Working with artists conductor Domingo Hindoyan and violinist Michael Barenboim provided a rich exchange of experience and information among young LIO musicians. Both have been closely linked to exceptional music-education systems. Before his rich conducting career, Domingo Hindoyan had contact with the Venezuelan El Sistema and, like Michael Barenboim, played in the renowned politically and culturally important West-East Divan Orchestra. Michael Barenboim is a concertmaster of the aforementioned orchestra and professor at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin.