Jürgen Ellensohn was appointed professor of trumpet at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts for the 2025 summer semester. Previously, he held professorships at the University of Music in Würzburg (2019–2025), the Stella Vorarlberg Private University of Music (2022–2023), and the Vorarlberg State Conservatory (2015–2019).

As principal trumpeter, he served for 15 years with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester) and previously with the Bern Symphony Orchestra. Guest engagements have taken him to the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, among others. As a soloist, he has performed with numerous orchestras and collaborated with conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, and Matthias Pintscher.

He is also passionate about chamber music: he is a member of the ensembles Pro Brass and The Philharmonic Brass. Numerous audio and video recordings document his stylistic versatility.

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Recognised for his celebrated interpretations as soloist, his extensive exploration of chamber music with some of the finest musicians today, and a dedication to widening the cello literature, Marc Coppey is considered one of the world’s leading cellists – in addition, now with a growing reputation as a fine conductor on the international podium.

A protégé of Lord Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich, Coppey first shot to international acclaim at the age of 18, winning First Prize and ‘Special Prize for the Best Bach Performance’ at the prestigious Leipzig Bach Competition (1988). Soon thereafter, he made major debuts in Paris and Moscow in collaboration with Yehudi Menuhin and Victoria Postnikova (captured on film by the celebrated director Bruno Monsaingeon), and performed at the Evian Festival by personal invitation of MstislavRostropovich. Since then, Coppey has carved out an impressive solo career to date, working regularly with many of the world’s finest orchestras and conductors – including, amongst others, Alain Altinoglu, Lionel Bringuier, Lawrence Foster, Alan Gilbert, Kirill Karabits, Emmanuel Krivine, John Nelson, Pascal Rophé, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Yutaka Sado, and Hugh Wolff.

Recent and forthcoming highlights include performing as soloist with such orchestras as the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Kansai/Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio- France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto de Casa da Música, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR), and the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra of China. As conductor, Coppey has performed recently with the Deutsche Kammerakademie, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Nice Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonia, Irish Chamber Orchestra,  amongst other leading ensembles, and serves as Music Director of the Zagreb Soloists.

Coppey is a much acclaimed recording artist, working exclusively with the Audite classics label. In 2024, he released a recording of the complete works for cello and piano by Gabriel Fauré, with celebrated pianist François Dumont. 2021 saw the release of Shostakovich: Cello Concertos (with Polish Radio Symphony/Lawrence Foster), whilst 2022 saw the release of Kodály: Music for Solo Cello, and The French Cello (Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg/John Nelson). All four albums received exceptional reviews, universally placing Coppey on a par with the greatest cellists in history.

Passionate about inspiring future generations of musicians, Coppey is a Professor at the Conservatore National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and is regularly invited to give masterclasses across Europe, Asia, and both North & South America. Since October 2020, he is the Artistic Director of the Saline Royale Academy : a state-of-the-art new music education facility in France.

Marc Coppey is also a passionate chamber musician, and former member of the Ysaÿe Quartet (1995-2000). He now serves as Artistic Director of the annual Easter Festival in Colmar. 

Marc Coppey performs on a rare cello by Matteo Goffriller (Venice, 1711) and resides in Paris. 

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Dunja Robotti was born in Brussels to Italian-German parents and received her first piano lessons from Piotr Lachert and then at the Conservatoire Royal there. At the Berlin University of the Arts, she studied piano with Professors Hans Leygraf and Georg Sava, as well as song interpretation with Aribert Reimann and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Masterclasses with Vitalij Margulis, György Sebök, György Sàndor, and Lev Naumov complemented her training.

While still a student, Dunja Robotti was a tutor for song accompaniment at the Berlin University of the Arts. After several years of teaching cello accompaniment at the Berlin University of the Arts in the classes of Professors Wolfgang Boettcher and Jens Peter Maintz, she has been a lecturer at the Nuremberg University of Music for the string classes there since 2009. In 2016, she was appointed honorary professor. An important focus of her work is teaching and working with double bass literature. She regularly accompanies the classes of retired professor Dorin Marc in Nuremberg and professor Dominik Wagner in Würzburg.
Dunja Robotti has won several international competitions. In Paris, she won first prize in the “Claude Kahn” and “U.F.A.M.” competitions and received third prize at the International Pianists’ Meeting in Pontoise. She was also a prize winner and finalist at “Città di Marsala” in Sicily and “F. Schubert and the Music of the 20th Century” in Graz.

Since the age of ten, she has given regular concerts as a soloist, chamber musician, and song accompanist with outstanding musical partners and singers in Europe’s most renowned concert venues, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Munich Herkulessaal, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Schubertiade in Feldkirch, the Beethovenfest in Bonn, and North and South America. Radio productions for WDR and Radio Bremen, as well as for Bayerischer Rundfunk and SFB, document her extensive work, as do various CD recordings.

