Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
The Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra (Concertgebouw Kamerorkest) was founded in 1987 and consists of members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Before that time it was called the Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra (Amsterdams...

THEATRE OF VOICES was founded by Paul Hillier in 1990 and is widely recognized as one of Europe’s foremost vocal groups. Current projects include music ranging from Perotin to Dowland, and many of today’s most eminent composers such as Berio, Pärt, Reich, Cage, and Stockhausen.


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From combined musical and audiophile criteria we have compiled a collection of the most excellent and impressive recordings 2L (Lindberg Lyd) have to offer. Most tracks originate from DXD (352.8kHz/24bit), presented now in 96kHz, 192kHz and 352.8kHz

Two of the albums presented in...

Accademia Bizantina
The Accademia Bizantina was founded in 1983 in Ravenna and today is regarded as one of the most versatile and select ensembles using original instruments which are required for the Italian repertoire of the 17th and 18th century: stylistic accuracy,...

Abgesehen von Seitenlinien wie Gypsy oder Hot Swing ist die Geige im Jazz ein Exot geblieben. In einigen Ländern gibt es gleichwohl eine gewisse Tradition: In den USA führt sie von Joe Venuti und Stuff Smith bis zu Mark Feldman und Regina Carter, in Frankreich von Stephane Grappelli zu Didier...

Mit Recht kann man Alexei Lubimov als einen der bemerkenswertesten Pianisten unserer Zeit be-zeichnen. 1963 begann er neunzehnjährig das Studium am Konservatorium seiner Heimatstadt Moskau, in der Klasse von Heinrich Neuhaus.

Bereits drei Jahre zuvor hatte Lubimov einen...

Alina Rotaru - Cembalo
Alina Rotaru studierte an der Universität für Musik ihrer Heimatstadt Bukarest Klavier und Chordirigat. Dort kam sie auch in Kontakt mit Alter Musik und gründete ihr erstes Ensemble.

Nach ihrem Umzug nach Deutschland 1999 studierte sie...

Benjamin Koppel - Saxophone
Benjamin Koppel is the third generation of Denmark’s leading musical family. His grandfather was the composer and pianist Herman D. Koppel , and his father is Anders Koppel , who likewise shines in the dual role of musician and composer. Benjamin...

SIR ANDREW DAVIS

Since 2000, Sir Andrew Davis has served as Music Director & Principal Conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago, where he will conduct three of the eight productions presented in the 2010-2011 season. Maestro Davis is the Conductor Laureate of the Toronto Symphony...

Andrew Marriner - Clarinet
Andrew became principal of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1986 following the footsteps of the late Jack Brymer. During his orchestral career he has also maintained his place on the worldwide solo concert platform alongside an active role in the...

This project is the result of an intense complicity, so musical as personal, between Pierre-Alexandre Saint Yves and Andrew Wells-Oberegger. Having noticed that their sounds and passionate nature were complementary and following multiple collaborations, the idea to form a duet was imperative....

Andy Sheppard - Tenor & Soprano Saxophones
The man who has emerged as one of Britain's foremost tenor and soprano saxophonists was introduced to the music of John Coltrane at the age of 19 and immediately went out and bought his own saxophone. Three weeks later, he was...

Das Dessauer Orchester zählt zu den ältesten und traditionsreichsten Klangkörpern des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt. Als sein Geburtsjahr wird 1766 genannt, als Friedrich Wilhelm Rust die Leitung der Hofkapelle übernahm. Nachdem 1794 eine Theatertruppe fest in Dessau engagiert wurde, bildeten die Musiker...

Aniello Desiderio, Jahrgang 1971 und in seiner Heimat ehrfürchtig „Il Fenomeno“ genannt, zählt weltweit nicht nur zu den fingerfertigsten Vertretern seiner Zunft, sondern gilt für viele als Jahrhundert-Gitarrist, der vom Publikum und den Medien vergöttert wird. Nicht weniger als 18 erste Preise...

Violinist Annar Follesø is one of Norway’s foremost musicians. He received his training at the Barratt Due Music Institute in Oslo and at Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington, USA, where he graduated with an Artist Diploma. In addition to his violin studies with professor Mauricio Fuks...

Anthony Bailes studierte zuerst Gitarre, wobei er eine grosse Liebe zur Lautenmusik entwickelte. Ein zufälliges Zusammentreffen mit Diana Poulton hatte zur Folge, dass er sich eine Laute kaufte und anfing bei ihr zu studieren. 1968 traf er die holländische Lautenistin und Cembalistin Gusta...

Antonio Forcione - Guitarist
Antonio (born 1960) is hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. He has won numerous awards, released 16 albums of largely original material and tours internationally in festivals and for charity performances and masterclass workshops....

Hailed as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar', award-winning Forcione is considered one of the most charismatic and inventive performers to come out of Europe in recent years. He breaks the mould of most conventional, popular guitar sounds be it in the field of jazz, Spanish, African,...

Antonio Lysy - Cellist
has performed as soloist worldwide, in major concert halls, appearing with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras of London, Camerata Academica of Salzburg, Zurich Tonhalle, the Zagreb Soloists, Orchestra di Padova e il...

Arabella Steinbacher - Violin
Since her extraordinary and unexpected debut in Paris in March 2004, when she stepped in on short notice for an ailing colleague and performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Sir Neville...

Arabella Steinbacher - Violin
Since her extraordinary and unexpected debut in Paris in March 2004, when she stepped in on short notice for an ailing colleague and performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Sir Neville...

Amsterdam-based Aros is an international sextet co-led by Canadian saxophonist Rob Armus and Austrian classical pianist music Marion von Tilzer. Its other members are Vancouver jazz/new music trumpeter and bandleader John Korsrud, Pakistani/Scottish classical/jazz/rock violinist Anne Wood,...

Paul Hillier - Conductor
Paul Hillier is from Dorset in England and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. His career has embraced singing, conducting, and writing about music. Earlier in his career he was founding director of the Hilliard Ensemble,...

Im Alter von fünfzehn Jahren fasziniert ihn erstmals der Klang akustischer Stahlsaitengitarren. 1985 erscheint die erste Soloeinspielung “Guitaristic Paintings”. Er beschäftigt sich in den Folgejahren mit allen Spielarten und Stilistiken der Gitarre, kehrt aber Ende der achtziger Jahre zur...

Eine gefühlvolle Stimme, eine ausdrucksstarke klassische Gitarre und ein melodiöser Kontrabass vereinen sich in der Formation BATIST zu einem einzigartigen Klangerlebnis. Barbara Bürkle, Tillmann Reinbeck und Steffen Hollenweger verweben in ihrem Crossover-Projekt auf virtuose Weise Stücke aus...

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales occupies a special role as both a national and broadcasting orchestra. The orchestra has won acclaim with its conducting team of Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer, Principal Guest Conductor Jac van Steen,...

Margaret Fingerhut

Margaret Fingerhut is regarded as one of the most poetic pianists of her generation who has captivated audiences in many different countries with her imaginatively designed recital programmes, “A World of Piano Themes”. In these programmes she explores the highways...

BBC Philharmonic
Widely recognised as one of Britain’s finest orchestras, the BBC Philharmonic has its own recording studio at BBC Manchester, where it records programmes and concerts for BBC Radio 3. It also performs around 20 concerts each year at Manchester’s magnificent...

Vernon George 'Tod' Handley CBE (11 November 1930 – 10 September 2008) was a British conductor, known in particular for his support of British composers. He was born of a Welsh father and an Irish mother into a musical family in Enfield, London. He acquired the nickname 'Tod' because his feet...

The Italian conductor, Gianandrea Noseda, born 1964 in Milan, Italy studied piano, composition and conducting in Milan. He furthered his conducting studies with Donato Renzetti, Myung-Whun Chung and Valery Gergiev. In 1994 he won the Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition.
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Edward Gardner - Conductor
Recognised as one of the most talented conductors of his generation, Edward Gardner began his tenure as Music Director of English National Opera in May 2007 with a new critically acclaimed production of Britten’s Death in Venice. Under his...

… „BBQ – Das fabulöse Barbara Bürkle Quintett auf groovender Kreuzfahrt zwischen Jazz, Latin, Pop und dem Great American Songbook“

Das Barbara Bürkle Quintett, kurz "BBQ", ist ein junges Ensemble um die Stuttgarter Jazzsängerin Barbara Bürkle. In eigenen Arrangements hauchen sie Songs...

BARBARA HÖFLING - Mezzo-soprano


Barbara Höfling wurde in Hannover geboren und studierte Geige und später Gesang an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover bei Gerhard Faulstich. Ihre künstlerische Arbeit wurde wesentlich durch die Zusammenarbeit mit Bernarda Fink, Sir John...

Beck Hansen was born and raised in Los Angeles. As a teenager, Beck became immersed in traditional blues and folk. When he was 18, he moved to New York where he became part of the city's late 80's "anti-folk" scene, playing at various small clubs around the East Village and Lower East Side....

Benjamin Grosvenor - Piano
Nineteen year old British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is internationally recognized for his electrifying performances and penetrating interpretations. An exquisite technique and ingenious flair for tonal colour are the hallmarks which make Benjamin...

Benoît Delbecq - Piano
Born in 1966, Parisian pianist Benoît Delbecq gures today among the innovators of the international contemporary jazz scene. His reputation and in uence have been growing steadily since the early 90’s, and the New York Times recently described him as...

Benoît Delbecq - Piano
Born in 1966, Parisian pianist Benoît Delbecq gures today among the innovators of the international contemporary jazz scene. His reputation and in uence have been growing steadily since the early 90’s, and the New York Times recently described him as «...

Benoît Delbecq - Piano
Born in 1966, Parisian pianist Benoît Delbecq gures today among the innovators of the international contemporary jazz scene. His reputation and in uence have been growing steadily since the early 90’s, and the New York Times recently described him as...

Berit Johansen Tange
Berit Johansen Tange trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with the lecturer Anne Øland, and in the spring of 1995 studied in Paris with Brigitte Engerer. In 1997 she was admitted to the Royal Academy’s special class for pianists with the subjects...

Berit Opheim Versto from Voss is one of Norway’s foremost folk singers.

She is a very versatile singer, frequently performing across genre boundaries, drawing inspiration from such diverse areas as traditional music, early music, improvisation and contemporary music. Her ability to...

Der Großvater war Trompeter im Regiment des ersten Weltkrieges, seine Mutter spielt Klavier, Geige und Cello, sein Vater Akkordeon und  Mundharmonika. Jeden ersten Sonntag im Monat finden Hauskonzerte mit klassischer Musik statt.


Im Alter von sechs Jahren bringt ihm seine Mutter...

William Richard 'Bill' Frisell (* 18. März 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland) ist ein US-amerikanischer Gitarrist. Er wird meist als Jazz-Musiker kategorisiert, hat aber im Laufe seiner Karriere in den verschiedensten musikalischen Genres von Jazz über Pop und Filmmusik bis zur Neuen Musik gearbeitet....

Mark Turner, who found his own style after exhaustive study of the musical methodologies of Coltrane and Marsh, has become one of the most influential saxophonists of his generation. After recording leader dates (for Warner Brothers and Criss-Cross), Turner co-founded the trio...

Bine Bryndorf - Organ
Bine Bryndorf was born in Elsinore (Helsingør) and took her first organ lessons with Kristian Olesen and Bo Grønbech. In 1987-1991 she studied organ with Michael Radulescu and harpsichord with Gordon Murray at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. Later came studies with...

Bob Bonastre wurde im Senegal als Sohn spanisch-französischer Eltern geboren. Mit von 14 Jahren entdeckte er die Gitarre und die liess ihn seither nicht mehr los. In der Folgezeit spielte er in verschiedenen Duos und Trios Jazz und die französische Jazzpresse feierte ihn als "einen der kommenden...

Brad Shepik - Guitar
In addition to his own groups, Brad Shepik has performed and/or recorded with Paul Motian, Joey Baron, Carla Bley, Charlie Haden, Dave Douglas, oud/violin virtuoso Simon Shaheen, Yuri Yunakov’s Bulgarian Wedding Band and others.

Born in...

