{"id":62346,"date":"2022-03-07T17:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berlin-classics-music.com\/clone-of-kuenstler\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:45:40","slug":"artists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Artists<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"\/wp-content\/plugins\/dmbimporter\/assets\/styles\/default.css\" \/>\r\n<!--\r\n<div class=\"letterFilter letterFilterTop\">\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('A');\">A<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('B');\">B<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('C');\">C<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('D');\">D<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('E');\">E<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('F');\">F<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('G');\">G<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('H');\">H<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('I');\">I<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('J');\">J<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('K');\">K<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('L');\">L<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('M');\">M<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('N');\">N<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('O');\">O<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('P');\">P<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('Q');\">Q<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('R');\">R<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('S');\">S<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('T');\">T<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('U');\">U<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('V');\">V<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('W');\">W<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('X');\">X<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('Y');\">Y<\/a>\r\n            <a href=\"#\" onClick=\"filterLetter('Z');\">Z<\/a>\r\n        <a href=\"#\"  class=\"reset-filter\">-<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n-->\r\n<div class=\"member-worlds\">\r\n    <div class=\"items\">\r\n                                    <div class=\"inside item-member letterA\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/alexander-krichel-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/alexander-krichel-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/2282305\/8238_Alexander_Krichel-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Pianist Alexander Krichel in dunklem Blazer und wei\u00dfem Shirt. Frontal aufgenommene Nahaufnahme mit ruhigem Blick, weicher Tiefensch\u00e4rfe und k\u00fchler, kontrastreicher Farbwirkung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/alexander-krichel-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Alexander Krichel<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Mit zwei der gro\u0308\u00dften russischen Pianisten der Gegenwart als Lehrer hat die russische Schule Alexander Krichel besonders beeinflusst. Nachdem er Vladimir Krainevs letzter Student in Hannover war, zog es ihn nach London, wo er am Royal College of Music bei Dmitri Alexeev mit ho\u0308chstem Pra\u0308dikat abschloss.\r\n\r\nDie besondere Beziehung des Ku\u0308nstlers zu Sergej Rachmaninow ist hervorzuheben. Die Klavierkonzerte des russischen Komponisten sind ein wichtiger Teil seines Repertoires. Die Live-Aufnahme des 2. Klavierkonzertes mit den Dresdner Philharmonikern unter Michael Sanderling geho\u0308rt zusammen mit der Einspielung der drei gro\u00dfen Klavierzyklen von Maurice Ravel zu den Ho\u0308hepunkten seiner Diskographie, die insgesamt sieben Alben umfasst. Nach fu\u0308nf CD-Produktionen bei Sony Classical feiert Alexander Krichel 2021 seinen Einstand bei Berlin Classics mit seinem Album mit Werken von Enescu und Mussorgsky.\r\n\r\nAlexander Krichel ist sowohl auf nationalem als auch internationalem Podium zu Hause: Er gab Konzerte in der Philharmonie und im Konzerthaus Berlin, in der Elbphilharmonie und der Laeiszhalle Hamburg, im Herkulessaal und Prinzregententheater in Mu\u0308nchen, in der Ko\u0308lner Philharmonie, im Konzerthaus und Musikverein Wien und in der Tonhalle Zu\u0308rich. Ebenso war er in London, New York City, Hongkong, Shanghai, Tokio, Kyoto, St. Petersburg, Mexico City, Oslo, Warschau, Bukarest und vielen weiteren Sta\u0308dten eingeladen.\r\n\r\nNeben Auftritten mit dem hr-Sinfonieorchester, den Bamberger Symphonikern, der Dresdner Philharmonie, der Deutschen Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz und den Bremer Philharmonikern ist er ebenso ein gern gesehener Gast beim Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, beim Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, der Hong Kong Sinfonietta, den Festival Strings Lucerne, dem Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, dem St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra und anderen. Er spielte dabei unter renommierten Dirigenten wie Jonathan Nott, Michael Sanderling, Gabriel Feltz, Wojciech Rajski, Markus Poschner oder Andrew Litton.\r\n\r\nEbenso konzertiert er kammermusikalisch mit dem Shanghai String Quartet, dem Goldmund Quartett sowie dem Amaryllis Quartett.\r\n\r\nAuf zahlreichen Festivals begeisterte er das Publikum, darunter das Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, das Rheingau Musik Festival, die Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, das Beethovenfest Bonn, die Schwetzinger Festspiele, der Kissinger Sommer, das Festival \u201ePiano aux Jacobins\u201c in Toulouse, L\u2019e\u0301sprit du piano in Bordeaux und das Festival Internacional de Mu\u0301sica de Marva\u0303o.\r\n\r\nAlexander Krichel ist nicht nur auf der Bu\u0308hne pra\u0308sent, er ist ebenso Mitbegru\u0308nder und ku\u0308nstlerischer Leiter des preisgekro\u0308nten Festivals \u201eKultur Rockt\u201c sowie ku\u0308nstlerischer Leiter der exklusiven Konzertreihe \u201eKammermusik am Hochrhein\u201c. Seit 2018 ist er au\u00dferdem festes Jurymitglied des Fanny Mendelssohn Fo\u0308rderpreises.\r\n\r\nAbseits des Klaviers begeistert sich Alexander Krichel fu\u0308r Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften und Fremdsprachen. Er engagiert sich in Projekten, die Kindern und Jugendlichen Zugang zur klassischen Musik verschaffen und setzt sich in der Hospizarbeit ein.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Nikolaj Lund\r\n\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/alexander-krichel-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterA\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/alexej-gerassimez-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/alexej-gerassimez-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/2159302\/8175_alexej2400-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Schlagzeuger und Perkussionist Alexej Gerassimez. Dynamische Aufnahme eines Sprungs in der Luft mit Schl\u00e4gel in der Hand neben einer gro\u00dfen Trommel unter dramatischem Wolkenhimmel.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/alexej-gerassimez-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Alexej Gerassimez<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Percussionist Alexej Gerassimez, born 1987 in Essen, Germany, is as multi-faceted as the instruments he works with. His repertoire ranges from classical to contemporary and jazz to minimal music whilst also performing his own works.\r\n\r\nAs a soloist, Alexej Gerassimez is a guest with internationally renowned orchestras (including NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, M\u00fcnchner Philharmoniker, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, SWR Symphonieorchester, Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin) under the baton of conductors such as Tan Dun, Kristjan J\u00e4rvi, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Jonathan Stockhammer, John Axelrod and Michel Tabachnik.\r\n\r\nThe D\u00fcsseldorf Tonhalle has commissioned a new percussion concerto for Alexej Gerassimez from the New Zealand composer John Psathas. The world premiere will take place in June 2020 as part of the worldwide \"Pastoral Project\", which was launched jointly with the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat on occasion of the celebrations for Beethoven's 250th birthday (BTHVN 2020).\r\n\r\nAlexej Gerassimez will follow in the 2019-2020 season as a soloist invitation to orchestras in Germany, Greece, France and Finland. He is also a soloist and an enthusiastic chamber musician. His partners include pianists Arthur and Lucas Jussen and jazz pianist Omer Klein. With the SIGNUM saxophone quartet, Alexej Gerassimez will embark on a \"journey through the universe\" in the newly conceived programme \"Starry Night\" from January 2020.\r\n\r\nHighlights of the 2018-2019 season included Alexei Gerassimez's Japanese debut, the start of a three-year residence at the Konzerthaus Dortmund as \"Junger Wilder\" and participation in the three-year sponsorship program of the \"stART academy von Bayer Kultur\". Alexej Gerassimez celebrated great successes in spring 2019 with his new concept program \"Genesis of Percussion\" at the Prinzregententheater in Munich, Konzerthaus Dortmund and the Heidelberger Fr\u00fchling.\r\n\r\nHis own compositions are characterized by the exploration of rhythmic and acoustic possibilities as well as by the creation of individual sounds and the joy of crossing borders. Accordingly, Alexej Gerassimez integrates not only the usual percussion and melody instruments but also objects from different contexts such as bottles, brake discs, barrels or ship propellers. His first CD published by GENUIN, which also includes his own works, was received enthusiastically by the press.\r\n\r\nConcerts have led the winner of the ARD Music Competition to China, South Korea, the USA, Switzerland and the Netherlands, and to festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Bonn Beethovenfest and the Nieders\u00e4chsische Musiktage. He is a regular guest at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and in the summer of 2017 he performed over 20 concerts as artist in residence.\r\n\r\nIn January 2017 Alexej Gerassimez participated in Sasha Waltz's choreographic and musical exploration of space as part of the opening ceremony of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Since then he has performed amongst other things as a soloist with the NDR Radio Philharmonic under the direction of Tan Dun in the Great Hall of the Elbphilharmonie and will return there in June 2020 together with the SIGNUM saxophone quartet.\r\n\r\nSince November 2017 Alexej Gerassimez is professor for percussion at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater in Munich.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Nikolaj Lund<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/alexej-gerassimez-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterA\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/andreas-scholl-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/andreas-scholl-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8239_Andreas_Scholl-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Nahaufnahme von Countertenor Andreas Scholl. Freundlich l\u00e4chelndes Portr\u00e4t mit Brille vor warmem, dunklem Hintergrund und weicher Lichtstimmung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/andreas-scholl-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Andreas Scholl<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Born in Germany, Andreas Scholl's early musical training was with the Kiedricher Chorbuben choir. He later studied under Richard Levitt and Ren\u00e9 Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He has won numerous awards and prizes, including the prestigious ECHO Award for his composition for Deutsche Grammophon's audio-book of Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes and The Nightingale.\r\n\r\nAndreas has released a series of extraordinary solo recordings: the most recent being Wanderer \u2013 a disc of German Lied in partnership with pianist Tamar Halperin. Other notable releases include Bach cantatas with kammerorchesterbasel; O Solitude \u2013 an all-Purcell album with Accademia Bizantina, which won the 2012 BBC Music Magazine award; Arias for Senesino, Heroes \u2013 a disc of arias by Handel, Mozart, Hasse and Gluck; Robert Dowland's A Musicall Banquet; Vivaldi Motets with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra; and Arcadia \u2013 a collection of rare and unpublished cantatas by composers from Rome\u2019s Arcadian Circle. All of these recordings are released on Decca.\r\n\r\nAndreas\u2019 recorded work also includes Handel\u2019s Solomon and Saul with Paul McCreesh for Deutsche Gramophon, and for Harmonia Mundi, Vivaldi Stabat Mater; Caldara's Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo; and Crystal Tears \u2013 lute and consort songs by John Dowland. Andreas\u2019 DVD releases include productions of Giulio Cesare (for both Decca and Harmonia Mundi), Rodelinda (Warner) and Partenope (Decca).\r\n\r\nOperatic roles include the title role in Giulio Cesare at Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-Elys\u00e9es and the 2012 Salzburger Festspiele (opposite Cecilia Bartoli) and Bertarido (Rodelinda) at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Metropolitan Opera (opposite Ren\u00e9e Fleming). His concert performances have included appearances with Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Akademie f\u00fcr Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester, the Academy of Ancient Music and at the 2005 Last Night of the Proms \u2013 the first counter-tenor ever to have been invited.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Salar Baygan<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/andreas-scholl-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterA\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/asya-fateyeva-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/asya-fateyeva-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/1168212\/12675_Asya_Fateyeva_portrait2_credit_Marco_Borggreve_quadratisch-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Saxophonistin Asya Fateyeva, l\u00e4chelnd. Sitzend auf Holzboden mit Saxophon, komplett in Gelb gekleidet, helle und freundliche Farbwirkung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/asya-fateyeva-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Asya Fateyeva<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>\"A sensation for the music world,\" raved the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung after a performance by Asya Fateyeva. The classical saxophonist of the younger generation is one of the outstanding representatives of her field. In 2014, she became the first woman to reach the finals of the prestigious International Adolphe Sax Competition in Belgium, earning 3rd place. Chamber music connoisseur Harald Eggebrecht wrote about her in the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung the same year:\r\n\"The young Asya Fateyeva plays alto saxophone so nobly and sovereignly that the beauty of the sound she conjures up in Debussy's Rhapsody for Saxophone and Piano beguiles everyone.\"\r\nAsya Fateyeva, born in Crimea in 1990, devotes herself to a wide repertoire as a classical saxophonist. This includes original works for her instrument as well as works from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. The young musician has some experience in adapting compositions for her instrument. Asya Fateyeva strives to give the classical saxophone an even more natural place in musical life. As a tenor saxophonist, she was a permanent member of the renowned Alliage Quintet. Since 2014, the Hamburg resident by choice has been teaching classical saxophone at the Musikhochschule M\u00fcnster.\r\nThe list of her awards and scholarships is long. Asya Fateyeva won the 3rd prize at the International Adolphe Sax Competition 2014 and several first prizes at competitions in Russia, France and Germany. In 2006, for example, she won at the national level at \"Jugend musiziert\". In 2012, she won first prize at the German Music Competition in Bonn. Since 2006, the multiple award-winner has been a scholarship holder of the German Foundation for Musical Life and received the Gerd Bucerius Scholarship of the ZEIT Foundation in this context. In 2015, Asya Fateyeva was awarded the Berenberg Culture Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros. Board of Trustees member Professor Hermann Rauhe praised:\r\n\"Asya Fateyeva is an exceptional talent and convinces with her warm, elegant playing.\"\r\n\r\nAsya Fateyeva has already played with numerous orchestras. For example, under the direction of Vladimir Fedoseyev with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Musikverein in Vienna. She has performed several times with the Moscow Virtuosi under the direction of Vladimir Spivakov. She has also made guest appearances with the Tchaikovsky Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Ukrainian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra and the Giuseppe Verdi Milano Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with orchestras from Bochum, Bonn, Frankfurt\/Oder and Kassel. Her concerts at festivals in Colmar, Fermo, Cologne, Moscow and St. Petersburg as well as at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the music festival \"Spannungen\" in Heimbach were very well received.\r\nHer education combines the Russian tradition of soulful music-making with the classical school of French saxophone playing. After two years as a young student with Professor Daniel Gauthier at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in Cologne, Asya Fateyeva began her regular studies there at the age of 17 in the class of the renowned French-Canadian. Study visits in France with Claude Delangle in Paris and Jean-Denis Michat in Lyon, among others, provided important impulses. Currently she is perfecting her education in the advanced chamber music course at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater in Hamburg with Professor Niklas Schmidt: in duo with Valeria Myrosh at the piano.\r\nThe basis of her education is the music lessons she received in her childhood and youth: at the age of six, the daughter of a professional soccer player began piano lessons with Valentina Nikishina; at the age of ten, Liliya Russanova introduced her to the tradition of the French saxophone school in Simferopol. This was followed by studies with Professor Margarita Shaposhnikova at the famous Gnessin Institute in Moscow, master classes in Gap, France, and finally a move to Germany in 2004.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Neda Navaee<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/asya-fateyeva-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterB\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/benedict-kloeckner-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/benedict-kloeckner-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/2057331\/12615_SophiaHegewald_BenedictKloeckner_-3591quadrat-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Cellist Benedict Kloeckner in wei\u00dfem Blazer darunter mit hellblauen Rollkragenpullover vor wei\u00dfem Hintergrund. Frontales Bild mit minimalistischer, k\u00fchler \u00c4sthetik.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/benedict-kloeckner-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Benedict Kloeckner<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Benedict Kloeckner is one of the most outstanding cellists of his generation.\r\n\r\nA prizewinner of numerous international competitions, he  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. His career has led him to collaborate with renowned conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Sanderling, Ingo Metzmacher, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Joana Mallwitz, Cristian M\u0103celaru and Sir Simon Rattle.\r\nHe has performed in prestigious concert halls such as 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.\r\nBenedict Kloeckner 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.\r\n\r\nFor over 10 years, he has been artistic director of the Koblenz International Music Festival, IMUKO, which he founded. In the recent years, he welcomed at IMUKO legendary conductor Myung Whun Chung and played under the direction of Rapha\u00ebl Merlin, Gabriel Bebe\u0219elea, Leon Botstein and performed with Augustin Dumay, and the Modigliani Quartet.\r\n\r\nHis latest album Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, recorded with Cristian M\u0103celaru, the Romanian Chamber Orchestra and Danae D\u00f6rken, was released by Berlin Classics in 2024 and has already collected over 600,000 streams. The Strad magazine praises Benedict Kloeckner's \"addictive and sensual tone\", while Gramophone magazine highlights the \"architectural sensibility of Cristian Macelaru and Benedict Kloeckner\". A new recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto with Cristian Macelaru will be released in 2026. In 2023, his recording of the Brahms Sonatas with Yu Kosuge was released by Sony.\r\nHis discography also includes the complete Bach Suites, which he has performed at the Berlin Philharmonie and the Alte Oper Frankfurt. His recordings have been acclaimed by the press and have won awards such as the OPUS Klassik Award and the Supersonic Award.\r\n\r\nHe collaborates closely with contemporary composers and has premiered several works, including those by Wolfgang Rihm, Eun Hwa Cho, Eric Tanguy and Dai Fujikura. He presented the Austrian premiere of Fujikura's Cello Concerto with Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg and the world premiere of Eun Hwa Cho's Cello Concerto under Christoph Poppen at Seoul Arts Center.\r\n\r\nBenedict Kloeckner received his training at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Martin Ostertag and at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson and Gary Hoffman.\r\n\r\nBenedict Kl\u00f6ckner is a Professor at the \u00c9cole Normale de Musique Paris.\r\n\r\nHe plays on the cello \"Ex Maurice Gendron\" by Francesco Ruggeri (1680), which is generously made available to him.<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/benedict-kloeckner-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterB\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/benyamin-nuss-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/benyamin-nuss-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/1559772\/10460_NeueMeister_BenyaminNuss_Piano-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait von Pianist Benyamin Nuss. Farbfoto in Nahaufnahme mit leicht seitlicher K\u00f6rperhaltung, er blickt direkt in die Kamera und tr\u00e4gt ein helles Hemd; dunkle Blau- und Graut\u00f6ne, weiches Bokeh-Licht und elegante Atmosph\u00e4re.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/benyamin-nuss-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Benyamin Nuss<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Benyamin Nuss was born in Bergisch-Gladbach on the twentieth of June 1989. At the age of six he began piano lessons. He was inspired and encouraged by his father, the trombonist Ludwig Nuss, an internationally renowned jazz musicians. Not only did Benyamin grow up with music from different genres, he really made classical music and jazz his passion. Inspired by \u201cDoctor Gradus ad Parnassum\u201d from \u201cChildren\u2019s Corner,\u201d he began at the age of ten to study the composer Claude Debussy, and soon after the works of Maurice Ravel.\r\n\r\nHow elegantly and emotionally he internalizes the music is demonstrated by his first prizes at the 2005 national Steinway Competition \u201cYoung Musicians\u201d, and the 2006 international competition \u201cPrix d\u2019Amadeo de Piano\u201d as well as his grant from the Hochbegabtenstiftung (Foundation for the Gifted) \u201dBest of NRW\u201d. Benyamin Nuss finished his masters of music at the Cologne\/Aachen conservatoire with Prof. Ilya Scheps. Besides his love for classical music and jazz, he had always a passion for Videogames and Videogame music. He was the featured soloist in the award winning \u201cSymphonic Fantasies\u201d recording and his first CD released by \u201cDeutsche Grammophon\u201d is a tribute to the legendary composer Nobuo Uematsu, who scored the music for the most famous Role Play Game of all times, \u201cFinal Fantasy\u201d. In 2010 Benyamin did a well-received tour through Germany, where he played in most of the major concert halls, like Berlin \u201cPhilharmonie\u201d, Frankfurt \u201cAlte Oper\u201d, Hamburg \u201cLaeiz Halle\u201d, Stuttgart \u201cLiederhalle\u201d and many more. Besides he appeared as a major soloist of the \u201cSymphonic Fantasies\u201d and \u201cDistand World\u201d concerts in Tokio, Chicago, Cologne and Stockholm. Since then Nuss has played Solo performances on TV, like in \u201cStars von Morgen\u201d with Rolando Villazon and performed in front of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. In 2012, he recorded his second CD for \u201cDeutsche Grammophon\u201d -\u201dExotica\u201d, which was equally successful and was followed by celebrated concerts in Tokyo and Singapore. Recently, he did recordings and concerts for radio, performing Gershwins \u201cConcert For Piano in F\u201d with the \u201cDeutsche Radio Philharmonie \u2013 Saarbr\u00fccken\u201d and Gershwins \u201cRhapsody In Blue\u201d and Ravels \u201cPiano Concert Nr.2\u2033 with the \u201cWDR Rundfunk Orchester\u201d.\r\n\r\nBesides his outstanding abilities as a classical performer, Benyamin is a gifted composer, two of his composition can be heard in \u201cExotica\u201d. Apart from classical concerts, he also performs his music with his own Jazz Quartet or in a Trio together with his father Ludwig Nuss and the great bass player, John Goldsby.<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/benyamin-nuss-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterB\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/blechblaeserensemble-ludwig-guettler-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/blechblaeserensemble-ludwig-guettler-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8510_Blechblaeserensemble_LG_Joerg_Riethausen-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Gruppenportr\u00e4t des Blechbl\u00e4serensemble Ludwig G\u00fcttler. Mehrere Musiker mit Trompeten, Posaunen, Horn und Tuba in prunkvollem historischen Saal. Alle tragen schwarze Anz\u00fcge mit wei\u00dfem Hemd und Fliege.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/blechblaeserensemble-ludwig-guettler-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Blechbl\u00e4serensemble Ludwig G\u00fcttler<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Photo: J\u00f6rg Riethausen<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/blechblaeserensemble-ludwig-guettler-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterB\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/boulanger-trio-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/boulanger-trio-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8240_Boulanger_Trio-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t des Boulanger Trio. Drei Musikerinnen mit Violine und Violoncello in stilvoller Sitzgruppe vor gr\u00fcnlichem Hintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/boulanger-trio-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Boulanger Trio<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Das Boulanger Trio z\u00e4hlt seit 19 Jahren zu den vielseitigsten Ensembles unserer Zeit und ist auf internationalen Konzertpodien zuhause. Leidenschaft, blindes Verstehen und ein reicher Klangfarbenkosmos zeichnen das Trio aus, das in Hamburg und Berlin beheimatet ist und bis heute in Originalbesetzung spielt.\r\nDie Welt bezeichnete das Ensemble als \u201cunwiderstehlich\u201d, und Komponist Wolfgang Rihm schrieb: \u201cSo interpretiert zu werden, ist wohl f\u00fcr jeden Komponisten ein Wunschtraum.\u201d Neben dem traditionellen Repertoire widmen sich die Musikerinnen auch selten gespielten Werken und kombinieren musikalische Entdeckungen mit Meisterwerken der Kammermusik.\r\nDas Trio gastiert regelm\u00e4\u00dfig in renommierten S\u00e4len wie der Elbphilharmonie, Wigmore Hall und dem Musikverein Wien und arbeitet mit Partnern wie Andr\u00e8 Schuen, Omar Massa und Sebastian Manz sowie Orchestern und Dirigenten wie Antoni Wit und Lera Auerbach zusammen. Bei Festivals wie dem Heidelberger Fr\u00fchling und dem Enescu Festival sind sie ebenso pr\u00e4sent.\r\nAls gefragte Interpretinnen der Neuen Musik laden sie Komponist:innen in ihre Konzertreihe Boulangerie ein und pflegen enge Kontakte zu Beat Furrer, Lera Auerbach und anderen. Die Musik steht f\u00fcr sie stets im Dialog mit anderen K\u00fcnsten \u2013 in Zusammenarbeit mit Schauspielern und Literaten entstanden mehrfach ausgezeichnete Konzertlesungen.\r\nIhre Diskografie umfasst 13 Alben, vielfach preisgekr\u00f6nt, darunter der Excellentia Award und der Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Seit 2021 erscheinen ihre Aufnahmen bei Berlin Classics, zuletzt das Album \u201eWho\u2019s Afraid of\u2026?\u201c mit Werken von Komponistinnen aus f\u00fcnf Jahrhunderten.\r\n2022 war das Trio im NDR\/ARTE-Dokumentarfilm \u201eDie geniale Schwester\u201c zu sehen; 2024 erscheint ein Album mit Werken von Johannes Maria Staud bei NEOS. Ihr Wissen geben die Musikerinnen in Meisterkursen und durch Fingers\u00e4tze f\u00fcr den Henle Verlag weiter. Zu ihren Mentoren z\u00e4hlen Hatto Beyerle, Menahem Pressler und Alfred Brendel. Das Trio tr\u00e4gt den Namen der Schwestern Nadia und Lili Boulanger, die bis heute eine gro\u00dfe Inspirationsquelle sind.\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/boulanger-trio-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterC\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/carlotta-dalia-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/carlotta-dalia-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/3239431\/12663_C_Dalia__c_Andrej_Grilc_4_-_Kopie-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t der Gitarristin Carlotta Dalia mit offenen Haaren. Sie tr\u00e4gt ein blaues Jacket und hat die H\u00e4nde verschr\u00e4nkt auf dem Kopf einer Gitarre abgelegt.