Marco Behtash was born in 1990, in Berkeley, California, to Italian and Iranian parents both connected to the prestigious UC Berkeley University and in a whirlpool of different cultures, languages, and influences. He started playing the piano at age 5 and only as a teenager of fourteen picked up the double bass for the first time.Before focusing his career solely on music Marco had a brief foray into the field of mechanical engineering, another passion and fascination of his. Finally, however, at the age of nineteen he decided that playing music with other people made him feel alive in a way that nothing else had before and that that was the path to follow,leading him later to study with the legendary Rinat Ibragimov in London.

Since then Marco has played around the world primarily with great orchestras,including the London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, BandArt, and the Nederlands Kamerorkest. Since 2016 he enjoys being sub-principal double bass the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. Over the past year she has especially enjoyed working with great artists including Gordan Nikolic,Bernard Haitink, Joyce Di Donato, Joseph Calleja, Christian Zacharias, Janine Jansen, Dimitri Hvorostovski, Renee Fleming, Placido Domingo, Antonello Manacorda,Valery Gergiev, Batio Hagony, and many others.

In his free time Marco enjoys sports, being in nature, reading, going to concerts and cooking. Marco usually plays on an English instrument attributed to John Devereaux(London, ca. 1830) using gut strings (metal-wound or uncovered) and enjoys using a variety of bows ranging from baroque to modern.

Born in 1993, Bruno Philippe studied the cello at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, in the classes of Raphaël Pidoux and Jérôme Pernoo. After he studied as a young soloist at the Kronberg Academy. Then he was named ‘Instrumental Revelation’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. Previously, he had won the Third Grand Prix for Best Recital at the André Navarra International Competition. In 2014, he won the Nicolas Firmenich Prize at the Verbier Festival, and the Audience Prize at the prestigious ARD International Competition in Munich. He also received Prizes at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in 2015 and at the Feuermann Competition in 2014.

In 2017 he was a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.

Bruno Philippe appears in prestigious venues in France and on the international scene. Bruno Philippe performs with the Colombian National Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak State Philharmonic.

He has also had the opportunity to play with renowned orchestras as the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Münchener Kammerorchester, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo.

Among the prestigious soloists with whom he has appeared, are Gary Hoffman, Tabea Zimmermann, Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlaff, David Kadouch, Renaud Capuçon, Antoine Tamestit, Sarah Nemtanu, Lise Berthaud, Christophe Coin and Emmanuelle Bertrand. In the Baroque repertory, he performs alongside Jean Rondeau, Thomas Dunford and is a member of the Ensemble Jupiter. His first CD, devoted to the Brahms sonatas with Tanguy de Williencourt, was released in 2015 on the Evidence Classic label. In 2017 he joined harmonia mundi with a recording of works by Beethoven and Schubert, again with Tanguy de Williencourt.

Bruno Philippe plays a cello by Carlo Tononi on loan from Beare’s International Violin Society.

Matvey Demin belongs to the most promising artists of his generation. Born in Siberia, Russia in 1993, Matvey started to study flute with his grandmother, continuing his education in Hannover and Munich with Prof. Andrea Lieberknecht. He is a prize winner of such competitions as international «Aeolus» competition, ARD International Music competition (Munich), international flute competition in Krakow, Unisa International music competition and many other competitions. Since the age of 20 Matvey holds a position of Co-Principal Solo flute in the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, where he works under the baton of Paavo Järvi, David Zinman, Bernhard Haitink and many other conductors. He is very active at chamber music scene, playing concerts at festivals like «Flute Virtuosi» in Sankt-Petersburg, «Molyvos festival» and «Samos young artists» festival in Greece. As a soloist Matvey recently performed with Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra and many others.

Florian Donderer is first violin of Signum Quartet, one of the most adventurous and outstanding string quartets of today, as well as longstanding concertmaster of The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

He is a versatile musician, highly valued as chamber musician, soloist, concertmaster and conductor, collaborating with distinguished musicians such as Paavo Järvi, Steven Isserlis, Lars Vogt, Viktoria Mullova, Elisabeth Leonskaja and his wife and brother in law, Tanja and Christian Tetzlaff.

Florian Donderer is frequent guest at major festivals such as Bergen Festspielen, Beethovenfest Bonn, Festwochen Berlin, Schwetzinger Festspiele and is core member at „Spannungen“, one of Germany’s most prominent music festivals, founded by Pianist Lars Vogt. Concerts with Signum Quartet have taken him to international podia from Berlin‘s Boulez-Saal and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg to London’s Wigmore Hall and Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Florian Donderer is especially renowned as an artistic leader, directing orchestras from the concertmaster’s desk. Top Chamber Orchestras such as Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Kammerorchester Basel, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and Camerata Bern, invite him as director and soloist. Last year‘s recording „Haydn and Bach Cello Concertos“ with Steven Isserlis, Florian Donderer and The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen has received a Grammy Nomination. He made his debut as conductor with Ensemble Oriol and Christiane Oelze at Berlin Philharmonic Hall, followed by a CD recording with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Tanja Tetzlaff. He has conducted among others the Kammerakademie Neuss, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim and Festival Strings Lucerne.

This year Florian Donderer has taken on the position of artistic director of the chamber music festival of the city of Rottweil, one of Germany’s longest standing festivals. With his wife, Tanja Tetzlaff he is curating a chamber music series at Sendesaal Bremen. He plays a violin built by German Violin maker Peter Greiner in 2003 and bows by Nico Plog from Antwerp.

