WHO WE ARE
Season 2026/27
Biliana Tzinlikova (Piano)
The pianist Biliana Tzinlikova is at home on the solo stage and both as a chamber musician and song accompanist. Her curiosity and spirit of discovery enable her to look back on a multi-faceted discography, which largely includes world premiere recordings from the piano literature.
Biliana Tzinlikova developed the spectrum of her pianistic abilities during her studies under the influence of different piano traditions: the Russian piano school – studying with Marina Kapatzinskaja at the State Music Academy in Sofia – and the Leygraf piano school – master's degree in concert performance with Christoph Lieske at the Mozarteum University.
Her intensive work with Ruggiero Ricci (1998–2003) and Ferenc Rados (2002–2005) also had a particularly formative influence. Biliana Tzinlikova also gained important inspiration from masterclasses with Elisso Virsaladze, Arndzej Jaszinsky, Pavel Gililov, Menahem Pressler, Paul Badura-Skoda, Alexander Lonquich, and Klaus-Christian Schuster.
The focus of her artistic work as a concert pianist has recently been on rediscovering and reviving forgotten piano music. This is also reflected in her CD recordings: in 2014, she made a name for herself in the professional world with the world premiere recordings of Franz Anton Hoffmeister's piano sonatas (3 CDs, released by Grand Piano, Naxos International). The recordings were scientifically documented and received enthusiastic reviews in the international specialist media. In 2016, she released a CD featuring virtuoso variations by Stephen Heller, followed in 2018 by a recording of piano music by French composer Louise Farrenc and, in 2020, a recording of piano compositions by Germaine Tailleferre, Georges Auric, and Luis Durey (Paladino Music).
As a soloist with orchestra, Biliana Tzinlikova has increasingly cultivated a mixture of core repertoire and rarely performed works in recent years. She has performed in many countries in Europe and the USA and made her debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus in 2004.
As a sought-after chamber music partner and song accompanist, Biliana Tzinlikova has appeared on international stages with artists such as Adrian Eröd, Christian Gerhaher, Michael Martin Kofler, Thomas Selditz, Klara Flieder, Thomas Riebl, Ulf Schneider, Stephan Picard, Patrick Demenga, Gustav Rivinius, Dany Bonvin, Esther Hoppe, and Colin Jacobsen.
Biliana Tzinlikova is a co-founder and member of the Ehrbar Chamber Music Society in Vienna.
Biliana Tzinlikova has been teaching at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg since 2002. After completing her habilitation, she now heads a class for piano chamber music and piano there and is the initiator and artistic director of the “Kammermusiktage Erika Frieser” festival, which is dedicated to works by female composers. The combination of artistic excellence, creative openness, and the constant development of her pedagogical skills characterizes her work and leads her to an intensive international master class activity, in which she passes on her knowledge with great dedication.
Gabriel Meloni (Piano)
Born in 2001, Gabriel Meloni began performing on stage with a wide variety of ensembles at a very young age, making his orchestral debut at the age of ten. He has since performed multiple times at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Vienna Musikverein, as well as at the Bregenz Festival, for ORF, and for Allianz. He received particular attention following his appearance in the intermission film for this year’s Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert.
Gabriel Meloni studied with Oliver Schnyder, Konstantin Scherbakov (PreCollege, Zurich University of the Arts), and Jan Jiracek von Arnim. He is currently studying with Benedetto Lupo at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and chamber music with Stefan Mendl at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He has attended master classes with Lang Lang, Eldar Nebolsin, Pavel Gililov, Michel Béroff, and Bernd Goetzke.
He is a prize winner in several competitions; among other achievements, he won second prize at the “Rotary Piano Prize” in Lindau in 2018. In 2012, he won third prize at the international “Jenö Takács Competition” in Burgenland, and in 2019, he won third prize at the international “Nuova Coppa Pianisti” competition in Osimo (IT). In addition, he won the Tokyo Foundation’s Sylff Scholarship in 2025 and was selected in the summer of 2025 to join the “Orpheum Foundation” in Zurich. Gabriel is also active as a chamber musician. A CD recording with bassoon and several first and special prizes at international and national competitions—including the “Luigi Nono” in Turin in 2017—underscore this.
