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Heidi von Bernewitz has lived and worked professionally in England, Germany, Australia and America. Prior to moving back to the U.S. from England in 1999, she had worked for three years with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the English National Opera and the Halle Orchestra. In Australia she held positions with the Sydney Symphony and Australian Opera Orchestras and performed with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. She also previously held the position of Assistant Principle viola of the Würtemburg Chamber Orchestra in Germany. She is a graduate of Boston and Yale Universities and attended as a scholarship recipient the Tanglewood and Aspen music festivals in the U.S. and the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival in Germany. Her teachers include Wolfram Christ, Michael Zaretsky, Atar Arad and Nabuko Imai. In America she has performed with the Pittsburgh and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras, the North Eastern Philharmonic and the Springfield and New Haven Symphony Orchestras. She has also performed with the Renaissance Chamber players (Pittsburgh), Gruppe Neue Musik and Oriel Ensemble (Berlin) and at such international festivals as Glyndebourne, the London Proms, the Edinburgh Festival, Cabrillo, Aspen, Tanglewood, EMF, St. Endellion, Rencontres Musicales Internationales des Graves and the Evian St. Quartet competition with the Appalachian String Quartet. In the early music world she has performed the London Classical Opera and Modern Musick of Washington D.C. She has recorded for Deutsche Grammaphon, Sony Classical, Telarc, EMI, Naxos, and ABC Classics. A frequent chamber musician, Heidi has also performed solo recitals in the U.S., U.K., Scandinavia, and Australia, and together with her husband, bassist Rob Nairn is active in arranging and commissioning new works for viola and bass.

Rob Nairn is Professor of Double bass at Penn State University, on the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York, and a Kulas Visiting Artist at Case Western Reserve University. He is past-president of the International Society of Bassists and in 2008 he was awarded a Howard Foundation Fellowship. A native of Australia, he received his Bachelor of Music with distinction from the Canberra School of Music and a post-graduate diploma from the Berlin Musikhochschule by courtesy of a two-year DAAD German Government Scholarship. His teachers have included Klaus Stoll, Tom Martin, and Max McBride. Rob’s performing experience covers Contemporary, Jazz, traditional Orchestral, and Historical Performance Ensembles, with a career that has spanned Europe, the U.S. and Australasia. He has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Melbourne Symphony, the Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, the Australia Ensemble and the Australian String Quartet. He has acted as guest Principal Bassist with the Halle Orchestra, the London Mozart players, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and held the position of Principal bass with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist he has performed concerti with the Australian Chamber, Adelaide and Darwin Symphony Orchestras (including Bottesini's Passiona Amoroso with Gary Karr). In the Historical performance world he holds the position of Principal Double Bass with the Handel Haydn Society in Boston, MA; he is a member of Juilliard Baroque and has also worked with the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Concerto Caledonia, The Boston Early Music Festival, Washington Bach Consort, the Aulos Ensemble, Rebel, the English Baroque Soloists, Florilegium and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Rob has premiered more than forty compositions featuring the bass, championing in particular the music of Australian composers, working both alone and with such groups as the London Sinfonietta, Gruppe Neue Musik Berlin, Australysis, the Music Theatre of Wales, and the Sydney Alpha Ensemble. In 2009 he premiered a new concerto by Barry Conyngham. He has performed recitals in Europe, China, Scandinavia the U.S. and Australia. Rob has recorded for Deutsche Grammaphon, Sony Classical, EMI, Naxos, Tall Poppies, RCA, Coro and ABC Classics.