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Patricia was born in Chisinau, Moldova, to a family of professional folk musicians. At the end of the communist era, her family decided to move to Austria she was soon helping her parents by playing piano and violin in restaurants. When she was 17 she entered the Vienna Academy of Music. At 21 she won a scholarship to study at the conservatory in Berne.

She is known for her ecstatic style and exciting improvised free-time solos. She has been described as 鈥榯he most exciting violinist in the world.

Patricia explores the idea of balance as an emotional response to playing music

Professor Heyes is Head of Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. Previously he was a Reader in Heat Transfer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Imperial College London with research interests in experimental thermofluids. He is also Director for Education for the Energy Futures Laboratory.聽

Before going to Imperial College London, Andy worked with Rolls Royce plc and British Aerospace (Military Aircraft Division Warton).

Andy has co-authored a book, Jet Propulsion: A Simple Guide to the Aerodynamics and Thermodynamic Design and Performance of Jet Engines. He thinks the jet engine is a perfect example of engineering balance.

Jade Kindar-Martin is a high wire walker and circus performer. He started performing on the wire at the age of 14 with Circus Smirkus, a youth circus based in Vermont, USA and has worked with the Ecole Nationale de Cirque, the Centre National des Arts du Cirque in Ch芒lons-en-Champagne, France, Cirque du Soleil and The Flying Wallendas. With professional partner Didier Pasquette, he set a Guinness World Record double skywalk across the River Thames in London in 1997.

In the summer of 2004, Jade married fellow Cirque du Soleil performer and stunt woman Karine Mauffrey, high up in the air on a wire stretched over the grounds of the Ch芒teau de Chantilly in Chantilly, France. Jade discusses how he retains his balance in the most severe of circumstances.