Called “the discovery of the year” by classical music magazine Crescendo and “on her way to the very top” by Concerti magazine, German-Greek pianist Danae Dörken (b. 1991) is among the elite of internationally acclaimed artists of a new generation, electrifying audiences and peer musicians alike with her stunning technical skills, exceptional charisma, and great profundity of her musical thinking. A uniquely gifted talent at very young age, Danae received the support of Lord Yehudi Menuhin when she was seven, and soon began to cause a stir at major European venues with her “sparkling joy of playing” (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger). Following her studies with the internationally venerated teacher Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and with Lars Vogt, she is today a regular guest of major orchestras, including the Munich Symphony, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Norrlandsoperan Symphony and Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. She has performed to great critical acclaim at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Mozarteum Salzburg, KKL Lucerne, Cologne Philharmonie, Philharmonie Essen, at Gasteig in Munich, Konzerthaus Berlin, Bozar Brussels, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Alte Oper Frankfurt, and Beethoven-Haus Bonn. Danae Dörken also performs regularly at major festivals, including Kissinger Sommer, Schwetzingen Festival, LuganoMusica, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Piano Espoo Finland, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Rheingau Musik Festival, Lucerne Piano Festival and the renowned Spannungen Festival in Heimbach. Danae Dörken’s groundbreaking recording of piano concertos by Mozart and Mendelssohn (with Royal Northern Sinfonia) was released in 2016, to raving critical acclaim. Previously, her solo recording of fantasies by Schumann, Schubert und C.P.E. Bach (ARS Produktion) was nominated for on ICMA Award. Her 2012 debut CD, featuring solo works by Leoš Janáček (also on ARS Produktion), received equally enthusiastic reviews. Her new duo album, Appolo & Dionysus, recorded whith her sister Kiveli, is due to be released early this summer by Berlin Classics. Of Greek descent, Danae Dörken founded the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) in 2015 together with her sister Kiveli and Dimitris Tryfon on the island of Lesbos.

Kiveli Dörken’s temperament, passion and dedication to music is palpable in every one of her concerts. With her infectious enthusiasm and captivating presence, she values a close contact with her audience, often addressing the listeners first, before sitting down at the piano and pushing the boundaries of sound diversity and artistic expression. Kiveli (b. 1995) began her musical path as a seven-year old student of the renowned piano pedagogue Professor Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. She continued her musical education with Professor Lars Vogt at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover  where she is studying until today. She is a member of the TONAListen agency, and has received scholarships and support from various foundations, such as the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, the renowned Spannungen Festival, the International Musikadamie in Liechtenstein and the Werner Richard-Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung (no relation). At the age of eight, she gave her orchestral debut. She has since performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Hamburger Camerata, the Camerata Bern and the Athens State Orchestra. In 2019 Kiveli gave her debut with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen playing César Franck’s Variations symphoniques under the direction of conductor Alondra de la Parra. She has performed in most European countries, China and the USA, in some of the most famous halls, the Elbphilarmonie, the Mariinsky-Theatre in St. Petersburg, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Alte Oper Frankfurt, to name just a few, and is a regular guest at many prestigious festivals, like the Kissinger Sommer, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Spannungen Festival in Heimbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Highlights of her early career were performances for the Dalai Lama in 2007 and for the German chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington, D.C., in 2009. Kiveli dedicates a considerable amount of her time to playing chamber music. She performs regularly with artists such as Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Maximilian Hornung and Tanja Tetzlaff. Together with her sister Danae Dörken, she has been playing as a piano duo since the age of five. In 2015 she founded the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) on the Greek island of Lesbos, of which she is also the artistic director. The MIMF does not only bring the tradition of classical music to Lesbos, but it has also become a symbol of hope for the entire region. In 2022 Kiveli released her debut CD with the label ARS Produktion featuring solo and chamber music works by Josef Suk. Together with her sister Danae they have recorded a new album, Appolo & Dionysus, which is due to be released early this summer by Berlin Classics.

Kyeong Ham is one of the most outstanding and engaging oboist of his generation. and has been numerously recognized as the highest prize winner of the world’s most prestigious oboe competitions such as ARD Munich (2017), Carl Nielsen Chamber (2015), Muri (2013), Lódz (2011), Moscow (2010), Richard Lauschmann (2009).  He studied with Nicholas Daniel in Trossingen and Dominik Wollenweber in Berlin and subsequently at the Karajan Academy of Berlin Philharmonic with Jonathan Kelly.  He has played regularly as guest principal oboe with numerous european leading orchestras such as BBC Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin.

He served as principal oboist at the State Opera Hannover and Second oboe/ English Horn at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Currently he is based in Helsinki and playing as a solo oboe of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and teaching at the Sibelius Academy.

As a soloist with orchestra Kyeong has performed with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Münchener Kammerorchester, Seoul Philharmonic, Argovia Philharmonic among others..

He is also a keen chamber musician and has been part of many Chamber music festival around the world (Kuhmo, Ostfriesland, Davos, RUSK, Storioni..etc) and founding member of the internationally recognised Veits Woodwind Quintet.

He plays Marigaux 901 oboe.