Brad Shepik - Guitar
In addition to his own groups, Brad Shepik has performed and/or recorded with Paul Motian, Joey Baron, Carla Bley, Charlie Haden, Dave Douglas, oud/violin virtuoso Simon Shaheen, Yuri Yunakov’s Bulgarian Wedding Band and others.

Born in...

Buzz Brass is an ensemble made up of two trumpets, a horn, a trombone and a bass trombone. Created in 2002, it is dedicated to promoting chamber music for brass ensemble to audiences worldwide. This is achieved through records as well as high quality performances and entertaining musical shows....

Thomas Dausgaard - Conductor
Thomas Dausgaard became Chief Conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in August 2004. The orchestra has developed impressively under his leadership, embracing his energy and creativity. With Dausgaard they tour world-wide, performing...

Both Carolin Widmann and Alexander Lonquich have previously recorded acclaimed discs for ECM. Widmann’s previous albums for the label include Schumann’s violin sonatas (with Dénes Várjon) and the recital disc “Phantasy of Spring” (with Simon Lepper, and music of Feldman,...

Memphis-born Lloyd has played with some exceptional pianists in the course of his long career, starting with Phineas Newborn in his home town, with Joe Zawinul in the Cannonball Adderley group, and with Keith Jarrett, whom Lloyd introduced in his pioneering group of the 1960s. Subsequent Lloyd...

Charles Lloyd has always led exceptional bands, and this is one of the finest. Following on from the live “Rabo de Nube” which won both the Readers and Critics Polls of Jazz Times, here is a studio album from the quartet with Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland.

Memphis-born...

Charlotte Margiono - Soprano
The soprano Charlotte Margiono was born in Amsterdam. She began her studies at the Arnhem Conservatoire, where she at first studied the recorder. In 1977, her voice was ‘discovered’, and from then onwards, she received coaching from the legendary...

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Bariton
Der Bariton Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau zählt zu den bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Auf der Opernbühne machte er sich von Deutschland aus international einen Namen, sein Repertoire als Konzertsänger umfasst über 3000...

The City of London Sinfonia was founded in 1971 by Music Director, Richard Hickox. The Sinfonia has toured all over the world, performing at world-renowned concert halls in countries such as Australia, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Greece, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey....

Kathryn (Kathy) Stott has a daughter, Lucy, and lives with her partner, Huw, a landscape architect, in the small West Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge. Away from the concert platform and rehearsal studio, she collects black-and-white Italian photographs, enjoys hill-walking and trekking and is on...

Christoph Stiefel - Piano
Christoph Stiefel, geboren in Zürich am 29. Juli 1961, ist in verschiedensten musikalischen Bereichen tätig als Pianist, Keyboarder, Komponist, Arrangeur und Produzent. Nach klassischem Klavierunterricht im Kindsalter, konzentrierten sich ab 1980...

Ciaramella Ensemble
Ciaramella are Erik Schmalz, Doug Milliken, Debra Nagy, Rotem Gilbert, Greg Ingles and Adam Gilbert. Ciaramella brings to life Medieval and early Renaissance music from historical events and manuscripts. Praised for performing intricate fifteenth-century...

Cikada Duo:

Kenneth Karlsson piano/synthesizer and Bjørn Rabben percussion.

After a concert playing Karlheinz Stockhausens Kontakte in -88 they started as a duo. The Cikada ensemble was formed around the duo the following year. The Duo has toured Europe, Asia and...

Clemens Pötzsch (geb. 1985) gehört zu der jungen Generation von Jazzmusikern, die vor dem Hintergrund ihrer eigenen Herkunft Musik erschaffen und sich damit auf direktem Wege zu einer unverwechselbaren musikalischen Identität befinden. Der slawisch-stämmige Pianist bezaubert mit Kompositionen,...

Allan Taylor, Sara K., David Roth, Chris Jones, Paul Stephenson, Mike Silver, David Munyon, Steve Strauss

Sara K., Steve Strauss, Eugene Ruffolo, Mike Silver, David Munyon, Ewen Carruthers, David Roth, Louis Capart & Duo Balance

Allan Taylor, Sara K., Dennis Kolen, Ewen Carruthers, Eugene Ruffolo, David Munyon, Paul O'Brien, The Paperboys, Beoga, Carl & Parissa, Beo Brockhausen

Von Allan Taylor über David Munyon, Katja Werker und Ralf Illenberger bis hin zum Blue Chamber Quartet: die vierte Ausgabe der Stockfisch Reihe „closer to the music“ bietet mehr als 70 Minuten Querschnitt aus den aktuellen Stockfisch-Produktionen. Und zur schönen Gewohnheit gehört mittlerweile...

The Consortium Vocale is the male vocal ensemble of the Cathedral of Oslo. It was founded in the mid-1980s out of the lower range vocal section of the newly formed Oslo Cathedral's Boys' Choir. Since 1998 the ensemble has devoted much time to the interpretation of Gregorian Chant. In regular...

Danish National Symphony Orchestra
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra was founded as a radio orchestra in 1925 in connection with the start of the Danish broadcasting corporation DR, and today consists of 99 musicians. Since 2004 its chief conductor has been Thomas...

About Danny Fox Trio
Pianist/composer Danny Fox was born in New York City where he became immersed in the jazz scene from an early age. In high school, Danny was selected as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, an award given to students who excel in both academics and the...

Dave Goodman, Jahrgang '65, ist im kanadischen Westen von British Columbia aufgewachsen, erst mit der Geige, dann mit der E-Gitarre, Blues, RnR und Jazz. Schon als 17jähriger gilt er als Top-Jazzgitarrist seiner Altersgruppe in der riesigen Provinz. Er tourte mit David Sanborn, den Doobie Bros.,...

David Becker


For more than two decades guitarist, composer and producer David Becker has continued to define himself as one of the best and most unique voices in contemporary jazz guitar by combining diverse influences and a passion for the new and different, and his ability to...

Dave Ghazarian - Guitar born in Toronto, Canada to Armenian immigrant parents, David Ian came early to music, beginning classical piano study at age five. Ian performed in a number of garage bands throughout junior high and high school, and after graduating from college became lead guitarist in...

David Soar - Bass
was born in Nottinghamshire and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio. He was recipient of the Family Parry Bursary at Welsh National Opera, where he was Associate Artist from 2006-2010. David's roles for WNO have included...

Déja is an italian duo, formed by Serena Finatti (voice) and Andrea Varnier (guitar). Before the arrival of Andrea Varnier (in 2005), Déja was a project counting six members. However, after a couple of gigs performed only by Serena and Andrea, given the positive feedback from the audience, they...

Die drei Musiker Julia Hofmann, Torsten Hofmann und Claus Krogmann arbeiten bereits seit vielen Jahren als Lehrkräfte für Gitarre, Gesang, Geige, Klavier und Keyboard an der Musikschule Friedberg. Mit der gemeinsamen Performance bei einem Lehrerkonzert entstand die Idee zur Gründung der Formation...

Some music is intended to paint a romantic scene – a candlelit dinner, a walk along a moonlit beach. Quiet Nights – Diana Krall’s twelfth album – ain’t about that. Using Brazil as a musical point of reference, the award-winning pianist and singer is not suggesting a night out; she means to stay...

Diana Krall
Some music is intended to paint a romantic scene – a candlelit dinner, a walk along a moonlit beach. Quiet Nights – Diana Krall’s twelfth album – ain’t about that. Using Brazil as a musical point of reference, the award-winning pianist and singer is not...

Bine Bryndorf - Organ
Bine Bryndorf was born in Elsinore (Helsingør) and took her first organ lessons with Kristian Olesen and Bo Grønbech. In 1987-1991 she studied organ with Michael Radulescu and harpsichord with Gordon Murray at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. Later came studies with...

Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Baritone
Internationally acclaimed Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky was born and studied in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. In 1989, he won the prestigious Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. From the start, audiences were bowled over by his cultivated...

Reentko ist Gitarrist, Komponist und Studiomusiker. Seine Musik zeichnet sich durch unorthodoxe, selbst entwickelte perkussive Spieltechniken sowie eine große stilistische Bandbreite aus. Er ist einer der wenigen Gitarristen, die sowohl im klassischen als auch im Pop- und Worldmusicbereich...

The Doric String Quartet is now firmly established as one of the outstanding quartets of their generation. In 2008 they won 1st prize in the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan, 2nd prize at the Premio Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition in Italy, where they...

Jonathan Darlington

ist Generalmusikdirektor der Duisburger Philharmoniker sowie der Vancouver Opera und sorgt mit höchster Präzisionsarbeit und Enthusiasmus für die außerordentliche Qualität und Beliebtheit beider Orchester.

Nach seinem Studium an der...

Jonathan Darlington

ist Generalmusikdirektor der Duisburger Philharmoniker sowie der Vancouver Opera und sorgt mit höchster Präzisionsarbeit und Enthusiasmus für die außerordentliche Qualität und Beliebtheit beider Orchester.

Nach seinem Studium an der Universität Durham...

Jonathan Darlington is music director of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Vancouver Opera. His demand for the highest level of professionalism and precision, infused with genuine enthusiasm, has ever increased the quality and popularity of both orchestras.

With the Duisburg...

Johnny Hodges - Alto Saxophone
In one sense or another, Johnny Hodges was always on his own — even on the Ellington bandstand, where he began and became best known. He joined Ellington early in life, at twenty in 1928, and he died a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra,...

Dénes Várjon studied at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, receiving tuition in piano from Sándor Falvai and chamber music from György Kurtág and Ferenc Rados. Parallel to his studies, he was a regular participant of master classes with András Schiff. He is first prize winner of the...

Edgar Knecht - Piano

Der Pianist und Komponist Edgar Knecht konzertiert seit seinem 14. Lebensjahr mit Eigenkompositionen für Klavier. Neben preisgekrönten Soloprogrammen schrieb er zahlreiche Musiken für Theater, Film und Fernsehen. Die Presse lobt ihn regelmässig als einen der besten...

Diego Innocenzi - Orgelspieler
Diego Innocenzi begann sein Musikstudium in Argentinien, wo er Titularorganist der Cavaillé-Coll-Orgel der Kathedrale seiner Geburtsstadt San Isidro war.

Am Konservatorium von Genf setzte er sein Studium bei Lionel Rogg fort,...

Edward Gregson (born 1945) is a composer of international standing, whose music has been performed, broadcast, and commercially recorded worldwide. He studied composition (with Alan Bush) and piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1963 - 1967 winning five prizes for composition. Since then he...

Das Duo El Cortesano entstand 1998 in Basel, Schweiz, durch das glückliche Zusammentreffen zweier junger Musiker, die sich mit Herz und Seele der Musik der Renaissance verschrieben hatten.

Auch wenn sie beide an der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis studierten, waren die musikalischen...

Elin Furubotn
Skiing in the winter and picking baskets of blueberries in the autumn was all part of Elins childhood. Music was an important part of her growing up with her two sisters, always singing in the small mountain village of Tonstad. Her mother taught her to play...

David Fung - Piano
Praised as having “undoubted talent” by the Los Angeles Times and described as being “impossibly virtuosic” by the Edinburgh Guide, young Australian pianist David Fung has performed as soloist with orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the...

Harpist Ellen Sejersted Bødtker is a graduate of the Norwegian State Academy of Music, the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, and Indiana University. She is well known in Norway, where she performs regularly with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and the Norwegian...

Orion Weiss - Piano
Pianist Orion Weiss is one of the most sought-after soloists and collaborators in his generation of young American musicians. His deeply felt and exceptionally crafted performances go far beyond his technical mastery and have won him acclaim from...

Christina Åstrand
Violinist Christina Åstrand, born 1969 in Århus, Denmark. Started playing violin at the age of 4. Began her studies with professor Tutter Givskov at the Royal Jutland Conservatory of Music in 1983 – as one of the youngest students ever. Further studies in Paris with...

Empirical besteht aus Nathaniel Facey am Altsaxophon, Lewis Wright am Vibraphon, Tom Farmer am Kontrabass und Shaney Forbes am Schlagzeug (auf dem Album ist als Gast auch Julian Siegel an Tenorsaxophon und Bassklarinette zu hören).

Alle sind sie Mitte zwanzig, und dennoch besticht...

Formed under the midnight sun in Lofoten in 2006, the Engegård Quartet rapidly became one of the most sought after ensembles in Norway, performing in Bergen Festival and Oslo Chamber Music Festival in their first season. With an internationally acclaimed debut CD under their belts in 2008, the...

