In 2004, at the age of 28, Manfred Aust became professor of piano at the MHL – at the time the youngest professor at a German Universities of Music. During his studies with Professors Josef Anton Scherrer (Cologne), Christopher Elton (London), Annerose Schmidt (Berlin) and Gilead Mishory (Freiburg), Manfred Aust was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. He received further artistic impulses from Detlef Kraus, Helena Sá e Costa, Rudolf Kehrer and Jacques Rouvier. As a prizewinner of national and international competitions, he began a varied and intensive concert career early on, which has taken him as far as the Far East. He plays as a soloist with renowned conductors and orchestras and has appeared at festivals such as the Rheingau Music Festival. "Mature class" is a typical press verdict on his playing, on the occasion of a piano recital of Reger's Bach Variations, the critic noted: "There are no unsolvable tasks for Aust." Radio recordings of his playing are available on several German stations. After studying historical keyboard instruments with Prof. Dr. Robert Hill in Freiburg, Manfred Aust appeared as a harpsichordist, for example, with the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach. Numerous graduates of his piano class at the MHL have won prizes at national and international competitions (Munich, Schwerin, Rome, Val Tidone, Crete etc.) and have been awarded many scholarships and special prizes. They perform internationally as successful artists and are active as pedagogues in the field of young artists as well as in higher education. Manfred Aust is also involved in the training of highly talented young pianists. This includes special master classes. His pupils and young students have won prizes in many competitions for young talent, e.g. the International Carl Maria von Weber Competition Dresden, the Steinway Competition Hamburg, the International Piano Competition Jugend in Essen as well as the German National Competition Jugend musiziert (numerous 1st prizes). As an internationally sought-after teacher, Manfred Aust gives master classes in Germany and abroad, including in Poland, Japan, China and Indonesia. He is a regular juror at competitions.

Daniela Bartels studied music and english for the teaching profession at grammar schools at the University of Music and Drama and the University of Hanover. She spent a semester abroad at the University of Otago in New Zealand. In 2009, she completed her studies with the 1st state examination for the office of Studienrätin and went to Berlin. From 2009 to 2013, she worked there first as a trainee teacher and finally as a music and English teacher at the music-emphasised Clay School. She focused on band and choir work. From 2013 to 2017, Daniela Bartels taught as a research assistant at the FRANZ LISZT University of Music in Weimar. At the same time, she founded and directed the pop/jazz choir "zimmmt" in Berlin, in which all singers are enabled to participate artistically to this day. From 2017 to 2019, she was an academic councillor in "Aesthetic Education" at the University of Cologne. Her dissertation thesis "Musikpraxis und ein gutes Leben - Welchen Wert haben ethische Konzeptionen für die Musikpädagogik?" was published by Wißner-Verlag in 2018. From 2019 to 2022, Daniela Bartels taught as a visiting professor at the UdK Berlin. Her research interests are the "Philosophy of Music Education" and the linking of theory and practice in music education. In September 2019, she published the first episode of her podcast "Mehr als Töne - Musikpädagogik und Gesellschaft", in which people from different worlds of music education have their say.
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Pieter-Jan Belder studied recorder with Ricardo Kanji at the Royal Conservatium of The Hague, and harpsichord with Bob van Asperen at the Amsterdam Sweelinck Conservatorium. He has persued a flourishing career as harpsichordist, clavichord player, organist, forte-pianist and recorder player. He has appeared at many international festivals, such as the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, the Berlin Musikfest, the Festival van Vlaanderen, the Festival Potsdam Sans Souci, Bremen Musikfest and the Leipzig Bachfest. He regularly plays solo recitals, and is also very much in demand as a continuo player with such ensembles as the, The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Camarata Trajectina, Bach Collegium Japan, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, and the Netherlands Bach Society, and has been working with conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Ton Koopman, Masaaki Suzuki, Jos van Veldhoven and Philippe Herreweghe, amongst others. Belder has also accompanied soloists such as Johannette Zomer, Nico van der Meel, Harry van der Kamp, Sigiswald Kuijken, Rémy Baudet and Wilbert Hazelzet. Belder conducts his own ensemble Musica Amphion. In 1997 Pieter-Jan Belder was awarded the third prize at the Hamburg NDR Music Prize harpsichord competition. In 2000 he was winner of the Leipzig Bach harpsichord competition. In 2005 he made his debut as a conductor in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and was since then regularly conducting productions with soloists such as Michael Chance and Sarah Connolly (Dido & Aeneas) and the choir Collegium Vocale Gent. He has made over 130 CD recordings, most of them solo and chamber music productions. Since 1999 Belder has worked on his integral recording of the Scarlatti keyboard sonatas, which was released in 2007. Since then he has recorded Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier along with the complete harpsichord works by Rameau and Soler. Recently Brilliant released two volumes with harpsichord music from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book and a recording of the Kenner und Liebhaber series by C.P.E. Bach, recorded on the fortepiano and the clavichord. Belder has also recorded several orchestral and chamber-music productions with Musica Amphion: Telemann’s Tafelmusik, the complete works of Corelli, Bach’s Brandenburg concertos, Bach’s concertos for 2, 3 & 4 harpsichords, and the complete chamber music of Purcell. Pieter-Jan Belder is currently working on recordings of works by Handel, C.P.E. Bach, The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book and J.S. Bach in a series called Bach in Context. This series is in corporation with Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam on the label Etcetera. Belder’s new recording of Bach’s Goldbergvariations has recently been released on Brilliant Classics. He is currently working as a duopartner with violinist Rie Kimura with whom he recorded the complete violin works by C.P.E. Bach.

David Boehler, born in 1973 in Freiburg, began as a young student in 1987 in the class of Prof. Elza Kolodin at the State Conservatory of Music in Freiburg. After graduating, he continued his piano studies with Prof. Kolodin and Prof. Vitaly Margulis. In 1994, he moved to the University of Music and Theatre in Hanover in the class of Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and graduated there with the exam in "Artistic Education" as a certified music teacher. From 1999 to 2002 David Böhler studied with Prof. Konrad Elser at the MHL in advanced studies. He then received a scholarship to study in the U.S. from the German National Academic Foundation at the Eastman School of Music Rochester (New York) in the class of Prof. Dr. Jean Barr. David Boehler is laureate of national and international competitions, among others the "Chopin Competition" in Göttingen and the "Chopin Competition" in Darmstadt. He is a Fellow of the Edwin Fischer Foundation, the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg, the Yahama Music Foundation of Europe and the German National Academic Foundation. He has given recitals in Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Poland and the U.S. with orchestras and as a chamber musician. Since 2002 he has been a lecturer for Piano and Correpetition at the MHL.

Reinhard Brede studied from 1972 to 1978 and achieved a degree in Mathematics. Subsequently, from 1979 to 1985 he studied piano with an artistic and an instrumental-pedagogical degree. In addition to his numerous involvements in jazz bands since 1970, he is also very active in several chamber music ensembles, predominantly with members of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Kiel. From 1986 to 2010 he headed the gala orchestra "Die Studiker." During this time, his activities also included Musical Director for Vicky Leandros.

Darko Bunderla was born in the westphalian city of Halle. During his school years, he sang in many school choirs, including many years in the renowned and award-winning Christophorus Youth Chamber Choir Versmold. He then received his first solo training in singing, further lessons in piano and music theory. After graduation from high school, he studied Music Education at the MHL (majoring in Singing with Professor Günter Binge and with chamber singer Prof. Thomas Thomaschke and Choral Conducting with Prof. Gerd Müller-Lorenz). In addition to artistic and educational training, musicology was another important focus. After his First State Exam, he studied musicology, political science and history at the University of Kiel. As a vocal soloist Darko Bunderla also performed as a conductor and choir director. Radio broadcasts and recordings with the NDR and WDR document his profuse versatile abilities. Concert tours include Germany and many other European countries, including Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Latvia, Poland, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovenia. He is a youth musical award winner and, for several years, was a scholar of the Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation. Since 2001 he has directed the very traditional Choir of the Singing Conductor Lübeck, where he works with both sacred and secular choral music from five centuries and oratorios – primarily by George Frideric Handel. As a highly experienced singing teacher and vocal coach, Darko Bunderla is also active as a popular director of various vocal ensembles and choral seminars (inter alia at the "Lecker Musiksommer" the North See Academy Leck and "Voices of Europe"). He has been a lecturer at the MHL since 2000.

Eckhard Bürger, Director of the Lübeck Bach Choir and church musician at St. Aegidien, grew up in an Altmark parsonage. After his church musical A Diploma in Halle (Saale), he joined the Advanced Studies in Organ at the MHL with Prof. Martin Haselböck. During this time he had his first position as a church musician in Groß Grönau. He was a finalist in the International Organ Competition "Gottfried Silbermann" and participated in numerous master classes. Between 2000 and the summer of 2008 he was a church musician at the Protestant Church St. Blasius zu Nordhausen (Thuringia) and conducted, as head of the choir there, a wide repertoire of oratorios and a cappella literature. As an organist, chamber musician and choir director, he possesses a wealth of experience. As head of the extensive musical work with children at St. Aegidien in Lübeck, he brings together about 100 children from preschool age to high school with both the carolers and the youth choir every week.

Christian Carsten studied musical theatre directing in Hamburg. He was assistant director at the Saarländisches Staatstheater in Saarbrücken and at the Hanover State Opera, where he worked with directors such as Barrie Kosky, Luk Perceval and Anna Viebrock. Collaboration with directors such as Philipp Himmelmann, Christof Nel and Monique Wagemakers brought him several times to the Opéra National de Lorraine and the Nederlandse Reisopera Enschede, but also to the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Angers Nantes Opéra, the Graz Opera and the Opéra de Nice, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Semperoper Dresden. From 2003 to 2005 he was a scholarship holder at the Akademie Musiktheater Heute. In Hamburg he staged "Hansel and Gretel 2000", his version of "La Bohème" at the Nederlandse Reisopera Enschede toured the Netherlands and England and played at the Festival Classique in The Hague. With productions such as an Offenbach double bill or Handel's "Aci, Galatea e Polifemo", with Schönberg's "Pierrot lunaire" or Henry Purcell's "King Arthur", he explored various forms of music theatre between comedy and tragedy. He staged Mozart's "The Gardener's Wife for Love" at the Baden-Baden Easter Festival and most recently worked at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse. Since the winter semester 2019/20, he has held a lectureship for scenic presentation at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Since the winter semester 2021/22, he has also been a lecturer for scenic work in the field of music theatre at the MHL.

Szymon Chojnacki began his artistic career in 2008 as the first bass in the International Opera Studio at the University of Music Lübeck. During this phase of his career, he already appeared in important productions, including as Tom in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, as Kruschina in Smetana's The Bartered Bride and as the Speaker in Mozart's Magic Flute (2009/10 season). In 2010, Chojnacki was invited to join the opera studio of the Stuttgart State Opera, a step that further promoted his artistic development. In 2011, he joined the Lucerne Theatre in Switzerland as a permanent member of the ensemble and remained there until 2016, during which time he established himself as a versatile singer and took on numerous roles in top-class productions. In 2016, he made his debut with important roles in Austria. Szymon Chojnacki covered the role of Stefano in the Vienna State Opera's production of Thomas Adès' The Tempest and appeared as Sarastro in Mozart's Magic Flute at the Baden bei Wien stage. In the 2016/17 season, he also appeared as Caiphas in Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber, as Jupiter and Satyre in Rameau's Platée, as Stromminger in La Wally by Catalani and as Harasta in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen at the Landestheater Niederbayern. Szymon Chojnacki has been performing as a freelance artist since 2017 and has quickly established himself as a permanent fixture in international opera and concert life. His regular appearances at the Tyrolean Festival Erl are particularly noteworthy, where he has performed under conductors such as Gustav Kuhn, Friedrich Haider and Paolo Carignani. He made his debut in Erl as Walter in Rossini's Guillaume Tell and appeared in various other roles, including Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Alessio in La Sonnambula, Colline in La Bohème and Martino in L'occasione fa il ladro. He has also expanded his repertoire as the 2nd Knight of the Grail in Wagner's Parsifal. Since 2018, Chojnacki has also been a frequent guest at the Teatro La Fenice and Teatro Malibran in Venice, where he shines in productions such as Richard III, Don Carlo, Prima la musica poi le parole, Der Schauspieldirektor as well as Ariadne auf Naxos and Der Protagonist. Despite his strong presence on the opera stage, Szymon Chojnacki also remains active on the concert scene. He performs regularly in European concert halls, including works such as Mendelssohn's Paulus, Bach's St. John Passion, Handel's Messiah and Haydn's Seasons. His latest recording - an album with the complete songs of Ignacy Friedman - was nominated for the OPUS KLASSIK AWARD in 2022 in the categories Solo Recording Vocal (Lied) and World Premiere Recording and received a further nomination for the ICMA International Classical Music Awards 2023. Since 2022, he has also been teaching singing at the Lübeck University of Music, where he passes on his many years of experience to the next generation of singers.