Nickos Harizanos was born in Athens. He is the General Secretary of the Contemporary Music Research Centre (KSYME) (founded by Iannis Xenakis) and member of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA). His music has been performed in 34 countries and published by Schott (Germany), Musica Ferrum (UK), Rowman & Littlefield (USA), Tetractys (UK), Les Procuctions d’ Oz (Canada), TEM (Taukay Edizioni Musicali, Italy) and released by Naxos (UK), Phasma (Greece, Poland), TEM (Italy), Subways Music (Greece).

Born in Athens of Albanian and Greek heritage, Jonian Ilias Kadesha possesses boundless imagination of sound and curation, constantly exploring new avenues. His playing is characterised by stylistic accuracy and idiomatic interpretation from early to contemporary works. Kadesha has performed widely as soloist throughout Europe, including with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Sir András Schiff, Scottish Chamber Orchestra on tour in Copenhagen, London Mozart Players, Munich Radio, Lübeck Philharmonic, Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic and Thessaloniki State Orchestra. He has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Louvre, Berlin Philharmonie, Salle Molière Lyon, Goldener Saal Augsburg and made his debut at the Konzerthaus Berlin as soloist and artistic director of the Caerus Kammerensemble. Festival appearances include the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Verbier Festival Academy, Heidelberger Frühling, Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus and Schubertiade. Kadesha is a committed chamber musician and has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Martha Argerich, Steven Isserlis, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Ilya Gringolts and Pekka Kuusisto. He is co-founder of the award-winning Trio Gaspard, which regularly appears at festivals and in the music centres of Europe and the USA. In 2021 Kadesha signed to Linn Records. His debut solo album featuring Bach’s Violin partita in D minor alongside the premiere commercial recording of Helena Winkelman’s Ciaccona and works by Biber, Schnittke, Kurtág and Auerbach was released in June 2022. His numerous awards include prizes at the 2015 Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, 2017 Windsor International String Competition and 2013 Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition and was selected for representation by the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2018.

Born in Salzburg as the daughter of South Korean musicians and raised in Germany, Byol Kang debuted as soloist at the age of twelve with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonie. The winner of the German Music Competition and laureate of international violin competitions (Henri Marteau, Premio Rodolfo Lipizer, Valsesia Musica and Max Rostal) has since appeared at prestigious concert halls such as the Beethovenhalle Bonn, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Bremer Die Glocke, Meistersingerhalle Nürnberg, Konzerthaus Berlin, Konzerthaus Vienna and the Carnegie Hall New York. After obtaining her degree with distinction under Michael Gaiser at Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, Byol Kang continued her studies for Konzertexamen from 2010-2013 at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Antje Weithaas. During this time, she was also her teaching assistant. As a dedicated chamber musician, Byol Kang has performed in various constellations among others at pianist Lars Vogt’s festival Spannungen in Heimbach, Heidelberger Frühling, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, PODIUM Festival in Esslingen and numerous recitals throughout Germany. The Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship recipient has released two CDs with pianist Boris Kusnezow under the label GENUIN. Since the season 2016/17, Byol Kang is concertmaster of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

Kristian Katzenberger has been principal horn of the Frankfurter Opern- and Museumsorchester Germany since 2016. He was born in Oldenburg (Germany) in 1991 and started his studies at the Academy of Music »Hanns Eisler« Berlin with Prof. Marie Luise Neunecker in 2010. In addition to his studies, he participated in numerous master classes with Prof. Penzel, Prof. Vlatkovic and Prof. Lampert.

At the »Deutsche Musikwettbewerb 2014 he was awarded a scholarship and selected for the “Bundesauswahl Konzerte Junger Künstler.” Furthermore, he was scholarship student of the Villa Musica Rheinland Pfalz.

As principal Horn he played in orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, Bamberg Symphony or Munich State Opera under the baton of Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Barenboim, and others.

In addition to his orchestral work, Kristian Katzenberger is also a very passionate chamber musician – he has worked with musicians such as Sebastian Manz, Maximilian Hornung and Lars Vogt and recently been on a US tour with the renowned Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Xin Wang & Florian Koltun met in 2008 as freshmen at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln / Germany and formed their dynamic musical partnership shortly thereafter. They have since toured extensively, with notable recitals in Germany, Switzerland, Netherland, Belgium, Poland, France, Austria, Italy, Spain, China and Hong Kong. They are regularly a welcome Piano Duo at diverse well-known concert Halls like Berliner Philharmonie, Schloss Elmau in Germany, Qintai Concert Hall in Wuhan, Concert Hall in Xiamen, Henan Art Center in Zhengzhou, Concert Hall in Ningbo, Poly Grand Theatre in Hohhot and many others. The Piano Duo Xin Wang and Florian Koltun appeared with many famous orchestras, among them Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Aachen and Berliner Camerata under the baton of famous conductors like Kazem Abdullah, James P. Liu, Eduardo Strausser and Fuad Ibrahimov. The Piano Duo is a regular guest at international festivals such as Skrjabin Piano Festival Grosseto Italy, Piano Festival „federi musica“ Neapel Italy, International Piano Festival Salerno Italy, „IBLA Claasic“ Sicilia Italy, Piano Festival Orbetello Italy, „Friday Nights with Yury Revich“ Wien Austria, International Art Festival Kotor Montenegro, International Music Festival Deià Spain, Festival „Palau March Museu“ Palma Spain, „Festival de musique classique a Pompignan“ Toulouse France, Palais Sommer Dresden Germany, „Monschau Klassik“ Germany, „International Piano Festival Wuhan” China and many others. Xin Wang & Florian Koltun believe strongly in the communicative potential of music, and their performances bringing joy to people around the world. They swept the audience into a cheering mass of humanity, making a strong case that playing piano is the most fun thing that two people could ever do together.

