Roman Bazhilin
(accordeon)

is an accordionist, the winner of international popular music festivals; he wrote music for more than forty performances, Nowadays he teaches accordion at Tambov State Musical-Pedagogical Institute named after S.V. Rachmaninov.

Vadim Galushka
(piano)

Vadim Galushka — a concert pianist, professor at the Tambov State Musical-Pedagogical Institute, Russia.

V. Galushka performs and gives master classes extensively throughout Russia, in cities including Moscow, Tambov, Sochi and Ufa. He has also had successful solo appearances and given master classes in Washington DC, New York and Geneva.

He was the First Prize winner at the National Competition of Young Pianists in Rostov-on-Don, Russia (1991) and at the National Competition of Young Pianists in Krasnodar, Russia (1992).

V. Galushka has participated in the All-Russian Music Festival Muzikalnoe Obozrenie as a concerto soloist in the Poulenc concerto for two pianos (with V. Anfinogenova). Among his other concerto performances are: Rachmaninov's Second and Third concerti, Liszt's First concerto, and Tchaikovsky's First concerto, with the Tambov Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sochi Symphony Orchestra where he worked with conductors: M. Knell (Germany), D. Vasilyev (Russia), A. Mileikovsky (Russia).

In 1997 he was appointed as an assistant to professor Viktor Merzhanov and in 2003 became piano professor, the Head of the piano department and the Dean of the international students department at the Rachmaninov Institute. He is also a piano professor at the Rachmaninov International Summer School in Tambov, Russia.

In 2006 V. Galushka was awarded PhD in music, for the thesis on Modern approaches to establishment of the piano technique in higher education.

Vadim Galushka graduated with honors from the Gnesin's Russian Music Academy in Moscow (class Valentina Zvereva and Artur Bernhardt) and completed a post-graduate course with professor Vladimir Tropp.

He regularly appears on Tambov radio and TV programs.

Alexei Vershinin
(composer)

Born in 1964 in Perm, Alexei Vershinin graduated from the Gnesins Academy of Music (1994) and had a composition internship in the Professor K.Volkov class (1996). He was a laureate in the 1st International Prokofiev Competition, and "Russia's Young Composers" Competition. Now he is a member of the Russian Composers' Union and the Peter Academy of Science and the Arts in St Petersburg. Alexei Vershinin has composed a number of orchestral chamber, instrumental, vocal and choral pieces. His compositions are performed in Moscow, St Petersburg, Tambov, Voronezh, Lipetsk and other Russian cities. At the moment he is a Senior Teacher of the Department of Music History and Theory at the Tambov State Musical-Pedagogical Institute.

Dmitri Chernov
(clarinet)

Dmitri Chernov left with honours the Rachmaninov School of Music in Tambov in 1994 and entered the Gnesins Academy of Music, the Professor A.A. Fedotov class. As a chorus soloist and an instrumentalist, he has toured Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Poland. He regularly appears in concerts on different platforms in Tambov and the Tambov Region, plays in ensembles with Tambov leading musicians. He has also performed in the Jubilee Concert at the Gnesins Academy of Music and "The Clarinet Anthology" concert. Dmitri Chernov is the Leader of the wind group. As a soloist, he frequently plays with a symphony orchestra. Since 1998 he has been a Teacher of the Department of Orchestral Instruments.