Carles Cristóbal, born in Premia de Mar (Barcelona), began his musical studies as a recorder player and sometime later with the bassoon studying with Josep Borras at the Conservatorio Profesional de Badalona. In the year 2000, thanks to a grant by the Generalitat de Catalunya, he moves to Basel where he studies historical bassoon with Claude Wassmer and Donna Agrell, graduating in 2003.
In 2002 he takes part of the European Baroque Orchestra (Roy Goodman, Paul Goodwin, Fabio Biondi) as well as the Netherland´s Youth Orchestra (Philippe Herreweghe).
He has played with international renown orchestras such as Venice Baroque Orchestra, Freiburger Barrockorchester, La Petite Bande, Baltasar Neumann Ensemble, Kammerorchester Basel, Collegium Vocale Gent, Il Complesso Barocco, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, Le Talents Lyriques, Hesperion XXI, Le Concert de Nations, Al Ayre Español, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie to name a few and played in the most important halls of Europe, USA and Japan.
Since 2007 he is professor of historical bassoon at the Conservatorio Profesional “Isaac Albeniz” in Girona.
Tomasz Wesołowski was born in 1980 in Gdańsk where he studied bassoon with Wojciech Orawiec, supported by a scholarship from the President of Gdańsk, and received his Masters Degree with distinction in 2004.
From 2004-2008 he was studying historical bassoon with Donna Agrell and dulcian with Wouter Verschuren at the Royal Conservatoire in Den Haag, and later on with Alberto Grazzi at Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan supported by a scholarship from Fondazione Marco Fodella.
He has been involved in many orchestral, chamber and solo music projects in Europe, Asia and USA. He has performed with Les Musiciens du Louvre (Marc Minkowski), Capella Cracoviensis, {oh!} orkiestra historyczna, B’rock (René Jacobs), Freiburger Barockorchester, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Ton Koopman), Les Musiciens du Prince (Cecilia Bartoli), Anima Eterna, Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset), Bach Collegium Japan (Masaaki Suzuki), Gli Angeli Genève (Stephan Mac Leod), Netherlands Bach Society, Arte Dei Suonatori; recording CDs for Channel Classics, naïve, Alpha, BIS, ORF, claves, Brillant Classics, DUX, Netflix and HBO.
Alongside his busy performance schedule, Tomasz teaches historical bassoon and chamber music at the Academy of Music in Poznań and Academy of Music in Gdańsk as well as at various masterclasses in Poland, Germany and Brazil.
Après des études de basson moderne à Pau et à Versailles, Philippe Miqueu se spécialise en basson baroque et devient basson solo de l’Orchestre de l’Union Européenne. Il est depuis régulièrement demandé dans les orchestres de Christie, Haïm, Rohrer, Malgoire, Kuijken, Herreweghe ou Christophe Coin. Sa carrière le mène donc dans le monde entier au sein de ces prestigieux ensembles.