Since his grandfather stealthily introduced a tiny violin into Adam's childhood bedroom, he has been obsessed with violin music of all sorts; from authentic baroque performance to the most contemporary works and from bluegrass to Bulgarian copanitza…
Andrew Smith studied at the Royal Academy of Music, UK where his teachers included Erich Gruenberg, OBE and Emanuel Hurwitz, CBE. He went on to his Doctorate in Violin Performance at the Hartt School, USA studying with Ida Kavafian, Artist in Residence at the Lincoln Center and as Assistant to the Grammy winning, Emerson String Quartet…
Hungarian violinist Tamás András was born in Budapest and studied at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, as well as at the Royal Academy of Music in London. His talent was recognised at the early age of nine when he won first prize in the youth category of the National Violin Competition in Hungary…