Enrico Rava was born in Trieste in 1939. Self-taught, he started out playing Dixieland trombone but switched to trumpet at 18 after hearing Miles Davis. In 1962, he began a collaboration with Gato Barbieri, which brought him into contact with Don Cherry, Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy. He joined...

Knut Nystedt, geboren 1915 in Oslo, studierte dort in den 30er Jahren bei Arild Sandvold Orgel, bei Bjarne Brustad Komposition und bei Ølvin Fjelstad Dirigieren. Nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg studierte er ferner bei Aaron Copland (Komposition) und Ernest White (Orgel). Von 1946 bis 1982 war er...

Ensemble Baroque de Limoges (Instrumental Baroque Ensemble)
Ensemble Baroque de Limoges (Limoges Baroque Ensemble) (EBL), which Christophe Coin took over in 1991, provided him with the means to go still further in his personal research. Since then, Christophe Coin has shaped...

Daniel Myssyk (Director of orchestral studies, Professor)

Daniel Myssyk has earned critical acclaim from the general public, as well as from audiences of Radio-Canada’s cultural network for broadcasts since 2001. As Founder and Music Director of the Ensemble...

Ensemble MidtVest
When ten brilliant young musicians come together in a newly founded ensemble, an energy that as a whole is much greater than the sum of the ten individuals emerges. If you then add the support of a whole region, a solid basis for future development has...

Equilibrium are:

Sissel Vera Pettersen
is a Norwegian vocalist (now based in Copenhagen) who for the last ten years has been co-leading groups and/or recording with the likes of Theo Bleckmann, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and Toumani Diabaté; in 2010...

The Eroica quartet continues to astonish audiences and critics with it’s radical interpretations of nineteenth-century music in recordings for Harmonia Mundi USA and performances across Europe and the USA including the Frick Collection, New York and the Library of Congress, Washington. With their...

Eroica Quartet


Performance practice and 19th century editions

Mendelssohn’s friend, the violinist Ferdinand David (1810-73) was among the earliest to publish editions of standard repertoire. The trend which he began produced a great number of...

Jewgenij Finkelstein wurde 1972 in Moskau geboren. 1991 hat er die Moskauer musikalische Fachschule absolviert. Durch sein Talent erregte er bereits frühzeitig die Aufmerksamkeit des bekannten Gitarristen und Komponisten Nikita Koschkin, der die Entwicklung dieses Talentes gefördert hat....

Fattigfolket is a Swedish/ Norwegian quartet that gathered in Copenhagen around year 2000. During the last 10 years Fattigfolket has been touring Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Czech Republic and Germany, playing at some of the major jazz festivals, jazz clubs and radio shows.
The third...

Fidelio is a young dynamic company specializing in quality acoustic recording. We aim to promote local and international talent in classical and jazz music.

The company was created with the goal to reproduce, with no compromise and as  accurately as possible, one or more musicians...

Finzi Quartet
Prize winners in the 2010 Royal Over Seas League Competition and the 5th Trondheim International String Quartet Competition in Norway, the Finzi Quartet has given recitals and made numerous festival appearances at major venues throughout the UK and Europe,...

Fly Trio are:
Mark Turner was born in Fairborn, Ohio in 1965, and moved with his family to California when he was four. He started playing clarinet at nine then later switched to alto, then tenor as a teenager. Since moving to New York, he has worked and recorded with...

Aarón Zapico
Born in Asturias, Spain, in 1978, Aarón Zapico is one of the most active Spanish harpsichord players. Having obtained the highest grades in piano at the Oviedo Conservatory, he began to take interest in the early music field, attending courses and seminars with...

Fred Simon has been making music for more than thirty-five years, composing for records, live performance, film, dance, and television, with instrumentation ranging from solo piano to symphonic orchestra. His recorded work includes seven albums of original music under his name: SHORT STORY and...

Fred Simon has been making music for more than thirty-five years, composing for records, live performance, film, dance, and television, with instrumentation ranging from solo piano to symphonic orchestra. His recorded work includes seven albums of original music under his name: SHORT STORY and...

Fredrik Fors

is one of Scandinavia's leading clarinet players, since 1995 co-principal in Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Born in Sweden, Fors studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and later with clarinettists as Karl Leister, Yehuda Gilad Anthony Pay and Richard Stoltzman....

Peter Haubfleisch aka 'Fresh Moods'
Peter Haubfleisch's pleasantly understated electronic music has cropped up on labels such as Ultils, Planet Vision, Hoerspielmusik, Suburban Nightz, and most commonly, Elektrolux. Mazarine and Ultratubes are his dance floor aliases, while...

Frederic Tavernier Vellas was born in France. After solid classical musical studies in oboe, he orients his musical research towards song, especially the sacred chant of Byzantium. He was trained by leading masters and performers of this musical form such as Father Joakim Grillis at Patmos,...

Born in 1984 in Geneve, Gabriel Zufferey is the kind of people who grew up in a family full of musicians and music lovers. Two years after his first jazz lessons, he won the “Most promising musician” award at the International competition of Martial Solal jazz piano. One year after, at the age of...

Galina Gorchakova
is an outstanding interpreter of Italian and Russian repertoire. Major engagements in the West have included EUGENE ONEGIN at the Tanglewood Festival with Seiji Ozawa, at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, at the Cologne Opera with James Conlon, at the...

Andrew Czink
is a composer/pianist based in Vancouver. He is co-director of earsay productions (a CD and concert producer) and performs in the contemporary music duo Structural Damage. His primary instrumental training was of a classical bent, with excursions into jazz and...

Garth Knox
The skipping steps of the saltarello provide a fitting image for an album which leaps, imaginatively and gracefully, through almost a thousand years of music history. With repertoire ranging from Hildegard von Bingen and Guillaume de Machaut to Kaija Saariaho via...

Gavriel Lipkind, born in Tel Aviv in 1977, enjoyed an early stellar rise to international renown as a young cellist, before making the decision to question a predefined life and halt a predictable path. He decided to take a three-year period of retreat from stage life, during which he devoted...

Gavriel Lipkind - Celloist
Gavriel Lipkind, born in Tel Aviv in 1977, enjoyed an early stellar rise to international renown as a young cellist, before making the decision to question a predefined life and halt a predictable path. He decided to take a three-year period of...

Gavriel Lipkind, born in Tel Aviv in 1977, enjoyed an early stellar rise to international renown as a young cellist, before making the decision to question a predefined life and halt a predictable path. He decided to take a three-year period of retreat from stage life, during which he devoted...

Gavriel Lipkind, born in Tel Aviv in 1977, enjoyed an early stellar rise to international renown as a young cellist, before making the decision to question a predefined life and halt a predictable path. He decided to take a three-year period of retreat from stage life, during which he devoted...

Gavriel Lipkind, born in Tel Aviv in 1977, enjoyed an early stellar rise to international renown as a young cellist, before making the decision to question a predefined life and halt a predictable path. He decided to take a three-year period of retreat from stage life, during which he devoted...

Gavriel Lipkind, born in Tel Aviv in 1977, enjoyed an early stellar rise to international renown as a young cellist, before making the decision to question a predefined life and halt a predictable path. He decided to take a three-year period of retreat from stage life, during which he devoted...

Cornelia Lanz, Mezzosopran www.cornelia-lanz.com

Nastasja Docalu, Sopran www.nastasjadocalu.com...

Gerald Stempfel - Blockflötist
1970 wurde Gerald Stempfel in Nürnberg geboren. Im Alter von 10 Jahren begann er mit dem Flötenspiel. Noch während seiner Gymnasialzeit studierte er die Hauptfächer Blockflöte und Viola da Gamba in Nürnberg, unterrichtete selbst an einer...

Get The Blessing
One of the most original and exciting bands to emerge in years, Get The Blessing released their debut album All Is Yes in February 2008 to universal acclaim. Formed by drummer Clive Deamer and bassist Jim Barr of ‘90s trip-hop superstars Portishead, Get The...

Gianandrea Noseda

Music Director of the Teatro Regio in Turin (TRT) Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Victor De Sabata Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Principal Conductor of the Orquesta de Cadaqués Artistic Director of the Stresa Festival

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Giovanni Palombo Guitar player, composer and concert-artist, Giovanni works in the area of the crossing acoustic music performing as a soloist of contemporary acoustic fingerstyle guitar as well as in different jazz-world wide oriented ensembles like the Acoustic Trio (guitar, vibraphone and...

Grex Vocalis — ( The Singing Flock ) — was formed in 1971. The repertoire spans from renaissance to contemporary Norwegian music. The choir has been awarded the “Norwegian Grammy' for three of its 13 albums and won 1st prizes in national and international contests: Arezzo, Gorizia, Tolosa and...

Grégoire Jeay - Flutist
Specializing in Baroque flute, Grégoire Jeay frequently performs in Quebec and in Canada, and has played in France, Belgium, Mexico, Turkey, the UK, and the US. He is recognized for his musicality and his expressiveness, as well as for his great...

Guillaume de Chassy was a chemical engineer who grew up listening Franz Schubert and Louis Armstrong. He learnt improvisation himself : influenced as much by Thelonious Monk as Serge Prokofiev, and listening to songs from Charles Trenet or Cole Porter. The pianist Guillaume de Chassy built his...

Gwyneth Herbert is an artist who continues to redefine (and defy) our expectations. A singer-songwriter with one foot in the jazz world and one somewhere in the future, with pierrot-dotted eyes, polka-spotted shoes and swanny whistle in hand she may appear as whimsical as a Bonzo Dog, but writes...

Hajo Hoffmann ist Mandolinist, Jazzgeiger, klassischer Violinist, Komponist, Sänger und Arrangeur. In seinem SOLO-KLASSIKCROSSOVER- Musikprogramm verbindet er Bearbeitungen von Bach, Paganini, Telemann mit deutschen und brasilianischen Liedern und mit Eigenkompositionen im Weltmusikbereich. Ein...

Harris Eisenstadt
a drummer and composer originally from toronto, takes a fixer’s approach to music making, looking for ways to fit the pieces together. He works along jazz’s progressive fringe but doesn’t generally set out to make a ruckus. In his own music especially, he...

Ars Nova Copenhagen
The ensemble Vocal Group Ars Nova, consisting of twelve singers, is one of Scandinavia’s leading chamber Choirs in the field of polyphonic Renaissance choral music and experimental vocal music of our own period. Ars Nova has recorded many internationally...

Eine kleine Nation mit einer großen Jazztradition ist das Land der Fjorde und Trolle. Immer neue, faszinierende Künstler und Acts, die sich mit großer Lust am Spielen und unbändiger Freude am Experimentieren auszeichnen, drängen von Norwegen aus, den Rest der Jazzwelt zu erobern. Dem Helge Lien...

Helmut Eisel
Die ersten Grundlagen des Klarinettenspiels erlernte Helmut Eisel von seinem Großvater. Während seines Mathematikstudiums und der anschließenden beruflichen Tätigkeit als Unternehmensberater und Softwareentwickler spielte er später in diversen Jazzbands und...

Paul Hillier - Conductor
Paul Hillier is from Dorset in England and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. His career has embraced singing, conducting, and writing about music. Earlier in his career he was founding director of the Hilliard Ensemble,...

John Holloway ist einer der Pioniere der neuen Alte Musik Bewegung in Großbritannien. Nach einer Begegnung mit Sigiswald Kuijken im Jahr 1972 begann er parallel zur modernen Geige mit dem Spiel der Barockvioline. Mit dem von ihm gegründeten Barockensemble L’Ecole d’Orphée spielte er die erste...

Horenstein Ensemble

Die ungeteilte Verehrung für das Wirken des Dirigenten Jascha Horenstein, der auch eine starke Bindung an Berlin hatte und oft an der Staatsoper und bei den Berliner Philharmonikern dirigierte, gab dem Ensemble seinen Namen. Das Horenstein Ensemble möchte die...

Howard Shelley - Conductor
After winning the premier prize at the Royal College of Music at the end of his first year, Howard Shelley's career began with a highly successful London recital and a televised Promenade concert with the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael...

Hélène Grimaud - Pianist
A truly multi-faceted and charismatic artist – for pianist Hélène Grimaud music is a limitless passion. Hélène regularly appears with the most important orchestras in the world, playing with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des...

