CO-FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Violin Lyon

Emily Turkanik has won schemes with the LSO and ENO as well as first prize at the St. Martin’s in the Field Chamber Competition with the Brompton Quartet. Emily was concertmaster at the Davos Festival, is a member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra and Mahler Academy, and has participated in the IMS Prussia Cove as well as the Yellowbarn Festival. As a founder of the Seida Ensemble she is pioneering a new project called music@work. She started her musical education in Austria at the Mozarteum under the tutelage of Igor Ozim and Wonji Kim-Ozim. Later she went on to pursue her studies in London at the Royal College of Music with Leonid Kerbel and Daniel Rowland. After finishing her solo studies with Marianne Piketty at the CNSMD in Lyon, she started a quartet degree this past September.

emily@turkanik.com

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Violin London - Berlin

Raphael trained as a violinist in the UK, Germany and the US. He has performed in many of London's biggest orchestras, recorded for Disney and Netflix but is probably most well known as the 'Fiddler', on Fiddler on the Roof.

During his time in the US he worked for Artist-Corps for four years, a non-profit orginisation aimed at providing arts integration to schools and local communities. This period helped broaden his perspective on the impact that the arts can have on people and their integral role of bringing people together into one space.

raph@seidaensemble.org

FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Viola London - Amsterdam

http://conniepharoah.com

Connie is an exciting British Violist, performing across Europe as a soloist and leader, and internationally as a chamber musician. Based in Amsterdam, Connie is a member of the Marigold Piano Quartet who recently took the Netherlands by storm, with performances at the Concertgebouw, Muziekgebouw and multiple features on the Dutch classical Radio 4. She freelances across Europe with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra , 12 Ensemble and O'Modernt Chamber Orchestra, and is the co-founder of Seida Ensemble. Connie has a wealth of chamber music experience and enjoys putting together collaborative chamber concerts. Her artistic and conceptual approach has been largely influenced by musicians she has played with at festivals such as Yellow Barn, Mendelssohn on Mull, Ozawa Academy, IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music and Zermatt Music Festival.

conniepharoah3@outlook.com