Efrat holds a B.A. (graduated with honors) in Solo Piano Performance and a M.A. (graduated with honors) in Vocal Repertoire Instruction and Chamber Music from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music.

From a young age, Efrat has performed and appeared with various chamber ensembles as well as in recitals in Israel and abroad.Efrat has participated in numerous master classes and festivals in Israel, Europe and the United States: the Tel-Hai piano master classes, the “Perlman Music Program” and the Academie de Musique de Lausanne master classes with Pierre Amoyal and Bruno Canino. She participated in the ISAM International Music Festival as a pianist and musical director.

Efrat works as a singers’ coach in different studios and productions, examples of which include the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, the “Kibutzit” Orchestra, the Yoram Levinstein Acting Studio, the “Maayan” choir and the New Israeli Opera.  Efrat regularly performs as a piano accompanist in various opera workshops -  the IVAI Opera Program in Tel-Aviv and in Chiari, Italy, and the voice workshop held by Prof. Rita Dams among others.Efrat played in a first CD recording of Czech composer Jaromir Weinberer’s pieces for violin & piano, a Deutschlandfunk Köln production.

Since their first meeting in Moscow in 1990, Lord Menuhin became a great inspiration for Alexander and supported him through his school years. Together they performed the Bach Double Violin Concerto in France and Belgium, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in Budapest as well as Bartok’s Duos at St James’s Palace in London.
Alexander has performed in many international music festivals throughout Europe, including the Radio France Festival in Montpellier, the Music Festival in Oldenburg  and at the Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island, USA.
He has been featured as a soloist at many famous venues throughout Europe, including The Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Salla Verdi in Milano and the Barbican London. The Strad magazine has featured Alexander as one of the “Stars of the New Century”. He was featured as a soloist in an important Tchaikovsky documentary by BBC Television in 2007.

He has released two CD recordings for Angel Records (a part of Capitol/EMI Classics group).
He has given a solo recital at London’s Royal Festival Hall, as well as debut performances in New York where he appeared at the Frick Collection Series partnered by Bella Davidovich.

His 2005-2006 schedule included engagements in the USA with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Constantin Oberlian, Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan.

During the 2006-2007 season he will be giving further performances with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in St Petersburg. Alexander also made his debut with the English Chamber Orchestra,  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra.

Anna-Maria has a long lasting experience in playing in different orchestras. So she plays amongst others in the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg and is member of the Symphonic Wind Orchestra Vorarlberg and the Wiener Jeunesse Orchester.

Anna-Maria is also a successful participant and price winner in different international competitions.

He received several awards at Austrian’s music competition „prima la musica“ soloistic as well as in a group. He played concerts with the chamber orchestra „Arpeggione“, the youth symphony orchestra Dornbirn, the Konservatoriumsorchester Feldkirch and the percussion ensembles „VorAllPercussion“ and „perClunia“ in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

He has taught numerous courses on Percussion all over Spain: in Schools of Music, Associations of Music, Youth Orchestras, Universities and Teacher Training Centres. He has also given courses and held clinics both in America (Mexico and Puerto Rico) and in Europe (Croatia and Slovenia).

He has been a member of numerous national and international symphonic orchestras playing as a percussionist and as a timpanist both as a student and as a professional musician. Among these orchestras, it is worth mentioning the Orchestra of Schools of Music of Berlin (Germany), the Youth Orchestra of Tirana (Albania) and the Youth Orchestra of the European Community. He was a soloist timpanist at the Symphonic Orchestra of the Region of Murcia (Spain) from 1990 to 1994 with the head conductor Mr. Manuel Hernández Silva. He participated in a good number of contests and festivals with many Music Bands of the regions of Alicante, Murcia and Albacete (Spain).

As a percussionist, he accompanied soloists of great stature, for example, Luis Julio Toro (Venezuela), Kebin Bobo (USA), Kai Stensgaard (Denmark), Bogdan Bacanu (Romania), Christoph Sietzen (Germany), Samuel Takye (Ghana) among others. As a drummer, he accompanied prestigious artists such as Ute Lemper (Germany), Swingle Singers (France), Robert Bonfiglio (USA), Ira & Claudia Thomas (USA), Lou Bennet (USA), Jorge Pardo (Spain), Carlos Benavent (Spain), Carlos Piñana (Spain), Rosa (TV Operación Triunfo – Spain), Diego Martín (Spain); also percussion bands, some of them are: PERCUSIÓN-PLUS, ETNOS-PERCUSIÓN and PERKUMANIA.

He composed works and made musical arrangements for the percussion groups N’cayman, Alia and Alpaky.

He carried out a great number of recordings for The Symphonic Orchestra of Murcia, The Symphonic Orchestra of Cordoba, The Big Bands of Murcia, Alicante and Albacete, and also for bands of percussion, contemporary music, Jazz-Fussion, Salsa, Flamenco, New Musics, Pop-Rock, Latin Rock, etc. Among these, it is noteworthy to mention the ones done together with Jorge Pardo, Carlos Benavent, Carlos Piñana and for the well-known Spanish singer Rosa (Operación Triunfo), as well as for RNE (National Radio of Spain) and TV. He has performed demonstrations of percussion instruments in Frankfurt Fair (Germany) for the trademarks Consolar de Mar and Jimbao.

In 2003 and 2004 he was on tour with the singer Diego Martín; in 2005 with the singer Angel Rios, in 2008 and 2009 with the percussion ensemble Perku-Va around Mexico, Puerto Rico, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria. In 2010 he performed on the TV programme “Homenaje a la Copla” on Canal 7 (local TV channel in Murcia-Spain).

Nowadays, he is a percussion teacher at the Professional Conservatory of Music in Lorca (Murcia), a soloist of the Symphonic Orchestra of Albacete, a collaborator of the Symphonic Orchestra of Galicia (A Coruña- Spain), Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia (Santiago de Compostela-Spain) and Symphonic Orchestra of Córdoba (Spain). Founder member of the percussion band Perku-Va, (with which he toured successfully in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Slovenia, Croatia and Austria). Founder member and conductor of the percussion band N’Cayman Percussion , with which he was awarded several prizes in Castilla-La Mancha, Alicante and Cádiz. Drummer of Indicco, Ibérica Dixie Jazz Band, Into Jazz, Victor Perona Jazz Projetc and Big Band of Albacete.

Alberto Marquina plays with instruments Pearl, Sabian and Adams.

He has collaborated with various orchestras and chamber ensembles Spanish. Founding member of Perku-Va. He has participated in recordings and radio and television programs in Spain, Croatia, Mexico and Argentina. He has attended and participated in courses in Spain, France, England, Belgium, Holland, Slovenia, Croatia, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, with international high-quality teachers.

His teaching was developed at the Professional Conservatory Ribarroja Municipal del Turia (Valencia) from the current 1988, creating the group which is Perkumanía Ensemble director.

With PERKUMANÍA ENSEMBLE, and participating in numerous meetings, conferences and exchanges of state and international, where he has been getting due recognition, is the organizer of the successive editions of the “International Seminar of Percussion in Riba-roja de Turia” in the who have participated percussionists and teachers, internationally recognized.

Also in the field teaching and dissemination, has developed an ongoing activity providing teacher training courses (Zephyr Godella and Valencia, Ministry of Education of the Generalitat Valenciana and Universitat Jaume I de Castellón) and concerts for school children through various institutional programs in collaboration with the Generalitat of Valencia and the Valencia.

In the field of production has made several first performances in Spain and several premieres of works for percussion group. It has produced the show “Around the World with 80 percussion instruments,” “PERKUMANICÓMIC” and “PERKUTRUM”, “Once upon a time … percussion “with an outstanding success and acceptance by the public. He recorded the CD of carols “Perkutiendo and singing Christmas” with the Choir of Trinity in Valencia with an outstanding success and acceptance by the public.

He has taught classes and workshops in different music schools, conservatories in Spain, Croatia and Argentina.

Toni Flores is sponsored by Sabian, Vic Firth drumsticks Subtracts Pierre Francois percussions, NP (Nova Percussió) and ADAMS

David began an international career as a soloist aged just 11, performing with the Flemish Orchestra of Brussels, the Orchestra from Grenoble and the Polish Philharmonic Orchestra under Lord Menuhin’s direction, and in 1996 he toured England and Scotland with the Symphonia of Warsaw. In 1997 he had a masterclass with Mstislav Rostropovich and after listening to David, Rostropovich asked him to play in his cello sextet. The same year he was also offered a tour in Germany with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. David has also appeared at several international cello festivals including Kronberg (Germany), Manchester, Cambridge (UK), Beauvais (France) and the Gstaad Festival (Switzerland). In 2005, he became Artist in Residence at Peter House, Cambridge.

David was appointed Principal Cello of the Philharmonia Orchestra in March 2002 (the youngest cello principal ever) and currently teaches at the Royal Conservatoire de Musique de Mons in Belgium. He plays on a magnificent cello by Dominico Montagnana circa 1735, thanks to Mrs Pat Morton and the Razumovsky Trust.

David’s solo recordings are available on the Forlane, Classic FM, Cypres-Records and LPO labels.
“…David Cohen, one of the most talented young cellists I know. He was a student at my School for some years, and is altogether a remarkable young man, a remarkable performer and already an outstanding cellist.”
Lord Yehudi Menuhin, 1998

As a soloist he has appeared in the Théatre-dés-Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Cologne Philharmony and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

As a chamber musician he has performed with Konstantin Lifschitz, Rainer Kussmaul, Alexander Lonquich, Thomas Brandis, Daishin Kashimoto, Baiba Skride, Carolin Widmann, Alina Pogostkina, Mihaela Ursuleasa, David Cohen, Adrian Brendel, Gilles Apap, members of the Amadeus Quartet, casal and Voces Quartets at the Wiener Festwochen, Schwetzinger Festspielen, Harrogate Festival, Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove, Ferrarra Musica, Oxford Chamber Music Festival, Boswil Sommer and Kobe Music Festival, as well as in halls like the Wigmore Hall and the South Bank Centre in London, the Atheneum in Bukarest, the Essen Plilharmony and the Prinzregententheater in Munich.

As a member of the Ensemble Raro, he tours regularly Europe, Japan and North America. In the season 2009/10 he performed in the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musashino Hall in Tokyo and both in the Konzerthaus und Musikverein in Vienna.

Razvan played as an extra player with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and has been guest principal violist in many orchestras including the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Essen Philharmonic and the Kobe Chamber Orchestra.

He recorded extensively for radio and television including BR, SWR, BBC Radio 3, MTV, RFI, DRS2, TVR and RRM.

Razvan gave master classes in the Czech Republic, Japan, Italy and Romania.

Razvan is founder and director of the Chiemgauer Musikfrühlingin Traunstein and chamber music series Pélerinages in Munich, Germany and of SoNoRo Festival in Bucharest, Romania.