In addition to the duo CD, his first solo album featuring Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 8 was released in June 2025.
Gabriel has received further invitations from orchestras such as the Innstrumenti Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Youth Philharmonic, the Knittelfeld Chamber Orchestra, and the Collegium Innstumentale Dornbirn. He has also been invited to give recitals by EPTA, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the “Due Mondi” Festival in Spoleto (organized by Beatrice Rana), the Swiss Chamber Music Festival, the “Cristofori Festival” in Padua, the Klevischer Musiksommer, and “Amici della Musica Piemonte.”
Duo Giocoso:
Chiara Lamani (Piano)
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Maya Muratoglu (Piano)
The Giocoso Piano Duo was founded in 2020 and consists of pianists Chiara Lamani and Maya Muratoglu, both born in 2007. Both completed their secondary education at the Vienna Music High School and, in 2025, also graduated from the preparatory course in piano under Mag. Stephanie Timoschek-Gumpinger at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. This fall, they will continue their studies at the mdw, with Chiara majoring in piano performance and Maya in piano chamber music.
The Giocoso Duo has enjoyed success in numerous competitions at the state and national levels. Among other achievements, they have won first prizes at Prima la musica competitions and have been awarded special prizes on several occasions, which have earned them concert opportunities both in Austria and abroad. A special highlight in the fall of 2025 will be a performance at the Vienna Konzerthaus, which they won as part of a Musica Juventutis audition. In addition, the duo will perform at a Start-Up! concert organized by Jeunesse in the spring of 2026.
Dalibor Karvay (Violin)
Exceptional virtuosity, utmost precision, and musical maturity are the qualities that have established DALIBOR KARVAY as one of the most prominent Slovak artists of his generation. Driven by a constant desire for absolute tonal purity and emotional depth, he continuously refines his musical expression and pushes the boundaries of his interpretative artistry.
From a young age, he garnered numerous prestigious awards, including victory at the Young Musicians’ Meeting in Córdoba (1996), the Eurovision Grand Prix – Young Musician of the Year competition (2002), and first prize at the David Oistrakh International Competition in Moscow (2008). He was repeatedly invited to the Seiji Ozawa International Academy in Switzerland. In 2009, the Slovak Republic honored him with the Minister of Culture’s Award for exceptional artistic achievements and outstanding representation of Slovak interpretative art abroad. Two years later, he received the Tatra Banka Foundation Art Award (2011), and in 2016, he was granted the Ľudovít Rajter Prize. His remarkable musical accomplishments were further highlighted by his performance at Windsor Castle for His Royal Highness, Prince Charles of Wales, where, at just eighteen years old, he shared the stage with the legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. His passionate quest for the ideal sound and perfect violin was later documented in the film Stradivari: Search for Perfection (2004).
As a soloist, Dalibor Karvay has performed with numerous renowned orchestras, including the Wiener Symphoniker, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Wiener KammerOrchester, Camerata Salzburg, Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, English Chamber Orchestra, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Solistes Européens Luxembourg, Czech Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, State Philharmonic Košice, and Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina. He has collaborated with esteemed conductors such as Petr Popelka, Ion Marin, Marek Janowski, Marie Jacquot, Leif Segerstam, Giedrė Šlekytė, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Jaap van Zweden, Kaspar Zehnder, Alexander Rahbari, Lucie Leguay, Tetsuro Ban, Pawel Przytocki, Tomáš Netopil, Tomáš Brauner, Ondrej Lenárd, and many others. Dalibor Karvay is also a sought-after chamber musician. He has collaborated with top artists such as Radek Baborák, Julian Rachlin, Julia Hagen, Wenzel Fuchs, Boris Kuschnir, Magda Amara, Stefan Stroissnig, Roman Patkoló, Daniel Buranovský, Vag Papian, Gottlieb Wallisch, Pavel Haas Quartet, and members of the Wiener Symphoniker and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
From 2020 to 2025, he served as First Concertmaster of the Wiener Symphoniker, with whom he also appeared on several occasions as a soloist – most recently in December 2025 in Vienna under the baton of Chief Conductor Petr Popelka, and in March 2025 at the Beijing Performing Arts Centre in China. In the current season, he has appeared as a soloist in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Vietnam, and Slovakia. In the 2026/2027 season, he will serve as Artist-in-Residence of the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Łódź, Poland.
