Fernando Riscado Cordas was born in the Netherlands in 1975 and started playing the guitar when he was 11 years old. After graduating from high school he studied classical guitar at the Royal Conservatoire with Robby Faverey, Raphaëlla Smits and Zoran Dukic. Because of his devotion and excellent progress during his studies Cordas was awarded a special prize by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds to have a concert guitar built for him. After having obtained his Masters degree in 2001, which he received with two distinctions for both professionalism and interpretation of 19th century repertoire, Fernando Cordas embarked on a concert career and at the same time, as a teacher, devoted himself to the development of young, talented musicians. In 2007 Fernando recorded his debut CD ‘Classical Guitar’ which received outstanding reviews.

Since 2014 Fernando Cordas teaches guitar at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague.

The French guitarist Manuel Giner, born in 2000, started playing the guitar at the age of seven. During eight years he studied classical guitar with Vladimir Mikulka. In the same time he learned all possible genres he was interested in, from hard rock to gypsy jazz and not to forget bossa and samba. During his last year of high school, he decided to focus on classical guitar and started studying with Gabriel Bianco. After two more years with the great arranger and unknown teacher Antoine Fougeray, he entered the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, following the inspiring Gabriel Bianco. Giner had the opportunity to follow master classes with among others Natalia Lipnitskaya, Jérémy Jouve, and Judicaël Perroy. Manuel Giner performs regularly and is also a passionate guitar teacher.