Andreï Korobeinikov, born in Russia in 1986, is a renowned pianist known for his exceptional musical and intellectual talents. He started piano at five and debuted professionally at eight. He graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and earned a performance degree from the Royal College of Music, London. Korobeinikov also holds a law degree from Moscow University of Law and has published several academic works. He performs with top orchestras worldwide, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, and Wiener Symphoniker. He is well-regarded in France, frequently collaborating with major French orchestras. Korobeinikov excels in recital programming and chamber music, performing with artists like Vadim Repin and Boris Berezovsky. His recordings have received numerous awards, including the Diapason d’Or. He has won over 20 international competition prizes and currently divides his time between Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Stéphane Delplace is a contemporary French composer residing in Paris with a firm belief that tonal/functional music hides a wealth of unexplored regions. A member of the Phoenix Group, Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire and the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, he received the Florent Schmitt Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts. His works have been performed in France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey, China, and the United States. Stéphane Delplace is published by Editions Durand, Salabert & Eschig, Billaudot and Delatour, and is currently engaged in an intense international concert activity in order to promote his most recent works for solo piano

Giordano Carnevale, clarinetist-composer and music manager, has an academic background and international professional experience. He graduated from the "L. Perosi" Conservatory of Music in Campobasso (Italy) and furthered his studies in Composition at the "Claude Debussy" Conservatory in Paris and in Musicology at Paris-Sorbonne University. He also studied Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths University in London. Giordano co-founded and serves as the artistic director of the Tetracordo Academy Festival. Since January 2024, he has been a resident composer and commentator for "Radio France Musique," where he created the segment "La ligne de démarquage," focused on commissioning new jazz compositions. Previously, he worked as an orchestral copyist for the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and as a music manager for the Fidelio Orchestra in London. Additionally, at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris, he designed and implemented educational lectures on the history, theory, and practice of jazz.

Tom Kirkpatrick attended Bowling Green University, Ohio where he studied music education studies Graduating from Greenon High School, Springfield, Ohio he went on to study trumpet under the guidance of Woody Shaw, Chet Baker, Robert Bowmen, Carmen Caruso, William Adam of Indiana University, Renauld Schlike and Charles Colin, Laurie Frink and John McNeil. He has also studied piano for many years with Professor Robert Wynne of Wittenberg University.

Tom was awarded an honorary degree from the Lizst Academy in Hungary. More recently he has been a popular guest artist, performing in Denmark, Montreal and throughout Italy, visiting and lecturing in Denmark, Hungary, Switzerland, Canada and the US and has given masterclasses throughout Europe, Canada and the US.

He is an acclaimed teacher of jazz techniques.

Stanislav Makovsky, born in Siberia, Russia, in 1988, is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Paris. He studied cello and musicology at Kemerovo Music College and composition at Moscow Conservatory with Yuri Kasparov, later continuing at the Conservatoire de Paris with Stefano Gervasoni, Luis Naon, Yan Maresz, and Tom Mays. He collaborates with ensembles like Multilaterale, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. His music has been commissioned by IRCAM, Teatro La Fenice, and others. In cinema and theatre, he has worked with directors Volker Schlöndorff and Daniel Jeanneteau. Makovsky participated in prestigious academies such as Darmstadt Ferienkurse and Voix Nouvelles in Royaumont. As an improviser, he joined the ERASMUS project at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and the Festival Mixtur in Barcelona. His awards include the Prix Pierre Cardin (2019), Prix Saint-Christophe (2016), and Peer Raben Music Award (2015). He was an artist-in-residence at the Fondation Robert Laurent-Vibert in Chateau de Lourmarin, France (2014-2020).

What happens when the carnival is packed up, the lights taken down, and the transformative potential of the crowd, of communion, replaced by the silence of what comes after the show? for singer-songwriter maví lou, the last decade represented just such a life – years spent recording, touring and traveling with her band The Dove & the Wolf -or as a celebrated session musician (The War On Drugs, Nightlands, Johanna Samuels, Liza Anne, Faye Webster, Natalie Prass, Maggie Rogers), the blend of displacement and euphoria, and then the post-tour melancholy, a nostalgia for the heady experience of life on the road. the sudden expanses of time and how to use it. finding the life she’d known utterly changed, maví lou set herself a challenge – to write a song a day for a couple weeks. these songs form the basis of her upcoming debut solo EP, a suite imbued with a profound sense of longing, constructed of layers of delicate, synth-pop production, all carried on the spectacular, rich, emotive instrument that is maví lou’s voice. in her second single "mt. emotion," maví lou delves into the depths of emotional exploration, grappling with the challenge of keeping her eyes open amidst the tumult of her dreams. through introspective lyrics and trip-hop-inspired beats, she confronts the daunting prospect of facing the future head-on, all while navigating the peaks and valleys of her own emotional landscape.