“This evening it was Pablo Barragán who cast a spell on his audience. In addition to his perfect playing in all respects, it was just his soulful tone, which held in breath.”
Westdeutsche Zeitung

With music one can say what cannot be expressed otherwise. Music makes intangible things tangible and touches in a special way. From the first note Pablo Barragán masterfully creates a connection to his audience. His performance is differentiated, elegant and perfectly nuanced. He wants to tell stories, convey emotions and create his own color palette for every work.
As soloist and chamber musician, his performances lead him again through Germany and Europe, from the Philharmonie Berlin, to the Bayerischen Rundfunk in Munich, the Laieszhalle in Hamburg, the Tonhalle Zurich, to the Konzertgesellschaft Basel, into the Auditori Barcelona and to the Athenaeum in Bucharest with conductors such as Clemens Schuldt, Adrian Pravaba and Gabriel Feltz.

The intimacy of chamber music in turn opens up entirely new views, emotions and colors that characterize the young musician. Making music together with the Martha Agerich, Viviane Hagner, or the Schumann and Novus Quartets, and at festivals such as Lucerne Festival, Martha Argerich Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Young Euroclassics Berlin and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival are thus as important as his solo concerts.

Marco Behtash is a proud SF Bay Area native, born in Berkeley, California, to Italian and Iranian parents. He is currently Principal bass with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. From September 2024 he will join the forces of Teatro Real, in Madrid, as double bass soloist. Marco studied at the San Francisco Conservatory with Scott Pingel and later at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, completing his Μaster’s degree in 2014 with Rinat Ibragimov and Luis Cabrera. Marco has worked with several leading orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Concertgebouw (graduating the RCO’s Academy programme in 2015), the London Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestras, and several others. Chamber music activity has included collaborations with Trio Isimsiz, Amitié Music Project Tokyo, Klassik Novum Dresden, 12 Ensemble et al. He has also appeared as a soloist at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden for a premiere of the Grammy-winning concerto for double bass “Dark with Excessive Bright” by Missy Mazzoli. Marco is a Professor of double bass at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and enjoys an active teaching career in addition to playing. He usually performs on his John Devereux bass (London, ca. 1830).

Anna Ciborowska is a pianist who likes to stray off the beaten track. Although her concert repertoire includes many pieces from the pantheon of piano literature, her discography refers to less know compositions. With The Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra Amadeus under Agnieszka Duczmal she has recorded Concerto for piano, saxophone quartet and string orchestra by Rafal Stradomski. She has collaborated with the esteemed Belgian writer and composer Gaston Compère who dedicated her many of his compositions. Some of them are recorded on CD’s “Polders “and “Lux Mea”. Suite “Polders” was used as the soundtrack to the film with the same title produced by ARTE and RTBF. She recorded the piano quintet of Jules Zarembski for the Belgian radio RTBF. Her searching passion led to releasing the CD with the music of unfairly forgotten polish XIX centaury woman-composer Maria Szymanowska. Some of the pieces on the CD were world première recordings.

As a soloist Anna Ciborowska performed among others with Dutch Orchestra „Amadeus” in the Chamber Hall of Concergebouw in Amsterdam, Orchestra „Ricercare” in Concert Noble in Brussels. She gave the recitals in many European countries. 

Besides solo performances she is an active chamber musician. She is a pianist in Exprezz Duo which played among others in Bruno Walter Hall in Lincoln Center in New York, The Kennedy Center in Washington, Rome, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Seoul (The South Korea).

