra, having obtained her master degree with Agnes Sarosi. She participated in several violin and pedagogy master classes. Currently she teaches violin and tutti at the Conservatório Metropolitano de Música de Lisboa and at the Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa. She collaborates regularly with Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Orquestra Barroca Capela Real and Remix Orquestra Jovens.

Lúcio Studer, viola. He was born in Lisbon. Initiated his musical studies of viola at the Escola de Música de Linda-a-Velha, having continued at the Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional. He studied with Barbara Friedhoff, thanks to a scholarship from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. He won a 3rd prize at the Juventude Musical Portuguesa competition. He concluded in 1999 his studies in viola at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra. He proceeded his studies in Spain with Igor Soulyga (1999-2000) and in The Netherlands with Gisela Bergman and Guus Jeukendrup at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Conservatory of Rotterdam (2000-2002), thanks to a scholarship from the Instituto Português das Artes do Espectaculo. He participated in master classes with Ana Bela Chaves, Gérard Caussé, Igor Soulyga, Jean Sulem, Richard Gwilt, Rainer Zipperling and Enrico Onofri. He collaborates regularly with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Sinfonietta de Lisboa and Orquestra Barroca Capela Real as well as in several chamber music ensembles. In parallel with his musical activities, he is a research scientist at Instituto de Telecomunicações and Ph.D. candidate at the Instituto Superior Técnico.

Ana Raquel Pinheiro, cello. She was born in Covilhã. Initiated her cello studies at the age of 12 at the Escola Profissional de Artes da Beira Interior with Rogério Peixinho. She concluded a cello master degree at the Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas with Miguel Rocha and Catherine Stynckx. She is currently studyin baroque cello in the Scuola Civica di Milano with Gaetano Nasillo, thanks to a schollarship from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. She attended master classes with Márcio Carneiro, Jeroen Reulling, Xavier Gagne-Pan, Jian Wang, António Meneses, Elisa Joglar, Leonardo Luckert, Itziar Atutxa and Rainer Zipperling. She received in 2001 the 2nd prize of Class B at the Concurso de Arcos Júlio Cardona. She teaches cello at Academia de Música de Santa Cecília, Lisbon. Collaborates regularly with Orquestra Capela Real, Orquestra Barroca de Lisboa and Divino Sospiro.