Beate Springorum received her first instrumental instruction at the age of four on the violin. She initially trained as a violinist, then a few years later moved over to the viola. She rounded off her education in master classes with such prestigious…
Michael Martin Kofler was born in the Southern Austrian city of Villach in 1966 and completed his flute studies with honors at the Vienna Music Academy as well as the Music Academy in Basel. While still a student, in 1987, he became solo flutist in…
The oboist was born in 1973 in Leipzig and completed her training with Günter Passin at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Munich. Following the successful completion of her studies, she became principal oboist in the German Symphony Orchestra of…
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…
At the age of 16, this musician from Berlin started taking piano lessons but soon discovered his great love for the double bass. In 1998 he began his training at the Academy of Music in Berlin, continuing on in Leipzig. Alexander Preuss regularly…
Percussionist Sebastian Förschl was educated at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Munich, where he studied with Peter Sadlo and Franz Bach. In the summer of 2009 he passed the diploma examination and moved on to the master class. Sebastian Förschl…
Jörg Hannabach received his training from Arnold Riedhammer at Munich's Richard Strauss Conservatory and at the Academy of Music in Frankfurt, where he graduated with an Artist's Diploma. In 1992 he bercame a member of the State Philharmonic of the…
Michael Leopold studied percussion under Prof Peter Sadlo at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. In 2007 he won first prize at the national “Jugend musiziert” competition and in 2009 he received the cultural advancement award of his home…
The musician from Reutlingen took his first percussion lessons at only 12 years of age and was then accepted as a preparatory student at the Music Academy in Trossingen. As a multiple prize winner at the "Jugend musiziert" competition, Stefan…
Guido Rückel grew up in a very musical family in Berlin. The desire to play percussion instruments was present all his life. When he turned thirteen, his parents exchanged the pots, pans and rubbish bins he had been thwacking on until then for a…
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…
Aglaya Zinchenko wurde 1979 in Sankt Petersburg geboren und absolvierte dort ihr Musikstudium mit Auszeichnung. 2008 schloss sie die Fortbildungsklasse bei Prof. Margarita Höhenrieder an der Musikhochschule in München ab. Sie ist Preisträgerin des…
Florentine Lenz received her first violin tuition at the age of four from Tor Song Tan at the Westfälische Schule für Musik Münster. Aged eleven she became a pupil of Martin Dehning who, a year later, accepted her as junior student into his class at…
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…
Viola player Julie Risbet studied with Jean Sulem at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, where she graduated with honours in May 2008. Subsequently, she continued her studies with Hariolf Schlichtig at the Hochschule…
The musician was born in Neubrandenburg and began his cello studies in 1981 at the music school in his native city. In 1985 he was accepted as an outside student at the "Special School of Music" of the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin, and from…
Born in Rosenheim, Gabriele Krötz first trained to work in a bank before moving on to the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich where she studied with Elisabeth Weinzierl-Wächter and Phililippe Boucly. After completing her diploma requirements she…
Lisa Outred was born in 1969 in Perth, Australia. At the early age of 12 she received a scholarship from Perth Modern High School. She concluded her studies with Joel Marangella and Anne Gilby at the University of West Australia with honors. She then…
Alexandra Gruber was born in Freudenstadt in the Black Forest. She studied the clarinet from 1994 to 1999 at the State Music Academy in Stuttgart and as early as this period also played regular performances with the Bachkollegium Stuttgart and the…
The Salzburg bassoonist Johannes Hofbauer began his musical training with Gerti Hollweger at the age of six. He has performed as a solo bassoonist with orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Substitute…
Mia Schwarzfischer grew up in Bonn, her birthplace, and, from an early age, was a student at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln under Paul van Zelm. During her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with Ab Koster, she was a…
Moscow-born Andrey Godik began his musical training in 1996 at the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow, initially on the recorder but soon switching to the oboe. From 2004 to 2008, he was a junior student at the Central Music School of the Moscow…
The clarinetist from Hungary grew up in a musical family and was already playing in a wind ensemble in his home town as a child. After the beginning of his studies in Hungary, Laszló Kurti transferred to the University of Music and the Performing…
Born in China, Yusi Chen began playing the violin at the age of 6. When he was just 14, he was accepted for study with Russian violinist Evgeny Mikhailovich at the Music Gymnasium , In 2001 he continued his studies with Eberhard Feltz at the Hanns…
Born in 1983 in Shanghai, the double bassist started studying the violin at when she was only three. Seven years later, she discovered the double bass. She was taught from then on by Professor Jian Cao. At the tender age of eleven she gave her first…
Violinist Naoka Aoki, who won second prize at the Long- Thibaud-Crespin 2014 and she also got a special prize of the Prince Albert Ⅱ of Monaco (for the best interpretation of the concerto). She also won second prize at the 4th China International…
Johanna Zaunschirm was born in Hamburg and grew up near Salzburg. Aged six, she began her musical education under Pavla Kinzl at the Musikum Oberndorf. In 2002, Bruno Steinschaden admitted her to the preparatory course at the Mozarteum University.…
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…