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/carlotta-dalia-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Carlotta Dalia<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Mit \u00fcber 40 Siegen bei internationalen Wettbewerben und einer Karriere, die sie bereits auf die renommiertesten B\u00fchnen der Welt gef\u00fchrt hat, begeistert die in der Toskana geborene Gitarristin Carlotta Dalia das Publikum mit ihren leidenschaftlichen Interpretationen und ihrem kraftvollen Klang. Als Berliner Classics-K\u00fcnstlerin und Chitarre d'oro-Preistr\u00e4gerin trat sie von Tokio bis Toronto auf, vom Quirinalpalast in Rom bis zu den Soir\u00e9es Musicales de Grimaud, arbeitete mit f\u00fchrenden Musiker:innen zusammen und erweckte die Gitarrenstimme mit seltener Tiefe und Kunstfertigkeit zum Leben.\r\n\r\nGeboren 1999 in der Toskana, zieht Gitarristin Carlotta Dalia mit ihren leidenschaftlichen und tiefgr\u00fcndigen Interpretationen Aufmerksamkeit auf sich, getragen von einem kraftvollen Klang. Seit ihrem ersten Solokonzert im Alter von zw\u00f6lf Jahren hat sie \u00fcber 40 nationale und internationale Wettbewerbe gewonnen, darunter erste Preise in Uppsala, Hongkong, Miami und Madrid sowie beim Internationalen Wettbewerb Niccol\u00f2 Paganini in Parma.\r\n\r\nSie ist heute regelm\u00e4\u00dfiger Gast auf Konzertb\u00fchnen weltweit \u2013 Tourneen f\u00fchrten sie beispielsweise nach Italien, Spanien, Deutschland, \u00d6sterreich, Portugal, Polen, Ungarn, Schweden, Russland, Irland, Japan, Lettland, den Niederlanden, verschiedenen s\u00fcdamerikanischen L\u00e4ndern, China und der Schweiz. Seit einiger Zeit tritt sie im Duo mit dem Geiger Giuseppe Gibboni auf, dem Gewinner des Paganini-Geigenwettbewerbs 2021 in Genua \u2013 die beiden traten unter anderem im Quirinalpalast in Rom auf Einladung des italienischen Pr\u00e4sidenten Sergio Mattarella auf; das Konzert wurde live im italienischen Radio \u00fcbertragen. In den vergangenen beiden Spielzeiten trat Carlotta Dalia in L\u00e4ndern wie Norwegen und Brasilien sowie in Athen, Florenz, Lima, Santiago de Chile, dem Soir\u00e9es Musicales de Grimaud Festival und Istanbul auf. Sie interpretierte Mario Castelnuovo-Tedescos Gitarrenkonzert Nr. 1 mit dem Schwedischen Kammerorchester in Uppsala.\r\n\r\nRezitale und Orchesterkonzerte f\u00fchrten sie auch in den Nikolaisaal Potsdam, das Staatstheater Darmstadt, die Segovia-Stiftung in Linares und im Duo mit Maximilian Hornung nach Italien und Deutschland. In der kommenden Saison wird sie erneut mit dem Cellisten im Teatro Grande in Brescia auftreten. Weitere H\u00f6hepunkte sind drei Silvesterkonzerte in J\u016brmala, Lettland, ein Recital in Toronto und Rodrigos Concierto de Aranjuez in Pescara und Verona.\r\n\r\nIm Alter von 16 Jahren ver\u00f6ffentlichte sie ihre erste CD Gran Solo mit Werken von Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Scarlatti, Bach und Sor. Eine zweite Aufnahme, mit Kompositionen von Bachs Zeitgenossen Silvius Leopold Weiss, folgte 2018. 2020 nahm sie eine Sonatina von Angelo Gilardino auf, die ihr unter dem Titel Angelus gewidmet war und zusammen mit Werken anderer Komponisten ver\u00f6ffentlicht wurde; im selben Jahr erschien ihre Aufnahme der vollst\u00e4ndigen Gitarrenwerke von Ida Presti. F\u00fcr diese Aufnahme wurde sie im Oktober 2022 in Mailand mit dem Chitarre d'oro-Preis ausgezeichnet. Ein Soloalbum mit Werken von und f\u00fcr Andr\u00e9s Segovia, darunter eine neue Komposition von Enrico Melozzi, wurde im Fr\u00fchjahr 2025 beim Label Berlin Classics ver\u00f6ffentlicht, das den jungen Gitarristen zuvor unter Vertrag genommen hatte. Die n\u00e4chste Ver\u00f6ffentlichung ist bereits f\u00fcr den Herbst 2026 geplant.\r\n\r\nCarlotta Dalia begann im Alter von acht Jahren Gitarre zu spielen und schloss 2017 mit Auszeichnung an der renommierten Accademia Chigiana in Siena ab, wo sie bei Oscar Ghiglia studierte. Sie absolvierte 2022 ihr postgraduales Studium als Studentin von Laura Young am Mozarteum Salzburg und ist seit 2016 D'Addario Artist. Sie wird von Classicically Connected, Inc. (ehemals Si-Yo Music Foundation) in New York und der Adopt a Musician Foundation in Lugano unterst\u00fctzt \u2013 letztere lieh ihr auch freundlicherweise die 1939er Hermann Hauser I-Gitarre, die er f\u00fcr Andr\u00e8s Segovia gebaut hatte. Carlotta Dalia spielt au\u00dferdem die Matthias Dammann 2023 Gitarre. Seit 2024 ist sie Dozentin am \"Gaetano Donizetti\" \u2013 Politecnico delle Arti di Bergamo.\r\n\r\nFoto (c) Andrej Grilc\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/carlotta-dalia-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterC\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/celine-moinet-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/celine-moinet-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/11130_Mozart_Gatti_Moinet__c__Sandra_Ludewig_10-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"K\u00fcnstlerisches Portr\u00e4t von Oboistin C\u00e9line Moinet mit Spiegelungs- und Doppeleffekt. Warme Orange- und Rosat\u00f6ne erzeugen eine weiche, kreative Bildwirkung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/celine-moinet-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>C\u00e9line Moinet<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>For the past ten years, C\u00e9line Moinet has been one of the most exceptional performing artists on her instrument. The young oboist\u2019s concerts bring both audiences and critics alike to rapturous applause. \r\n\r\nC\u00e9line Moinet is in demand as a soloist with all the major orchestras in the world. She has played at the Salzburg Easter Festival under Christoph Eschenbach, with the Staatskapelle Dresden, at the Pacific Music Festival under Fabio Luisi and with the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in Suntory Hall. She also regularly tours solo with the Dresden Kapellsolisten and the Kammerorchester Basel.\r\n\r\nC\u00e9line Moinet was born in Lille, France in 1984 and completed her studies with highest honours at the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur 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, C\u00e9line Moinet won the prestigious position of solo oboist at the Staatskapelle Dresden. Since then, she has performed with conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado and Andris Nelsons. She is also a regular guest of orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra.\r\n\r\nC\u00e9line Moinet is signed with harmonia mundi as an exclusive artist. Her CDs, with works for solo oboe and chamber music with oboe and harp, have been praised by the critics and have achieved outstanding sales for the French, German and British record industries. As a result, C\u00e9line Moinet was invited by renowned TV Network Arte and Rolando Villaz\u00f3n to appear on the show \u201cStars of Tomorrow\u201d.\r\n\r\nSince 2013, C\u00e9line Moinet has had a chair at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music and she conducts master courses in France, Germany and Japan.\r\n\r\nShe plays oboe and cor anglais exclusively from Marigaux, Paris.\r\n\r\n\r\nPhoto: Neda Navaee<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/celine-moinet-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterC\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/claire-huangci-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/claire-huangci-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8496_Claire_Huangci_Mateusz_Zahora-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Pianistin Claire Huangci. L\u00e4chelnde Pose mit angehobenem Arm vor farbig beleuchtetem Hintergrund in Blau-, T\u00fcrkis- und Magentat\u00f6nen.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/claire-huangci-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Claire Huangci<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>The young American pianist Claire Huangci, winner of the first prize and the Mozart prize at the 2018 Geza Anda Competition, continuously captivates audiences with her \u201cradiant virtuosity, artistic sensitivity, keen interactive sense and subtle auditory dramaturgy\u201d (Salzburger Nachrichten). With an irrepressible curiosity and penchant for unusual repertoire, she proves her versatility with a wide range in repertoire spanning from Bach and Scarlatti, to Bernstein, Gulda, and Corigliano.\r\n\r\nIn solo recitals and with international orchestras, Claire has appeared in some of the most prestigious halls such as Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall Tokyo, NCPA Beijing, Paris Philharmonie, Munich Gasteig, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Salzburg Festspielhaus, and the Budapest Franc Liszt Akademie. She is a welcome guest in renowned festivals including Lucerne Festival, Verbier Festival, Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival and Klavier Festival Ruhr. Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, ORF Radio Orchester Vienna, Vancouver Symphony, and China Philharmonic Orchestra, together with Sir Roger Norrington, Howard Griffiths, Eva Ollikainen, Mario Venzago, Cornelius Meister, and Elim Chan are among her esteemed musical partners.\r\n\r\nFor an intense start of the 2020\/21 season, Claire paid homage to Beethoven\u2019s anniversary with a compelling interpretation of his Pastorale symphony arranged for solo piano by Franz Liszt, with concerts at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr and the Rheingau Musik Festival, where her recital was recorded for T-Mobile\u2018s streaming platform MagentaMusik 360. After appearances as a piano duo with Alexei Volodin at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and the release of a new album with her Trio Machiavelli, a major highlight is her Fall 2020 recital tour at the main halls of Berlin Philharmonie, and Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. Later in the season, a further exciting debut takes place in the \u201eGreat Performers Series\u201c at New York\u2018s Lincoln Center. Among her orchestra engagements are dates with the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbr\u00fccken, Museumsorchester Frankfurt, Basel Chamber Orchestra and the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra. With the Nordic Chamber Orchestra, she will direct concertos of Mozart and Chopin from the keyboard.\r\n\r\nClaire Huangci began her international career at the age of nine with concert performances and competition successes. After studying with Eleanor Sokoloff and Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, she moved to Germany in 2007 for further studies with Arie Vardi at the Hannover Musikhochschule, completing them with honors in 2016. Early in her artistic career, she stood out as an expressive interpreter of Chopin, winning first prizes at the Chopin competitions in Darmstadt and Miami in 2009 and 2010. She was also the youngest participant to receive second prize at the International ARD Music Competition in 2011.\r\n\r\nAfter recording her debut CD with solo works of Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev and her prizewinning double album of Scarlatti sonatas (German Record Critics\u2019 Award and Gramophone Editor\u2019s Choice), she released highly acclaimed recordings of Chopin\u2019s Nocturnes in 2017 and in 2018 of Rachmaninoff\u2019s complete Pr\u00e9ludes: Following recordings of Beethoven\u2019s violin concerto in the piano version and Fantasy for piano and orchestra by Schubert \/ Kabalewski with the RSO Vienna, her first orchestral album of Chopin and Paderewski with the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbr\u00fccken under Shiyeon Sung was released in Fall 2019. In summer of 2020, her first chamber music album was released with Trio Machiavelli, whose interpretations of Ravel trio and Chausson piano quartet proved \u201ea wholly exhilarating debut (\u2026) splendidly transparent, and always expressive.\u201c (BR Klassik).\r\n\r\nPhoto: Mateusz Zahora\r\n\r\n\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/claire-huangci-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterC\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/clarissa-bevilacqua-22\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/clarissa-bevilacqua-22\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/3399005\/12303_944A1386_-_Kopie-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Geigerin Clarissa Bevilacqua. Sitzend neben einer Violine in dunklem Hosenanzug vor schlichtem Studiohintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/clarissa-bevilacqua-22\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Clarissa Bevilacqua<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Violinist Clarissa Bevilacqua is known for enchanting audiences with her deeply inspiring musicality; her playing has been described as \u201cluminously elevated\u201d (Gramophone) and \u201celegant and nimble\u201d (The Strad). Her 2025\/26 season features several highly anticipated solo debuts, most notably with the M\u00fcnchner Symphoniker and the M\u00fcnchener Kammerorchester. She will perform in some of the world\u2019s most renowned venues, including the Isarphilharmonie, Schloss Elmau, Beethovensaal Stuttgart, Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Elbphilharmonie, Prince Mahidol Hall in Bangkok, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris, and Victoria Hall in Geneva.\r\nClarissa\u2019s debut solo album, Mozartiana, will be released in spring 2026 by Berlin Classics in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk. Her album of the complete solo works by Augusta Read Thomas, which included the world premiere of the composer\u2019s Concerto No. 3 \u201cJuggler in Paradise,\u201d was released by Nimbus Records in partnership with BBC Radio 3. Through close collaboration with contemporary composers, several new works have been written for and dedicated to her, including Sun Plaits by Augusta Read Thomas, Clarissa\u2019s Tango and Colombina by Richard Blackford, and Trazom by Giovanni Sollima.\r\nHighlights from recent seasons include performances with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Cape Symphony, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, El Sistema Orchestra, and the opening concert of Mozartwoche 2023 with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg. Clarissa also performs regularly in a trio with cellist Giovanni Sollima and pianist Carlotta Maestrini; the trio recently recorded the album Short Trio Stories, featuring repertoire that ranges from classical to rock.\r\nBeyond performing, Clarissa is the founder and Artistic Director of DYNAMIKfest Salzburg, an annual festival for contemporary chamber music dedicated to championing emerging artists and composers under 30. The only festival of its kind in Salzburg, DYNAMIKfest presents dynamic concerts that pair fresh, innovative works with timeless masterpieces, commissions and premieres, and engages the community through charitable and educational initiatives.\r\nA winner of several international violin competitions, Clarissa was awarded First Prize, the Audience Award and the Special B\u00e4renreiter Award at the International Mozart Competition Salzburg. She also won the Grand Prize at the Cape Symphony International Violin Concerto Competition and placed second at the Monte-Carlo Music Masters. In 2023 she was selected as a winner of an open application competition to join the Classeek Ambassador Program and its artist roster. She is currently a laureate of the prestigious Fondation Gautier Capu\u00e7on.\r\nAn avid and enthusiastic learner, Clarissa received her Bachelor of Music at age sixteen, graduating summa cum laude. She completed a Master of Music in Violin Performance at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Pierre Amoyal, and a Master of Violin Solo Performance at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik \u201cHanns Eisler\u201d Berlin with Antje Weithaas.<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/clarissa-bevilacqua-22\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterC\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/claudio-bohorquez-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/claudio-bohorquez-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8497_Claudio_Bohorquez_Peter_Adamik-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Cellist Claudio Boh\u00f3rquez mit Violoncello und Bogen vor einem Konzertfl\u00fcgel. Warme Konzertsaalatmosph\u00e4re.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/claudio-bohorquez-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Claudio Boh\u00f3rquez<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>he German-born cellist of Peruvian-Uruguayan descent is one of the most sought-after musicians in his field. As a student of Boris Pergamenschikow, Claudio Boh\u00f3rquez achieved success at an early age at international competitions such as the Tschaikowsky Youth Competition in Moscow and the Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris.\r\nThis culminated in 2000 with three awards at the first International Pablo Casals Competition held under the auspices of the Kronberg Academy: Marta Casals Istomin presented Claudio Boh\u00f3rquez with first prize, a special award for the best chamber music, and also the use of Casals\u2019 Gofriller cello for a period of two years. He also won first prize at the International Music Competition in Geneva, an achievement that marked the start of his career as a soloist. Meanwhile he has become a teacher himself: from 2011 to 2016 he was professor at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, in September 2016 he was appointed to the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik \"Hanns Eisler\" Berlin, where he has been a guest professor since 2003. \r\nAmong others, Claudio Boh\u00f3rquez has performed with almost all German radio orchestras, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Collegium Musicum Basel, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. In Japan, he performs with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In the US, Claudio Boh\u00f3rquez recently gave concerts with the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra.\r\nRenowned conductors Claudio Boh\u00f3rquez has worked with include Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Manfred Honeck, Sir Neville Marriner, Eiji Oue, Krzysztof Penderecki, Leonard Slatkin, Tugan Sokhiev, Lothar Zagrosek and David Zinman.\r\nClaudio Boh\u00f3rquez is a guest at numerous festivals. Among them are the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, the City of London Festival, the Penderecki Festival in Warsaw and the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival. Appearances in the United States have included performances at the Tanglewood, Ravinia and Aspen Festival as well as the Hollywood Bowl. He participated in the chamber music festival Lockenhaus in Austria and at Gidon Kremer's festival \"Les Musiques\" in Basel. As a passionate chamber musician, he has performed together with J\u00f6rg Widmann in Bilbao\/Madrid, and with Viviane Hagner and Jonathan Gilad at the Beethoven Marathon at Konzerthaus Berlin.\r\nThe past seasons have led the artist to many festivals, including: a. to the Rheingau Music Festival with the Columbian Youth Philharmonic under Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada, to the Dresden Music Festival with a Chamber Music Project together with the violinist Philippe Quint and the pianist Boris Giltburg, to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Rheingau Music Festival. The upcoming season includes, among others, the Elbphilharmonie debut on November 8, 2018 and an Elgar cello concert with the Staatsphilharmonie N\u00fcrnberg on February 15, 2019.\r\nIn addition to numerous CD recordings, radio recordings and television appearances Claudio Boh\u00f3rquez worked as an interpreter for the soundtrack of Paul English by to the film \"Ten Minutes Older - The Cello\", which was shown in theaters worldwide. Together with the painter Klaus-Peter Kirchner, Claudio Boh\u00f3rquez developed the installation project \"Raum f\u00fcr Pablo Casals\" in homage to this great cellist. He was part of the ECHO-winning album \"Four Seasons\" (2017) of Daniel Hope, released by Deutsche Grammophon. In July 2018 Berlin Classics will release a new CD with the sonatas of Johannes Brahms and some bonus tracks together with Claudio Boh\u00f3rquez's duo partner P\u00e9ter Nagy.\r\nSince the season 2017\/18 Claudio Boh\u00f3rquez is Artistic Director of the Festival Winnenden.\r\nClaudio Boh\u00f3rquez plays a G. B. Rogeri violoncello presented to him by the Landeskreditbank Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Peter Adamik<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/claudio-bohorquez-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterC\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/concerto-copenhagen-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/concerto-copenhagen-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/8396_CoCo_press_photo_colour_2400x2400-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Konzertaufnahme des Ensembles Concerto Copenhagen. Dirigent mit erhobenen Armen vor Streichorchester und Cembalo in warmem B\u00fchnenlicht.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/concerto-copenhagen-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Concerto Copenhagen<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Since its first concerts in 1991, Concerto Copenhagen (CoCo) has developed into Scandinavia\u2019s leading orchestra in Early Music \u0374Baroque, Classical and Early Romantic. With artistic director, conductor, and harpsichordist, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, at the helm, CoCo has become synonymous with a special, methodological approach to working with historical material. CoCo unites artistic authenticity and innovation \u0374through original and uncompromising interpretations, the music is given new life and renewed relevance to a modern audience. Since 1999, the collaboration between CoCo and Lars Ulrik Mortensen has led to an exciting artistic and musical journey \u0374appreciated and praised by audiences and critics around the world. With a unique repertoire that combines well-known European music with lesser-known works of Scandinavian origin as well as new music, CoCo marked its 30th anniversary in 2021. In 2022 CoCo is DR P2 Artist of the Year.\r\n\r\nPhoto: LEES foto<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/concerto-copenhagen-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterC\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/concerto-koeln-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/concerto-koeln-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8237_Ckoeln-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Gruppenportr\u00e4t des Barockensembles Concerto K\u00f6ln. Musikerinnen und Musiker mit Streichinstrumenten und Cembalo in einer Kirche, dunkle Konzertatmosph\u00e4re mit warmem Licht.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/concerto-koeln-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Concerto K\u00f6ln<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Passionate musicianship and an unquenchable thirst for undiscovered sources are the hallmarks of Concerto K\u00f6ln. For more than thirty years the orchestra has been one of the leading ensembles in the field of period performance practice.\r\n\r\nMayumi Hirasaki, Markus Hoffmann, Shunske Sato and Evgeny Sviridov as permanent concertmaster and Lorenzo Alpert as Artistic Director guide the fortunes of the self-administered orchestra.\r\nRegular appearances at the world's music hubs and at world-renowned festivals coupled with numerous album releases are proof of its broad stylistic spectrum and exceptional interpretations of early music. An essential part of Cologne's music scene, the orchestra has built upon its role as EU Cultural Ambassador 2012 to take a pivotal position in the musical life of North Rhine-Westphalia.\r\n\r\nCelebrated soloists, renowned vocal ensembles and respected conductors play regularly with the ensemble; a long-standing association links the orchestra with Midori Seiler.\r\n\r\n2017 saw Concerto K\u00f6ln embrace the \"Wagner Readings\" project initiated and directed by Kent Nagano, with Wagner's \"Ring of the Nibelung\" the first work to be approached from the point of view of historical performance practice.\r\n\r\nNumerous partners are supporting the orchestra's projects: the Ministry for Arts and Sciences of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, the NRW Art Foundation, the Goethe Institute, the RheinEnergie Cultural Foundation, the foundations of regional savings bank Kreissparkasse K\u00f6ln, T\u00dcV Rheinland and high-end audio specialist MBL.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Harald Hoffmann<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/concerto-koeln-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterD\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/danae-doerken-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/danae-doerken-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8242_Danae_Doerken-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Pianistin Danae D\u00f6rken auf einer Freitreppe. Wei\u00dfes Kleid mit goldfarbenem Mantel, moderne Inszenierung bei Tageslicht.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/danae-doerken-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Danae D\u00f6rken<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>\"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 D\u00f6rken belongs to the elite of a new generation of internationally sought-after artists and captivates audiences and fellow musicians alike with her breath\u00actaking technique, exceptional stage presence and musical depth.<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/danae-doerken-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterD\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/david-bergmueller-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/david-bergmueller-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/2703439\/9565_1zu1_0004_TheresaPewal_David_Bergmueller-12-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait von Lautenist David Bergm\u00fcller. Schwarz-Wei\u00df-Foto in dunkler Nahaufnahme, er h\u00e4lt eine Laute und blickt frontal in die Kamera; starke Schatten, niedrige Helligkeit und intensive, konzentrierte Stimmung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/david-bergmueller-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>David Bergm\u00fcller<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Acknowledged for his \u201cvirtuosic poetry\u201d (Tiroler Tageszeitung) and \u201cextraordinarily subtle and intoxicating playing\u201d (Liechtensteiner Volksblatt), David Bergm\u00fcller is regarded as one of the most adventurous and exciting lutenists of his generation. He is committed to creating a new legacy for the lute. His approach is to bridge the gap between historically informed\/inspired practice and contemporary performance.\r\nDavid Bergm\u00fcller has performed at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie Berlin, Philharmonie Cologne, Vienna Konzerthaus, Vienna Musikverein, Zurich Tonhalle, Alte Oper Frankfurt. He has appeared as a soloist at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, Utrecht Ode Musik Festival, Bozar Brussels, 20 fast forward, Schubertiade Hohenems, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Barocktage Melk, Wien Modern &amp; LIGITA Liechtensteiner Gitarrentage.\r\nHe has collaborated extensively with Maurice Steger, Avi Avital, David Orlowsky, Sergio Assolini, Hille Perl &amp; Rolf Lislevand and with ensembles ZKO- Zurich Chamber Orchestra, ensemble resonanz, Bach Consort Vienna &amp; Company of music, among others. \r\nDavid Bergm\u00fcller has released numerous recordings of early, contemporary and electronic music. Not only does he play his own compositions for his instruments, combining acoustic with electronic sounds, but he is also the dedicatee of numerous contemporary works by composers including Pia Palme, Arturo Fuentes, Gilad Hochman, Manuel Durauo and Franz Bauer.\r\nAs a sought-after basso continuo player he has performed with such renowned ensembles as Concentus Musicus Vienna, Collegium 1704, I Baroccisti, La Cetra Barockorchester, Barucco &amp; Ars Antiqua Austria and has worked in opera productions at Theater an der Wien, Staatsoper Hannover, Opera de Lille, Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Theater Bonn, Nationaltheater Mannheim and The Bolshoi Theatre Moscow. \r\nForthcoming engagements include concerts at Verbier Festival, Philharmonie Essen, Innsitu: BTV Innsbruck, West Cork Music Festival , Grafenegg Festival, Shakespear Festival Neuss, K\u00f6thener Bachfesttage, MITO Settembre Musica etc. \r\nDavid Bergm\u00fcller was the first lute player to win the Franz Aumann Preis at the HIF Biber Early Music Competition. With his ensemble sferraina he was nominated for Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in the category \u201cGrenzg\u00e4nger\u201d (breaking boundaries).\r\nBorn in Hall in Tirol\/Austria in 1989 he began learning the guitar at the age of eight. During his time in Stefan Hackl\u2019s guitar class he became fascinated by the lute. He studied with Hopkinson Smith and Rolf Lislevand. After graduating from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Trossingen, he became one of the youngest ever appointed music professors in 2018, teaching lute at Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Tanz K\u00f6ln. \r\n\r\nPhoto: Theresa Pewal<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/david-bergmueller-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterD\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/dominik-wagner-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/dominik-wagner-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/1111997\/8244_Dominik_Wagner-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Kontrabassist Dominik Wagner. Stehend mit Kontrabass auf einer Br\u00fccke vor urbaner Stadtkulisse.