Klara Flieder (Violin)
Klara Flieder was born into a Viennese family of musicians. She began her violin studies with Margarethe Biedermann at the Vienna Conservatory and continued with Christian Ferras in Paris and Arthur Grumiaux in Brussels. Master classes with Henryk Szeryng, Nathan Milstein and Augustin Dumay rounded off her education.
Concert activities as a soloist and chamber musician have taken her to the world's most renowned concert halls (including the Vienna Musikverein, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, South Bank Center) and to numerous international festivals throughout Europe, the USA, South America and China (including Kuhmo Festival Finland, Carinthian Summer, Midsummer Music Festival Sweden, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Narnia Festival Italy).
She is a long-standing member of the Flieder Trio, the Leschetizky Trio Vienna and the Hyperion Ensemble and also looks back on many years of intensive collaboration in the violin-violoncello duo with Christophe Pantillon and in the violin-piano duo with Patrick Leung.
In 2014 Klara Flieder gave performances of the complete sonatas for piano and violin by W. A. Mozart with Patrick Leung in Shanghai. She has also participated in a number of CD recordings (EMI, Dabringhaus & Grimm, Extraplatte and Preiser Records) in all of the above-mentioned ensemble formations and works with artists such as Pierre Amoyal, Roberto Benzi, Ernst Kovacic, Vladimir Mendelssohn and Ludwig Streicher.
Since 2005 Klara Flieder has held a professorship for violin at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. She has held teaching positions and guest professorships at the Universities of Music in Vienna and Graz, and also gives master classes in Austria, Sweden, Spain, Italy, the USA and China.
Fedor Rudin (Violin)
Fedor Rudin is a musician of impressive versatility and artistic depth who has quickly established himself as one of the most fascinating violinists of his generation. He is equally at home in the great Romantic repertoire, early music, and avant-garde works, and is highly praised for his technical brilliance, stylistic sensitivity, and expansive musical vision.
A prize winner at the prestigious Premio Paganini International Competition and the George Enescu Competition, Rudin has performed as a soloist with numerous major orchestras, including the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Petrobras Symphony Orchestra (Rio de Janeiro), the Prague Philharmonia, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Cape Town Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Cannes, the Orchestre de Bretagne, and many other orchestras in Europe and beyond.
He has collaborated with an equally impressive list of conductors, including Vladimir Jurowski, Tomas Netopil, Andris Poga, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Anja Bihlmaier, Petr Popelka, Kirill Karabits, Lorenzo Viotti, Dmitry Matvienko, Anna Rakitina, Emil Tabakov, and Johannes Wildner.
In addition to all the standard works by composers such as Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Korngold, his repertoire also includes both violin concertos by Shostakovich and Szymanowski, as well as 20th-century works and contemporary compositions, including music by his grandfather, the important avant-garde composer Edison Denisov. As an active chamber musician, Rudin performs with renowned artists, including pianists such as Boris Kuznetsov, Julien Libeer, Florian Noack, and Alexandre Tharaud; cellists such as Julia Hagen, Senja Rummukainen, and István Várdai; and ensembles such as the Pavel Haas Quartet and the Signum Saxophone Quartet.