Rie Koyama (bassoon) was born in 1991 in Stuttgart/Germany. At the age of 25 she has already won top accolades in many important national and international competitions, including second prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of a comissioned composition at the 62nd ARD International Music Competition Munich in the bassoon category. She has also received the DAAD Prize (German Academic Exchange Service) as well as many other awards and a scholarship from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and the Rohm Music Foundation in Japan, as well as a one-year scholarship from the German Music Foundation (Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben) in May 2012.

She has already performed as a soloist with many well-known orchestras, including the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Brandenburg State Orchestra, German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken, the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the South-west German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim, the Korean Chamber Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Osaka Symphony Orchestra, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic, the Szczecin Chamber Orchestra, the Szekelyfold Philharmonic in Romania.

She has been a substitute bassoonist with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies and Michael Hofstetter since 2004. She has also been a member of the South-west German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim under Sebastian Tewinkel since 2008, of the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart under the baton of Helmuth Rilling since 2010 and the Irish Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Jörg Widmann since 2015.

She has been Principal Bassoon with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen since 2015.

Danae Papamattheou – Matschke belongs to the promising new generation of young violinists.

Born in Athens, she takes her first violin lessons in her hometown, followed by studies at the “Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere” in Weimar with Jost Witter, the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Igor Ozim and the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg with Tanja Becker – Bender, all completed with the highest distinctions.

She has given recitals in Germany, USA, China, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Cyprus and has worked as a soloist with a variety of symphony orchestras, such as the Athens and Thessaloniki State Orchestras, the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Association of Friends of Music “Camerata”, the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipzig, the Thüringer Philharmonie a.o.

As a soloist and enthusiastic chamber musician, she regularly appears at international music festivals such as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the International Mendelssohn Festival Hamburg, the Pharos International Music Festival, the Samos Young Artists Festival and the Molyvos International Music Festival as well as at the large music centres such as Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Beijing National Performing Arts Centre and the concert halls of Athens and Thessaloniki.

International master classes with Igor Ozim, Ana Chumachenko, Zakhar Bron, Donald Weilerstein, Vanya Milanova, Boris Garlitsky, Tanja Becker – Bender, Christiane Hutcap and the Szymanowski Quartet gave her special artistic impulses.

Danae Papamattheou – Matschke is the 1st prize-winner in numerous national and international competitions such as the International Violin Competition “Andrea Postacchini”, “Henri Marteau”, “Jugend musiziert”, the International Competition for Young Soloists “Ersi Saratsi” and the “Panhellenic Violin Competition”. In addition, she won special prizes for the best interpretation of a virtuoso work at the international “Henri Marteau” violin competition and for the best interpretation of a contemporary work at the International “Szymon Goldberg Award”.

Two CD productions present recordings of works by J. S. Bach, L. v. Beethoven, E. Bloch, C. Franck, C. Debussy, M. Ravel and D. Terzakis (IRIDA Classical).

She was repeatedly honoured with grants from international non-profit organizations for her outstanding achievements. She was a scholarship holder of the Association of Music Friends Athens, the “Alexandros S. Onassis Foundation”, the “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben”, the “Hermann and Milena Ebel Foundation” and the “Berenberg Bank Foundation ”.

She is also particularly interested in chamber music. Since 2018 she is leading violinist of the “Nichiteanu Trio” and regularly performs in Germany and abroad.

Danae Papamattheou-Matschke plays on a violin made by Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, Milan 1760.

Elene Ansaia Meipariani was born in Filderstadt in 1998. At the age of five she had her first violin lessons with Christine Schneider and the age of ten she was accepted at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart to continue her education with Professor Christine Busch. Since 2018 she studies with Professor Priya Mitchell in Graz. She has won numerous national and international prizes and awards, including the Tomastik-Infeld-Vienna Foundation award at the international competition in Düsseldorf and the third prize at the TONALi competition (2107) in Hamburg. Elene played the Bach Violin Concerto with the Arcata Stuttgart under the direction of Patrick Strub and the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Tbilisi Philharmonic at the Tbilisi State Opera. She has given concerts with artists such as Lisa Batiashvili, Tanja Becker-Bender, Peter Nagy and Christine Busch. Elene plays a violin by Domenico Montagnana from 1740 (on loan from the Rudolf Eberle Foundation).

David Orlowsky is an internationally renowned clarinettist and composer, celebrated for his captivating and expressive performances of works ranging from Mozart to klezmer. An exclusive recording artist with Warner Classics, he has released nine albums and won the ECHO Klassik award three times. In 1997, he founded the award-winning David Orlowsky Trio, which toured worldwide until their farewell tour in 2019. Orlowsky has collaborated with esteemed ensembles such as the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Danish String Quartet, as well as renowned musicians including Martha Argerich and Alban Gerhardt. Many of his compositions for the trio are published worldwide by Schott Music. In April 2023, his clarinet quintet The Clockmaker premiered successfully with the Quartetto di Cremona at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and the premiere of his clarinet concerto premiere is planned for 2024. Orlowsky studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1968, Artur Pizarro gave his first public performance at the age of three and made his television début on Portuguese television at the age of four. He had been introduced to the instrument by his maternal grandmother, pianist Berta da Nóbrega, and her piano-duo partner, Campos Coelho who was a student of Vianna da Motta, Ricardo Viñes and Isidor Philipp. From 1974 to 1990 Artur studied with Sequeira Costa who had also been a student of Vianna da Motta and of Mark Hamburg, Edwin Fischer, Marguerite Long and Jacques Février. During a brief interruption of his studies in the USA, Artur also studied with Jorge Moyano in Lisbon, and in Paris worked with Aldo Ciccolini, Géry Moutier and Bruno Rigutto.