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/dominik-wagner-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Dominik Wagner<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Als Stipendiat der Anne-Sophie Mutter Stiftung und Preistr\u00e4ger des ECHO Klassik ist der Kontrabassist Dominik Wagner auf dem besten Weg, sein Instrument international von einer neuen Seite zu pr\u00e4sentieren. Er gewann Preise bei fast allen Kontrabass-Wettbewerben, wie dem renommierten ARD-Musikwettbewerb und dem Eurovision Young Musicians Competition. \r\nIn der Folge spielte Dominik in vielen renommierten Konzerts\u00e4len wie dem Musikverein Wien, dem Konzerthaus Wien, dem Herkulessaal M\u00fcnchen und der Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. \r\nDominik arbeitet auch eng mit zeitgen\u00f6ssischen Komponisten zusammen, um das Repertoire f\u00fcr den Kontrabass zu erweitern. Neben seiner solistischen T\u00e4tigkeit widmet sich Dominik auch mit gro\u00dfer Leidenschaft der Kammermusik. \r\nDominik Emanuel Wagner wurde 1997 in Wien geboren, wo er im Alter von 5 Jahren seine musikalische Ausbildung begann, zun\u00e4chst als Cellist, sp\u00e4ter als Kontrabassist. Im Jahr 2009 begann er sein Studium an der Universit\u00e4t f\u00fcr Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien bei Josef Niederhammer und Werner Fleischmann. Derzeit studiert er an der Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in N\u00fcrnberg bei Dorin Marc.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Maria Frodl\r\n\r\n\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/dominik-wagner-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterD\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/dresdner-kreuzchor-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/dresdner-kreuzchor-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/4404\/13302_211224killig038_quadratisch_3000x3000_300dpi-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"der Dresdner Kreuzchor steht f\u00fcr eine Performance in einem Saal, davor sitzendes Publikum und im Hintergrund zwei gro\u00dfe Tannenb\u00e4ume\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/dresdner-kreuzchor-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Dresdner Kreuzchor<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>The Dresdner Kreuzchor is one of the oldest boys' choirs in Europe and has existed for several centuries. It is closely associated with the Kreuzkirche in Dresden and has a broad repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the present day. Numerous concert tours have made the choir known internationally.\r\n\r\nPhoto (c) Oliver Killig<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/dresdner-kreuzchor-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterD\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/dresdner-philharmonie-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/dresdner-philharmonie-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/13535\/8498_Dresdner_Philharmonie_Bjoern_Kadenbach-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Gruppenaufnahme der Dresdner Philharmonie im modernen Konzertsaal. Gro\u00dfes Orchester vor voll besetzten Zuschauerr\u00e4ngen.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/dresdner-philharmonie-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Dresdner Philharmonie<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>The Dresdner Philharmonie traces its origins to the inauguration of the first concert hall for the citizens of the city on November 29, 1870. The \"Gewerbehausorchester\" gave regular philharmonic concerts in Dresden from 1885, which earned the orchestra the title \"Dresdner Philharmonisches Orchester\" in 1915.<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/dresdner-philharmonie-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterE\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/eckart-runge-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/eckart-runge-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8182_er-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Cellist Eckart Runge. Ganzk\u00f6rperaufnahme neben einem Cellokoffer in heller Architektur mit nat\u00fcrlichem Gegenlicht.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/eckart-runge-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Eckart Runge<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>As a Duo, Eckart Runge and Jacques Ammon have been working together for more than 10 years and have appeared at significant concert events such as the Baden-Baden Masters' Concert, at the Frauenkirche in Dresden, the WDR television station in Cologne, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, as well as in Italy, Belgium, France, Switzerland, South America and the USA.\r\n\r\nAt the invitation of Laura Escalada de Piazzolla, 's widow, the duo performed at a memorial concert in Buenos Aires in 2003. After a concert in New York (Barge Music) in 2006, the two musicians were given a spontaneous invitation to make a guest appearance in the famous Jazz club \"Birdland\".\r\nThe CD recordings \"CelloPassion\", \"CelloTango\" and \"contrapunctango\" have been given a special recommendation by the FAZ German national newspaper and the musical magazine \"FonoForum\". In 2004, \"CelloCinema\" - a homage to film music - appeared and was given a very positive reception by the press.\r\nEckart Runge and Jacques Ammon also understand their artistic work as a natural contribution in social and pedagogical projects. Their regular benefit concerts and direct work on location supports organisations such as \"Jeunesses Musicales Germany\", \"Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now\" and youth orchestra projects in South America.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Nikolaj Lund<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/eckart-runge-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterE\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/emmanuel-tjeknavorian-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/emmanuel-tjeknavorian-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/1798012\/8178_Emmanuel-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Geiger und Dirigent Emmanuel Tjeknavorian. Sitzend mit Violine und ge\u00f6ffnetem Buch in elegantem Interieur.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/emmanuel-tjeknavorian-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Emmanuel Tjeknavorian<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Celebrated as an \u201cexceptional talent\u201d (Der Tagesspiegel), violinist and conductor Emmanuel Tjeknavorian has quickly become one of the most sought after musicians of his generation. Highlights of the 19\/20 season include debuts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and re-invitations from the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra and ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. As the youngest ever Artist in Residence of the Vienna Musikverein, he has his own subscription series at the famed hall throughout the season and returns to the Konzerthaus Dortmund as one of the \u201cJunge Wilde\u201d. As a conductor he will debut in the Vienna Konzerthaus with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and will lead the G\u00f6ttinger Symphonie Orchester, W\u00fcrttembergische Kammerorchester Heilbronn and the Tonkunstler Orchestra.\r\n\r\nEmmanuel first came to international attention when he won the prize for the best interpretation of the Sibelius Violin Concerto as well as Second Prize at the Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in 2015. Since then, he has received invitations from worldrenowned orchestras such as the Gewandhausorchester, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, London Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington), working with conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly and Adam Fischer.\r\n\r\nAs a regular guest at the most important summer festivals, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian won the LOTTO Sponsorship Prize of the Rheingau Music Festival, as well as the NORDMETALL-Ensemble Prize from the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival (with his pianopartner Maximilian Kromer). As a \u201cRising Star\u201d of the European Concert Hall Organisation, \u201cGreat Talent\u201d of the Vienna Konzerthaus and a protege of the Orpheum Foundation in Zurich, he has performed in Europe\u2019s most prestigious concert halls.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Photo: Lukas Beck<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/emmanuel-tjeknavorian-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterF\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/fabian-mueller-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/fabian-mueller-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8180_Fabianmuell-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Pianist Fabian M\u00fcller, seitlich sitzend mit Treppengel\u00e4nder im Vordergrund. Nachdenkliche Pose in k\u00fchler Farbgebung vor minimalistischem Hintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/fabian-mueller-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Fabian M\u00fcller<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>During the last seasons, Fabian M\u00fcller could establish himself as one of the most remarkable German pianists of his generation. He caused a great sensation at the International ARD music competition in Munich 2017, when he not only won 2nd prize in the overall ranking, but was awarded with not less than four additional prizes: the audience prize, the Brothers Busch award, the special prize Genuin classics as well as the Henle Urtext award. The S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung commented on his festival performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3: \"This was played eminently clear, transparent, exciting in each phrase and every single tone. To play with such a controlled and round touch, but with fine expression and sense for structure and tension curves, is a stroke of luck.\"\r\n\r\nAs early as 2013, Fabian M\u00fcller attracted an expert audience's attention for the first time, when he won the prize of the press jury at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano and, furthermore, was awarded with the special prize for the best interpretation of a piece by Busoni as well as the special prize for the best interpretation of contemporary piano music.\r\nSince then, he has performed with major orchestras including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the HR-Symphony Orchestra, and the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn. Besides, he was a guest at prestigious festivals such as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Heidelberger Fr\u00fchling, the Ruhr Piano Festival, and the Aldeburgh Festival and gave concerts in renowned concert halls such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, the Tonhalle Dusseldorf, the Beethovenhaus in Bonn, and the Bremen concert hall Die Glocke. Future engagements include performances with the SWR Symphony Orchestra and the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Additionally, he will be guest at the SWR2 series International Pianists in Mainz, at the Beethoven festival in Bonn and at the Mozart festival in Augsburg. In springtime 2018, he will make his debut at New York's Carnegie Hall.\r\n\r\nBeside his projects as a soloist, Fabian M\u00fcller is also intensively devoted to chamber music. His partners in this sphere include artists such as Albrecht Mayer, Julian Bliss, Sarah Christian, Niklas Liepe, Daniel M\u00fcller-Schott, Maximilian Hornung, the Aris Quartett as well as the Vision String Quartet. Furthermore, he is the artistic director of the chamber music series Bonner Zwischent\u00f6ne, which was initiated by him.\r\n\r\nAlong with his regular concert activities, Fabian M\u00fcller is also committed to conveying music to children and teenagers. As the pianist of the Ruhr Piano Festival's education project, he annually works with more than 300 children and their creative engagement with modern music. The project was awarded with the Junge Ohren prize in 2014 and with an Echo Klassikin 2016. Furthermore, he frequently gives concerts accompanied by moderation, where he vividly and inspiringly brings music close to his audience. This work was honored with the 1st prize at the Frankfurt competition \"Ton und Erkl\u00e4rung\"announced by the cultural department of the German economy in 2015.\r\n\r\nIn 2016, Fabian M\u00fcller released his debut CD \"Out of Doors\" on the ARS Produktion label. Fono Forum\u2019s opinion: \"One can be curious how this fearless and joyously creative pianist will develop over the next few years.\" In this context, Radio Bremen recorded the \"first station of a great career\" while The Guardian discovered \"a model of good taste\".\r\n\r\nPhoto: Annemone Taake<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/fabian-mueller-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterF\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/faure-quartett-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/faure-quartett-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8495_Faure_Quartett_Ben_Wolf-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Gruppenportr\u00e4t des Faur\u00e9 Quartetts. Vier Ensemblemitglieder bei einem Spaziergang im Freien in warmem Abendlicht.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/faure-quartett-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Faur\u00e9 Quartett<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>The requirements have changed. Whoever is playing chamber music today can\u2019t be limited to the rules from decades ago. The expectations regarding the diversity of repertoire have changed, which creates room for ensembles like the Faure Quartett, which has established itself as one of the world\u2019s leading piano quartets within just a few years. Dirk Mommertz (piano), Erika Geldsetzer (violin), Sascha Fr\u00f6mbling (viola) and Konstantin Heidrich (cello) use the opportunities arising from these developments. They discover new sound fields in chamber music and perform compositions outside the mainstream repertoire.\r\n\r\nThey are visionary in their approach and highly regarded for their experiments and discoveries; be it performances with the NDR Big Band, collaborations with artists like Rufus Wainwright or Sven Helbig, appearances in clubs like the Berghain, Cocoon Club or \u201cLe Poisson Rouge\u201d in New York or TV shows in KIKA or \u201cRhapsody in School\u201d, getting children excited in chamber music. When they released their album \u201cPopsongs\u201d in 2009, there was a great deal of buzz in the press and audience. In the following year, the ensemble was awarded the ECHO Classic for their album \u201cclassic beyond borders\u201d, their second award after their recording of Brahms\u2019 piano quartets (Chamber Music recording of the year, 2008). Other prizes include the German Music Competition, the ensemble prize from Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, international competition and recording awards, Music Prize Duisburg and Brahms prize Schleswig Holstein.\r\n\r\nThe musicians of the Faure Quartett are pioneers in many ways. After they met during their studies in 1995 in Karlsruhe for the 150th anniversary of Gabriel Faure, they quickly realized, that this combination offered new insights into undiscovered repertoire. In 2006, they signed a contract with Deutsche Grammophon, promoting them to the Champions League of the classic music business. They made highly regarded benchmark-recordings with works by Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn and pop songs from Peter Gabriel and Steely Dan as well as works from Mahler and Richard Strauss (Sony Classical). on one album. Currently the quartett is releasing the world\u2019s first-ever recording of Mussorgskys \u201cPictures at an Exhibition\u201d and Rachmaninovs \u201cEtudes-Tableaux\u201d in their own arrangements on the Berlin Classics label.\r\nWorldwide tours raise their profile abroad and international masterclasses are part of their work with students. The members teach at the universities of Berlin and Munich. Moreover, they were Artistic Directors of \u201cFestspielfr\u00fchling R\u00fcgen\u201d and are \u2018Quartet in Residence\u2019 at the University of Music Karlsruhe. During their tours, the musicians appear in the world\u2019s most important chamber music venues; including Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Berlin Philharmony, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires and Wigmore Hall London. All these mosaics form a unique profile for this defining chamber music ensemble.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Ben Wolf<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/faure-quartett-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterF\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/felix-klieser-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/felix-klieser-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6238_Felix_Kieser-4702-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Hornist Felix Klieser. Sitzende Pose mit gestreiftem Shirt und schwarzer Hose, vor ihm steht das Horn auf dem Boden, vor hellem, minimalistischen Hintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/felix-klieser-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Felix Klieser<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Felix Klieser is an exceptional artist in several aspects. At the age of 4 he expressed the wish to play the horn. At the age of 17, Felix Klieser enrolled in Prof. Markus Maskuniitty\u2019s class at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater Hannover. In 2013 Felix Klieser presented his debut album \u201cReveries\u201d which was released by Berlin Classics. The recording demonstrates Felix Klieser\u2019s incredible musicality as well as his brilliant technique and command of his instrument. The CD was met with rave reviews, among others from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Felix Klieser also appears together with Christiane Karg and Malcolm Martineau on the album \u201cHeimliche Aufforderung\u201d presented by Berlin Classics in 2014. In 2014 Felix Klieser received the ECHO Klassik for young artist of the year. Also his book about his fascinating live was published. In 2016 Felix Klieser will receive the prestigious Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Felix Klieser\u2019s special desire is to evoke a variety of colours and beautiful tones through the sound of this instrument. Quite recently he received an excellent review from S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung which described his performance as \u201csimply perfect\u201d with precision, a range of expression and beauty of sound. \r\n\r\nIn April 2015 his new CD with the W\u00fcrttembergischen Kammerorchester Heilbronn and Rubin Gazarian was released by Berlin Classics, features Felix Klieser playing Horn concerts from Michael and Joseph Haydn and W.A. Mozart. With this CD he demonstrates the rare ability to play \u201cdeep\u201d and \u201chigh\u201d Horn pieces. From 2008 until 2011 Felix Klieser was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany (Bundesjugendorchester) where he frequently performed at major venues such as Berlin Philharmonie, Beethovenhalle Bonn, K\u00f6ln Philharmonie and Philharmonie am Gasteig M\u00fcnchen. He also participated in numerous productions by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and has undertaken tours to Austria, Italy, Switzerland and South Africa among others. He is ambassador of the One-Hand Musical Instrument Trust OHMI.\r\n\r\n\r\nPhoto: Julia Wesely<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/felix-klieser-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterF\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/frank-dupree-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/frank-dupree-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8246_Frank_Dupree-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Pianist Frank Dupree. L\u00e4chelnd mit Kopfh\u00f6rern am Klavier in einem Aufnahmesaal.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/frank-dupree-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Frank Dupree<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Winner of the 2018 Opus Klassik Award for Concerto Recording of the Year (20th\/21st century), German pianist FRANK DUPREE recently came to international attention as the laureate prize winner of the 2014 Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, captivating the judges with his musical maturity, refined technique and ability to draw a wide spectrum of sound and colour from the keyboard. A \u201csincere, feeling and enormously interesting artist\u201d (Emmanuel Ax) who \u201calways amazes\u201d (PZ News) and whose \u201cbroad tonal range and sinuous rhythmic technique\u201d (Classical Source) have earned him acclaim amongst his peers on orchestral and chamber stages alike.\r\n\r\nInitially trained as a jazz percussionist, Frank celebrates the breadth and depth of the piano repertoire, with a particular enthusiasm for the music of the 20th century as well as the music of living composers, having already been chosen to work closely with P\u00e9ter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s (Erdenklavier \u2013 Himmelklavier, world premiere recording in 2015 for the GENUIN classics label) and Wolfgang Rihm (Con Piano? Certo!, world premiere performance with conductor Justin Brown and the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe in June 2015).\r\n\r\nRecent and forthcoming highlights include an exciting new collaboration with the Kurt Weill Festival as artist-in-residence, debuts with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Trondheim Symfonieorchester and Sinfonieorcheser Liechtenstein, return invitations at London\u2019s Wigmore Hall, Berlin\u2019s Konzerthaus, Brussels BOZAR amongst others as well as ongoing relationships with the Stuttgart Philharmoniker and Theater Plauen-Zwickau. Additional highlights include a collaboration with the Repercussion ensemble at the Cologne Philharmonie, debuts with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Ulster Orchestra, recitals at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, Lucerne Festival, London\u2019s LSO St Luke\u2019s, Hamburg\u2019s Elbphilharmonie, and Munich\u2019s Allerheiligen-Hofkirche.\r\n\r\nAn artist who is firmly establishing himself on the international scene, Frank has previously performed with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris (play\/direct), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Malm\u00f6 Symphony, Kristiansand Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Bern Symphony, Duisburg Philharmonic, Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, W\u00fcrttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Essen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Musikkollegium Winterthur. Recitals and chamber music play a particularly important role in Frank\u2019s musical ethos, and he has frequently collaborated with other rising stars of his generation such as Simon H\u00f6fele, Edgar Moreau, Daniel Lozakovich, Timothy Ridout, Kian Soltani, and the Calidore and Goldmund string quartets, giving concerts at such places as the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Verbier Festival, Septembre Musical in Montreux, Davos Festival, Heidelberg Spring Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Kurt Weill Festival and in numerous other venues across Germany.\r\n\r\nCombining his fine musicianship with the art of direction, Frank was awarded first prize at the 2012 International Hans-von-B\u00fclow Competition in Meiningen for his play\/direct work with Beethoven, and was soon after invited to take part in the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris Play-Direct Academy with Joseph Swensen, Stephen Kovacevich, and Fran\u00e7ois Leleux. On the podium, Frank has previously assisted Sir Simon Rattle, Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Roth, and Mario Venzago.\r\n\r\nA Steinway Artist, Frank has been a student of Sontraud Speidel since the age of five and recently completed his studies at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Karlsruhe. Over the years, he has played in masterclasses with Emanuel Ax, Menahem Pressler, Ralf Goth\u00f3ni, Klaus Hellwig, Alexander Braginsky, Cyprien Katsaris, Ferenc Rados, G\u00e1bor Tak\u00e1cs-Nagy, and Stephen Kovacevich. In Summer 2013, Frank was awarded the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes scholarship and, in 2014, was the recipient of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben scholarship in support of his studies.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Simon H\u00f6fele<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/frank-dupree-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterG\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/german-brass-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/german-brass-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/611_GermanBrass_iTunes-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Gruppenportr\u00e4t des Blechbl\u00e4serensembles German Brass. Musiker, die alle schwarze Anz\u00fcge und rote Krawatten tragen, mit Trompeten, Posaunen, Horn und Tuba in prunkvollem Saal.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/german-brass-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>German Brass<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Those who know German Brass will be aware that they do not limit themselves to classic brass music along the lines of the trumpet fanfare. This is an ensemble which blends great virtuosity and sparkling musicality with more than a dash of wit and charm. Their concerts are pure entertainment, spanning the genres from pop through classics and jazz to film music. The success of this approach can be judged by the four decades of the ensemble\u2019s history. The musicians \u2013 ten soloists and college professors \u2013 have always succeeded in creating a completely new sound of their own for each of their projects, reinventing and rediscovering it in every concert and on every recording. German Brass does more than produce a sound, it celebrates that sound and makes it an experience for each new audience.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Steven Haberland<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/german-brass-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterG\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/german-gents-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/german-gents-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/3413018\/12632_German_Gents____Clara_Evens-02__1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Zu sehen ist das A Capella Ensemble German Gents in schwarzen Anz\u00fcgen mit wei\u00dfem Hemd und rotem Einstecktuch. Sie sind sehr festlich gekleidet und schauen seri\u00f6s in die Kamera. Der Bass Marcel Raschke sitzt auf einem Stuhl, w\u00e4hrend die anderen drei Mitglieder Thoma Jaron-Wutz (Tenor), Armin Horn (Tenor) und Raphael Riebesell (Bariton) hinter ihm stehen.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/german-gents-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>German Gents<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Die German Gents sind ein A-Cappella-Quartett aus Berlin, das 2018 aus ehemaligen S\u00e4ngern des Staats- und Domchors \u2013 einem der renommiertesten Knabench\u00f6re Deutschlands \u2013 hervorging. Bereits kurz nach ihrer Gr\u00fcndung gewannen die vier beim Internationalen A Cappella Wettbewerb Leipzig  2019 in Leipzig den 1. Preis, den Publikumspreis und zwei weitere Sonderpreise!\r\n\r\nAuf der B\u00fchne verbinden sie den Charme amerikanischer Klassiker der 50er- und 60er-Jahre mit den funkelnden Melodien der goldenen 20er \u2013 und schlagen dabei mit Charme und Esprit zugleich den Bogen in die Gegenwart.\r\n\r\n\r\nModerne Popsongs und selbst virale Social-Media-Trends finden bei ihnen ebenso Platz wie die Tradition romantischer M\u00e4nnerchormusik. Die vier S\u00e4nger verstehen es, Tradition und Zeitgeist mit Witz, Stil und Gef\u00fchl zu vereinen, um ihren klassischen Wurzeln ebenso wie ihrem jungen Alter gerecht zu werden. Die Qualit\u00e4t ihrer Einzelstimmen, ihr farbenreicher Zusammenklang und mitrei\u00dfende Emotionen begeistern das Publikum \u2013 auf internationalen B\u00fchnen wie online.\r\n\r\nDerzeit werden die German Gents von zahlreichen Konzertveranstaltern und renommierten Festivals eingeladen, darunter das Rheingau Musik Festival, das Live From London Christmas Festival und das Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (SHMF). Weitere Konzerte f\u00fchren sie durch ganz Deutschland und Europa \u2013 mit Stationen in St\u00e4dten wie Paris, Wien und Luxemburg.\r\n\r\nEin H\u00f6hepunkt jeder Saison ist die stimmungsvolle Weihnachtstour der German Gents, bei der sie das Publikum in ganz Deutschland mit Weihnachtsklassikern aus aller Welt, jazzigen Kl\u00e4ngen und modernen Arrangements begeistern.\r\n\r\n\r\nAuch in den sozialen Medien sorgen die German Gents mit ihren Kurzvideos und kreativen Kooperationen f\u00fcr Begeisterung: \u00dcber 900.000 Fans folgen ihnen bereits auf TikTok und Instagram, ihre Clips erzielen regelm\u00e4\u00dfig Millionen von Views. Mit ihren einzigartigen Arrangements \u2013 von Klassikern bis zu brandneuen Hits \u2013 erreichen sie ein Publikum, das weit \u00fcber die traditionelle A-Cappella-Szene hinausgeht.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n2023 erschien ihr Deb\u00fctalbum \u201eL.O.V.E.\u201c. Ihr zweites Album mit internationalen Weihnachtstiteln folgte im November 2025 \u2013 begleitet von einer digitalen Compilation ihrer beliebtesten Social-Media-Hits, die derzeit schrittweise ver\u00f6ffentlicht wird.\r\n\r\n\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/german-gents-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterG\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/goldmund-quartet-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/goldmund-quartet-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/1411318\/8247_Goldmund_Quartett-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait des Goldmund Quartetts. Farbfoto von vier Musikern in einem roten Cabrio auf einer gr\u00fcnen Wiese, mit weitem Landschaftshintergrund; erh\u00f6hte Perspektive, nat\u00fcrliche Tageshelligkeit und lockere, filmische Stimmung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/goldmund-quartet-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Goldmund Quartet<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>\u201cA highly individual musicality that speaks to the audience.