I Fagiolini

Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Ensemble Award, 2005 Founded in 1986, I Fagiolini has undertaken a host of innovative productions of Renaissance and contemporary work, all designed around the core idea of how audiences actually receive music when much of it is...

Born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1973, Iain Quinn enjoys a distinguished career as an organist, choral director and composer. With an extensive repertoire, he has won critical praise for his performances of both standard and contemporary works, in addition to his research and performance of rare and...

Ida Sand wurde 1977 in Stockholm in eine äußerst musikalische Familie hineingeboren, deren Wurzeln in Piteå, einer Stadt weit im Norden Schwedens, liegen. Idas Vater war ein bekannter Opernsänger, der 30 Jahre lang an der Stockholmer Oper engagiert war. Ihre Mutter ist eine noch immer aktive...

"Iiro Rantala is a pianistic sensation who makes the strongest case I know to believe in reincarnation because his pianistic technique and musical sensitivity speak of depths which appear impossible to have been achieved in this lifetime alone...." - Gil Goldstein, pianist and arranger, NY....

Iver Kleive was born in Skien, Norway in 1949. He completed a degree in church music at the Oslo conservatoire in 1972 and from 1973-76 he studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Munich, where he took the "Solistenprüfung" as a solo performer on the organ. His choral background comes...

James Gilchrist (Tenor)
James Gilchrist began his working life as a doctor, turning to a full-time career in music in 1996.

The English tenor, James Gilchrist, was a chorister at New College, Oxford, and choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge. He began his working life as...

James Wright Webber wurde im Jahre 1973 in London, Großbritannien, geboren. Bereits im Alter von 3 Jahren entdeckte er die Liebe zum Klavierspiel. Mit 7 Jahren hatte der talentierte Musiker dann bereits seinen ersten öffentlichen Auftritt. Nach seiner Ausbildung zum Pianisten und weiteren...

Jan Fredrik Christiansen was born 1942 in Lebesby, Norway, and studied with Harry Kvebæk, William J. Overton (BBC Symphony Orchestra) and Adolph Herseth (Chicago Symphony Orchestra). He was appointed to a position in the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1966 and was principal trumpeter from 1973 to...

Seit Jan Garbarek und das Hilliard Ensemble auf Anregung von Manfred Eicher 1993 musikalisch zusammengefunden haben, hat ihr gemeinsames Musizieren immer wieder zu überraschenden, höchst innovativen Wendungen geführt. Das bahnbrechende Album „Officium“, mit Garbareks Saxophon als frei...

Das was der norwegische Saxophonist Jan Garbarek mit seiner Group in den fesselnden zwei Stunden dieser von ECM veröffentlichten Album leistet, ist schlichtweg atemberaubend. “Dresden - In Concert” bietet eine ungemein temperamentvolle, mitreißende Performance seines international besetzten...

The Janaki String Trio:
Serena McKinney, Violin
Katie Kadarauch, Viola
Arnold Choi, Cello

The Janaki String Trio, winner of the 2006 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, is the first...

Jean Muller - Piano
was born in Luxembourg in 1979. At the age of six he took his first lessons with Marie-José Hengesch at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg. Only one year later, he made his first public appearance, premiering a work of his compatriot Alexander Mullenbach....

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet combines a rare elegance and clarity in his playing with deep and thoughtful musicality, for which he continues to win the highest acclaim from both critics and audiences.

Recent engagements for Bavouzet have included...

Jeanette Balland made her debut in 1998 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen from the soloist class after studies with Christer Johnsson and as a pupil of Aage Voss. She has further studied in Holland and in Switzerland, where she took the Virtuosité from the Conservatoire de...

Jeanette Hubert beginnt ihre Musikerkarriere in Berlin im Alter von 11 Jahren, zunächst allerdings noch ohne ein Instrument zu beherrschen. Das hindert sie aber nicht daran, erste Songs zu komponieren und bei jeder Gelegenheit vorzusingen. Erst 4 Jahre später bekommt sie ihre erste Gitarre...

1970 geboren, wuchs Jens Thomas mit Rock auf, bevor er den Jazz entdeckte und bei Dieter Glawischnig an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg studierte. Mit der bereits 1993 gegründeten Band Triocolor hatte er allerdings bestenfalls Achtungserfolge erreicht, bis seine erste Soloplatte...

Joachim Kwetzinsky,Pianist

Joachim Kwetzinsky ist ein junger, ambitionierter Pianist – kein Neuling beim Label 2L, aber hier erstmals mit einer Solo-CD. Und die hat es in sich – spieltechnisch wie inhaltlich. Zuerst zum Inhalt, für den man bei Johann Sebastian Bach anfangen muss. Der...

Joanne Pearce Martin

Currently enjoying her 9th season as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Principal Keyboardist, Joanne Pearce Martin performs with the orchestra on multiple keyboard instruments including the celesta, various synthesizers, and occasionally a Mac computer, in addition to...

Joe Fagan is from Alton, Illinois and spent his formative years playing musicin the St. Louis area. He began playing piano at age four and studied privately when he was 5 and 6 years old and again when he was 13 and 14. At age 10 he began playing the violin, and at age 12 he started playing the...

Johannes Martens is a member of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and has also been guest principal cellist of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Norwegian Opera Orchestra. Tom Ottar Andreassen is principal flautist of the The Norwegian Radio Orchestra and The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra....

John William Coltrane, Jr., was born in Hamlet, North Carolina, on September 23, 1926. Shortly after his birth, his parents joined his mother’s family in High Point, where he was raised. Coltrane probably received his first instrumental training in the fall of 1939; he played alto horn, then...

Michael Ludwig
enjoys a multi-faceted career as a soloist, recording artist, and chamber musician. A highly sought-after soloist, he has performed on four continents, including appearances with the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops, Buffalo Philharmonic,...

John Doan, one of the few masters of the rare twenty-string harp guitar, has performed with a diverse range of artists including pop star Donovan, folk legend Burl Ives, jazz ace Larry Carlton, Mason Williams (of "Classical Gas" fame), as a member of the New Christy Minstrels with Randy Sparks,...

John Walz - Cello
Hailed as one of the outstanding cellists of his generation, John Walz has excited audiences on four continents. Born in Southern California, John Walz began his studies with Eleonore Schoenfeld. In 1966, he heard the great French cellist, Pierre...

Der norwegische Pianist Jon Balke stieß schon früh zum Kreis der ECM-Künstler: erstmals hören konnte man ihn 1975 als nicht einmal 20jährigen auf Arild Andersens Album “Clouds In My Head” (ECM 1059). Während Balke anfänglich nur in den Bereichen Jazz und World Music tätig war, komponiert er...

Jonathan Darlington ist Generalmusikdirektor der Duisburger Philharmoniker sowie der Vancouver Opera und sorgt mit höchster Präzisionsarbeit und Enthusiasmus für die außerordentliche Qualität und Beliebtheit beider Orchester.

Nach seinem Studium an der Universität Durham und der Royal...

Joop Celis (piano)


Born in 1958, Joop Celis received his first piano lessons from his father at the age of nine. Later he studied with Professor Jo Dusseldorp at the Conservatory of Maastricht in The Netherlands, from which he graduated with distinction in 1979. At the age of...

Hervé Lamy - Tenor
Singing since childhood (Petits Chanteurs de Sainte-Croix de Neuilly), Hervé LAMY joined in 1982 the ensembles conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale and the Collegium Vocale of Ghent, then the Ensemble Vocal Européen. He is...

Josete Ordoñez begins his professional career in 1984, after years of studying music in different styles (flamenco-jazz), and with different teachers (Juan Maya 'Marom' Serranito, Tomatito, Steve Brown, Eddy Goltz, Sean Leavytt, etc.). From 1985 he worked as a lead guitarist in La Maestranza,...

Chamber Domaine is at the cutting edge of music making in the 21st century. Its excellence and dynamism have received widespread acclaim both in the United Kingdom and abroad. Under its artistic director, Thomas Kemp, the ensemble has become renowned for its virtuosity and its ambitious and...

Julia Fischer
Born in 1983 in Munich, Germany, Julia Fischer is among the top violin soloists performing for audiences around the globe. Reviewers have described her as “not a talent, but a full-fledged phenomenal violinist,” have said “she takes your breath away,” is...

Martin Helmchen - Piano
With his highly virtuosic yet unpretentious style, pianist Martin Helmchen is a rapidly rising star. Born in Berlin in 1982, he has already performed with several of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, London...

Julia Fischer
Julia Fischer was born in Munich, Germany in 1983, and now ranks among the top violinists performing for audiences around the globe. Her stunning reviews include the following excerpts: “…not a talent, but a full-fledged phenomenal violinist”, “she takes your...

Julia Fischer
Born in 1983 in Munich, Germany, Julia Fischer is among the top violin soloists performing for audiences around the globe. Reviewers have described her as “not a talent, but a full-fledged phenomenal violinist,” have said “she takes your breath away,” is...

Julia Fischer
Born in 1983 in Munich, Germany, Julia Fischer is among the top violin soloists performing for audiences around the globe. Reviewers have described her as “not a talent, but a full-fledged phenomenal violinist,” have said “she takes your breath away,” is...

Julia Fischer
Julia Fischer was born in Munich, Germany in 1983, and now ranks among the top violinists performing for audiences around the globe. Her stunning reviews include the following excerpts: “…not a talent, but a full-fledged phenomenal violinist”, “she takes your...

Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr:
Welcher Trompeter hat schon seinen eigenen Klavierspieler zu Hause? Und welcher Pianist muss seinen Solisten nur im Nachbarzimmer suchen? Die beiden Brüder Roman und Julian Wasserfuhr genießen diesen Luxus. Und wir sind die Glücklichen, die hören...

Juliette Gréco was born on February 7, 1927 in Montpellier, France. She grew up in Bordeaux. In 1933, her family moved to Paris & Juliette became a dancer at Paris' Opéra. After World War II, she became a muse in 2 Parisian quarters, Saint-Germain-Des-Prés & Latin Quarter.

Juliette...

Julius Katchen (1926-1969)
Julius Katchen’s grandparents taught music at conservatories in Warsaw and Moscow, whilst his mother was a pupil of Isidor Philipp at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau. His father was an amateur violinist, and with so much music in the...

"Mr. Sabbagh avoided direct allusions to the saxophone totems. What he is working toward, simply and effectively, is a sincerely personal vocabulary." (Nate Chinen, New York Times)

Saxophonist and composer Jerome Sabbagh has been living in New York since 1995. He has recorded four...

Karen Geoghegan is an Scottish bassoonist. She appeared on the 2007 BBC Two reality show, Classical Star. She was spotted on the show by the managing director of Chandos Records, Ralph Couzens and she has gone on to record three albums with the independent label.

Geoghegan began...

Karen Tanaka (b. Tokyo, 1961) is acclaimed as one of the leading living composers from Japan. She has been invited as a composer in residence at many important festivals, and her music has been widely performed throughout the world by the major orchestras, ensembles, international festivals and...

Karl Seglem is described as one of the most exciting contemporary tenor saxophonists and composers in Norway. He has consistently extended musical frontiers with his original perspectives and daring improvisational style. He combines Norway's rich folk music traditions, both the vocal traditions...

Mit seinem 25sten Album legt Karl Seglem ein Jazz-Album der Sonderklasse vor. Ruhig und doch energiegeladen geht das Quartett um den norwegischen Komponisten und Saxophonspieler ans Werk. Im Januar hatte Karl Seglem mit der norwegischen Sängerin Berit Opheim Versto eine mittelalterliche Ballade...

Kathryn Stott is recognised internationally as one of Britain’s most versatile and imaginative musicians and among today's most engaging pianists. She is in demand for a wide variety of chamber music alliances, playing with some of the world’s leading instrumentalists, as well as appearing on...

The Hermitage String Trio
Founded in 2004, The Hermitage String Trio made its London début at St John’s, Smith Square in the autumn of that year, and soon established itself as among the finest ensembles of its type. Steeped in the renowned Russian tradition of string...

Der amerikanische Pianist, Komponist und Bandleader Keith Jarrett gehört zu den erfolgreichsten und stilprägenden Musikern der vergangenen vier Jahrzehnte und hat vor allem durch seine außergewöhnlichen Solo-Konzerte maßgeblich die Vorstellung von zeitgenössischer Improvisation beeinflusst. Er...

