Irma Bau Rubinat was born in Vic in 1990. She began her cello studies at the age of seven under the guidance of Eulàlia Subirà in Manlleu. In 2006, she moved to Madrid in order to continue her studies with Maria de Macedo and then with Lluís Claret in Sant Cugat (Barcelona). At the same time, she attended classes with Albert Bardolet to obtain her Professional Degree at the Vic Music Conservatory. In 2008, she enrolled at ESMuC (Higher Music School of Barcelona) where, under Damián Martínez, she obtained a Master’s Degree in 2012, graduating with the highest honors. In the same year, she was admitted into the Musikhochschule Lübeck, Germany, where she obtained a Master’s Degree in Performance under the tutelage of Troels Svane.

She has attended several professional seminars throughout Europe and the US under the tutelage of professors like Laurentiu Sbarcea, Daniel Grosgurin, Jens Peter Maintz, Cláudio Bohórquez, Cristophe Coin, Alban Gerhardt, Asier Polo, David Geringas, Peter Bruns or Frans Helmerson, among others. She also attended chamber music masterclasses given by the Manderling Quartet, Heime Müller (Artemis Quartet), Kennedy Moretti, Charles Tunell, Lorenzo Copolla, Josep Colom, Cuarteto Quiroga, and the Quartet Casals.

She has been a member of orchestras, among them the National Youth Orchestra of Catalonia, the National Youth Orchestra of Spain, the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, and the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival in Germany. She has collaborated with professional orchestras like the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès, Orquestra de Cambra del Penedès, OBC, Orquestra de Cadaqués, Orquestra de Camara Musicae, and the Philharmonisches Orchester der Hansestadt Lübeck.

In 2006, she was awarded the First Prize in the Chamber Music Competition of Castellterçol. That same year she obtained Second Prize at the Arjau Competition, and in that same competition, two years later, she was awarded the First Prize in the category of Catalonian contemporary music.

In 2011, she won the Anna Riera Competition as a soloist. In 2012, she was declared winner of the ESMuC Soloist Competition, thanks to which she performed at the Barcelona Auditorium as a soloist in the Beethoven Triple Concerto. In 2014, she obtained Second Prize at the Stockholm International Music Competition.

She has participated in educational projects with Costa Rica’s SINEM and Germany’s Musikerkennen.

She is also a member of the Bambú Ensemble, Libercello Duo with cellist Nicolás Cobo, Alma Cello Quartet, and Mademoicelli.

Irina Veselova was born in Barnaul (Russia). She began studying piano at the age of five at the Central Music School of her hometown and continued her studies at the Bernaul State Music Conservatory under the tutelage of Elvira Rossinskaya. While still in school, she won several regional and national competitions and, as a result, gave recitals over many Russian cities both as a solo performer and with the Barnaul Symphonic and Philharmonic Orchestras.

She moved to Moscow at the age of eighteen to continue her professional education under Professor Ksenia Knorre at the Piotr Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, obtaining a Master’s Degree in Musical Studies there in 2010.
From 2011 through 2014, under the tutelage of professor Stanislav Pochekin, she attended several masterclasses at the Conservatori Superior of Liceu in Barcelona.

For more than 10 years, he has been successfully performing in a piano duo with the pianist, Fedor Veselov, at different recitals in Russia, USA, and Spain. In November 2017, they made a piano arrangement and a music video of the Barcelona Football Team anthem, which appeared on TV3 (Catalan TV channel).

She was awarded First Prize at the Nasedkin International Competition in Russia, was Finalist at the 2002 SEILER International Contest in Germany, and obtained First Prize in the Kabalevsky International Competition, also in Russia.