Nataliya Striku (mandolin) was born in Dniprpetrofsk, Ukraine and started music lessons at a very young age at her home town. She studied string instruments and especially the domnra in the State Conservatory of Dnyprpetrofsk and Music Pedagogy at the University of Krivoj Rog. In Wurzburg and in Vienna, she started mainly specializing on the mandolin. She has performed in many European countries as a soloist, accompanied by piano or orchestra and as member of a chamber music ensemble. She is a regular leading member in various string ensembles and guest in many symphonic orchestras among which, I Maestri of London, the Cyprus Symphonic Orchestra, the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchestra of Austria and the State Vienna Opera in works by Verdi, Muller, Respighi, Prokofiev.

Rosa Poulimenou (Mezzo Soprano) studied piano and music theory in the Corfu Conservatory, and classical singing at Athenaeum Conservatory. She continued her studies in Musicology and Classical Song at the University of London, Birmingham and at the Universität für Musik Darstellende Kunst in Vienna from where she received her Master’s degree in Lied and Opera singing. She studied operatic repertoire and performance with various prominent professors like F. Voutsino, R. Yakar, H. Wagner and C. Ludwig. She won scholarships from the Académie Musicale de Villecroze, Académie Internationale de Musique “Maurice Ravel, “Crear” and Internationale Bachakademie, Stuttgart.

She has performed in many venues in Greece, Italy, Spain, Israel, Belgium, France, UK, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Thailand and USA, works of opera and musical theater. She has worked as a soloist with various ensembles and orchestras including Melos Brass, Il Canto delle Muse, Almasis Ensemble, Orchestra of Colors, Slieven Symphonic Orchestra, Athens State Orchestra, Thessaloniki State Orchestra, Manhattan Philarmonia of New York, Camerata, Athens Municipality Orchestra, National Television Orchestra, Royal London Philharmonic. Among th eusical directors she has worked with are Miltos Logiadis, Alkis Baltas, Loukas Karytinos, Peter Tiboris, Helmuth Rilling, Anthony Walker Daniel Hoyem-Cavazza and Alessandro Ferrari. She is currently professor and cultural director of the Monody Studies at the Department of Music Studies at the Ionian University, Corfu. She has also taught also at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, Fondazione Paolo Grassi, Conservatorio di Monopoli, (Italy), Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien, Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien, Austrian Arts Sessions, University of Mahidol (Thailand), University of Nevada, Las Vegas and William and Mary College, Virginia (USA). She has also recorded songs and operas by Greek composers for the Alternative Stage of the National Opera, the Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University and for other musical organizations.