Composer and organist Franz Danksagmüller unites a broad musical spectrum in his innovative projects, compositions and live electronics performances. His work continually fathoms the links between historic and contemporary music, between classical musical instruments and their modern electronic counterparts. In his genre-spanning and interdisciplinary projects, Franz Danksagmüller works in collaboration with scientists and diverse artistic personalities. His latest projects combine his own compositions with visualisations and film recordings. Franz Danksagmüller performs as a soloist and as part of various musical ensembles, and gives guest performances at leading concert halls and international festivals. Franz Danksagmüller studied organ, composition and electronic music in Vienna, Linz, Saarbrucken and Paris. His teachers include Michael Radulescu, Daniel Roth, Erich Urbanner and Karlheinz Essl. He was awarded an Appreciation Award from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research in 1994, and he has won prizes at various international music competitions. Since 2005, he is Professor of Organ and Improvisation at the University of Music Lübeck. He acts as a juror at distinguished organ competitions, including Haarlem, Alkmaar, Lübeck and St. Albans. Since 2015, he is a visiting professor at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music in China, and from September 2018, he will be a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Adrian Diaz Martinez was born in Madrid and received his basic music education in his hometown. In 2017, he completed his music studies with Marie-Luise Neunecker at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with a Master's degree. The young horn player can already look back on an international orchestral career. At the age of 16, he was already accepted into the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and played in the Konzerthausorchester Berlin during his studies. As a low horn player, he has been a full-time member of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra since 2014 and of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra since 2019. Diaz Martinez has collaborated with numerous well-known orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Capella Andrea Barca. He also performs at renowned festivals such as the Zermatt Festival and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In 2017 he won the Second Prize and the Audience Award at the "International Horn Competition Citta di Porcia". In 2020, he was awarded Third Prize at the prestigious International Mozart Competition in Salzburg. Since 2017 he has been teaching horn at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and from 2020 at the Brass Academy Alicante. He also gives master classes at universities throughout Europe and occasionally lectures in Korea and Japan. In 2018, Diaz Martinez released his first CD entitled "Avantgarde". Together with pianist Ikuko Odai, he presents rarely heard pieces for horn and piano by Hermann Neuling, Francis Poulenc, Jan Koetsier and Jane Vignery. This year, the duo plans to release another album entitled "Manu Scriptum". In 2021, Diaz Martinez has been appointed professor of horn at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. As a low horn player, he has been a full-time member of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra since 2014 and of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra since 2019. Diaz Martinez has collaborated with numerous well-known orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Capella Andrea Barca. He also performs at renowned festivals such as the Zermatt Festival and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In 2017 he won the Second Prize and the Audience Award at the "International Horn Competition Citta di Porcia". In 2020, he was awarded Third Prize at the prestigious International Mozart Competition in Salzburg. Since 2017 he has been teaching horn at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and from 2020 at the Brass Academy Alicante. He also gives master classes at universities throughout Europe and occasionally lectures in Korea and Japan. In 2018, Diaz Martinez released his first CD entitled "Avantgarde". Together with pianist Ikuko Odai, he presents rarely heard pieces for horn and piano by Hermann Neuling, Francis Poulenc, Jan Koetsier and Jane Vignery. This year, the duo plans to release another album entitled "Manu Scriptum". In 2021, Diaz Martinez has been appointed professor of horn at the Musikhochschule Lübeck.

Gesine Dreyer studied harp at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Prof. Julie Raines and Prof. Maria Graf. She visited master classes with Susanna Mildonian and Ursula Holliger. After a fixed-time contract with the Frankfurter Oper und Museum Orchester, she was solo harpist of the Philharmonic Orchestra Kiel from 1994 to 2001. Since then she is living with her family in Hamburg and is both professor at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin and teaches the harp class at the MHL. Her students won prizes in national and international competitions such as the national competition "Jugend musiziert" or the competitions in Szeged, Porto, Wales. They take part in the federal and state youth orchestras as well as the SHMF and EUY orchestras. Additionally Gesine Dreyer works as freelancing harpist with orchestras like Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Ensemble Resonanz, the Hamburg State Opera and other orchestras. She also performs as a chamber musician, for example with colleagues from the MHL.

Lena Eckels was born in Detmold (Germany) and at the age of ten, she began to play the viola. She studied with Prof. Barbara Westphal and Prof. Lars-Anders Tomter. As a soloist, she has won the GWK Förderpreis 2004 and the 1st prize at the Brahms Competition 2005 (Pörtschach, Austria). Lena attended master classes with Kim Kashkashian, Yuri Bashmet and Nobuko Imai among others. She has been a member of the Swiss-German Amaryllis Quartet for 10 years. The quartet has won the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2011 and appeared regularly in concert series and festivals including the Lucerne Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, The Chelsea Music Festival (NYC, USA), The Huntington Estate Music Festival Australia, Schwetzinger Festspiele and has performed in Viennas Musikverein, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Wigmore Hall and the Melbourne Recital Centre. The group won the Jürgen Ponto Kammermusikpreis 2012, the highest endowed award for chamber music in Germany and was awarded with an ECHO Klassik for the recording "White“. Lena Eckels is a member of the German-Israeli "Else Ensemble“ – a young ensemble that collaborates regularly with diplomatic and multi-cultural institutions and initiates innovative, cross-disciplinary concerts. In 2018 Lena was appointed professor of viola at the Musikhochschule Lübeck (Germany) and is regularly performing in festivals and concerts all over Europe.

Currently a professor at the Lübeck University of Music, graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, under the guidance of Prof. Yfrah Neaman where she attained her soloist diploma, and completed her artist diploma at the Music University of Saarbrücken in the studio of Prof. Ulrike Dierick. Besides many national, as well as international awards and prizes, she also received and was supported by numerous scholarships. Maria Egelhof began her concert life at a very young age as a soloist with renowned symphony orchestras as well as a chamber musician. The outstanding artist led masterclasses and played many concerts in almost all European countries and the former Soviet states. Maria Egelhof is often invited as a soloist and as a chamber musician to international music festivals. She has been featured in many television, radio, and CD productions. Many students of hers have already pursued a soloist career or have positions in Orchestras or Ensembles with worldwide recognition. As an editor of many Editions of the Schott Verlag, she has made herself quite a name, particularly the new edition of the Violin Etudes by R. Kreutzer.

The pianist Konstanze Eickhorst is not a musician who is easily pigeonholed: she is a soloist, a chamber musician and a teacher. “These are the three pillars on which my musical life is built,” she said in a recently broadcast interview. Konstanze Eickhorst was a pupil of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hanover and Vlado Perlemuter in Paris. Joachim Kaiser has praised her not only for her “immaculate command of piano technique”, but also for the “intensity of expression” that is her particular hallmark. The jury at the renowned Clara Haskil Competition thought so too, as did the jury of the Géza Anda Competition, at both of which she won first prize. She has also won prizes at the Toronto Bach Competition (in memoriam Glenn Gould) and at Belgium’s Concours Reine Elisabeth. Konstanze Eickhorst appears at many leading international festivals, including Lucerne, Montreux, Salzburg, Ravinia (Chicago) and Berlin. She has also performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich and others, with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Andrew Davis, Peter Schneider, Manfred Honeck and Ingo Metzmacher. She has been privileged to work in a solo capacity with Sándor Végh and Ferdinand Leitner. She is a member of the Linos Ensemble, which performs in combinations ranging from duo to nonet in concert halls throughout the world and has numerous awards and CD recordings to its credit. Her strong interest in merging music and literature led to close collaboration with the late actor Karl Michael Vogler. Since 2010 she has performed with the actor Johanna Gastdorf. Alongside her activities as a solo pianist, Konstanze Eickhorst sees it as her mission to transmit the fruit of her experience to the younger generation of pianists. She was one of the youngest professors in the story of German music-academies when, in 1989, she embarked on her successful teaching career at the Hochschule für Musik und T

Prof. Franz-Josef Einhaus (Baritone) studied school music (majors subjects voice and piano, special subjects choral and orchestral conducting), German philology and education at the University and Conservatory Cologne. After the two state examinations, Prof. Josef Metternich trained him in his master class to be a singer at the Cologne Academy of Music. He also studied in the master class of Prof. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau at the Berlin University (focus on song interpretation). He completed his education with a concert exam. He has won prestigious singing competitions (VDMK, "New Voices", Belvedere) and is a Fellow of the Bayreuth Festival. His concert tours have taken him all around Germany and abroad, among others Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Brazil. Endeavors in radio and television (ARD, ZDF, WDR, NDR, RAI UNO, BRT 2, to name a few) complement its field of activity. As song interpreter, Franz-Josef Einhaus has also made a name as an experienced opera singer. His repertoire includes more than 50 operatic roles. He sang in the Düsseldorf Opera (where he made his highly acclaimed debut with the title role of "Lenz" by Wolfgang Rihm), the Cologne Opera as well as performances in Bonn, Brussels, Dresden, Duisburg, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Antwerp and Maastricht. He has worked together with renowned directors such as H. Kupfer, A. Homoki, A. Pilavachi and conductor like W. Trommer, J. Conlon, St. Lano, J. Fiore, H. Rilling, P. Schreier and S. Young. In addition to his artistic work, his educational work is a priority. Franz-Josef Einhaus regularly gives master classes. He was a lecturer at the Cologne Music Academy and visiting professor at the Music Academy Osaka (Japan). He was appointed professor of singing at the MHL in 1992. His students sing in reputable radio choirs and are soloists in opera houses in Germany and abroad, including at La Scala, the Vienna Volksoper, in Hamburg, Dresden, Maastricht, Basel, Bremen, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, and Munster.

Konrad Elser, born in Swabian Gmund, studied piano at the Music Academy in Stuttgart with Professor Paul Buck, Prof. Andrzej Jasinski and Prof. Oleg Maisenberg, who assisted him while studying. Konrad Elser was a student of Martha Argerich in Geneva and attended master classes with Lew Vlasenko, Jörg Demus and Nikita Magaloff, to name just a few. Konrad Elser received prizes and awards in numerous competitions. He was awarded the bronze medal at the 1982 International Music Competition in Geneva. In 1984, he was an award winner at the German Music Competition in Bonn and in 1985, he won 1st prize at the Concours International de Piano in Epinal, followed by prizes in 1987 and 1989 at the Busoni Competition in Bolzano and the International Schubert Competition in Dortmund. His activities as a soloist and chamber musician led Konrad Elser to many other European countries, as well as South America, China and Japan. For many years he has performed with the "Melos Quartett", with artists such as David Geringas, Ida Bieler, Thomas Brandis, the tenor James Wagner, the "Lotus Quartet," the "Cuarteto Casals" and the "Trio di clarone" with Sabine Meyer. As a passionate educator and juror, Konrad Elser has acquired an excellent reputation. After teaching at the Music Academy of Stuttgart and the University of Church Music in Esslingen, Konrad Elser followed the call in 1992 to the MHL, where he trains new pianistic talent as a professor of piano and chamber music.

Edith Escudero García first studied piano with Dr. Fernando García Torres at the music academy of her hometown Mexico City. After successfully completing her studies, she moved to Germany to continue her education. She graduated from the MHL postgraduate studies in piano with Prof. Konrad Elser, studied music education with Prof. Manfred Aust and completed postgraduate studies in chamber music with Prof. Inge-Susann Römhild. She performed as a soloist and in collaboration with various ensembles in Mexico as well as in Norway, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Palestine, England, Spain and the USA. With her extraordinary performances as a soloist and chamber musician, she has won several awards and recognitions both in her homeland as well as abroad. At 15, she won the second prize in the National Singing and Interpretation Competition of the Mexican National Academy of Arts. At 18, she won the first prize of the IV Edvard Grieg National competition in Chihuahua. Since 2006, she has been sponsored as a soloist and chamber musician of the international Yehudi Menuhin – Live Music Now Foundation. In 2007 she received the support of Marie-Luise Imbusch Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In 2009, she won the first prize of the Possehl Competition Lübeck with her Trio Arion. She attended master classes with Oleg Maisenberg, Andrzje Jasinski, Anatol Ugorski, Gyorgy Sandor, Eva Kupiec, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Jorge Federico Osorio, Bernard Flavigny and Jorge Luis Prats. Edith Escudero García teaches piano at the MHL, is a member of the Trio Arion and regular member of the jury at the competition "Jugend musiziert" (Youth Makes Music).