Christian Tetzlaff - Violine
“One of the most brilliant and inquisitive artists of the new generation“, nennt die New York Times den Geiger Christian Tetzlaff, gefragter Gast auf allen Konzertpodien der Welt. Gleichermaßen heimisch im Repertoire der Klassik und Romantik...

Die Wurzeln des Kristiansand Symfoniorkester (KSO) gehen auf zwei signifikante Ereignisse zurück: 1818 wurde in Kristiansand ein professionelles Bläserensemble des Militärs gegründet, und 1919 erfolgte die Gründung des städtischen Orchesters Kristiansand, einem weitgehend aus Amateuren gebildeten...

Kristin Fossheim - Piano
Kristin Fossheim teaches at the Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH) as assistent professor in Accompanyment. At the present moment she is leading the Early Music Series at NMH, the ”Aargangsserien”. (www.nmh.no) Kristin Fossheim has been one of the...

Mandragore's music has a powerful effect on its listeners, similar to those attributed to the mythical mandrake plant for whom they are named. The ensemble was founded in Montreal in 1995, and specialises in European music of the 12th to 14th Centuries.

The Artistic Director of this...

Patrick Graham
Canadian multi-percussionist Patrick Graham blends tradition, experimentation, composition and improvisation in an exceptionally versatile approach that blurs boundaries. Patrick’s cross-cultural percussion style reflects his training in Western classical and...

Even if the music project LABANA was materialized in the summer of 2006 the idea of it is something that Dany “LABANA” Martinez has been dragging alone since his early school days in Havana, Cuba.

With a blind wish of putting a band together where he could express his feelings for...

Swedish bassist, cellist, composer and arranger Lars Danielsson is renowned and admired throughout the International jazz world for his lyrical playing and strong groove.

Lars Danielsson, born in 1958, is a musician with particularly broad interests. At the conservatory in Gothenburg...

Lars David Kellner - Pianist
Lars David Kellner wurde in Weiden in der Oberpfalz (Süddeutschland) geboren. Im Alter von 7 Jahren erhielt er von seinem Vater Otto Kellner den ersten Klavierunterricht, in den Folgejahren von dem böhmischen Musikpädagogen Franz Ondrusek....

Le Concert Brisé: Dieser Begriff kommt von dem englischen Broken Consort und bezeichnet im weitesten Sinn ein Ensemble aus verschiedenartigen Instrumenten. Im Fall von Le Concert Brisé handelt es sich um ein Ensemble für frühbarocke Kammermusik, bei der der Zink (engl. cornetto) im Mittelpunkt...

Der 1971 geborene Pianist Leszek Możdżer gilt als die größte Entdeckung des polnischen Jazz der letzten zehn Jahre. Besonders die übergangslose Verflechtung der Klangästhetik und Spielkultur klassischer Musik mit der Offenheit und Energie des Jazz, die rhytmischen und melodischen...

Kristin Fossheim
made her first piano studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music. She continued her studies in the Netherlands, where she received her Diploma in 1990. In 1991 she obtained position with the Østlandets Musikkonservatorium. From 1996 she has been employed at...

The London Symphony Orchestra, based at the Barbican in London and conducted by Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev and LSO President Sir Colin Davis, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading orchestras, but there is much more to its work than performing 140 concerts a year. More than a...

Laura Claycomb - Soprano
Soprano Laura Claycomb enchants in adventurous repertoire, ranging from baroque music and belcanto masterpieces to contemporary creations. Her delicacy, refinement and theatricality in high-flying repertoire has defined her career as the leading...

Los Dos y Companeros ist die erste und einzige Band aus dem Oberpfälzischen Amberg, die erfolgreich original kubanische Musik mit Oberpfälzer Mundart verbindet. Gegründet wurden Los Dos 1996 von Don Michon und Don Macson Anlass war der Wettbewerb des Jugendmagazins Zündfunk auf BR2. Jeder der...

Hailed as 'one of perhaps half a dozen pianists who it is worth dropping everything to go and hear' (Daily Telegraph, London), Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has been praised for the fresh perspective and individuality he brings to a deliberately broad spectrum of the keyboard canon. He studied in...

Lydia Mordkovitch

Lydia Mordkovitch was born in Russia and studied at the Odessa Conservatory, then at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow where she was master pupil and assistant to David Oistrakh. She emigrated to Israel in 1974 and since 1980 has lived in Britain, appearing...

Lyonel SCHMIT, violin
Lyonel Schmit started to learn the violin at the age of 7 with Patricia Reibaud. As a young teenager, he successfully entered numerous music competitions: Ufam, Lutèce, Nerini… His further studying with André Pons at the Conservatoire in Metz led him,...

LOU BOUSTANI - RHYTHM GUITAR
Instigator of the Maânouche Swing Quintet fusion project, Lou Boustani has had the opportunity to associate with the masters of Gypsy jazz and he later evolved musically on the Montreal jazz scene. Working with renowned accompanist Tchocolo...

Manfred Leuchter - Akkordeon
gehört zweifelsohne zu den etablierten (Ethno-) Jazz- und Weltmusik-Akkordeon-Virtuosen Europas. Viele Tourneen um die halbe Welt und nachhaltige Konzerterlebnisse mit seinem Quintett, seine erfolgreichen CD-Produktionen sowie die Mitwirkung in...

David Sick: 1977 in Freiburg geboren; 1998 bis 2002: Musikstudium (klassische Gitarre) an der Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar; 2002 bis 2006 Aufbaustudium Gitarre / Weltmusik an der Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden; 2006 Meisterklassenexamen; es folgen Konzerte im...

MARC VALLÉE TRIO
This somewhat unusual trio has broken away from the traditional guitar/bass/drum formation. Gravitating around Marc Vallée's acoustic guitar, it has assembled a repertoire of original compositions coloured only by its various experiences: folk, jazz,...

Die Geschichte des Trios begann schon 1990, als Marcin Wasilewski und Slawomir Kurkiewicz gerade einmal 15 Jahre alt und Schüler einer Musikschule in Koszalin/Westpommern waren. Um sich dem Jazz zu widmen, bildeten sie damals mit einem weiteren Freund, der Schlagzeug spielte, ein Trio. Als dann...

Marek Janowski - Conductor
Marek Janowski has been Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2002 and in 2005 he was also appointed Musical Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva. He is in demand as a guest conductor throughout the...

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
For more than 100 years, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has been an essential part of Pittsburgh’s cultural landscape. The PSO prides itself in artistic excellence, a rich history of the world’s finest conductors and musicians, a strong...

Margaret Fingerhut
Margaret Fingerhut is regarded as one of the most poetic pianists of her generation who has captivated audiences in many different countries with her imaginatively designed recital programmes, “A World of Piano Themes”. In these programmes she explores the...

Mari Kodama - Piano
Mari Kodama has established an international reputation for profound musicality and articulate virtuosity at the keyboard. In performances throughout Europe, the United States and Japan, she plays a broad repertoire in a powerful yet elegant style....

Mari Kodama has established an international reputation for profound musicality and articulate virtuosity at the keyboard. In performances throughout Europe, the United States and Japan, she plays a broad repertoire in a powerful yet elegant style.

In 2010, Ms. Kodama returns to the...

Marianne Beate Kielland - Soprano
Marianne Beate Kielland was born in 1975 in Norway. She graduated from The Norwegian Academy of Music in 2000. At the Academy she had among others Ingrid Bjoner and Svein Bjørkøy as her main pedagogues. She has also studied with Oren Brown...

Marianne Beate Kielland was born in 1975 in Norway. She graduated from The Norwegian Academy of Music in 2000. At the Academy she had among others Ingrid Bjoner and Svein Bjørkøy as her main pedagogues. She has also studied with Oren Brown and with Barbara Bonney, and she has taken part in...

Marianne Thorsen, Violin
Marianne Thorsen has established herself as one of Norway's leading violinists and has recently performed with orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Orchestre de la...

Marie Saintonge - Flutist, Composer and Producer
Marie Saintonge is a world music flutist and composer. She plays professionally in various groups, their repertoire including Brazilian, African, Arabic, jazz, classical, pop, hip hop, lounge and traditional folk music, as...

Mark-Anthony Turnage
A composer of truly international stature, Mark-Anthony Turnage is among the most relevant communicators and creators of today. His orchestral and operatic music is often forthright and confrontational, unafraid to mirror the realities of modern life,...

Markus Segschneider wurde am 1.12.1971 in Neuss geboren. Erste musikalische Begeisterung stellte sich bereits sehr früh ein, hauptsächlich ausgelöst durch die Schallplattensammlung meiner Eltern. Im Alter von ca. 6 Jahren hörte und liebte ich die Beatles und Beach Boys, aber auch Brahms,...

Martin Chalifour - Violin
Martin Chalifour holds the prestigious post of Principal Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1985. In addition to his orchestral schedule, Mr. Chalifour maintains an active career as a guest soloist and chamber musician, traveling...

Martin Chalifour (First Violin)
Principal Concertmaster, Marjorie Connell Wilson Chair

Martin Chalifour began his tenure as Principal Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1995. The recipient of various grants and awards in his native Canada, he...

Martin Helmchen - Piano
With his highly virtuosic yet unpretentious style, pianist Martin Helmchen is a rapidly rising star. Born in Berlin in 1982, he has already performed with several of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, London...

Martin Vatter lässt seine Seele mit der seines Instruments zusammen fließen.
So verwundert es nicht, dass seine Musik die Leidenschaft zum Piano und seinen ganz eigenen Charakter widerspiegelt.Seine ganze Persönlichkeit setzt sich direkt in ausdrucksstarkes, kraftdurch-setztes, aber...

Martyn Brabbins
British conductor Martyn Brabbins is in his second season as Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic in Antwerp. Artistic Director of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music 2005-2007, he was Associate Principal Conductor of the BBC...

Masabumi has become totally original … He just keeps getting better and better” Ethan Iverson, Do The Math

Born 1939 in Tokyo, pianist Masabumi Kikuchi played with Lionel Hampton and Sonny Rollins while still a teenager, and made his recording debut in the early 1960s with Toshiko...

Massimo Morganti, trombonist, composer, arranger and conductor
Graduated in trombone, composition and orchestration for symphonic band at the G. Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, after a period of study at the Berklee College in Boston with Phil Wilson, Jeff Galindo, Hal Crook...

French new rock band MATIER

Matthias Bamert.

Geboren in Ersigen in der Schweiz.Der Schweizer Dirigent Matthias Bamert studierte Musik in der Schweiz, in Darmstadt und Paris, wo er sich mit Boulez und Stockhausen anfreundete: diese Begegnungen hinterliessen ihre Spuren in seinen eigenen Kompositionen der 70er...

The Rascher Saxophone Quartet
Since its formation in 1969, the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet has appeared regularly at the major concert halls in Europe, Asia and the U.S.: Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center New York, Kennedy Center Washington D.C., Opera Bastille Paris, Royal...

The Beginning
Every artist has a story. Melody's is at the heart of her music. When she was 19, Melody was hit by a car. During her recovery she used music as a form of therapy, even recording and releasing tracks while still in the hospital. Once out, she started playing...

Das Melton Tuba Quartett
wurde 1987 gegründet. Es ist das erste und bis heute einzige seiner Art in Deutschland, da es aus vier Tubisten besteht. Durch seine zahlreichen Aktivitäten im In- und Ausland hat es sich einen festen Platz in der Musikwelt gesichert. Die überaus...

Michael Collins – Clarinet
Michael Collins' dazzling virtuosity and sensitive musicianship have made him one of today's most sought- after soloists. At 16 he won the woodwind prize in the first BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition and at 22 made his American début at...

Michael Wollny, geboren 1978 in Schweinfurt, gilt als „stärkste Jazz-Musikerpersönlichkeit die Deutschland seit Albert Mangelsdorff hervorgebracht hat“ (Hamburger Abendblatt). Der zweifache ECHO Jazz Gewinner sorgt seit Beginn seiner Karriere mit der so raffinierten wie energetischen Musik seines...

Michel Donato was born in Montreal on August 25th, 1942, into a family drenched in musical tradition. His grandfather was an accomplished violinist, while his father juggled the saxophone, flute and piano, and his cousin, like Donato tested his wares on the acoustic bass. At the ripe age of ten,...

