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Sontraud Speidel joined the class of exiled Russian Irene Slavin at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe at the age of eleven. After graduating from high school, she studied with Irene Slavin and Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen in Karlsruhe, Branka Musulin in Frankfurt, Stefan Askenase in Brussels and Géza Anda in Lucerne. She has won prizes at national and international competitions (1st Prize at the Schools of the Federal Republic of Germany at the age...
“A phenomenal musicality, no less artistic sensitivity and intellectual aristocracy awaken in this man dedicated to music a power of expression that one would like to call anti-virtuosity, because it has surpassed perfectly mastered virtuosity and elevated it to the core of higher values.” (Literatūra ir menas, Edmundas Gedgaudas) “In fact, it feels like his playing makes the world stand still for a moment.” (Hessische...
Searching for musical truth The Mandelring Quartet’s remarkable homogeneity of sound, intonation and phrasing has become its distinguishing characteristic; four individuals who play as one in their shared determination to always seek out the innermost core of the music and remain open to the musical truth. By grasping the spiritual dimension, exploring the emotional extremes and working on the details, these musicians probe far beneath the...
Roland Glassl hat sich als Solist und Kammermusiker einen Namen gemacht, der weit über die Landesgrenzen hinausreicht. Sowohl zahlreiche Preise bei internationalen Wettbewerben (1. Preis „Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition“ - als erster Deutscher überhaupt -, bei dem ihm zusätzlich auch der „Peter Schidlof Prize“ für den Finalisten mit dem schönsten Ton verliehen wurde, 1. Preis beim „Washington International Competition...
Jean-Baptiste Dupont enjoys as musician an international career. He performed more than 500 recitals in most of the European countries, in the USA and in Russia, in prestigious venues (Cathedrals from Paris, New York, Berlin, London, Cologne, Copenhagen, Mariinsky concert hall, Bolshoi Theatre, etc...). He has a broad repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the present days, including many transcriptions. Jean-Baptiste Dupont has been hailed...
Ursina Maria Braun's musical career is characterised by its enormous versatility. A prizewinner of the Leipzig Bach Competition, she is active as a soloist and chamber musician as well as a solo cellist in renowned ensembles, and is also a sought-after composer. She began her training as a junior student with Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts, where she also received composition lessons from Andreas Nick. Her Bachelor's...
Florian Birsak's first musical steps took him through the sound world of the Baroque. As a child, he exclusively played the harpsichord and clavichord, and he still regards the music from Frescobaldi to Bach as his musical home. Birsak first began his training in his native city of Salzburg and continued it at the University of Music and Theatre Munich. He received important inspiration for his artistic maturation from formative personalities...
Italian-Australian pianist Jonathan Ferrucci has given concerts as a soloist and chamber musician across Europe, Australia and the United States. He has performed in Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall and Milton Court Concert Hall in London, Carnegie Weill Hall in New York and the Fazioli Concert Hall in Italy, among other venues. Jonathan is a prize winner of numerous competitions, such as the International Bach Competition in Leipzig, the Royal...
The VOKTETT HANNOVER was founded in 2012 by students of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media as a mixed and double-choir vocal ensemble and has since developed into one of the leading national a cappella formations. The eight singers perform a wide variety of programmes at renowned concert series and festivals throughout Germany. These include the Bachfest Leipzig, chor.com, the Kultursommer Nordhessen, Rheingau Musik Festival,...
The harpsichordist, organist, chamber musician, ensemble director, music researcher and educator Lajos Rovatkay studied at the conservatories of his native Budapest as well as in Frankfurt am Main, and played a prominent role in establishing historically informed performance practice in Germany. His detailed knowledge of the vocal and instrumental music of several centuries is fundamental both to his artistic work – concerts in Germany and...
