Maria Hara – Violin

She was born in Tokyo in 1990. She started the violin at the age of eight, and graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and Conservatoire de Paris. She got a master's degree at Conservatoire, where her research interest was mainly in George Enescu. She currently studies at doctoral course at Conservatoire with Roland Daugareil and Alexis Galperine.
She has won 1st prize at Dichler Competition in 2007, Grand Prix at Romanian International Music Competition in 2009, 1st prize at Ravel Competition in 2015, etc. She has performed in many recitals, chamber music or orchestra concerts in many cities of Europe such as Paris, Vienna, Bukarest.
In 2016, she is going to perform and record Enescu's Caprice roumain with L'OLC, the orchestra of Conservatoire de Paris. Enescu's Violin Sonata is also scheduled to be recorded by her performance.

Yoshiyuki Hara – Piano

Yoshiyuki Hara graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and from Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts. He also passed the examination for musician in Austria. He has performed in more than 250 concerts and recitals especially in Europe and in Tokyo. He is well known as the first Japanese pianist who performed all of the piano solo works composed by W.A. Mozart.
He has released several CDs, which include Schubert's Piano Sonata No.21, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5, Mozart's Piano Sonatas, etc.
He now teaches at Seitoku University as a professor.