Grigori Borisovich GORDON was born in Moscow in 1935. Graduated from The Gnessins Moscow Specialised Music School, class of Valeria Listova, a teacher of the famous musicians Emmanuel Grossmann and Stanislav Neuhaus. Then studied with the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus at The Gnessins Music Institute, now Russian Academy of Music.
In 1957, Grigori Gordon was awarded second prize of the World Youth Festival in Moscow. Since then, he has been involved into concert activities in Russia and abroad, and musicological work, having undertaken several publica-tions. As an advisor, Grigori Gordon worked on the publication of Emil Gilels' collected recordings for Melodiya label.
From 1959 to 1963 Grigori Gordon was teaching at the music college of the city of Briansk. From 1963 on, he has been teaching at The Gnessins Academy, now a professor.

Mikhail Victorovich LIDSKY, assistant professor of the piano faculty of the Moscow State Conservatoire, a so-loist of the Moscow State Philharmonic Society.

Igor Vladimirovich NIKONOVICH was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in 1935. Started studying piano at the music school of the Tashkent Conservatoire with Maria Polyanskaya. In 1949 moved to Moscow and entered the class of Yekaterina Nikolayeva at the world-famous Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatoire, and, on graduation, became a student of the great Heinrich Neuhaus at the Moscow Conservatoire. Igor Nikonovich's close communication with Vladimir Sofronitsky, a legend of the world piano art, made a tremendous impact on his artistic personality.
During the period 1956-60, Igor Nikonovich worked as a researcher at the Scriabin Museum in Moscow, and in 1960 started a wide-ranging career as a concert pianist. He made numerous appearances throughout all the USSR as well as in Germany, Italy, India and China. Makes recordings for Moscow Radio, DENON and other labels. His repertoire includes above all music by Scriabin, Medtner and Western romantic composers.
Since 1962, Igor Nikonovich has been teaching at The Gnessins Academy in Moscow. He has been a jury member at several international competitions, gives master classes in Russia, China and Japan.

Ruvim Aronovich OSTROVSKY was born in 1963 in the city of Batumi (Georgia) where he studied at a local music school. In 1978, he entered the Music College of the Moscow Conservatoire, class of Larissa Mokhel. According to Ruvim Ostrovsky himself, his friendly relationship with Leonid Roizman, a famous pianist, organist, musicologist and teacher, were of a paramount importance in his life: "I make bold to consider myself a pupil of Roizman's, and I am proud of it", he says. Later he studied at the Moscow Conservatoire with Professor Gleb Axelrod.
Ruvim Ostrovsky has given his first piano recital in 1978. Since then, he has made a great number of appearances as a soloisy, with orchestras and as a chamber music player in Russia, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Austria and Canada. He also makes recordings for radio and some record companies. In 2000, his 'J.S. Bach/Beethoven' double-CD was issued in Canada.
From 1990 on, Ruvim Ostrovsky has been teaching at the State Conservatoire of Petrozavodsk. Among his stu-dents, there are winners of some major international competitions. He gives master classes throughout the world, e.g. annual courses at Salzburg Festival.
Besides his activities as an artist and teacher, Ruvim Ostrovsky is an author of over 30 musicological articles and a thesis: "Franz Liszt and the Russian pianism of the 19th century".