»Münchner Kindl«

The composer Richard Strauss, born on June 11th 1864 in Munich, was one of the most multi-faceted musical personalities of the late 19th and early to mid-20th centuries. While his early works were couched in traditional classic forms and genres, in…

Rodion Shchedrin was born in 1932 in Moscow into a musical family: his father was a composer and a teacher of music theory. He studied at the Moscow Choral School and in 1955 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where he studied composition and…

With his symphonies, operas, concerti and chamber music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg) is today the most-performed composer of all times. While still a child, he was already an international celebrity: trotted out by…

Ilona Cudek was born in 1967 in Gliwice, Poland. At the age of 13, after moving to Germany, she became a junior student at the Munich Music Academy, from which she graduated with honors in 1989. After that, a scholarship from the Bavarian Culture…

Elke Funk-Hoever was born in 1966 in Esslingen. After secondary school, she studied violoncello at the Music Academy in nearby Stuttgart with Rudolf Gleisner, at the Arts Academy in Berlin with Wolfgang Boettcher and at the Juilliard School of Music…

Mirjam von Kirschten, pianist, studied in Munich and at Indiana University in Bloomington, her teachers including Gitti Pirner and Leonard Hokanson. She was the winner of the Bavarian Academy Grant and won the 1996 German Music Competition. Her…

Valentin Eichler studied with Tabea Zimmermann in Frankfurt and Berlin, as well as with Veronika Hagen at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. As participant of the Kronberg Chamber Music Academy 2000, he performed with Boris Pergamenschikow and…