Rebecca Rust is a native of the Bay Area. Friedrich grew up in Kaiserslautern, Germany. They now live in Rhodt, Palatinate, near Frankfurt in Germany. They return each year to the Bay Area for a couple of months.  Rebecca studied with Rostropovich, Bernard Greenhouse, and Margaret Rowell; she is an internationally concertizing soloist and has published 15 CDs. She is playing the cello of King Charles 3rd of England.

Friedrich Edelmann was the principal bassoonist of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under the principal conductors Sergiu Celibidache and James Levine. They have performed in Europe, North Africa, America, China, Israel, and Japan. Some of their most memorable Japanese experiences were private invitations to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, where they visited the then-Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, and played the piano with Empress Michiko. They were invited to perform at the Holocaust Museum of Los Angeles for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. They often perform music of composers lost to the Holocaust.

Born in Moscow in 1963, pianist Dmitriy Cogan began music studies at six at the Central Music School in Moscow. In 1974, he and his family immigrated to the United States and continued his piano studies with Vladimir Pleshakov and Maria Cysic. In 1979, he moved to New York to study with Martin Canin at the Juilliard School. In 1981, he was a prizewinner at the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition in New York; in 1982, he won first prize at the American Music Scholarship Association International Piano competition in Cincinnati; in 1983, he was a laureate of the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition in Cleveland and was a laureate of the Jose Iturbi International Piano competition in Valencia, Spain.

Dmitriy Cogan teaches piano privately in the Bay Area.