Artur won first prizes in the 1987 Vianna da Motta Competition, the 1988 Greater Palm Beach Symphony Competition and won first prize at the 1990 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, which marked the beginning of an international concert career. Artur Pizarro performs internationally in recital, chamber music and with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Philippe Entremont, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Sir Andrew Davis, Esa- Pekka Salonen, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Ilan Volkov, Franz Welser- Most, Tugan Sokhiev, Yakov Kreizberg, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Libor Pešek, Vladimir Jurowski, Ion Marin, John Wilson and the late Sir Charles Mackerras.
Artur is an active chamber musician and has performed at chamber music festivals throughout the world. Artur Pizarro has recorded extensively for Collins Classics, Hyperion Records, Linn Records, Brilliant Classics, Klara, Naxos, Danacord, Odradek Records, Phoenix Edition and Capriccio.

Since  winning 1st Prize in the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition  in 2016, Timothy has gone on to perform widely internationally, in 2019  winning the prestigious Thierry Scherz Award at the Sommets Musicaux de  Gstaad awarded by Renaud Capuçon.

Concerto  engagements during 2018/19 include a residency with Baden-Baden  Philharmonie and appearances with the Hamburg Symphony, Tonhalle  Orchester Zurich, Orchestre de Lille, Camerata Salzburg and Philharmonia  Orchestra.

He returns to Wigmore Hall as soloist, and in chamber music collaborations  with Steven Isserlis, Joshua Bell, Jeremy Denk, the Quatuor Arod,  NIcolas Daniel and the Nash Ensemble.  In 2019 he gives recitals at the  Berlin Konzerthaus, Louvre, Sommets Musicaux Gstaad,  Heidelberger-Frühling, Evian and Radio France Montpelier Festivals and returns as Artist in Residence to the Boswiler Sommer Festival.

Further  afield he takes part in the Aspen Festival (USA), makes his debut at  the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan and gives a series of  concerts in Japan with pianist Benjamin Frith including the Sumida  Triphony Hall in Tokyo.

Born in London, Timothy studied at the Royal Academy of Music (graduating  with the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence) and is currently at the  Kronberg Academy with  Nobuko Imai.

Timothy plays on a viola by Peregerino di Zanetto c.1565-75 generously on loan from Beares International Violin Society.

Johanna Ruppert is a successful young violinist. Highlights of the last years were concerts at the Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the Podium Festival Esslingen and the Transsiberian Art Festival. She is a first price winner of the Kiwanis Competition in Zurich, in September 2016 she won the Special Award and the Audience Award at the International Königin Sophie Charlotte Competition for Violin and received the third price at the International Music Competition Hamburg. As a soloist she has played with the Saarländisches Staatsorchester, the Jenaer Philharmonie, the Sinfonieorchester Gotha, the junge norddeutsche Philharmonie and the Kammerorchester Kaiserslautern.

As a scolarship holder of the TONALI14 Grand Prix Competition in Hamburg Johanna has gained special skills in music communication. She is the initiator and artistic director of the festival Klassik nah dran in Zweibrücken, which took place for the first time in March 2017. In cooperation with Tonali the festival is dedicated to giving young people enthusiasm for classical music.

In 2016 she founded together with Jessica Kaiser (Guitar) the DUO KARUNA. They performed at many international chamber music festivals all over Europe and have been awarded many prices at international competition such as their youngest success; the first price at the North International Music Competition in England.

Johanna Ruppert was born in Zweibrücken in 1992 and has been playing violin since she is six years old. She has been a student at the Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere. In 2011 she began her violin studies with Prof. Andreas Lehmann in Weimar, later studied with Prof. Nora Chastain at the Zurich University of the Arts and in January she completed her Bachelor-Degree at the University of Music and performing Arts Graz in the class of Prof. Priya Mitchell with the best final grade.

Johanna has received further musical inspiration by Thomas Brandis, Igor Ozim, Conradin Brotbek, Martin Spangenberg, Natascha Prischepenko, Antje Weithaas and Ivry Gitlis. She has been awarded scolarships by the Sparkasse Culture Foundation Hessen- Thüringen, the Summer Academy Lenk, the Dartington Summer School and the Swiss Thyll Foundation.

The award-winning Norwegian percussionist and cimbalist Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen is internationally recognized for his versatile and creative performances, never ceasing to control the colours, rhythms and harmonic possibilities that his percussion instruments have to offer. The Irish Times celebrated him as “probably the best-coordinated showman in the world”. Growing up close to the sea and mountains he has a free spirit and a sensational sensitivity for interpreting any kind of music, such as jazz with Misha Alperin, Bugge Wesseltoft and Arve Henriksen, music-theatre with composer Georges Aperghis, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Jean-Pierre Drouet, baroque music with violinist Daniel Hope to classical performances with the likes of Tanja and Christian Tetzlaff, Martin Fröst, Ole Edvard Antonsen, Florian Donderer and Alexander Lonquich.