Angela Firkins, born Tetzlaff, studied with Jean-Claude Gérard (Hamburg), with William Bennett (Freiburg) and with Paul Meisen (Munich). After several first prizes in the competition "Jugend musiziert" (Youth Makes Music), she received a prize at the German Music Competition in 1985 and in 1986, 1st prize at the competition of the German Universities. As a member of the Albert Schweitzer Quintet she won numerous competitions (ARD Competition, German Music Competition, among others). She received the prize of the German Record Critics, produced several CDs and radio recordings and gave concerts at home and abroad. After long membership in the National Youth Orchestra, the Young German Philharmonic Orchestra and the Youth Orchestra of the European Community, she was the solo flautist of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1993 and 1994 the solo flautist of the Radio Symphony Orchestra NDR Hannover. 1997 she was appointed as a professor at the MHL.

Johannes Fischer studied with Prof. Bernhard Wulff, Tajiro Miyazaki and Pascal Pons at the Conservatory Freiburg and as a scholarship holder from the Gerd Bucerius Foundation with Prof. Steven Schick at the University of California San Diego (USA). This was followed by private studies in conducting with Francis Travis and composition with Dieter Mack. As a drummer and composer Johannes Fischer received numerous awards and scholarships. He has won prizes at the German University Competition and the German Music Competition. At the 56th International ARD Competition in Munich, he won 1st prize and four other special prizes. He regularly performs at home and abroad, including at the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Berlin Philharmonie. In addition to his extensive concert repertoire, improvisation is a strong focus for him, inter alia, with Matthias Kaul and Fritz Hauser. Together with Nicholas Rimmer, Johannes Fischer designs new live music for silent films and is working on several feature-length solo concepts in conjunction with electronic sounds and video projection design. Johannes Fischer plays in various chamber music groups, including the eardrum percussion duo, the duo d'accord Munich, in a duo with his wife Nari Hong (flute) and the Trio Belli Fischer Rimmer (trombone, piano, percussion). Together with Nari Hong (flute, electronics) and Franz Danksagmüller (live electronics, KYMA), he explores experimental psychedelic club sounds in the formation "pulse generator." As a composer he has been commissioned by the Crested Butte Music Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Louvre Paris, the Young Sound Forum of Central Europe, the Amaryllis Quartet, the Third Coast Percussion, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, the BBC and the Bavarian Radio, to same a few. One focus is the instrumental chamber music, enhanced by electronic sound additions or alienations. His CD recordings OehmsClassics ( "

Born in 1962 in Bremen, Arvid Gast studied Organ Performance and Church Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany. From 1990-1993 he held the position of organist and choirmaster at St. Nikolai church in Flensburg. Appointed Professor of Organ Performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" and University Organist in Leipzig in 1993, he remained until 2004 when he accepted the position of Director of the Church Music Institute at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck. He is simultaneously Titular Organist of the historic organs (Stellwagen-Organ from 1637, Large Organ from 1466/1672/1984) in St. Jakobi Luebeck and held the same position at the Concerthall “Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen” in Magdeburg from 2008 to 2014. In 2007 he founded the "International Dieterich-Buxtehude-Organ-Competition". During his studies, Gast had won numerous international organ competitions, and is an oft invited juror for many distinguished international competitions (Leipzig, Graz, Alkmaar, Tokyo). His numerous recordings, concert invitations and interpretation courses at home and abroad attest to his abilities as an eminent recitalist and pedagogue, and is currently a foremost interpreter of German Romantic music.

Christoph Michael Gerl studied school music in Weimar and choral conducting and jazz piano in Würzburg. He is a lecturer in applied piano playing, piano improvisation and jazz piano and worked for many years as a teacher of music and performing arts at the Theodor Mommsen School in Bad Oldesloe. He also directs the Hamburg pop choir Cantaloop (www.cantaloop-hamburg.de), with which he recently won 3rd prize at the German Choir Competition 2023 in Hanover. Christoph M. Gerl is a lecturer for applied piano playing, arranging and pop choir conducting at Nordkolleg Rendsburg (www.nordkolleg.de).

Nicola Leonhard Hein is a sound artist, guitarist, composer and researcher in the field of music aesthetics and cybernetics. His work is determined by the interaction of sound, space, light, movement and the emergent dynamics of aesthetic systems. In his artistic work he uses physical and electronic extensions of synthesizers and electric guitar, sound installations with motors/video projections/light, cybernetic human-machine interaction with interactive A.I. music systems, augmented reality, telematic real-time art, ambisonic sound projection, instrument making, conceptual compositions. Intermedial works with video art, dance, literature and other art forms. The interdisciplinary collaboration with many different artists from music and also from video art, dance, theatre, literature, painting and many more play a central role in his artistic work. Born in Düsseldorf in 1988, the sound artist studied jazz guitar, philosophy, German language and literature and sound art composition at the universities of Bonn and Mainz, among others with Prof. Markus Gabriel and Prof. Peter Kiefer. He also works as a researcher in the field of music aesthetics and has lectured at various institutions around the world. At the invitation of Prof. George E. Lewis, he was a visiting scholar at the music department of Columbia University in New York. In the past he taught at the Hochschule Düsseldorf at the chair of Prof. Hyun Kang Kim and at Columbia University in New York. With the support of the Goethe-Institut and many other institutions, his work has been realised in more than 30 countries in North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Particularly noteworthy is the internationally very successful collaboration with the artist Claudia Schmitz, with whom Nicola L. Hein runs the interdisciplinary institution for media art UnStumm, which has meanwhile realised work in virtual space with over 100 different artists in 12 different countries worldwide and beyond. His artistic work is documented on over 30 CD, tape and vinyl publications on international labels such as Clean Feed. He has been awarded many different prizes and grants for his work. In the field of sound art and improvised music, he has worked with many renowned artists, including with Max Eastly, Evan Parker, George Lewis, Miya Masaoka, Paul Lytton, Seth Cluett, Chris Chafe, Robert Dick, Michael Vorfeld, Axel Dörner, Mazen Kerbaj, Ute Wassermann, Claudia Schmitz, Akiko Nakayama, Viola Yip, Toshimaru Nakamura, Jin Sangtae, Anne La Berge, Sofia Jernberg, Audrey Chen, Ignaz Schick, Burkhard Beins, Laetitia Sonami, Katherine Liberovskaya, Ana María Romano Gómez, Lou Mallozzi, Lillevan, Sejin Kim and many more. Presentations of his work have taken place on many different international stages and festivals, including MaerzMusik Festival (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), Moers Festival, A L'ARME! FESTIVAL (Berlin), Super Deluxe (Tokyo), Sonica Festival (Glasgow), Acht Brücken Festival (Cologne), Experimental Intermedia (New York), Harvestworks (New York), Museo Arte Moderno (Medellín), Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo Juan Soriano (Cuernavaca), Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry University of Chicago and New York City Electronics Music Festival. The internationally renowned sound artist Nicola Leonhard Hein will teach as professor for "Digital Creation" at the MHL from October 2022.

Sabine Hoene successfully completed her First State Exam for music education and a diploma in music education at the MHL. After her internship she was a teacher at the Katharineum, Lübeck. Since 1996, she has been responsible as a full-time program director for training in music (career path secondary school). Since 2006 she is also country expert advisor for the subject Music at the Institute for Quality Development at Schools Schleswig-Holstein (IQSH). Apart from training, her fields are: representation of the subject at the country level, connection to the Ministry of Education and to the associations, work on the development of curricula and the technical requirements for the baccalaureate, coordination of training in music, organization and management of national trade days, designing workshops of the specialist team, as well as developing and producing publications. Since 1999, Sabine Hoene has also been offering events of different formats to the MHL. On the country level, she is a board member of the Association of German School Musicians and on the Work Group on School Music.

Frank Maximilian Hube initially studied church music and piano with Professor Bernd Zack before he devoted himself to conducting studies with Professor Klaus Peter Seibel at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Hamburg. He completed his training with Professor Karl Österreicher, Yuji Yuasa and Heinz Rögner. In 1995, he was engaged as a conductor and assistant to the General Music Director Michail Jurowski at the Volkstheater Rostock. When he joined in the Leipzig Opera in 2000 as Music Director, he commenced a close and fruitful cooperation with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. Apart from his work in Germany, he worked, among others, in the U.S. as Chief Conductor of the Festival Opera in the Ozarks, which he headed as Music Director from 1995 to 2001. He conducted more than 20 operas and several concerts there. As part of his commitment as Main Music Director of the Theater Lübeck, he focused intensely on contemporary repertoire. With the opera Wält der Zwischenfälle by Haflidi Halgrimsson, which premiered under his direction in Lübeck, he enjoyed great success in Vienna, together with the ensemble Die Reihe. In 2008, he made his debut as a conductor of the WDR Radio Orchestra. During his career as a conductor, Frank Maximilian Hube performed repeatedly as a pianist and accompanist. After teaching at the Music Academy Rostock and the Singer Academy Hamburg, he has been a lecturer at the MHL since January 2010.

Martin Hundelt was born in Osnabrück. He studied voice with Ute Niss at the MHL. Lessons with Aldo Baldin and James Wagner rounded off his training. His vocal work covers all areas of the lyric tenor art. He has performed as an opera singer in a dozen roles in this genre. Primarily though, he is active as a concert singer with a wide variety of styles, eras and repertoire. This also includes works of the "Seconda Pratica," such as romantic literature and contemporary music. This repertoire leads him to festivals such as the "Braunschweiger Kammermusikpodium", the "Accademia Organistica Romagna" in Rome, the "Semana de Música Religiosa" in Cuenca (Spain) and to a large range of concert venues – from the St. Jürgen Chapel to Christchurch City Hall. Radio and television broadcasts and sound recordings all document his vocal activity. Martin Hundelt has taught singing since 1993 at the university level. First, he taught at the University of Arts in Berlin (until 2012) and since 2001 at the MHL, where he also lectures in Teaching Methodology.

Carlos Johnson was 6 years old when he attended his first violin lesson. Soon after-wards he won several First prizes in various competitions. As a 14 year old, he won a scholarship to study under Professor Alexander Serafimov in Sofia (Bulgaria). He passed his performing arts leaving examination and concert examination under the tuition of Professor Lukas David in Detmold, attaining the highest possible grades. Whilst a Student, he taught as assistant to Professor Lukas David and at the Sion Summer Festival (Sitten, Switzerland) as assistant to Professor Tibor Varga. Carlos Johnson played as soloist and leader with the Tibor Varga Chamber Orchestra and the Detmold Chamber Orchestra directed by Christoph Poppen. He also played as soloist with the Berlin Svmphony Orchestra on several occasions. He has played with the Berlin Philharmonie Orchestra on a temporary basis and the WDR Radio Orchestral. In 2000, he was promoted to the position of Konzertmeister of the Philharmonic Orchestra Lübeck. Radio and CD productions and international concert tours to Europe, South America and Japan with the Vienna Chamber Soloists, the Prentki Quartett and TRIO TRE MONDI are also evidence of his expirience as a chamber musician. Carlos Johnson was one of the prize-winners at the 'Nicanor Zabaleta' competition in San Sebastian (Spain).

Professor Diethelm Jonas became a professor at the MHL in 2001 after he held a professorship for oboe at the Musikhochschule Trossingen since 1980. He studied in Essen at the Folkwang Universität der Künste, in London at the Royal Academy of Music with Lady Evelyn Rothwell-Barbirolli and in Freiburg at the Hochschule für Musik with Heinz Holliger. He has won numerous national and international competitions. Diethelm Jonas has played in more than 25 years as a solo oboist of the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart under many famous conductors like Bernstein, Kubelik, Solti, Sinopoli, Leinsdorf, Böhm, Haitink, Celibidache, Giulini. As a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra he played under Claudio Abbado for ten years. His solo commitments and masterclasses regularly lead him to Taiwan, China, South America and Japan. At the Gedai University in Tokyo, he teaches every two years as a visiting professor. There are more than 25 CD recordings, most of them with his Aulos Quintet and Bläseroktett Sabine Meyer. Many of these recordings have won the ECHO prize.

