Denys Stetsenko, violin. Born in Kiev, 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 (ANSO) and in the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, where he concluded his Master degree 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 attends a Master's Degree Program in Baroque Violin at Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo do Porto, with Amandine Beyer. He collaborates with Capela Real, Divino Sospiro and Os Musicos do Tejo baroque orchestras and Sete Lágrimas, Concerto Campestre, La Nave Va ensembles. He performs in traditional music and dance projects. He is violin and chamber music teacher at the Academia de Música de Santa Cecília. He also teaches at Escola Superior de Artes e Espectaculo do Porto, as assistant of Amandine Beyer.

Raquel Cravino, violin. Born in Covilhã, Portugal. Initiated her musical studies at the age of 5 in the Conservatório Regional de Música da Cobilhã, in piano and ballet. Later, started her violin studies at the Escola Profissional de Artes da Beira Interior with António Oliveira e Silva. She continued then her studies in ANSO, having obtained her Licenciatura degree with Agnes Sarosi. She participated in several violin and pedagogy master classes with Joyce Tan, Sergey Kravchencko, Angelique Loyer, Gerardo Ribeiro, Augustin Dumay, Boris Kuniev, Jan Dobrelevky, Vladimir Ovcharech. Her interest on baroque violin lead her to master classes with Enrico Onofri, Richard Gwild, Vittorio Ghielmi and Chiara Banchini. As a freelancer, she collaborates regularly with Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, and participates in various Early Music projects such as Flores da Música, Músicos do Tejo, La Nave Va and Capela Real. She teaches violin at the National Conservatory Music School as well as the Conservatório Metropolitano de Música de Lisboa. She holds a Master Degree in Instrument Pedagogy at ANSO / Lusiada University with Aníbal Lima.

Lúcio Studer, viola. Born in Lisbon, Portugal. Initiated his musical studies of viola at the Escola de Música Nossa Senhora do Cabo, pursuing at the National Conservatory Music School, with professor Fernando Afonso. Thanks to a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation he studied with Barbara Friedhoff. He was awarded from the Juventude Musical Portuguesa competition. He concluded in 1999 his studies in viola at ANSO. 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, Enrico Onofri and Alfredo Bernardini. His interests in baroque viola lead him to master classes with Richard Gwilt, Rainer Zipperling and Enrico Onofri. He collaborates with several orchestras and ensembles such as the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orquestra de Câmara Cascais e Oeiras, Orquestra do Algarve, Sinfonietta de Lisboa as well as Early Music ensembles such as Os Músicos do Tejo, Orquestra Barroca Casa da Musica, Orquestra del Montsalvat, Orquestra Capela Real, and ensembles Concerto Campestre, Ensemble Melleo Harmonia, La Nave Va and Flores da Musica. In parallel with his musical activities, he holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, being Professor at Lusiada University of Lisbon.

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 Licenciatura degree at the Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas with Miguel Rocha and Catherine Stynckx. She studied baroque cello in the Scuola Civica di Milano with Gaetano Nasillo, thanks to a schollarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation. 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 Os Músicos do Tejo (Portugal), Musici di Santa Pelagia (Itália), Divina Armonia (Itália), La Risonanza (Itália) and Orquestra Barroca Divino Sospiro (Portugal).