Born in Salamanca in 1990, Rodrigo began the double bass at the age of eight at the Antonio Machado School with Professor Javier Gil Ajero. It was only after two years of studying that Rodrigo started to take place in different youth orchestras, chamber ensembles and solo concerts in Spain.

Paola Volpe after having made her debut with the orchestra at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice at the age of twelve under the direction of Piero Bellugi, continued her studies in Naples at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Maiella where she graduated with the honorable mention under the guide of the Maestro Sergio Fiorentino.

Winner of various competitions including the “RAI Italian Radio Television”, She has obtained many success in the main theaters: La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Giordano, (Foggia) Teatro Verdi (Trieste and Salerno) Teatro Petruzzelli and Piccinni (Bari) Teatro San Carlo, (Naples) Teatro Alfieri (Turin) Politeama Greco (Lecce) RAI Auditorium of Naples and Turin and abroad: France, Belgium, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Republic and Rep. Slovakia, Greece, Serbia, Macedonia, Austria , Germany, Holland, South America, Korea, Japan. As a soloist she has played with numerous orchestras including: Tokio Filarmonica Orchestra at Bunka Kaikan, Sinfonica Municipal of Caracas, Orchestra A. Scarlatti, Orchestra de la Wallonie, Queensalnd Orchestra, Orchestra of Teatro Taejon, (Korea), Philharmonic George Enescu, Philharmonic of Ploiesti, Bacau, Sibiu, Brasov (Romania) orchestra of the Moldovan Radio Television, Razgrad orchestra and Russe orchestra (Bulgaria), Kameralna orchestra of Uppsala (Sweden), Szombathely Philharmonic (Hungary). For the Teatro alla Scala in Milan he has worked as a pianist for 45 performances of Schumann's childhood scenes in the 'La Scala for Children' program. She parteciped in International Festivals: March Music Days (Russia) and Nenov Festival (Bulgaria) Festival of Amalfi, Festival of Ravello, Bain de musique at Flaine and Musiques au soleil at Porte Camargue (France) Montalto Ligure Festival of Exilles (Italy) and has recorded for various foreign broadcasters. He has collaborated with various conductors including: C. Zecchi. F. Caracciolo. O. Ziino, F. Zigante, M. Rota, S. Vacev. H. Andreescu, P. Sbarcea. K. Kaufmann, G. Vintila, G. Mustea, Kim Hun Je, R. Chamberlain, K. Balazs, Lim Dong-Soo and others.

She has held master classes in Italy and abroad: Bain de musique (Flaine) Opus Artis (Brussels) Hellenic Conservatory (Athens), Barcelona Municipal Conservatory, Breda Musical Stage (Spain), Korea Baptist University, Tilburg Conservatory (Holland) Waldkraiburg Musikschule (Bavaria) Kaupfenburg Musikschulakademie, Mannheim, (Germany), Montalto Musica (Italy). Member of Juries of National and International Piano Competitions including Rameau, Chateau de Courcillon (France) Konzerteum (Greece) City of Porto (Portugal), Competition Ferrol (Spain), Krainev International Competition (Karkov) International Competition W. Horowitz (Kiev) , Rospigliosi Competition, (Italy), Concours de Valence (France). She is often invited to take part in the jury for final exams at the Pierre Barbizet Conservatory in Marseille. In 2007 she was awarded the Sebetia Ter Music Prize, silver plaque of the President of the Italian Republic. Paola is artistic director and president of the jury of the International Piano Execution Competition organized by the 'Le Muse' Music Association.  

Actually Paola Volpe is Professor of Main Piano at the San Pietro a Majella Music Conservatory in Naples, Italy.

She is a member of the Trio Nicola Sala with the violinist Giulio Rovighi and the cellist Gianluca Giganti, and in the formation of a duo with the violinist Liliana Bernardi.

She has recorded for Edi Pan, Discover International, Assa Kantor and Sannio Neumi.

  Adolfo is an outstanding cellist and winner of the Ravel prize 2012. He made his debut with the London Symphony Orchestra in the prestigious Ibermusica series, in Madrid,  performing Elgar’s Cello Concerto which was quickly followed by invitations from Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Charles Dutoit), Orquesta Nacional de España (Ton Koopman) and a recital invitation for the Mendelssohn Festival at Leipzig’s Gewandhaus.

   Current highlights include his debut with London Philharmonic Orchestra (Vladimir Jurowski) as well as a return to Orquesta Nacional de España to work with Krzysztof Penderecki. Earlier this year he made his US orchestral debut with Fort Worth Symphony under Miguel Harth-Bedoya and he will return to North America later this year for the Ravinia Festival and Montreal Symphony’s Summer Festival. His recent South American debut with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, was an outstanding success and he has immediately been reinvited.

In his native Spain, Adolfo regularly performs with all the major orchestras including Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias and Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, among others.

   The Young Artist International Organization invited Adolfo to participate at the International Laureates Festival in Los Angeles, California. His recital tours in the United States led him to play in New York, Boston, Dallas, San Diego and Los Angeles.

Adolfo has performed at major venues such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Ford Theatre in Los Angeles, l’Auditori and Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Bulgaria Hall in Sofia and Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao. He has collaborated with conductors such as Edward Gardner, José Ramón Encinar, Roberto Minczuk, Pablo González, Anu Tali, Antoni Ros-Marbà to name a few.

   Adolfo has recorded Barber, Rachmaninov and Piazzolla and the complete cycle of the cello suites by J.S. Bach, all recorded on the Verso label. He just released a new recording of the complete Beethoven Sonatas with pianist Christopher Park with great critical aclaim.

   Adolfo plays a Francesco Ruggieri, handcrafted in Cremona in 1673.