HKKS has released both improvised and notated music in jazz, baroque and classical genres for ECM, BIS, DaCapo, Deutsche Grammophon and his own label Ultron, with his latest album Hearing Things. HKKS has won numerous prizes including CIEM in Geneva and the Norwegian Grammy Spellemannsprisen for his solo album OPEN. As a soloist he has appeared with orchestras like London Philharmonia, Oslo Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony, Kristiansand Symphony, The Norwegian Opera, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Allegria, Ensemble BIT20, Trondheim Soloists, Norwegian Soloist’s Choir, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Bern Opera, Lübeck Theatre et al.
As a keen chamber musician, he has for over two decades visited the major festivals in Norway and in Europe, such as Stavanger, Trondheim, Bergen, Risør, Mora and Oslo, Feldkirch, Schleswig-Holstein, Spannungen, Savannah, Aldeburgh, West Cork and Ultima Oslo.

A profound advocate of contemporary music, he has collaborated with composers such as by Brett Dean, Per Nørgård, Rolf Wallin, Dave Maric, Svante Henryson, George Crumb, Georges Aperghis, Johannes Harneit, Magne Hegdal, Åse Hedstrøm, Jon Øivind Ness and Henrik Hellstenius. Hans Kristian has also composed music for film and theatre and has conducted the music of Lutoslawski, Vasks, MacMillan as well as his own compositions with orchestras such as Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Dala Sinfonietta.
HKKS studied in Oslo, Banff in Canada and in Versailles, France, with the legendary Sylvio Gualda. He has held a professorship at the Norwegian State Academy of Music and is a sought-after teacher for masterclasses.

Future projects involve commissioned concertos by Ørjan Matre, Henrik Hellstenius and Olav Anton Thommessen with the orchestras in Oslo, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim.
Sørensen will this year release his book Initium – for the solo percussionist. Initium will undertake the basic steps into the area of developing as a percussion soloist.

Christian Tetzlaff has been one of the most sought-after violinists and most exciting musicians on the classical music scene for many years. “The greatest performance of the work I’ve ever heard,” wrote Tim Ashley (The Guardian, May 2015) of his interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Daniel Harding.

Concerts with Christian Tetzlaff often turn into an existential experience for both the interpreter and the audience; suddenly old familiar works appear in a completely new light. In addition, he frequently turns his attention to forgotten masterpieces such as Joseph Joachim’s Violin Concerto which he successfully championed, and he also attempts to bring important new works into the repertoire such as Jörg Widmann’s Violin Concerto, which he premiered in 2013. He has an unusually extensive repertoire and performs approximately 100 concerts every year.

Christian Tetzlaff is regularly invited to be the Artist in Residence with orchestras and at events in order to be able to present his musical interpretations over a longer period of time, which has been the case with the Berliner Philharmoniker, at Wigmore Hall in London and at Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall New York with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In the 2018/2019 season he will be the Artist in Residence of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dresdner Philharmonie at the same time.

During his career Christian Tetzlaff has appeared as a guest with major orchestras around the world, such as the Wiener Philharmoniker, the New York Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and all of London’s leading orchestras, working with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Manfred Honeck, Andris Nelsons, Antonio Pappano, Robin Ticciati, Paavo Järvi and Vladimir Jurowski, to name but a few.

Highlights of the 2018/2019 season include concerts in the USA with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Adès at the Tanglewood Festival, with The Cleveland Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as well as an extensive tour with the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas. He will also go on tour to Vietnam with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and in Europe he will perform with orchestras such as the Bergen and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras, the Orquesta Nacional de España, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Münchner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin with conductors including Barbara Hannigan, Susanna Mälkki, Vladimir Jurowski, Robin Ticciati and John Storgårds.

Born in Hamburg in 1966 and now living in Berlin with his family, there are three things that make this musician unique, aside from his astounding skill on the violin. He interprets the musical manuscript in a literal fashion, perceives music as a language, and views great works as narratives which reflect existential experiences. As obvious as it may sound, he brings an unusual approach in his daily concert routine.

Christian Tetzlaff tries to follow the manuscript as closely as possible – without regard for “performance tradition” and without indulging in the usual technical short-cuts on the violin – often allowing a renewed clarity and richness to arise in well-known works. As a violinist Tetzlaff tries to disappear from the music – paradoxically this makes his interpretations very personal.

Secondly, Christian Tetzlaff “speaks” through his violin. Like human speech, his playing comprises a wide range of expressive means and is not aimed solely at achieving harmoniousness or virtuosic brilliance.

Above all, however, he interprets the masterpieces of musical history as stories about first-hand experiences. The great composers have focused on intense feelings, great happiness and deep crises in their music; as a musician Christian Tetzlaff also explores the limits of feelings and musical expression. Many pieces deal with none other than life and death. Christian Tetzlaff’s aim is to convey this to his audience.

Christian Tetzlaff played in various youth orchestras for many years. His teacher at the Lübeck University of Music was Uwe-Martin Haiberg, for whom musical interpretation was the key to mastering violin technique, rather than the other way round.