Sven Klammer is a multifaceted composer, arranger and instrumentalist who is consistently searching for his own form of expression. Tours with various formations have taken him across Europe, the USA, Morocco, China, India and Vietnam. His love of stylistic diversity is reflected in his various musical works, which consist of diverse compositions for classical chamber music ensembles, classical guitar orchestras, traditional big bands and symphony orchestras. In 2001, he won the international Gustav Mahler composition competition of the city of Klagenfurt with “Messiomerie”, a work for jazz orchestra, violin and guitar. He also arranged the music for the film concert of the German science fiction classic “Raumpatrouille Orion”, wrote music for the ZDF documentary “Russlands Helden der Kälte” and arranged Gustav Holst's famous orchestral suite “Die Planeten” for the NDR Big Band. A CD with his stylistically colorful composition “Fehmarnbelt Suite” for guitar orchestra will be released soon. He is also chairman of the “Jazz pool Lübeck e.V.” association, where he is involved in projects to promote jazz in the region and is the leader of the Salt Peanuts Big Band Lübeck in 2018.

Melanie Klinke completed her diploma studies in instrumental pedagogy flute at the MHL. A year abroad at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris deepened her artistic training, which she successfully completed at the MHL. In addition to her musical career, she studied business administration at the TH Lübeck. As an accomplished flautist, Melanie Klinke has played in numerous select and professional orchestras and has performed in various chamber music projects. She was already active as a flute teacher during her music studies and gradually expanded her teaching activities in Lübeck and Ratzeburg. She has been a lecturer for flute didactics and teaching practice at the MHL since 2011._x000a_In 2023, Melanie Klinke took over the management of the Herzogtum Lauenburg District Music School. With her extensive experience and passion for music, she is committed to musical education and the promotion of young talent.

Oliver Korte, born in Hamburg, studied musical composition, music theory and musicology in Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin. Important impulses were also given to him by private composition studies with Gösta Neuwirth. His compositions have been awarded several composition prizes and scholarships. In 2002 he received his doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on the Ecclesiastical Action of Bernd Alois Zimmermann. After teaching positions at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock as well as a position as research assistant at the Universität der Künste Berlin he was appointed professor for music theory and ear training at the Musikhochschule Lübeck in autumn 2006. He is co-founder of the Society for Music Theory (GMTH) and editor of the Schriften der Musikhochschule Lübeck. In the winter semester 2017/18 he also taught as a visiting professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. Oliver Kortes main work to date is the opera Copernicus for singer, narrator, orchestra and electronics, premiered in 2015 at the Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden. The composer calls the work an "opera spaziale" ("space opera"). This is due to the fact that a spatial concept is derived directly from the subject: strings, wind instruments and percussion, as well as loudspeakers and video projections are positioned in "Copernican rings" around the audience. The wind instruments, comparable to a planetarium, move into ever new acoustic constellations. Oliver Korte has assembled the libretto from various thespian original texts of the Renaissance as well as from some sound recordings of the 20th century. The work was received by critics as "multilingual, philosophical world theatre".
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Karl-Bernhardin Kropf was born in Klagenfurt (Austria) in 1966. After studying at the Vienna University of Music (Catholic and Protestant church music, organ) and the Saarland University of Music (organ improvisation with Daniel Roth), he worked as a Protestant church musician in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. He has been a church musician at St Mary's Church in Rostock since 2007 and church music director since 2021. After teaching in Mainz, Lübeck, Graz and Rostock, he has been a lecturer in organ improvisation at the MHL since autumn 2023.

Stefan Kuchel has repeatedly won the Jazz Podium Prize Schleswig-Holstein, works as a bandleader and solo artists at art openings, readings, concerts and has worked as a composer and studio musician with larger ensembles such as the NDR Bigband, the House Jazz Bigband Hamburg, the Theater Lübeck and the Orchestra Lüneburg. He has played at the Montreux Jazz Festival, at the Expo 2000 (ars baltica), at the Jazz Festival in Leipzig and Salzau, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Choir Festival Istanbul, the Mecklenburg Festival and the World Choral Festival Barcelona Concerts, e.g. with Joachim Kühn, Bob Mintzer, Maria Schneider, Roger Cicero, Fiete Felsch, Uli Becker Hoff, Soulounge, Groove Galaxi, Ensemble Du Verre, Rainer Quick, Max & Friends, SONUX Ensemble and the NDR Big Band. In 2008 he was awarded the prize of the German Record Critics with the Ensemble Du Verre. In addition to his artistic activities, he has taught saxophone, improvisation and ensemble playing for many years as a lecturer at the MHL. Discographie: (Selected) MojoSampler Vol 9“Never felt so free”, 2000, Groove Attack Records, Universal ; Groove Galaxi, „Groove Galaxi“ 2001, Traumton Records, Indigo; Groove Galaxi, “Interstellar Hi-Fi Patrol”, 2002, Traumton Records, Indigo; MojoRemix-Sampler 2002, groove attack Records, Universal; Stefan Kuchel "Schweben", Eigenvertrieb 2002; Duo Hirche/Kuchel, "YOGA", Eigenvertrieb 2003; Cultured Pearls "Live on Tuesday" WEA 2002; Soulounge, "the essence of a live event" Universal 2003; Ensemble Du Verre, "facing, transparent", fante 2004;Soulounge "Home", Edel Contraire 2004; Ensemble Du Verre, Sancuary for Animals, 2008; SONUX Ensemble „Light and Love“, Rondeau 2015

Sascha Lino Lemke (*1976) studied composition, music theorie and electronic music in Hamburg, Lueneburg and Paris. He obtained numerous prices and scholarships. During his studies he was scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. At the Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2002 he received the Kranichsteiner Stipendienpreis. In 2003 he obtained the Bachpreis-StipendiumHamburg as well as the Dresdner MusikStipendium. His orchestra piece "...comme une berceuse..." was selected for the Saarbrücker Komponistenwerkstatt 2004 and was premiered by the Orchester des Saarländischen Rundfunks. The reading panel of IRCAM chose him for the one-year course for music technology and composition 2004/5._x000a_With his wife Marcia Lemke-Kern he founded the duo con:fusion which interpretes pieces for performer and electronics involving theatrical elements. In 2007 the duo con:fusion obtained the first prize of the "Competition for Live Electronic Projects" of the ECPNM during the Gaudeamus Music Week for the composition #Un4Scene# for performer, live-electronics and live-video. In 2009 he was given a scolarship for Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano (Italy). In 2010 he obtained the Hindemith Prize of the Hindemith foundation and the Schleswig-Holstein-Musik-Festival. He got commisions/had performances in festivals such as musica viva (Munich), Münchener Biennale for comtemporary music theater, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Klangwerktage and Greatest Hits Festival for New Music (Hamburg), IRCAM (Paris), ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), Festival musica (Strasbourg), Forum der Künste Hellerau, ZKM Karlsruhe, Gaudeamus Music Week (Amsterdam), Musica viva festival (Lissabon), Automn Festival (Talinn), Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Seoul International Computer Music Festival (SICMF), Shanghai Spring Festival and in the US. Sascha Lemke teaches music theory, analysis and electronic music in Luebeck and Hamburg. Since october 2011 he also is artistic director of the electronic music department of the University of Music Lübeck. Since 2013 he is a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg.
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Henning Lucius studied in Hamburg with Peter-Jürgen Hofer, Gernot Kahl and Volker Banfield where he completed his final concert exam, and in Bloomington (USA) with György Sebok and Shigeo Neriki. he received decisive impulses in master classes and in cooperation with Ralf Gothóni, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hartmut Höll, Christoph Eschenbach, Peter Feuchtwanger, Jörg Demus, Elisabeth Leonskaya and Rostislav Dubinsky, Peter Elkus and Aribert Reimann. He has received several awards and scholarships, including one from the German Music Competition. As an accompanist, he regularly works with renowned artists, such as Judith Beckmann, Helen Donath, Margreet Honig, Thomas Quasthoff and with Andra Darzin and Roman Nodel. Henning Lucius is a sought-after accompanist and chamber musician. He has participated in various festivals, including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Brandenburg Summer Concerts, Bremen Musikfest and at the Summer Music Days in Hitzacker. He plays in many different formations, as well as in piano duet with Matthias Veit and with the flautist Jürgen Franz. Since 2009, he has been in close collaboration with the soprano Frauke-Maria Thalacker. Henning Lucius has performed with conductors such as Claus Bantzer, Thomas Hengelbrock, Günter Jena, Mathias Husmann and Gerd Müller-Lorenz. In 2008, he led a tour to Japan, where he gave lessons and concerts and was a guest lecturer at the Geijutsu University in Osaka. Radio recordings as well as TV and CD productions document his artistic career. Henning Lucius taught at the University of the Arts in Bremen. He currently works as a lecturer at the MHL, at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre and at the Hamburg Conservatory.

Since 2023, Sophie Lücke has been professor of double bass at the Lübeck University of Music and principal double bassist with the Ensemble Resonanz in Hamburg. Her love of music began in Wernigerode, where she received her first double bass lessons from Andreas Nettels. Her studies took her to Berlin with Janne Saksala and London with Rinat Ibragimov. Inspiration from Esko Laine, Nabil Shehata, Klaus Stoll, Joel Quarrington and Evgeny Kolosov, as well as courses in historical performance practice with Kristin von der Goltz and Reinhard Goebel, broadened her musical outlook. At the age of 20, Sophie Lücke was awarded a scholarship from the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and two years later became principal double bass in the Munich Chamber Orchestra. This was followed by years as a guest solo bassist in major symphony orchestras. From 2014 to 2023 she was principal bass at the Gärtnerplatztheater. She is also a founding member of the ensemble der/gelbe/klang für aktuelle Musik. Sophie Lücke taught as a substitute at the Bern University of the Arts in 2013/2014 and gave masterclasses in São Paulo, México City, Hong Kong and Pyongyang. Sophie Lücke has returned to her true origins as an ensemble and chamber musician by playing regularly in ensembles such as the Basel Chamber Orchestra, Les Siecles, Les Dissonance, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Scottish and Mahler Chamber Orchestras and at festivals such as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Davos and Zermatt. In recent years, her regular collaboration with Klangforum Wien has led to an increased interest in contemporary music. Working with composers such as Aperghis, Saunders, Furrer and Lachenmann and with conductors such as Pomarico and Wiegers has inspired and enriched her life.

Sabine Lueg-Krüger studied piano with Prof. Wilhelm Rau in the program Instrumental Pedagogy at the MHL. After graduating, she completed a postgraduate course at the Department of Early Music Education. During her studies, she taught a large piano class in Lübeck and successfully continued this work for ten years as a freelancer. Since 2000, she has been a full-time piano teacher at the Lübeck School of Music and a lecturer at the MHL, where she teaches methodology, didactics and teaching practice in the elementary piano area. Apart from individual piano and chamber music training of children and adolescents (many of her students have won prizes at musical youth competitions such as "Jugend musiziert"), she is also quite focused on instrumental lessons with preschool children starting at four years old and is currently developing the subject Early Instrumental Instruction at the Lübeck School of Music. In terms of piano, Sabine Lueg-Krüger is predominantly active as an accompanist and chamber musician.

Gernot Maetzel studied Music Teacher Training from 1992 to 1997 at the MHL (majoring in violin under Prof. Friedrich Wührer, special subject Professional Conducting with GMD Erich Wächter). From 1995 to 2006, he conducted the University of Lübeck Orchestra. Since 2000, he has been a lecturer at the MHL for Instrumental Ensemble and School Orchestra Conducting. In the same year, he passed his second State Exam and became a high school teacher of music, mathematics and physics. Since 2001, he has been a teacher at the Johanneum Lübeck, where he became head of the music program and the symphony orchestra in the 2005/06 school year.