\u201d\r\n\r\nCounted amongst the most exciting young string quartets, the Goldmund Quartet has with its exquisite playing and multi-faceted homogeneity given convincing interpretations of the great classical and modern works of the string quartet literature for more than a decade now. Their inwardness, unbelievably fine intonation, and phrasing worked out to the smallest detail inspire audiences worldwide.\r\n\r\nAwarded at the prestigious 2018 International Wigmore Hall String Competition and winners of the 2018 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2018, the Goldmund Quartet has been named Rising Stars of the 2019\/20 season by the European Concert Hall Organisation as well as laureates of the J\u00fcrgen Ponto-Foundation. The Nippon Music Foundation has awarded the Quartet with a full set of Stradivari instruments.\r\n\r\nFollowing their successful debuts at Europe\u2019s most prestigious concert halls such as Wiener Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Palau de la Musica, the 2020\/21 season sees the Quartet continuing their ascent as one of today\u2019s most exciting young string quartets with recitals at Philharmonie Luxembourg or Casa da M\u00fasica Porto. Other highlights this season include appearances at Edinburgh International Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and a tour of Japan with performances in Suntory Hall, Shirakwa Hall and Izumi Hall.\r\n\r\nIn 2020, Berlin Classics released the Quartet\u2019s third recording \u201cTravel Diaries\u201d featuring works by Wolfgang Rihm, Ana Sokolovic, Fazil Say and Dobrinka Tabakova which Harald Eggebrecht depicted \u201cone of the liveliest and most inspiring string quartet CDs in recent time.\u201d (S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung). \u201cTravel Diaries\u201d is a personal musical journey featuring contemporary works by composers the quartet worked with over the last ten years.\r\n\r\nThe Goldmund Quartet has been awarded several prizes and scholarships, the most recent distinctions are the second prize and the special award for the best interpretation of a 20th century string quartet at the International Wigmore Hall String Competition 2018 and the first price along with the price for the best interpretation of the commissioned work at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2018. The Quartet also received the Bavarian Young Artist Award and the Karl-Klinger-Prize during the 2016 ARD International Music Competition Munich. The J\u00fcrgen Ponto Foundation has named the Goldmund Quartet as the recipients of their 2020 biennial music bursary. In summer 2019 the quartet received one of the most valuable sponsorships of the Nippon Music Foundation. It provides the Quartet the Paganini Quartet of Antonio Stradivari for four years.\r\n\r\nEducated by G\u00fcnther Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet at the Escuela Superior de M\u00fasica Reina Sofia and the Artemis Quartet in Berlin, the Quartet has received important artistic impulses in master classes with the Hagen, Borodin, Belcea, Ysa\u00ffe and Cherubini quartets, Ferenc Rados, Eberhard Feltz and Alfred Brendel.\r\n\r\nRecitals have taken them to prestigious chamber music venues and series in Denmark, France, Norway, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, China, Australia and the US. Regular chamber music partners include artists such as J\u00f6rg Widmann, Ksenija Sidorova, Pablo Barragan, Alexey Stadler, Wies de Boev\u00e9.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Nikolaj Lund<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/goldmund-quartet-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterH\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/helge-burggrabe-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/helge-burggrabe-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/986420\/10426_8273_Helge_Quadratisch-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait von Komponist Helge Burggrabe. Schwarz-Wei\u00df-Foto in enger Nahaufnahme, er blickt nach unten und st\u00fctzt das Kinn auf die Hand; weiche Graut\u00f6ne, ruhige Lichtstimmung und kontemplative Wirkung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/helge-burggrabe-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Helge Burggrabe<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Helge Burggrabe studied at the College of Music and Drama in Hamburg and his innovative arts projects have resonated throughout Europe and made him one of the most-sought-after composeres of contemporary sacral music. It is his particular purpose to make music resound with liturgical architecture and other art forms such as dance, painting, installations and artistic lighting.\r\n\r\nHe had his breakthrough in 2006 with the oratorio \"Stella Maris\", premiered in Chartres Cathedral as part of the thousand-year celebrations and fi lmed by ARTE\/NDR. His works have since been performed in the cathedrals of Bern, Cologne and Hildesheim, in the Pantheon in Rome and in Dresden\u2019s Frauenkirche by celebrated choirs and orchestras and by noted reciters such as Bruno Ganz, Iris Berben and Martina Gedeck.\r\n\r\nVarious album and DVD releases and TV recordings document his work. The focus of Burggrabe's seminar work in churches, abbeys and academies is on the links between music, architecture and silence and questions of spirituality, with particular attention to the discovery and development of the voice and the ability to open outer and inner spaces with singing. To further this work, Helge Burggrabe has composed a series of prayer-songs in recent years, many of them for church services televised by German public-service broadcaster ZDF. A selection of these songs has been specially recorded for the \"Hagios\" album. HUMAN is the latest masterpiece by Burggrabe.\r\n\r\n\r\nPhoto: Andrea Friederichs-du Maire<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/helge-burggrabe-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterH\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/herbert-schuch-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/herbert-schuch-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/1261946\/13283__E6A1743_-_Kopie-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Pianist Herbert Schuch sitzt am ge\u00f6ffneten Fl\u00fcgel, schwarz-wei\u00df Aufnahme\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/herbert-schuch-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Herbert Schuch<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>The pianist Herbert Schuch has gained a reputation as being among the most interesting musicians of his generation with his strikingly conceived concert programmes and CD recordings. In 2013, he received the ECHO Klassik award for his recording of the piano concerto by Viktor Ullmann and Beethoven\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the WDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Olari Elts. In 2014, he issued the fascinating solo CD \u201cinvocation\u201d with works by Bach, Liszt, Messiaen, Murail and Ravel, which engages with the sound of bells. He could be heard with this programme in piano recitals at the Salzburg Festival and the Stuttgart Musikfest, and in the Frauenkirche in Dresden and the Philharmonie in Berlin, among other venues. A piano-duet CD with G\u00fclru Ensari, featuring works by Brahms, Hindemith, Stravinsky and \u00d6zkan Manav, was issued in early 2017.\r\n\r\nHerbert Schuch has worked with a number of renowned orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the Residentie Orkest Den Haag, the Bamberg Symphony, the Dresden Philharmonic and the radio orchestras of hr, MDR, WDR, NDR Hannover and Danish Radio. He appears regularly as guest at festivals such as the Heidelberger Fr\u00fchling, the Kissinger Sommer, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Ruhr Piano Festival and the Salzburg Festival. Among the conductors with whom he has enjoyed successful associations are Pierre Boulez, Andrey Boreyko, Douglas Boyd, Lawrence Foster, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Jakub Hrusa, Jun M\u00e4rkl, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, Jonathan Nott, Markus Poschner, Michael Sanderling and Alexander Vedernikov.\r\n\r\nRecently, Herbert Schuch played with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in the Gasteig in Munich, with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in the Berlin Philharmonie, with the Camerata Salzburg, with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and with the National Youth Orchestra of Germany on a European tour. He also made his d\u00e9but with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., at the Salzburg Easter Festival and at the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier. In addition, he gave concerts with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Festival Strings Lucerne and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra.\r\n\r\nHis schedule for the 17\/18 season includes fresh invitations to play with the WDR Sinfonieorchester and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, as well as his d\u00e9but in the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.\r\nAs a child, Herbert Schuch also played violin for 10 years and has been an enthusiastic chamber musician ever since. In the summer of 2017, he undertook a trio tour with violinist Julia Fischer and cellist Daniel M\u00fcller-Schott.\r\n\r\nHerbert Schuch was born in Timi\u0219oara, Romania, in 1979. He had his first piano lessons in his native city, before his family moved to Germany in 1988, where he has lived since. He continued his musical studies with Kurt Hantsch and then with Prof. Karl-Heinz K\u00e4mmerling at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Recently, Herbert Schuch has been especially influenced by his encounters and work with Alfred Brendel. He created an international stir when he won three major competitions in just one year: the Casagrande Competition, the London International Piano Competition and the International Beethoven Competition in Vienna.\r\n\r\nIn addition to his performance activities, Herbert Schuch is also involved in the organization \u201cRhapsody in School,\u201d founded by Lars Vogt, which promotes classical music education in schools.<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/herbert-schuch-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterI\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/il-pomo-doro-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/il-pomo-doro-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/3587095\/13207_booklet_Il_Pomo_Doro-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Il Pomo dOro\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/il-pomo-doro-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Il Pomo d'Oro<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Founded in 2012, il Pomo d\u2019Oro soon established itself as an ensemble of outstanding quality in the field of historically informed performance. After 11 years, il Pomo d\u2019Oro is looking back on a prolific concert presence worldwide, and an impressive list of 44 recordings, many of them award-winning \u2013 and more to be released in 2025.\r\n\r\nThe ensemble is particularly renowned for working with singers, be it for solo recitals, or entire operas, performed and recorded in some of the most prestigious theatres around the world.\r\n\r\nRecent productions include Handel\u2019s Theodora which introduced the new vocal ensemble \u2018il Pomo d\u2019Oro choir\u2019 alongside a stellar cast. The concert recording won the BBC Music Magazine\u2019s Choral Award in 2023. The recording of Wagner\u2019s Wesendonck Lieder with Joyce DiDonato is nominated for a Grammy in 2025.\r\n\r\nThe 2022\/23 season also saw productions of Handel\u2019s Ariodante and a sold-out run of Tolomeo, followed by Handel\u2019s Berenice and Alcina in 2024 and Jephtha in 2025, all conducted by Francesco Corti.\r\n\r\nIn 2023\/24, il Pomo d\u2019Oro continued to tour the famous Eden project with world renowned mezzo-soprano and frequent collaborator Joyce DiDonato, and a new tour of rarely performed early music with countertenor Jakub J\u00f3zef Orli\u0144ski, entitled Beyond.\r\n\r\nIn the field of instrumental music, the ensemble focuses on projects with its chief conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, and Francesco Corti as principal guest conductor and harpsichord soloist.\r\n\r\nZefira Valova, the concert master of il Pomo d\u2019Oro, also leads the orchestra and appears as a violin soloist.\r\n\r\nIn 2023, il Pomo d\u2019Oro launched its biggest recording project: the complete recording of Mozart\u2019s symphonies, conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev, in collaboration with the French label Apart\u00e9. The first two volumes are already released, each with an instrumental solo concerto as a bonus.<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/il-pomo-doro-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterI\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/isabelle-van-keulen-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/isabelle-van-keulen-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/8250_Isabel_van_Keulen-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Nahaufnahme von Geigerin Isabelle van Keulen beim Violinspiel. Warme Lichtstimmung mit Fokus auf Instrument und Ausdruck.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/isabelle-van-keulen-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Isabelle van Keulen<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>\u201dHer taut musical intelligence and vivid sound combined with a fine instinct for the tender, searching quality of this music \u2026 absolutely magical.\u201d The Guardian\r\n\r\nSince her breakthrough in 1984 winning the Eurovision Young Musician of the Year, a competition that was broadcast all over Europe and watched live on television by millions, Isabelle van Keulen can now look back on many years of musical diversity. Not only is it always vital for her to approach the musical score with honesty and with an extremely consious approach to interpretation, she also strives to communicate with her audiences and musical partners, allowing her to perform in an inspirational, lively and enthusiastic manner.\r\n\r\nHer versatility lies in the fact that she not only plays the violin, but as well viola with the same energy, performing chamber music in any thinkable combination and directing chamber orchestra performances. Whether in the over 20 year intense collaboration with the Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam, concerts with mezzo Christianne Stotijn, performing\/directing the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, combining violin and viola in one appearance, founding a chamber music festival \u2013 from 1997 until 2006 Isabelle van Keulen was Artistic Director of the Delft Chamber Music Festival \u2013 giving masterclasses or being a soloist with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic or NHK Tokyo. Above all, being faithful to the music is her highest priority.\r\n\r\nShe has over the course of her career engaged works written by contemporary composers. She had many concertos written especially for her (Theo Loevendie, Erkki-Sven T\u00fc\u00fcr) and has many other 20th and 21st century works in her repertoire: Concertos by Henri Dutilleux, John Adams, Lera Auerbach, Oliver Knussen and Brett Dean. She also likes to perform less known works by Colin Matthews and Concertos by Krenek, Pettersson and Busoni.\r\n\r\nIsabelle van Keulen has made many recordings in the past decades, the most recent ones are Berg Violin Concerto (Chandos), a CD of violin-piano sonatas by Strauss, Nino Rota and Respighi (Channel Classics), Mozart\u2019s Clarinet Quintet with Sharon Kam (Berlin Classics) , Bach\u2019s Goldberg Variations  with the Leopold String Trio (Hyperion) and Prokofiev Complete Works for violin and piano with Ronald Brautigam (Challenge, December 2012). In May 2013 a high profile CD with music by Astor Piazzolla was released on Challenge Records, Tango!, combined with DVD\/Bluray and documentary, with the Isabelle van Keulen Ensemble.\r\n\r\nSince autumn 2012 she is professor for violin, viola and chamber music at the Luzern University of Arts.\r\n\r\n\r\nPhoto: Jochen Rolfes<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/isabelle-van-keulen-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterI\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/isang-enders-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/isang-enders-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8251_Isang_Enders-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Cellist Isang Enders. Halbfigur mit Violoncello vor schlichtem, hellgrauem Hintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/isang-enders-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Isang Enders<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Photo: Gregor Hohenberg<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/isang-enders-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterI\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/iveta-apkalna-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/iveta-apkalna-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/1435807\/8181_Iveta-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Organistin Iveta Apkalna an winterlicher K\u00fcstenlandschaft. Helles Kleid mit blauem Muster und nat\u00fcrliche Lichtstimmung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/iveta-apkalna-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Iveta Apkalna<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna is considered one of the leading instrumentalists in the world. Starting from 2017 she serves as the titular organist of the Klais organ at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany \u2013 Hamburg's new cultural landmark and one of the most exciting structural projects in Europe. The January 2017 opening offerd two world premieres: Wolfgang Rihm's Triptychon und Spruch in memoriam Hans Henny Jahnn with Thomas Hengelbrock and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and J\u00f6rg Widmann's ARCHE with Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg.\r\n\r\nIveta has performed with a number of the world's top orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. She has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Mariss Jansons, Marek Janowski, Kent Nagano, Thomas Hengelbrock, Sir Antonio Pappano and Andris Nelsons and frequently appeared at the Lucerne, Lockenhaus, Bremen, Halle Georg Friedrich H\u00e4ndel, Ludwigsburg Castle, Schwetzinger, and Schleswig-Holstein Festivals.\r\n\r\nRecent engagements include a recital in Disney Hall and the debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, as well as concerts in China's most prestigious halls such as the NCPA Beijing and the Shanghai Symphony Hall.\r\n\r\nThroughout her career, Iveta Apkalna has earned international recognition for honours and competitions. She was appointed a cultural ambassador of Latvia by receiving the \"Excellence Award in Culture 2015\" from the Latvian Ministry of Culture. In March 2018 she received the \"Latvian Grand Music Award\" as \"Musician of the Year\" and in the category \"Concert of the Year\", the most prestigious award in music in Latvia. Iveta Apkalna became the first organist to receive the title of \"Best Performing Artist\" award at the 2005 ECHO Klassik. French-German TV network ARTE broadcasted in 2008 a documentary about her entitled \"Dancing with the Organ\". In 2003 she received the first prize and four additional special prizes in the International M. Tariverdiev Organ Competition in Kaliningrad, Russia. In 2002 she advanced to the world finals of the Royal Bank Calgary International Organ Competition in Canada and received the prestigious Johann Sebastian Bach Prize. Iveta studied piano and organ at J. Vitols Latvian Academy of Music and continued her studies at the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the National Academy of Music and Fine Arts in Stuttgart.\r\n\r\nShe is dedicated to contemporary music and performs works of Naji Hakim, \u0112riks E\u0161envalds, Arturs Maskats or Thierry Escaich. Together with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam she has presented the world premiere of \"Multiversum\", a commissioned composition of P\u00e9ter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s, on an extensive Europe tour.\r\n\r\nBorn in R\u0113zekne, Latvia, Iveta has made it her mission to bring the splendour of organ music beyond church walls and into concert halls. She currently lives in Berlin and in Riga.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Aiga Redmane<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/iveta-apkalna-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterJ\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/jacques-ammon-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/jacques-ammon-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8252_Jacques_Ammon-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait von Pianist Jacques Ammon. Farbfoto eines sitzenden Mannes im wei\u00dfen Hemd auf einer Treppe vor bl\u00e4ulicher Backsteinwand; frontale Perspektive, k\u00fchle Blaut\u00f6ne und ruhige, offene Lichtstimmung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/jacques-ammon-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Jacques Ammon<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Pianist Jacques Ammon, born in Santiago in Chile and from German-Chilean descent, debuted into international recognition with his successes in the international Claudio Arrau Pianocompetition in 1989. Since then he has given many concerts as both soloist and chamber musician in renowned concert halls in Germany and abroad, and has been a regular guest at classical music festivals such as the \u201eSchleswig-Holstein Musikfestival\u201c, the \u201eFestspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern\u201c and the \u201eRheingau Musikfestival\u201c. \r\n\r\nInternationally, Jacques Ammon has performed in many countries, including Austria (Wiener Konzerthaus), France (Chatelet Paris), the Netherlands (Concertgebouw Amsterdam), Great Britain (Wigmore Hall), Spain (Palau de la Musica), Italy (Borciani-Festival), and Belgium, Finland, Poland, Russia, Japan, Chile, Argentina and the USA. Many of his concerts have been documented by broadcasting companies such as Radio France, BBC London, RBB, NDR, DWR, BR and WDR. \r\n\r\nOn invitation of the ensemble \u201eThe 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philarmonica\u201c Jacques Ammon got the opportunity to be a musical advisor and arranger for a record (EMI), which in turn got a Grammy nomination and became the winner of the Echo Award. Back in 1996, Jacques Ammon and cellist Eckart Runge founded their ensemble \u201eRunge&amp;Ammon\u201c. In 2020 they signed exclusively with the label Berlin Classics\/Edel and subsequently released three records there. Several other records were also released with the labels Ars Musici and Genuin Classics. The duo Runge&amp;Ammon celebrate their 25-year anniversary in 2021; these long and intensive years of working together have brought them many opportunities worldwide. Jacques Ammon is also in close collaboration with violinist Daniel Hope, which has borne fruits that are shown through his participation in numerous recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and many other concerts and projects. In addition to his performing career, Jacques Ammon is also a part of the panels at international competitions and a passionate teacher at music festivals both in Germany and abroad. Some of these include the international chamber music masterclass Jeunesses Musicales in Weikersheim, the Akademie Hohenstaufen, the Hope Music Academy in Schlo\u00df Neuhardenberg, the Kronberg Academy, the Krzyzowa Music Festival in Poland, and the Queen Elisabeth Music Kabel in Belgium. \r\n\r\nPhoto: Nikolaj Lund<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/jacques-ammon-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterJ\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/jay-alexander-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/jay-alexander-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8184_ja-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Nahaufnahme von S\u00e4nger Jay Alexander, l\u00e4chelnd im dunklen Anzug und Krawatte. Warme, elegante Portr\u00e4tfotografie.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/jay-alexander-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Jay Alexander<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Jay Alexander z\u00e4hlt zu den beliebtesten und charismatischsten K\u00fcnstlern innerhalb der deutschen Musiklandschaft und sorgt mit dem warmen Timbre seiner einzigartigen Tenorstimme bei seinen Auftritten regelm\u00e4\u00dfig f\u00fcr Begeisterung.\r\nDer in Pforzheim geborene S\u00e4nger verk\u00f6rperte bereits zahlreiche Partien an verschiedenen Opernh\u00e4usern und ist immer wieder auch in Oratorien und Messen zu h\u00f6ren. Mit Marshall &amp; Alexander sorgt er seit \u00fcber 20 Jahren deutschlandweit f\u00fcr ausverkaufte H\u00e4user.\r\nIn seinen eigenen Konzerten lotet der Tenor mit der strahlenden Stimme erfolgreich die Grenzen zwischen klassischer und popul\u00e4rer Musik aus. \u201eDas Singen hat f\u00fcr mich etwas G\u00f6ttliches. Wenn ich singe, sp\u00fcre ich Freiheit, Energie, Kraft und die Magie des Lebens\u201c \u2013 pure Emotion und Leidenschaft, die man Jay Alexander mit jedem gesungenen Ton, jeder noch so kleinen Geste anmerkt.\r\n\r\nNachdem seine beiden Vorg\u00e4ngeralben aus dem Stand auf Platz 1 der deutschen Klassikcharts schossen, erf\u00fcllte sich Jay Alexander nun mit seiner sechsten Solo-CD \u201eSerienhits\u201c einen langgehegten Traum: TV Serien wie \u201eDie Schwarzwaldklinik\u201c, \u201eDerrick\u201c und \u201eDas Traumschiff\u201c bescherten einem Millionenpublikum unvergessene Momente einer glanzvollen Fernsehepoche. Auf seinem neuen Album widmet sich Jay Alexander den bekannten Titelmelodien der beliebtesten deutschen Kultserien, die der Tenor erstmals mit Texten versehen lie\u00df und sie mit seiner wundersch\u00f6nen Stimme wieder auferstehen l\u00e4sst. Ein einzigartiger H\u00f6rgenuss!\r\nMit gro\u00dfem Engagement ist Jay Alexander seit 2013 offizieller Botschafter der \u201eFamilienherberge Lebensweg\u201c, ein Haus in Illingen-Sch\u00fctzingen, in dem Familien mit schwerst- und lebensverk\u00fcrzt erkrankten Kindern eine Erholung vom Alltag erm\u00f6glicht wird.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Janina Steinmetz\r\n\r\n\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/jay-alexander-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterJ\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/jeanine-de-bique-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/jeanine-de-bique-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/8010_Jeanine_AppleMusic-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Sopranistin Jeanine De Bique. Strahlendes L\u00e4cheln in auff\u00e4lligem orangefarbenem T\u00fcllkleid vor hellem Hintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/jeanine-de-bique-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Jeanine De Bique<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique has in recent years gained international recognition for her \u201cdramatic presence and versatility\u201d (Washington Post), and \u201csheer endless wealth of colour and nuances [\u2026] a radiant, freefloating timbre.\u201d (Opernwelt) \r\n\r\nThe season 21\/22 will commence with role and house debuts as Poppea in Monteverdi\u2019s L\u2019Incoronazione di Poppea with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iv\u00e1n Fischer in Budapest, Geneva and Vicenza, followed by the title role in Handel\u2019s Alcina in Robert Carsen\u2019s acclaimed production at l\u2019Opera national de Paris, conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock. Ms De Bique is also looking forward to new collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, Martin Fr\u00f6st and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic and Herbert Blomstedt, the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck and to recitals with pianist Gerold Huber for the Cincinnati Song Initiative and at Carnegie Hall, which will also be her solo debut at this hall. Her first solo-CD, with Concerto K\u00f6ln, will be released in October by Berlin Classics and followed by concerts in early 2022. The season will conclude with a role and house debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In 2020\/21, she gave house and role debuts as Agathe in Weber\u2019s Der Freisch\u00fctz with Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Christoph Eschenbach, Bess\/Porgy and Bess and as La Folie in Robert Carsen\u2019s celebrated production of Rameau\u2019s Plat\u00e9e at Theater an der Wien, conducted by William Christie and also presented in concert at Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Elsewhere, she performed excerpts from Porgy and Bess with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and with the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, both conducted by Wayne Marshall, and returned to Theater St Gallen as Cleopatra in Handel\u2019s Giulio Cesare. \r\n\r\nIn the US, Ms De Bique performed Beethoven\u2019s Symphony no 9 at the Aspen Music Festival and gave her debut with Houston Grand Opera in excerpts from Rodgers and Hammerstein\u2019s The Sound of Music and a programme of works by Handel and Mozart, conducted by Patrick Summers. Since her breakthrough debut at the 2017 Salzburg Festival as Annio in Peter Sellar\u2019s production of La Clemenza di Tito, conducted by Teodor Currentzis and subsequently shown at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, she has appeared as Susanna\/Le Nozze di Figaro for San Francisco Opera, Helena in Ted Huffman\u2019s production of A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream at Deutsche Oper Berlin, conducted by Donald Runnicles, in the title role of Handel\u2019s Rodelinda at Op\u00e9ra de Lille, conducted by Emmanuelle Ha\u00efm and released on DVD by Erato (winner of the Opus Klassik Award 2020), as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Op\u00e9ra National du Rhin and as Aida in the world premiere of Caruso a Cuba by Micha Hamel in a return to De Nationale Opera Amsterdam. \r\n\r\nConcert highlights include Brahms\u2019 Ein deutsches Requiem with Rapha\u00ebl Pichon at La Seine Musicale in Paris and with Lorin Maazel and the Munich Philharmonic, Mahler\u2019s Symphony no 2 with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under Tugan Sokhiev in Toulouse and at the Philharmonie de Paris, Handel arias and Mozart\u2019s Requiem with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iv\u00e1n Fischer at the Hollywood Bowl and New York\u2019s Lincoln Center, Mahler\u2019s Symphony no 4, conducted by Teodor Currentzis, in Milan, St Petersburg, Munich and Budapest, return visits to the BBC PROMS in works by Handel with the Chineke! Orchestra and with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Richard Egarr, the Messiah with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Melbourne Symphony, Paert\u2019s Como cierva sedienta with Iv\u00e1n Fischer and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Mahler\u2019s Symphony no 8 with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic as well as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop at the Ravinia Festival. \r\n\r\nMs De Bique holds a Master degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Her awards include First prize at the Young Concert Artists, Inc Music Competition, the Arleen Auger Prize at the Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition, Third Prize in the Viotti International Music Competition. She was a prize winner at the Gerda Lissner Vocal Competition (New York), a finalist and study grant award recipient of the 2011 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and received a study grant from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation. She is a recipient of the Youth Ambassador for Peace, awarded by the National Commission of UNESCO, Trinidad and Tobago.  \r\n\r\nPhoto: Jeanine De Bique<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/jeanine-de-bique-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterJ\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/joerg-halubek-2-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/joerg-halubek-2-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8185_Joerg-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Schwarz-wei\u00dfes Portr\u00e4t von Organist und Dirigent J\u00f6rg Halubek. Sitzende Pose mit nachdenklichem Blick.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/joerg-halubek-2-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>J\u00f6rg Halubek<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>J\u00f6rg Halubek studierte Kirchenmusik, Orgel und Cembalo in Stuttgart und Freiburg bei Jon Laukvik und Robert Hill. An der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis spezialisierte er sich bei Jesper Christensen und Andrea Marcon auf die historische Auff\u00fchrungspraxis.\r\n\r\n2004 gewann er als Organist den Ersten Preis des XIV. Internationalen Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Wettbewerbs in Leipzig. Es folgten zahlreiche internationale Engagements, u.a. eine Japan- und Korea-Tournee mit dem Stuttgarter Kammerorchesters 2007 bei dem er mit Bachs Cembalokonzert in d-moll deb\u00fctierte, sowie zahlreiche Auftritte bei renommierten Festivals. Darunter waren Einladungen zum Bachfest Leipzig, der Bachwoche Ansbach \u2013 zuletzt 2021, wo er zusammen mit dem Intendanten Andreas Bomba musikalische Gespr\u00e4chsformate gestaltete \u2013 oder der Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik \u2013 zuletzt 2021 mit einem Programm ankn\u00fcpfend an sein 2020 gestarteten Organ Landscape-Projekts.\r\n\r\nIn Stuttgart spielte er im Fr\u00fchjahr 2007 s\u00e4mtliche Orgelwerke Bachs an vierzehn aufeinander folgenden Sonntagen in der Gaisburger Kirche und war mit dem weltber\u00fchmten Stuttgarter Ballett als Solist bei zahlreichen Produktionen zu erleben: U.a. 2021 in Roland Petits LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT mit Bachs Passacaglia sowie 2016 zusammen mit dem Staatsorchester Stuttgart in Glen Tetleys VOLUNTARIES mit Poulencs Orgelkonzert.\r\nZudem trat J\u00f6rg Halubek in den letzten Jahren als \u201eMaestro al Cembalo\u201c in Erscheinung. Neben Gastdirigaten an der Komischen Oper Berlin, regelm\u00e4\u00dfigen Engagements am Nationaltheater Mannheim und am Staatstheater Kassel, war er mit seinem Barockorchester \u201eil Gusto Barocco\u201c 2019 bei der Bachwoche Ansbach als Festspielorchester geladen. Mit diesem gr\u00fcndete er 2020 die Stuttgarter Festwoche Barock.\r\n\r\nSeine Expertise im Umgang mit Alter Musik belegen die preisgekr\u00f6nten Einspielungen von Werken f\u00fcr Tasteninstrumente und Violine Johann Sebastian Bachs (2016) und Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachs (2014) mit der Barockgeigerin Leila Schayegh. An der Staatlichen Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Stuttgart ist J\u00f6rg Halubek seit 2016 Professor f\u00fcr Orgel und Historische Tasteninstrumente.\r\n\r\n\r\nPhoto: Marco Borggreve\r\n\r\n\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/joerg-halubek-2-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterJ\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/juri-vallentin-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/juri-vallentin-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/3119217\/12771_Juri_Valentin_Selects_049__C__Maximilian_Koenig-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Oboist Juri Vallentin. Stehend, in die Ferne blickend, in dunklem Pullover vor buntem Studiohintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/juri-vallentin-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Juri Vallentin<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Oboist Juri Vallentin zeichnet sich durch eine permanente Suche nach neuen Ausdrucksformen und Erz\u00e4hlweisen f\u00fcr sein Instrument aus und erspielt sich dadurch einen herausragenden Platz unter den jungen Solist:innen. Sein Ziel ist die immer neue Entwicklung eines zeitgem\u00e4\u00dfen Kontexts f\u00fcr klassische Musik vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart.\r\n\r\nPreistr\u00e4ger gro\u00dfer internationaler Wettbewerbe, wie dem XVI. Internationalen Tschaikowsky-Wettbewerb St. Petersburg als erster Oboist, dem Deutschen Musikwettbewerb oder dem International Oboe Competition of Japan, konzertierte er als Solist u. a. mit dem MDR Sinfonieorchester, dem Mariinsky-Orchester St. Petersburg, dem Beethoven-Orchester Bonn, dem Nieders\u00e4chsischen Staatsorchester Hannover, Musikkollegium Winterthur, dem Brandenburgischen Staatsorchester Frankfurt sowie dem M\u00fcnchner Kammerorchester. 2021 gewann er den Berlin Prize for Young Artists kuratiert vom VAN-Magazin f\u00fcr neue Konzertformate junger Solist:innen mit seiner gemeinsam mit Regisseur Neil Barry Moss entwickelten Soloperformance INNER VOICES.\r\n\r\nSein Deb\u00fctalbum BRIDGES mit Musik aus f\u00fcnf Jahrhunderten sowie zahlreiche Rundfunkproduktionen f\u00fcr den BR, SWR oder dem Deutschlandfunk dokumentieren seine k\u00fcnstlerische Arbeit. 2022 erscheint sein zweites Album EBENBILD, das Musik und Literatur kombiniert und sich in Form und Interpretation an fr\u00fchbarocker Lyrik orientiert.\r\n\r\nNeben dem klassischen Kernrepertoire f\u00fcr Oboe von Vivaldi, Bach oder H\u00e4ndel \u00fcber Mozart bis Strauss, Martin\u016f und Zimmermann widmet er sich mit gro\u00dfer Leidenschaft der Zusammenarbeit mit zeitgen\u00f6ssischen Komponist:innen. Juri Vallentin hat zahlreiche Ur- und nationale Erstauff\u00fchrungen von Toshio Hosokawa, Gilles Silvestrini oder Andr\u00e1s Hamary gespielt und begeistert sich f\u00fcr die Wiederentdeckung wertvoller vergessener Musik f\u00fcr sein Instrument von u. a. Johann Christoph Pez, Charles Bochsa oder \u00c9lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre.\r\n\r\nGeboren in Mainz, studierte er in N\u00fcrnberg und am renommierten Conservatoire de Paris, wo er mit h\u00f6chster Auszeichnung abschloss. 2021 wurde Juri Vallentin als Professor f\u00fcr Oboe an die Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Karlsruhe berufen.\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/juri-vallentin-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterK\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/konstantin-reinfeld-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/konstantin-reinfeld-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/3061533\/12723_c_Steven_Haberland_Duo1__1_-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Auf dem Bild sieht man das Dou Konstantin Reinfeld und Benyamin Nuss. Sie sitzen in einem Kino, tragen sch\u00f6ne Anz\u00fcge und wirken cool.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/konstantin-reinfeld-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Konstantin Reinfeld<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Der Mundharmonikaspieler Konstantin Reinfeld geh\u00f6rt zu den pr\u00e4genden Stimmen seines Instruments im internationalen Konzertleben. Mit seinem lyrischen Ton und einer klaren musikalischen Handschrift f\u00fchrt er die Mundharmonika in den Konzertsaal und etabliert sie als ausdrucksstarkes Soloinstrument zwischen klassischer, zeitgen\u00f6ssischer und genre\u00fcbergreifender Musik.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n2019 wurde Reinfeld mit dem Opus Klassik ausgezeichnet, dem wichtigsten Preis der klassischen Musik in Deutschland.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSeine Konzerte f\u00fchrten ihn zu internationalen Kulturereignissen wie der Expo 2020 in Dubai und der Expo 2025 in Osaka sowie in renommierte Konzerth\u00e4user wie das Concertgebouw Amsterdam und die K\u00f6lner Philharmonie.\r\n\r\n\u200b\r\n\r\nAls Solist arbeitete er mit Orchestern wie der Staatskapelle Weimar, der NDR Radiophilharmonie und dem WDR Funkhausorchester zusammen und interpretierte sowohl etabliertes Repertoire als auch neue Kompositionen.\r\n\r\n\u200b\r\n\r\nEine zentrale k\u00fcnstlerische Zusammenarbeit ist sein Duo mit dem Pianisten Benyamin Nuss, mit dem er international Programme zwischen klassischem Repertoire, Jazz und zeitgen\u00f6ssischer Musik pr\u00e4sentiert.\r\n\r\n\u200b\r\n\r\nNeben seiner T\u00e4tigkeit im klassischen Konzertbetrieb bewegt sich Reinfeld auch in internationalen Jazz-, Pop- und Global-Music-Kontexten. Er arbeitete unter anderem mit Nathan East, China Moses und Parov Stelar zusammen und trat gemeinsam mit dem marokkanischen Popstar Saad Lamjarred vor \u00fcber 320.000 Menschen auf.\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/konstantin-reinfeld-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterL\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/leia-zhu-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/leia-zhu-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/11319_Leia_Zhu_4222___2021_Kevin_Day_Photography-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Schwarz-wei\u00dfes Portr\u00e4t von Geigerin Leia Zhu. Nahaufnahme beim Violinspiel mit direktem Blick zur Kamera.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/leia-zhu-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Leia Zhu<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>British violinist Leia Zhu was born in October 2006.  At the age of four, she made her solo debut in the North East Last Night of the Proms in Newcastle City Hall in front of thousands. Since then, Leia has performed with eminent ensembles and orchestras across the globe. \r\n\r\nBy the age of 12, she had performed at some of the most prestigious concert halls in more than 18 countries; at the same age in 2019, Leia became the youngest artist to be managed by the London-based global agent HarrisonParrott.\r\nAt the age of 14, Leia was appointed Artist-in-Residence with the London Mozart Players in 2021. She embeds herself within the orchestra, performing as a featured soloist, leading play\/direct programmes and in chamber music. Leia also plays a crucial role in the orchestra\u2019s community residencies in Croydon and Hastings, inspiring and motivating her peers through educational projects.\r\n\r\nDuring the pandemic, in August 2021, Leia was invited to perform Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Saint-Sa\u00ebns with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle at BMW Classics. Thousands of audiences in London Trafalgar Square watched the performance live while it was spontaneously live-streamed worldwide.\r\nIn December 2021, Zhu joined the Irish band Westlife in their WeChat live stream with 27 million views by performing a violin solo in \u2018You Raise Me Up\u2019.\r\n\r\nPhoto: (c)<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/leia-zhu-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterL\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/lilit-grigoryan-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/lilit-grigoryan-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/3192729\/11741_Adobe_Express_-_file-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Pianistin Lilit Grigoryan. K\u00fcnstlerische Inszenierung mit Dominosteinen auf spiegelnder Oberfl\u00e4che vor dunklem Hintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/lilit-grigoryan-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Lilit Grigoryan<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>The pianist Lilit Grigoryan, who is distinguished by her abundant strength and a clear, assertive musical language, is one of the outstanding artists of her generation. She is highly praised by the press for her \u201ebeyond-her-years performance\" (BBC Music Magazine) and is referred to as \"bright spot in the field of interchangeable pianism\" (MDR Kultur).\r\n\r\nLilit has toured across the globe and performs in venues including the Philharmonie Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Essen, Konzerthaus Berlin, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie de Paris, BOZAR in Brussels, Palau de la M\u00fasica Catalana and Steinway Halls in New York, London and Hamburg.\r\n\r\nAs a soloist, Lilit performs with numerous orchestras and makes appearances at various prestigious festivals including Schleswig Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Verbier, Gezeitenkonzerte, Kultursommer Nordhessen, Colmar, Krzyzowa - Music. \r\n\r\nLilit is also a devoted chamber musician and collaborates with artists including Maria Jo\u00e3o Pires, Viviane Hagner, Claudio Bohorquez, Valeriy Sokolov, Karolina Errera. Lilit considers her most important teachers to have been Arkuhi Harutyunyan, Sergei Sarajyan, later Matthias Kirschnereit at the Rostock University of Music and Drama and Maria Jo\u00e3o Pires. There is still an intense and inspiring collaboration with Maria Jo\u00e3o.\r\n\r\nIn 2008, Lilit received the prestigious Culture Prize of President of Armenia; she was also awarded honors by the Mayor of the City of Yerevan. \r\n\r\nLilit has been a Yamaha artist since April 2023.\r\n\r\nLilit Grigoryan is teaching at the Rostock University of Music and Drama.\r\n\r\n#Youtube: PLQt6ev5eI6q9sZjG7LBw07yb1ruKPpOyd<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/lilit-grigoryan-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterL\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ludwig-guettler-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ludwig-guettler-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8509_Ludwig_Guettler_August_Stark-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Trompeter und Dirigent Ludwig G\u00fcttler. Nahaufnahme mit Trompete in den H\u00e4nden vor blauem Hintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ludwig-guettler-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Ludwig G\u00fcttler<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>The trumpeter, conductor, musicologist and ensemble founder Ludwig G\u00fcttler is one of the most versatile and important German artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. He founded the Virtuosi Saxoniae ensemble comprising members of the S\u00e4chsische Staatskapelle, the Leipzig Bach Collegium and the Ludwig G\u00fcttler Brass Ensemble. He has been a pioneer of Dresden\u2019s musical tradition, not just the Baroque, and has rediscovered many forgotten composers, performing their works again for the first time in many years. G\u00fcttler conducts and plays J.S. Bach \u2018s Christmas Oratorio and Passions and his Brandenburg Concertos as well as such diverse works as Mozart\u2019s symphonies and Haydn\u2019s cello concertos (with Jan Vogler), not to mention other works by Haydn and by Reger, Hindemith, Honegger and contemporary composers. His repertoire of the trumpet literature ranges from the 16th century to the present day. He is a pioneer of the corno da caccia, an instrument which for some time had fallen out of favour and which he has championed for decades, thereby enhancing his excellent reputation. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, G\u00fcttler was active in West Germany as the principal founder of the music festival in Hitzacker. He continues to this day to head the Sandstein &amp; Musik Festival in the hilly region south of Dresden known as the \u201cSwitzerland of Saxony\u201d and the eastern Erzgebirge (ore mountains). Ludwig G\u00fcttler also made a name for himself as a pioneer in the rebuilding of the world-famous Dresden Frauenkirche destroyed in 1945 by an Allied bombing raid. By staging numerous concerts and making appeals for donations he was able to collect enough money for the reconstruction of the church. Without his commitment the Baroque hallmark of Dresden would surely not have been restored over 10 years ago to its former glory in the heart of the city.\r\n\r\nPhoto: August Stark<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ludwig-guettler-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterL\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ludwig-mittelhammer-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ludwig-mittelhammer-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/8254_Ludwig_Mittelhammer-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"K\u00fcnstlerisches Portr\u00e4t von Bariton Ludwig Mittelhammer. Dunkle Kleidung mit r\u00f6tlicher Lichtstimmung und Spiegelung im Hintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ludwig-mittelhammer-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Ludwig Mittelhammer<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>German baritone Ludwig Mittelhammer received an early musical training as a boy soprano at the renowned T\u00f6lzer Boys Choir. From 2009-2015, he studied at the Musikhochschule in Munich with Frieder Lang and Michelle Breedt. In addition, he participated in masterclasses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Brigitte Fassbaender and Edith Wiens. \r\nHaving been awarded first prize at the International Hugo Wolf Song Competition in Stuttgart in October 2014, Mr Mittelhammer became a member of Frankfurt Opera in the 2015\/16 season and at N\u00fcrnberg Opera from 2016-2018. His operatic roles include Nardo (La Finta Giardiniera), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Danilo (Die lustige Witwe), Schaunard (La Boh\u00e8me), Papageno (Magic Flute) and Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus).\r\nConcert engagements in recent seasons include performances with Bamberger Symphoniker, Munich Radio Orchestra, a tour with Concerto K\u00f6ln (St. Matthew Passion), Mahler songs with the Orchestre de Paris under Jaap van Zweden, and Schumann\u2019s \u2018Paradies und die Peri\u2019 with the Swedish Radio Symphony under Daniel Harding.\r\nHighlights of the 2018\/19 season include his debut as Harlekin in \u201aAriadne auf Naxos\u2018 with the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-M\u00f6st, Haydn\u2019s Nelson Mass with Orquesta Nacional de Espa\u00f1a under David Afkham, concerts with Zurich Sing-Akademie, as well as a European tour with Collegium Vocale Gent and Akademie f\u00fcr Alte Musik Berlin.\r\nDevoted to the Art of Lieder, Mr Mittelhammer made his recital debuts at London Wigmore Hall and Cologne Philharmonie in 2017. In the current season, he will be giving a number of song recitals together with his pianist Jonathan Ware at Essen Philharmonie, Munich Bayerischer Rundfunk, Kissinger Sommer Festival and at the Auditori in Barcelona, among others.\r\nHis first solo album with songs by Schubert, Medtner and Wolf is due for release with Berlin Classics in spring 2019.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Gregor Hohenberg<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ludwig-mittelhammer-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterL\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/luisa-imorde-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/luisa-imorde-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8255_Luisa_Imorde-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Schwarz-wei\u00dfes Portr\u00e4t von Pianistin Luisa Imorde. Seitlich gedrehte Pose vor hellem, minimalistischem Hintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/luisa-imorde-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Luisa Imorde<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>\u201eLuisa Imorde verbindet eine ausgereifte Spieltechnik mit unb\u00e4ndiger Leidenschaft f\u00fcr St\u00fcck und Instrument zu einem Klangerlebnis, das den Geist entz\u00fcndet und das Herz entflammt.\u201c \u2013 so die S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung \u00fcber das Klavierspiel der jungen deutschen Pianistin.\r\nSie teilt sich die B\u00fchne mit K\u00fcnstlern wie Martha Argerich, Fazil Say oder Marie-Luise Neunecker und arbeitet regelm\u00e4\u00dfig mit dem Komponisten J\u00f6rg Widmann zusammen. Ihre Studien absolvierte sie an der Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik K\u00f6ln und am Mozarteum Salzburg in der Klasse von Jacques Rouvier. Die Pianistin spielte Wettbewerbe und gewann Preise, doch viel mehr interessiert sie sich daf\u00fcr, die Werke verschiedener Komponisten gegen\u00fcber zu stellen mit dem erkl\u00e4rten Ziel, sie dem Publikum auf neuartige Weise h\u00f6rbar zu machen und Beziehungen aufzuzeigen, die verborgen zu sein schienen.\r\n\r\nSo bereits auf ihrem ersten Album \u201eZirkust\u00e4nze\u201c mit Werken von J\u00f6rg Widmann und Robert Schumann: \u201cLuisa Imorde zeigt sich als herausragendes Talent, das bei dem raffiniert konzipierten Programm genau den richtigen Ton trifft\u201c, schrieb das FONO FORUM und zeichnete ihr Deb\u00fct-Album mit dem \u201eStern des Monats\u201c aus. Zudem wurden die \u201cZirkust\u00e4nze\u201d CD-Tipp von SWR2 und \u201cCD des Monats\u201d der STEREO 9\/16.\r\n\r\nMit ihrem Album \u201eL\u2019affaire d\u2019honneur\u201c (Februar 2019) er\u00f6ffnet die K\u00fcnstlerin ihre exklusive Zusammenarbeit mit dem Edel-Label Berlin Classics. Die Pr\u00e4sentation der Einspielung fand \u00fcbrigens am Originalschauplatz des Klavierduells zwischen Joseph Woelfl und Ludwig van Beethoven in der Villa Xaipe am Sch\u00f6nbrunner Schlosspark statt.\r\n\r\n\u00dcberraschen konnte die junge Musikerin bei der Internationalen Mozartwoche Salzburg mit der \u00f6sterreichischen Erstauff\u00fchrung zweier Klavierkonzerte von Eliott Carter. Sie gl\u00e4nzte zudem mit der erfolgreichen Auff\u00fchrung von J\u00f6rg Widmanns Klavierkonzert \u201cTrauermarsch\u201d gemeinsam mit dem WDR-Symphonieorchester K\u00f6ln als Einspringerin f\u00fcr Yefim Bronfman in der K\u00f6lner Philharmonie.\r\n\r\nIn der kommenden Saison 2021\/22 wird Luisa Imorde unter anderem im Konzerthaus Wien, in der Elbphilharmonie Hamburg und mit Pendereckis Klavierkonzert \u201cAuferstehung\u201d in Salzburg zu h\u00f6ren sein.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Stefan Schilling\r\n\r\n\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/luisa-imorde-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterM\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/mari-kodama-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/mari-kodama-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/8256_Mari_Kodama-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Pianistin Mari Kodama. Nahaufnahme mit verschr\u00e4nkten H\u00e4nden und freundlichem Ausdruck vor dunklem Hintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/mari-kodama-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Mari Kodama<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Mari Kodama is consistently praised for her virtuosity in a wide range of repertoire, including orchestral, chamber and solo works by composers of all periods. She is also known for her natural musicality, tonal expressiveness with a clear form, and as a benchmark Beethoven interpreter.\r\n\r\nIn the 2021\/22 season, Mari Kodama will once again showcase her diverse talents with various international concert appearances, such as with the Philharmonic Orchestra Bremerhaven under Marc Niemann performing Beethoven\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 0 and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra under Krzysztof Urba\u0144ski performing Beethoven\u2019s Second Piano Concerto. Highlights of the season include the concert with the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg conducted by Kent Nagano with pianists Paul Lewis and Till Fellner in honor of Alfred Brendel, who was the teacher of all the soloists, the world premiere of Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier\u2019s new piano concerto Terra Nostra with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Kent Nagano at the Berlin Philharmonie, the performances of Beethoven Project II with the ballet John Neumeier at the Hamburg State Opera, and the Beethoven Festival \u201ca life in a Day\u201d in San Francisco, which she organized, presenting all 32 of Beethoven\u2019s piano sonatas over two days by 10 to 12 soloists.\r\n\r\nBeethoven\u2019s piano works form a focal point of Mari Kodama\u2019s recording activities, and her interpretations have become standard-setting. She is one of few female pianists to record the composer\u2019s complete sonatas. Her 2014 boxed set release (Pentatone) of these pieces received critical acclaim. In fall 2019 she released Beethoven\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 0 WoO 4, which together with his Rondo for piano and orchestra WoO 6 and his \u201cEroica\u201d Variations for piano solo op. 35 complement the Beethoven CD \u2013 Box with all of Beethoven\u2019s piano concertos as well as the Triple Concerto together with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Kent Nagano (Berlin Classics).\r\n\r\nMari Kodama has been working with Pentatone for many years. Her latest CD release on the label is the Duo CD MON AMI, Mon amour \u2013 French Repertoire for Cello and Piano with Matt Haimovitz and works by Francis Poulenc, Gabriel Faur\u00e9, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Darius Milhaudso. In Spring 2020 Pentatone released Kaleidoscope: Beethoven Transcriptions, consisting of Beethoven string quartets transcribed for piano by Saint-Sa\u00ebns, Mussorgsky and Balakirev, as well as Beethoven\u2019s variations on the finale of Mozart\u2019s Clarinet Quintet. Previous releases show her broad repertoire, such as the CD with Martin\u016fs Concert for two pianos and orchestra, together with Momo Kodama and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille under Lawrence Foster, released in 2018. In 2016 Mari Kodama published arrangements for two pianos of Tchaikovsky\u2019s popular ballets The Nutcracker (Arr. Anton Arenski \u2013 first recording), Sleeping Beauty (Arr. Sergei Rachmaninov) and Swan Lake (Arr. Eduard Leontyevich Langer, Claude Debussy) with Momo Kodama. Mari Kodama\u2019s discography also includes piano concertos by Chopin and Loewe with the Russian National Orchestra (Pentatone) and Prokofiev\u2019s piano concertos No. 1 and 3 as well as his piano sonata No. 7 with the Philharmonia Orchestra (ASV).\r\n\r\nSince her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 1995, Mari Kodama has performed with renowned orchestras and conductors in the world\u2019s leading concert halls. She has played with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony Orchestra or Orchestre symphonique de Montr\u00e9al. In her native Japan, she has played with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and the symphony orchestras of Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Osaka, among others. Mari Kodama\u2019s festival appearances include the Verbier Festival, the Festival International de Piano La Roque d\u2019Antheron, the Aldeburgh Festival of Music, Mostly Mozart in New York City, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and Kissinger Sommer.\r\n\r\nThrough her performing activities, Mari Kodama has brought infrequently heard gems of the piano repertoire to global audiences. She has performed Stenhammer\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2 in Gothenburg and New York and has also collaborated with Viviane Hagner on Alban Berg\u2019s Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin, which they performed with both the Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 Sinfonia and the DSO Berlin. Additionally, in 2013 Mari Kodama premiered Jean-Pascal Beinthus\u2019 Double Piano Concerto together with Momo Kodama and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo. Mari Kodama also performed in the Canada premieres of J\u00f6rg Widmann\u2019s Valse Bavaroise and Humoresken, both at the Canadian Orford Festival in summer 2010.\r\n\r\nIn addition to her performances, Mari Kodama also plays an active role as a music festival artistic director. She co-founded the Forest Hill Musical Days festival, a chamber music festival in San Francisco, with her husband Kent Nagano, and she has also led the chamber music series at the Orford Music Festival. In 2018 she assumed artistic directorship at the festival Tra Luce e Sogno in Postignano, Italy, for which she won artists such as Christian Gerhaher, Matt Haimowitz and Gerold Huber, among others.\r\n\r\nThe past seasons saw Mari Kodama achieve critical praise for her worldwide performances. Highlights included Beethoven\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Schoenberg\u2019s Piano Concerto with the SWR Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano in Stuttgart and Freiburg; duo concerts with Momo Kodama in Paris, Japan, Hungary and Germany with works by Mozart, Adams, E\u00f6tv\u00f6s, Stravinsky, Ravel, Debussy, Bizet and Tchaikovsky; as well as a recital with Vadim Repin at Montreal\u2019s Viree Classique Festival.