Christian Tetzlaff founded his own string quartet in 1994, and until now chamber music is still as important to him as his work as a soloist with and without the orchestra. Every year he takes on at least one extensive tour with the quartet; in the 2018/19 season they will perform concerts in the Gewandhaus Leipzig and the Pierre-Boulez-Saal Berlin.

The Tetzlaff Quartet received the Diapason d’or in 2015, and his trio with sister Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt was nominated for a Grammy award. In this season he will appear in this trio at the festivals in Hitzacker and Klosters, in the Alte Oper Frankfurt, as well as on a tour around eight cities in the USA.

Christian Tetzlaff has also received numerous awards for his CD recordings, including the “Diapason d’or” in July 2018, the Midem Classical Award in 2017 und the “Preis Der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik” in 2015. Of special significance is his solo recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, which he has recorded for the third time and was released in September 2017 on the ONDINE label. The Strad magazine praised this recording as “an attentive and lively answer to the beauty of Bach’s solos”.

Christian Tetzlaff plays a violin made by the German violin maker Peter Greiner and teaches regularly at the Kronberg Academy.

Tanja Tetzlaff continues to perform an extensive range of works, embracing both core repertoire and contemporary compositions of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her recording of the cello concertos by Wolfgang Rihm and Ernst Toch was released by NEOS.

The 2018/19 season sees Tanja Tetzlaff perform with orchestras such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Halle, Zuger Sinfonietta and Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, and collaborate with conductors such as Alan Gilbert, André de Ridder and Jaime Martín. The past season saw solo performances with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, and Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim. In May 2018 she was the “Artist in Residence” at the SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, where her multiple appearances were met with great enthusiasm from the public and press alike.

After enjoying great success in numerous international competitions, she has subsequently performed with leading orchestras such as the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de Paris, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with notable conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Daniel Harding, Sir Roger Norrington, Philippe Herreweghe, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Paavo Järvi, Michael Gielen, and Heinz Holliger, amongst others.

Chamber music plays a significant role in Tanja’s career. She regularly performs in a piano trio with Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt, and this season will see them tour in the USA. In addition to this, she will appear in concert with Sharon Kam, Carolin Widman, Antti Siirala, and duet with Dina Ugorskaja.

Tanja Tetzlaff regularly appears at world-renowned chamber music series and festivals, such as the Heidelberger Frühling as well as the festivals in Bergen, Baden-Baden and Edinburgh. She is a member of the core ensemble of the Heimbach Festival “Spannungen”. Her regular chamber music partners include Lars Vogt, Leif Ove Andsnes, Alexander Lonquich, Antje Weithaas, Florian Donderer, Baiba and Lauma Skride, Christian Tetzlaff, Carolin Widmann and Sharon Kam.

Tanja Tetzlaff is a member of the Tetzlaff Quartett, founded in 1994 with Christian Tetzlaff, Elisabeth Kufferath and Hanna Weinmeister. In the current season the quartet performs at the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin and the Philharmonie Luxembourg.

Tanja Tetzlaff and her duet partner Gunilla Süssmann have recorded three CDs together. The first two were released by CAvi-music featuring Brahms (2012) and a Nordic-Russian programme (2008), and their third disc was released in spring 2018 featuring works by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara.

Tanja studied at the Musikhochschule Hamburg with Bernhard Gmelin and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Heinrich Schiff, and plays a cello by Giovanni Baptista Guadagnini from 1776.

Friedrich Thiele, born in 1996, began his studies in 2016 in the class of Emanuel Schmidt in Weimar.

In March 2019 he just won the prize of “Deutscher Musikwettbewerb” in Nuremberg, as well as a special prize of “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben”.

His artistic education began in the childrens’ group of the univerity of music „Carl-Maria von Weber Dresden“ with Prof. Gunda Altmann and continued at the „Landesgymnasium für Musik Carl-Maria von Weber Dresden“. There, he received lessons from the principal cellist of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulf Prelle from the years of 2006-2011. In 2016, he completed his junior music studies in the class of Prof. Peter Bruns in Leipzig.

Friedrich has been awarded multiple prizes in national and international competitions, such as the „International Cellowettbewerb Liezen“ in 2008 or the „International Dotzauer-Wettbewerb“ in 2005 and 2009. In 2010, he received the first prize (with the highest score) in the Bundeswettbewerb of „Jugend Musiziert“ in the category for cello solo as well as the special prize of the „Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben“. He has been supported by the „Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben“ since, and plays a French Cello from the second half of the 19^th century, sponsored by the „Deutsche Musikinstrumentenfonds“.

After his successes at the TONALi-competition in 2015 (3^rd prize and audience prize) and the competition „Ton und Erklärung“ in 2017 (1^st prize), his international career began. Friedrich was invited to perform as a soloist with the orchestra of the national theatre in Brasília, the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the „Rundfunkorchester“ Munich and the Symphony orchestra of Nuremberg. He also is a member of the agency „TONALISTEN“ and has been supported by them since 2017.

In 2018, he played with the „Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar“ in Caracas and the radio-symphony orchestra of  Prag in Wiesbaden.

As a chamber musician, Friedrich gave his recital-debut in the „Mariinsky“-Theatre in Saint Petersburg and the „Vadim Repin Trans-Siberian Art Festival“ in 2017.

Friedrich was invited to play at the „Heidelberger Frühling 2018“  and in June 2018 he did perform his debut in Gasteig in Munich.

