[1] Sivan Silver (born 1976) graduated with honors from the music department at the Thelma Yellin School of the Arts, and belonged to the Young Musicians Unit of the Jerusalem Music Centre.

She studied piano with Rina Weiss, Neima Rosh, Yahli Wagman and Arie Vardi, and theory and composition with Sergiu Natra and Yitzhak Sadai, at the Rubin Academy at Tel Aviv University (renamed Buchmann-Mehta School of Music), and at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.

[2] Gil Garburg (born 1975) studied at the Israeli Conservatory of Music in Tel Aviv, with Hava Armonn and at the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, and graduated with honors.

[5] In 1998 they won first prize as a duo in the IBLA International Competition[3] The duo has performed in a variety of well-known halls, such as the Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Vienna Musikverein, the Großes Festspielhaus of Salzburg Festival the Sydney Opera House, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and Berliner Philharmonie.

They currently live in Berlin with their son, and are both professors for piano duo studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.