\r\n\r\nMari Kodama was born in Osaka and raised in Germany and Paris. At the Conservatoire National in Paris, she studied piano with Germaine Mounier and chamber music with Genevieve Joy-Dutilleux. She has also worked with Tatiana Nikolaeva and Alfred Brendel. Mari Kodama was appointed as a Steinway Artist.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Sergio Veranes<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/mari-kodama-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterM\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/marina-baranova-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/marina-baranova-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/1105305\/8275_20171031_Marina_Baranova_0741end-3-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait von Pianistin und Komponistin Marina Baranova in halbnaher Ganzk\u00f6rperansicht, sie steht im wei\u00dfen Hemd und schwarzer Hose vor hellem Hintergrund; frontale Perspektive, weiches Studiolicht und klare, reduzierte Komposition.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/marina-baranova-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Marina Baranova<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Born into a musical family in Ukraine, Marina Baranova began playing the piano when she was five years old. Just two years later, she was accepted into a music school for talented children in her home town of Kharkov. At age 11, Marina won first prize at the International Competition for Young Pianists in Ukraine, which preceded her first international concert tour in Finland.\r\n\r\nIn the late 90's she moved to Germany to begin studying with Professor Vladimir Krainev at the University for Music, Theatre and Media in Hannover. Throughout her studies in Hannover, she won at least one internationally renowned competition every year. Marina still resides in Hannover, her base with which she returns from international tours across famous concert halls in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Poland, Israel, Latin America and Thailand.<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/marina-baranova-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterM\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/mario-haering-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/mario-haering-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/2057557\/12230_MarioHaering___ZuzannaSpecjal-6quadrat-2-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Pianist Mario H\u00e4ring. Seitliche Aufnahme mit Spiegelungen und unscharfen Lichtreflexen in moderner Bildsprache.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/mario-haering-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Mario H\u00e4ring<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Mario H\u00e4ring was born in November 1989 in Hanover, Germany and grew up in Berlin. Descending from a German-Japanese family of musicians, he gained first experiences with the piano and violin at the young age of three years and in 1994 took up his first piano lessons. Even before finishing high school, he became a student of Professor Fabio Bidini at the Julius-Stern-Institute of the University of the Arts Berlin and of Prof. Karl-Heinz K\u00e4mmerling at HMTM Hanover. It was also with Prof. K\u00e4mmerling and Prof. Lars Vogt that Mario H\u00e4ring completed his studies, which he finished in 2017 with the highest grade.\r\n\r\nHe gained special recognition at the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition by winning the 2nd prize as well as the inaugural Yaltah Menuhin Award for the best chamber music performance.\r\n\r\nIn the year 2003 Mario H\u00e4ring gave his orchestral debut at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. Since then, his concert activities led him to renowned halls such as Konzerthaus Berlin, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Wigmore Hall in London, the The\u00e2tre des Champs-Elys\u00e9es and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He was a guest at major festivals such as the Festival La Roque d\u2019Anth\u00e9ron, the Schwetzinger Festival, the Kissinger Sommer and the festival \u201cSpannungen\u201d in Heimbach. In spring 2017 he was the first \u201cIntendant in residence\u201d of the newly founded festival \u201c:alpenarte\u201d in Schwarzenberg, Austria. Concert engagements led him through Europe, Asia and the USA.\r\n\r\nHis chamber music partners include Sharon Kam, Soyoung Yoon, Pablo Barrag\u00e1n, Kian Soltani and Emmanuel Tjeknavorian.\r\n\r\nHe is a founding member of the Bawandi Trio (with Patrick Hollich \u2013 Clarinet and Alexandre Castro-Balbi \u2013 Cello) and the Capybara Piano Quartet (Shuichi Okada \u2013 Violin, Takehiro Konoe \u2013 Viola, Minjoung Kim \u2013 Cello) with whom he won first prize at the 2023 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition.\r\n\r\nIn the past seasons, Mario H\u00e4ring has performed regularly in the major European concert halls, where he gave concerts with cellist Kian Soltani as well as with oboist Cristina G\u00f3mez Godoy and violist Sara Ferr\u00e1ndez as part of the ECHO \"Rising Stars\" series.\r\n\r\nHis discography now includes three solo albums and five chamber music albums. For the album \u201cR\u00f8ta\u201d, he was awarded the Opus Klassik 2021 together with violinist Ragnhild Hemsing and cellist Benedict Kl\u00f6ckner.\r\n\r\nOn his latest album \u201cEXTASE\u201d, released by Berlin Classics, he explores the emotions of an imaginary Berlin techno weekend through works by Debussy, Liszt, Connesson, Scriabin, Cage, Rachmaninoff and Wagner.<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/mario-haering-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterM\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/matthias-hoefs-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/matthias-hoefs-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/1060135\/8258_Matthias_Hoefs-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Trompeter Matthias H\u00f6fs. Stehend im Anzug mit Fl\u00fcgelhorn vor hellem Fensterlicht.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/matthias-hoefs-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Matthias H\u00f6fs<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>When he was six years old, Matthias Hoefs declared the trumpet \u201chis instrument, because it shines so nicely\u201d. He received his musical education from Professor Peter Kallensee at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, and from Professor Konradin Groth at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. When just 18 years of age, he was engaged as Solo-Trumpeter at the Philharmonic State Orchestra in Hamburg, where he enjoyed the fascinating world of opera for 16 years. At the same time, Hoefs became a member of the GERMAN BRASS Ensemble, with whom he continues to achieve worldwide success. Since their first joint concert in 1985, he writes for himself and his colleagues tailored arrangements which span more then one genre and continue to inspire the world of Brass. Matthias Hoefs has always shown a pioneering spirit, and thus has consistently widened the horizon of his instrument, either by close cooperation with other composers, who feel themselves inspired by his incomparable virtuosity and joy of experimentation, or as \u201ctrumpet ambassador\u201d in his home state of SchleswigHolstein in northern Germany, or in cooperation with the instrument makers Max and Heinrich Thein. Since the year 2000, Matthias Hoefs has been teaching as Professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, were he inspires his students with great enthusiasm, knowing how to pass on his passion for his instrument. In addition to his extensive concert performances as solo-trumpeter and chamber musician, Hoefs has produced numerous Solo CDs, and jointly with GERMAN BRASS, more than 20 recordings. In October 2016 GERMAN BRASS was awarded with the ECHO Klassik \u2013 one of the most outstanding awards for national and international musicians.\r\n\r\n\r\nPhoto: Sibylle Zettler<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/matthias-hoefs-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterM\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/matthias-kirschnereit-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/matthias-kirschnereit-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/283706\/8512_Matthias_Kirschnereit-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Pianist Matthias Kirschnereit am Fl\u00fcgel. Dunkle Konzertatmosph\u00e4re mit warmem B\u00fchnenlicht und Fokus auf die H\u00e4nde am Klavier.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/matthias-kirschnereit-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Matthias Kirschnereit<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Matthias Kirschnereit z\u00e4hlt heute zu den spannendsten und erfolgreichsten deutschen Pianisten seiner Generation. Der ECHO Klassik-Preistr\u00e4ger gibt j\u00e4hrlich etwa 60 Konzerte und wird von der S\u00fcddeutschen Zeitung als \u201ePoet am Klavier\u201c gefeiert. \r\nMatthias Kirschnereit konzertierte mit f\u00fchrenden Klangk\u00f6rpern wie dem Tonhalle Orchester Z\u00fcrich, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Het Residentie Orkest Den Haag, dem SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart unter Dirigenten wie Hartmut Haenchen, Bruno Weil, Christopher Hogwood, Carl St. Clair, S\u00e1ndor V\u00e9gh, Frank Beermann, Yuri Temirkanov, Jan Willem de Vriend und Alondra de la Parra. \r\nSeine Konzerte sind in den bedeutendsten Musikzentren der Welt zu erleben u.a. in Berlin, M\u00fcnchen, Paris, Z\u00fcrich, Mailand, Chile, Tokio oder Shanghai. Seine besondere Liebe gilt der Kammermusik mit Partnern wie Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Daniel M\u00fcller-Schott, Felix Klieser, Carolin Widmann, Nils M\u00f6nkemeyer.\r\nMatthias Kirschnereit studierte bei Prof. Renate Kretschmar-Fischer. Zus\u00e4tzliche k\u00fcnstlerische Impulse erhielt er durch die intensive Zusammenarbeit mit Murray Perahia, Claudio Arrau, Bruno Leonardo Gelber und Oleg Maisenberg. Verschiedene Wettbewerbserfolge er\u00f6ffneten ihm Anfang der 1990er Jahre seine internationale Konzertkarriere.\r\nMittlerweile hat Matthias Kirschnereit \u00fcber 30 CDs ver\u00f6ffentlicht, darunter Ma\u00dfstab setzende Gesamteinspielungen der der Klavierkonzerte Mozarts und Mendelssohns. 2017 erschien seine j\u00fcngste CD \u201eFrei aber einsam\u201c mit Einspielungen von Brahms, darunter Zusammenarbeiten mit dem Amaryllis Quartett (Klavierquintett) und Lena Neudauer (Scherzo aus der F.A.E.-Sonate). Das Fono Forum bescheinigte der Aufnahme \u201eflammende Intensit\u00e4t\u201c und \u201eSuchtpotenzial\u201c.\r\nMatthias Kirschnereit ist Professor an der Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater Rostock. Seit 2012 ist er K\u00fcnstlerischer Leiter der Gezeitenkonzerte Ostfriesland \u2013 ein Festival unter Freunden, das von Jahr zu Jahr an Renommee gewinnt.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Maike Helbig\r\n\r\n\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/matthias-kirschnereit-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterM\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/max-volbers-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/max-volbers-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/3061471\/13203_cover_Max_Volbers____Andrej_Grilc_03-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait Bl\u00f6ckfl\u00f6tist Max Volbers, bei dem er den Kopf auf seinen H\u00e4nden abst\u00fctzt mit Fl\u00f6ten senkrecht im Vordergrund und durch Prisma gebrochene Lichteffekte.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/max-volbers-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Max Volbers<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>As a recorder player, harpsichordist and increasingly as an ensemble leader, Max Volbers is one of the most versatile young musicians in the field of early music. In the spirit of the sound worlds of the 17th and 18th centuries, in which musicians mastered several instruments without question, he illuminates the repertoire of early music from very different perspectives as a multi-instrumentalist.  He also devotes himself time and again to new music and regularly works with composers on commissioned compositions. He studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Dorothee Oberlinger, Walter van Hauwe, Reinhard Goebel and Florian Birsak. \r\n\r\nAs a prizewinner of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, among others, he is a welcome guest at the Verbier Festival, the Heidelberger Fr\u00fchling, the Sanssouci Music Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele and the Innsbrucker Festwochen. Deeply convinced that early music should not be the exclusive preserve of the \"original sound movement\", he plays equally with ensembles such as Concerto K\u00f6ln, La Cetra or the Contentus Musicus Wien as well as with \"modern\" orchestras such as the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the NDR Radiophilharmonie or the Musikkollegium Winterthur. He has been a guest in major halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Elbphilharmonie, the KKL Lucerne, the Casa da Musica Porto, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Konserthuset Stockholm, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Philharmonie de Paris or the M\u00dcPA Budapest. \r\n\r\nAs a conductor, he has worked with orchestras such as the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and soloists such as Olivia Vermeulen. In addition to his concert activities, Max teaches at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and at various master classes. \r\n\r\nHe received great support from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, the Ernsting foundation and the GWK M\u00fcnster (music award 2013 and GWKCordes scholarship). After numerous radio productions, his debut CD \"Whispers of Tradition\" was released by GENUIN in October 2022 and was enthusiastically received by the specialist press. For this CD he received the OPUS KLASSIK 2023 award in the category \"Young Artist of the Year\".<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/max-volbers-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterM\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/moritz-winkelmann-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/moritz-winkelmann-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/2961797\/12551_B_Moritz_Winkelmann_Selects_096_-_quadratisch-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Moritz Winkelmann steht im Raum und schaut in die Kamera, im Hintergrund ist ein Grand Piano\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/moritz-winkelmann-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Moritz Winkelmann<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>W\u00e4hrend die Stuttgarter Zeitung die \u201eenorme Ausdruckskraft\u201c in Moritz Winkelmanns Klavierspiel hervorhebt, bezeichnet ihn die Hildesheimer Zeitung als \u201ePianisten-pers\u00f6nlichkeit\u201c. Moritz Winkelmann geht einer regen internationalen Konzertt\u00e4tigkeit nach und ist Preistr\u00e4ger der Internationalen Telekom Beethoven Competition Bonn. Er musizierte unter anderem gemeinsam mit Itzhak Perlman, Arabella Steinbacher, dem Quatuor \u00c9b\u00e8ne, Helmut Lachenmann und Wolfram Christ und spielte als Solist mit dem Bonner Beethovenorchester, dem K\u00f6lner Kammerorchester, dem Kurpf\u00e4lzischen Kammerorchester und den New York Classical Players. \u00dcber seine Auff\u00fchrung des 2. Klavierkonzerts von Franz Liszt mit dem Orchester des Theaters f\u00fcr Niedersachsen schrieb die Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung: \u201eDie musikalische Intensit\u00e4t dieses Ausnahmek\u00fcnstlers l\u00e4sst die Komposition zu einem Klangkrimi vom Feinsten reifen.\u201c\r\n\r\nDerzeit spielt Moritz Winkelmann alle 32 Klaviersonaten von Ludwig van Beethoven ein. Im Mai 2024 ist die erste Edition bei Berlin Classics erschienen. Der gesamte Zyklus wird zum 200. Todestag Beethovens fertiggestellt sein. Eine Einspielung der drei letzten Sonaten von Ludwig van Beethoven sowie Helmut Lachenmanns Wiegenmusik und Marche Fatale ist bereits 2022 bei Haenssler Classic erschienen. \u201eWinkelmann scheint Beethoven von der gro\u00dfen Tradition loszul\u00f6sen, ihn quasi den \u00fcberlebensgro\u00dfen Interpreten wie Brendel, Barenboim, Kempff oder Buchbinder aus den H\u00e4nden zu rei\u00dfen, um ihn erneut frisch und frei gestalten und entdecken zu d\u00fcrfen. Das Resultat ist atemberaubend [\u2026]\u201c schreibt das Pizzicato-Magazin. Bei Fono Forum war das Album die Empfehlung des Monats: \u201eUngemein klangsch\u00f6n, mit schlankem modulationsf\u00e4higem und atmendem Ton dargeboten, erklingen diese Sonaten wie aus einem Gef\u00e4ngnis befreit, um ihre humane Botschaft einer seelisch zunehmend hilfebed\u00fcrftigeren Welt verk\u00fcnden zu k\u00f6nnen.\u201c Das Album erhielt Opus-Klassik-Nominierungen in den Kategorien \u201eInstrumentalist des Jahres\u201c, \u201eSolistische Einspielung des Jahres\u201c und \u201eNachwuchs-k\u00fcnstler des Jahres\u201c.\r\n\r\nSeinem 1. Preis beim Richard-Laugs-Wettbewerb in Mannheim folgte das Deb\u00fct beim Rheingau Musik Festival. Internationale Engagements f\u00fchrten ihn in die Carnegie Hall New York, die Beethovenhalle Bonn, die Slowakische Philharmonie Bratislava, den Mannheimer Rosengarten, die Stuttgarter Liederhalle und ins Beethovenhaus Bonn sowie zu den Schwetzinger Festspielen, dem Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, dem Ravinia Festival in Chicago und Music@Menlo in Kalifornien. Konzerttourneen f\u00fchren ihn neben Europa und die USA auch regelm\u00e4\u00dfig nach China und Japan. Rundfunkaufnahmen entstanden in Zusammenarbeit mit dem SWR Kultur, WDR, DR Kopenhagen, WBJC Baltimore Classical Radio und WFMT Chicago, Fernsehausstrahlungen beim ZDF. Zuletzt war Moritz Winkelmann bei SWR2 Treffpunkt Klassik extra, bei Deutschlandfunk Kultur und beim RONDO Podcast zu h\u00f6ren.\r\n\r\nNach dem Klavierunterricht bei seinem Gro\u00dfvater Prof. Gerhard Wilhelm absolvierte Moritz Winkelmann sein Grundstudium bei Prof. Michael Hauber an der Musikhochschule Mannheim. Anschlie\u00dfend studierte er als Stipendiat des DAAD und der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes am Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore beim legend\u00e4ren Leon Fleisher, wo er sein Studium mit Auszeichnung abschloss. Auf besondere Weise haben Ferenc Rados und Marisa Somma seine k\u00fcnstlerische Entwicklung gef\u00f6rdert.\r\n\r\nMoritz Winkelmann war Stipendiat der Kunststiftung Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, ist K\u00fcnstlerischer Leiter von Klassik im Kl\u00f6sterle in Weil der Stadt und Tr\u00e4ger des Mozart-Preises der Stuttgarter Mozart-Gesellschaft. 2021 erhielt Moritz Winkelmann zudem einen Ruf als Professor f\u00fcr Klavier an die Staatliche Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim. Seit dem Wintersemester 2024 ist er Professor f\u00fcr Klavier an der Musikhochschule Stuttgart. Er gibt international Meisterkurse und war Jurymitglied zahlreicher Wettbewerbe.\r\n\r\nCopyright photo: Maximilian K\u00f6nig\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/moritz-winkelmann-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterN\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/nikola-djoric-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/nikola-djoric-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8190_nd-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Akkordeonist Nikola Djoric mit Konzertakkordeon vor beleuchtetem Metro-Eingang in urbaner Umgebung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/nikola-djoric-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Nikola Djoric<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Vienna-based accordionist Nikola Djoric is considered one of the greatest talents in his field in Austria. Thanks to his great musical devotion and expression on stage, he has already been described as an \"accordion poet\" (Basellandschaftliche Zeitung).\r\nNikola Djoric studied with Svetlana Kravchenko, Jovica Djordjevic, and then Grzegorz Stopa at the Vienna Conservatory and graduated in 2013 with the Master of Arts.\r\n\r\nSince then he has set himself the task of clearing away old reservations about his instrument and rather inspiring new and never before perceived hues in works ranging from Bach to Beethoven, Mozart and Scarlatti with the sound spectrum of the accordion.\r\n\r\nIn various musical formations (among others with Ensemble Wien (Vienna Philharmonic), with cellist Ana Topalovic (Duo-Arcord) with Signum Saxophone Quartet as well with the singer Juliette Mars (Vienna State Opera) he performed on international stages, such as the Philharmonie in Cologne, Musikverein in Vienna and at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn and convinced both the audience and the critics of his musical excellence.\r\n\r\nHe also played with orchestras such as the \"Orchestra Classica St. Petersburg\", the \"Young Symphony Orchestra Moscow\", the \"Philharmonic Orchestra Irkutsk\" and the \"Upper Austrian Youth Symphony Orchestra\" under conductors such as Ilmar Lapinsch, Vasili Valitov, Alexander Vikulov, Vasilis Tziatzianis and Tobias W\u00f6gerer.\r\n\r\nImportant competitive achievements in his career are, among others, the first prize of the Fidelio University competition at Vienna Conservatory in 2009 and 2011. This competition offers high visibility in Austria and leads to numerous international engagements.\r\n\r\nContemporary music is also of great interest to him. He works with many composers and has performed premieres of works by Johanna Doderer, Akos Banlaky, Gabrielle Proy, Margareta Ferek-Petri\u0107, Armin Sanayei, Marc Frieden, Ricardo Tovar, Elzbieta Wiedner-Zajac, Adrian Artacho, Wen Liu, Alexander Chernyshikov and Lukas Neudinger.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Nancy Horowitz<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/nikola-djoric-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterP\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/pera-ensemble-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/pera-ensemble-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/623_PeraEnsemble_iTunes-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Gruppenportr\u00e4t des Pera Ensemble mit historischen Instrumenten wie Oud, Violoncello, Fl\u00f6ten und Perkussion vor ornamentaler Architektur.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/pera-ensemble-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Pera Ensemble<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Named after an Istanbul neighbourhood which has been home since antiquity to people from all cultures and religions, the Pera Ensemble was founded in 2005 by the Istanbul-born musicians Mehmet C. Yesil\u00e7ay and Ihsan \u00d6zer. In the 20 years of their musical collaboration as founding members of the Sarband and Ferahfeza ensembles and in formations like the Emre Ensemble, Concerto K\u00f6ln and Hesperion XXI, the two musicians gained a reputation both at home and abroad.\r\n\r\nThe Pera Ensemble combines the instrumental and vocal traditions of Ottoman court music on authentic instruments with European music of the past, based on musicological and historical research by the performing artists. The ensemble's wide-ranging make-up, always tailored to whatever repertoire is being performed, includes specialists in period performance practice. The Pera Ensemble has performed at many events, including the International Handel Festival in Halle, the Schwetzingen Music Festival and the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, and has made guest appearances at the philharmonic halls in Berlin and Cologne and the Konzerthaus in Dortmund, at Styriarte in Graz and the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, at the CRR in Istanbul and the Istanbul Festival and at many other concert venues.\r\nThe ensemble has so far released the following recordings: \"Harem \u2013 Les f\u00eates du Serail\" and the pasticcio \"Amor Oriental\" featuring music by Handel and some of his Turkish contemporaries. The Pera Ensemble has also produced a recording for younger listeners entitled \"Kaffee f\u00fcr den K\u00f6nig \u2013 ein musikalisches M\u00e4rchen mit Barockmusik aus Europa und der T\u00fcrkei\", a musical fairy tale with Baroque music from Europe and Turkey.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Emre Mollaoglu<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/pera-ensemble-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterP\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/peter-nagy-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/peter-nagy-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/8207_Peter-nagy-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Pianist P\u00e9ter Nagy. Sitzend auf einem Holzstuhl, den einen Arm auf der R\u00fcckenlehne abgelegt, vor schwarzem Hintergrund in zur\u00fcckhaltender Lichtstimmung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/peter-nagy-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>P\u00e9ter Nagy<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Photo: Neda Navaee<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/peter-nagy-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterR\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ragna-schirmer-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ragna-schirmer-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/626_RagnaSchirmer_iTunes-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Pianistin Ragna Schirmer. Elegante Pose vor historischer Wand mit hellen Naturt\u00f6nen.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ragna-schirmer-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Ragna Schirmer<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>With her unique interpretations, pianist Ragna Schirmer is held in high esteem, even beyond Germany\u2019s borders. Her artful way of nuancing, her attention to detail, and her passion for rediscovering well known and lesser known compositions and linking them to modern life \u2013 all these attributes distinguish Ragna Schirmer. She won the Leipzig International Bach Competition in 1992 and 1998 and made a remarkable album debut with Bach's Goldberg Variations. In 2009, she obtained her second ECHO Klassik award for her recording of George Frideric Handel's piano suites, which was highly praised by the critics, and in 2012, she was honoured with the Handel Prize of the city of Halle. 15 first prizes and special awards at national and international competitions are visible proof of the pianist\u2019s impressive career.\r\n\r\nA special passion of the pianist's is her study of Clara Wieck-Schumann, which has led, among other things, to the release of a CD entitled Liebe in Variationen (love in variations), to mark the 175th wedding anniversary of Clara and Robert in 2015; a recording of pieces which seem to echo the musical messages exchanged between Clara and Robert and their friend Johannes Brahms.\r\nRagna Schirmer's dramaturgic and programmatic skills, coupled with her lively presentations, make concerts an extraordinary experience. It is not surprising that the pianist is in theatre productions as well, written specifically for her.\r\n\r\nRagna Schirmer gives concerts in the biggest concert halls in Europe, China and New Zealand as well as at renowned festivals such as the \"Heidelberger Fr\u00fchling\" (artist in residence 2010), the Beethovenfest Bonn, the \"MDR-Musiksommer\" organised by Central German Broadcasting (MDR), the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt, and the Salzburg Festival. She has played together with Zubin Mehta, Sir Roger Norrington, Kurt Masur, Sir Neville Marriner, and Herbert Blomstedt, to name only a few, and has performed with orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, the Orchestre National de France, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Maike Helbig<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ragna-schirmer-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterR\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ragnhild-hemsing-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ragnhild-hemsing-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8336__E6A2227-4_sq-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Geigerin Ragnhild Hemsing in rotem Kleid. Mit Violine und Hardanger Fidel in jeweils einer Hand, stehend in spektakul\u00e4rer Berg- und Fjordlandschaft.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ragnhild-hemsing-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Ragnhild Hemsing<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Ragnhild Hemsing stands out amongst the rising stars in Norway as a remarkably poised artist.\r\n\r\nHer unique upbringing, deeply immersed in the rich folk music traditions of Norway, enables her to be one of the first artists to successfully merge the instantly identifiable characteristics of Norwegian folk music and classical performance in a young, fresh and entirely contemporary fashion.\r\nAt only 14 years of age Ragnhild made her debut performing the Mendelssohn Concerto with both, the Bergen Philharmonic and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. Since then she has performed with all major Norwegian orchestras.\r\n\r\nShe supplements her large repertoire of standard solo classical works for violin with more unusual and complex works written for the Hardanger Fiddle.\r\nThe 2020\/21 season marks the beginning of Ragnhild Hemsing's exclusive collaboration with the CD Label Berlin Classics. Her debut album at Berlin Classics will be recorded as a co-production with WDR (West German Broadcasting Cologne) at the end of August 2020 and released in early 2021. Together with pianist Mario H\u00e4ring and cellist Benedict Kl\u00f6ckner she grants deep insights into her Norwegian roots with a recital program including works by Edvard Grieg, Johan Halvorsen, Ole Bull, Johan S. Svendsen and traditional Norwegian folk music on the Hardanger fiddle.\r\nRagnhild \u0301s latest recording Northern Timbre was released in 2017 on 2L label together with the pianist Tor Espen Aspaas with works by Grieg, Sibelius and Nielsen.