Members
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Soko Yoshida was born and raised in Morioka, Japan. She studied violin at the Tokyo University of the Arts, where she earned both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees (modern and baroque violin) with honors. After graduation, she focused primarily on baroque violin performance in Tokyo, collaborating with ensembles such as Bach Collegium Japan, Orchestra Libera Classica, and Les Boréades. She also worked with renowned musicians, including Simon Standage, Sigiswald Kuijken, Albert Lotto, and Francesco Corti.
In 2018, she moved to Switzerland to study baroque violin with Leila Schayegh at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she completed two Master's degrees. Additionally, she studied medieval fiddle with Baptiste Romain and historical improvisation with Nicola Cumer and Dirk Börner. From 2019 to 2021, she was a scholarship recipient of the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs.
In 2022, she won the International Competition for Baroque Violin “José Herrando” (Spain). She has collaborated as a violinist and violist with ensembles such as Cardinal Complex, Il Pomo d'Oro, La Cetra Barockorchester, Capriccio Barockorchester, and La Centifolia.
Her performances have been featured in prestigious concert series and festivals, including Freunde Alter Musik Basel, Festtage Alte Musik (CH), Clásicos en Verano, Festival Música Barroca (ES), Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Kulturfreunde Bayreuth (DE), Festival de Saintes (FR), Palazzo Marino in Musica, Monteverdi Festival Cremona (IT), and Festival Internacional de Música Renacentista y Barroca Americana “Misiones de Chiquitos” (BO).
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Lukas Michael Hamberger, born 1993, began his violin studies at the age of five. He graduated from Maria Kikel’s violin class with honors and received the Bachelor of Arts from the University Mozarteum Salzburg in June 2015. From 2015 to 2019 he studied baroque violin with Leila Schayegh at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and received two master degrees, the second one specializing in the repertoire of the 18. and 19. century.
Lukas Hamberger expanded his studies with Chiara Banchini, Alfredo Bernardini, Amandine Beyer, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, Daniele Caminiti, Ilia Korol and worked with Miriam Feuersinger, Xenia Löffler, Vaclav Luks, Andrea Marcon, Veronika Skuplik, Maurice Steger and others. He is a founding member of El Gabinete de Musica, the Ensemble ConCorda, Ensemble Grenade, the Girandola Quartett and the Ensemble Arcula Canora. Furthermore he performs with La Cetra Barockorchester, Capricornus Consort, La Centifolia, accademia barocca Lucernensis, Chiave d’arco, Abchordis Ensemble, Freitagsakademie and Les Passions de l’Ame. At the “göttingen händel competition 2017” the Ensemble diletto musicale were finalists and received the audience award. With the Ensemble “El Gran Teatro del Mundo” Hamberger won the “Cambrige Early Music Prize” at the York International Young Artists Competition in 2019. In 2020 he was a finalist with Girandola Quartett at the Biagio Marini Competition. At the International Van Wassenaer Competition 2022 he was finalist with Ensemble ConCorda.
He was involved in several CD productions with La Cetra Barockorchester, accademia barocca Lucernensis, Abchordis Ensemble and Ensemble Matis. Hamberger performs all over central Europe and played concerts at the RadioKulturhaus in Vienna, the Festwochen Gmunden, the “Mannheimer Mozartsommer”, the Festival “Winter in Schwetzingen”, at the “forum alte musik : sankt gerold”, the Altensteiger Sommermusik Nagold, the Freunde Alter Musik Basel and the Festival “Classicos en verano”. His most recent performances were at renowned Festivals like at the Markgräfliche Opernhaus Bayreuth, the KKL Luzern, the York Early Music Festival, the Festival Baroque de Tarentaise and the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, at the Innsbrucker Festwochen and the Festival de Saintes - Abbaye aux Dames. In 2023 Hamberger will perform at venues like the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Theater Basel, the Wigmore Hall in London and at the Schleswig Holstein Festival.
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Born in Madrid (Spain), Carlos Leal Cardín began his musical studies in Guadalajara with professors Ángel Luis Quintana and Suzana Stefanovic, continuing his training at the Conservatorio Superior de Salamanca with Aldo Mata. Fascinated by Early Music, he obtained Master's degrees from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (Netherlands) and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) under Lucia Swarts and Christophe Coin, respectively. Additionally, he has received classes with other distinguished musicians such as Anner Bylsma, for whom he played on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
In recent years, Carlos has collaborated with the Freiburger Barockorchester, Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, B’rock Orchestra, Vox Luminis, and Capriccio Barockorchester, working with musicians such as Kristian Bezuidenhout, Jos van Veldhoven, René Jacobs, Iván Fischer, and Shunske Sato. Previously, he was an academist and collaborator with the National Orchestra of Spain (ONE) and the Residentie Orkest of The Hague and a member of the Spanish National Youth Orchestra (JONDE). Carlos has performed in some of the most important venues and festivals in a dozen European and American countries: the international festivals of Granada and Santander, FeMAS, Quincena musical donostiarra, Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato (Mexico), Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, National Music Auditorium in Madrid, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Tonhalle in Zurich, Berlin’s Philharmonie, etc. He has recorded works by Schubert, Bach, and Purcell on CD, and several productions for allofbach.com.
Active in various musical fields, Carlos is a founding member of El Gabinete de Música and other chamber music groups, was a professor at the Young Talent School of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and between 2018 and 2023 directed the Academia de polifonía española, a summer course at the University of Alcalá. He is the president and founder of the Asociación Alonso Mudarra of Guadalajara.