Nadia Keshaeva’s musical parkour started at the age of 6 with piano, first in her native Ukraine, then in Lithuania, where her family moved to in 1986. At the age of 18, however, Nadia joins the vocal classes of the Music Conservatory in Klaipeda (Lithuania). She has later mastered her instrument– the mezzo soprano - in the Lithuanian National Academy of Music and Theatre.

 

 Nadia is a prize winner if various international young vocalist’s competitions, held in Latvia, Lithuania and Finland. Her concert activities spread through Baltic countries, and successfully continued in Spain, namely in the regions of Costa Blanca and Castellon. For instance, she performed at the inauguration of the great organ of Segorbe Cathedral.

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Nadia has done a great deal for development of mezzo-soprano repertoire. Namely she made adaptations for this range of largest operatic material, such as "Carmen", "The Barber of Seville", "Traviata", "Cavalleria Rusticana" etc.

 

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 Lola Smolokowski (born Rasulova) has been drown to piano since earliest days; she self-taught herself some simple tunes at the age of 4, only to discover later that it was her own compositions. However the professional tutoring hasn't started before age of 9, due to her parents extensive shifting to countries of their diplomatic missions. 

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 Lola was determined to grasp the great tradition of Russian pianism, which has brought her to participate in multiple television talent shows for children, while studying in Gnessin Music Academy in Moscow. At the age of 18 however she decided to master her craft in Europe, where she is an award winner of various competitions in Italy, Switzerland and France. Her particular favorite is performing with symphonic orchestra, it resulted in numerous recordings of Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Schumann and Shostakovich concertos. Amongst others are collaborations with orchestras such as "Moscow Soloists", „Academic Orchestra of Bonn", "National Symphonic Orchestra of Uzbekistan", under conductors such as Yuri Bashmet and Timm Tzschaschel. During her 10 years of studying in Geneva Conservatory she has found the second passion - chamber music and accompaniment of vocalists. Her mentor in the new role is Sir Dalton Baldwin, the accompanying pianist of Jessye Norman and Barbara Hendricks.

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