\r\n\r\nHer album YR - named after a piece by the Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen, which was performed by Ragnhild Hemsing 17 years after its origin - was enthusiastically received by the international press. The 2020\/21 season is characterized by appearances as a soloist with renowned German and international orchestras such as the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar and the G\u00f6ttingen Symphony Orchestra. Moreover, Ragnhild Hemsing is a guest at several important festivals such as the Kissinger Sommer, the Weilburger Schlosskonzerte, the Hohenloher Kultursommer and the MDR Musiksommer.\r\n\r\nRagnhild Hemsing\u2019s recording of Halvorsen\u2019s Fossegrimen op. 21 with the Bergen Philharmonic and Neeme J\u00e4rvi received outstanding critical acclaim. Since then, the two have worked closely together. For instance, Neeme J\u00e4rvi subsequently invited Ragnhild to debut with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra.\r\n\r\nOther important debuts of the last years include a.o. the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Gothenburg Symphony, the NDR Radio Philharmonic Hannover, the Beethovenfest Bonn, the N\u00fcrnberger Symphoniker, the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Residentie Orkest The Hague, the Tampere Philharmonic (Santtu-Matias Rouvali), the MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra Leipzig (Kristjan J\u00e4rvi), the Ris\u00f8r Chamber Music Festival, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the D\u00fcsseldorf Symphony at the Tonhalle D\u00fcsseldorf, the Schwetzingen SWR Festival and the Tonhalle Z\u00fcrich. She has performed the world premiere of Lasse Thoresen\u2019s \u201cSprang\u201d, together with her sister Eldbj\u00f8rg and the Trondheim Soloists at the Bergen International Festival with further performances at St Petersburg\u2019s Marinsky Concert Hall, the Bashmet Festival in Omsk, the Moravian Autumn in Brno, and at Trondheim celebrating the Trondheim Soloists\u2019 25th anniversary.\r\n\r\nRagnhild has given guest appearances at all major festivals of Norway, and she is a well-known artist on Norwegian radio and TV. Together with her sister, Eldbj\u00f8rg Hemsing she recorded a one-hour documentary on the life of the famous Norwegian violinist Ole Bull which received an EBU award.\r\nAfter her most successful debut at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2013, Ragnhild Hemsing was awarded the Beethoven- Ring of the \u201cCitizens for Beethoven\u201d.\r\nRagnhild is the artistic leader of the Hemsing Festival together with her sister Eldbj\u00f8rg. They established the festival in 2013, which takes place in their hometown Valdres week 8 every year. For more info, see www.hemsingfestival.com\r\n\r\nRagnhild was born in 1988 into the heart of the Norwegian folk region, Valdres. She began to play the violin at 5 years of age and continued her studies at the prestigious Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, followed by studies with Boris Kuschnir in Vienna. She plays on a Francesco Ruggeri Violin (Cremona, 1694) kindly on loan from the Dextra Musica Foundation.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Nikolaj Lund<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/ragnhild-hemsing-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterR\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/rene-kollo-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/rene-kollo-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8515_Ren___Kollo_Hansjoachim_Mirschel-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Tenor Ren\u00e9 Kollo im beigen Mantel und Schal. Aufnahme im Freien mit klassischer Architektur im Hintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/rene-kollo-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Ren\u00e9 Kollo<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Born Ren\u00e9 Kollodzieyski in Berlin, he grew up in Wyk auf F\u00f6hr. He attended a photography school in Hamburg, although he had always been interested in music, particularly conducting. He did not begin to perform (as a self-taught drummer) until the mid-50s. He played in jazz clubs and studied acting with Else Bongers in Berlin. To prepare for musical roles, he studied with Elsa Varena, who quickly recognized that he had an unusual gift.\r\nHe signed his first recording contract at 20 and recorded popular hits. He made his operatic debut in Braunschweig in 1965 in three Stravinsky one-act operas: Mavra, Renard, and Oedipus Rex. He stayed in Braunschweig for two years, singing most of the lyric tenor repertoire. In 1967, he went to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in D\u00fcsseldorf, still singing lyric roles.\r\nHe was guest soloist in Munich, Frankfurt, Milan (La Scala, in Arabella, 1970; Das Rheingold, 1973; Fidelio, 1978; and Lohengrin, 1981), and Lisbon. He began his now legendary association with Wagner and his Heldentenor roles at the Bayreuth Festival in 1969, where he sang the Helmsman in Der fliegende Holl\u00e4nder. The major Wagnerian roles followed in quick succession: Erik in 1970, Lohengrin in 1971, Walter in 1973, Parsifal in 1975, Siegfried in 1976, Tristan and Tannh\u00e4user in 1981. He has since sung these roles at major opera houses throughout the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, where he was seen in Lohengrin (1976, conducted by James Levine) and Ariadne auf Naxos (1979).\r\nKollo at a ZNS \u2013 Hannelore Kohl Stiftung benefit concert in 1986. From left to right are Kollo, journalist Carolin Reiber, Hannelore Kohl, tenor Peter Seiffert, soprano Lucia Popp, and actor G\u00fcnter Strack. He has also directed Parsifal in Darmstadt in 1986 and Tiefland by Eugen d'Albert in Ulm in 1991.\r\nHe also has sung non-Wagnerian roles, including Hermann in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, Florestan in Fidelio, Britten's Peter Grimes, and Verdi's Otello. In fact, he has an unusually wide repertoire for a Heldentenor. Other tenor roles he sang were that of Count Danilo, in Herbert von Karajan's 1972\u20131973 recording of Franz Leh\u00e1r's operetta The Merry Widow, with Elizabeth Harwood and Teresa Stratas, and Prince Edwin in the 1971 film of Emmerich K\u00e1lm\u00e1n's operetta Die Cs\u00e1rd\u00e1sf\u00fcrstin with Anna Moffo and Dagmar Koller.\r\nKollo has not confined himself to grand opera, but made many television appearances, singing lighter repertoire, including an operetta he composed himself. He has also composed and written text for numerous songs, following in the steps of both his father and his grandfather, who were operetta composers. He retired from singing in 2013 at the age of 75.\r\nIn 1967, he married pop singer Dorthe Larsen; the couple had a daughter, Nathalie. He has been married since 1982 to Beatrice Bouquet (a dancer) and they have three children, Florence, Magali, and Oliver Walter.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Hansjoachim Mirschel<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/rene-kollo-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterS\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/salaputia-brass-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/salaputia-brass-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/2966899\/13278_Salaputia_Brassquintett_Cover-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von dem Bl\u00e4serensemble Salaputia Brass. Sie tragen feierliche Anz\u00fcge, mit ihren Instrumenten in der Hand. Die stehen in kontrastreichem Licht vor heller Wand.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/salaputia-brass-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Salaputia Brass<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>The Salaputia Brass Quintet was founded in 2007 by five members of the German National Youth Orchestra. Since then, their shared passion for chamber music and the distinctive sound of the brass quintet has formed the artistic foundation of the ensemble. Early in its career, the quintet won prizes at national and international competitions. The musicians have also received support from the Erwin Fricke Foundation and the German Foundation for Musical Life.\r\nToday, the Salaputia Brass Quintet is regarded as one of Germany\u2019s distinguished brass ensembles. The musicians have performed at renowned festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Aschaffenburg Bach Festival. International engagements have taken the quintet to the United States, Mexico, China and France. In Washington, D.C., the ensemble provided the music for the presentation of the Eric M. Warburg Prize to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In 2016, it toured China for several weeks with the Windsbach Boys\u2019 Choir.\r\nThe quintet\u2019s repertoire ranges from original classical works to its own arrangements and compositions. Through thoughtfully curated programmes, Salaputia Brass combines the highest artistic standards with virtuosity, infectious enthusiasm and engaging presentation. The musicians are also committed to expanding the brass repertoire and establishing new music for brass instruments within the classical concert tradition.\r\nThe members of the quintet also perform with renowned orchestras and ensembles, including the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble. Since 2011, they have additionally performed as part of the larger ensemble Salaputia Brass.\r\nThe Salaputia Brass Quintet consists of Peter D\u00f6rpinghaus and Lukas Rei\u00df on trumpet, Felix Baur on horn, Philip Pineda Resch on trombone and Joel Zimmermann on tuba.<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/salaputia-brass-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterS\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/sarah-christian-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/sarah-christian-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8260_Sarah_Christian-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Geigerin Sarah Christian. Stehend mit Violine in einer Hand. in heller, minimalistischer Studioumgebung mit einem schwarzen Tisch.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/sarah-christian-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Sarah Christian<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Sarah Christian seeks to convey to her listeners the diversity, sincere emotion and energy of classical music. She enjoys drawing together uncompromisingly the manifold elements of her musical life, as soloist, concertmaster of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, chamber musician, and artistic director of a chamber music series in her hometown of Augsburg. Demanding the highest standards of herself, she always prepares scores with her focus firmly on the musical content, which she approaches with the utmost respect.\r\n\r\nAt the ARD Music Competition 2017, she was awarded the 2nd prize (no 1st prize was given), also winning the Audience Prize and the Munich Chamber Orchestra\u2019s Special Prize. Prior to this, she enjoyed numerous competition successes, including the \u201cMichael Hill\u201d Competition in New Zealand, the International Johannes Brahms Competition in P\u00f6rtschach (Austria), the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in Berlin, and many more. In 2008 she was pronounced \u201cBest String Player of the Year\u201d, and in the same year was awarded the Yehudi Menuhin Medal by the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Sarah Christian considers her most important teachers to have been Igor Ozim at the Salzburg Mozarteum and Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, to whom she was assistant from 2013 to 2016. \r\n\r\nFurther inspiration came from masterclasses with Thomas Brandis, Donald Weilerstein, Rainer Schmidt, Maxim Vengerov and Miriam Fried. She is delighted to have been the first concertmaster of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen since 2013, where she also enjoys directing the orchestra in programmes without conductor. As a regular guest concertmaster in other orchestras, she can be heard with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the DSO Berlin and the Kammerakademie Potsdam. At the 2017 BBC Proms she led the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Rimsky- Korsakov\u2019s \u201cScheherezade\u201d under the direction of James Gaffigan. Sarah Christian has performed throughout Europe and also in China, Japan, South America and the USA. As a soloist, she has played with Munich\u2019s \u201cVia Nova\u201d choir, Sibiu and Timosoara Philharmonic Orchestras in Romania, the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She made her d\u00e9but in the Carnegie Hall with the Bavarian State Orchestra in March 2018. \r\n\r\nHer d\u00e9but CD (GENUIN, 2017) of Prokofiev\u2019s Sonata no.1 in F minor Op.80 and Schubert\u2019s Fantasy in C major received great critical acclaim: \u201cSarah Christian\u2019s solo d\u00e9but is simply fantastic! This violinist proves herself to be an artist of exceptional sensitivity, and absolutely unimpeachable technique.\u201d (Manuel Stangorra, klassik.com) Chamber music is equally important to her. She has performed in various ensembles at the Spannungen Festival in Heimbach, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival. In her hometown of Augsburg, she launched a chamber music series, which she runs together with Maximilan Hornung. Her newly-founded \u201cFranz Ensemble\u201d will record rarely heard chamber music for the MDG label. The first album with works by Ferdinand Ries will be released in Summer 2019.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Marco Borggreve<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/sarah-christian-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterS\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/schumann-quartett-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/schumann-quartett-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/1170706\/9542_Schumann_Quartett_1_Harald_Hoffmann_2400_2400-3-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Gruppenportr\u00e4t des Schumann Quartett. Vier Musiker mit Streichinstrumenten in eleganter Studiokulisse, teilweise stehend oder sitzend auf Bl\u00f6cken.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/schumann-quartett-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Schumann Quartett<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>The three brothers Mark, Erik and Ken Schumann, who grew up in the Rhineland, have been playing together for five years. In 2012, they were joined by violist Liisa Randalu, who was born in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and grew up in Karlsruhe, Germany. Those who experience the quartet in performance often remark on the strong connection between its members.\r\nThe four musicians enjoy the way they communicate without words: how a single look suffices to convey how the other wants to play a particular passage. Although the individual personalities clearly manifest themselves, a common space arises in every musical work in a process of spiritual metamorphosis. The quartet's openness and curiosity may be partly the result of the formative influence exerted on it by teachers such as Eberhard Feltz, or partners such as Menahem Pressler. CD publications, study with the Alban Berg Quartet, a residency of many years at the Robert-Schumann-Saal in D\u00fcsseldorf, winning the prestigious Concours de Bordeaux along with other awards, various teachers and musical partners \u2013 it is always tempting to speculate on what factors have led to many people viewing the Schumann Quartet as one of the best in the world. But the four musicians themselves regard these stages more as encounters, as a confirmation of the path they have taken. They feel that their musical development over the past two years represents a quantum leap. \r\n\r\n\u201cWe really want to take things to extremes, to see how far the excitement and our spontaneity as a group take us,\u201d says Ken Schumann, the middle of the three Schumann brothers. With this attitude the Schumann Quartet has reached a stage where anything is possible, because it has dispensed with certainties. This also has consequences for the listeners, who from concert to concert have to be prepared for all eventualities: \u201cA work really develops only in a live performance,\u201d the quartet says. \u201cThat is the 'real thing', because we ourselves never know what will happen.  On the stage, all imitation disappears, and you automatically become honest with yourself. Then you can create a bond with the audience \u2013 communicate with it in music.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn order to transfer the magic of the live situation into this recording, the quartet played live in front of the audience on one of the two days in the studio in Ludwigsburg.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Harald Hoffmann<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/schumann-quartett-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterS\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/sebastian-manz-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/sebastian-manz-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8193_sm-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Nahaufnahme von Klarinettist Sebastian Manz. Dunkles Portr\u00e4t mit Klarinette und direktem Blick zur Kamera.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/sebastian-manz-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Sebastian Manz<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Sebastian Manz, international soloist, chamber musician and solo clarinetist with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, had his big breakthrough with his sensational success at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in September 2008.  He wins not only first prize in the Clarinet category, which had not been awarded for forty years, but also the coveted Audience Prize and other special prizes. With his partner Martin Klett at the piano, he had also won the German Music Competition just a few months before. Since then, he was awarded thrice with the ECHO Classic Award for his outstanding album releases. For his recording A Bernstein Story from 2019 he received the OPUS Classic Award in October 2020.\r\n\r\nIn season 2020\/2021 Sebastian Manz performs as a soloist with the G\u00f6ttingen Symphony Orchestra, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Hessian State Orchestra Wiesbaden and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. He is also invited to Japan by the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra as well as by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, USA. As part of a new recording of Copland\u2019s clarinet concerto (Berlin Classics), he will be touring with the W\u00fcrttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and chief conductor Case Scaglione.\r\n\r\nOn the chamber music field, he gives performances together with Robert Neumann, Felix Klieser, Martin Klett and Sebastian Studnitzky as well as with ensembles as the Boulanger Trio, the Danish String Quartet and the Armida Quartett among others. He will be playing at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and several festivals as the prestigious festival Heidelberger Fr\u00fchling, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the festival Musikalischer Sommer Ostfriesland. In Spring 2021 he is invited to the winter festival of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York.\r\n\r\nSebastian Manz demonstrates a unique talent for arranging and composing on his albums and at his concerts. His discography includes numerous awards underscoring Manz\u2019 intuition for details and overarching concepts. The album A Bernstein Story, released in 2019 (Berlin Classics) as a collaboration with Sebastian Studnitzky, presents arrangements as well as original compositions of both musicians and is placed in between classical and jazz music. Manz\u2019 new album with clarinet concertos from Carl Nielsen and Magnus Lindberg was released in the beginning of September 2020 on Berlin Classics and received enthusiastic reviews. For this recording, Magnus Lindberg conducts his clarinet concerto himself.\r\n\r\nBeing the grandson of the Russian violinist Boris Goldstein and the son of two pianists, born in Hanover in 1986, Manz\u2019s musical roots are in his German-Russian family background. He begins singing in a boys\u2019 choir at the age of six. He first learns the piano, which he plays very well, but soon concentrates on the clarinet after listening to Benny Goodman\u2019s recording of Carl Maria von Weber\u2019s E flat major Concerto, which fascinates him and awakes a longing for the instrument. Among his most important teachers and supporters are the acclaimed clarinetists Sabine Meyer and Rainer Wehle.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Marco Borggreve<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/sebastian-manz-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterS\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/signum-saxophone-quartet-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/signum-saxophone-quartet-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8171_s6-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Gruppenaufnahme des SIGNUM saxophone quartet. F\u00fcnf Musiker mit Saxophonen auf einem Feld unter weitem Wolkenhimmel und in der Mitte der Perkussionist Alexej Gerassimez.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/signum-saxophone-quartet-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>SIGNUM saxophone quartet<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Bla\u017e Kemperle: soprano saxophone\r\nHayrapet Arakelyan: alt saxophone\r\nAlan Lu\u017ear: tenor saxophone\r\nGuerino Bellarosa: baritone saxophone\r\n\r\n\u00abFour saxophonists who rock the house\u00bb\r\n\u00abAre they a reincarnation of the Beatles? Four musicians, four young guys with a \u201cnaughty boy\u201d image and all the self-confidence of those famous four \u201cmop tops\u201d, step out on stage, begin to play and set the place alight. There are young girls in the audience - a big screen as if for a pop group (...) A mix of masculinity and sensitivity characterizes the music of the four. Playing mostly without sheet music they are freely visible, standing in a curved formation.  Who is looking at whom and who steps forward as the leading voice is completely instinctive and spontaneous, in line with the musical logic. Their stupendous perfection becomes almost a given (...)\u00bb\r\nHamburger Abendblatt (Verena Fischer-Zernin)\r\n\r\nThe four musicians Bla\u017e Kemperle, Hayrapet Arakelyan, Alan Lu\u017ear and Guerino Bellarosa met in Cologne where they founded the SIGNUM saxophone quartet in 2006. The saxophonists have studied in Cologne, Vienna and Paris; they have been influenced and inspired by the Quatuor \u00c9b\u00e8ne, Artemis Quartet and Gabor Tak\u00e1cs-N\u00e1gy.\r\nAfter years of gaining recognition by winning prizes at international competitions, including Lugano and Berlin, the real breakthrough arrived with the quartet\u2019s dazzling debut at New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall and acquiring the renowned ECHO-Rising Stars 2014\/15 award by the European Concert Hall Organization. This incredibly special honour also marked the quartet\u2019s definitive entry into the international top-tier classical music scene. Today the SIGNUMs are regular guests at leading concert halls and festivals around the world, where they perform in a diversity of projects and ensembles: not only as a quartet, but also with chamber music partners (major collaborations included projects with Alexej Gerassimez and Tanja Tetzlaff, Kai Schumacher, Daniel Hope and many others), with orchestra or choir, and with a unique family show they have created themselves.\r\nThe SIGNUMs are constantly searching for new ideas, groundbreaking challenges and intriguing artistic encounters. Their sheer joy and experimental versatility are reflected in their extraordinary programmes; the four young musicians continue to create exciting, never before seen joint arrangements with inspiring soundscapes. With Starry Night, the SIGNUMs, together with Alexej Gerassimez, take a step outside the comfort zone of traditional chamber music repertoire. An original work and several arrangements have been commissioned by the artists for this undertaking, throwing open the doors to an exciting range of brand new sounds and soundscapes delivered by a distinctive and unique concept in chamber music which has never been heard before: 4 saxophones and percussion. \r\nSIGNUM has published the following recordings: Debut (2011), Balkanication (2014) and Echoes (Deutsche Grammophon, 2021), now followed by Starry Night (Berlin Classics, 2021).\r\n\r\nPhoto: Hayrapet Arakelyan<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/signum-saxophone-quartet-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterS\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/silver-garburg-piano-duo-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/silver-garburg-piano-duo-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/1569266\/8191_sgd-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Schwarz-wei\u00dfes Portr\u00e4t des Silver Garburg Piano Duo vor gemauerter Architektur in eleganter Kleidung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/silver-garburg-piano-duo-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Silver Garburg Piano Duo<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>In the great and often underappreciated art of piano duo playing, Sivan Silver and her partner Gil Garburg are setting a new standard: acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, the duo has been invited time and time again by top orchestras, festivals, and concert organizers. They have performed in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Vienna Musikverein, the Salzburg Festspielhaus, the Sydney Opera House and the Berlin Philharmonie; they have concertized in approximately 70 countries on five continents; and they collaborate regularly with such orchestras as the Israel Philharmonic, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Melbourne Symphony and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie.\r\nTheir recording of Mendelssohn\u2019s concertos for two pianos and orchestra, with the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic under Christopher Hogwood, has been called \u201cbreathtaking\u201d (Bayerische Rundfunk), \u201cextremely exciting\u201d (S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung), and \u201cbrilliant\u201d (Rondo). Their Stravinsky ballets CD has been described as \u201cgrandiose\u201d (Pizzicato, Supersonic Award), \u201cthrilling\u201d (Fono Forum, CD of the Month) and \u201cwonderfully enchanting\u201d (Der Neue Merker). The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung raved about the \u201clyrical sensitivity and the ravishing technical mastery\u201d of the duo, noting that only rarely does one experience \u201csuch spontaneous shouts of \u2018bravo\u2019\u201d at the end of a concert. The Independent concluded: \u201cWhat a wondrous evening!\u201d\r\n\r\nTheir most recent album, \u201cIllumination\u201d, was presented in a recital at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and released in April 2019 under the Berlin Classics label. \u201cLet there be light!\u201d titles the music magazine Concerti its choice as \u201cCD of the week\u201d and praises the \u201csuperb tonal sensibility, outstanding ensemble playing and imaginative rubati and agogic\u201d. \u201cThe Schumann is played beautifully and is actually better than the very good Argerich and Barenboim recording\u201d commends the American Record Guide and concludes \u201cThe whole package is truly, as titled, an \u2018Illumination\u2019 of works\u201d. \u201cThe publication comes close to an enlightening revelation\u201d raves the Aachener Zeitung. \u201cA veritable aha effect\u201d enthuses the Piano News reviewer, who describes the recording as \u201cilluminating the complexity of this masterpiece in a way that has never been heard before\u201d. Radio Bremen describes \u201cThe greatest art of two pianos playing. Stunning virtuosity\u2026 fantastic interplay\u2026 How Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg master this extremely delicate task borders on a miracle\u201d and concludes \u201cWith this record, the two have ultimately established themselves at the top of the international piano duo scene\u201d.\r\n\r\nThe Silver-Garburg Piano Duo joined forces with the Vienna Symphony and Maestro Florian Krump\u00f6ck to record the world premiere of a new concerto, which was written for and dedicated to them: Richard D\u00fcnser\u2019s adaptation of Brahms Quartet Op. 25 for piano, four hands and string orchestra, which is based on the two original versions by Brahms (for piano quartet and for piano, four hands). The recording took place at the Wiener Konzerthaus and will be released in 2020.\r\nThe Silver-Garburg Piano Duo looks forward to exciting concerts in the upcoming seasons. The two Israelis, who live in Berlin with their son, can be heard in North and Latin America, East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and in numerous European countries. Highlights include performances with the Lucerne Symphony at the Musikverein in Vienna and at the KKL Lucerne, with the Belgian National Orchestra at the Gro\u00dfes Festspielhaus in Salzburg and at the Bozar in Brussels. The duo appears as soloists with the Orchestra of the Americas, alongside Yo-Yo Ma and Claudio Bohorquez, at their 2021 European tour. Sivan and Gil are happy to continue their musical collaboration with orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Jerusalem Symphony, Bruno Walter Symphony, Wiener Concert-Verein, Mantua Chamber, Israel Chamber, Berlin Symphony, Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, Brno Philharmonic and many more.\r\n\r\nSince 2014, the Silver-Garburg Duo occupy one of the few extant professorships for piano duo, at the Graz University for the Arts. They present master-classes at leading academic institutes in Moscow, Beijing, Melbourne, Vienna, Jerusalem, Wellington, Tallinn, Washington, Helsinki, Bratislava and more. Previously, they taught at the Hannover Musikhochschule, at which they themselves completed their studies in 2007 under Prof. Arie Vardi.