As a long-standing accompanist for master classes at the Carl Flesch Academy in Baden-Baden, at Haus Marteau, at the Sawallisch Academy, and as an audition accompanist for numerous orchestras, Dunja Robotti continually proves herself at the highest level of the art of piano accompaniment.

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Solenn Grand is currently principal harpist with the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig. Previously, she was principal harpist with the Prague State Opera Orchestra. Earlier positions took her to the Hofer Symphoniker and the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira as principal harpist.

She has won numerous international competitions, including first prize at the North International Music Competition in 2017, the John Marson Harp Prize in 2016, prizes at the 7th VDH Competition in 2014, and the Camac Harp Competition in 2013.

She has been practicing yoga since 2012, an activity that has had a lasting impact on her playing. As a teacher, she attaches great importance to body awareness on the harp and encourages her students to always find more inner space, breath, and connection to themselves.

She holds a concert exam from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and an Artist Diploma in Performance from the Royal Academy of Music in London.

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Ivan Törzs was born and raised in the USA. After studies at Princeton University and the Juilliard School, he came to Germany in 1982. He was Generalmusikdirektor and Operndirektor at the Mecklenburg State Theater Schwerin from 1993-2002. From 2002-2009 he was Principal Conductor of the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2010 he was appointed Professor at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, where he remained until 2021, at which time he was invited to be Professor Emeritus at the Korean National University of the Arts. He has conducted in numerous European opera houses, including Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Vienna, Prague, Budapest et al., and given master classes at many institutions, including Seoul National University, Ewha University, Chung Ang University and Northwestern University.

Ivan Törzs-는 미국에서 태어나 교육을 받았다. 프린스턴 대학 수학과를 졸업 후, 그는 뉴욕 메네스 음대와 줄리어드 음대에서  오케스트라 지휘를 공부하였다. 
1985년부터는 유럽에 거주하며 활동해오고 있다. 2002년부터 2008년까지 그는 벨기에 앤트워프의 플란드르스 오페라 (Flanders Opera)의 수석 지휘자를 역임하였다. 벨기에 앤트워프에 있기 전 그는 9년 동안 독일 슈베린의 (Schwerin) 메클렌부르크 주립 극장의 음악 및  예술감독으로도 재직하였다.
2010년부터 2021년까지 그는 데트몰트 국립음대의 교수로 재직하며 성악가 및 지휘자를 양성하였다. 또한 한국(서울대학교, 이화여자대학교, 중앙대학교), 중국 샤멘 (화차오대학교), 미국 시카고 (노스웨스턴 대학교) 및 기타 도시의 다양한 대학과 음악원에서 마스터클래스를 가르쳤다. 2021년에 한국예술종합학교의 명예교수로 재직하였다.

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Born and raised in Switzerland, Brigitte Geller studied flute and singing and began her career as a singer after two years at the International Opera Studio in Zurich.

As a permanent ensemble member, first in Heidelberg, then at the Komische Oper Berlin and the Landestheater Linz, as well as a guest at many theaters in Germany and abroad, she sang roles ranging from light lyric (Pamina, Sophie, Gretel, Susanna, and many others) to youthful dramatic (Figaro’s Countess, Medea, Empress, Chrysotemis) In addition to her opera work, Brigitte Geller has always been active as a lieder and concert singer. John Elliot Gardiner, Ton Koopmann, Helmut Rilling, Howard Arman, Markus Poschner, Kirill Petrenko, and many other conductors have shaped her musical career. Brigitte Geller has performed as a lieder interpreter at numerous festivals and concert series.
CDs and DVDs, from the “Bach Cantata Pilgrimage” with John Elliot Gardiner to Schubert songs with Ulrich Eisenlohr to Schoenberg’s “Von heute auf morgen” from the Teatro La Fenice or Monteverdi’s Poppea from the Komische Oper Berlin document her musical journey.
Kammersängerin Brigitte Geller gives master classes in Switzerland and Austria. Since October 2020, she has been a professor of voice at the Nuremberg University of Music and continues to make guest appearances at opera houses and concert halls.

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Born in Vienna in 1997, double bassist Dominik Wagner holds a scholarship from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation and is an ECHO and Opus Klassik winner. He has also won prizes at almost all double bass competitions, including the Bradetich Foundation International Double Bass Solo Competition, the ARD International Music Competition, the Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition, the J.M. Sperger Competition, the Osaka International Competition and the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition.

Dominik Wagner has already performed with renowned orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and the Camerata Salzburg in concert halls in Vienna (Musikverein and Konzerthaus), Berlin (Konzerthaus and Philharmonie), Munich (Herkulessaal and Gasteig), Hamburg (Elbphilharmonie) and New York (Carnegie Hall), among others.

