Maxim Akchurin was born in 2001 in Saint Petersburg. Since 2019 he has been a student of the
St. Petersburg State Conservatory (the Honoured Artist of Russia, Associate Professor Alexei
Massarsky’s class). He has performed with the musicAeterna orchestra since 2022.
He is the laureate of a number of youth contests, including the III prize of the Sviridov International Competition for Youth Performing Arts as a member of the ensemble (St. Petersburg, 2017) and the IV prize of the All-Russian Music Competition (Ufa, 2022).

He took part in master classes by Sergey Roldugin, Oleg Sendetsky, Denis Severin, and Wolfgang
Emanuel Schmidt; master classes at the Kronberg Academy under Jens Peter Maintz (Germany,
2018), at the International Murren Summer Academy (Switzerland, 2018).
He has participated in the programmes of the St. Petersburg Music House since 2020.
He has performed in the concert halls of the Mariinsky Theatre, the St. Petersburg Academic
Philharmonia, the State Academic Chapel, etc. He toured in Germany and Switzerland,
participated in the concert programmes of the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation, collaborated with such musicians as Graf Murzha, David Grimal, Kristóf Baráti, Naoko Sonoda, Christopher Chen.

Igor Botvin is a graduate of the Saint Petersburg Conservatorynamed after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, a laureate of all-Russian and international competitions. As a guest artist, he has performed with such conductors as Mariss Jansons, Teodor Currentzis, Mikhail Yurovsky, Bright Sheng, Charles Dutoit, and others.

As an orchestral soloist and as a member of ensembles, he has performed in many countries, including France, the Netherlands, the USA, Austria, Germany, China, Iceland, Hungary, Switzerland, Taiwan, etc. In 2013, he founded the string quartet “Klever Quartet,” with
which he leads an active creative life, performing at concert venues in Russia, Europe, Asia, and the USA. As the artistic director and ideological inspiration of the ensemble, he has
created numerous cultural and national projects that have received recognition not only in Russia but also abroad. He has been awarded a “Certicate of Recognition” from the California Department of Cultural Aairs and a certicate from the U.S. Congress. He is currently working with the Leningrad Region Symphony Orchestra.2

Andrey Yemovsky graduated from the St. Petersburg Special Music School and the St.
Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, including an internship. From 2014 to 2019 he got
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in the class of Professor Leonid Gorokhov at the Hanover
University of Music Drama and Media (Germany). He has been the artist of the musicAeterna
orchestra since 2022.

He participated in the master courses of David Geringas, Alexander Rudin, Wolfgang Schmidt,
Martti Rousi, Daniel Müller-Schott, Jérôme Pernoo, Boris Andrianov and others.
As a soloist and as part of chamber ensembles, he participated in international music festivals in
Germany, Denmark, Belgium and Russia.

As a soloist he collaborates with the St. Petersburg Youth Orchestra, the State Academic
Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Paulavičius Youth Symphony Orchestra, with which
he performed symphonic variations of Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote in 2020. In the autumn of
2021 he took part in the international literary and musical project Flora that took place in the halls
of the State Hermitage Museum.
From 2016 to 2022 he worked as an artist of the cello group of the Academic Symphony
Orchestra of the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic (Honoured Collective of Russia)2

Rabbani Aldangor began his musical way in Kazakhstan (the class of Zoya Kuznetsova), where
from an early age he performed as a soloist with the Karaganda Philharmonic. Rabbani is a
graduate of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (the class of Professor Alexey Seleznev),
during his assistantship-internship he attended chamber music classes of Professor Alexander
Rudin. He completed his master’s degree at the Amsterdam Conservatory in the class of Pieter
Wispelwey, the specialist in the eld of Historically Informed Performance. He is a prize-winner of
international competitions, such as the International Johannes Brahms competition (Austria), the
International Serge Koussevitzky Competition (Russia), and others.

Rabbani regularly performs at the world’s best venues as an artist of musicAeterna, as well as in
solo programmes. He has performed on such stages as the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, in the Great and Small Halls of the St Petersburg Philharmonia, in the Moscow Philharmonic, the Wiener Musikverein, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Berliner Philharmonie, in the concert halls of Lucerne, Salzburg, Madrid, Barcelona, Baden-Baden, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Osaka, New York and others. As a soloist, he collaborated with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pavel Kogan, where he also was a solo-cellist and the cello group concertmaster, the Moscovia chamber orchestra (Artistic Director — Eduard Grach), the Kremlin chamber orchestra, and others. He performs chamber music in the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra Soloist Ensemble, Île Thélème Ensemble, musicAeterna soloist ensembles, the Hermitage Soloist Ensemble, and others.