Sergei Babayan is an Armenian-American pianist born on January 1, 1961, in Gyumri, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union. He began studying piano at age six with Luiza Markaryan and later with Georgy Saradjev. He continued his education at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Naumov, Vera Gornostayeva, and Mikhail Pletnev. In 1989, he moved to the United States and won first prize in both the Cleveland International Piano Competition and the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition. 

He subsequently received top honors at the Palm Beach, Hamamatsu, and Scottish International Piano Competitions, as well as third prize at the Busoni International Piano Competition. Babayan has performed with orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester, London Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, under conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Yuri Temirkanov, Tugan Sokhiev, Neeme Järvi, Rafael Payare, and David Robertson. His repertoire includes works by composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Witold Lutosławski, György Ligeti, Vladimir Ryabov, and Arvo Pärt. He has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Konzerthaus Berlin, and Munich’s Prinzregententheater, and at festivals such as the Salzburger Festspiele, Verbier Festival, and Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron. 

Babayan served as artist-in-residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music from 1992 to 2024. He joined the faculty of The Juilliard School in 2013 and Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts in 2023, where he currently holds the Joel Estes Tate Endowed Chair in Piano and serves as artist-in-residence. His students have included pianists Ching-Yun Hu, Stanislav Khristenko, and Daniil Trifonov. 

Babayan signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon in 2018, with his first release on the label featuring piano four-hand transcriptions of works by Prokofiev in collaboration with Martha Argerich.

Eva Gevorgyan is a Russian-Armenian pianist and composer born on April 15, 2004, in Moscow. She studies piano at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory under Natalia Trull and at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid with Stanislav Ioudenitch. She is also a scholarship holder of the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein and has studied at the International Piano Academy “Lago di Como” in Italy with Stanislav Ioudenitch, William Grant Naboré, and Dmitri Bashkirov. 

Gevorgyan has participated in master classes with Paul Badura-Skoda, Pavel Gililov, Grigory Gruzman, Piotr Paleczny, and Boris Petrushansky. She is a laureate of over forty piano competitions, including top prizes at the 2018 Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists, the 2019 Van Cliburn Junior Competition, and the 2023 Prix du Bern in Switzerland. She received the Discovery Award at the 2019 International Classical Music Awards, the Grand-Prix Prize at the 2021 Russia National Orchestra Competition, and was a finalist and special prize winner at the 2021 Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. 

She has performed with orchestras such as the Dallas Symphony, Lucerne Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Mariinsky Orchestra, Russian National Philharmonic, and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia. Her festival appearances include the Verbier Festival, Ruhr Klavier Festival, Duszniki International Chopin Festival, and La Roque d’Anthéron Festival. 

She has performed at major venues including the Royal Albert Hall, KKL Lucerne, Gewandhaus, Mariinsky Concert Hall, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Asahi Hall in Tokyo, and Salle Cortot in Paris. Her debut recording, featuring works by Chopin and Scriabin, was released by Melodiya in 2022. 

Gevorgyan has appeared with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Vasily Petrenko, Lawrence Foster, and Alexander Sladkovsky. She was awarded the title of Young Yamaha Artist in 2021 and received a scholarship from the Ruhr Piano Festival in 2020, selected by Evgeny Kissin.

"Eva Gevorgyan took full, authoritative charge of the solo part. Her articulation had all of the point and specificity one could wish for. The marble patina of her sonority at all dynamic levels evoked memories of notable Russian luminaries like Emil Gilels and Bella Davidovich"

- Gramophone

“His art of phrasing, his lyricism, the nuances and the perfect control of dynamics, the transparency and, if necessary, the stupendous virtuosity are outstanding. His playing thus always emanates the aura of the highest artistic goal and finest sensitivity.”

– Pizzicato

Roman Lopatinsky is a pianist and graduate of the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after Tchaikovsky, where he studied under Sergei Ryabov. He is a laureate of several international competitions, including the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition, the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, and the Hamamatsu Piano Competition. Lopatinsky has appeared at music festivals such as the Newport Festival, Animato, and the Heidelberg Frühling Festival. 

His concert performances have taken him to venues including Ginza Hall in Tokyo, Steinway Hall in New York, Salle Cortot in Paris, Noosa Arts Theatre in Australia, Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Act City Hamamatsu Concert Hall in Japan, and both the Musikverein Gläserner Saal and Konzerthaus Schubert Saal in Vienna. He has worked with conductors such as Michael Sanderling, Francesco Omassini, Marco Boni, Takaseki Ken, Tao Fan, Theodore Kuchar, Nicolas Krauze, and Volodymyr Sirenko. 

Lopatinsky also performs regularly as a member of the NotaBene Chamber Group and the Liatoshynsky Trio.