Pierre Martens first tackled the bassoon at the age of eight. His first love and passion for this unique and tall companion were set to never abandon him. Pierre excelled academically, demonstrating unparalleled technique and dedication at the Music Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium (tutored by Pierre Kerremans), then progressing to the Escola Superior da Musica de Porto, Portugal (tutored by Hugues Kesteman), and finally graduating for the third time at the Hochschule für Musik de Karlsuhe, Germany (tutored by Professor Günther Pfitzenmaier). At the age of 22, Pierre started his orchestral career as the solo bassoon of the Flemish Radio Orchestra (Belgium) and succeeded to leap three years later towards one of the most prestigious European Orchestras: the Bamberger Symphoniker in Germany. From Tokyo to New York, Moscow to Sao Paolo, he has showcased his talent in the world's most grandiose arenas and has delivered tremendous performances in the most renowned festivals of Salzburg, Lucerne and Edinburgh, to name but a few. As a solo artist, he has won many national and international awards such as the Tenuto (Belgium), the International Competition of Musical Personalities Alexandre Tansman (Lodz, Poland), and the Pacem in Terris (Beyreuth, Germany).What's more he played as a soloist in a diverse array of European orchestras including the Bamberger Symphoniker (Germany), the Sinfonietta Baltica (Germany), and the Vlaams Radio Orchestra (Belgium), Brussels Festival Orchestra (Belgium),…. Several composers have dedicated new material to the young artist, broadening our understanding of the bassoon and giving us wider access to an enlarged repertoire. Last but not least, Pierre participated to numerous CD, TV and Radio recordings in a Pan-European capacity. Passionate about giving back what he has learned and knowledge transfer, he started tutoring and mentoring at the Gent Hogeschool (Belgium), the Nürnberg Musikhochschule (Germany) and the illustrious Lübeck Musikhos

Heime Müller was born in 1970 in Hamburg, Germany, where he received his first violin lessons with Marianne Petersen. At the age of 14, he was a preparatory student at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Uwe-Martin Haiberg. He received further violin education from Ulf Hoelscher and Nora Chastain and in masterclasses with Hermann Krebbers, Ida Haendel and Eduard Schmieder. From 1991 to 2007, Heime Müller was 1st and 2nd violinist in the Artemis Quartet. Teachers and mentors of the quartet were Walter Levin and the Alban Berg Quartet. Decisive impulses also came from György Kurtág, the Juilliard and Emerson Quartet. The quartet won the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, a 1st prize at the ARD Competition in Munich and the Premio Paolo Borciani. Heime Müller has performed around 900 concerts in the Artemis Quartet on all major chamber music concert venues in the world. One can hear recordings of Heime Müller on many releases from Virgin Classics, which have been awarded the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, the Diapason d'Or, Choc du monde and the Echo Award. With the Artemis Quartet, two films directed by the famous music filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon have been made: "Death and the Maiden" and "Strings Attached." Chamber music partners have been, among others, Sabine Meyer, David Geringas, Barbara Westphal, Juliane Banse, Elisabeth Leonskaya, Leif Ove Andsnes and Truls Mørk. Since leaving the quartet for health reasons, Heime Müller now focuses on teaching. He was Professor for Violin and Chamber Music at the Universität der Künste Berlin and since 2009, has held the same position at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. He also teaches string quartets at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. He gives violin and chamber music courses, e.g. for the Oberstdorf Music Summer, for ProQuartet and for the ECMA. He is Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Campus of the Jeunesses Musicales in Weikersheim, one of the most important and traditional chamber music courses anywhere. Heime Müller has transcribed several works by Alban Berg. He wrote a version for string sextet of the Klaviersonate op. 1 and transcribed the song cycles "Seven Early Songs" and op. 2 for voice and string quartet. There is also a transcription of the Rückert-Lieder by Gustav Mahler for voice and string septet.

Marianna Nevolovitsch comes from a musical family. She received her first piano lessons at the age of five from her father: composer and pianist Arnold Nevolovitsch. She successfully completed her studies with a postgraduate course with Prof. Alexander Sandler and Prof. James Tocco in St. Petersburg and in Lübeck. She also attended master classes with Vitaly Margulis, Hans Schicker, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Walter Blankenheim and Robert D. Levin. Since her childhood, Marianna Nevolovitsch has achieved international success at renowned competitions, winning several awards between1987 and 2002. Marianna Nevolovitsch has been playing successfully for many years as a concert pianist. She performs regularly at home and abroad, both as a soloist and as a sought-after chamber musician. She has been invited to major festivals, among others, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Chamber Music Festival of Scharwenka Society. Marianna Nevolovitsch regularly works in various instrumental classes and with many singers, accompanied by international competitions and master classes. Since 2004, she has worked as a lecturer in correpetition at the MHL and is active in the violin class of Prof. Thomas Brandis and Carlos Johnson. Since 2007, Marianna Nevolovitsch has been a piano accompanist and regular guest at the International Masterclasses "Summer Music Academy Wohldorf-Ohlstedt" in Hamburg and has worked, inter alia, with Prof. Jens Peter Maintz, Prof. Bernhard Gmelin, Prof. Claudio Bohorquez and Prof. Wolfgang Boettcher.

Lars Opfermann, born 1989 in Homberg, is a composer and music theorist. He completed his studies in composition (Wolf, Mack) and music theory (Korte) in Rostock and Lübeck. He has received various composition prizes, including the Federal Composition Competition (2008, 2009) and the Augsburg Theatre Competition with the orchestral work Relief (2016). Performances of his works have taken place with the WDR Symphony Orchestra and the Aachen Symphony Orchestra, among others, as well as at festivals such as next_generation at the ZKM Karlsruhe and Brücken in Rostock. His compositions have been heard on radio broadcasts by Deutschlandfunk and WDR. He has been a lecturer at the Lübeck University of Music since April 2020. Works (selection): Zeichnung für Ensemble (2016); Ansichten für Flöte, Violoncello und Elektronik (2017); Wandlungen für Orchester (2017); Presence für Flöte und Schlagzeug (2018); Konzertessenz für Bratschen solo und Ensemble (2020)

Michael Pabst-Krueger completed his degree in Physics and Philosophy and Music and Physics for Teaching with the main artistic subject Guitar. He participated in master classes for guitar and continued his education in the field of percussion instruments. With a study trip to Salvador, Brazil, he extended his capacities in the field of Latin Music. After several years working as a music and physics teacher, head of teacher training and lecturer at the University of Kiel, Michael Pabst-Krueger entered music education in Kiel 1997. Since summer 2002, he has been a full-time lecturer for Applied Music Education at the MHL. From 2003 to 2006, he headed the Department of School Music and, at this time, introduced profound curricular reforms. In the years 2000-2005, he completed a doctorate in subject "Music Lessons ONLINE: educational training in the virtual classroom." Within the framework of his teaching, Michael Pabst-Krueger developed a nationwide acclaimed concept for conveying skills for practical school ensemble music, which can be used in many musical learning environments, such as in general schools, music schools and community work. This entails developing, practicing and reflecting on the basics of playing techniques and tonal possibilities of instruments for non-professional musicians, methods rehearsal direction for non-professional ensembles and basic principles of arranging in various musical styles for heterogeneous learning groups and ensembles.

Elisabeth Pelz studied music and movement/rhythm in Trossingen with Prof. Elisabeth Gutjahr and her main subject was recorder (Prof. Husenbeth). Further studies in connection with a one-year fellowship at the Institut Jacques Dalcroze with a focus on solfège, piano improvisation and classical Dalcroze Rhythmic round off her education. After graduating, she taught for one year in Mexico City at the local music school, Colegio Alemán and in Guanajuato, where she established a music school in collaboration with Prof. José Luis Aguayo. Other teaching activities in the fields of music and movement pedagogy followed. Since 1994, as rhythm educator of the BWR, she has taught at various state music academies. For several years, she has headed the course of studies Music and Movement/Rhythmics at the Hamburg Conservatory Sülldorf with a focus on specific theory, methodology for many different target groups, music rhythm, interactive rhythm and artistic projects. In addition, she teaches movement training and motion design at the MHL.

Jason Alejandro Ponce Guevara was born in Colombia. He studied piano at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, before joining the class of Prof. Konrad Elser at the MHL in 2005. This was followed by postgraduate studies in piano, which he also successfully completed with Prof. Konrad Elser at the MHL. He then studied at the Academy of Music und Theater Hamburg the Master Program Song Creation in the class of Prof. Burkhard Kehring. As a répétiteur , he worked at the Colombia Opera and at the music festival "Opera and Zarzuela in the Park" in Bogotá. He taught as a piano teacher at the Bogotá Conservatory and currently serves as piano accompanist of vocal classes at the MHL and as accompanist at the Department of music education at the Academy of Music and Theatre Hamburg. In addition, he also teaches piano at the Music and Art School Lübeck. He has performed in Colombia with the Orquesta de Cámara de Caldas, with the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia and most recently with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá. He won the First Prize at the Maritim Music Prize 2010 in Timmerdorfer Beach. As the first-place winner of the competition "Revivamos nuestra música" of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, he participated in a CD production of Colombian traditional music of the 20th century.

Luis Ramos, born 1984 in Cali (Colombia), received his diploma in composition and flute in his hometown. At the University of Music Lübeck, he studied music theory with Oliver Korte and aural theory with Holger Best, with a focus on conducting with Gerd Müller-Lorenz, Kerstin Behnke and Frank Hube. At the Brahms Institute in Lübeck, he worked as a student assistant on the pilot project "Brahms-Gewidmet", as part of the long-term project "Bürgerliche Musikkultur in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert". In 2014, Ramos received the "Deutschlandstipendium" from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In 2016, he received his Master's degree in music theory from Ludwig Holtmeier at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. Teaching positions followed in Lübeck, Freiburg and Karlsruhe. As part of the project "Integrative Listening", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, at the Bern University of the Arts, he is working on his dissertation on the influence of Neapolitan teaching methods in music education at the Royal Chapel and Royal School for Boys' Singers in Madrid, supervised by Claudio Bacciagaluppi (HKB) and Felix Diergarten (HfM Freiburg). In this context, he was a junior researcher in the Institute of Interpretation at the Bern University of the Arts in 2017-2021. Since the summer semester of 2021, he has been a teacher for special tasks in music theory and aural training at the University of Music Lübeck.

Robert Roche was born in Chicago, USA in 1963. He studied piano with Barbara Lister-Sink and art song accompaniment with Robert Spillmann at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. During this time he participated in a Lied seminar with Jörg Demus, Elly Ameling, and Rudolf Jansen in Munich. In 1985 he furthered his studies with Wilhelm Hecker and in 1988 he received his degree with honors in lied accompaniment at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. Robert Roche made a name for himself as lied accompanist and coach for vocal classes and master classes with Gerard Souzay, Jessye Norman, Evelyn Lear, Edith Kertesz, Dalton Baldwin, Edda Moser among others. In 1988 he began his work as an opera coach at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen. After a two years of working in Nürnberg with Christian Thielemann, he returned to Gelsenkirchen as head of studies, where he worked with famous names such as Anja Harteros and Peter Konwitschny. In 2001 he became head of studies at the Staatsoper in Hannover, where he continued his work with many international stars in the opera world such as Bryn Terfel and Brigitte Fassbaender as well as with conductors such as Marc Albrecht. Beginning in 2002 Robert Roche also taught opera role studies and score reading at the HMTM in Hannover. In April 2015 he accepted the professorship offered to him at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck.

Bernd Ruf is considered as one of the most famous border-crossers in the German music scene. His main focus is the combination and contrasting of classical, contemporary music, jazz and what is termed world music. As a freelance conductor, he has worked at home and abroad, and has regularly guest-conducted the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra for several years. He creates and directs the annual "Bridges to the Classics" concert for the Händelfestspiele Halle. With the ORF Radio Orchestras in Vienna, he staged a Latin Night and a Tango Night with the Stuttgart Philharmonic. For the jazz icon Joe Lovano, he conducted the premiere of a concerto for saxophone and orchestra at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival in New York and a rock symphonic tour for the Irish rock poet Chris De Burgh. After his Music Director studies, Bernd Ruf was assistant to Dennis Russell Davies for a few years at the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Salzburg Festival. As an experienced interpreter of contemporary music, he regularly conducts world premieres in close collaboration with composers. Bernd Ruf is the founder and artistic director of the GermanPops Orchestra. The orchestra is specialized in studio productions and live concerts in the Classical Crossover area. In 2002, together with his orchestra, he was nominated for a Grammy in the USA (CD Paquito D'Rivera - The Clarinetist, Volume One). As an instrumentalist and singer, Bernd Ruf works alongside Gregor and Veit Hübner and Karl Albrecht Fischer in the Ensemble Tango Five. For the realization of his cross-border projects, Bernd Ruf has received funding from the Karajan Foundation in Berlin, the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg, the Goethe Institute and the German Consulate General in New York.

Christian German Ruvolo was born in 1973 in Milan. He studied piano and composition at the Civica Scuola di Musica Milan and at the Conservatory with Andrea Di Renzo and Pippo Molino. In 1993, he won First Prize in the Opera-Correpetition Competition at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano and then worked as a répétiteur at the same theater. In 1997, he earned his piano diploma in his postgraduate course (Artistic Education) at the Freiburg Conservatory of Music with distinction, in 1999, his piano diploma in his postgraduate course (soloist singing) with distinction, as well. Christian German Ruvolo performs both as a soloist and chamber musician in Italy, Germany, France, England, USA, Hong Kong, South Korea and Brazil, including with renowned artists and ensembles such as Sabine Meyer, Barbara Westphal, Christiane Edinger, the trio Di Clarone, Sir Willard White, Noemi Nadelmann, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and others. He is also very active as an arranger: during regular tours throughout Europe and Brazil, he has presented a series of arrangements for Brazilian folk music for piano and violin. He also recorded the CD series of Descobertas, which includes both unpublished works by classical and popular Brazilian composers as well as his own arrangements for violin and piano. Christian German Ruvolo is a regular guest at major festivals such as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Oberstdorf International Music Festival, Londrina International Music Festival (Brazil), Ticino Musica (Switzerland) and the Stringfest at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama-Glasgow (Great Britain). He has done many recordings for the SWF, for NDR Klassic music and the Brazilian TV culture. He has been a lecturer at the MHL since June 2000.

