Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev, born in Moscow on February 21, 1993. In his early childhood, he already performed a lot on stage, starting from the age of 4. Arseny has won 5 international youth piano competitions, including the New Names Competition in Moscow. In 2016 he graduated Moscow Conservatory as a student and then completed his post-graduate course in 2018. During his studies, being the student of the 1st course, Arseny marked 2012 by an outstanding victory in the V International Scriabin Piano Competition. During the next few years, he became laureate of other international piano competitions. Signing a five-year international recording contract with Decca Classics and Universal Music followed this success. In 2017 Arseny was awarded prestigious “Premio Chigiana” as one of the most brilliant musicians of his generation.Arseny performs with orchestras, such as “Evgeny Svetlanov” Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, LPO, Cleveland Orchestra, Bergen Philarmonic Orchestra, Orchestro della Toscana and many others. He plays in Moscow – the Great, Small, and Rachmaninoff Halls of the Moscow Conservatoire, Tchaikovsky Hall etc. Tours in Europe, Asia, Northern America and Australia.

Timur Zangiev was born in 1994. He began to study music at the age of three, and at the age of seven he conducted the Symphony Orchestra of the Vladikavkaz Philharmonic for the first time. In 2011 he entered the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (class of Gennady Rozhdestvensky), already having experience of appearing with Russia's leading orchestras, among them the Mariinsky Orchestra. Since 2012 he has been a staff conductor with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre. Conducts such operas as Carmen by Bizet, Manon by Massenet, Jenůfa by Janáček, Otello by Verdi, Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini. For the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress in 2019 Mr. Zangiev was nominated for the Russian National Theatre Award Golden Mask as Best Opera Conductor in the season 2019/20.

The Russian National Orchestra was founded in 1990 by pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev. Maintaining an active international schedule, the RNO appears in the music capitals of Europe, Asia and the Americas, is a frequent guest at festivals such as Edinburgh, the BBC Proms and presents the RNO Grand Festival each September to open the Moscow season. Their discography, launched with a highly praised 1991 recording of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique, now numbers more than 80 critically acclaimed recordings. Their recording of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and Beintus' Wolf Tracks, conducted by Kent Nagano and narrated by Sophia Loren, Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev, received a 2004 Grammy Award, making the RNO the first Russian orchestra to win the recording industry's highest honor.  Their recording of Shostakovich Symphony No. 7, conducted by Paavo Järvi, was awarded the Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2015 as the year's best symphonic album, and was nominated for a 2016 Grammy Award.