Marie Rosa Günter
was born in Braunschweig in 1991 and grew up in the rural idyll of the nearby village of Lucklums. She is the daughter of Birgit and Stefan Günter, a social worker and a locomotive engineer. Although she preferred singing as a child, Wolfgang Zill introduced her to piano playing at the Braunschweig Music School at the age of six. Under the guidance of his brother, the flutist Hans-Martin Zill, Marie Rosa Günter had the opportunity to play chamber music right from the start.

She attended her first international masterclass in 2016 with Matti Raekallio in Suolahti, Finland. A chain of unfortunate coincidences (invalid airline tickets of all pianists and teachers at the Hanover airport) eventually led to a chain of fortunate coincidences (a spontaneous, clandestine effort to purchase a ticket for the youngest of the group) to her studies with Matti Raekallio at the Hanover University of Music’s Institute for Young Talent Development.

Further studies with Bernd Goetzke progressed steadily for many years, culminating in an Artist Diploma exam with the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra in 2021. Under the direction of Nicholas Milton, Marie Rosa performed Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto.

Apart from training as a soloist, the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media offered excellent opportunities to further her education. Of note here are the studies with Markus Becker (chamber music), Jan Phillip Schulze (lied accompaniment), and Zvi Meniker (early music), which opened a variety of doors in all directions of the musical world. The cellist Stanislas Kim, as well as Trio Zilia, Trio Ovide, Kahlo Piano Quartet and Trio Faust became permanent chamber music partners.

After completing two years of studies with Benedetto Lupo at the “Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia” in Rome, Marie Rosa Günter subsequently took up a teaching position at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media – with a diploma and new language skills in tow.

Kosmos und Fragmet is the second with the GENUIN label, following the debut CD with Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The Carl Bechstein Stiftung, as well as the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, have been generous sponsors.

Besides her activities as a musician, Marie Rosa Günter is actively interested in languages, literature, drawing, painting, and playing soccer. Currently, the pianist lives in Hanover and Madrid.

Stanislas Emanuel Kim
French-born Cellist Stanislas Emanuel Kim studied in his hometown Paris with Raphaël Pidoux and Philippe Muller, at the University of Music, Drama and Media in Hannover with Tilmann Wick and Leonid Gorokhov, and in Madrid with Jens Peter Maintz at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.

He currently enjoys a diverse musical career as an international soloist and prizewinner, principal cellist of the Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid and professor at the Escuela Superior de Musica of Extremadura.

Stanislas Kim has been invited to numerous festivals (Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Hitzacker Festival, Bachtage Würzburg or the Grieg Festival in Bergen), performing with acclaimed chamber music partners including Midori, Sergey Dogadin, Tobias Feldmann, and with renowned orchestras such as the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Filarmonica George Enescu and the Philharmonie Baden-Baden.

In 2023, he was awarded the First Prize and special prizes at the International Klaipėda David Geringas Competition, leading to concert engagements with the Lithuanian National Philharmonic orchestra, under the baton of David Geringas. Other achievements include prizes at the George Enescu Competition, the Brahms Competition in Austria, the Swedish International Competition and the Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon (with his long-time duo partner Marie Rosa Günter).

Stanislas has received inspiration and advice from David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Natalia Gutman, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Andrew Manze, Tabea Zimmermann and Ferenc Rados.

He plays a cello of the Vuillaume school, on loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Leonid Gorokhov
Russian-born British/German cellist Leonid Gorokhov studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire with Anatoli Nikitin and took part in masterclasses with Daniil Shafran.

Winner of Concertino Praga (First Prize) and Paris Chamber Music Competition (Premier Grand Prix), Leonid Gorokhov is the only Russian cellist to be awarded the Grand Prix and the First Prize of the Geneva Concours.

In 1991, Leonid Gorokhov appeared as soloist with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic conducted by Lord Menuhin; their strong musical rapport led to further concerto engagements with the Bergen, Berlin & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia and the Zürich Tonhalle.

Apart from his work as a soloist, he is a founding member of the Hermitage String Trio (with Boris Garlitsky, violin, and Alexander Zemstov, viola) and plays regularly with the pianists Nikolai Demidenko, Niklas Sivelov and Kathryn Stott. He undertakes regular recital tours of Japan and has played with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra and the Macau Chamber Orchestra. In Europe he has been invited to play with the Basel, BBC Scottish, Berlin Radio, Biel-Bienne and Norrkoping Symphony Orchestras; the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Promusica Salzburg and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

He is a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hannover, Germany.