Since 2022, he has been artistic director of the Rencontres Musicales de Chaon chamber music festival in France. He is also co-founder of the Fratres Trio, an ensemble that explores the intersections between classical music and jazz. Their programs include works by Gershwin, Ravel, Milhaud, Poulenc, and Duke Ellington, among others.
Born in Moscow and raised in Paris, Rudin studied with Zakhar Bron in Cologne, Pierre Amoyal in Salzburg, and Boris Kuschnir in Graz. Parallel to his career as a violinist, Rudin is also a successful conductor and currently professor of orchestral education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he previously completed his own conducting studies. His profound understanding of both traditions shapes both his stage work and his teaching.
Fedor Rudin plays the 1712 “ex-Viotti” Antonio Stradivari violin, generously loaned by CANIMEX INC. (Drummondville, Québec, Canada), as well as a modern copy of a Storioni violin by Sylvain Tournaire from 2023 (Paris). He is a Larsen Strings Artist.
Anne Harvey-Nagl (Violin)
Anne Harvey-Nagl is the concertmaster of the Vienna Volksoper, the Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra, and the Beethoven Philharmonic Baden. She is also the guest concertmaster of the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra, as well as the concertmaster and a frequent soloist with the Vienna Mozart Orchestra. She has also been a member of the Koehne Quartet since 1992 and of a number of other chamber music ensembles, including the Vienna Volksoper Clarinet Trio and the Vienna Volksoper Chamber Ensemble.
Anne is originally from Melbourne, Australia, and began her violin studies with Brian Blake, Nelli Shkolnikova, and Spiros Rantos. In 1986, she won the “National Youth Concerto Competition,” and in 1990, after graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Arts in Music (with honors), she received the ANZ International Fellowship for music studies abroad as well as a scholarship from the Pinschof Foundation, which enabled her to study with Professor Günter Pichler at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In 1994, she performed as a soloist with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra as part of the “Presenting Young Artists” series. Before being appointed concertmaster in 2011, she served as first violinist at the Volksoper for 12 years.
In addition to her regular engagements, Anne has performed with renowned ensembles such as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Klangforum Wien, the “Kontrapunkte” ensemble, the “die reihe” ensemble, as well as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra, and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. She is a founding member of the highly acclaimed Australian World Orchestra and has appeared as a soloist on numerous occasions with orchestras in Austria, Australia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Bulgaria.
Anne has also given numerous concerts in Australia and Austria with pianists Julia Maria Sliwa, Gerrit Priessnitz, Ilse Schumann, Biliana Tzinlikova, Kristian Chong, and John O’Donnell.
Together with pianist Julia Maria Sliwa, she released a CD recording of sonatas by Strauss and Respighi in 2023.
Thomas Selditz (Viola)
Thomas Selditz has made a name for himself internationally as a chamber musician. After completing his studies, he played as principal viola under Daniel Barenboim in the Staatskapelle Berlin. Before being appointed professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2010, he held professorships at the conservatories in Hanover and Hamburg.
He was a member of the renowned Gaede Trio for over 20 years and was a member of the Hugo Wolf Quartet from 2013 to 2016. He has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Cité de la musique in Paris.
As a chamber musician, he has been a guest at many renowned international festivals and has recorded over 20 CDs for labels such as Sony, Largo Records, Tacet, MDG, Audite and Phoenix. His recording of Henri Vieuxtemps' works for viola and piano was awarded the Diapason d'Or and the German Record Critics' Prize in France in 2003. Most recently, the solo recording with the BBC Concert Orchestra London (Sinfonia Concertante by Walter Braunfels) was also awarded the German Record Critics' Prize in 2019.
