Johanna Unterpertinger is a recorder player whose practice includes Early Music as well as contemporary music, improvisation and interdisciplinary work. She is studying in the Master’s programme Recorder (Performance) at the CNSMD Lyon (Class: Tiago Simas Freire). Before, she completed the Bachelor's programmes of Historical Wind Instruments/Recorder and Music Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with distinction. She received important musical inputs from Lea Sobbe, Christine Gnigler, Pedro Memelsdorff, Conrad Steinmann and others. Concerts have taken her to various European countries as well as to Israel, performing with different ensembles such as Ensemble UPS!, duo nadima, Trio Tenso or historically informed orchestras like Orchester 1756 or Concilium Musicum Wien. Her artistic work gets complemented by her work in the interdisciplinary collective et art., where she artistically researches topics concerning climate change in Austria as well as her work in Der forschende Musicus#, a musicological magazine she has founded with some of her friends.
Maddalena Bortot developed her interest for Early Music performance during her Bachelor’s studies in modern violin at the Conservatory C. Monteverdi of Bolzano (IT) by playing in the projects held by the department of Early Music of the school.
After concluding her bachelor's studies, she decided to participate in Masterclasses of Historical Informed Practice like A l'Antica held by Rossella Croce and Cafe Zimmermann (Masterclass of Baroque Violin, Orchestral workshop), organized by Cordia Akademie under the guidance of Sabine Stoffer and Rachel Podger.
Alongside her studies, she is active in many orchestras in and out of the region, both with the modern and the baroque violin. Regarding HIP orchestras for example: Meran Baroque, Labirinti Armonici, Ensemble Cordia, Orchestra Coin du Roi, Accademia Montis Regalis; in January 2024 she became a member of Theresia Orchestra and in December 2024 of the Orchestra FrauMusika.
In September 2024 she started an Erasmus semester abroad at the Escuela Superior de Musica de Catalunya with Alba Roca, where, finding space between the various activities of the department, she started studying medieval music and its praxis, creating the ensemble La Trifora where she plays the viella.
Lucas Rafael de Oliveira Silva is a percussion player that works with early, traditional, classical and modern percussion. He is studying in the bachelor's programme of Interpretation in Early Percussion at the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona (E). He has had the opportunity to study with Pere Olivé, Rui Silva, Murat Coskun, Zohar Fresco, Andrea Piccioni and Glen Velez. In the last years, he had the opportunity to play with the Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa, Orquestra XXI, Conjunt de Ministrills del Consell Municipal de Tarragona, Orquestra D'Aquém Mar and El Parnaso Hyspano.