Michel Godard
Born near Belfort (France) in 1960, Michel Godard soon established himself as an extraordinarily versatile exponent of the tuba, pursuing a career in jazz and classical music. Today he is one of the most virtous tuba and serpent players in Jazz as well as in...

Michel Haumont sei ein „Freund von großer Klarheit und Ökonomie“ schreibt die Musikpresse anerkennend über das Spiel des französischen Fingerstyle-Gitarristen, der über die seltene Gabe verfügt, selbst die komplexesten Kompositionen mit bewundernswerter Leichtigkeit zu meistern. Dennoch umgibt...

Michel Sajrawy - Guitarist and composer was born to a Palestinian family from Nazareth - Israel. At the age of nine he started taking guitar lessons. During the years 1990-93 he studied for and received a diploma in electronic engineering. In 1995 he moved to London, England, where he studied...

Mikhail Pletnev - Pianist, conductor and composer
Mikhail Pletnev is an artist whose genius as pianist, conductor and composer enchants and amazes audiences around the globe. His musicianship encompasses a dazzling technical power and provocative emotional range, and a...

Born in Hungary, Miklós Perényi began cello lessons at the age of five with Miklós Zsámboki, a student of David Popper. At nine, he gave his first concert in Budapest and went on to study between 1960 and 1964 with Enrico Mainardi in Rome and, in Budapest, with Ede Banda. In 1963 he became a...

Vicente Parrilla - Rrecorder & Direction

Born in Seville in 1977, Vicente Parrilla studied the recorder at Seville’s conservatory with Guillermo Peñalver. At the age of 17 he moved to The Netherlands to study first with Jeanette van Wingerden at The Hague's Koninklijk...

Morten Gaathaug
Born 1955) is a native of Sande in Vestfold. He graduated Spring 1978 from the Barratt Due Institute of Music, where his main subjects were piano and music theory. In addition, he studied composition under the direction of Johan Kvandal, counterpoint under Olve Borgir and...

Fred Hersch - pianist
Proclaimed by Vanity Fair magazine, “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade or so,” Fred Hersch balances his internationally recognized instrumental skills with significant achievements as a composer, bandleader, and...

Nicolas Meier - Guitars
Nicolas Meier was born in Switzerland in 1973. He began studying guitar at the age of twelve under Francis Coletta at the Conservatoire Fribourg. He eventually studied arranging with Max Jendly and Francis Boland, obtaining his Certificat de Guitare...

Nidaros Cathedral Choir was established in 1946, and consists of 40 singers. The choir gives some 15 concerts yearly, and plays a central role in the Nidaros Cathedral services.

The choir sets high standards for itself, aiming at performing the main sacred works from the rich...

St. Petersburg Chamber Choir
One of Russia 's leading choirs, the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir is actively involved in continuing the rich traditions of Russian and European vocal music. Founded in 1977, the choir is made up of professional musicians who have completed their...

One of Japan's most distinguished saxophonists, Nobuya Sugawa studied at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music and has always been admired by many young Japanese saxophonists.
Sugawa makes about 100 recital and concert appearances a year and he has recorded more than 20 CDs, including...

Artistic creativity, versatility, technical precision - these are the primary ingredients of the perfect recipe for a performing arts ensemble. One other ingredient, that indescribable something that we tend to call audience appeal, makes the picture complete. These are precisely the elements...

Else Torp - Soprano
first specialised in baroque and even earlier music, but is now also recognised as a leading exponent of many kinds of new music. She has been featured with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Concerto...

The music of Manhattan-based Norwegian composer and pianist Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) has been performed and recorded in more than 30 countries worldwide in venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Los Angeles’ Disney Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, The...

Jens Bjørn-Larsen - TubaOle
Jens Bjørn-Larsen (tuba) born in 1965, is one of the most sought-after tuba soloists in the world, and a highly appreciated and successful teacher of brass instruments. He has been tuba soloist in the Danish National Symphony Orchestra / DR since...

Olivia Trummer - Piano
Olivia Trummer ist eine vielfach ausgezeichnete Pianistin im Bereich der Klassik als auch im Jazz. Sie absolvierte als Stipendiatin des DAAD ein Master-Studium im Fach Jazzklavier an der Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Als Jazzpianistin...

Olivia Trummer - Piano
Olivia Trummer ist eine vielfach ausgezeichnete Pianistin im Bereich der Klassik als auch im Jazz. Sie absolvierte als Stipendiatin des DAAD ein Master-Studium im Fach Jazzklavier an der Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Als Jazzpianistin...

Olivia Trummer - Piano
Olivia Trummer ist eine vielfach ausgezeichnete Pianistin im Bereich der Klassik als auch im Jazz. Sie absolvierte als Stipendiatin des DAAD ein Master-Studium im Fach Jazzklavier an der Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Als Jazzpianistin...

Olivia Trummer - Piano, Vocal
Olivia Trummer ist eine vielfach ausgezeichnete Pianistin im Bereich der Klassik als auch im Jazz. Sie absolvierte als Stipendiatin des DAAD ein Master-Studium im Fach Jazzklavier an der Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Als...

Since 1993 Onyx Brass has been dominating the international brass chamber music world. Dubbed "easily the classiest brass ensemble in Britain " by BBC Music magazine, it has performed at festivals all over Europe and the USA to huge critical acclaim. The group was conceived by way of filling the...

Oscar Bianchi
Born on August 5, 1975 in Milan, holding dual Italian-Swiss citizenship, Oscar Bianchi completed degrees in composition, choir conducting and electronic music at the Giuseppe Verdi conservatory of Milan. He pursued studies in composition by taking part in...

In 2009, The Oslo Chamber Choir celebrates its 25th anniversary.  It was founded by Grete Pedersen and has established itself as one of the leading choirs in Norway, performing different genres of music at a high artistic level. The choir holds a unique position, both nationally and...

Edward Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Von den 1940er Jahren bis zu seinem Tod war Benjamin Britten ohne Frage die beherrschende Figur des britischen Musiklebens. Mit Peter Grimes schrieb er ein mitreißendes, epochales Meisterwerk, das heute die am häufigsten gespielte...

Paavo Järvi – Conductor
Grammy-award winning Paavo Järvi has built a remarkable conducting reputation. Born in Tallinn, Estonia, he studied percussion and conducting at the Tallinn School of Music then, in 1980, moved to the USA where he continued his studies at the Curtis...

Paavo Jarvi - Conductor (b. 1962)
has already conducted tens of world-famous orchestras. He is the Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (from 2001) in the USA and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (2006) in Europe and the Artistic Leader of Deutsche...

Sie ist Klarinettistin von Weltruf und gilt als “Primadonna assoluta”, als unumstrittene “Königin der Klarinette”, ER ist Klarinettist von Weltruf und gilt international als der beste Latin-Jazz-Klarinettist. SIE ist dekoriert mit zahlreichen Auszeichnungen (u.a. Klassik-Echo und Preis der...

Pascal Tremblay - Saxophone
Pascal Tremblay knows the use of sensuality, elegance and delicacy; he reveals a profound knowledge of acoustic jazz, within the boundaries of his own composing and improvisation or interpretation. His experience grows up from the age of fifteen...

Paul Motian - The Drummer
A masterfully subtle drummer and a superb colorist, Paul Motian is also an advanced improviser and a bandleader with a taste for challenging post-bop. Born Stephen Paul Motian in Philadelphia in 1931, he grew up in Providence and began playing the...

Paul Watkins
Acclaimed for his inspirational performances and eloquent musicianship, Paul Watkins enjoys a distinguished career both as concerto soloist and chamber musician. Born in 1970, he studied with William Pleeth, Melissa Phelps and Johannes Goritzki, and at the age...

Paul Millns war fünfzehn Jahre alt, als er in der Fänge der „Black American Music“ geriet. Im Radio war Ray Charles zu hören und der junge Paul war hingerissen von Kraft und Emotion dieser Stimme. Später trampte er von Norfolk nach London, um sein Idol live zu erleben und Soul- und Blues-Platten...

Pavel Eret (born 1967 in Brno, Czech Republic) - Violinist
iolinist Pavel Eret is now being perceived and accepted by both the concert audiences and the specialized music critics as a representative of the Czech violin performances. Besides his mother tongue Czech, he can...

Pedro Tagliani wurde 1961 in Südbrasilien geboren und besuchte 1978 die Musikschule Escola da Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre. Danach vertiefte er seine Gitarrenkenntnisse und studierte an der Escola do Guitarrista Gaúcho, wo er später selbst unterrichtete. 1980 wurde er Gitarrist und...

Heide Görtz ist seit 1990 Professorin für Klavier und Klaviermethodik an der Universität der Künste Berlin. Sie hat durch intensive Forschung, auch im Bereich der Musik-Medizin, eine spezielle Spieltechnik, die Goertz-Methode, entwickelt.

Tina Margareta Nilssen machte 2005 in Oslo...

The ensemble Vocal Group Ars Nova, consisting of twelve singers, is one of Scandinavia’s leading chamber Choirs in the field of polyphonic Renaissance choral music and experimental vocal music of our own period. Ars Nova has recorded many internationally acclaimed CD's and has...

Rolf Gupta

Conductor and composer Rolf Gupta is General Music Director of the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra. He has been Chief Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra, and was Artistic Director of MAGMA2002 Berlin.

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PETE ALDERTON - 1955 in Felixstowe, England, als Sohn eines in England stationierten amerikanischen G.I. geboren, hat seine Wurzeln im Blues. Mit Pete Alderton bekommt der Blues eine unverwechselbare, grundehrliche Stimme, die sich erst recht auf der Bühne voll entfaltet.

Sein...

Im Alter von sechs Jahren begann Finger mit Geigen- und später auch mit Klavierunterricht. Für sein Geigenspiel belegte er 1962 den ersten Platz beim Wettbewerb Jugend Musiziert.

Fingers Onkel schenkte ihm im Alter von 13 eine Akustikgitarre. Finger studierte Musik in Münster. Mit 19...

Peter Holtslag - Block- & Traversflöte

Peter Holtslag wurde 1957 in Amsterdam geboren und studierte bei Kees Boeke (wobei Frans Brüggen seine große Inspiration war) an der Musikhochschule seiner Heimatstadt, wo er sein Studium mit cum laude abschloß. Er konzertiert...

Frode Andersen - Accordion
Frode Andersen trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. His great interest in contemporary music is reflected both in his concert activities and his work as an initiator, administrator, writer and organizer for a number of events...

Petteri Iivonen - Violin
Petteri Iivonen (b.1987 in Helsinki) is one of the top young soloists from Finland in recent years. Mr. Iivonen won the 2005 Kuopio National Violin Competition in Finland, and recently won the second prize and special prizes at the 10th International...

Petteri Iivonen (b.1987 in Helsinki) is one of the top young soloists from Finland in recent years. Mr. Iivonen won the 2005 Kuopio National Violin Competition in Finland, and recently won the second prize and special prizes at the 10th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, becoming...

One listen to Phantom Limb and you instantly find yourself transported to that all-too-often unexplored crossroads between country music and old style R&B. This is a band steeped in a tradition where the two genres share their musical DNA. It’s The Staples Singers fronting The Band in The Last...

Fred Jonny Berg was born in Harstad, north Norway, on 27 May 1973. Since the beginning of his composing career he has distinguished himself with his distinctively original voice which in many regards is at odds with the conventional trends and 'isms' of contemporary art in general.

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Antony Hermus, Dirigent

Der holländische Dirigent Antony Hermus ist ab 2009 Generalmusikdirektor am Anhaltischen Theater Dessau und Chefdirigent der Anhaltischen Philharmonie. Von 2003 bis 2008 war er als Generalmusikdirektor an das Theater Hagen verbunden, wo er...

The Mighty Handful were all self-trained amateurs. Borodin combined composing with a career in chemistry; Rimsky-Korsakov was a naval offier; and Mussorgsky had been in the Guards, then in the civil service, before taking up music. They tried to incorporate in their music what they heard in...

Ping Machine steht für die Energie, mit der die eng verbundenen 13 Musiker die Stücke von Komponist, Leiter und Gitarrist Fred Maurin spielen. Auf RANDOM ISSUES äsentieren sie neue Kompositionen, die während Konzerten 2009 entstanden. Fred Maurin sich von seinen Vorbildern (Gil Evans, Charles...