Laeticia Lermer (Viola)
Laeticia Lermer was born on March 3, 2007, into a family of musicians in Salzburg. She began playing the viola at the age of 3 and took up the piano two years later. Laeticia attended the Mozartgymnasium in Salzburg from 2017 to 2021. In 2018, she was accepted as a pre-college student, majoring in viola, into Brigitte Schmid’s class at the Mozarteum University. In 2016, Laeticia founded the Doppler String Quartet together with her sister Franziska Lermer (cello) and the siblings Cosima and Darius Schmid (violin).
Since fall 2021, she has been living with her family in Vienna, where she transferred to the local music high school on Neustiftgasse and was accepted as a young student into the concert performance class—preparatory course—taught by Univ. Prof. Thomas Selditz at the MDW.
After graduating from high school, she began her bachelor’s degree program in the winter semester of 2025 at the University of Music, Drama, and Media in Hanover in the concert performance class of Univ. Prof. Volker Jacobsen.
In June 2024, she won the audition for the WSY Talent Prize and, the following October, performed Britten’s *Lachrymae* with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at the Vienna Musikverein.
Thanks to her enthusiasm for orchestral and ensemble playing, she has already gained extensive experience as an orchestral and chamber musician despite her youth:
2016–2018 with the Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the Mozarteum Foundation, including a performance during Mozart Week under the baton of Marc Minkovski; in 2022 with the JSO Tulln under the direction of Hans-Peter Manser; and from 2022 to 2025 as section leader at the Jeunesse Orchestra Camp under Marcus Merkel and Johannes Wildner.
Laeticia Lermer was a three-time first-prize winner at the national Prima la Musica competition
— in the Solo Viola category (2024 national winner in Group III Plus),
— in the String Quartet category (2023 national winner in Group III Plus),
- as well as a two-time first-prize winner at the state competition in the Piano category (Groups I and II)
She attended master classes at the Accademia Stauffer in Cremona (Lawrence Power), the Austrian Master Classes in Zell an der Pram (Miriam Tschopp), Camerata Prima Vienna/Mallnitz (directed by Harald Krumpöck, viola: Robert Bauerstatter), the Vienna Master Classes (Thomas Riebl), Allegro Vivo (Thomas Selditz and Lars Anders Tomter), and at the Starnberg Music Festival (Roland Glassl).
Luisa Deitemyer (Oboe)
Oboist Luisa Deitemyer was born in Vienna and received her first music lessons on the recorder at the age of five. In 2016, she switched to the oboe and has since been studying with Prof. Peter Mayrhofer at the Vienna Music Schools, where she is also part of the support program. Since the winter semester of 2023, she has been studying in the preparatory program with Univ.-Prof. Harald Hörth at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Since 2017, Luisa Deitemyer has regularly won prizes at competitions such as the “Vienna Oboe Competition,” the “INÖK Competition,” and “Prima la Musica” at both the state and national levels. She has been awarded first prizes on multiple occasions, both as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles. In 2025, she was named the Austrian national winner as part of “Prima la Musica.”
During the 2023 “Prima la Musica” national competition, she also distinguished herself with her original composition “Die Schwänin—Musical Reflections on a Theme from Fanny Hensel’s Schwanenlied,” which was very well received by the jury and was subsequently published by Musikverlag Abel.
In addition to her work as a soloist, Luisa Deitemyer regularly performs with various orchestras, including the Tulln Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Prima Wien, the Haydn Orchestra Burgenland, the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra, and the Vienna Hofburg Orchestra. Chamber music is also a particular focus of her work: with the woodwind trio “akzen[t]rio,” she gained valuable artistic experience and achieved success at “Prima la Musica.” She has also performed internationally, including at the Italian chamber music festival “Trame Sonore.” Furthermore, with the ensemble “Young Wind Masters”—in collaboration with the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School—she gained valuable concert experience at venues such as the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Muth.
Maria Grün (Violoncello)
Cellist Maria Grün, born in 1982, is a member of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and teaches at the Fritz Kreisler Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she focuses on nurturing gifted students.