“Is the young pianist the discovery of the year?” asked the classical music magazine Crescendo and answered in the affirmative. The reviewers of the magazine Concerti also consider her to be “on her way right to the top”. The German-Greek pianist Danae Dörken belongs to the elite of a new generation of internationally sought-after artists and captivates audiences and fellow musicians alike with her breath­taking technique, exceptional stage presence and musical depth. The 2025/26 season was full of highlights for Danae Dörken. She embarked on two extensive tours of the USA. As a piano soloist, she performed with the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder) in the Philharmonie in Cologne.  With the multimedia project “Bach in Space” she appeared in the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, as well as in Göttingen and Bonn. As part of a piano duo with her sister Kiveli, she once again gave numerous concerts in Germany, Switzerland and Italy. She also performed with her chamber music partners Annelien van Wauwe in Belgium and the Netherlands and with Benedict Klöckner in Switzerland. At the end of 2024, the album GLASS TWO, a collaboration with Luxembourgish vibraphonist and composer Pascal Schumacher, was released. The two artists received the Opus Klassik award in October 2025 for this album, which features works by Philip Glass and Schumacher himself. The programme has been performed at the award ceremony, as well as at the Beethovenfest Bonn and in Luxembourg. Of Greek descent, Danae Dörken founded the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) in 2015 together with her sister 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 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 began her musical path as a seven-year-old student of the renowned piano pedagogue Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, who taught her until his death, ten years later. She continued her musical education with Prof. Lars Vogt, with whom she studied at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover until his recent death in September 2022.

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 Dörken gave her debut with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen playing Ceasar Francks Variations symphoniques under the direction of conductor Alondra de la Parra. In 2025 she performed Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in the big Hall of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. She has performed in most European countries, China, Japan, Korea and the USA, in some of the most famous halls, the Elbphilarmonie in Hamburg, the Mariinsly-Theater 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 Schwetzinger Festspiele, the Spannungen Festival in Heimbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Kiveli  Dörken dedicates a considerable amount of her time to playing chamber music. She performs regularly with artists such as Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Julian Steckel, Antje Weithaas and Tanja Tetzlaff. Together with her sister Danae Dörken, she has been playing as a piano duo since the age of five. She is a member of the Franz Ensmeble, that won an OPUS Klassik for their debut CD featuring works by Ferdinand Ries. In 2015 together with her sister Danae they founded and co-direct until today the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) on the Greek Island Lesbos, of which she is also the artistic director. The MIMF brings the tradition of classical music to Lesbos and has become a symbol of hope for the entire region. In 2020 Kiveli recorded her debut cd with the label ARS featuring solo and chamber music works by Josef Suk.

“I see composing and conducting as a whole, as an inseparable relationship,” says Konstantia Gourzi, who combines the rare roles of composer and conductor in an extraordinary way.

She is influenced by the identity of different cultures and musical traditions. Konstantia Gourzi deals with current social issues and incorporates them into her musical work. Creating a connection between the arts and cultures inspires her time and again to create new performance concepts.

Konstantia Gourzi’s compositional work includes works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and solo pieces as well as works for music theater and film music.

Her musical partners and collaborations include, in addition to renowned soloists and ensembles, the Lucerne Festival, the Grafenegg Festival, the Festspiele Europäische Wochen Passau, the Staatsoper Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the hr-Sinfonieorchester, the Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Ensemble Musica Nova Israel, among others, the Ensemble Neue Musik Moscow, the Athens State Orchestra, the Kasseler Musiktage, the Nuremberg Philharmonic, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising, the Patrimonio Nacional Spain, the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition and the ARD Music Competition.

Radio recordings, television broadcasts and live streams document her artistic path as well as her collaboration with labels such as NEOS, NAXOS, SONY Classical and ECM.

Konstantia Gourzi was born in Athens in 1962 and studied piano, composition and conducting in her hometown and from 1988 to 1992 at the HdK (UdK) Berlin. She lives in Munich and on Aegina, Greece.

