Evgenia Markova started playing music at the age of six. The first time she went to a music school to choose an instrument, she heard the domra and immediately fell in love with it.

After graduating from music school in 2002, she entered the St. Petersburg Music College and then continued her studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (Academy) named after Rimsky-Korsakov. She graduated in 2012.

Vladimir Kirasirov has been playing music since the age of 4. He started taking piano lessons from his mother and then entered a music school. Besides the piano, he was interested in other musical instruments, especially the guitar.

In 2002 Vladimir entered the St. Petersburg Musical Lyceum, then - the St. Petersburg Conservatory (Academy) named after Rimsky-Korsakov.

After finishing his studies in St. Petersburg in 2011, Vladimir entered the Maastricht Conservatory in the class of Carlo Marchione. After two years he obtained his Master's degree in the Netherlands

The guitar has a long history dating back to ancient civilisations, and emerged in Spain in the 16th century. It has become one of the most popular and versatile musical instruments, used in many different styles. The Brazilian seven-string guitar is an acoustic guitar used primarily in choro and samba, introduced to Brazil in the late 19th century. It is typically tuned like a classical guitar, but with an additional C, B or A below the low E. The special design of this particular instrument was invented by a luthier - Max Cuker.

The domra is a traditional Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian plucked-string instrument that originated in the Middle Ages. It has a round body and three or four strings, picked with a plectrum and known for its tremolo sound. The three-stringed domra is traditionally used in Russia, while the four-stringed domra is most common in Belarus and Ukraine. It was widely used by "Skomorokhi" in Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries, but disappeared after being subjected to persecution. The modern appearance of the domra was established in 1896 by Vasiliy Andreev and a family of orchestral domras was created in the early 20th century.

The Wandervogel, also known as the lute guitar or German lute, is a German instrument that resembles a Renaissance lute but has six strings and metal pegs like a guitar. It is tuned the same way as a guitar and was created by the German youth movement Wandervogel, which existed from 1890 to 1936. This movement played a significant role in reviving folk songs in wider German society. The neck of the lute guitar is similar to that of a modern classical guitar, but the fretboard design may be different, with the fretboard occasionally being scalloped. The instrument was common in Germany from around 1850 and has a regular six-stringed guitar setup on a lute bowl, with some variants having up to 11 strings.

The mandolin is a small, pear-shaped, plucked instrument that belongs to the lute family. It is an ancestor of the Arabic oud, which appeared in Spain in the 8th century during the Arab conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and then spread eastwards to other countries in Western Europe. The name mandolin (known since 1634) is a diminutive form of the word mandola (known since 1235), meaning it is a smaller instrument. Unlike the "baroque mandolin", the modern mandolin invented in the 18th century and improved in the 19th century, has metal strings and peg mechanics which increases the volume of the resonating body.