Laura Vikman (b.1978) has been third concert master of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2002. She is also first violinist of the Tempera Quartet and teaches violin at the Sibelius Academy. Ms. Vikman has worked as concert master of the Helsinki Baroque Orhestra, Avanti!, The Sixth Floor Orhcestra and the Arpeggione Orchestra in Austria. In 2004-2007 Ms. Vikman worked, alongside the other members of Tempera Quartet, as artistic director of the Riihimäki Summer Concerts.

Ms. Vikman has also performed as soloist of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Belgian National Orchestra and the Musica Vitae orchestra in Sweden. In Helsinki, she performed with Pinchas Zukerman as soloist of the Camerata Caprice chamber orhestra.

Ms. Vikman has performed at the Holland Music Sessions, Bachfest Leipzig, Bach concert series in Frankfurt, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival and the Tuusulanjärvi Chamber Music. In 2002 Gidon Kremer chose her, on the basis of an eliminatory, to join the artists of the Chamber Music Connects the World festival.

As recitalist, Ms. Vikman has performed in Finland, Germany, Austria and the USA. At the Bach Festival in Istanbul she has performed twice, playing complete Bach solo sonatas and partitas.

Ms. Vikman has received several prizes in competitions, eg. J.S.Bach Competition in Leipzig and the Beethoven Competition in the Czech Republic. At the Kuopio Violin Competition in Finland, she received the special prize of the Finnish Broadcasting Company in 1995, and in 2000, the second prize. In 2004, together with pianist Marianna Shiriniyan Ms. Vikman received second prize at the Vittorio Gui Chamber Music Competition in Florence.

Laura Vikman has studied at the Sibelius Academy with Päivyt Rajamäki and Prof. Tuomas Haapanen. Also, she has studied at the music academies in Vienna and Cologne under the guidance of M. Frischenschlager and Michaela Martin. She has taken part in master classes by Pinchas Zukerman, Shmuel Ashkenasi and Hagai Shaham.

Ms. Vikman plays an A. Guarneri (1680) owned by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Silva Koskela began her violin studies at the Central Ostrobothnian Conservatory under the guidance of Juha Kangas. She has studied violin and chamber music also at the Keski-Suomi Conservatory, Sibelius Academy, Utrecht Conservatory, Royal College of Music in London and the Edsberg Music Institute. At the Sibelius Academy Ms. Koskela studied also baroque violin with Kreeta-Maria Kentala. Silva Koskela has a Masters Degree from the Sibelius Academy and also MMus in Chamber Music Studies at the RCM.

As a violinist of the Tempera Quartet, Ms. Koskela has performed throughout Europe, in the US, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. She is also a member of the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and the Sixth Floor Orchestra.

Ms. Koskela commissioned a composition for violin and piano from Paavo Korpijaakko, of which she gave the first performance with pianist Tuomas Turriago in the fall of 2005. Silva Koskela has been lecturer of violin at the Tampere Conservatory since 2002.

Tiila Kangas started playing the violin at the age of 7 in her home town of Kokkola, and switched to viola when she was 15. She later studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, with a master's degree in 2005, the Edsberg Music Institute in Sweden and the Royal College of Music in London, where she received a Master of Music degree in Chamber Music Studies in 2000.

Kangas is a founder member of the Tempera Quartet and artistic director of the Katrina Chamber Music Festival in the Åland Islands. She was assistant principal viola of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra before joining the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008. Kangas plays a Felice Guadagnini viola of 1856, on loan from the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Ulla Lampela performed her diploma examination in the autumn of 2004 receiving the highest marks, and completed her Master's Degree at the Sibelius Academy in 2005. She studied with Timo Hanhinen, Marko Ylönen and Hannu Kiiski. Mrs. Lampela has also studied abroad as a member of the Tempera Quartet. In 1998-1999 the quartet studied at the Royal College of Music in London, receiving a Master of Music degree in chamber music. In 1999-2000 the quartet studied also at the Edsberg Music Institute in Sweden.

In January 1998 Mrs. Lampela shared the fourth prize at the Turku Cello Competition. As a member of the Tempera Quartet, she has performed extensively both in Finland and abroad. Ulla Lampela is artistic director of the Kauhava Chamber Music Festival and teaches cello at the East Helsinki Music Institute.

Ulla Lampela plays a Claude Pierray (1714) owned by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.