Michael Wersin, born 1966 in Bielefeld, studied singing, choral conducting, ear training and musicology. He is artistic director of the music festival "Alte Musik St.Gallen" (AMSG), runs a "practice and coordination centre for Gregorian chant" in the monastery district of St. Gallen, is responsible for a baroque concert series at St. Gallen Cathedral and teaches at the "Diözesanen Kirchenmusikschule" in St. Gallen as well as at the ...
After studying harpsichord with Harald Hoeren in Frankfurt/Main and with Siebe Henstra in Utrecht (soloist's examination 1994), Carsten Lorenz specialised in baroque basso continuo playing with Jesper B. Christensen in Lyon and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. He was professor of harpsichord at the Landeskonservatorium für Vorarlberg in Feldkirch in 1998/99 and has been teaching harpsichord and ...
The Catalan lutenist and guitarist Maria Ferré graduated in studies of the classical guitar at the Conservatori Superior del Liceu de Barcelona (Spain). She then became increasingly interested in the performance practice on historical instruments and began to continue her studies for lute and other historical plucked instrument with Rolf Lislevand at the Musikhochschule Trossingen ...
Simon Linné spent his childhood in a musical home in the countryside near Stockholm, Sweden, where he was influenced by both heavy metal and classical music. Nature remains an inexhaustible source of inspiration, creativity and awe for him to this day. Although the guitar was his first instrument, a ...
Swantje Hoffmann(violin) studied with Prof. Walter Forchert (Frankfurt am Main) and Prof. Nora Chastain (Lübeck, postgraduate soloist class) as well as baroque violin with Prof. Petra Müllejans (Frankfurt, postgraduate early music class). In addition to intensive chamber music activities with her piano trio ("Trio Sveg") and solo performances, she is a member of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Marini Consort Innsbruck (late Renaissance and early Baroque music). In 2003 she was the winner ...
Born in Fribourg/Switzerland, Christoph Riedo studied baroque violin in Basel, Geneva and Milan and received special impulses from the following teachers: David Plantier, Odile Edouard, Enrico Gatti and Stefano Montanari. Since his diploma at the Civica Scuola di Milano, he has been active as a baroque violinist and violist in numerous early music formations, among which especially A Corte Musical ...
Cosimo Stawiarski, born in Italy in 1974, studied baroque violin with Chiara Banchini at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and with Lucy van Dael at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, as well as musicology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. His work focuses on the research and performance of North and Central German music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Cosimo Stawiarski is a permanent member of ...
Laura Frey studied viola da gamba at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Freiburg i. Br. with Ekkehard Weber and graduated first with a teaching qualification and finally with an artistic qualification. Her busy concert schedule has taken her to many European countries and international festivals (e.g. Rheingau Music Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Hohenloher Kultursommer, Händelfestspiele Göttingen and others). In addition, she was involved in ...
Franz Vitzthum, born in the Upper Palatinate, received his first musical training with the Regensburger Domspatzen. He completed his vocal studies with Kai Wessel at the Cologne University of Music in 2007. He received numerous prizes and scholarships during his training and has since been invited to perform solo at the Rheingau Music Festival, the Handel Festivals in Halle, Karlsruhe and Göttingen, La Folle ...
Monika Mauch, born in Baden-Württemberg, began her vocal studies at the Institute for Early Music at the Musikhochschule Trossingen with bass-baritone Richard Wistreich, followed by a year of study in Paris with Jill Feldman. Her singing career began in Philipp Pierlot's Ricercar Ensemble together with the wind ensemble La Fenice under Jean Tubéry, in the ensemble Ordo Virtutum conducted by ...
