Einav Yarden was a longtime student of the legendary pianist Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Prior to that, she studied at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University, under the guidance of Prof. Emanuel Krasovsky. She also received piano lessons from Richard Goode, Elisso Virsaladze and Prof. Zvi Meniker (Hanover). She lives in Berlin, Germany. Since October 2024 she has held a substitute professorship for piano at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar. She also teaches at other universities. She also sits on the juries of international piano competitions such as the Franz Liszt Piano Competition Weimar-Bayreuth and the YPF European Piano Competition in Amsterdam. She performs regularly in recitals and as a chamber musician at major concert venues worldwide and plays as a soloist with orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and many more. Natalie Clein, born in the United Kingdom, attracted widespread attention when she won both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the Eurovision competition for young musicians in Warsaw – the only British winner in the competition’s history. She studied with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna and plays the 1777 “Simpson” Guadagnini cello. Described by the newspaper as “captivating” and “sensationally passionate”, she has built a distinguished career and performs regularly with various orchestras. A strong advocate of new works, she gave the world premieres of Sir John Tavener’s “Flood of Beauty” with the Britten Sinfonia and Charlotte Bray’s “The Certainty of Tides” with the Aurora Orchestra. As a teacher, she has been a professor of cello at the Rostock University of Music in Germany since 2019. She is also a visiting professor of cello at the Royal College of Music and performs in master classes and juries worldwide, including at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and the ARD Music Competition in Munich.
