Tetiana Lutsyk, the violinist with a broad musical spectrum as a chamber musician, soloist, orchestral musician and teacher studied with Prof. Sergey Evdokimov in Kharkiv and Prof. Mariya Futorska in Ukraine as well as with Prof. Leonid Sorokow in Zagreb and Prof. Priya Mitchell in Graz. She is the Prizewinner of many international competitions and has performed as a soloist with renowned orchestras, including the RTVE Symphony Orchestra Madrid, Orquestra de València, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, Lviv Chamber Orchestra, Ivano-Frankivsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Girardi Ensemble. Tetiana Lutsyk has been concertmaster of the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra since 2021. Tetiana has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at many renowned international music festivals such as the Oxford Chamber Music Festival.

Sascha Bota, Violist born in Timisoara, Romania was studying with Gérard Caussé in Madrid, with Thomas Riebl in Salzburg as well as with Walter Levin from the LaSalle Quartet for a post graduate quartet course in Basel. Since he has had the opportunity to play in chamber groups with musicians including Thomas Zehetmair, Benjamin Schmid, Leonidas Kavakos and principal players of the Berliner Philarmonie, the Doric Quartet and the Hagen Quartet. As a soloist, he has performed with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia Banatul amongst others. Sascha has been playing as principal  viola with numerous of orchestras such as the Camerata Salzburg and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. He also successfully won auditions for  the Solo Viola of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra as well as the Australian Chamber Orchestra, where he was appointed as a core member shortly after. Sascha is dedicated to jazz and other forms of improvised music and regularly appears at jazz concerts and festivals.

Sally Bayley is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. As a child, she absorbed the sounds and rhythms of poetry, ballads and folksongs, and these patterns inform the structure of her story-telling. In 1990, Sally was the first child to go to university from West Sussex County Council Care services. She studied at St Andrews university, and then went to America, where she taught aesthetic education in midwestern schools and universities and foundation arts courses to adults in inner city Ohio. She is interested in the Liberal Arts model of education and believes anyone can think or write to a high level with the right encouragement and practice. One reader has described her books as rhapsodies which means ‘to stitch a song.’ Sally is currently a Lecturer in English at Hertford College, Oxford. She also teaches on the Sarah Lawrence visiting programme at Wadham College, Oxford. From 2018-2020 she was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

O/Modernt (Swedish for ‘Un/Modern’) is the innovative concept devised a decade ago by violinist, conductor and artistic director Hugo Ticciati. Combining old and new in unexpected ways, O/Modernt celebrates connectivity in and through the arts, aiming to bring about a heightened awareness of connections that span times, cultures and peoples. Our international programme of activities is focused on exploring artistic links between contemporary culture and the cultures of previous epochs, bringing together people from all walks of life, and re/connecting people with themselves by promoting active, imaginative engagement with music and the arts. Outward-looking, inclusive and passionate about breaking down boundaries, O/Modernt’s philosophy is encapsulated in our motto, borrowed from John Cage: Invent the past. Revise the future. Taking the past as an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists working in every creative field, the O/Modernt spirit of reinvention finds expression in an expansive array of performances, events and projects.

Priya grew up in Oxford and studied with David Takeno in London and Zachar Bron in Germany. She was then chosen as British representative of the European Concert Halls Organisation ‘Rising Stars’ Series. This led to highly acclaimed tours and performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Philharmonia. Priya’s highly acclaimed Oxford Chamber Music Festival inspired The Daily Telegraph to call it ‘a musical miracle’.