One of the outstanding artists of his generation and prizewinner of numerous international competitions, Benedict Klöckner performs as a soloist with prestigious orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, the Radio Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, the Kremerata Baltica, the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. He collaborates with renowned conductors, such as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Sanderling, Ingo Metzmacher, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Joana Mallwitz, Sir Simon Rattle.   He has performed in prestigious concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Suntory Hall Tokyo, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Tonhalle in Zurich and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He is also a regular guest at international festivals, sharing the stage with artists such as Emanuel Ax, Lisa Batiashvili, Gidon Kremer and Anne-Sophie Mutter. Since 2014 he has been the artistic director and founder of the Koblenz International Music Festival, where he recently invited legendary conductor Myung Whun Chung, and performed with Augustin Dumay, and the Modigliani Quartet.  In 2025/26, he played as a soloist and in recitals in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Philharmonie Cologne, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Suntory Hall Tokyo and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. His recordings have been acclaimed by the press and have won awards such as the OPUS Klassik Award and the Supersonic Award. Benedict Klöckner studied at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Martin Ostertag and at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson and Gary Hoffman. He is a professor at the École Normale de Musique Paris.

Sebastian Manz, international soloist, chamber musician and principal clarinetist of the SWR Symphony Orchestra, had his big breakthrough in 2008, when he won 1st prize in the clarinet category of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Manz subsequently received the Echo Klassik Award for outstanding cd recordings three times, as well as the sought-after Emerging Artist Award in New York. During the 2025/26 season, Sebastian Manz gave solo performances across Europe, including at the Tonhalle Zurich, with the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock, the Schleswig-Holstein Symphony Orchestra, and the Rheinische Philharmonie State Orchestra, and once again appears at the Music@Menlo Festival in the USA. Alongside his chamber music partners, such as Franziska Hölscher, Stephen Waarts, Felix Klieser, Andrei Ioniță, Theo Plath, he performs at various venues, including the Prinzregententheater in Munich and the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. He is a welcome guest on renowned stages, performing with ensembles such as the Armida Quartet and the Schumann Quartet, as well as with his long-standing musical partners Danae Dörken, Herbert Schuch, Maximilian Hornung, Martin Klett and Sebastian Studnitzky.  Recent performances include concerts in Innsbruck, in Liechtenstein and at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. The season culminates in the presentation of his groundbreaking project Quasi Cool at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Hohenloher Kultursommer. Manz’s enthusiasm for arranging and composing is reflected in his concert programmes and in his discography, which have won numerous awards.

Appreciated for her expressive and very emotional performances, Alissa Margulis regularly plays in important concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmony, the Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Tchaikovsky Hall Moscow, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Cologne Philharmony, the Vienna Musikverein, Sumida Triphony Hall Tokyo, the Sage Gateshead, the Tonhalle Zurich and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall.

Born in Germany into a family of Russian musicians, Alissa Margulis studied in Cologne with Zakhar Bron, in Brussels with Augustin Dumay and in Vienna with Pavel Vernikov. She won numerous prizes at international violin competitions and was awarded with the “Pro Europa” prize of the European Arts Foundation which was presented to her by Daniel Barenboim in Berlin.

She made her first public appearance at the age of seven with the Budapest Soloists and has performed since then with numerous orchestras such as the English Chamber Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National d’Ile de France, New Russia Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Bilkent Orchestra Ankara, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Belgian National Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestras of Kiev, Skopje, Ljubljana, Minsk and Novosibirsk, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Moscow Soloists, and the Kremerata Baltica, amongst many others.

Alissa Margulis worked together with famous conductors: Ivor Bolton, Jacques Mercier, Arnold Katz, Jacek Kaspszyk, Dmitry Liss, Jaap van Zweden, Enrique Mazzola, Daniel Raiskin, Fabrice Bollon, Stefan Vladar, François-Xavier Roth, Lars Vogt, Howard Griffiths, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Hubert Soudant, Yuri Bashmet, Gidon Kremer, Christian Arming, Augustin Dumay, Mikko Franck and Gerd Albrecht to name just a few of them.

Besides her solo career Alissa Margulis is an enthusiastic chamber music player and collaborates with artists such as Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, David Geringas, Ivry Gitlis, Gidon Kremer, Bruno Giuranna, Mischa Maisky, Gabriela Montero, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Liana Issakadze, Alexandre Tharaud, Stephen Kovacevich, Alexander Lonquich, Polina Leschenko, Paul Badura-Skoda and Lars Vogt.

