Cervo is a small, ancient town and comune, built on top of a hill along the Italian Riviera in the province of Imperia. It has approximately 1,200 inhabitants. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia.
Sándor Végh was a Hungarian, later French, violinist and conductor. He was best known as one of the great chamber music violinists of the twentieth century.
The Music of Liguria flourished in the 19th century for a number of reasons. The capital city of Genoa, a major port, aspired to recognition as a cultural center more in keeping with its role as a major city in the history of the Risorgimento, the political, social, and military movement that eventually led to the unification of the modern nation state of Italy.
Ingo Goritzki is a German oboist, pianist, and flautist. He began his flute and piano studies in Freiburg, and switched to oboe as his primary instrument at age 20.
Dejan Bogdanovic is a Serbian and Italian violinist.
Michel Strauss is a French cellist.
The Camerata Salzburg is an Austrian chamber orchestra based in Salzburg, Austria. The Camerata's principal concert venue is the Mozarteum University.
The Hungarian String Quartet was a musical ensemble of world renown, particularly famous for its performances of quartets by Beethoven and Bartók. The quartet was founded in Budapest in 1935 and was disbanded in 1972.
The Végh Quartet was a Hungarian string quartet founded in 1940 and led by its first violinist Sándor Végh for 40 years. The quartet was based in Budapest until it departed Hungary in 1946. It is particularly known for its recordings of the Beethoven and Bartók cycles. The quartet disbanded in 1980.
Luis García Renart (Barcelona) was a Spanish-born Mexican cellist. He often performed with his sister, the pianist Marta García Renart.
Michel Bernstein was a French musical producer and founder of several record labels.
Jeremy Findlay is a Canadian cellist who has had an active international performance career in both the concert and chamber music repertoire since the mid-1980s. Since 1994 he has performed and recorded many works with pianist Elena Braslavsky. Czech composer Jiří Gemrot has written numerous pieces for them, including the Double Concerto for Cello, Piano and Orchestra which they performed in its premiere at the Rudolfinum in Prague with the Prague Philharmonia.
Emmanuel Siffert is a Swiss conductor.
Alexander Lonquich is a German classical pianist and conductor.
Xenia Jankovic is a Serbian-Russian cellist.
Mayumi Seiler is a Canadian-Austrian violinist of Japanese/German parentage, born in Osaka, Japan.
Hermann Voss is a German violist, painter and puppet player. From 1975 to 2005 he taught viola and chamber music at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. Voss played the viola in the Melos Quartet for 40 years.
Thomas Demenga is a Swiss composer and cellist.
The Vogler Quartet is a German string quartet based in Berlin. It was founded in 1985 and has been playing together with an unchanged line-up since 1986.
Gérard Korsten is an Austrian musician and conductor.
