Irena Josifoska was born 1996. in a family of musicians. She started playing the cello at the age of 5 at the music school “Isidor Bajić” in Novi Sad, in the class of her mother, Judit Niederholzer-Josifoska. She attended the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, in the class of Marko Miletić and since last year she has been a student of Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, in the class of Xenia Jankovich.
Irena won around 50 highest awards in national and international competitions. In 2015, as the youngest contestant, she was the finalist of the great international competition of the Jeunesses musicales in Belgrade and won The Audience Prize and several special prizes.
Irena is a recipient of several recognitions, such as: The Provincial award, the “Golden bell” award, “St. Sava award”as the highest recognition being given by the Serbian Ministry of education, the “Stanojlo Rajičić” award for the most successful concert of the season 2009/2010  held at the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, Art-link award for the most promising young music artist in 2013, the main prize of the club “SUPERSTE”-Erste bank.
Out of around 500 public performances (in England, Italy, Germany, Spain, Austria, Slovenia, Hungaria, Romania, Croatia, BIH  etc.), around 80 of which have been recitals and solo performances accompanied by eminent orchestras, such as: Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Orchestra nazionale sinfonica,  Vojvodina Symphony orchestra, Symphony orchestra of RTS, Vojvodina Chamber Orchestra, Dušan Skovran Orchestra, European CEI youth orchestra, Novi Sad chamber orchestra, Subotica Philharmonic orchestra, Banja Luka Philharmonic Orchestra, Norfolk County Youth Orchestra (West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, England),  Zrenjanin chamber orchestra etc.
In April of 2014  “A-records” (Sweden) has issued Irena’s first CD  and in September of 2014 “Art-link” and “Societe generale bank” has issued Irena’s second CD live from the concert).
She worked with eminent musicians, such as: Ivry Gitlis (Israel), Andrea Lieberknecht (Germany), Dag Jensen (Germany), Marie-Luise Neunecker (Germany), Johannes Meissl (Germany)…
Composers Tibor Hartig, Dejan Despic, Svetozar Sasa Kovacevic and Aleksandar Vujic have dedicated their compositions to Irena.

Bojana Peković was born in Kraljevo. She is only affirmed artist who plays the Serbian traditional instrument “Gusle” – lute, in the world. She finished a Elementary School of Music, piano and lute (gusle) department and High School of Music, department for playing traditional instruments and ethno singing. She studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, department of ethnomusicology.
Her musical and artistic career starts at the early childhood and she presents to the wide public by playing lutes (gusle), traditional singing and reciting. Since then, she has participated at almost 500 different eventsin Serbia, Montenegro and Republic of Srpska. She has appeared at more than hundred television and radio shows. She has been awarded first prize at different competitions.

Marko Kovač was born in 1990 in Trebinje, where he completed elementary music school. He graduated from the music high school in Podgorica, in the class of Anka Asanović. He has won both national and international prizes at the various competitions of young pianists. He has completed bachelor and master studies of composition at the Faculty of Music in the class of Isidora Žebeljan. His music has been performed in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, at the festivals such as Cello fest, Kotor Art, KoMA, FESTUM, Lasciar Vibrare... He also performs as a pianist, playing his and also the pieces of his colleagues.
He has attended numerous master classes in piano and composition, with Oxana Yablonskaya, Michele Rossetti, Kyoko Hashimoto, Wei-Yi Yang, Yuri Kot, Vladimir Krpan, Jokut Mihajlović, Ninoslav Živković, Aleksandar Serdar, Ratimit Martinović and others.

Nebojša Maksimović (Belgrade, 1979) started playing the piano when he was 2, beginning his official musical education by the age of 4, at the Josip Slavenski Music School, in the class of Gordana Jovanović. He furthered his education at the Mokranjac Music High School, where he graduated in 1994 as the best student of his generation, in the class of Olga Jovanović. He enrolled at the Faculty of Music the same year, in the class of Mirjana Šuica-Babić. He graduated in 1999 at the top of his class (the piano department), under the mentorship of Nevena Popović, completing his master studies in 2004. He also completed a master’s degree at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome under Sergio Perticaroli in 2006 as a scholar of the Italian government. He also attended numerous master classes with eminent pianists and professors: Lazar Berman, Giovanni Umberto Battel, Sergio Perticaroli and Nina Makarova. His PhD, under the mentorship of Nevena Popović, was the first performing arts PhD ever to be acquired at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade.
During the course of his education, Nebojša Maksimović received numerous awards both in the country and abroad, some of which particularly stand out – first prizes at the competitions in Belgrade and Niš, two third prizes at the international competition in Rome (1995 and 1998), special first prize with maximum points at the International Petar Konjović Competition in Belgrade in 1997, third prize at the international competition in Athens, first prize at the EPTA international competition in Belgrade in 2001, award for the best concert of the season of the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2002, as well as various other awards, both national and international.
He has been a public performer since the age of 4, playing at the concerts, and also playing and recording for the purposes of television and radio shows. He has performed both at the recitals and as a soloist with numerous orchestras in all of the prominent concert halls in Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, Italy and Greece, as well as at the festivals such as BEMUS, A tempo, Dimitrion in Thessaloniki, Opera Barga in Italy and others.
He worked as a demonstrator at the Faculty of Music from 2002 to 2006, followed by an engagement at the Mokranjac Music School in Belgrade as the piano professor, up until 2008. In 2008 and 2009 he worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philology and Arts in Kragujevac. From 2009 he has worked as a teacher at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, becoming an assistant professor in 2012.

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