Sandrine Cantoreggi
Violinist at heart, can not imagine life without music. It is through her violin that she focuses her emotions and thoughts. Her mode of communication, more than words, colors or movement, is the sound of the violin. The sound of the wind, the sea or the song of birds are all sources of inspiration that feed her interpretations. Sandrine is a complete artist who has always enjoyed dialogue with other artistic, musical, literary or plastic expressions.

Born in Bordeaux, Sandrine Cantoreggi started at the Conservatoire de Musique de Luxembourg and was admitted to the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris at the age of 14. Trained in the respective classes of Pierre Amoyal, Régis Pasquier, Roman Nodel and Carlo Van Neste, she obtained, with the greatest honors, the diplomas of the 1st Violin Prize of the CNSMDParis, the Konzertexamen at the Musikhochschule of Mannheim-Heidelberg and the Graduate of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel of Belgium.

Disciple of violinists in the right line of Eugène Ysaye and Georges Enescu, Sandrine embodies the Franco-Belgian violin by the teaching she received while expanding her sonic and expressive palette by the interest she brings to the world Russian violin school.

Several meetings have been decisive in the musical development of Sandrine. Yehudi Menuhin, who had noticed her during competitions, asked to meet her and he will support her in different projects. Sandrine played under his direction and keeps an unforgettable memory of this extraordinary musical encounter. Her taste developed for a highly expressive and authentic interpretation was confirmed by the master. A recording made in 1991 bears witness to their unfortunately too brief collaboration.

Sandrine is a soloist with orchestra, solo violin recital and chamber music. Among the musical personalities with whom she shared the stage are Yehudi Menuhin, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet, Georges Octors, Jan Stulen, Stephane Denève, Pierre Cao, Bruno Canino, Daniel Blumenthal, Dana Ciocarlie, Gustav Rivinius, Connie Shih.

Tours lead her to perform in the United States, England, Georgia and Japan and she performed on prestigious European stages such as the Salle Gaveau and the Orsay Museum (Paris), the Gewandhaus (Leipzig), the Rudolfinum (Prague), the Flagey Studio and the Monnaie (Brussels), and the Luxembourg Philharmonic.

The 2018/2019 musical season will be punctuated by the projects
- "On the wings of music" with pianist Connie Shih.
- a tour of Japan with pianist Bruno Canino.
- chamber and orchestral concerts in Georgia, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg with cellists Valérie Aimard and Manuel Fischer-Dieskau, violist Petra Vahle and musicians from KammerMusekVereinLuxembourg.
- the show "Tanz um die Zeit", "Dance around time" will link the music for Solo Violin to the dance and choreography by Hannah Ma.

Many of her concerts have been recorded by various European radios.

Since 1994 various CD recordings testify to his musical impulse. Sandrine Cantoreggi has recorded chamber music and concertos by Haydn, Mozart, Locatelli, Onslow, Respighi, Lalo, Ravel, Enescu, Ropartz and Ysaye for the Turtle Records, Pavane, Ligia and Kalidisc labels.

In turn, she likes to pass on her knowledge to younger generations. She has taught at the Brussels Conservatoire and is a professor at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg. She is the founder and director of the Masterclass Journées Musicales Mondorf.

His Royal Highness Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg awarded her the order of civil and military merit of Adolphe de Nassau and raised her to the rank of knight in the field of sciences and arts.

Gustav Rivinius
“He can indeed make the cello sing like a human voice. His sensitive playing goes straight to the heart, it is of such beauty and purity that is rarely heard so perfectly.”

Gustav Rivinius is the first and only German musician to be awarded a First Prize Gold Medal at the 1990 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In addition, he received a special prize for the best interpretation of a Tchaikovsky composition, outperforming all other competitors. Since then he has appeared with leading musicians, orchestras and conductors around the world.

Among the many highlights of an illustrious career, Gustav Rivinius has performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lorin Maazel, Ingo Metzmacher and Hans Zender. In celebrations marking the re-opening of the Spanish Hall at Prague Castle, Gustav Rivinius joined the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Vaclav Neumann, and in a gala marking the 50th anniversary of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, where he has been invited back as soloist many times.

In the US, Gustav Rivinius has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and with orchestras in Saint Louis, Cincinnati, Washington D.C. and with the Houston Symphony. In Tokyo, he took the stage with the Moscow Philharmonic, in Seoul with the KBS Symphony Orchestra and in Beijing with the National Ballet Orchestra. He has worked together with conductors such as Marek Janowski, Christoph Eschenbach and Dmitri Kitajenko. He has also played alongside orchestras of Lisbon, Toulouse, Lyon, the Helsinki Philharmonic and the Swedish Radio Orchestra, as well as in Lucerne with the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. Gustav Rivinius has appeared with all of Germany’s radio symphony orchestras as well as with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Leipziger Gewandhausorchester and the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin.

Along with his solo work, Gustav Rivinius has a passion for chamber music. He plays regularly alongside his brothers in the Rivinius Piano Quartet and performs recitals with his brother Paul at the piano. Gustav Rivinius is also an annual participant in the Heimbach Spannungen festival, where he performs alongside his muscial friends Lars Vogt, Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithaas, Isabelle Faust and Sharon Kam, and in numerous festival CD recordings.