The Purcell Quartet has become recognized as one of the leading chamber groups in the realm of Baroque music performance. As its name suggests, the group has devoted much effort to championing the chamber works of Henry Purcell, playing and recording whole chunks of his output: the complete...

Lorin Maazel - Conductor
The conductor Lorin Maazel was born in France of American parents. He was brought up and educated in the USA. His possession of absolute (perfect) pitch and photographic memory were discovered when he was four years of age. His musical studies began...

Randi Tytingvåg wurde 1978 geboren. In der Schule sang sie in einem Gospelchor. Einer Lehrerin hat sie die musikalische Begegnung mit Ella Fitzgerald zu verdanken, die ihr Leben ändern sollte. Randi entdeckte die Möglichkeiten des gesanglichen Ausdrucks und wollte fortan nur eines: sich mit Musik...

Residentie Orkest / The Hague Philharmonic
Since its first concert in 1904, the Residentie Orkest / The Hague Philharmonic has grown into one of the Netherlands’ major symphony orchestras. The orchestra was founded by Dr. Henri Viotta, who was also its first principal...

Roland Maria Stangier lehrt seit 1994 als Professor für Orgel und Improvisation an der Folkwang Universität Essen. Seit 2003 ist er Kustos der neuen Kuhn-Orgel der Essener Philharmonie sowie seit 2009 einer der Orgel-Kuratoren der Philharmonie Mercatorhalle Duisburg. Seit 2010 ist er auch als...

Rolf Zielke - Piano
Rolf Zielke ist ein Pianist und Komponist, dessen Musik zeitgenössischen Jazz und World-Music widerspiegelt. Er wurde 1964 in Hameln geboren, begann mit sieben Jahren das Klavierspiel und studierte Musik an der Musikhochschule in Hannover. Seit Mitte der...

Rosario Conte wurde 1966 in Taranto geboren. Seine musikalische Ausbildung begann er mit dem Studium von Geige und Gitarre und wandte sich später historischen Zupfinstrumenten und der historischen Aufführungspraxis zu. Er studierte Barockgitarre, Laute, Theorbe und Basso Continuo an der...

Cardiff-born soprano Rosemary Joshua is one of the most in-demand Handel singers in the world, yet opportunities to hear her on Britain's shores are far too seldom. That makes English National Opera's new production of Handel's Partenope all the more welcome: Joshua takes the title role, one of...

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra is one of Europe's leading symphony orchestras. Formed in 1891 as the Scottish Orchestra, the company became the Scottish National Orchestra in 1950, and was awarded Royal Patronage in 1991....

Consistently heralded by critics as one of the most original composers in his field, altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa's prolific contributions to contemporary jazz have earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, commissions to create new work from the likes of the Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund, Chamber...

Rued Langgaard (1893 - 1952) Composer
Rued Langgaard had one of the most remarkable careers - and was perhaps the greatest musical talent - in all of Danish music. Langgaard was brought up by his artistic parents to hold arch-Romantic, religio-philosophical views on art. Yet...

Rumon Gamba

British conductor Rumon Gamba is Principal Conductor and Musical Director of the Symfoniorkestern Norrlandsoperan. Between 2002-2010 he was Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. He regularly conducts the BBC Orchestras and has appeared at...

Ryan Leblanc ist ein progressiver Multi-Instrumentalist aus Kanada. Er spielt Gitarre, Djembe, Cajon, Mundharmonika und Banjo – manchmal vier Instrumente gleichzeitig!
Mit innovativen Techniken webt er einen Klangteppich, der perkussive und alternative Musikstile vereint und von Jazz über...

Sa Chen - Piano
Sa Chen (Chén Sà) (born 1979 in Chongqing, China) is a Chinese classical music pianist. She won first prize in the 1994 China International Piano Competition and fourth place in the 2000 International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition and a prize in the...

Throughout the history of music, there have been a number of successful father and daughter vocal pairings; just think of Frank & Nancy Sinatra, and Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole, for instance.

This tradition is now continued by the unique Italian duo, Sandra & Tony Alessi.

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Sarah Connolly
Sarah Connolly CBE, is one of the foremost British mezzo sopranos. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music where she studied piano and singing. She has been nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award, a TMA Award, two Grammy Awards and won an Edison,...

SCHOLA SANCTAE SUNNIVAE
The Gregorian chant choir Schola Sanctae Sunnivae was established in 1992 and consists of 12–14 female singers led by founder and conductor Anne Kleivset. The schola chose Norway’s first female saint, the Irish princess Sunniva, as their patron. The...

Schola Solensis was founded in 1995, in connection with the re-erection of the medieval church at Sola. The cantor is Halvor J. Østtveit. Schola Solensis sings Gregorian chant, and collects its repertory both from the core of the Roman liturgy and from rare Norwegian and Icelandic sources. Since...

Hans Reffert (* 1946 in Ludwigshafen) ist ein deutscher Musiker, Komponist und Künstler.

Reffert studierte von 1962 bis 1963 Malerei bei Professor Nagel, dann Gitarre bei Sigi Schwab, ab 1966 auch Querflöte und Komposition in Mannheim. Als Musiker war er seit 1960 bei Sigi Schwab,...

Gabriel Fauré (May 12, 1845 - November 4, 1924) stands as one of the great French composers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He single-handedly brought French chamber music to a level where one could reasonably consider it alongside the German tradition. In addition, he is the...

Sebastian Schunke wurde 1973 geboren und verbrachte seine Kindheit in Gehrden bei Hannover. Mit 6 Jahren begann seine klassische Klavierausbildung. Sie war geprägt von Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin und Debussy. Dann mit 12 Jahren entdeckte er die Musik Eddie Palmieris, Chick Coreas und Gonzalo...

Shai Maestro
was born in Israel on February 5th 1987. He began playing classical piano at the age of 5. His first exposure to jazz music was at the age of 8, listening to Oscar Peterson's "Gershwin Songbook". He was later accepted to the Thelma – Yellin High School of...

Sigmund Groven and Iver Kleive have collaborated for more than 30 years and have built a repertoire consisting mainly of baroque pieces and Norwegian music, most of which they have composed and arranged themselves. Even though they have chosen very different instruments, and are also quite...

Simon Murphy - Artistic Director of the The New Dutch Academy
Simon Murphy (1973) studied the Viola with Leonid Volovelsky, Performance, Musicology, and Fine Arts/Art Theory at The University of Sydney, and, after arriving in the Netherlands in 1996, Baroque and Classical...

Simon Standage (Violine)

ist einer der namhaftesten Spezialisten für die Musik des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Als Konzertmeister und Solist spielt er seit dessen Gründung bei The English Concert und seit vielen Jahren auch bei The City of London Sinfonia. Als Solist produzierte er mit...

Seit 1997 sind der deutsche Gitarrist Ralf Siedhoff und der spanischen Flamenco-Gitarristen Manuel Delgado „The Guitar Duo“. Nach 14 Jahren Zusammenarbeit, in denen unter anderem zwei CDs entstanden (Crossing Roots im Jahr 2000 und Azucena im Jahr 1998) haben sich die beiden Musiker mit ihrem...

Sir Colin Davis - Conductor
The traditional road to success for a conductor used to be an apprenticeship in an opera house as a coach, playing the piano for singers in rehearsal. Colin Davis chose another route, partly by necessity. Unable to play the piano, he was not...

Slagr sind ein norwegisches Kammermusik-Trio. Der Name leitet sich vom Verb „slá” ab und das bedeutet soviel wie das Schlagen oder Streichen einer Saite.

The members of Slagr are: Anne Hytta – Hardanger fiddles Amund Sjølie Sveen – vibraphone and percussion Lars Johansen – viola da...

Small World Project
Since founding Small World Project in 2008, Sébastien Dufour, charango and ukulele (also a member of MG3), Patrick Graham, percussion (who plays with La Nef as well), and Frédéric Samson, double bass (formerly of Vent du Nord), have been making maximum...

Nicolas Altstaedt, who makes his ECM debut here, was born in Heidelberg in 1982. He was one of Boris Pergamenschikow's last students in Berlin, where he has continued his studies with Eberhard Feltz. Altstaedt has already won many international awards including recently the...

Marc Soustrot studierte am Pariser Konservatorium Dirigieren, Klavier und Posaune und wurde mehrfach ausgezeichnet. Bei Dirigentenwettbewerben in London und Besançon erhielt er Erste Preise. Er war Chefdirigent und Künstlerischer Leiter des Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de la Loire von 1976...

Stardelay is German-born multi-instrumentalist Carsten Mentzel. Carsten's specialty is the Fender Rhodes and the Fender Telecaster. Don't try to pigeonhole his creativity to one genre. His home is trip-hop, ambient-lounge, slow-funk, electro-pop, fusion jazz and nu jazz. Bitter-sweet emotionality...

Stefano Bollani was born in Milan, and began playing piano at 6, enrolling in Florence’s Cherubini Conservatory five years later. He made his first professional performances at 15, initially in pop contexts; work with Enrico Rava from1996 confirmed a deeper commitment to jazz. Since then he has...

Judith Bingham - Composer
Born in Nottingham in 1952, and raised in Mansfield and Sheffield, Judith Bingham began composing as a small child, and then studied composing and singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was awarded the Principal’s prize in 1971, and 6...

Steve Raegele - Guitar
(b.1975) is a Montreal guitarist and composer. His debut CD as a leader is entitled “Last Century” on the Songlines label. It features drummer Thom Gossage and bassist Miles Perkin as they interpret 11 Raegele compositions that straddle the lines...

Since 1977 Stig Nilsson has held the position of principal concertmaster of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and ever since his brilliant debut recital in 1972 he has pursued an active performing career in Norway and abroad. As a soloist he has collaborated with conductors such as Mariss...

Das Ensemble Stimmwerck
wurde 2001 in München gegründet. Mit den beiden Tenören Gerhard Hölzle und Klaus Wenk, dem Bassisten Marcus Schmidl und Franz Vitzthum, der als Kontratenor dem Quartett sein unverwechselbares Klangbild verleiht, haben sich gefragte Spezialisten des...

Stuart McCallum - Guitars, Keyboards & Electronics
From jazz beginnings to DJ culture, Stuart McCallum’s music is ‘alternative jazz’ – a distillation of influences, creating a sound that is concentrated and distinctive. Not wanting to hide behind over complicated harmonic...

Dennis Russell Davies’s substantial discography includes 20 albums so far with ECM covering a very broad range. His recordings with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester include Mozart Piano Concertos with Keith Jarrett, Stravinsky’s Orchestral Works, Giya Kancheli’s “Diplipito”, “Abii ne Viderem” and...

Susanna Yoko Henkel
gehört zu den führenden Geigerinnen der jungen Generation. Die „Welt am Sonntag“ kürte sie 2007 zu einer der Erbinnen Anne Sophie Mutters, das renommierte US-Fachmagazin „Strings“ setzte sie auf den Titel seiner Januar-Ausgabe 2007 und ihre...

Sverre Jordan (1889–1972) was part of Bergen's cityscape: a short, slight, scurrying figure with a flat hat and rapid spats. His compositions are clearly inspired by his fellow native of Bergen, Edvard Grieg, but also by Sibelius, Rakhmaninov and Puccini. Even so, Sverre Jordan's tonal world has...

Sølvguttene (Silverboys - Norwegian Broadcasting's Boys Choir) wurde 1940 von Torstein Grythe gegründet und ist eines der beliebtesten Chöre Norwegens. Der Chor hat verschiedene nationale und internationale Verdienste erhielt, und hat eine abwechslungsreiche Touren Tagesordnung.
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Tasmin Little
Tasmin has played with many of the world's greatest orchestras in a career that has taken her to every continent of the world. In addition to her regular solo performances, she has play/directed orchestras such as Royal Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, London...

TELLISON is a four piece waking nightmare of a band. Four boys and no girls with acute organisational difficulties from Hammersmith, West London in Britain near France. Drums, Bass, Cowbells, Keyboards, Two Broken Guitars, Four Broken Voices, One Wounded Laptop, some Extra-Curricular instruments,...

