Anne Huser

Anne Huser, born in Switzerland, began violin lessons at the age of three and gave her first solo performance with orchestra at seven. She studied with Carla Siegrist, Andrée Loew, and Tibor Varga, before continuing her education at the Utrecht Conservatory with Keiko Wataya, where she earned her violin diploma in 2000.

She later specialised in viola under Nobuko Imai and completed her second phase degree in 2002. Anne took part in masterclasses with Ana Chumachenco, Charles-André Linale, Emile Cantor, Milan Škampa, Gerhard Schulz, and Thomas Brandis.

A prizewinner in Switzerland, she received the Leenaards Foundation scholarship in 1999 and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds “Kunstanjer” for music in 2000. She performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe.

Since 2002, Anne has held the position of principal viola of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, performing on a viola by G. P. Maggini, generously provided by the Friends of the RPhO and the RPhO Foundation.

Letizia Sciarone

Letizia Sciarone started playing the violin at the age of 7 with Josef Schebal. At the age of 10, she was invited to perform Luciano Berio’s duets with members of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the maestro himself. Letizia completed her master’s degree with Kees Hülsmann and Janet Krause at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She studied with Zakhar Bron and Natalia Morozova before completing her postgraduate with honours at the Royal College of London with Dr. Felix Andrievsky. Letizia has won various prizes and scholarships, including the Associated Board Scholarship, the first prize of the Ian Stoutzker competition and the prize for best performed Bach. She followed masterclasses with, among others, Igor Osim, Erik Friedmann, Cleveland Quartet and Talig Quartet.

As a chamber musician, Letizia has played in various festivals, such as the Schleswig Holstein Festival, Montodon Festival, Gergiev Festival in various formations. With her former Sciarone String Trio she has played for HRH Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. In addition, Letizia also directed several productions that united music, theater, and dance that resulted choreographing Kurt Weil’s Youkali, where she danced while playing the violin, and directing Hindemith’s Minimax, where the quartet acted while playing. As the artistic director of the Meneone Foundation, Letizia also had festivals for young talented people where young people played an instrument but also acted and danced at the same time. Recently Letizia has also arranged some well known pieces for quartet.

Letizia played as a soloist with various orchestras, including the Festival Orchestra Virtuosi of the year 2000 in St. Petersburg, with The European Union Chamber Orchestra in India and Dubai and a benefit concert with the Kensington Symphony Orchestra in London that was broadcast on Sky One. After touring extensively around the world with The European Union Chamber Orchestra. Letizia has been a member with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 2002 till 2023.

In addition to being a performer, Letizia is also active coaching students, being professor at Codarts as main subject and orchestral teacher. Letizia has also been professor for orchestral lessons at the Royal Music College of The Hague beside teaching at the Pivo, the Hellendaal institute, and Akademie Musical Talent academy, all preparatory courses for talented children. Beside violinist, Letizia also works as an education scientist via L&D Talents.

Vlad Stanculeasa

Romanian violinist Vlad Stanculeasa leads a rich musical life as soloist, concertmaster, conductor, teacher, and chamber musician across Europe, Asia, and South America.

As a chamber musician, he has performed with many of the world’s most celebrated artists, including Janine Jansen, Viktoria Mullova, Tabea Zimmermann, Maxim Vengerov, Andreas Brantelid, and Jeremy Menuhin. He was awarded top prizes at the George Enescu International Violin Competition and the Valsesia Musica International Competition, and received the Enescu Prize for his performance of Impressions d’enfance.

As a soloist, Vlad has appeared with orchestras such as the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Basel Chamber Orchestra, and George Enescu Philharmonic, working with conductors including Kent Nagano, Lahav Shani, Han-Na Chang, and Ludovic Morlot.

He served as concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (2010–2019) and held the same position with the Spanish National Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, and the Basel Chamber Orchestra, where he often led performances without a conductor. He is currently concertmaster of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, and from the 2025–2026 season, of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a guest concertmaster, he has worked with orchestras such as the Bamberger Symphoniker, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, Jaap van Zweden, Christoph Eschenbach, and others.

Vlad studied at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad with Alberto Lysy and Liviu Prunaru, and later in Lausanne with Pierre Amoyal.

He released two acclaimed recordings: Romanian Impressions with pianist Thomas Hoppe (2013) on RCA Red Seal/Sony, devoted to Romanian concert music, was praised by The Strad for picture-painting that is “subtle and brilliant,” and for a warm tonal quality that vividly conveys the folkloric character. In 2017, he recorded Pyramids, with pianist James Maddox, featuring works by Nielsen, Messiaen, and Enescu.

A passionate educator, Vlad teaches at the Superior Conservatory of Music in Barcelona (ESMUC), has been guest professor in Gothenburg, and gives masterclasses throughout Europe and South America. He is also the founder and artistic director of the NUME Academy & Festival in Italy—a tuition-free masterclass series hosting renowned artists such as Augustin Hadelich, Belcea Quartet, Steven Isserlis, Tabea Zimmermann, Gidon Kremer, Enrico Pace, Alban Gerhardt, Frans Helmerson, Mihaela Martin.

Driven by a deep fascination with musical expression, Vlad studied conducting with Daniel Gazon and earned his master’s degree in orchestra conducting at the Royal Conservatory in Mons, Belgium.

He plays a 1775 Lorenzo Storioni violin, formerly owned by George Enescu and lent to him by the Tharice Foundation.