Marc Sabbah, born 1988 in New York City is a viola soloist, chamber musician, professor and as of 2012, the viola soloist of the Belgian National Orchestra. Described as”a magnificent player” by legendary conductor Zubin Mehta, Marc is regularly invited as guest Principal Violist of the Israeli Philharmonic. As of September 2017, he has been teaching viola as a guest professor at the Royal Conservatory of Mons, Belgium. Graduating Cum Laude from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Marc was a pupil of Sven Arne Tepl and Nobuko Imai. His recent awards include the 1st prize at the 2016 Rising Stars Grand Prix music competition performing solo at the Berlin Philharmonic hall as well as his recent 1st Grand Prize at the Manhattan International Music Competition with a recital at Carnegie Hall. Having played numerous concerti with European orchestras such as the Belgian National Orchestra, Caso Philharmonic, de Filharmonie Amsterdam, the Hochreinisches Kammerorchester, Marc Sabbah is creating a path as a musical force of his generation. Since 2016, Marc is collaborating with Belgian pianist Eliane Reyes forming the Duo Sabbah-Reyes, a unique duo dedicated to exploring the philosophical and emotional viola and piano repertoire.

Jordi Carrasco Hjelm is a Swedish classical double bass player working with chamber music and improvisation. He studied classical double bass with Rick Stotijn and Olivier Thiery and finished his studies in Conservatorium van Amsterdam with a Masters degree in improvisation studying with the jazz violinist Tim Kliphuis. He lives in the Netherlands where he is a core member of the Asko Schönberg Ensemble who are a leading ensemble in the field of contemporary music. As a passionate advocate for free improvisation on stages for classical music and for chamber music as an inherently improvisational form he has performed in many European chamber music festivals such as the Oxford Chamber Music Festival, Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival Utrecht, Felix! Festival Köln, Ghent Festival, Miesbach Kammermusik festival, KMF Eibergen, KMF Sylt and most notably as a regular guest in Musikdorf Ernen in Switzerland.

Swiss-Italian cellist Claude Frochaux began playing the cello at the age of six at the Suzuki Talent Center, then at the Conservatory of Turin. Studies followed in Frankfurt with Michael Sanderling, where he completed his diploma and his concert examination with the highest rating in the soloist class, as well as postgraduate studies with honours in Essen and Madrid. Besides Italy and other European countries, solo and chamber music concerts have brought him to North and South America, India and China with performances in halls such as the Wigmore Hall and King’s Place London, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Konzerthaus Berlin, Kölner Philharmonie, Musikverein Wien, Parco della Musica Roma, Auditorium Sony Madrid, Arvo Pärt Centre Estonia, as well as the NCPA Theatre Mumbai and Teatro del Lago Chile. In 2008 he founded Monte Piano Trio with which he has won numerous international prizes -Maria Canals Barcelona, Schumann Frankfurt, Folkwang Prize Essen, Brahms Austria, European Chamber Music Competition Karlsruhe. He plays in ensembles such as O/Modernt Stockholm, Chamber Orchestra of Europe or Ensemble Midtwest Denmark and he has gained experience through the years with several orchestras such as Bamberger Symphoniker, English Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Pomeriggi musicali di Milano, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, Spira Mirabilis.Claude Frochaux is the artistic director of Kammermusikfest Sylt, an international chamber music festival that is held on the German island every year since 2012.

Dirk Mommertz, originally a violinist, studied in Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Paris and Cologne. He is a multiple international award-winning pianist and member of the renowned Fauré Quartet, which performs worldwide in the most important concert halls such as London’s Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Tonhalle Zurich, Tokyo, Paris and New York. Their award-winning recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classical have highlighted the quartet as a pioneering ensemble at home in both classical and experimental contemporary repertoire. Dirk Mommertz has performed as a soloist with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Duisburg Philharmonic and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, among others. From 2000 to 2005, Dirk Mommertz was a lecturer in piano at the Karlsruhe University of Music. After 2005, he was Professor of Chamber Music at the conservatories in Essen and Nuremberg before being appointed Head of the Chamber Music Department at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich in 2015, where he has been Vice President since 2019. His other teaching activities include public masterclasses all over the world. His students have won prizes at the ARD Competition, the International Chamber Music Competition in Melbourne, the Concours Maria Canals Barcelona, Mendelssohn Competition Berlin, Concours international de Chambre de Lyon, Parkhouse Award London, German Music Competition, European Chamber Music Competition, Schubert und die Moderne Graz, Beethoven Competition Bonn, Brahms Competition Pörtschach, Haydn Competition Vienna and many others.