Antoaneta Emanuilova
was born in Bulgaria and moved to Germany at the age of seven. She studied with Wolfgang Boettcher and Jens Peter Maintz in Berlin and with Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School in New York. At the same time, she was a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica, the ZEIT-Stiftung of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, and the Landessammlung Baden-Württemberg.

Antoaneta Emanuilova regularly gives concerts as a soloist and has received several awards, including a first prize at the Domenico Gabrielli Competition in Berlin and the Grand Prix of the “Music and Earth” international competition. Her extensive chamber music work has led her to collaborate with musicians such as Thomas Brandis, Jörg Widmann, Nils Mönkemeyer, Anna Prohaska, Amihai Grosz, Lauma Skride, Pauline Sachse, Martin Spangenberg, Ilan Gronich, and the Kuss Quartett.

In 2007 she won a principal position in the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne. In 2011 she left the orchestra to devote herself more to making music in smaller ensembles, and the following year became a member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Oberon Trio. The Trio performs in the Berliner Philharmonie, Wiener Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Konzerthaus Dortmund, Philharmonie Essen, and Kölner Philharmonie and with partners such as Ian Bostridge, Tabea Zimmermann, and Christoph Prégardien.

Antoaneta Emanuilova has given guest performances as principal cellist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, SWR Stuttgart, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Komische Oper Berlin, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and, playing on historical instruments, the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble. She has also regularly been serving as principal cellist in the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer for almost ten years, and has been a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Claudio Abbado.

Since 2014 she has taught her own cello class at the Rostock University of Music and Theater, including for three years as an interim professor.

Endri Nini
a widely acclaimed artist both as a soloist and chamber musician, has won many awards in competitions such as the International piano competition of Ile de-France in Paris, the Premio Trio di Trieste, and the Kiejstut Bacewicz International Chamber Music Competition in Łódź. Born in Albania, Nini studied with Sontraud Speidel, Kevin Kenner, and Bernd Goetzke. In addition, he received important musical inspiration from Stephen Kovacevich, Aldo Ciccolini, and András Schiff.

He went on to complete his chamber music training in Hanover with Markus Becker and Oliver Wille. As a chamber musician, he has performed with leading musicians such as Albrecht Mayer, Sabine Meyer, Daniel Rowland, Gustav Rivinius, Elsbeth Moser, and Wolfgang Güttler. From 2012 to 2018, Nini was a founding member of the Flex Ensemble, with which he won several awards in prestigious international chamber music competitions, such as the first prize at the international Robert Schumann chamber music competition in Frankfurt and the first prize at the Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award in Lugano.

In addition to two CD albums with the Flex Ensemble, The Arrival of Night and Au Suivant!, he has also released broadcast recordings for SWR, NDR, and Radio 4 Amsterdam. As a soloist he has performed with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, Albanian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra, Karlsruhe Chamber Orchestra, and Tirana Chamber Orchestra.

He has also appeared in numerous concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Alte Oper Frankfurt, National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg as well as at the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Heidelberger Frühling, Festspiele Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, Annecy Festival, Prussia Cove, Goslar International Music Festival, and PODIUM Festival Esslingen. Nini is also a passionate chamber music instructor and teaches at the music universities in Rostock and Weimar as well as at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.