Andrea Zanchetta (violin)

Andrea Zanchetta was born in Italy. Since the age of 15 he has given over 1500 concerts as soloist and chamber musician. He graduated from the State Conservatory of Venice with high distinction in violin, string quartet and chamber music performance. He has won prizes at international competitions for violin and chamber music, such as the Premio Gorizia in Italy and others.

Andrea's teachers and mentors include the world renowned violin pedagogue Zinaida Gilels, Franco Rossi, cellist of the Quartetto Italiano, pianist Eugenio Bagnoli and Henryk Szeryng.

As a soloist and chamber musician Andrea has played in many important venues among Europe, Japan and Australia. In recent years he has been focusing on the Italian virtuoso music of the 18th and 19th centuries on both modern and baroque violin, bringing new life to over 50 different works by Vivaldi and many rare works by Paganini and Tartini in performances with the string orchestra Interpreti Veneziani. Several of these concerts were broadcast on television in Europe and Japan. He has recorded 12 CD's for the Rivoalto and Nuova Era labels.

Andrea came to Hong Kong in 2007. He has appeared as a soloist with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong.

Nancy Loo (piano)

Ms. Loo attended the Julliard School on scholarship, where she studied with Adele Marcus. After graduating with her Masters degree, she studied with Vlado Perlemuter in Paris and Guido Agosti in Italy. She has won awards at numerous competitions, including Premio Jaen and the Marguerite Long International Competition in Paris. She won first prize at the Fourth Rina Sala Gallo International Competition in Monza in 1976. She was a recipient of the "Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award" in Hong Kong, in 1978.

As a pianist, Ms. Loo has given recitals and performed with orchestras in Europe, North America and Asia. In addition to founding the piano and woodwind sextet Les Six, she has worked with numerous local and visiting artists in chamber music concerts. She has played piano parts on the soundtracks of several Hong Kong films and television series. She has just finished recording a CD of the complete Hungarian Dances by Brahms with violinist Leung Kin Fung.

Ms. Loo is the presenter of Belle Nuit and Children's Corner on RTHK Radio 4. As a narrator, she has performed in Peter and the Wolf with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Babar the Elephant and Carnival of the Animals with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and The Blue Planet LIVE with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

Ms. Loo currently teaches at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.