The young members of the Croatian String Quartet – violinists Marco Graziani and Alina Gubajdullina, violist Aleksandar Jakopanec, and cellist Smiljan Mrčela – played together in various ensembles while they were still students of the Music Academy in Zagreb. The four of them formed a string quartet in 2011. As the Quartet, they have studied with renowned teachers in Germany as well as with the Vogler and Alban Berg quartets. All of them are also members of renowned orchestras and ensembles, but as the Croatian String Quartet have performed in a number of concerts around Croatia, including those in the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb, the MaG Chamber Music Festival in Split, the Zagreb Summer Evenings, the Music Evenings in St. Donat’s, and the Zagreb Music Biennale. The Quartet won in the 47th Darko Lukić Young Musicians Festival in 2014.