Czech guitarist Tomás Honek (b. 1985) studied in parallel at the Janácek Academy in Brno with Martin Myslivecek and Vladislav Blaha. He has won awards at home, as well as abroad, notably a 3rd prize at the 2003 Guitarart Festival International Competition in Belgrade (Serbia). Slovak violinist Lucia Kopsová’s has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras including the Slovak Philharmonic and the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc. In the summer of 2006 she took part in a tour as a member of the EU Youth Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy and Andrej Boreyko.