She received her first cello lessons at the age of six and, at age 7, was admitted to the gifted program at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz under Prof. Hildgund Posch. She continued her studies with Rudolf Leopold, Valentin Erben, and Reinhard Latzko. She graduated in November 2010 under Prof. Reinhard Latzko with honors.
A scholarship recipient of the Herbert von Karajan Center, the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation’s “Live Music Now” program, and the Dr. Robert and Lina Thyll-Dürr Foundation, she has won numerous national and international competitions and awards (including the Anton Bruckner Award from the Vienna Symphony Orchestra) and served as principal cellist of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
As a concert soloist, Maria Grün has performed with the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck, the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, the Aeolus Wind Philharmonic, and the Webern Symphony Orchestra, among others.
After holding temporary contracts with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Maria Grün served as section leader with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2007 to 2014 and has been a cellist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra ever since. During the 2011–12 season, she also served as a substitute principal cellist with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Lower Austrian Tonkünstler Orchestra. As an orchestral musician, she regularly performs in major concert halls around the world and has collaborated with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Riccardo Muti, Philippe Jordan, and Andris Nelsons.
In addition to her work with the Vienna Philharmonic and the ensemble “die Reihe,” she is also a sought-after chamber music partner. Maria Grün is a member of the highly successful Trio Marc Chagall, founded in 2004, with whom she recorded a CD for Preiser Records in 2005; she is also a founding member of the Theophil Ensemble Wien and of “projekt wir/us.” At the end of 2011, two CDs by the Theophil Ensemble Wien were released in collaboration with ORF and Classic Consort. She performs regularly in the United States and throughout Europe. Since 2014, she has also been a member of the Lissy Quartet, with whom she released a CD of works by Joseph Mayseder on Gramola in 2016. In 2018, another CD featuring trio works by Joseph Mayseder was released on Gramola. From 2008 to 2011, Maria Grün served as artistic director of a chamber music series at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna.
Other chamber music partners have included Cornelius Meister, Ingolf Turban, Miriam Kutrowatz, Marko Ylönen, Thomas Gansch, Gottlieb Wallisch, Christoph Berner, Christian Altenburger, Rainer Honeck, Reinhard Latzko, Patricia Kopatschinskaja, and Petr Popelka. Her stage partners have also included Peter Simonischek, Katharina and Julia Stemberger, Frank Hoffmann, and Peter Steinhauer.
Performances included appearances at Styriarte, the Bregezer Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Palmklang Festival in Oberalm, the St. Gallen Festival, the “Con Anima” Festival in Ernstbrunn, Vienna’s Porgy and Bess, the Radiokulturhaus Wien, the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Stefaniensaal in Graz.
From fall 2007 through 2018, she taught the gifted cello class at the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School and was honored in January 2011 for her successful teaching. Since October 2012, she has been teaching as an assistant at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and she has had her own preparatory class since fall 2017. She has taken master classes at the Allegro vivo Festival, among others.
Maria Grün plays the “J.B. Vuillaume 1832” cello, which is graciously provided to her by the Bank für Tirol und Vorarlberg.
Reinhard Latzko (Violoncello)
Reinhard Latzko is one of the most versatile cellists of his generation. In addition to his extensive concert activities, he has made a name for himself above all as a successful teacher and music educator. Born in Freising near Munich, he studied with Jan Polasek, Martin Ostertag, and Heinrich Schiff. From 1987 to 2003, Reinhard Latzko was principal cellist in the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra under Michael Gielen.
Since 1990, when he was a lecturer with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, teaching has been one of the special focuses of his artistic life. From 1988 to 2005, he succeeded Boris Pergamenschikow as head of a training and concert class at the Music Academy of the City of Basel.
Reinhard Latzko has been a university professor of violoncello at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since 2003. Many of his students are prize winners at international competitions and hold leading positions in the most important orchestras. Master classes worldwide attest to his international standing as one of the most sought-after teachers. In addition, Reinhard Latzko has been teaching chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz as a senior lecturer since fall 2016.
