Marian Bolt studied with Herman Uhlhorn in Utrecht and took lessons with Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden in Brussels. She received degrees as performing musician, in piano teaching and in music education. Marian Bolt has played concerts in 17 countries around the globe, with many different musicians.
She accompanied Victor Liberman in his debut recital as concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Her Trio Klavino won the audition for funding with the Nederlands Impresariaat in 1986. With this group and the Dutch Pianists’ Quartet she specialized in modern repertoire. She recorded a CD with the quartet on the Attacca label, performing original works for two pianos eight hands. Compositions by Fritz Kreisler, recorded with violinist Lorre Lynn Trytten, appeared on EMI. As a soloist Marian Bolt played piano concertos of César Franck, Constant Lambert and Béla Bartók. Furthermore she plays piano, celesta, harmonium and keyboard with the major Dutch symphony orchestras and has performed in recitals with the Dutch Radio Choir.
Marian Bolt works also as private accompanist and coach for orchestras, soloists, conductors and choirs and gave master classes with Herman Krebbers, Victor Liberman and Philipp Hirshhorn and the Kurt Thomas conductor courses. While studying she was offered a position at the Utrecht Conservatory in 1982 as an official accompanist, coach and piano teacher. She has, as a prima vista specialist, developed multiple courses at the conservatory especially for the improvement of sight-reading for all instruments.

Kees Hulsmann started playing the violin when he was 8 years old. He studied first with the eminent Dutch violin educator Davina van Wely and later with Jo Juda at the Amsterdam conservatory.
While studying at the conservatory he formed a duo with Joop van Zon, a conductor and pianist, that was of great influence in his development as a musician. The duo soon toured through the United States, also performing for radio and television.
Hulsmann concluded his studies in Amsterdam "cum laude" and continued his education with Manoug Parikian in London.
After playing a number of concerts in Israel, he was offered the position of concertmaster in the Israel Chamber Orchestra. After a number of years he returned to the Netherlands to be concertmaster of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. He was invited to be concertmaster of the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and in 1986 he was offered the position of concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, a position that he kept until 2009.
Hulsmann was a guest of honour in almost all the orchestras in London, making an internationally renown registration (on Telarc) of the Sheherezade of Rimsky Korsakov with the London Symphony Orchestra. Beside his position in Rotterdam he was asked in 1993 to be concertmaster of the Halle Orchestra in Manchester.
Mr .Hulsmann has performed throughout Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, in North and South America and Russia. He played in festivals at Aspen in Colorado, and in France, Brazil, Italy, Korea and Spain.
He has made several recordings, including the first recording (on New Albion) of the First Violin Concerto by American composer Peter Scott Lewis, with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kent Nagano. This resulted in the composition of Lewis' second Violin Concerto, dedicated to Kees Hulsmann. The world premiere was with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with the conductor Alan Gilbert. The concerto was rewritten by the composer for violin and piano and recorded by Hulsmann and pianist Matthew Edwards ( Lapis Island records). With the Russian pianist Irina Kandinskaya he recorded the complete works for violin and piano of Johannes Brahms (for Olympia).
In 2009 Hulsmann left the Rotterdam orchestra to deepen his knowledge of music before 1850. The invitation from the Residentie Orkest in the Hague to be concertmaster there for a few years and try to develop more style awareness in a modern orchestra, was a challenge he could not refuse. He also led the ensemble Camerata Vermeer, an ensemble that performed music of Mozart and contemporaries on period instruments.
Kees Hulsmann has taught now for over 30 years in conservatories in the Netherlands and has given masterclasses all around the world.