Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, Martyna Jatkauskaite is recognised as one of the leading Lithuanian pianists of her generation. Martyna began to play the piano at the age of five and made her official debut at the age of eleven, performing Bach’s Concerto in F minor, with the Kaunas Chamber Orchestra. In 2005, she was awarded the prestigious Baltic State Scholarship to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Professor Joan Havill, where she completed her Masters Degree in Music Performance with Distinction.

Martina has consistently impressed critics with her technical skills and masterly sense of interpretation of a broad repertory that includes Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and more. Martyna has won numerous international piano competitions, prizes and awards including First Prize at the Giovanni Colafemmina International Piano Competition in Italy and the Guildhall School’s most prestigious award, the Gold Medal.

Martyna has performed widely in Europe and Japan giving recitals and concerto performances in many important venues including London’s Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Cadogan Hall and Barbican Hall, Sala Verdi in Milan and the Megaron in Thessaloniki. She has performed in concerts with the London Festival Orchestra, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra among others, and with noted conductors such as Dirk Kaftan, Vasily Petrenko, Ross Pople and Peter Stark.

Vassilis Saitis is the principal cellist of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra since 2002. He has performed as a soloist with the principal Greek orchestras and in chamber music concerts in Greece, England, France, Turkey and the Netherlands.

He studied the cello with David Strange and Colin Carr at the Royal Academy of Music in London, receiving a scholarship, for his Master studies, from the Friends of Music Society of Athens. In 1999 he was appointed principal cellist of the European Union Youth Orchestra and performed throughout Europe under Sir Colin Davis and Bernard Haitink in venues such as the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Vassilis has taught masterclasses at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki and at the Pelion Festival in Greece, where he also performs with the Cello Quartet, the Cello Ensemble and other chamber music groups. He is a member of dissonArt ensemble, a chamber music group specializing in contemporary music.