Reinhard Latzko, himself a prize winner at national and international competitions, performs both as a chamber musician and as a soloist. His chamber music partners include Markus Schirmer, Christian Tetzlaff, Ernst Kovacic, Christian Altenburger, and Christopher Hinterhuber. He has performed at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Vienna Musikverein, the Shanghai Concert Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, etc., and has received invitations to the Amsterdam Cello Biennale, the Shanghai Cello Festival, and Supercello Beijing. Latzko has performed as a soloist with the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and the Camerata Salzburg, among others. His intensive engagement with contemporary music has resulted in world premieres of works by Wolfgang Rihm, Ernst Krenek, and Michael Gielen, among others.
Reinhard Latzko is the artistic director of the “con anima” Music Days in Ernstbrunn.
For several years now, Reinhard Latzko has also been very successful in a new form of orchestral conducting, including with the Ensemble Resonanz in Hamburg and the Het Balletorkest in Amsterdam.
Christophe Pantillon (Violoncello)
The cellist Christophe Pantillon was born in Neuchâtel; he comes from a family of musicians of Swiss and American origin.
He received his first cello lessons in his hometown with J.-P. Guy and with Elena Botez in Bern. He then continued his cello studies with Heinrich Schiff at the Music Academy in Basel. Further studies with Valentin Erben ( Alban Berg Quartet ) at the Academy of Music in Vienna and with Ralph Kirshbaum at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester as well as master classes, among others with Mischa Maisky in Siena, complete his education.
He has lived in Vienna since 1992, where he co-founded the aron quartet in 1998. He is also a member of various chamber music ensembles and performs regularly as a duo with his wife, the violinist Klara Flieder.
Christophe Pantillon has recorded numerous chamber music CDs (cpo, Cascavelle, Preiser Records, Nimbus Records), many of which have won international awards. His CD "Paroles de violoncelle", released in 2013, with French works for violoncello solo, enjoys the highest national and international recognition.
Performances as a soloist or as a member of various chamber music ensembles have taken Christophe Pantillon to Vienna ( Musikverein, Konzerthaus), Salzburg ( Mozarteum ), London ( Wigmore Hall ), Washington ( Library of Congress ), Paris ( Opéra Bastille ), Tokyo ( Casals Hall, Oji Hall ), Moscow ( Tchaikovsky Conservatory ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colon ), Madrid ( Teatro Real ), Zurich ( Tonhalle ), Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, Helsinki. ... and to internationally renowned festivals.
Christophe Pantillon teaches at the Musikschule Wien and is a sought-after teacher at national and international master classes (Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (Yale School of Music)USA, Académie Internationale d'été de Nice, Sommerakademie Lilienfeld, austrian arts session (Ossiach), Sommerakademie Schässburg (Romania), Sounding Jerusalem, etc.).
Enrico Bronzi (Violoncello)
Cellist and conductor, Enrico Bronzi is born in Parma in 1973. He is the cellist of the Trio di Parma, with whom he has carried out intense concert activity since 1990, appearing in the most important concert halls of Europe, USA, South America and Australia (Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Berlin Philharmonie, Wiener Konzerthaus, Kölner Philharmonie, Herkulessaal in Munich, St. Peterburg Philharmonic Hall, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires). The group has also successfully competed in a number of international competitions in Florence, Melbourne, Lyon and Munich, and has received the “Premio Abbiati” from Italian musical critics.
Since 2001, Bronzi has coupled his chamber group activity with an active career as a soloist, which after having won a prize in the Rostropovich Competition in Paris, culminated with the first prize in the Paulo Cello Competition of Helsinki in 2002. On that occasion, he also received the Special Prize dedicated to R. Sommer for the best performance of Dvorak’s Concerto with the Helsinki Philarmonic. He regularly participates in a number of festivals including Lucerne, Melbourne, Turku, Naantali, Stresa, Ravenna, and Lockenhaus. He has performed as soloist under the direction of C. Abbado, V. Delman, C. Eschenbach, P. Berglund, F. Bruggen, K. Penderecki.
