»Intime Briefe«

"Since Haydn, a symphony is no longer a mere source of fun, but rather a matter of life or death," said Johannes Brahms paying homage to the musical accomplishments of Franz Joseph Haydn, who created trail-blazing works in almost every genre. …

Like Bedrich Smetana and Antonín Dvorák, Leoš Janáček is indissolubly linked with the traditional line of Czech national music. Many of his works, such as the operas "Jenufa", "Katia Kabanova" and "Příhody Li?ky Bystrou?ky" ("The Cunning Little…

Robert Schumann, born on June 8th 1810 in Zwickau, actually wanted to become a pianist, but had to give up this plan because of a hand injury caused by excessive practicing. Until 1840, he exclusively composed works for piano and art songs, before…

Iason Keramidis was born in Kavala, Greece in 1985. Receiving lessons from Prof Stelios Kafantaris aged 13, he studied at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart with Prof Ingolf Turban from 2003 and later at the State…

Born in Tokyo in 1988, Asami Yamada received her first violin lessons at the age of four. She was a student of Gérard Poulet, Oleh Krysa and Natsumi Tamai at the Tokyo University of Arts and received her Master’s degree in 2011 before joining the…

Shizuka Mitsui erhielt mit fünf Jahren seinen ersten Cellounterricht und studierte an der Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokio bei Hakuro Mori und Wen-Sinn Yang. 2011 wurde er Akademist des NHK Symphony Orchestra. Seit 2016 studiert er an der…