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Eyþór Franzson Wechner was born in Akranes. At the age of 14, he began
organ studies, first under the guidance of Úlrik Ólason and later with Björn
Steinar Sólbergsson at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland Music
school and the Iceland Academy of Arts. After two years at the University of
the Arts, he went to Germany. At the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig, Eyþór completed a Bachelor of Arts degree
in organ performance in 2012 and a Master of Arts degree in 2014 at the
same school. His main teacher in Leipzig was Prof. Stefan Engels. Eyþór is
currently the working organist of Blönduós church and vicinity and teaches at
the Music School of Austur-Húnvetningar. Eyþór has performed in solo
concerts in Iceland, Germany, Lithuania and Australia.

Semjon Kalinowsky has performed widely throughout Europe, in Israel,
Turkey and Russia. As a member of the Trio Arpeggione and a duo with his
wife, the pianist Bella Kalinowska, he worked diligently to discover new
chamber music, revisit forgotten works, and give well-known works a new
guise. He has expanded the violist's repertoire with arrangements and
releases in collaboration with renowned music publishers, such as Robert
Lienau (Frankfurt), Peters (Leipzig), Hofmeister (Leipzig), Schott (Mainz) and
Bärenreiter (Kassel). For his contribution, he was awarded the title "Honored
Artist of Ukraine" by the President of Ukraine. Semjon studied at the
Academy of Music in Lviv. He received a scholarship from the Polish Ministry
of Education and completed his postgraduate studies at the Academy in
Danzig. He plays a viola made by Johann Babtist Schweitzer from 1817.