Anđelko Krpan (Zagreb, 1967) graduated in violin at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, in the class of Kristijan Petrović, and in 1995 he received his master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Dora Schwarzberg. He improved at master classes with Yfrah Neaman, Igor Ozim and at the Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad. He performed as a soloist in Sweden, Austria, Italy, Russia and Ukraine. He was a member of the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic (1990-93), then a member of the Zagreb Soloists (1993-97), concertmaster of the Zagreb Soloists (1997-2002), concertmaster of the Zagreb National Orchestra (2002-2006). ), and since 1995 he has been teaching violin at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. He is one of the founders and the first violinist of the Sebastian String Quartet.
He won the first prize at the Alpe-Adria International Violin Competition in Italy (1988), the HGZ Award (1989), the laureate of the Václav Huml International Violin Competition in Zagreb (1993), he received the Ivo Vuljević Music Youth Award for the best young musician of Croatia in 1993. In 1999, he was awarded the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić, and in 2008 he received the Milka Trnina Award of the Croatian Society of Music Artists for exceptional artistic achievements. With the string quartet Sebastian, pianist Nada Majnarić, and violist Marko Gener, he recorded seventeen CDs for the publishing house Croatia Records. He won the Porin discography award for the Croatian Sonata CD, produced in collaboration with pianist Nada Majnarić.

Martin Krpan (Zagreb, 1995) graduated in violin in 2018 in the class of Leonid Sorokow at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig in the class of Erich Höbarth. During his studies, he won a number of prizes at regional and national violinist competitions for students and music students, at the Croatian Chamber Ensemble Competition, and at the international violinist competitions Etude and Scale in Zagreb, Lions Grand Prix in Rijeka, Alpe Adria in Gorizia (Italy), and Rudolf Matz in Dubrovnik. In 2015, he won the 3rd prize at the Croatian national Papandopulo competition in the category of chamber ensembles, and for this achievement he was awarded the Dean’s Award. A year later, at the same competition, he won 2nd prize in the violin category. In 2016, he was the concert master of the international orchestra Euphony. He attended violin courses in Grožnjan (A. Krpan and S. Milenković), in Opatija (M. Sorokowa, L. Sorokow), at the Strings International Music Festival in Bryn Mawr (Philadelphia, USA), at the International Summer Academy in Semmering, Austria (Dora Schwarzberg, Anna Dzialak Savitska), and chamber music in Weikersheim (Belcea Quartet). In the 2016-17 season. performed Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni as concertmaster of the Leipzig Academy Orchestra, and in the following season, as concertmaster of the same orchestra, he performed in the Leipzig Gewandhaus, performing works by Blacher, Reinecke and Tchaikovsky. Since 2018, he has been working as the first violinist of the Zagreb Quartet, and since 2022 as an assistant professor of chamber music at the Music Academy of the University of Zagreb.