• Rahel was born into a family of musicians in Stuttgart and received her first violin lessons at the age of four. She later studied with Wolf-Dieter Streicher in Stuttgart, with Yair Kless in Tel Aviv, with Michael Mücke in Berlin and with Nora Chastain in Zurich/Winterthur. She was principal violinist in the NDR Symphony Orchestra (now the Elbphilharmonie Orchestra) in Hamburg for three years and regularly plays in orchestras such as the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, the Kammer-symphonie Berlin, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Komische Oper Berlin.

    She has performed as a soloist in Germany and abroad, for example with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Elbphilharmonieorchester Hamburg, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz and the Orquesta Sinfonica Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. She regularly gives masterclasses in Venezuela and is a regular guest at various music festivals in the USA, South America, Europe and Asia.

    Rahel's passion is chamber music. She founded her own annual chamber music festival in Hohenstaufen in 2006 and has performed with Simon Rattle, Magdalena Kozena, Jörg Widmann, Amihai Grosz, Daishin Kashimoto, Guy Braunstein and Jacques Ammon, among others. Together with her sister Sara Rilling and her husband David Adorján, she recorded the music of her Jewish great-grandfather Robert Kahn. Rahel is co-founder of the ‘Prelude Concerts’ series in Berlin, which is dedicated to chamber music for and with children, and she is a coach for international youth orchestras. She plays her own arrangements of classical, jazz and pop music with the string quartet ‘Die Nixen’.

  • Mary Rose discovered her passion for music at an early age in her US home in New Mexico. In addition to violin and viola, she also learned piano, oboe and singing as a young child. 

    Mary Rose received her further musical training in Viterbo, Italy, at the public school Viterbo Cesmi and at the Liceo Musicale di Santa Rosa di Viterbo before gaining her Master's degree at the renowned Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome.

    Also in Rome, Mary Rose won the Giovani Musici competition and has also performed in Italy with orchestras such as the Camerata Fiorentina and Opera Stravaganza.

    Mary Rose loves performing in different musical genres and contexts. She has presented Mexican musical traditions on international tours with the group Romatitlan and regularly brings electronic sounds to the stage with her duo Tornasol66.

  • Mara won awards at a young age in competitions such as Jugend Musiziert and also performed as a soloist with various orchestras at an early age.

    Mara completed her classical studies at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar with Prof Marie-Luise Leihenseder-Ewald and Sebastian Keen and at the Conservatoire National Supérior de Musique in Lyon with Prof Yvan Chiffoleau and Patrick Gabard. She attended masterclasses with renowned cellists such as Michael Sanderling, Francis Gouton and Daniel Geiss. Mara also studied jazz improvisation at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz with Susanne Paul, Peter Herbert, Andreas Schreiber and Christoph Cech. She attended masterclasses for jazz cello with Stephan Braun and broadened her musical horizons with cellists such as Tina Guo and Yaniel Matos. Mara received her vocal training from Amy Leverenz and Maren Kips.

    Mara has played in orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Hessian State Orchestra Wiesbaden and the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, and she also performs as a singer-songwriter cellist with her own songs. In addition to her musical activities, Mara is involved in social projects, for example as a coach for the GRAND JAM music project organised by Eintracht-Stadion Frankfurt and for the Cello Orchestra NRW in Heek.

  • Maria studied cello at the University of Music Würzburg with Prof. Xenia Jankovic. After graduating with honours, she studied in a master class with Prof. Orfeo Mandozzi and attended numerous master classes, including with Heinrich Schiff, Gustav Rivinius and Christoph Richter.

    Maria has won various first prizes, for example with the Trio Majory at the Würzburg Musical Academy Competition and with her own compositions Trio gruberich at the Creole - Global Music Contest in Berlin. She has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Mannheim National Theatre and the Munich Chamber Orchestra, and concert tours have taken Maria throughout Europe, South Africa, South-East Asia, South America, New Zealand and Australia.

    Maria is at home in a wide variety of musical genres, and enjoys playing jazz, blues, bossa nova, folk and many other styles in addition to classical music.

  • Joke began her training as a cellist at the age of six. She studied at the Lemmensinstituut of the LUCA School of Arts in Leuven, Belgium, before being accepted as a junior student at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Antwerp and Brussels at the age of 16. Joke then studied in Hamburg at the University of Music and Theatre with Prof. Niklas Schmidt. During her studies, Joke took part in numerous international masterclasses and learnt from cellists such as Maria Kliegel, Wen-Sinn Yang and Arto Noras. She completed her master's degree with honours in the class of Prof. Johannes Krebs at the Bremen University of the Arts.

    Since childhood, Joke has won numerous first prizes at renowned music competitions such as the Concours de Musique Breughel and the Concours Axion Classics. In 2017, she took first place (Prix Edmond Baert) at the Concours de Violoncelle de Woluwe-Saint-Pierre in Brussels. Due to her artistic achievements, Joke has also received scholarships from various institutions, including the Sinfonima Foundation and Rotary International.

  • Karine studied piano in the class of Prof Detlef Kaiser at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden. She then went to the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig for her Master's degree. There she studied piano chamber music and song accompaniment with Prof. Gudrun Franke, Prof. Alexander Schmalcz and Prof. Jacques Ammon, among others, and graduated with honours. Karine received further musical inspiration from Riccardo Marini at the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome and from the internationally renowned pianist Oxana Yablonskaya. 

    As a prizewinner of various competitions, Karine is both a sought-after soloist and chamber music partner. In addition to her concerts with Salut Salon, she teaches solo recital at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theatre in Leipzig and piano at the Johann Sebastian Bach School of Music. Karine also enjoys organising and realising her own projects. For example, she organised a German-Italian exchange with joint concerts in Rome, l'Aquila and Dresden, as well as two evenings in honour of the composer Avet Terterjan, her great-uncle.

  • Mariya began playing the piano at the age of five. She received various scholarships and won first prizes at national piano competitions in Ukraine as a child, including Kalmiuska Brama in Donetsk, the Karamanov Competition in Simferopol and the Heinrich Neuhaus Competition in Kirovograd. Mariya later successfully took part in the Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte in the Czech Republic, among others, and most recently won first prize at the Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria.

    Mariya received her training at the Kyiv Lysenko State Music Lyceum and the National Music Academy of Ukraine ‘Peter Tchaikovsky’ in Kiev. At the same time, she performed regularly in Russia, Poland and her native Ukraine. Mariya then studied in Germany with Professor Shoshana Rudiakovan at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, where she also completed her training as a concert soloist with honours in 2010. She was supported by various scholarships, including from the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation. Mariya received further artistic inspiration from Leon Fleischer, Dmitrij Baschkirov, Paul Badura-Skoda and André Marchand, among others.

    Mariya performs both as a chamber musician and as a soloist with renowned orchestras such as the Stuttgart Philharmonic.