Daniel Petrovitsch

Daniel Petrovitsch was born in Aachen and received his first cello lessons at the age of 9. In addition to his studies with Young Chang Cho, Johannes Goritzki and Frans Helmerson, he took masterclasses with Menahem Pressler (Beaux Arts Trio), the Alban Berg Quartett and Ferenc Rados.

Daniel has performed as a soloist with various orchestras (including the Baden Baden Philharmonic) in the concertos of Beethoven, Haydn, Tchaikovsky and Boccherini. He was cellist of the symphony orchestra “Santa Cecilia” (Rome) and the Residentie Orchestra The Hague. He has played regularly in the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Ensemble Modern. Since 2010, Daniel has been associated with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra as associated principal cellist.

As a valued chamber musician, he can be heard at festivals and concerts throughout Europe and South America. Daniel plays a cello by Michael Platner, on loan from the Kleijn van Willigen-Goddard Foundation.

Beside being a member of the Roterodamus Ensemble, Daniel is also member of the Platner string trio, named after his cello.

Roderigo Robles de Medina

The Surinamese-Dutch pianist Roderigo Robles de Medina, a laureate of several prestigious international competitions, was a student of Mila Baslavskaja and Jan Wijn in the Netherlands, Sulamita Aronovsky at the Royal Northern College of Music, England, and Sergei Markarov at the Ecole Normale de Musique, France. Roderigo was a laureate at the  Eduard Flipse Competiton in Rotterdam (1987),  at the international piano competition ‘Citta di Senigallia’ in Italy (1988) and at the Competiton of the École Normale de Musique and the Alliance Française in Paris (1999).

Roderigo has performed in major international halls as recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with critically acclaimed performances at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Glinka Hall St. Petersburg (White Nights Festival); Weill Recital Hall, New York and the Sala Cecilia Meireles in Rio de Janeiro.

As a soloist Roderigo performed in concerts in Montevideo for Sembrando Talentos Uruguay and SODRE and has played Beethoven’s fourth piano concerto in Panama City as part of the International Chamber Music Festival “Alfredo de Saint Malo”. As a duo with Uruguayan pianist Mariana Airaudo he performed Martinu’s Concerto for 2 pianos with the Symphonic Orchestra of Montevideo under Ligia Amadio in 2021.

As a valued chamber music musician, Roderigo can be heard at festivals and concerts throughout the world. With cellist Katya Dirven-Didychenko he has recorded the Beethoven cello sonatas. As a collaborative pianist, Roderigo has performed with many outstanding artists. He has been a collaborative pianist at Interharmony International Music Festival since 2016.

Roderigo dedicates himself to performing music by Surinamese classical and contemporary composers. He has a special collegiality and collaboration with American composer Steven Sacco, having performed several of the latter’s solo and chamber works. 

In addition to being a performer, Roderigo is also active coaching students, being staff pianist and head of the classical piano department at Codarts University for the Arts, Rotterdam. Giving masterclasses in Buenos Aires at the Conservatorio Nacional de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires “Astor Piazzolla” and in Montevideo for Sembrando Talentos Uruguay and SODRE.

Rachel Browne

Rachel Browne, born in Manchester, studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and later at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam with Herman Krebbers.

A passionate chamber musician from a young age, she has performed with numerous ensembles, including the Mirecourt and Camilli Quartets. With the Camilli Quartet, she explored a wide range of repertoire, notably premiering and recording Michael Nyman’s String Quartet No. 4, released on EMI.

Rachel was a member of the Amsterdam Philharmonic and the Radio Chamber Orchestra before joining the first violin section of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in 1988.

Veronika Lénártova

Veronika Lénártová, born in Bratislava, Slovakia, earned her Master’s degree in 2009 at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, studying under Ron Ephrat. She went on to complete her doctoral studies in 2011 at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic.

Veronika is a prizewinner of the Slovak Interconservatory Competition and the International Beethoven’s Hradec Competition in the Czech Republic. As a soloist, she has performed with the Olomouc Symphony Orchestra, the Youth Vienna Orchestra, and the WSKOV Wageningen Student Orchestra, interpreting works by Mozart, Bruch, and Martinů.

In 2007, during the Bartók Festival, she had the opportunity to work with renowned violist Kim Kashkashian and has participated in masterclasses with leading musicians including Pinchas Zukerman, Hatto Beyerle, and Thomas Riebl.

A passionate chamber musician, Veronika has performed with ensembles such as The Hague String Variations, the Redon Piano Quartet, and Trio Aubade.

Since 2009, she has been a member of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

In addition to being a performer, Veronika is also active coaching students, being Orchestral teacher at Codarts University for the Arts, Rotterdam.

Mario Rio

Mario Rio, born in Switzerland, studied with Walter Grimmer at the Bern Conservatory and later with the legendary Maurice Gendron in Paris.

In 1984, he was invited to join the World Youth Orchestra as co-principal cellist during its U.S. tour. There, he co-founded the Arias String Ensemble, a string sextet with which he performed extensively in the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, and Mexico.

He participated in the prestigious winter program of the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, where he collaborated with renowned artists such as Peter Oundjian, György Sebők, and Leon Fleisher.

As a soloist, Mario has performed works by Boccherini, Dvořák, Saint-Saëns, and Lutosławski, among others. Deeply committed to chamber music, he is active in various ensembles and projects both in the Netherlands and internationally. Mario also enjoys bringing together theatre and music, as he did in Hindemith’s Minimax, where the quartet performed while acting.

Since 1989, he has been a member of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.