Nemanja Belej was born in 1993 in Niš. He has expressed an interest in music at an early age. He has completed the elementary music education in Niš in the class of Ljiljana Kitić, furthering it at the "Kosta Manojlović" Music High School in Zemun, in the special talent class headed by Marija Jokanović, professor at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He has graduated from the Faculty in the same class in 2015, where he is currently attending the master studies. He took part in various national and international competitions and festivals, winning first prizes. He started performing as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of Niš while he was still at the elementary school. Since February 2009 he has been a member of the CEI Youth Orchestra under the conductor Igor Coretti. He has performed with this orchestra in numerous concert halls (Milan, Rome, Venice, Bucharest etc). In 2011 he gave a solo concert at the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art, and won the First award and the title of a laureate at the International competition in Sremska Mitrovica. He has performed as a soloist with the Gudači sv. Đorđa chamber orchestra. In August 2012 and 2013 he took part in the COLLUVIO chamber music international tour, performing in Vienna, Munich, Ljubljana, Split, Sarajevo and Belgrade. In 2012 he represented his faculty at the closing of the A – FEST in Novi Sad. He was declared the best student of his department at the Faculty of music two school years in a row, 2013/14 and 2014/15 and is also the winner of the Meri Žeželj-Majer Prize. Last year he was the winner of the Petar Konjović competition. This year he was the finalist of the Jeunes Musicales International competition, also receiving the Audience Award. He is a member of the Lola klasik string ensemble, conducted by Ljubiša Jovanović, and also of the Gudači sv. Đorđa string orchestra. He kept perfecting his art at the master classes of famous violinists, amongst which: Roman Simović, Stefan Milenković, Uto Ughi, Igor Coretti, Ilija Marinković, Ken Aiso etc. He is currently playing a violin dating from 1893.

Vuk Božilović was born in 1993 in Niš. He began his music education when he was four at the “Davorin Jenko” Music School in Belgrade, continuing it at the “Petar Konjović” Music School, in the class of Milena Matijević. He studied at the “Kosta Manojlović” Music High School in Zemun, in the class of Irena Oparov Dobrila. He collaborated with renowned professors and pianists such as Aleksandar Serdar, Aleksandar Madžar, Igor Lasko, Arbo Valdma, Baruch Meir, Ian Jones...
He is a laureate of the Josip Slavenski competition in Belgrade in 2010, as well as of the Mihailo Vukdragović competition in Šabac in 2011; he also won the first prize at the Republic Competition in Belgrade. He is also a laureate of the Davorin Jenko competition in Belgrade in 2012, as well as of the International Competition in Niš. He was a finalist of the Guarnerius competition and a semifinalist of the Isidor Bajić competition in Novi Sad in 2012. In April 2014, at the Kolarac Hall, Vuk performed the Chopin Piano concerto no. 1 in E minor, alongside orchestra of the Faculty of Music, under conductor Bojan Suđić. He is a IV year student at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, in the class of Lidija Stanković.

Nenad Ivović was born in Belgrade in 1993. He started playing the piano when he was four, in the class of Milica Vasiljević. He graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, in the class of Nevena Popović, as the youngest and most successful student of his generation. He has won over 15 awards at both national and international competitions, amongst which: I prize at the Nikolai Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Paris in 2006, I prize at the National Competition of the Music School Students in Serbia in 2007 (where he was also made laureate), II prize at the Isidor Bajić International Competition in Novi Sad in 2008, II prize at the Citta di Moncalieri European Music Competition in Italy in 2010, II prize at the Arianne Katcz International Competition in Tel Aviv in 2015, III prize at the Jacob Flier International Competition in New York in 2015. He was also the winner of a large international competition in Saint Petersburg, Step Towards Mastery, in 2013 when, aside from the first prize in the highest category, he also won the award for the best performance of a piece by a Russian author, as well as the EMCY special award for an outstanding performance. In the final of this competition he had been honoured to perform alongside the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic. He was awarded the prize of the Faculty of Music from the „Olga Mihailović“ Fund, as the most talented pianist. He was also a semifinalist of the Jeunesses Musicales competition in 2014, also titled the highest ranking pianist from Serbia.
He performed at concerts in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Russia, USA. Amongst these, two concerts particularly stand out: extremely successful recitals in Alexandria and Cairo, and a solo concert in Eindhoven, where he had been invited by the EMCY (European Union of Music Competitions for Youth). He participated at some of the most prestigious masterclasses in Israel and America, where he cooperated with the world famous pianists and professors: Dmitri Bashkirov, Emanuel Krasovsky, Tatiana Zelikman, Viktor Derevjanko, Alon Goldstein, Alexandar Toradze, Vladimir Feltsman, Vladimir Ovchinikkov, Alexander Korsantia and others. He also collaborated with one of the greatest pianists of today, Andras Schiff. He completed his master studies last June, in the class of Emanuel Krasovsky at the "Buchmann-Mehta" School of Music in Tel Aviv. He is currently working as a piano teacher at the "Stanković" Music School in Belgrade.

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