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.

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 Dörken 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 an 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, was recently released 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 Dörken (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 Dörken 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 United States of America, 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 Dörken 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 Dörken 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, released by Berlin Classics, featuring works of Ravel, Debussy, Brahms, De Falla, Theodorakis et al

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.

Benedict Klöckner, born in 1989, is one of the outstanding artists of his generation. He has won numerous competitions and awards, most recently the OPUS Klassik 2021. He performs worldwide as a soloist with renowned orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, the Kremerata Baltica, the Camerata Oslo and the Munich Chamber Orchestra and works with renowned conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Sanderling, Heinrich Schiff, and Sir Simon Rattle.  A keen chamber musician, Benedict is performing with artists such as Sir András Schiff, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Gidon Kremer, Antoine Tamestit, Emmanuel Ax, Fazil Say, Lisa Batiashvili, Yuri Bashmet, Benjamin Grosvenor, Lars Vogt and Christian Tetzlaff. In October 2021 Brilliant Classics released his recording of the Bach cello suites. Since 2014 Benedict is the artistic director and founder of the International Music Festival Koblenz. Benedict Klöckner studied with Martin Ostertag, and as a young soloist of the Kronberg Academy Master with Frans Helmerson and Gary Hoffman. He plays an Italian cello by Francesco Rugeri (Cremona, 1690), formerly played by Maurice Gendron, and a bow by Etienne Pajeot (Mirecourt, 1820).

Sebastian Manz, international soloist, chamber musician and Principal clarinettist 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. During the preceding forty years the 1st prize had not been awarded in this section; Sebastian Manz was also awarded the coveted Audience Prize and further special prizes. Previously he had also won the German Music Competition, together with his piano partner Martin Klett. Sebastian Manz subsequently received three times the Echo Klassik Award for outstanding CD recordings, as well as the sought-after Emerging Artist Award in New York. For his album A Bernstein Story, which was released in 2019, he received the Opus Klassik Award in the category “Classic Without Borders” in October 2020. Sebastian Manz was born in Hanover in 1986 as the son of two pianists and as the grandson of the violinist Boris Goldstein, who hailed from Odessa. His German-Russian family home thus offered fertile soil for his musical roots. Sebastian joined a boys’ choir at the age of six and started learning the piano early on, but soon decided to concentrate on the clarinet. Among his most important teachers and supporters were none other than Sabine Meyer and Rainer Wehle.

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.

 Combining integrity with elegance and focus with panache, Hyeyoon Park is an artist of outstanding style and virtuosity. Since making her orchestral debut at the age of nine with the Seoul Philharmonic, she has achieved international acclaim with orchestras such as the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra St Petersburg, and NHK Symphony Orchestra. 

The youngest ever first prize winner of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich at the age of 17 in 2009, Hyeyoon was also a recipient of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2011 and went on to receive the London Music Masters Award in 2012. Passionate about education, this award has provided her with a regular platform to bring music and performance into London’s schools.

Hyeyoon regularly appears at major festivals and venues around the world, such as London’s Southbank Centre, Spannungen Festival Heimbach, Moritzburg Festival and Marlboro Festival. She has collaborated with Gidon Kremer, Andras Schiff, Christian Tetzlaff, Yuri Bashmet, Lars Vogt, Daniel Hope, Alban Gerhardt, Jan Vogler, and Benjamin Grosvenor, to name but a few.

Born in Seoul in 1992, Hyeyoon studied at the junior colleges of the Korean National University of Arts and University of Cincinnati with Professor Piotr Milewski. She also studied with Professor Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin and with Christian Tetzlaff as a Young Soloist at the Kronberg Academy. These studies were funded by the Nikolas Gruber Stipendium.

Hyeyoon Park plays a violin made by the German violinmaker Stefan-Peter Greiner.

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.