Marc Destrubé has an international career as a performer of baroque and classical music on period instruments, and performs extensively as soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster and director of orchestras on modern instruments, particularly music of the 20th century and new music. He is a member of the Turning Point Ensemble, violinist with the Axelrod String Quartet (Smithsonian Institution) and was until recently co-concertmaster of the Orchestra of the 18th Century (Amsterdam). His teachers included two eminent string quartet leaders, Norbert Brainin (Amadeus Quartet) and Sandor Végh (Végh Quartet). http://marcdestrube.com

“I love being surrounded by people who make music because they enjoy it. I will continue to surround myself with such people”.  After her Vancouver studies Andrea Siradze moved to Germany, where contemporary music was the focal point of her stay, highlighted by commemorative performances that celebrated composers in person, those that are responsible for shaping the direction of music today. She is a member of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, concertmaster of Lions Gate Sinfonia, and a member of the Microcosmos Quartet. Andrea’s loves are many and include spending time with her family and the wondrous surroundings of the West Coast. Of her future Andrea says, “I’m very happy to be doing everything I’m doing, I wouldn’t change a thing. I’m happy to just play – this is what I want.”

Canadian violist Tawnya Popoff enjoys an exciting and versatile international career.  In addition to being principal violist with the Vancouver Opera (BC), she is a member of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (TX), Turning Point Ensemble (BC).  

She is passionately devoted to developing and performing music by living composers and has been involved in performing over 100 commissioned works, more than half being by women and underrepresented communities.  

Valuing education immensely, she has served on the faculties of the Perlman Music Program, University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, SUNY Buffalo, Bowdoin International Music Festival, The Walden School, and Artes no Camiño (Spain), the Vancouver Academy of Music and in her private studio.    She studied with Gerald Stanick (Fine Arts Quartet) Martha Katz (Cleveland Quartet)

Diederik van Dijk is a Dutch-Canadian cellist with a broad range of musical activities and interests who is equally at home on the baroque and the modern incarnations of the cello. Based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, he divides his time mostly between chamber music and orchestral playing. With a practice spanning four centuries of music history and crossing over into various genres, his musical life has taken him from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw to pub stages in Newfoundland, and to performing internationally at Early Music festivals. Diederik is a core member of baroque ensemble Combattimento. He is frequently engaged as principal cellist with the Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra. In recent years he has also performed with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Orchestra of the 18th Century, the Metropole Orkest, and Holland Opera. Diederik studied cello with Ian Hampton, Eric Wilson, and Marc Destrubé, and baroque cello with Viola de Hoog, acquiring in the process a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Historical Instruments. Every day he is grateful to be able to share his love of music with his fellow musicians and audiences alike.