She further appeared at various Festivals: at the Enescu Festival Bucharest, Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, in Davos, Tours, Stravanger Festival, at the Mozartwoche Salzburg, “Spannungen”-Festival in Heimbach, “Progetto” Martha Argerich Festival in Lugano, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Sotshi Winter Arts Festival and Verbier Festival.

Her discography includes more than a dozen CDs at labels such as EMI Classics, Oehms, Novalis, Avanti Classic and CAvi. Notably two of the six EMI Classics releases of the „Martha Argerich and Friends“ series received a GRAMMY nomination, several others won the Diapason d’or. She recorded repertoire by Mozart, Shostakovich, Enescu, Beethoven, Messiaen and others as well as the complete music for violin and piano by Franz Liszt. She recorded Piazzolla’s seasons and took part in an all Klezmer recording alongside musicians such as Myriam Fuks, Roby Lakatos, Evgeny Kissin, Polina Leschenko and Mischa Maisky. Alissa Margulis will be featured in another live recording of chamber music performed at the Progetto Martha Argerich, a 2016 release by Warner Classics.

Last season she played concerts in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Russia, Luxembourg, Lebanon, South Africa, Aruba, Malta, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the USA, Italy, France at venues such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Tchaikovsky Hall Moscow and the Verbier Festival, among many others.

This 24/25 season sees Hyeyoon debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Kristian Sallinen. She also makes her City of Birmingham Symphony debut conducted by Alexander Shelley with Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and debuts with Cape Town Philharmonic performing Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. She returns to the London Philharmonic Orchestra for two performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, a chamber version of which she also play-directs on tour with Sinfonia Cymru. With pianist Juho Pohjonen, she tours China performing a varied programme that includes Debussy’s Violin Sonata. Hyeyoon also makes a return to the award-winning Multi-Story Orchestra at the Southbank Centre for a performance of Verified, composed by Young Creatives and Kate Whitely. A passionate chamber musician, Park continues touring Europe with her long-standing Piano Quartet partners − Kian Soltani, Timothy Ridout, and Benjamin Grosvenor − with performances at Elizabeth Hall, Philharmonie Luxembourg, and Palau de la Música Catalana. Park and Grosvenor participate in a series of chamber recitals in Norway at the Risør Chamber Music Festival. Recent highlights of Park’s career include performances with the Hallé Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto alongside Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Benjamin Grosvenor. Her concerto appearances also include engagements with Stuttgart Philharmonic, Orchester Mainz, Poznań Philharmonic, Hitzacker Festival, Cologne Philharmonie, Zuger Sinfonietta, Iasi Philharmonic at the Classix Festival, and performances of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with orchestras such as the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and Mariinsky Orchestra in St Petersburg, among many others.

Rosanne Philippens is an extraordinary communicator, with an innate musicality and an infectiously joyful yet sincere approach to music-making. She is in high demand across the Netherlands, both as soloist and chamber musician. She is also a keen play/director and recently made her debut with the Orchestre National de Lyon leading the orchestra in a hugely successful performance. Recent highlights include performances with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Residentie Orkest both in The Hague and at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Elsewhere, Philippens has played with the Barcelona Symphony, Ulster Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, and with orchestras across Germany, Finland, and Switzerland, with conductors including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Lawrence Foster, Otto Tausk, Jan Willem de Vriend, Antony Hermus, and Nicholas Collon. Philippens plays regularly with artists such as István Vardai, Vilde Frang, Julien Quentin, Vikingúr Olafsson, Amihai Grosz, Camille Thomas and Zoltán Fejérvári. She runs her own concert series “The Amsterdam Salon Pop-Up”, presenting high-quality concerts in carefully sought-out and unusual locations. Philippens records exclusively for Channel Classics and all her recordings have received glowing praise. The Strad has described her latest CD Insight as being “both softly spoken and intensely powerful”. Earlier albums include Dedications, featuring works by Kreisler, Fauré and Ysaÿe, and a recording of Prokofiev’s 2nd Concerto, described by BBC Magazine as “a triumph”. Philippens was taught from an early age by Anneke Schilt at the Amstelveen music school. She continued her studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Hanns Eisler Academy in Berlin with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Vera Beths, Anner Bylsma and Ulf Wallin, receiving the highest distinction from both institutes. Philippens won 1st prize at the Dutch National Violin Competition in 2009 and the Freiburg International Violin Competition in 2014. Philippens plays on the “Barrere” Stradivarius (1727), thanks to the generous support of the Elise Mathilde Foundation.