\r\n\r\nSilver and Garburg were well on the way to promising solo careers when they paired up first privately and then at the piano. \u201cWe express our own emotions and, at the same time, a combined sensibility. We are one, and yet we\u2019re in dialogue with each other \u2013 that\u2019s the magic,\u201d says Silver. And Garburg adds: \u201cThe more we work together, the more we grow together and the freer we become. Like a conductor realizes his or her vision with an orchestra, we can realize all that we envision with four hands.\u201d\r\nAfter 20 years of playing together, Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg are establishing themselves at the top echelon of the music world. \u201cAs a piano duo, it\u2019s easy to make effects with virtuosity. But that alone is far too little. We want to move our listeners emotionally and bring them to the core of the music\u201d.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Neda Navaee<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/silver-garburg-piano-duo-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterS\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/simon-hoefele-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/simon-hoefele-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/1765587\/8261_Simon_Hoefele-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Schwarz-wei\u00dfes Nahportr\u00e4t von Trompeter Simon H\u00f6fele. Freundliches L\u00e4cheln und direkter Blick.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/simon-hoefele-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Simon H\u00f6fele<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Simon H\u00f6fele took his first trumpet lessons in his home city of Darmstadt; five years later he was a young pupil of Reinhold Friedrich, who accepted him at the age of 14 into his trumpet class at the Karlsruhe Musikhochschule. That led to his selection for the best European talent programmes, notably as BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, ECHO Rising Star nominated by the Cologne Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus in Dortmund and the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and as artist in the \u201cJunge Wilde\u201d series at the Dortmund Konzerthaus. He has since been invited to play as soloist by major orchestras and at leading venues worldwide. In addition, he has a teaching role of his own, as Visiting Artist at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and in various master classes.\r\nAlongside the well known trumpet repertoire, from Telemann by way of Tartini, Haydn, Hummel and Mozart to Jolivet, Arutyunyan and Zimmermann, Simon H\u00f6fele is a great fan of contemporary music and has premiered numerous works written for him by Miroslav Srnka, Mark Simpson, Matthias Pintscher, Kaan Bulak and more. He also regularly plays works by Toshio Hosokawa and Christian Jost, and is a just as enthusiastic chamber musician with a wide variety of partners.\r\nHis \u201cStandards\u201d album was praised by the press on its release early in 2020 and was awarded an OPUS KLASSIK later that year as \u201cConcert Recording of the Year\u201d. Simon H\u00f6fele complements his musical projects with politically relevant initiatives in the sphere of culture and the arts and has founded the association \u201cKunstverlust\u201d, for which he photographs people who have actively committed themselves to the preservation of art and culture.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Simon H\u00f6fele<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/simon-hoefele-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterS\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/sophie-dervaux-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/sophie-dervaux-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/2100771\/8196_sophie-dervaux-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Schwarz-wei\u00dfes Portr\u00e4t von Fagottistin Sophie Dervaux. Nachdenkliche Pose neben einem Fagott in heller Umgebung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/sophie-dervaux-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Sophie Dervaux<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Sophie Dervaux joined the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra as principal bassoon in 2015. Previously, she was principal contrabassoon of the Berlin Philharmonic.\r\n\r\nPrizewinner of prestigious competitions which includes the international ARD Competition Munich and the Beethoven-Ring Bonn, among others, Sophie has performed as soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the\r\nMunich Kammerorchester, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Orchestre National de Lyon etc. Her solo repertoire includes works by Vivaldi, Saint-Sa\u00ebns, Jolivet, Strauss, Mozart, Haydn, Hummel and Paganini.\r\n\r\nSophie Dervaux has performed in the major concert halls of the world, including the Musikverein Wien, Berliner Philharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Royal Albert Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York. As chambrist she performs with renowned musicians such as Daniel Barenboim, Emmanuel Pahud, Albrecht Mayer, Fabian M\u00fcller etc.\r\n\r\nIn 2020 she recorded the Beethoven Trio for Piano, Bassoon and Flute for Warner Classics together with Daniel Barenboim and Emmanuel Pahud in the Boulez-Saal in Berlin. Her debut album with works for bassoon and piano will be released 2021 by Berlin Classics. Since 2020 Sophie Dervaux is teaching at Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. She has presented masterclasses at prestigious conservatories in Japan, China, Austria, Spain, Portugal, France, Argentina and the United States. Sophie Dervaux is a P\u00fcchner bassoon artist and is dedicated to expanding the bassoon repertoire by rediscovering old and commissioning new pieces that feature the instrument.\r\n\r\nBorn in 1991 in the Paris suburb of Clamart, Sophie Dervaux first studied guitar and clarinet, and started playing the bassoon in 2003. She continued her studies at the National Conservatory of Music in Lyon, France, at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik \u201cHanns Eisler\u201d and the Karajan Academy in Berlin. Sophie Dervaux\u2019s teachers include Carlo Colombo, Jean Pignoly, Volker Tessmann and Daniele Damiano.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Co Merz<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/sophie-dervaux-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterS\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/spark-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/spark-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/898475\/12465_260114_Spark_01_0509fin_korr1_-_quadr-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait von Ensemble Spark. F\u00fcnf Musiker:innen vor hellem Studiohintergrund mit Fl\u00fcgel im Zentrum; frontale Gruppenaufnahme, elegante Kleidung in Schwarz, Rot und Violett sowie klare, helle Ausleuchtung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/spark-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Spark<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Spark re-thinks the classics. The quintet presents Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart &amp; Co in a new light and creates points of contact with the sounds and lifestyle of the present day. Classical at heart, outwardly wilful, inquisitive and nonconformist, the five musicians pitch their tent on the open ground between classical works, minimal music, electro and avant-garde. With enthusiasm and abandon, styles are mixed and a galaxy of sonic options is explored \u2013 given that their well-stocked arsenal of instruments offers over 40 different flutes, violin, viola, violoncello, melodica and piano. No one piece is like the next, and yet they all bear the original, unmistakable fingerprints of this exciting ensemble. An ECHO Klassik Award winner in 2011, the ten-year-old grouping has played its way into the vanguard of the young creative classical scene. The quintet is now well established at the world\u2019s biggest venues and festivals \u2013 whether in chamber performances or in a solo role with orchestra. The group is cherished by its fans above all for its thrilling, highly energetic live performances, which see the five talented musicians getting physical on stage with ebullient vitality and the pulsating power of a rock band. Together they present music that ignites passion. Together they spark.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Gregor Hohenberg<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/spark-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterT\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/tamar-halperin-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/tamar-halperin-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/10440_Tamar_Halperin_4_4c_by_Gregor_Hohenberg_2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait von Pianistin und Cembalistin Tamar Halperin in Nahaufnahme, sie st\u00fctzt das Gesicht auf die Hand und blickt seitlich; warme Braun- und Hautt\u00f6ne, weiches Licht und ruhige, pers\u00f6nliche Atmosph\u00e4re.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/tamar-halperin-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Tamar Halperin<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Born in Tel Aviv, Halperin grew up in Israel and first pursued a career as a tennis player. She studied music at the Tel Aviv University and continued her studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with a focus on historically informed performance. She obtained her PhD at the Juilliard School in New York City on Johann Sebastian Bach.\r\n\r\nShe specialises in Baroque music, but also pursues projects of contemporary music. She recorded with the jazz pianist Michael Wollny the album Wunderkammer which was awarded the Echo Jazz in the category piano album in 2010. She recorded a sequel, Wunderkammer XXL, with Wollny and the hr-Bigband which was awarded the Echo Jazz in the category big band. She played harpsichord and celesta with Wollny at the Jazzfest Bonn 2014.\r\n\r\nIn 2011, she played works by Bach on the harpsichord at the Baroque Christophoruskirche in Wiesbaden-Schierstein, as part of the Rheingau Musik Festival. In 2012, Halperin recorded Lieder by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Brahms with her husband, the countertenor Andreas Scholl, titled Wanderer. The reviewer of a similar program at Wigmore Hall noted in The Guardian that she \"proved to be a wonderfully subtle accompanist and a performer of real distinction\", offering piano works by Mozart and Brahms in addition to the songs. In 2016 she published an album with music by Erik Satie on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth, played on different keyboard instruments including, besides piano and harpsichord, hammond organ and Wurlitzer piano.\r\n\r\nThe Hessian Cultural Prize 2016 was awarded to both Halperin and Scholl by Volker Bouffier, the Minister-president of Hesse. Michael Herrmann spoke at the event about both artists as crossing borders.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Salar Baygan<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/tamar-halperin-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterT\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/tassilo-probst-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/tassilo-probst-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8693_Tassilo_website-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Geiger Tassilo Probst. Halbfigur mit Violine \u00fcber der Schulter vor dunklem Studiohintergrund.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/tassilo-probst-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Tassilo Probst<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>The German violinist Tassilo Probst (*July 2002) is without doubt one of the most promising musicians of his generation. He is known for his multi-faceted performances of exceptional virtuosity, emotional depth and captivating stage presence. \r\nHis great musical curiosity is evident in his unusually wide-ranging repertoire.  \r\n\r\nThis is the verdict of the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung in the concert review by Klaus Mohr:\r\n\"The free-swinging tone, with a multitude of colourful shadings and dynamic levels in his playing, has become the trademark of his art.\"......\r\n\r\nHe is a laureate of numerous national and international competitions. Awarded as a prize winner and youngest finalist in the international violin competitions: Georges Enescu Violin Competition (2021), Concours International de Violon Tibor Varga (2021), Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Violin Competition (2021), 2019 Louis Spohr Violin Competition and many more.\r\n\r\nAt the age of 14 he made his debut with Glazunov's Violin Concerto with the Philharmonie Bad Reichenhall under the baton of General Music Director Christian Simonis; at just 16 he played Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz with the New Philharmonic Orchestra Munich under the baton of Fuad Ibrahimov. \r\n \r\nHe was a guest at \"Hope@9pm-Musik und Talk\" in the Konzerthaus Berlin, at BR Klassik in the \r\n\"Radio Salon\" and in \"U 20 - Classic and more\" as well as at various festivals, such as \"Stars &amp; Rising Stars Munich\", the \"MIECZYS\u0141AW WEINBERG-FESTIVAL\" Munich, the Residenzfestspiele Darmstadt, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and Interlaken Classics in Switzerland. \r\n \r\nIn 2020 BR Klassik and M\u00fcnchen TV, and in 2022 WDR presented him as a young artist. In December 2020 he was presented by Daniel Hope in his programme \"Hope@Home next Generation\", broadcast by Arte TV, as a \"Next Generation\" in Berlin. \r\n \r\nWith his American friend and pianist Maxim Lando, he recorded his first CD \"Into Madness\" with Bayrischer Rundfunk in December 2021, which will be released by the label Berlin Classics at the end of August 2022. \r\n \r\nAs a soloist, he has already performed with renowned orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lithunian Chamber Orchestra, \r\nthe Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Trier, the Bergische \r\nBergische Symphoniker, the Bach Collegium Munich, the G\u00f6ttingen Symphony Orchestra, the S\u00fcdwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich, and many others. \r\n \r\nHe received his first violin lessons at the age of 4. He was influenced by his private teacher, friend and mentor Prof. David Fr\u00fchwirth. At the age of 12 he became a young student at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich and is now completing his Bachelor's degree there, having passed his Abitur at the age of 16. He is currently being taught by Prof. Linus Roth. He receives additional musical impulses at the Zakhar Bron Academy in Interlaken\/Switzerland with Prof. Zakhar Bron. \r\n \r\nTassilo is a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and plays a violin by \"Giovanni Grancino\" (Milan 1690).<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/tassilo-probst-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterT\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/the-zurich-chamber-singers-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/the-zurich-chamber-singers-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/10608_8PH01654-Enhanced-NR-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Gruppenportr\u00e4t der The Zurich Chamber Singers. Vokalensemble in schwarzer Kleidung vor einer Konzertorgel.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/the-zurich-chamber-singers-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>The Zurich Chamber Singers<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Founded in 2015 by Christian Erny, the Zurich Chamber Singers are now one of the most most promising and interesting choirs of the younger generation. Praised for its sensitive sound culture and innovative programs, the ensemble performs in halls such as the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Tonhalle Zurich and with orchestras such as the such as the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the CHAARTS chamber artists. The stylistic versatility of the choir is reflected in its highly acclaimed discography and its already considerable number of world premieres and first recordings. Among the composers with whom the Zurich Chamber Singers have worked are\r\nothers Paul Mealor, Caroline Shaw and Marcus Paus. In the near future new compositions by David Philipp Hefti and Alfred Felder will be premiered by the ensemble in the near future. The choir covers a broad repertoire from Renaissance polyphony to the choral symphonies of the twentieth century. twentieth century choral symphonic music and has worked with conductors such as Roberto Gonz\u00e1lez-Monjas, Joana Carneiro and Fabio Biondi.<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/the-zurich-chamber-singers-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterV\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/vocal-concert-dresden-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/vocal-concert-dresden-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8514_Vocal_Concert_Dresden_Astrid_Ackermann-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Gruppenportr\u00e4t des Chors Vocal Concert Dresden zwischen historischen Skulpturen in einer Museumssammlung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/vocal-concert-dresden-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Vocal Concert Dresden<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>The chamber choir Vocal Concert Dresden was founded in 1993 by Peter Kopp as the \"K\u00f6rnerscher Sing-Verein\"; since 2008 the ensemble has been performing under a new name. It consists mainly of graduates of the Dresden Academy of Music and former members of the Dresden Kreuzchor.\r\n\r\nThe emotional radiance of the concerts and its interpretative intelligence have contributed to the choir's esteem. Time and again, the ensemble has been praised for its stylistic confidence and elegant, natural way of making music.\r\n\r\nThe choir has performed at renowned festivals such as the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Brandenburg Summer Concerts, the Dresden Music Festival and the G\u00f6ttingen and Halle International Handel Festivals, and has been repeatedly invited to perform in Italy, France, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and the USA. In his hometown he has performed in his own concert series and several times in concerts of the S\u00e4chsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Dresden Philharmonic.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Astrid Ackermann<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/vocal-concert-dresden-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterW\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/wuerttembergisches-kammerorchester-heilbronn-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/wuerttembergisches-kammerorchester-heilbronn-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/724370\/8192_WKO-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Gruppenaufnahme des W\u00fcrttembergischen Kammerorchesters Heilbronn mit Streichinstrumenten in moderner Architektur.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/wuerttembergisches-kammerorchester-heilbronn-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>W\u00fcrttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Driven by the passion and inspiration of its musicians, W\u00fcrttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn (WKO) is a byword for constantly developing individual sound culture. The WKO represents in exemplary manner the spectrum of a distinguished chamber orchestra, from its ability to deliver a splendid orchestral sound, to its chamber music transparency, to the musicians\u2019 facility for working closely together and listening to each other. Such skills in particular predestines the WKO to work closely together with many internationally outstanding soloists. The WKO is a popular guest ensemble on renowned concert stages and at festivals including the Royal Albert Hall London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Vienna Musikverein, the Berliner Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Herkulessaal Munich, Rheingau Musik Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Mozartfest W\u00fcrzburg and the Kissinger Sommer. Concert tours take the WKO around the globe, most recently to Korea, Spain, Cambodia, Hong Kong and China. In addition to concerts, recordings have always played an important role in the orchestra\u2019s life. Many of these recordings have been singled out to receive awards. The WKO is the lifetime achievement of its conductor J\u00f6rg Faerber. He founded the ensemble in 1960 and led it rapidly to international fame thanks to his visionarydedication. In 2002 the Armenian-born conductor Ruben Gazarian was made artistic director; he consistently expanded the WKO\u2019s repertoire. The young American conductor Case Scaglione has been principal conductor of the WKO since the 2018\/19 season. In their short time together, under Case\u2019s leadership, WKO collaborates with distinguished soloists such as Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Yeol Eum Son, Alisa Weilerstein, Leila Josefowicz, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Simone Lamsma, Johannes Moser, Julian Steckel, Sharon Kam and Stefan Dohr.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Sonja Werner\/Adrian Borda<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/wuerttembergisches-kammerorchester-heilbronn-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterX\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/xavier-sabata-2\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/xavier-sabata-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/8194_xs-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Countertenor Xavier Sabata. K\u00fcnstlerische Nahaufnahme mit direktem Blick und monochromer Farbwirkung.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/xavier-sabata-2\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Xavier Sabata<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Catalan countertenor Xavier Sabata trained as an actor at Barcelona\u2019s Institut del Teatre before studying singing at the Escola Superior de Musica Catalunya and at the Musikhochschule, Karlsruhe, where his teachers were Hartmut H\u00f6ll and Mitsuko Shirai.\r\n\r\nOpera productions have led him to the most distinguished opera houses worldwide including Teatro Real Madrid, Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-Elys\u00e9es in Paris, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Theater an der Wien, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Gen\u00e8ve and next season he makes his Wiener Staatsoper debut as Ottone in Monteverdi\u2019s Poppea under Pablo Heras-Casado. In 2019 Xavier was nominated as best male artist in the International Opera Awards.\r\n\r\nSabata's repertoire spans from Cavalli and Monterverdi over the heroes of baroque opera seria to contemporary works. Recent roles have included Bertarido in Handel Rodelinda with Claus Guth under Stefano Montanari at Op\u00e9ra de Lyon, as well as at Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile; Ottone in a revival of Monteverdi L\u2019incoronazione di Poppea under Diego Fasolis at Staatsoper Unter den Linden; Endimione in La Calisto directed by David Alden with Ivor Bolton at Teatro Real, Madrid; the world premiere of L\u2019enigma di Lea at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; title role in Handel Rinaldo on a European tour with Christophe Rousset and the Kammerorchester Basel including the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-Elys\u00e9es, as well as in a new production at the Perelada Festival and Ottone in Handel Agrippina on a European tour with Il Pomo D\u2019Oro and Maxim Emelyanychev.\r\n\r\nHe has appeared with such ensembles as Les Arts Florissants, Europa Galante, Collegium 1704, the Venice Baroque Orchestra, Il Pomo D\u2019Oro, Orquesta Barroca Sevilla and La Folia Barockorchester and collaborates regularly with conductors such as Fabio Biondi, Ren\u00e9 Jacobs, Jordi Savall, Alan Curtis, Gabriel Garrido, Fabio Bonizzoni, Diego Fasolis, Andrea Marcon, Xavier D\u00ecaz Latorre, Ivor Bolton, George Petrou, Riccardo Minasi, Harry Bicket and Christopher Moulds. Concert performances have taken him to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Barbican Centre and Wigmore Hall in London, the Lincoln Center in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona as well as the Handel Festival in Halle, the Salzburg Festival, the Festival d\u2019Aix-en- Provence, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the Dresdner Musikfestspielethe, Handel Festival in Karlsruhe and to the Festival de musique Baroque d'Ambronay. He was awarded the Premio \u00d3pera Actual in 2013, and the Premi Tend\u00e8ncies d\u2019el Mundo in 2014.\r\n\r\nHis extensive discography under major labels such as Virgin Classics\/EMI, Decca, Harmonia Mundi Iberica and Apart\u00e9 includes recordings of Handel's Operas, \u201cFaramando\u201d, \u201cArminio\u201d, \u201cOttone\u201d, the internationally-awarded recording of \u201cAlessandro\u201d receiving eleven awards as well as \u201cTamerlano\u201d in which Xavier Sabata sings the leading role. His solo recorded programme Bad Guys received unqualified praise in the press: \u2018This ranks among the most intelligent and striking recital discs of recent years\u2019 (The Guardian, London) as well has his albums \u201cI dilettanti\u201d and his newest solo album, \u201cCatharsis\u201d, focusing on operatic rarities from the early 18th century. He also participated in the Gala Night of Countertenors team, alongside Max Emanuel Cencic, Yuriy Mynenko and Franco Fagioli, released by DECCA.\r\n\r\nIn addition to his performances on the opera stage Xavier has a passion for Lied recently performing Schubert's \u201cWinterreise\u201d in Barcelona and Girona, a cycle which he will has recently recorded and which will be released later this season.\r\n\r\nPhoto: Andreas Orban.<\/p>\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/xavier-sabata-2\/\" class=\"btn-more-world\">mehr<\/a>-->\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                                                <div class=\"inside item-member letterZ\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/zofia-neugebauer-5\/\">\r\n                    <div class=\"picture\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/zofia-neugebauer-5\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\">\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dmb\/team\/3453440\/12302_Cover__c_SophiaHegewald_ZofiaNeugebauer20250501156823_-_Kopie-3-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portr\u00e4t von Fl\u00f6tistin Zofia Neugebauer. Dynamische Pose mit Querfl\u00f6te und kontrastreichem Licht vor heller Wand.\" style=\"\" >\r\n                        <\/a>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"content\">\r\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin-classics-music.com\/en\/teammember\/zofia-neugebauer-5\/\" class=\"top_releases_item\"><h3>Zofia Neugebauer<\/h3><\/a>\r\n                        <!--<p>Zofia Neugebauer is an inspiring voice in the world of classical flute. Combining a deeply lyrical sound with a fresh and distinctive artistic vision, she captivates audiences across the globe \u2013as a soloist, chamber musician, and principal flute.\r\nAfter graduating from the prestigious Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, where she was mentored by Emmanuel Pahud and Mathieu Dufour, Zofia quickly gained recognition and secured her place among the compelling artists of her generation.\r\nShe has since performed under the baton of some of the world\u2019s most renowned conductors, including Sir Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Iv\u00e1n Fischer, Paavo J\u00e4rvi, and G\u00e1bor Tak\u00e1cs-Nagy. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Pannon Philharmonic, Silesian Philharmonic, Camerata Zurich, the G\u00fcrzenich-Orchester K\u00f6ln, and the German Chamber Orchestra Berlin in the Berlin Philharmonie.\r\nA regular guest at leading international festivals, she is principal flute of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, performing both at the festival and on worldwide tours. In summer 2025 she debuted with a chamber music programme alongside Martin Fr\u00f6st, Lahav Shani and Anastasia Kobekina. Other festival engagements include the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Dresden Music Festival. In addition to her solo career, Zofia has held key orchestral positions, serving as principal flute of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under James Gaffigan and associate principal flute of the Basel Symphony Orchestra. She is also a frequent guest as principal flute with ensembles such as the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, the Cavatina Philharmonic and Utopia Orchestra.\r\nWith a profound affinity for historically informed performance practice and a particularly lyrical tone, Zofia brings fresh perspectives to well-known repertoire. This artistic vision is reflected in her debut album, featuring Mozart\u2019s flute concertos, which will be released with Berlin Classics in 2026.\r\nPassionate about education, Zofia gives international masterclasses at renowned institutions and festivals, inspiring the next generation of flutists. In 2024, she launched her own flute course, which filled within a few days and attracted students from across Europe, fostering a vibrant and collaborative learning environment. The 2025 edition, developed in collaboration with trumpeter Simon H\u00f6fele, was fully booked shortly after its announcement.\r\nNow based in Paris, Zofia continues to balance a thriving international career with her work as a cultural ambassador in classical music. Through her engaging social media presence, she shares insights into the life of a musician and presents innovative educational content. Her video recordings on YouTube have gained over 170,000 views, and her online reach continues to grow, bringing classical music to a wider audience.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn addition, she collaborates as an ambassador with B\u00e4renreiter, sharing her artistic vision and expertise with a broad musical community. 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