Eva-Maria Salomon is a Music and English teacher at the Johanneum zu Lübeck (grammar school with music branch) and has been a lecturer for school choir direction at MHL since 2010. She conducts the upper school choir of the Johanneum and the school choir (intermediate level), which is available to MHL students as a practice choir. She has successfully participated in choir competitions with her choirs. Numerous concert tours have taken them to Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Venice and the USA, among other places. Eva-Maria Salomon comes from Baden-Baden and studied school music, vocal pedagogy and English at the MHL, in Munich, Heidelberg and Hamburg. She is the founder of the University Choir of Lübeck, which she directed for 17 years. As a soprano, she sings solo and in the vocal ensemble Viva Voce Lübeck.

Isabel Schaarschmidt studied at the MHL with KMS Edith Lang and Prof. James Wagner. She completed her opera diploma with the role of Pamina in Mozart's "Magic Flute" and completed her studies in 1998 with the concert exam, which she passed with distinction. She attended master classes with Sena Jurinac, Maria Venuti and Enrico Faccini and worked with conductors such as Erich Wächter, Helmuth Rilling, Max Pomer, Claus Bantzer and Martin Haselböck. Within the scope of her highly active concert activities in Germany and abroad, she has performed in various broadcasting corporations, e.g. NDR, Radio Berlin, Croatian Radio and the BBC, as well as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Her repertoire includes classical oratorios and songs as well as modern works. In addition, Isabel Schaarschmidt has been lecturing in singing at the MHL since 2001.

Hans-Jürgen Schnoor – former church music director at the Vicelinkirche Neumünster – is Professor for Harpsichord at the MHL. He performs as a soloist on the harpsichord, pianoforte and the organ in Europe and overseas, but also as a song accompanist and chamber music partner in a large range of various ensembles. Numerous radio recordings in Germany, Poland, Denmark, the Netherlands and the USA document his work. He has also made many recordings of organ and harpsichord works by Bach, Bruhns, Weckmann. He is co-founder and director of the Ensemble Enrico Leone.

Daniel Sebastian Scholz was born in Tübingen. He studied psychology in Marburg with a neurophysiological and clinical focus. He then studied jazz composition with Niels Klein in Osnabrück with a supplementary subject of jazz guitar with Joachim Schönecker, Andreas Wahl and Frank Wingold. At the same time, he completed his doctorate at the Centre for Systemic Neuroscience in Hanover. From 2011, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine (IMMM) under the direction of Prof. Dr. Eckart Altenmüller at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTMH). There, he worked on the effects of music on the brain and on mental and physical health as part of many international research projects. He also taught as a lecturer in the areas of jazz composition and arrangement and educational psychology at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media from 2015 to 2019. Since May 2021, Scholz has also been a licensed clinical psychological psychotherapist specialising in behavioural therapy with a focus on the mental health of music makers. He plays guitar, oud and piano, among other things in the psycho-rap-rock band "Ego Super" and is co-founder and operator of his own record label "quadratisch rekords".
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Marno Schulze studied piano and composition in Leipzig as well as music and movement education at the Carl-Orff-Institut of the Salzburg Mozarteum. His long-term musical pedagogical activity has provided him with a broad range of professional experience. He has worked at music schools, in kindergartens and in further education for teachers, educators and social pedagogues. Marno Schulze performed various lectures and directed the "Elementary Music Pedagogy" department at Lausitz University of Applied Sciences in Cottbus. The co-operation and the development of his own projects are a focus of his educational activities ("Klangwelten": a soundscape project with pupils of the Jahngymnasium Rathenow/"Ohrwurm-Labor": where students write their own songs, etc.). In his Elementary Music and Movement Theater, he integrates language, sound and movement into an expressive overall concept ("Pierrot lunaire": moving sounds according to texts by Albert Giraud / "OPERAtionICH" - experimental design with identities). As a chorus and piano teacher, Marze Schulze continually looks beyond his field of expertise and can interactively make use of impulses.

Hans-Christian Schwarz, born in 1966, completed his studies with Prof. Rudolf Gleissner (Stuttgart), as well as cello class by Prof. Wolfgang Boettcher (Berlin), where he completed his concert exam with distinction. During his studies he gained experience at international festivals and master classes, inter alia, André Navarra, Natalia Gutman, Boris Pergamenschikow, Arto Noras, Heinrich Schiff, Leonard Bernstein, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Melos and the Amadeus Quartet and was an award winner at the “10th Concorso Internationale di Musica da Camera" in Trapani. Broadcast recordings as well as extensive chamber music and solo activity followed. Hans-Christian Schwarz developed a broad repertoire, which encompasses almost all chamber music genres and formations. Several works by contemporary composers were premiered and dedicated to him. In addition to his position as 1st cello soloist of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Hansestadt Lübeck, which he has performed since 1994, he plays regularly as a soloist with various orchestras._x000a_In 2004, he was awarded the Furtwängler Advancement Award by the Orchesterfreunde Association of the Hansestadt Lübeck. Hans-Christian Schwarz is especially active in the promotion of young cellists and is a lecturer at the MHL.

Bernd Schwarze, was born in Lübeck in 1961 and grew up there. He studied Protestant Theology in Hamburg. In 1990, he completed a doctoral program with a research project on religious motifs in popular music. From 1992 to 1995, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Practical Theology at the University of Hamburg, and at the same time, a lecturer in homiletics, liturgy, religion and culture. In 1996, he completed his doctorate as Doctor of Theology. He achieved his vicariate in Timmendorfer Strand and has been working as a pastor in municipal church duties in Lübeck since 1998. He has served the church with projects in St. Marien and St. Petri for twelve years. Since March 2012, he has held a full rectorate for the artistic and business management of the Culture and University Church St. Petri. In the course of his activity in Lübeck, Bernd Schwarze has conducted a whole series of experimental events directed at different target groups (Lübecker Woche der Engel, Adventsleuchten, Volksfestgottesdienst, Stadt-Osterfrühstück, Petrivisionen) and in 2004, he initiated the inauguration of the Cultural Church of St. Petri to the University and Higher Education Church. He has been and remains artistically active in the musical areas rock, pop and jazz (drums, songwriting), theater and literature. He is a member of various research groups of popular culture and urban and cultural church work. Since 2000, he has been a lecturer in Protestant Theology at the MHL in the ecumenical program in Church Music.

Daniel Sepec studied in his native city of Frankfurt with Dieter Vorholz and in Vienna with Gerhard Schulz. He also attended masterclasses with Sándor Végh and the Alban Berg Quartet. He received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and the Alban Berg Foundation, Vienna. Since 1993, Daniel Sepec has been concertmaster with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, with which he also appears regularly as a soloist. He has recorded two CDs with the orchestra featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as Antonio Vivaldi’s ›Four Seasons‹, on which he also directed himself. He has also appeared several times as guest concertmaster with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (including a tour with Claudio Abbado), Camerata Academica Salzburg and the Ensemble Oriol Berlin. As a soloist he has performed with the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood, the Vienna Academy of Music under Martin Haselböck and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées under Philippe Herreweghe. Attracted by the rich expressive variety of Baroque music, Daniel Sepec devotes an increasing amount of time to the Baroque violin. Hence he frequently appears as concertmaster with the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock, which plays on original instruments. His CD recording of H. I. F. Biber’s Rosary Sonatas received the German Record Critics’ Award. Daniel Sepec is the only musician to date to have recorded a CD on a rediscovered violin formerly belonging to Ludwig van Beethoven together with pianist Andreas Staier. As a member of the Arcanto Quartet, he has made recordings of the Mozart, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Bartók and Dutilleux string quartets, as well as Schubert’s String Quartet. From September 2010 until July 2014, he was professor at the School of Music in Basle. In 2014, he was offered a professorship at Lübeck University of Music. In his spare time he occupies himself with the unfulfillable dream of electric guitar and violins with blue arcs.

The Romanian pianist Catalin Serban has lived in Berlin since 1997. In Bucharest he received his formal musical education at "George Enescu Music College". Catalin Serban studied in Berlin at the University of Arts with the professors Martin Hughes and László Simon and and at „Musikhochschule Lübeck“ with Prof. Konrad Elser and he was a scholarship holder of "Paul Hindemith Gesellschaft", of the University of the Arts Berlin and of the „Marie-Louise Stiftung Lübeck“. He participated in master classes of famous professors such as Claude Frank, Georgy Sebok, Pascal Devoyon, Theodor Paraschivesco, Elena Lapitskaja. At the age of eighteen, when he started his piano studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin, C. Serban was already the first prize winner of some major national music competitions in Romania. He is also a laureate at the International Competition in Senigallia, Italy and he was awarded by the third prize and the prize for the best interpretation of a modern composition at the international Bremen Piano Competition. Catalin Serban gives concerts in Germany, Romania, Italy, France and Switzerland as a soloist in recitals and concerts with orchestra. He is also a Lied-accompanist and chamber musician. He has a very particular affinity with romantic composers but he "prefers a very clear and at the same time sensitive interpretation of the musical score, without neglecting special lyrical aspects and brilliance of Chopin´s music" (Grigore Constantinescu, chairman of the Romanian association of music critics). With reference to another concert the same music critic spoke very highly of "his very expressive and complex way of playing the piano which led to a deep understanding of M. Ravel's music". The newspaper "Badische Zeitung" praised him for his "technically outstanding Mozart interpretation" as a "highly talented performer".

Dr. phil. in art Benjamin Sprick wurde 1980 in Hamburg geboren, wo er Violoncello, Philosophie und Musiktheorie studierte. Als Cellist spielte er im NDR-Sinfonieorchester Hamburg und ist aktuell Mitglied verschiedener Kammermusikformationen. 2020 wurde er an der Hochschule für bildende Künste (HfBK) mit einer Arbeit über Gilles Deleuze und die Musikästhetik promoviert (Resonanzen des Virtuellen, Turia + Kant 2020). Zurzeit unterrichtet er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter angewandte Philosophie und Ästhetik sowie Violoncello an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (HfMT), wo er auch als ›Post-Doc‹ im Graduiertenkolleg ARTILACS (Artistic Intelligence in Latent Creative Spaces) forscht und den künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Promotionsstudiengang Dr. sc. mus. koordiniert. An der Musikhochschule Lübeck hat er einen Lehrauftrag für künstlerische Musikforschung inne. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte betreffen eine politische Semiotik aktueller ästhetischer Zeichensysteme ebenso, wie die verwickelten Beziehungen von ›Kunst‹, ›Ökonomie‹ und ›Bürgerlichkeit‹ in einem sich zusehends als autoritär erweisenden algorithmischen Kapitalismus.
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Vera-Carina Stellmacher was born in Kiel. From the age of six, she received piano lessons from her father, Prof. Manfred Fock. During her school years, she won many awards in competitions such as Jugend musiziert, the Grotrian Steinweg competition and the international competition of Stresa (Italy). In 1990, she began her studies at the MHL, where she completed the courses of general artistic training, music education and school music, and subsequently successfully completed her concert exams. In the course of her studies, she attended master classes with Teresa Manasterska, Yara Bernette, Jürgen Uhde, James Tocco and Andreij Jasinski. Concert tours took her to France, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Canada, New Zealand and the South Seas. Between 1992 and 1996 she was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. In 1995, she was one of the prize winners of the Lübeck Possehl Competition. She has been involved in several television and radio productions and recorded a CD with the violinist Natalia Prischepenko. In 1999, Vera-Carina Stellmacher received a lectureship at the Hamburg Conservatory in the subject of Song Accompaniment and Correpetition. In 2001, an additional lectureship followed at the MHL in the subject piano.