Bassoonist Theo Plath is in high demand as a soloist, chamber-music partner and orchestral musician. His artistry has been recognized with prizes at many competitions, among them the Aelous International Competition for Wind Instruments, the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb (German Music Competition) and the ARD International Music Competition Munich. 

He has gained important musical insight from Sergio Azzolini, Klaus Thunemann, Nikolaus Maler, and Dag Jensen, with whom he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich.

Theo Plath has performed as a soloist with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the Münchner Kammerorchester and has appeared at music centers such as the Konzerthaus Dortmund and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

He is a welcome guest at international chamber music festivals, including the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and “Spannungen” in Heimbach and is also a member of the Monet Wind Quintet.

Since 2019 Theo Plath is principal bassoonist of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. 

In 2020 his Debut-CD was released, featuring bassoon concertos by Weber, Crusell, Bitsch and Jolivet, recorded together with the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Leo McFall. 

In May 2021 Theo Plath releases his second CD “lost times” together with pianist Aris Alexander Blettenberg. 

Theo Plath regularly takes part in the “Rhapsody in School” outreach program through which he passes his enthusiasm for classical music on to young people.

In 2018, Tim Posner became the first ever British prizewinner at the International Karl Davidov Competition in Latvia. Born in 1995, he began playing the cello at the age of eight and is currently studying in the ‘Solo Class’ of Leonid Gorokhov at the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover.

Tim made his debut concerto performance at the age of 14. Since then he has performed as soloist with renowned orchestras including the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Mozart Players with conductors such as Andrew Manze. Highlights of the 2021/22 Season will include the world premiere of Polo Piatti’s Cello Concerto and a recital debut at the Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Between 2017-2019 Tim was the recipient of the prestigious ‘Gundlach Musikpreis’ award.

As a chamber musician, Tim regularly plays in various ensembles. In 2010 he founded The Teyber Trio with violinist, Tim Crawford and violist, Timothy Ridout, with whom he continues to perform internationally. As a former member of the Celan Quartet he recorded a debut CD of Berg’s Op. 3. Tim has performed at numerous international chamber music festivals such as the Musikdorf Ernen, IMS Prussia Cove (Open Chamber Music), Wye Valley, Lewes, Peasmarsh, Frinton, Musique à Marsac, Buxtehude, Joroisten Musiikkipaivat, Roman River, Cheltenham und Brighton-Festival festivals. Tim has collaborated with internationally acclaimed musicians including Lars Vogt, Alasdair Beatson, Anthony Marwood, Ewa Kupiec, Esther Hoppe, Alexander Rudin, Andrej Bielow, Richard Lester, Elisabeth Kufferath, Matthew Hunt, Katherine Gowers, Bengt Forsberg and the Doric String Quartet.

Julien Prégardien was born in Frankfurt in 1984 and received his earliest music training in the choirs of Limburg Cathedral. After studying in Freiburg and joining the academy of the Aix-en-Provence opera festival, he was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble from 2009 to 2013. At the same time, he developed an international career as a concert performer. Today, the tenor is an outstanding representative of the younger generation of singers.

As an opera singer, he has appeared at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, at the Hamburg and Bavarian State Operas and at the Opéra Comique in Paris. In 2018 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Narraboth in Richard Strauss’ Salome (director: Romeo Castellucci) with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Franz Welser-Möst. In 2019 this was followed by his debut as Tamino in a new production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Berlin State Opera under the baton of Alondra de la Parra. During the 2020/2021 season, he returns to the Berlin State Opera for a revival of Die Zauberflöte.