In January 2019, he played the Rokoko-Variations from P.I.Tchaikovski in the big hall of the “Elbphilharmonie” with “Kammerakademie Potsdam”. In August 2019, he will be part of the Molyvos International Music festival.

upported and guided by Lord Yehudi Menuhin at a young age, Kirill Troussov is meanwhile widely recognised as one of the leading violinists of his generation. He works with renowned orchestras and is a regular guest at prestigious festivals and in famous concert halls of the world. According to the international press his playing is caracterised by “impressive elegance, irreproachable technique, an exceptional musical sensibility and sonorities of an immaculate beauty”. Kirill Troussov regularly gives masterclasses at the Mozarteum Salzburg, Colburn School Los Angeles, Beijing and Nanjing Central Conservatory, European Music Institute Vienna, in Cremona, Milan, Madrid, Dublin, Berlin, Munich, Oslo, Budapest, USA and Hong Kong. He is frequently invited as jury member to international violin competitions, among others to Schoenfeld International String Competition, Ysaÿe International Music Competition and Carl Flesch International Violin Competition. Since 2023 Kirill Troussov is Artistic Director at the Carl Flesch Academy in Baden-Baden and since 2021, he is Chairman and Artistic Director of the Hong Kong International Young Musicians Competition. Since 2023 the label Orchid Classics releases the series Kirill Troussov Live, where over forty of his celebrated live concert performances will be available on all audio-streaming platforms. Kirill Troussov plays the Antonio Stradivari violin “Brodsky” (1702), on which violinist Adolph Brodsky performed the world premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto on 4 December 1881.

With his characteristic warm sound and sensitive interpretation, Lech Antonio Uszynski has become a sought-after violist on international stages. As a soloist and chamber musician he has played in concert halls that include the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Philharmonie in Berlin, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Tonhalle in Zurich, Wigmore Hall in London, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. In June 2022 he had his critically acclaimed solo debut at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław under the direction of Krzysztof Urbański. In 2023 Uszynski has been appointed Professor of viola at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. In 2019 his solo album Progetto Gibson was released by RCA Red Seal (Sony Classical). The pieces on this recording are related to Antonio Stradivari’s “Gibson” Viola (1734), which Uszynski played from 2010-2017. In 2018 his quartet released two CDs (Works by Schumann & Schubert) for RCA Red Seal. In 2021 he received much critical acclaim for his live recording of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in a version for viola solo which was published on YouTube. Uszynski was born in 1986 into a family of Polish musicians in Padova, Italy, but moved to Switzerland the following year. It was there that he grew up, studying with Ana Chumachenco, Zakhar Bron and Michel Rouilly at Zurich’s University of the Arts. He also received mentoring and encouragement as a viola player from Rudolf Barshai. He currently performs on a rare viola (1690) by the maker Hendrick Willems.

Xin Wang established herself in spite of her young age as one of the leading pianists of the inner Mongolia China. She came into public attention when she won a special prize at the national Piano Competition China with the age of seven and has since gone on to give piano concerts an recitals in concert halls all over China. She studied with Jolio Largacha, Andreas Frölich and Gabriel Rosenberg in Cologne and Nurnberg. During her study she got a scholarship of the DAAD. Xin Wang has won numerous honors and prizes including the piano competition Lengano Italy, the piano competition Bettona Italy and many others.

She is regularly a welcome guest at diverse well-known concert places in Europa and Asia like Berliner Philharmonie, Schloss Elmau in Germany, Qintai Concert Hall in Wuhan, Concert Hall in Xiamen, Henan Art Center in Zhengzhou, Concert Hall in Ningbo, Poly Grand Theatre in Hohhot and many others. As a soloist Xin Wang appeared with many famous orchestras, among them Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Kammerphilharmonie St. Petersburg and Berliner Camerata under the baton of famous conductors like Kazem Abdullah, James P. Liu, Juri Gilbo, Eduardo Strausser and Fuad Ibrahimov. She is a regular guest at international festivals such as Skrjabin Piano Festival Grosseto Italy, Piano Festival „federi musica“ Neapel Italy, International Piano Festival Salerno Italy, „IBLA Claasic“ Sicilia Italy, Piano Festival Orbetello Italy, „Friday Nights with Yury Revich“ Wien Austria, International Art Festival Kotor Montenegro, International Music Festival Deià Spain, Festival „Palau March Museu“ Palma Spain, „Festival de musique classique a Pompignan“ Toulouse France, Palais Sommer Dresden Germany, „Monschau Klassik“ Germany, „International Piano Festival Wuhan” China and many others. As a passionate chamber musician she regularly works with colleagues like Echo-Klassik prize winner Yury Revich or Alexandre Debrus in China and Europe.

Xin Wang is founder and artist director of the international piano festival in Geilenkirchen Germany and jury president of the international piano competition “Euregio Piano Award”. She is often inivited as a jury member in many international piano competitions such as Campillos Spain, „Isidor Bajic Piano Memorial Competition“ Novi Saad Serbia, „Neue Sterne“ Wernigerode Germany, „Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize“ Barletta Italy, „Notes in Harmony“ Bettona Italy, „Academy Award“ Rom Italy, Asian Youth international piano Competition Hongkong, and many others.

Since 2012 she teaches as a guest professor at different music universities in China and gave several master classes in China and Germany with prestigious teachers from well known music universities in Europe.