He appeared together with international musicians like Martha Argerich, Alexander Lonquich, Gidon Kremer, Angela Hewitt, Wolfram Christ, Stefan Milenkovich, Joshua Bell, Hagen Quartett, Giardino Armonico. He was taught conducting by Jorma Panula and has appeared as guest conductor and soloist with Orchestra Mozart, Camerata Salzburg, Kremerata Baltica, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro La Fenice, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Orchestra Haydn. For three years he collaborated as cello solo at the La Scala Theatre in Milan and he regularly takes place in the juries of major international competitions (Premio Borciani, Premio ‘Trio di Trieste’, Concorso ‘V. Gui’ of Florence, Turku Cello Competition…).
He carries out an intense activity teaching and he has been a professor at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg since 2007. He’s Artistic Director of the activity of the Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica. Enrico Bronzi plays a Vincenzo Panormo cello dated 1770.
Dominik Wagner (Double Bass)
As a recipient of the ECHO and Opus Klassik awards, Vienna-born double bassist Dominik Wagner showcases new facets of his instrument on the international stage. His career as a soloist has taken him to renowned venues such as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and Carnegie Hall in New York.
He is also a prize winner at nearly every double bass competition, including the International Bradetich Competition, the ARD International Music Competition, the Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition, the J.M. Sperger Competition, the Osaka International Competition, and the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition.
He has also performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Camerata Salzburg, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, and the WKO Heilbronn, and is a fellow of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.
Wagner is also a sought-after educator; he has been a professor at the Würzburg University of Music since 2023 and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2024, and regularly gives master classes in Europe and the U.S. at institutions such as the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, the Juilliard School in New York, and the University of North Texas.
Dominik Wagner was initially trained as a cellist before switching to the double bass in 2007. His four years in the Vienna Boys’ Choir’s concert choir had a formative influence on his musical development. From 2009 to 2015, he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna; from 2015 to 2022, he studied with Prof. Dorin Marc at the Nuremberg University of Music; and from 2023 to 2025, he was part of the Professional Studies Program at the Kronberg Academy.
Tomasso Huber (Double Bass)
Tommaso Huber, born in Linz, grew up in Putzleinsdorf in the Mühlviertel region, surrounded by folk music. He learned to play the accordion from his father at an early age and enrolled in the Linz Music High School in 1983 (graduating in 1988). He studied double bass at the music universities in Vienna and Graz under Professors Ludwig Streicher, Josef Niederhammer, and Johannes Auersperg.
After numerous engagements as a double bassist in a wide variety of genres—including opera, symphonic music, chamber music, and folk music—he was hired by the Vienna Volksoper Orchestra in 2000. That same year, he co-founded the ensemble AMARCORD WIEN with Gerhard Muthspiel, Sebastian Gürtler, and Michael Williams, with whom he performed internationally as an accordionist for 23 years. Since 2008, he has also performed with Sebastian Gürtler and Georg Breinschmid in the group “The Flying Schnörtzenbrekkers.”
In addition to the aforementioned musical pursuits—which also include composing and arranging—classical chamber music has become a labor of love in recent years, a passion he indulges with partners such as Klara Flieder, Sebastian Gürtler, Vesna Stankovic, Thomas Selditz, Marta Sudraba, Christophe Pantillon, Aurore Cany, and Biliana Tzinlikova, among others.
From 1998 to 2007, he trained privately as a violin maker in the workshop of Konrad Stoll in Haldenwang, Allgäu. In 2010, he passed the professional examination administered by the Vienna Guild of Craftsmen and obtained certification to practice the craft of violin making for the construction and repair of double basses.
Marie-Therese Rudolph (Moderation)
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