Axel Ster was born in Sande in 1968. As a young musician, he won several prizes at Jugend musiziert, the Hamburg Steinway Competition and the Hamburg LTM Competition. In 1986 he received the Schleswig-Holstein Youth Culture Award. From 1990 onwards, he studied at the Detmold, Vienna and Lübeck Music Academies and received degrees in musical theory, piano music training, the artistic diploma in piano and successfully completed his first and second state exams in school music. Further education in the field of jazz led him to the United States at the California State University Fullerton. In 1997, he was a lecturer in music theory at the Hong Academy of Performing Arts. Axel Ster was a member of the Institute for Music Therapy at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater in 2006 and published several scientific papers on music therapy. He was lecturer in the field of music therapy at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. As a pianist, Axel Ster has performed concerts at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and for the Goethe Institute San Francisco, performed the concerto for the commented concerts of the piano work of Arnold Schönberg and Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. In the field of jazz, he works with Nils Landgren and has performed several times at Jazz Baltica, among others, with the OGT Big Band. Axel Ster has been developing projects with jazz and classical music for the Goethe-Institut Tokyo since 2005 and as guest lecturer, supervises the Big Band at the Tokyo Hosei University. Since 1998 he has been a lecturer of music at the Ostsee-Gymnasium Timmendorfer Strand. In 1999, he founded the big band of the Ostsee-Gymnasium Timmendorfer Strand (OGT Big Band), with whom he has done several concert tours taking him to Sweden, Japan and the USA. At the MHL, Axel Ster teaches applied piano playing, improvisation, jazz piano, and texture accompanied piano.

Troels Svane studied with David Geringas at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, Germany. He graduated from the soloist class with distinction and the highest grade in all subjects. Furthermore he was taught by Anner Bylsma, Frans Helmerson, Ralph Kirshbaum, György Ligeti, Yo-Yo Ma, Siegfried Palm, Boris Pergamenschikow, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daniil Shafran, Paul Tortelier and the Amadeus Quartet. After finishing high school he was appointed co-principal cellist of the Copenhagen Philharmonic at the age of 18. He won prizes at prestigious national and international competitions and received numerous scholarships. As a soloist he has performed with most Danish orchestras and with orchestras in Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. As a recitalist and a chamber musician Troels Svane played concerts all over Europe, Australia, Asia, South America and the United States. He performed with Yuri Bashmet, Wolfgang Boettcher, Thomas Brandis, Zakhar Bron, Ana Chumachenco, Ulf Hoelscher, Karl Leister, Sabine Meyer and Thomas Zehetmair. He has recorded more than 40 CDs including the complete works for cello and piano by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Reger. Troels Svane was the assistant to David Geringas for 11 years before he was appointed professor for violoncello at the Musikhochschule Lübeck in 2004. Furthermore he has a cello class at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. He has given masterclasses in Australia, Asia, Ukraine, South America and in numerous European countries and was a jury member at important international competitions. His students are prize winners and laureates at prestigious international competitions (ARD, Feuermann, Geneva, Isang Yun, Markneukirchen, Queen Elisabeth, Rostropovich, Tchaikovsky), professors at Musikhochschulen and members of renowned chamber music ensembles and orchestras such as the Armida Quartett, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Gewandhausorchester and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Gaja von Sychowski, born in Wesel in 1974, studied German language and literature, education and educational science at the Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg (GMU) from 1993 to 2001, graduating with the First State Examination for Teaching at Grammar Schools and Comprehensive Schools (Secondary I and II). In 2005, she received her doctorate there on the subject of "Logos in Silence and Speech - Studies on the Connection between Language and Education" (DuEPublico 2005). She received a GMU graduate scholarship for this. At the same time, between 2002 and 2012, she provided organizational and academic support for the monastic-university German-French Colloquia at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and at the Ecole Saint Jean (Saint-Jodard, Loire, France), including the (co-)editing of conference proceedings (e.g. Aletheia 2011, Janus 2008 and 2012). From 2005 to 2007, she completed her traineeship at the Studienseminar Bocholt, graduating with the Second State Examination for Teaching at Grammar Schools and Comprehensive Schools (Sek. I and II) in the subjects German and Pedagogy. After some time at school, she was a research assistant in "General Systematic Pedagogy" at the Institute for Vocational and Continuing Education at the Faculty of Education at UDE from 2007 to 2012. She habilitated there in 2010 with a thesis on "Gender and education - contributions of gender theory to the foundation of a general pedagogy following Judith Butler and Richard Hönigswald" (Königshausen & Neumann 2011). In the summer semester of 2012, she held a visiting professorship for educational science at the IfB of the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Science at the University of Vienna. During the winter semester 2012/2013, she substituted the professorship "General Systematic Pedagogy" at the IBW of the Faculty of Education at the UDE. Since the summer semester of 2013, she has been Professor of Educational Sciences at the MHL. There, she is also Director of Studies for the Music Teaching courses (Bachelor of Arts and Master of Education), Deputy Head of the Center for Teacher Training (ZfL) and Equal Opportunities and Diversity Officer, all on a part-time basis. Since then, she has increasingly positioned herself as a general educator, more precisely as a philosopher of education at a university of music. For example, with the theory-generating publication "Allgemeine Korrelative Pädagogik - Systematische Pädagogik in der Postmoderne", which takes musical performances as its starting point (Königshausen & Neumann 2025a). Since December 2021, she has also been improvising in the "Trio Performanz" with pianist Jean Beers and cellist Corinna Eikmeier on her own "TextArt", which are texts "for improvisations and performances" (also Königshausen & Neumann 2025b). She is thus developing a new artistic research/performance practice. Her research interests include neo-Kantianism, gender studies, deconstructivism and post-structuralism in general systematic pedagogy (theories of education and upbringing) and, more recently, artistic research. Memberships: German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), there: Section General Educational Science and Commission Philosophy of Education and Educational Philosophy, Gender Studies Association - Gender e.V. and Federal Association of Music Education (BMU), there on the Schleswig-Holstein state board.
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Sergej Tcherepanov was born in Kasachstan (Sowiet Union) 1967. Studied musics in Moscow at the Tchaikowsky-Conservatorium. Among his teachers were Prof. Victor Merzhanow (Piano) and Natalia Gureewa (Organ). He took part in masterclasses for Organ and Harpsichord, performed ancient music with Alexei Lubimow and baroque-ensembles, worked for Organperfornance with Alexander Fiseisky. In 1996, he followed organstudies at the Music Academy in Lübeck with Prof. Martin Haselböck and in Hamburg 2000-2002 with Prof. Wolfgang Zerer. Focussing on the perfornance of Baroque Music on historical keyboard instruments, he took part in masterclasses with Andrea Marcon, Harald Vogel and Martin Böcker (Stade, Germany). Prizes: "Possehl-Prize" in Lübeck 1997, special Prize in Pretoria 1998, "Fugato"- Prize (Bad Homburg, Germany) 1999, Prize from "Arp-Schnitger-Gesellschaft" 2000. Sergej Tcherepanov was Organist on the Arp-Schnitger-Organ in Steinkirchen (Altes Land, Germany), now teaching Organ at the Lübeck Music Academy.

Christiane Tewinkel studied school music at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and German and English language and literature at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. In the academic year 1998/99 she was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University. This was followed by an internship in the feature section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper, a short time later another stay at Harvard University as a teaching assistant and in 2002 a doctorate at the University of Würzburg with a thesis on Robert Schumann's Liederkreis op. 39. From 2001 to 2004 Christiane Tewinkel was a research assistant at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. After working in Leipzig, Berlin and Berkeley, she habilitated at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2014 with a thesis on the history of knowledge of music in the 20th century. From October 2015 to March 2016, also at the UdK, she took over the direction of an edition project on the American Liszt circle of students, funded by the Thyssen Foundation. From 2016 to 2020, Christiane Tewinkel was lecturer in musicology at the Barenboim-Said Akademie Berlin, and in the academic year 2017/18, she took over a professorship in musicology at the University of Paderborn / Hochschule für Musik Detmold. After a stay as Senior Botstiber Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study @CEU Budapest from January to June 2020, she represented the professorship of Prof. Dr. Dörte Schmidt at the UdK Berlin in the academic year 2020/21. Since October 2021, she has been Professor of Musicology at the MHL, here she will take over the leadership of a project on transatlantic relations in musical life around 1900, funded by the German Research Foundation, from 2022. Main research interests: Music and language, music and literature, history of the concerto, transatlantic musical relations around 1900, musical history of knowledge, public musicology.
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The clarinettist Jens Thoben is a versatile musician and passionate teacher. As a soloist he plays classical orchestral and chamber music, and with his ensemble "hear now berlin" he explores the border areas between avant-garde, new music, jazz, minimal and pop. As a pedagogue, he is particularly interested in holistic and functional-body-oriented approaches such as the Lichtenberger® applied voice physiology, in which he was certified after three years of additional training. In addition, he completed four years of private classical singing studies with the mezzo-soprano Regina Jakobi in Berlin. His university education as a clarinettist began while he was still at school as a young student with Werner Raabe at the Academy of Music in Münster. After graduating from high school, he went to Prof. Reiner Wehle and Prof. Sabine Meyer at the Lübeck University of Music to obtain his artistic diploma. This was followed by a two-year scholarship at the Academy of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Lorin Maazel and Mariss Jansons. He also received decisive artistic impulses from Prof. Eduard Brunner and, in the field of chamber music, from Prof. Walter Levin. Jens Thoben was a scholarship holder of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation and the Villa Musica. His career as a soloist and chamber musician began in 2001 with successes in international competitions (1st Prize, Audience Prize and Orchestra Prize at the International Carl Maria von Weber Competition of the European Classic Festival Ruhr, 3rd Prize at the International Carl Nielsen Competition). Concert tours have subsequently taken him throughout Europe, the USA and Asia as well as to some of the most important European festivals such as the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and the Lucerne Festival. After having played within the Federal Youth Orchestra and the Young German Philharmonic Orchestra, he was engaged as first solo clarinettist of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra at the German Opera House in Düsseldorf/Duisburg in 2001. 12 years later he gave up this position to live in Berlin as a freelance musician and work as a teacher of the Lichtenberger® applied voice physiology. After a substitute professorship at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen, Prof. Martin Spangenberg took him on as his assistant at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin in 2015. In 2020 he accepted the offered position as professor for clarinet at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. Today Jens Thoben plays in various chamber music formations and orchestras in addition to his pedagogical activities. As a guest solo clarinettist in concerts and operas he plays in houses such as the Bavarian State Opera Munich, the Semperoper Dresden and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he works with conductors like Kirill Petrenko, Sir Colin Davis, Joana Mallwitz, Omer Meir Wellber and Lahav Shani. A CD production with clarinet sonatas and quintets by Herbert Howells and Charles Villiers Stanford is in preparation for 2021. Besides the usual concert formats, alternative and genre-spanning forms of performance appeal to him. Besides the usual concert formats, he is interested in alternative and cross-genre forms of performance. In 2014 he appeared on stage of the Staatsschauspiel Hannover as clarinettist, singer and actor in a four-person version of Henry Purcell's semi-opera "King Arthur" by the directing duo "sweet.milk". He was one of the performers in Christoph Marthaler's evening "Universe, Incomplete" about the composer Charles Ives at the Ruhrtriennale Bochum 2018. Jens Thoben also played under Mark Scheibe in Claudia Bauer's version of Heiner Müller's "Germania" at the Berliner Volksbühne in 2019. Above all, he wants to convey to his students the joy for music and the respect for the ideas of composers. For him a relaxed physicality, self-confidence, a clarified wind technique as well as an autonomous, sustainable sound are the basis for developing and presenting an interpretation based on careful work on the musical text.

Ulf Tischbirek was born in 1955 in Düsseldorf / Germany and attended his cello study at the university of musik in Hannover where he graduated with Prof. Klaus Storck. This was followed by a postgraduated study with Prof. Radu Aldulescu (Nizza / Rom ). After a number of years of playing as 1st cello soloist at the State Theatre Braunschweig he is now, since 1986, professor for cello and chamber music at the university of music in Lübeck. He was a prize winner at numerous musical competitions. His concerts and various radio and television recordings as a soloist and performer of chamber music have led him throughout the world. Ulf Tischbirek is being continuingly highly demanded as a teacher at international master classes as well as a member of the juries at musical competitions.

Otto Tolonen’s (born 1980 in Espoo, Finland) career took off while he won top prizes in 20 international guitar competitions between 1995 and 2009, among them Andrés Segovia Competition (Herradura, Spain), Markneukirchen Instrumental Competition (Germany), the Tokyo International Guitar Competition and the Guitar Foundation of America. Tolonen studied with Jukka Savijoki and Timo Korhonen at Sibelius Academy (Helsinki) and with Oscar Ghiglia at Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Siena). Additionally he learned from Thomas Müller-Pering and Jürgen Ruck in Germany and Raphaella Smits in Belgium. Active both as a soloist and chamber musician Tolonen has performed at Southbank Centre (London), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Moscow International House of Music and Helsinki Music Center among others. The focus in Tolonen’s comprehensive guitar repertoire has recently been on music of the 20th and 21st centuries. His internationally acclaimed performances of the guitar works by Hans Werner Henze have made him a highly sought-after interpreter of that composer’s music. In 2015, he released a recording of Henze’s massive Royal Winter Music that was nominated for the best recording of the year by the Finnish Broadcasting Company and for Finland’s Emma Award. The leading Finnish daily also selected it as one of the best recordings of 2015. His latest album Retratos (2018) was described as "larger than life" in the biggest Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat. Since 2019 Otto Tolonen is a professor at Musikhochschule Lübeck. Tolonen has taught at masterclasses in Finland, Brazil, Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the UK and the United States. Since 2018 he holds a part time professorship at Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Tolonen’s interests are undiscovered works, old and new, music philology, interdisciplinary projects and new playing techniques. He divides his time between teaching, performing and recording.

