Trio d’anches Hamburg
comprises three principal wind players from the Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra: Rupert Wachter (clarinet), Christian Kunert (bassoon) and Nicolas Thiébaud (Oboe). They come together to play woodwind music by Haydn, Mo- zart, Tomasi, Poulenc and Françaix, among others. The name of their trio, Trio d’anches (Trio of reeds) comes from the instrumentation of clarinet, oboe and bassoon. These instruments use a reed (the French word for which is anche) to produce their sound.

The members of the string orchestra German Strings are concertmasters, section leaders, and rank-and-file players from important German orchestras. In addition to their work in opera and symphony orchestras, it is with the greatest of pleasure they devote themselves the intimate sound and special colour of the string orchestra and exploring its immense repertoire.

Olivier Tardy, principal flautist of the Bavarian State Orchestra stated a second career a few years ago as a conductor. An important element of Olivier Tardy’s career so far has been his commitment to working with young people. He was the first conductor of the Ba- varian State Orchestra’s youth orchestra which was founded in 2007, and in addition to this he conducted the Munich University Abaco-Orchestra for five years. In 2009 at the invitation of Brigitte Fassbaender he conducted the Youth Orchestra at the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.