Highlights of the recent past are concert appearances with the Munich Philharmonic, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Bavarian Radio Chorus. Julian Prégardien was “Artiste Étoile” at the Mozartfest Würzburg in 2019, where he performed with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, among others. In early March 2020 he made his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra, performing Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang under Franz Welser-Möst. During the 2020/2021 season, he is scheduled to perform with the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble under Thomas Hengelbrock, with the Dresden Philharmonic under Cornelius Meister, with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra under Kent Nagano, with the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig under Gotthold Schwarz, with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano, with Ensemble Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon, with Concentus Musicus under Stephan Gottfried and with Les Talens Lyriques under the baton of Christophe Rousset.

Julian Prégardien’s artistic activities focus particularly on song recitals and chamber music projects. During the 2020/2021 season, he will be the focus of a portrait series at Cologne’s Philharmonie, with various song and chamber music projects as well as orchestral songs with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Alondra de la Parra. Apart from numerous song recitals, Julian Prégardien will perform Schubert’s Schwanengesang with Martin Helmchen and Schumann’s Dichterliebe with Eric le Sage.

Julian Prégardien records exclusively for the label Alpha Classics. He is a professor at the Munich Academy of Music and Theatre’s vocal department, a member of the Schumann Network and artistic director of the Brentano Academy in Aschaffenburg.

Przemyslaw Pujanek, born in Poznan, Poland, began his musical education aged six on violin. In 2010 he graduated Henryk Wieniawski School of Music in Poznan with distinction.

In the years 2007-2010 he simultaneously attended Julius Stern Institut in Berlin, where he mastered his violin skills under Tomasz Tomaszewski. During this time he was successfully participating in many national and international music competitions as a soloist and as a chamber musician.

After changing his main instrument to viola, he studied from 2010 at Berlin University of Arts withnProf. Hartmut Rohde. During his studies, which he graduated in 2014 with the highest mark, he participated in many festivals (e.g. HARMOS festival in Porto, Portugal), won prizes in many international competitions (Max Rostal Competition in Berlin, Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria) and was a recipient of numerous scholarships (DAAD prize, “Ad Infinitum” Scholarship and Paul Hindemith Association Scholarship).

Beetwen 2015 and 2017, after a successful audition, he worked as 1st Principal Viola at the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In the years 2017-2018 he worked as a First Solo Violist at the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Frankfurt (HR Sinfonieorchester). Since 2019 he is the 1st Solo Violist at the German Opera in Berlin (Deutsche Oper Berlin).

The Norwegian violist Eivind Ringstad (b. 1994) is today featured as one of the most prominent violists of his generation. He made his breakthrough after winning the «Eurovision Young Musicians 2012», and one year later made his debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2016, Eivind was awarded the «Borletti Buitoni fellowship award» and appointed the «BBC´s New Generation Artists Scheme», leading to engagements in the UK, including debut recitals in Wigmore Hall and the International Edinburgh Festival.

Eivind released his first recording in 2017 for Lawo Classics featuring William Walton´s Viola Concerto with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. His second recording «Correspondances» with German pianist David Meier was released by Rubicon Classics in 2020. 

He has appeared with many orchestras, including Copenhagen Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and Lahti Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors, such as Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Eivind Aadland, Han-na Chang, Anja Bilhmaier and Joshua Weilerstein.

As a prolific chamber musician, Eivind has collaborated with some of the most distinguished musicians around, such as Janine Jansen, Guro Kleven Hagen, Timothy Ridout, Steven Isserlis, Beatrice Rana and Leif Ove Andsnes. Eivind is currently co-artistic director for Norsjø Chamber Music Festival, which takes place annually in Telemark, Norway.

Eivind started to play the violin at the age of 5, moving to the viola as his main instrument nine years later. He studied at the Barratt Due Music Institute in Oslo, Norway with Prof. Soon-Mi Chung Barratt-Due.