Stefan Burchardt (b. 2003, Odense) is a Danish violinist who began playing at age four and made his solo debut with the Odense Symphony Orchestra in 2011. He has since performed as a soloist and chamber musician with orchestras including the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, and Cantus Firmus Orchestra, appearing at venues such as the Berliner Philharmonie Chamber Hall, Beethoven Haus Bonn, and Bulgaria Hall in Sofia.
In 2025, he won the Grand Prize, 2nd Prize, and the Gèza Anda Foundation Award at the International Cantus Firmus Competition in Sofia, and in 2026 he will perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at the European Festival in Sofia. His awards include first prizes at Flame Concours Paris, Øresunds Solist, and Jugend Musiziert, as well as the Hans Schauble Prize and the Berlingske Competition Talent Prize and finalist in the Eugene Ysaÿe Competition and Beethoven Competition Berlin.
Stefan studied in Copenhagen, Berlin (UdK), Lausanne (HEMU), and Vienna with teachers including Alexandre Zapolski, Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Svetlana Makarova, and Pavel Vernikov. He has appeared at festivals such as Kronberg Academy and Aurora Festival and is an EMCY Soloist. In 2023, he co-founded Trio Adali, performing internationally, including at the German Bundestag in 2025.
Itai Paz – Violin
Ivan Udovichenko – Viola
Oleksandr was born in 2002 in Kharkiv, Ukraine and started playing the violin at the age of five. In 2019 he graduated Kharkiv State Music Lyceum (Ukraine) in the class of Lyudmila Varenina. From Oktober 2019 to September 2023 he studied at Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf in the class of Prof. Andrej Bielow.
He participated in the masterclasses of Veit Hertenstein, Garth Knox, Tabea Zimmermann (Kronberg Academy), Leonidas Kavakos, Prof. Boris Garlitsky, Prof. Andrej Bielow, Prof. Krzysztof Węgrzyn, Prof. Boris Brovtsyn, Prof. Alissa Margulis, Prof. Marie Chilemme, Prof. Luc-Marie Aguera, Prof. Yovan Markovitch, Prof. Tedi Papavrami, Kirill Troussov and Prof. Monika Urbaniak-Lisik. He was a scholarship holder of Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung, VERE MUSIC FUND, DAAD-Stipendium, Deutschlandstipendium. In March 2023 he changed to viola completely and has already participated in numerous LEAD! Foundation Finland projects.
In May 2025 he was a semi-finalist at the Markneukirchen Instrumentalwettbewerb. In November 2025 he won 2nd prize at the Tenerife International Viola Competition. Oleksandr is also an additional and substitute violist at the Chamber orchestra of Lausanne (OCL). From September 2023 Oleksandr is studying Viola at Haute école de musique Lausanne with Prof. Alexander Zemtsov-Gordon.
Martino Brocchieri – Cello
Kirill Barinov – Contrabass
