Born in Daegu, South-Korea, Jaebok began his studies on the double bass at the age of 16. He studied in Seoul National University and later went to Berlin. There, he studied at the Hanns Eisler School of Music with Stephan Petzold. Jaebok Cho ended his studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Michael Wolf. After graduation, he continued his postgraduate studies at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater with Michael Rieber and the Folkwang University in Essen under Niek de Groot.

While studying, Jaebok was a substitute bassist with the Konzerthaus Orchestra and Rundfunk-Symphonie- Orchestra Berlin as well as the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg. During his training he was awarded the Second Prize at the 8th International Double Bass Competition in Brno (Czech Republic) and he won a Second Prize in the Competition of the Elise-Meyer- Stiftung Hamburg. Jaebok was appointed Principal Double Bass of the Duisburg Philhamonic Orchestra in 2010, and since 2014 he was appointed Principal Bass of the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hanover. He also freelances with other orchestras.

“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.

For nearly a decade, the virtuoso violinist Caroline Goulding has performed with the world’s premier orchestras, in recital and on record and has blossomed from “precociously gifted” (Gramophone) 13-year-old soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra to “a skilled violinist well on her way to an important career” (Washington Post). Caroline’s 2016-2017 season launches with the summer 2016 release of her first new recording since the GRAMMY-nominated and chart-topping debut released on Telarc in 2009, when the violinist was just 16.

Caroline’s recital album with pianist Danae Dörken on the ARS label includes works by Schumann, Enescu, and Dvořák. Caroline and Danae celebrate the release of the new album with a June 2016 nomination for the prestigious Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in the category of “Chamber Music,” and a CD release recital in New York’s Steinway Hall in September 2016. Orchestral engagements this season include Indianapolis Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Boise Philharmonic and Stamford Symphony in the US. In Europe, Caroline will perform in Lucerne, Stuttgart, Gstaad, Freiburg and throughout Germany in recital with Danae Dörken.

Since that 2006 Cleveland Orchestra debut, Caroline has gone on to appear as soloist with the Symphony Orchestras of Toronto, Detroit, Dallas, Houston, Nashville, Milwaukee, Pasadena, Alabama, the National Symphony, Florida Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in North America. She has also appeared extensively in Europe and Asia with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Netherlands Philharmonic, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. She has appeared in recital at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall, the Tonhalle-Zurich, the Louvre Museum, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; and has performed as a chamber musician as part of the Marlboro Music Festival.

Widely recognized by the classical music world’s most distinguished artists and institutions for her “vibrant and intensely musical” playing (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Caroline was a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2011 and in 2009, she won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and was the recipient of the Helen Armstrong Violin Fellowship. She has also garnered significant attention from music and mainstream press, appearing on NBC’s Today, MARTHA and Germany’s Stars von Morgen hosted by Rolando Villazón. Caroline has also been heard on NPR’s Performance Today, From the Top, and SiriusXM Satellite Radio.

Caroline has studied with Christian Tetzlaff, Donald Weilerstein, Paul Kantor, Joel Smirnoff and Julia Kurtyka.
Caroline plays a violin made by Brooklyn-based maker Sam Zygmuntowicz, c. 2016.

For anyone new to violinist Noé Inui, the wide variety of influences that have shaped his character and career may surprise. To Noé, born in Brussels in 1985 to a Greek mother and a Japanese father, it is as logical and organic as breathing. His talents have been recognised internationally, at the 2005 Sibelius Competition (Special Prize for Young Talents), the 2007 Louis Spohr Medal, and the 2009 Young Concert Artists / New York among others. At the Verbier Festival Academy in 2012, he was awarded the coveted Prix Julius Bär. In 2020, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam selected Noé as one of their Classical Futures Europe Artists. Orchestral collaborations include the Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, as well as Kaohsiung Symphony, National Orchestra of Belgium, Athens State Symphony, and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Noé is a committed chamber musician, he co-founded the successful Piano Quartet Corneille and the Trio Bell’Arte. Invitations by various festivals worldwide enable him to perform with musicians such as Martha Argerich and Leonidas Kavakos among others. Noé Inui has recorded seven CDs, the most recent of which is dedicated to the solo sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe. It contains as a bonus the world première recording of the work Étude Poème by the same composer.

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.

Praised as “one of the finest oboists in the world” (International Record Review), Céline Moinet has been one of the most exceptional performing artists on her instrument for the past 10 years. She is in demand as a soloist with all the major orchestras in the world, including most recently at the Salzburg Festival with Christoph Eschenbach and Staatskapelle Dresden. She also regularly tours as soloist with Dresden Kapellsolisten and Kammerorchester Basel. She signed as an exclusive artist with Harmonia Mundi, winning unanimous plaudits from critics for her recording of works for solo oboe as well as chamber music with harp.

Céline was born in Lille, France in 1984 and completed her studies with highest honours at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique under the tutelage of David Walter and Maurice Bourgue. She continued her artistic training with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and the orchestra of the National Theater Mannheim. At just 23 years of age, Céline won the prestigious position of solo oboist at the Staatskapelle Dresden performing with conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta and Claudio Abbado. She is also a regular guest of orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra. Celine plays oboe and cor anglais exclusively from Marigaux, Paris.

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.

The main focus of Marlis Petersenʼs repertoire is the field of lyric coloratura soprano, however she has also made a name for her self as an interpreter of contemporary music. After studying with Sylvia Geszty at the Conservatory in Stuttgart she began her career at the Nuremberg
State Theatre and later was engaged at the German Opera of the Rhine. A central role in her repertoire is Bergʼs heroine Lulu, a piece she has performed in ten productions in renowned opera houses all over the world. She has appeared at Covent Garden London, at the Opera Bastille in Paris, at the MET New York, at the Chicago Lyric Opera and the Bavarian State Opera and at all the opera houses in Berlin, at the Salzburg Festival, Bregenz Festival, as well as in Aix-en- Provence.

Among the most important world premieres in which Marlis Petersen has participated are Hans Werner Henzeʼs “Phaedra” in Berlin, Manfred Trojahnʼs “La Grande Magia” at the Semper Opera in Dresden and with enormous success the title role of Aribert Reimannʼs “Medea” at
the Vienna State Opera. For this role she was given for the second time the title of singer of the year 2010 by the acclaimed opera magazine “Opernwelt”.
A third time the title was given to her for the new production of Lulu at the Bavarian State Opera in the year 2015, directed by Dimitri Tcherniakov, conducted by Kirill Petrenko.

She had a big success singing her first “Traviata” in Peter Konwitschnyʼs production in Graz (2011) and recently impressed critics and audience performing all 4 roles ( Stella, Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta) in Les Contes D’ Hoffmann (Theather an der Wien).
The soprano works regularly with baroque orchestras like Akamus Berlin, Bach- Collegium Stuttgart, Amsterdam and Freiburg Baroque. She has collaborated with some of the most important classical orchestras worldwide like the Vienna Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Boston Symphony, the Santa Cecilia -Rome, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Mahler Chamber.

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.

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.