»Basso virtuoso«
Carl Maria von Weber
He is regarded as the father of German romantic opera: Carl Maria von Weber. With his "Freischütz", he created something like a prototype, and with the operas that followed, "Euryanthe" and "Oberon", this genre went into series production, a series…
"Andante e Rondo Ungarese" for Bassoon and String Quartet, Opus 35 (arr. by Michael Rot)
Erwin Schulhoff
Five Pieces for String Quartet
Edward Elgar
Like Henry Purcell for the English music of the baroque era and Benjamin Britten for the English music of the modern age, Edward Elgar (1857 ? 1934) is regarded as the representative composer for English music in the late romantic period. This rank…
Romance for Bassoon and String Quintet in D minor, Opus 62
Jean Françaix
Françaix, who came from a musical family, began his study of composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, who continued the tradition of neo-classicism inaugurated by Stravinsky. But besides Stravinsky, Françaix was primarily fascinated by Mozart,…
Divertissement for Bassoon and String Quintet
Giovanni Bottesini
Fantasy on the Opera “La Sonnambula” by Vincenzo Bellini for Double Bass and String Quartet
Leonard Eröd
Fantasy on the Opera "Carmen" by Georges Bizet for Bassoon and String Quintet
Raffaele Giannotti bassoon
Born in Italy in 1995, Raffaele Giannotti received his first bassoon lessons at the age of ten from Antonio Vergine and Claudio Gonella. At the age of 15, he graduated with distinction from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin. Since 2011 he…
Wolfram Lohschütz violin
Wolfram Lohschütz was born in Bad Kissingen and received his first violin lessons at the age of five. At the tender age of seven, he was already a student of Gerd Hoelscher at the Music Academy in Würzburg. He won several first prizes from the…
Victoria Margasyuk violin
Born in Moscow in January 1989, violinist Victoria Margasyuk received her first violin lessons at the age of four from G. Turchaninova at the Central Music School of the Moscow State Conservatory. During her studies with Professor K. Wegrzyn at the…
Konstantin Sellheim viola
Konstantin Sellheim is among the most sought-after instrumentalists of his generation. After studying violin with Prof. Atila Aydintan at Hannover University of Music and Theatre, in 1996 he began viola studies with Volker Worlitzsch from the…
Veit Wenk-Wolff violoncello
Veit Wenk-Wolff was born in 1963 in Heidelberg and grew up in Norway. He received his first cello instruction at the age of 6, later studying with Aage Kvalbein (Oslo), Peter Grümmer (Zurich) and at the Arts Academy in Berlin with Eberhard Finke. He…
Fora Baltacıgil double bass
Fora Baltacıgil joined the Munich Philharmonic as Principal Bass in the 2014. Born in Istanbul, he received his bachelor’s degree from Istanbul University Conservatory in 2002 and an artist diploma in 2006 from The Curtis Institute of Music, where he…