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 Efimovsky 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

Ilya Izmaylov began studying music at the age of six, first
learning piano and later taking up the cello. In 2016, he
graduated from the Secondary Specialized Music School
affiliated with the Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State
Conservatory, and in 2022 he graduated from the
Conservatory itself. In 2024, he completed a postgraduate
assistantship program in the class of A. N. Vasilyev

Since 2022, he has been a member of the cello section of
the Honored Collective of Russia Academic Symphony
Orchestra of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia under the
direction of Nikolai Alexeev.
Ilya is a laureate of the IV All-Russian Music Competition
(2023), as well as other prestigious international
competitions, including the Mravinsky International
Competition (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2016), the Glazunov
International Competition (Paris, France, 2014), and others.
He is also a prizewinner of the International Music
Competition in two categories — “Solo Performance” and
“Chamber Ensemble” (Stockholm, Sweden, 2012), as well
as the International Performance Competition “Saint
Petersburg Christmas Assemblies” in the “Chamber
Ensemble” category (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2011).
He has participated in international festivals such as the
“CLASSICA Forum” (Saint Petersburg and Moscow), the
Milda Agazaryan International Harp Festival (Moscow),
and the “In Corpore” International Chamber Music Festival
(Tallinn, Estonia, 2013).
Ilya Izmaylov performs both as a soloist and as a member
of chamber ensembles at various concert venues in Saint
Petersburg, including the Small Hall of the Philharmonia
and the Glazunov Hall of the Saint Petersburg
Conservatory. As a soloist, he has performed with
orchestras in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and Bern
(Switzerland). He has also appeared in concerts in
Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Finland, Italy, Austria,
Slovenia, and Estonia.
In 2014 and 2015, he participated in the youth orchestra of
the “Verbier Music Camp” as part of the international
summer festival in Verbier, Switzerland.