The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the world's oldest orchestral institutions. It performs some 110 concerts a year, and is based at the 1,500-seat Grieg Hall in Bergen, Norway.

Established in 1765 under the name Det...

The Choir of St John’s College
The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge is one of the finest collegiate choirs in the world – known and loved by millions from its recordings, broadcasts and concert tours. The Choir is directed by Mr Andrew Nethsingha, who has previously...

The Hilliard Ensemble

Unrivalled for its formidable reputation in the fields of both early and new music, The Hilliard Ensemble is one of the world's finest vocal chamber groups. Its distinctive style and highly developed musicianship engage the listener as much in...

The band was formed in late 2004 when its members were in Vancouver’s Capilano College Jazz Studies program, and it was hard to miss the chemistry between Evan Arntzen on saxophones, bassist Josh Cole, and drummer Dan Gaucher. Opportunity presented itself when the trio was offered a regular gig...

Theo Bleckmann.
Theo Bleckmann, 1966 in Dortmund geboren, ist einer der vielseitigsten Sänger und Komponisten im Grenzbereich von Jazz, neuer, elektronischer Musik und Performance. Der seit 1989 in New York lebende Künstler erhielt seit seinem 8. Lebensjahr...

Thierry Escaich, composer & organist
After his periods as composer in residence with the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre de Bretagne and the Orchestra National de Lyon, Thierry Escaich took up his position as associated composer with the Ensemble orchestral de...

Thom Gossage - Drummer, Percussionist, Composer
currently lives in Montreal, Quebec Canada. Thom has performed in numerous jazz and improvised music settings. He has worked with Benoit Delbecq, Francois Houle, Wolter Weirbos, Ernst Gellerum, Steve Swell, Joel Miller with...

DR SymfoniOrkestret
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (DR SymfoniOrkestret) is an internationally acclaimed orchestra with proud traditions, founded in 1925 as one of the first radio symphony orchestras. With its chief conductor and honorary conductor the orchestra is...

Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Born in Poland into a Jewish family, Mieczyslaw Weinberg fled before the German invasion in 1939 and spent most of his working life in the Soviet Union where he was a friend and neighbour of Shostakovich who did much to champion his music. He composed his...

Tim Berne was recently ranked in the Top 10 of Time Out New York’s “Essential NYC Jazz Icons”, an honour he will likely take with a pinch of salt, but also a reminder of the persistence of his endeavours: “Based on the recorded evidence, it may very well have been Tim Berne who...

Tim Hugh - Cellist
Tim studied at Yale with Aldo Parisot and afterwards with Pleeth and Jaqueline du Pre whilst gaining his MA in Medicine and Anthropology at St Johns College, Cambridge. His developing interest in contemporary music led to performances of Boulez’...

Tom Winpenny - Organ
Tom Winpenny is Assistant Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral, where he accompanies daily choral services and directs the acclaimed Abbey Girls Choir. Previously, as Sub-Organist at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, he performed with the Cathedral...

Tone Wik (Soprano), Born: Oslo, Norway

The Norwegian soprano, Tone (Margaret) Wik, started singing at the age of 7 in the Norwegian Broadcasting Girls Choir under the conductor Marie Foss. There, particular attention was given to intonation and quality of sound, and years of...

Tonya Lemoh - Piano
Tonya Lemoh was born in Sydney, to an Australian mother and a Sierra Leonean father, and began piano lessons at the age of five when her family moved to London. She continued piano studies while living variously in Tasmania, Sydney, London and Sierra...

Tor Espen Aspaas, pianist (born 1. September 1971). Tor Espen Aspaas is one of the most outstanding and versatile musicians of his generation in Norway. Aspaas has since 2007 been professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.
In addition to teaching he leads an extensive performing...

Pianist Tord Gustavsen has released four albums on ECM Records with his ensemble and trio; 'Changing Places' (2003), 'The Ground' (2005), 'Being There' (2007) and 'Restored, Returned' (2009/2010). His music has been met by a huge volume of critical approval around the world (cf. Critics). The...

Tord Gustavsen - Piano
Pianist Tord Gustavsen has released four albums on ECM Records with his ensemble and trio; "Changing Places" (2003), "The Ground" (2005), "Being There" (2007) and "Restored, Returned" (2009/2010). His music has been met by a huge volume of critical...

Drei verschiedene Charaktere, ein Ganzes. Der Pianist Koen Schalkwijk zeichnet sich für die meisten Kompositionen des Trios verantwortlich. Er konnte bereits auf mehreren großen Bühnen gesehen werden, unter anderem auf dem North Sea Jazz Festival und im Bimhuis in Amsterdam. Mathias Polligkeit am...

Toyohiko Satoh
wurde 1943 in Japan geboren. Nach seinem Studium in Tokyo kam er 1968 nach Europa, um an der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Schweiz, Laute zu studieren.

1970 nahm er die weltweit erste Schallplattenaufnahme mit Musik für Barocklaute auf....

TRICHOTOMY are one of Australia’s most inventive contemporary music ensembles. So much more than a traditional jazz trio, this group expands the capacities of the classic piano/ bass/drums combination with elements of the avant-garde and a fresh attitude they bring to their music. Truly...

Unterwegs seit 1995 mit Theaterprojekten, Stummfilmvertonungen und Konzerten und inzwischen 8 CDs im Gepäck begibt sich Trio Bravo nach eine längeren Pause auf eine neue Reise: Mit zwei neuen Musikern an Bord präsentiert Trio Bravo ein neues Konzert-Programm: "Kammermusik reloaded". Musik, die...

The ensemble TrondheimSolistene was founded in 1988 by Bjarne Fiskum, and was for many years an arena for professional concert training for string-players at the Conservatory in Trondheim. As a result of many concerts throughout Europe as well as concert tours to the United States, Japan and...

The Trondheim Soloists (Trondheimsolistene) from Norway is one of the most exciting young ensembles performing on the international stage. Through the orchestra’s dedication, commitment and enthusiasm it has quickly established itself as the most innovative chamber ensemble in Norway with...

TrondheimSolistene (The Trondheim Soloists) are regarded one of the top chamber orchestras in the world. Their DIVERTIMENTI and FOLK STYLE were both nominated for a total of five American GRAMMY Awards in categories "Best Small Ensemble", "Best Engineered Album" and "Best Surround Sound Album"....

Turtleboy, comprised of Jonathan Lindhorst on sax, Ryan Butler on guitar, and Adam Miller on drums, was first established in Montreal in the summer of 2007. Inspired by the music of Paul Motian's bassless trio, the three musicians set out to explore this relatively rare musical combination....

TØRN ist ein improvisierendes Ensemble der aktuellen Musik. Der spezifische Sound der Band entsteht durch die hohe Transparenz der energiegeladenen Improvisationen, in denen die drei Solisten ihre Musik entwickeln. Die Entscheidung, trotz des improvisatorischen Ansatzes im Ensemblespiel und trotz...

ACT Exklusiv-Künstler Ulf Wakenius hatte in den vergangenen zehn Jahren wohl den prestigeträchtigsten Job, den es für einen Jazzgitarristen gibt: als der „vierte Mann“ des Oscar Peterson Quartetts bis zu Petersons Tod im Dezember 2007. Seine Vorgänger waren Größen wie Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis...

Uli Kringler - Guitar
Nach 25 Jahren als Gitarrist in den Bands von Ulla Meinecke, Pe Werner, Julian Dawson und vielen anderen ist Uli Kringler nun seit 4 Jahren nicht nur als Solist unterwegs, sondern stellt auf seiner Tour auch sein aktuelles Trio vor. Mit dabei sind Lars...

Uri Caine was born in Philadelphia and began studying piano with Bernard Peiffer. He played in bands led by Philly Joe Jones, Hank Mobley,Johnny Coles, Mickey Roker, Odean Pope, Jymmie Merritt, Bootsie Barnes and Grover Washington. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and studied music...

TAMBURI MUNDI – International Frame Drum Festival

Tamburi Mundi – The Wizards of Rhythm, weltweit inzwischen das wichtigste Festival für Rahmentrommeln, fand 2008 zum dritten Mal in Freiburg statt. Der Schwerpunkt des Festivals lag diesmal auf Musik und Perkussion aus der Türkei und bot...

Aldubarán - Ensemble
In 1995 seven young Faroese musicians formed an ensemble with the main purpose to perform and promote Faroese music. This ensemble is Aldubáran. Today Aldubáran has 14 members playing the flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola,...

Alison Stephens
Arguably the leading exponent of the classical mandolin in the UK, Alison Stephens plays frequently across the country, has toured extensively throughout the world, and regularly broadcasts live on various national radio stations. She is also head of Mandolin...

Grammy-nominated composer-pianist VIJAY IYER was described by Pitchfork as "one of the most interesting and vital young pianists in jazz today," by The New Yorker as one of "today's most important pianists... extravagantly gifted... brilliantly eclectic," and by the Los Angeles Weekly as “a...

Vincent Bélanger studied at the Conservatoire de Québec before flying to four years studying at the Conservatoire National de Montpellier in France. He also played with several orchestras, in addition to creating music for the theater. He also teaches cello at Boucherville.

Born into...

Vincent Mondy

Vladimir Jurowski
Principal Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Principal Artist, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor in Residence, Bolshoi Theatre
Music Director, Glyndebourne Opera

Vladimir Jurowski was born in Moscow, but in...

Vladimir Jurowski was born in Moscow, but in 1990 moved with his family to Germany, where he completed his musical studies at the High Schools of Music in Dresden and in Berlin. In 1995 he made a highly successful debut at the Wexford Festival conducting Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night, which...

The Volker Goetze Orchestra brings together a group of the finest musicians from New York City in order to enchant progressive big band jazz in the tradition of Charles Mingus. With its complex range of emotional and reduced compositions to virtuoso performance and complex structures, they carry...

The Norwegian band Wilfred would seem perfectly at home in New York, L.A. or Seattle, their classic Rock'n'Roll sound has a decidedly global ring to it. Thanks to its refined combination of monolithic Guitar-Rock and vivid Songwriter-Pop, the trio's debut album instantly turns them into an act to...

William Whitehead, BA, MMus, FRCO, ARAM
William's solo organ-playing career took off when he won First Prize at the Odense International Organ Competition in Denmark, 2004. Trained at Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music, London, his teachers have included David...

Vienna Symphony Orchestra
The Vienna Symphony Orchestra is the concert orchestra of the City of Vienna, being responsible for the greater part of the musical life of the capital city. The orchestra makes approximately 160 appearances each year with concerts and opera...

Chiyomi Yamada
wurde in der japanischen Stadt Fukuoka geboren. Nach ihrem Abschluss am Kunitachi Music College in Tokyo 1980 studierte sie in den Niederlanden barocke Musik am Königlichen Konservatorium Den Haag bei Marius van Altena und Dr. Rebecca Steward. Schon bald...

Jean-Pascal Hamelin is currently Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Philharmonia Mundi Orchestra of Montréal. He is also principal conductor of Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de Sherbrooke. In June of 2008, Maestro Hamelin was invited to conduct the Youth Orchestra of the Americas...

Yvonne Lefébure’s first piano lessons were with a local teacher in Saint-Mandé. She was then enrolled at the École de Sèvres, and in 1906 was introduced to Marguerite Long who advised her parents that Yvonne should study music seriously. Lefébure joined the Paris Conservatoire, and when only nine...

Indem er traditionelle akustische Gitarrenmusik mit modernen techniken und perkussiven Klängen verbindet, verwandelt Zane den Klang eines einzigen Instruments in den einer kompletten Band, inclusive Rhythmus, Backup und Lead Gitarre. Fügt man seine ausdrucksstarke Stimme dieser Mischung hinzu...

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Sin(n)fonie für Augen und Ohren: 'forsenses' - die erste Folge der Blu-ray Disc™ Serie blu::elements, die High-Definition bis an die optischen und akustischen Obergrenzen ausreizt und erlebbar macht. Bei dem ambitionierten Blu-ray Disc™...

Gaëtan Allard - Drums
Gaëtan hat sein Musikstudium mit Auszeichnung abgeschlossen. Ausgebildet wurde er u.a. von Simon Goubert, François Laizeau, Georges Pasinsky und Stéphane Véra. Er spielte in Pariser Clubs wie dem Sunset Sunside und war schon bald ein gefragter Musiker....