In addition to his solo activities, Dominik is a passionate chamber musician. He has worked with musicians such as the Emerson String Quartet, the Danish String Quartet, Isabel Faust, Tabea Zimmermann, Gerhard Schultz and Elisabeth Leonskaja. He also wants to expand the repertoire here and create new line-ups with new repertoire. This has resulted in constellations such as the duo with jazz double bassist Georg Breinschmid or the clarinet trio with Vera Karner and Aurelia Visovan, with the latter of which he won the Fanny Mendelssohn Prize, among others.

Wagner is also a sought-after teacher; he has been a professor at the University of Music Würzburg since 2023 and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2024 and regularly gives masterclasses in Europe and the USA at institutions such as the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, the Julliard School New York and UNT Texas. Since 2023 he is part of the Professional Studies Program of Kronberg Academy.

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Matthias Kirschnereit is one of the most sought-after pianists of our time. Born in 1962, the pianist has been thrilling concert audiences in Germany, Europe, America and East Asia for around four decades. He performs worldwide with leading orchestras such as the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, New City Philharmonic Orchestra Tokyo, Het Residentie Orkest Den Haag, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Bamberger Symphoniker, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Camerata Salzburg and Münchener Kammerorchester. Matthias Kirschnereit has worked with the conductors Hartmut Haenchen, Marcus Bosch, Christopher Hogwood, Andrew Manze, Sándor Végh, Michael Sanderling, Frank Beermann, Alexander Liebreich, Ariane Matiakh, Yuri Temirkanov and Alondra de la Parra.

Almost 40 recordings document his work, from the early prizewinner CD of the German Music Competition in 1989 to the complete recording of all Mozart piano concertos together with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the 2019 album “Concertant” with all works for piano and orchestra by Robert Schumann (together with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under Jan Willem de Vriend) to the latest recording in 2022: The complete recording of the rarely performed Haydn piano concertos with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn (play&lead).

He has long been passing on his experience and convictions to the next generation of musicians as a professor at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre. Kirschnereit is passionately committed to the “Rhapsody in School” initiative and the TONALi cultural project.

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Gunter Teuffel studied with Enrique Santiago and the Melos Quartet at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. He then continued his studies with Jürgen Geise and Sandor Végh at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He completed his concert diploma with the highest distinction. While still at the Mozarteum, he met the legendary violist William Primrose on a course. This encounter, which was very important to him, led to the translation of David Dalton’s Primrose book “Playing the viola- conversations with William Primrose”, which was published in 2012 under the title “Die Kunst des Violaspiels – Gespräche mit William Primrose” by Bibliothek der Provinz.

Gunter Teuffel began his career as solo violist of the Camerata Academica of the Mozarteum Salzburg under Sandor Végh. From 1982 to 2021 he was principal violist of the SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart. He was also Professor of Viola at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart until 2023 and teaches highly talented young violists at the Filum Music School’s Talent Academy in Filderstadt. For over 25 years, Gunter Teuffel has been teaching at the master classes at Raabs a.d. Thaya Castle in Lower Austria at the beginning of August.

As a sought-after chamber music partner, he has played with numerous ensembles: the Melos Quartet, Parnassus Piano Trio, Camerata Lencses, String Quintet Mozarteum, Stuttgart Soloists, Diabelli Trio, Ensemble Villa Musica, Mandelring Quartet, Linos Harp Quintet, Trio Xavier de Maistre, Gaby Pas- v. Riet, Gunter Teuffel, Dohnanyi Trio, Musica Antiqua Köln, Ensemble Triolog, Ensemble…time for more! Ensemble il capricchio, also with Gil Shaham, Antoine Tamestit, Tristan Cornut, Joaquin Clerch, Anthony Spiri and many more. As a soloist with viola and viola d’amore he has played with numerous conductors: Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Neville Marriner, Dennis Russel Davies, Andrej Boreyko, Christopher Hogwood and others.

He has an intensive artistic friendship with the violist, viola d’amore player and composer Garth Knox. The two have performed together several times and Gunter Teuffel premiered Garth Knox’s Pocket Concerto, which was dedicated to him, in 2019. Gunter Teuffel has recorded numerous CDs featuring the viola d’amore and viola.

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Hariolf Schlichtig has made a name for himself in the music world as a chamber musician, soloist and teacher. He was a member of the Cherubini Quartet for 19 years and has worked with Leonidas Kavakos, András Schiff, Emmanuel Pahud, the Alban Berg Quartet and the Ensemble Villa Musica, among others.

As a soloist, he has performed in the Carnegie Hall, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Herkulessaal Munich and the Cologne Philharmonic with orchestras such as the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Cappella Andrea Barca, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Wiesbaden State Orchestra. He is also interested in contemporary composers, some of whose works he has premiered. He is professor of viola at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich. His class has repeatedly won prizes at major competitions and many of his graduates hold prominent positions in international musical life.

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