Rivinius founded the Gasparo da Saló Trio, the Bartholdy String Quintet and the Tammuz Piano Quartet, which recorded both piano quartets by composer George Enescu for the cpo label. This label also released Gustav Rivinius’ performance of the Cello Concerto by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari accompanied by the Frankfurt Radio Sympony Orchstra under Alan Francis, and Henze’s Ode to the West Wind featuring the RSO Saarbrücken conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewki was released by Arte Nova. Gustav Rivinius recorded the Brahms Clarinet Trio along with Sharon Kam and Martin Helmchen for Berlin Classics.

For many years Gustav Rivinius has been a Professor at the University of Music in Saarbrücken. He is cofounder of the Kammermusiktage Mettlach and thus has been influencing the musical landscape of his native Saarland for over 30 years. He teaches a number of masterclasses annually, including at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and is a regular juror at major music competitions and sat on the jury at the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Michael Faust
began his flute studies in his native Cologne, Germany, where he was a student of Cäcilie Lamerichs continuing later in Hamburg with Berlin Philharmonic principal flutist Karlheinz Zöller and then in Basel Switzerland with Aurèle Nicolet. Among his national and international prizes and awards, Mr. Faust was the first German to be awarded the prestigious 'Pro Musicis-Award 1986' in New York. Since that time he has presented solo concerts throughout Europe, North and South America, Africa and Japan. Conductor Lorin Maazel has praised him for his "radiant tone and distinct musicality" and conductor Gunther Schuller writes. 'Seldom does one meet someone with such a pure tone, so much expression and technical virtuosity. It is a pleasure to hear him play.'

His career as an orchestral musician began when he was only 20 years old as the Solo Flute with the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Later he held that same position with the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under Sergiu Celibidache. Since 1988 he has been the Solo Flute with the WDR Sinfonieorchester in Cologne.

Michael Faust's commitment to pedagogy has been well documented through his many masterclasses in Europe, South America, Japan and the United States. He is Professor at the Muiskhochschule in Düsseldorf. In addition, for many years he was a professor with the European Mozart Foundation in Prague and Warsaw.

Many composers including York Höller, Manfred Trojahn, Heinz-Martin Lonquich, Bojidar Dimov and Gunther Schuller have written works for both Michael Faust and for the ensemble he founded, 'Ensemble Contrasts Köln'. This, as well as his groups participation in festivals such as the Darmstädter Tage fur Neue Musik show his deep commitment to contemporary music. He suggested that Maurricio Kagels write a new work whose title contained 'Das Konzert'. The world premiere was held during the Ruhr-Triennale on October 2, 2003, in the German Oper am Rhein in Duisburg.

Highpoints of his career include the premiere of Ibert's flute concerto with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Fedossejev, premiere of Gunther Schuller's flute concerto with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and a recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York. Michael Faust has presented solo concerts in such varied places as the Cologne Philharmonie (Gunther Schuller's flute concerto with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Hans Vonk conducting), the Kioi-hall in Tokyo, the 'Teatro Amazonas' in Manaus and in Spokane, Washington, where he is a guest each year at the 'Northwest Bach Festival.'

Michael was involved in many chamber music concerts with the Ensemble Contrasts Köln, as well as performances with Heinrich Schiffs Winterthurer Musikkollegiumsorchester (Reinecke), the Neubrandenburger Philharmoniken (Rautavaara), and the WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne (Bernstein), Carl St. Clair, conducting.

In 2003, the renowned composer Mauricio Kagel wrote his only instrumental concerto for Michael Faust, who has played "Das Konzert" with orchestras in Duisburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Saarbrücken and others. In January of 2009 he played the premiere of the new flute concerto by the famous Latvian composer Peteris Vasks with the WDR Symphony orchestra under the button of Maestro Semyon Bychkov. 2010 he will premiere this concerto in Latvia (Riga) as well as in the US (Anaheim).

Amidst his many recordings for radio and television in Germany, France, the United States and Japan, and after his first recording with pianist Alexander Lonquich, in 1990 Michael Faust recorded 'El Cimarron' by Hans-Werner Henze. Since then he has recorded many CD's from all periods and genres, including a three CD set on GM Recordings of works from Bach to Mozart with harpsichordist and longtime duo partner Ilton Wjuniski and, also on GM, a recording of the Cesar Franck Sonata and the Sergej Prokofjev Sonata.

With the Ensemble Contrasts Köln Michael Faust commits himself mostly to new music, for instance a CPO release with music by Elliott Carter. With the WDR-Sinfonieorchester Cologne under Serge Baudo and Alun Francis he recorded the concertos for flute and orchestra by J. Ibert, C. Nielsen and L. Bernstein. (Capriccio) This recording was met with much critical acclaim. 'Gramophone' magazine wrote Michael Faust is a 'splendid flutist and artist' and 'Fono Forum' called him 'an outstanding soloist', and the French publication 'La Traversiere' a 'interprete a decouvrir.'