Winner of the prestigious 2003 Virginia Parker Prize of the Canada Council for the Arts, given to underline her innovative work as a performer, Julie-Anne Derome studied with Christopher Rowland at the Royal Northern College of Music, UK, and with Mitchell Stern and members of the Emerson String Quartet in the USA. She received a special prize at the 1992 Yehudi Menuhin Competition in Paris for her interpretation of Anthèmes by Boulez, and in 1993 took part in a concert of chamber music for Queen Elizabeth II in Cyprus. In 1996 Julie-Anne released a CD of twentieth century solo violin works on the Atma label and in reference to this recording the BBC Music Magazine hailed her as "a star in the making." She may also be heard on the Analekta and Cyprès labels. Julie-Anne has been a guest artist at numerous international festivals including the Aldeburgh Festival (UK) on two occasions, Musica Strasbourg (France), Ultraschall (Germany), XIII Festival Música Contemporánea Chilena (Chile) and at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK).

According to the magazine Musical Toronto "Prynn has a particularly silken bowing arm and remarkable control. Everything he played was poised, seamless and impeccably shaped." During his career as a soloist, as a member of the Trio Fibonacci, and as a guest artist with diverse ensembles, notably the Ensemble Alternance in Paris, Gabriel has both resurrected forgotten masterpieces and premiered over sixty new works. Gabriel has performed at Toronto’s St. Lawrence Centre, Merkin Hall in New York, at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris in association with IRCAM and Radio-France, at the Aldeburgh Festival (UK) and at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. Gabriel is passionate about teaching and held the position of Visiting professor at Ohio University from 2016 to 2019. He as given masterclasses, coached chamber music, and given workshops at such prestigious institutions as the École Normale de Musique (Paris), University of South Africa, University of Curitiba (Brazil), Royal Academy of Music (UK), Conservatory of Belgrade (Serbia), Conservatory of Nagoya (Japan), Hochschule Hanns Eisler (Berlin, Germany) and at the University of Oxford (UK). Excerpts of his book Taming the Cello, a guide to the interpretation of new music for cello, were published in the December 2018 edition of The Strad. ​ Gabriel est passionné par l'enseignement et occupait le poste de professeur invité à l'Université de l'Ohio de 2016 à 2019. Il a collaboré avec certains des compositeurs les plus respectés de notre temps, notamment Mauricio Kagel, Pascal Dusapin, Jonathan Harvey, Georges Aperghis, Hannah Lash, George Tsontakis et Henri Pousseur. Des extraits de son livre « Apprivoiser le violoncelle », un mode d’emploi au violoncelle contemporain pour les étudiants en interprétation et les compositeurs, ont été publiés dans le magazine The Strad en décembre 2018.

Maxim was born and raised in Russia. Nowadays he is living and working in Montreal, Canada. Laureate of 2004 Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation Award, the 2012 Rachmaninoff International Competition in St. Petersburg, and the 2013 Vienna International Piano Competition. Artist of the Trio Fibonacci, collaborative pianist of the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Maxim Shatalkin graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied piano with Valery Kastelsky, Elena Kuznetsova and Mikhail Voskresensky, and chamber music with Alexander Bonduriansky, pianist of the Moscow Piano Trio. After winning the prestigious Swedish International Duo Competition in 2006 with cellist Alexander Zababurkin, the local press reported: “Shatalkin revealed himself as a masterfully driven piano artist, where nothing was neglected: his performance combined a solid fidelity to style, well-adjusted temperament and overall an incredible, dazzling virtuosity”. As a member of the Kudriakova-Shatalkin piano duo, he was also a winner of the 2015 International Competition Pietro Argento in Italy and the 2016 International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in Boston (USA). Being an exclusive artist of the Trio Fibonacci from 2022, Shatalkin carries out the series of concerts at Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, presented for the last three years more than 30 piano trios. With his ensemble Maxim took part at the concert tours in Quebec and British Columbia in 2023, performing the program of minimalist composers. In 2024 the Trio gave the concert tour in the USA and also represented the province of Quebec with their gala concert at the Centre France-Amériques in Paris. Maxim has taken part in various music festivals around the world, including the Julita Festival (Sweden), the Concert series Science and Music (Germany), the Sviatoslav Richter Festival in Tarusa (Russia), the Ottawa Music & Beyond Festival and the Banff Summer Music Festival (Canada), the concert series Belo Horizonte Concertos Didaticos and Concertos para Belem in Brazil. Shatalkin gave his master classes at the top level United States Universities, including the Colburn School of Music (LA), the Bob Cole Conservatory (LA), Jacobs School of Music (IN), University of Michigan (MI), where he coached students in piano and chamber music. In the summer 2023 Maxim joined the Orford Music Academy as a guest collaborative pianist for the cello class of professor Natasha Brofsky of the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New-York.