Karsten Gebhardt

Karsten Gebhardt - Violin studied with Prof. Marschner at the music-academy Freiburg and at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. He was a prizewinner in numerous competitions. Master courses with personalities such as Henryk Szeryng in Geneva, Ruggiero Ricci, Jean Fournier in Baden Baden and Yehudi Menuhin in Bern shape his playing. He gave concerts as a soloist with violin concertos by Mozart and Brahms, among others, and traveled to Europe and the USA as a chamber musician with the Goldnagl Ensemble. He has been principal of the residency soloists for 20 years and has performed in over 2000 concerts since then. He plays a violin by Frederico Goldnagl, Vienna after Antonio Stradivari.

Iason Keramidis

Iason Keramidis - violin is deputy concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic. He studied with Prof. Ingolf Turban in Stuttgart and Prof. Ulf Hoelscher in Karlsruhe and was a prizewinner in numerous national and international competitions. As a soloist he has performed with the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra Sofia, Thessaloniki State Orchestra, Lviv Philharmonic, Athens State Orchestra, German State Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Lithuania and National Greek Opera Orchestra. He is a member of the Astris Piano Trio and the Akamas Duo. Tours have taken him through the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Norway, Russia, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain, Brazil and Japan, China, USA, South Africa and Latin America. He runs his own master class in Spain and plays an old Italian violin made by the master Ferdinado Gagliano (1752).

Clément Courtin

Clément Courtin - Violin studied in Paris with Suzanne Gessner and was then accepted into the master class of Igor Oistrakh in Brussels, where he completed his studies with a master's degree. He was concertmaster of the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra in France for 5 years, with whom he also made guest appearances as a soloist in numerous countries such as Norway, China and Japan.

After receiving a scholarship to the Orchestra Academy of the Munich Philharmonic, he became a member of the second violins in 2006. In addition to his orchestral work, Clément Courtin takes part in numerous chamber music projects and in 2008 he has e.g. Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto was played with the Siemens Orchestra in Munich's Herkulessaal.

Pamela Kremer

Pamela Kremer - Viola received her musical training at the music academies in Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Salzburg and Paris with well-known professors such as Prof. Roland Glassl, Prof. Gunter Teuffel, Prof. Jean Sulem and Prof. Bruno Giuranna. Concerts have taken her to numerous festivals, including the Lucerne Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Kissinger Sommer and the Rheingau Music Festival. She has worked as a lecturer in numerous master classes for chamber music at Jeunesse Musicals and in musical education projects. Her students are Jugend Musiziert prizewinners and scholarship recipients. Pamela Kremer is a member of the Wiesbaden State Orchestra and regularly plays in orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra.

Andrea Polgár

Andrea Polgár - Violoncello studied at the Béla Bartòk Academy in Budapest and then in the master class of the Prague Music Academy with Prof. Lojda. She graduated with honors and a Magister Artium. In Vienna she took part in master classes with Janós Starker and performed as a soloist with cello concertos by Haydn, Schumann, Dvorák, Saint-Saêns and the double concerto by Johannes Brahms. She plays a cello by Paul Serdet, Paris.

Christian Brühl

Christian Brühl - double bass is a member of the Munich Radio Orchestra. He studied double bass at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Veit-Peter Schüßler. Christian Brühl regularly takes part in important festivals, including the Salzburg Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Kissinger Sommer, the Ruhrtriennale and the Menuhin Festival Gstaad. An important aspect of his professional work is the education area. Christian Brühl can look back on many years of experience as a lecturer with state youth orchestras, the Nantesbuch Foundation and private tuition. His students are Jugend Musiziert award winners, students and holders of positions in well-known orchestras.

Martin Belič

Martin Belič - flute is deputy principal flutist of the Munich Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev. He completed his master's degree with Prof. Irena Grafenauer at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and graduated with distinction. Since 2010 he has been working as an assistant to Michael Martin Kofler at his international master classes for flute in Klagenfurt and has been running his own summer flute courses for the past 8 years.

    In 2000 he received the scholarship from the Slovenian Ministry as well as the award “Dr. Roman Klasinc” for extraordinary musical achievements and received the “Life music now” scholarship from the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation in 2006. At the international competition "Intermusica Birkfeld" and at the "2. International Theobald Böhm Competition for Flute and Alto Flute” he won first prize, winning both competitions and has been a jury member at the Theobald Böhm Competition in Munich ever since.

   In addition to solo and chamber music concerts, Martin Belič has recorded and played concerts with the RTV Slovenija Symphonic Orchestra, the SNG Maribor Symphonic Orchestra and the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra.

The renowned Slovenian music critic Marijan Zlobec wrote: "Martin Belič carries on the tradition of Slovenian flutists of the last half century, from Boris Čampa and Irena Grafenauer to the present, and is among the worldwide representatives of the flute."

Giovanni De Angeli

Giovanni De Angeli - oboe obtained his concert exam with Ingo Goritzki in Hanover and received the "Virtuosite" diploma in Geneva with Maurice Bourgue. He was the winner of the "Sony Competition" Tokyo and "Prague Spring" and was solo oboist with the "Solisti Veneti" and the "Orchestra della Toscana", Florence. In concerts by the Scala di Milano, the BR-Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic, he took part as solo oboist. As a soloist on the world's major stages, he has been celebrated at the Scala di Milano, the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Tokyo Suntory Hall and the Lincoln Center New York.