Adrien Jurkovic

After studying the violin in Marseille, Adrien Jurkovic was admitted in 2009 to the "Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris" in Ami Flammer and Frédéric Laroque's class.

In 2014 he was admitted to the HfM « Hanns Eisler » Berlin with the Prof. Ulf Wallin, where he obtained in 2018 his Master Degree. He also participated to master-classes with Eberhard Feltz, Roland Daugareil, Andràs Keller, David Alberman, members of the Ysaye Quartet and the Alban Berg Quartet.

He played in different orchestras conducted by Peter Eötvös, Susanna Mälkki, Jonathan Nott, Tugan Sokhiev, Andris Nelsons, Riccardo Chailly, with « l'Orchestre de Paris » and the "Deutsches Symphonie Orchestra" within the framework of their academies.

He participated in many chamber music concerts in differents festivals, in France or abroad («Les Folles Journées de Nantes» in Nantes and in Tokyo, « Concertos Para Belém III » and «Concertos Didáticos UFMG » in Brazil, «Le Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence», « Les Vacances de Monsieur Haydn »…), with musicians such as Jean-François Heisser, Mathieu Herzog, Luis Fernando Pérez, Claire Désert or Yovan Markovitch.

He is regularly invited by the chamber orchestra « les Harmonies d'Orphée » to play as a soloist, and he worked with composers like Ahmed Essyad, Benjamin Attahir, Ondřej Adámek, Matan Porat, Stephane Delplace…

Deeply attached to chamber music, Adrien is a founding member of Quatuor Agate with whom he plays since 2016 in various international venues and festivals. The quartet gets the opportunity to study with Prof. Feltz, Mathieu Herzog and Luc-Marie Aguera and, on a regular basis, works with members of the Alban berg Quartet. In 2016, they create the CorsiClassic Festival, a chamber music festival in summer in Corsica.

Adrien Jurkovic won the City of Marseille's first prize, the Bouches-du-Rhône's first prize, the first prize in Bellan competition, and the third prize in Lion’s Club national competition. 
Adrien plays a violin attributed to Giuseppe Giovanni Guarneri, generously loaned to him by the Dr Peter Hauber.

Thomas Descamps

After studying in Bordeaux with great teachers such as Micheline Lefebvre, Thomas Descamps moves to Paris to further his musical education with Christophe Poiget and Alexis Galperine in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique where he is brilliantly admitted in 2013.

He is then also prizewinner in the Vatelot-Rampal Competition in Paris. In 2016, he graduates with the highest marks.

Always great enthusiast of chamber music and especially of string quartet, Thomas starts to follow the teaching of the Quatuor Danel very young, and pursue his passion by participating in many masterclasses with great musicians such as Eberhard Feltz, members of the Quatuor Ébène and Quatuor Ysaÿe.

In 2016, he finally founds the Quatuor Agate in Berlin with whom he gets the opportunity to study with Prof. Feltz, Mathieu Herzog and Luc-Marie Aguera, and on a regular basis, to work with members of the Alban Berg Quartet. As a quartet, they create in 2016 the chamber music festival CorsiClassic.

Also interested in enriching his experience, his curiosity brought him to the symphonic repertoire.

Member of the Gustav Malher Jugendorchester from 2013 to 2016, and of the Deutsches Symphonie-Ochester Berlin Academy from 2016 to 2018, Thomas had the chance to play with great conductors such as Robin Ticciati, Jonathan Nott, Philippe Jordan or Christoph Eschenbach, in the most beautiful halls in Europe, Philharmonies in Berlin and Paris, Musikverein Wien, Royal Albert Hall in London.

Thomas plays on a Omobono Stradivari violin.

Raphaël Pagnon

Born in 1992, Raphaël Pagnon started the violin in Marseille then Paris with Annick Roussin and Christophe Poiget.

At the age of 18, he began viola with Michel Michalakakos and was admitted the same year to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMDP) in the class of Pierre-Henri Xuereb. He graduated in 2015 with the highest marks. He has also received advice from Yuri Bashmet, Atar Arad, Garth Knox, Tabea Zimmerman.

As a violinist, Raphaël was the winner of the Grand Prix du Département des Bouches du Rhône and a prize winner at several competitions as a violist including Tertis competition, Concours Bellan, International Viola Competition in Cremona. He’s supported by the »Fondation Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot ».

A chamber music enthusiast, Raphaël has performed with renowned musicians including Dong Suk Kang, Pascal Devoyon, Jérôme Pernoo, Dejan Bogdanovic. Founding member of Quatuor Agate, he is currently studying quartet in Paris with Mathieu Herzog from Quatuor Ébène and Luc-Marie Aguera from Quatuor Ysaye. He had also the opportunity to work with members from Vogler Quartet, Gerhard Schultz and Günter Pichler from Alban Berg Quartet, Eberhard Feltz in various master classes.

Also interested in orchestra repertoire, he was a member of the Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie directed by Daniel Barenboim from 2016 to 2018. On this occasion, he performed with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Simon Rattle, Paavo Järvi or James Levine in opera, ballet and symphonic repertoire. He’s also committed in different orchestra projects like Les Dissonances or Ensemble Appassionato.

Raphaël plays a viola made by Friedrich Alber in 2014.

Simon Iachemet

Born in Toulouse, Simon Iachemet began cello at the age of 6 with Lluis Claret and Juliane Trémoulet in Conservatoire de Toulouse.

After a faultless course, where he got his first prize of cello with very honors in the class of Antoine Foucher and Philippe Muller, guest teacher in Toulouse, he also obtained chamber music first prizes in string quartet and piano trio in class of Michel Poulet (former cellist of the Ysaye Quartet), Simon Iachemet is admitted at CRR of Boulogne-Billancourt in the prestigious class of Xavier Gagnepain.

Awarded a first prize of Perfectionnement unanimously, he continued his bachelor studies at the Conservatoire National de Paris in the class of Thomas Duran. He was then also prizewinner in the Vatelot-Rampal Competition in Paris.

He has benefited advices from Philippe Muller, Lluis Claret, Jens Peter Maintz, Sung Won Yang, Jérome Pernoo, Jean Guihen Queyras, Xavier Philips, Nicolas Altsteadt, Troels Svane, Claire Désert, Jean Frédéric Neuburger and Stephan Picard.

Deeply attached to chamber music, Simon is a founding member of Quatuor Agate with whom he plays since 2016 in various international venues and festivals. The quartet gets the opportunity to study with Prof. Feltz, Mathieu Herzog and Luc-Marie Aguera and, on a regular basis, works with members of the Alban berg Quartet. In 2016, they create the CorsiClassic Festival, a chamber music festival in summer in Corsica.

Also very interested in orchestral profession, Simon is selected in 2014 for the Academy of the Orchestre de Paris and has the chance to play under the baton of conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi, Paavo Järvi, Tugan Sokhiev, Yutaka Sado in Halls like the Berliner Philharmonie, Lisinski Hall in Zagreb, Philharmonie de Paris, the Salle Pleyel, Salle Gaveau, the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, Villa Medici in Roma…

Simon is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin in the class of Prof. Stephan Forck.

He plays a cello made by Patrick Robin.