Inessa Tsepkova studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory. She completed her concert exam, as well as Piano Pedagogy and Correpetition with distinction. After completing her studies, she joined the Tchaikovsky Conservatory as a correpititor for singing and choral conducting classes. She has lived in Germany since 1997. She performs as a soloist as well as with international artists in chamber music formation. Since 2003 she has had a lectureship at the MHL as a correpititor.

Claas Ueberschär studied at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen and as a recipient of the DAAD Scholarship, attended the New School and Mannes College New York as a scholarship to the. At the end of the 1990s he moved to Hamburg, where he has since been actively involved in the jazz scene. He directed his own bands and was a guest on a variety of projects. As a student and ensemble member, he has also worked with numerous musicians from the soul, pop and hip hop genres – most recently, with Gary Thomas, the Sinfonia Baltica, with Kurtis Blow, The Supremes, Rocko Schamoni, Annett Louisan and Roger Cicero, to name just a few. In 2016, his second album "bli" was released with his current quartet claasue4.

The soprano, who lives in Schleswig-Holstein, studied in Salzburg and Zurich. She is in demand worldwide as an opera and concert singer, particularly as an interpreter of works by Strauss and Wagner. Since 2011, after many years as a permanent member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and numerous international engagements, she has been working as a freelance singer. Her large concert repertoire ranges from baroque to late romantic with songs, oratorios, symphonies and concert arias. Her opera repertoire currently comprises 97 roles. Prof. Manuela Uhl has been working at our University of Music Lübeck since 2015 and, together with her singing class, has become an integral part of the concert landscape in northern Germany: in addition to class evenings at the MHL, the young singers regularly perform concerts at venues including In addition to class evenings at the MHL, the young singers regularly perform at venues such as Eutin Castle, the Laeizhalle Hamburg, Ludwigslust Castle, the Kulturkirche Altona, the Kulturgut Hasselburg, Kiel Castle, the Brahms Festival Lübeck, the Kulturverein Bad Schwartau, the Diakonie Lübeck, Cismar Monastery and even concerts at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Students not only have the opportunity to “polish up” their audition repertoire and learn to perform with confidence; they also learn to understand singing and music as communication and to convey emotional content. Each academic year, Prof. Manuela Uhl's class usually performs one opera and one oratorio from the core repertoire in addition to the MHL projects. In addition to the MHL projects, Prof. Manuela Uhl's class usually performs one opera and one oratorio from the core repertoire each academic year. Most recently, for example, Bach's “St. Matthew Passion” and “Mass in B minor” (each including choral parts as ensembles), the “Verdi Requiem”, Pergolesi's “Stabat Mater” as well as operas such as Strauss' “Ariadne auf Naxos”, Rossini's “Il barbiere di Siviglia”, Mozart's “Marriage of Figaro” and “The Magic Flute”. The company is currently working on “Don Giovanni” and Handel's “Messiah”.

Florian Uhlig was born in Düsseldorf and gave his first piano recital at the age of twelve. He studied in London at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, finishing with the concert diploma. He was also influenced by working with Peter Feuchtwanger and by his research towards a PhD thesis at the University of London on the role of the performer in the context of musical genre. Florian Uhlig made his orchestral debut at the Barbican in London in 1997. Since then he has appeared at leading concert halls across the world, performing with orchestras like the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. He has worked with conductors like Krzysztof Penderecki, Josep Caballé, Claus Peter Flor, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Kristjan Järvi, Michail Jurowski, Michael Sanderling and Gerard Schwarz. Florian Uhlig has performed at the Beethoven Festivals of Bonn and Warsaw, the Casals Festival, Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Festival, the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, France Musique Paris, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival and the Vienna Festwochen. In 2009, Florian Uhlig founded the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival in South Africa. Appointed Professor of Piano at the Musikhochschule Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden in 2014, Florian Uhlig assumes the same role at the Musikhochschule Lübeck since October 2019. He holds masterclasses in Germany, France, Great Britain, Canada, Hong Kong, South Korea, China and Switzerland. Florian Uhlig was accorded Associateship of the Royal Academy of Music in London in May 2015.

Matthias Veit studied piano with Gernot Kahl, singing with Susanne Korzuscheck and Peter Elkus and was soon well regarded as a song and instrumental accompanist. After master classes with Ralf Gothòni, Christoph Eschenbach and Dinorah Varsi, several awards and scholarships, he began his a great many concert activities in Germany and abroad. In 1992, he received the Gundula-Janowitz Prize of the International Schubert Competition Graz. Subsequently, a wide array of activities followed: interpretive courses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the Liederabend with Franz Grundheber, invitations to renowned international festivals (Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Edinburgher Festspiele, etc.) and concerts as a song and instrumental partner of Giora Feidman, Angela Denoke, Markus Schäfer, Andreas Schmidt, Hanna Schwarz, to name a few. Since 1995, he has been playing with Henning Lucius in their piano duo and also performs as a vocal soloist. Since 1996, he has been invited as a master class lecturer to international festivals, such as international festival in Savonlinna (Finland). He regularly performs accompanying at competitions, among others, as an official accompanist at the ARD Competition Munich. He has taught at the Universities of Hamburg (interim professorship 1997 to 1999), Bremen (2001 to 2003), Lübeck (since 1999) and Rostock (since 2006). Numerous radio, CD and TV productions attest to his skill and versatility.

Susanne Vogel began her career as a bassist in Freiburg. There, soon after discovering the electric bass for herself, she gained band experience with regionally active bands. Curious about the different ways of playing in different styles, she experimented with jazz, pop, rock, salsa, funk and soul. She has remained true to her stylistic openness, but prefers R'n'B and soul. She studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater with Thomas Heidepriem, where she graduated in 1995 (Diploma Private Music Teacher). Already during her studies she was engaged by artists such as Ina Deter, Pe Werner and Edo Zanki for their tours and CD productions. The eleven-year collaboration with Edo Zanki had a great influence on her musical development. Since then, she has continued her busy concert and touring schedule with a wide variety of projects and bands. She has played with Soulounge, Roachford, Edo Zanki, Xavier Naidoo, Sabrina Setlur, Bo Heart, Floy, Inga Rumpf, Lamont Dozier, Klaus Lage, Gabriel Gordon, Kosho, Lars “Luis” Linek, Natacha (CH), Pe Werner, Ina Deter, Das Auge Gottes, Die Zöllner, Ulla Meinecke, among others. She has had engagements in various musicals: Cats (Operettenhaus Hamburg and Theater am Potsdamer Platz Berlin), Hair, Rocky Horror Show, Evita and Kiss Me Kate (Lübeck Theater). The last few years have been characterized by intensive work on the Soulounge project. This band has played around 150 concerts and produced three CDs. Teaching has accompanied her throughout her career. Both privately and at music schools, she initially gave bass lessons and later also band workshops. After studying jazz harmony and ear training intensively during her studies (lessons with Frank Sikora, diploma thesis on this subject), she also began teaching these subjects - currently at the vocational school for popular music in Hamburg, where she also played a decisive role in shaping the bass department. In 2005 and 2006 she was a lecturer at PopCamp, the German Music Council's master class for popular music. She is a lecturer for electric bass at the Lübeck University of Music.

Since her debut at the Ivo Pogorelich Festival in 1993, the thuringian-born violinist has appeared with many orchestras in Germany, throughout Europe, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. Elisabeth Weber has been a regular guest at international music festivals, such as Budapest, Schleswig-Holstein and Warsaw. As an especially active chamber musician, she has been performing in many different ensembles, collaborating with musicians such as Tabea Zimmermann, Boris Pergamenschikow, Isabelle Faust and Gustav Rivinius, or in rare combinations, as for instance together with the cymbalist Luigi Gaggero. She is member of the Eisler Quartet (founded in 2006) as well as the Orphelian string quartet which performs on period instruments. Elisabeth Weber concerts have taken her to various great halls such as the Wigmore Hall, the Gewandhaus and the Concertgebouw. After starting her musical education at the special school of music "Schloss Belvedere" in Weimar she continued her studies with Antje Weithaas and David Takeno in Berlin and London in combination with many master classes. Since then she has been devoting herself to a vast and varied repertoire and to new ideas, especially in terms of contemporary music as well as the historic approach of playing on period instruments. Several CD’s published by Ars Musici (solo) and CAvi-music (Eisler-Quartet together with the clarinettist Wolfgang Meyer) demonstrate her variety of playing. In 2006 she was appointed professor at the Musikhochschule Lübeck.

The conductor and pianist Siegmund Weinmeister was born in Salzburg. He studied piano and conducting there at the Mozarteum University of Music and Performing Arts with artists such as M. Gielen, N. Hanoncourt, P. Lang, G. Sandor and D. Bashkirow. Bashkirow. For his final production of Mozart's “Cosi fan tutte”, he was awarded the “Bernhard Paumgartner Medal” for the best interpretation of a work by Mozart. Further stages in his artistic development were as an assistant at the Salzburg Festival, including for L. Maazel, and then as a conductor in Braunschweig, Cologne and Bielefeld. In Kaiserslautern, Weinmeister was deputy GMD. Since 2006 he has been Artistic Director of the Santa Vittoria Festival, from 2008 to 2011 he was Musical Director of the Krenek Ensemble and since 2011 he has been Kapellmeister at the Hanover State Opera. Weinmeister has conducted the Gürzenichorchester Köln, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the Staatskapellen Hannover and Braunschweig, the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, the Mozarteumorchester and the Camarata Academica Salzburg, the Orchestre Lamoreux Paris, the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, the Northern Sinfonia Orchestra Newcastle and the Filharmonia Marchigiana, among others - and he has several CD recordings to his name. His performances at the Salzburg Festival, the Rheingau Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Mozartwoche Salzburg, at the concert halls in Berlin and Vienna, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Gewandhaus Leipzig and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden are particularly remarkable.

Ya-Chuan Wu was born in Tainan City, Taiwan. She studied flute at the TNUA (Taipei) and the HMT Rostock as well as music theory at the University of Music Lübeck (MHL) with Prof. Dr. Oliver Korte. As a flutist, she works actively with young composers and has premiered numerous pieces, including at the next_generation festival at the ZKM Karlsruhe and as part of the Presence of the Past project in Prague. She was heard on Deutschlandradio Kultur as part of the Atelier Neue Musik series. Ya-Chuan Wu teaches music theory and aural training at the MHL and the HfMT Hamburg. She has given public lectures in Tallinn (on harmony), Lübeck (on various composers) and at the conference of the State Association of Music Schools in Rendsburg on the topic of preparing students for music theory.

Martín Zamorano, born in Madrid in 1995, studied piano and counterpoint as a child under the composer Concepción Lebreros and was accepted as a junior student in piano by Prof. Delphine Lizé at the HfMT Hamburg in 2016. This was followed by a Bachelor's degree in composition and music theory with Prof. Manfred Stahnke and with Prof. Volkhardt Preuß. After receiving his diploma in piano at the English ABRSM in 2019, he has been pursuing a master's degree in music theory with Prof. Jan Philipp Sprick since 2019. He is active as a pianist in various fields and musical genres and received first prizes at the `Jugend jazzt' competition Hamburg 2012 (solo) and 2014 (trio). As a classical performer he deals with unusual repertoire, improvisation and historical performance practice, regularly playing works by unknown composers. As a composer, Martín Zamorano embodies the connection between the "old" and the "new". His language is influenced by both Western musical tradition and modern pop and jazz culture. His music is not defined by demarcation from other musical styles, but counteracts the division into avant-garde and popular art through flexibility and hybridity. His works have been awarded prizes at the composition competition of the Leipzig Opera (2019) and at the Genre-Fluid Composers Lab by the New Amsterdam Publishing House in NY (2020), among others. In 2021, he received the DAAD Prize for particularly committed international students. Since 2021 he has been a lecturer for music theory and aural training at the University of Music in Lübeck.