permanent lessons
Prof. Christian Sikorski, violin
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Christian Sikorski, received his musical education in Frankfurt, Freiburg and Paris. He studied with Wolfgang Marschner, Jean Fournier and Norbert Brainin, the primarius of the Amadeus Quartet.
In 1983 he founded the Bartholdy Ensemble, with which he performed in Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland and made numerous CD and radio recordings. Since 1993 he has also given concerts with the Sikorski Quartet, Stuttgart, named after him.
From 1985 to 1991 Sikorski taught violin and chamber music at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and in 1991 he was appointed professor for violin at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. Many of his students now hold positions in renowned orchestras such as Hamburg, Berlin, Essen, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Stuttgart or Munich. In 2006 he published the book "Die Welt der vier Saiten" ("The World of Four Strings"), a reflection on violin playing and violin studies for highly gifted young violinists.
Numerous courses for the State Music Council in Hessen, Schleswig Holstein and Baden-Württemberg, at the "Musiktage Bergell", in Ochsenhausen, at Schloss Wiesenthau or in Merzig in Saarland round off his pedagogical activities. Christian Sikorski is also a jury member for the DAAD in Bonn, the Stiftung Musikleben in Hamburg and occasionally for the Landesmusikrat Baden-Württemberg and the German Music Competition in Bonn.
Ralph Bergmann, piano
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Ralph Bergmann studied at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule. Master classes with Roberto Szidon, Herbert Henck and Claude Helffer were followed by a year of study with Peter Feuchtwanger in London.
In 1998 he took his soloist exam and graduated with distinction.
Ralph Bergmann works as a soloist, chamber music partner and accompanist and has been a piano teacher at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule since 2002.
In addition to many other soloist concerts, he has performed several times the second
"Concord" by Charles Ives.
The main points of his pedagogical work, apart from the development of repertoire and the
Development of individually oriented pianistic technique
- in the mental work (important impulses by the encounter with the mental trainer for
musician Ulrike Klees),
- in the promotion of suitable means for relaxing the entire play apparatus
- in the introduction of improvisational elements for the development of technique, style,
freedom of movement and a general flow when playing the instrument.
Prof. Norbert Kaiser, clarinet
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Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1961, Norbert Kaiser studied clarinet with Jost Michaels and Hans Klaus and piano with Werner Genuit at the Musikhochschule Detmold from 1980-1985, where he worked as an assistant in 1985 and 1986. In 1984 he passed his artistic final examinations and worked from 1984-1989 as a clarinetist in the Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt and in numerous CD productions of the Hessischer Rundfunk. From 1989 to 2000 he was the first solo clarinettist at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. 1995-1998 Norbert Kaiser studied conducting in Weimar and worked as a conducting assistant to Lothar Zagrosek at the Stuttgart State Opera in 1997/98. During this time he led a work by H.-W. Henze for singers and chamber orchestra at the Grand House of State Opera in Stuttgart. The opera Ulm was followed by a rehearsal and performance of "The Marriage of Figaro". From 1999 to 2001 he worked as Chief Conductor of the State Youth Orchestra of Thuringia. He also received a professorship for clarinet at the Stuttgart Academy of Music and Performing Arts in 1999.
Evelyn Pena Comes, flute
- vita
Evelyn Pena Comas was born in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), where she began her flute and piano studies. She studied flute at the Rotterdam Conservatory, at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
The award-winning artist won first prize in the 1999 UNESCO flute competition concurso de interpretación musical, is winner of the Fine Arts Award 2000 and the 6th Fidelio Competition. In 2008 she was a guest at the talent exchange of the Austrian radio station Ö1. In 2013 she was awarded the National Youth Prize ''Premio Nacional de la Juventud'' in her home country.
Engagements as solo flutist have taken her to Germany and Austria, to the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck and to the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra. In 2010 she won an academy position with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, the City of Baden Theatre Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of the X Santo Domingo Music Festival.
As a soloist she played in the Junge Philharmonie Vienna, the Wiener Tonkunstvereinigung, the Leipziger Symphonieorchester, the Capella Santo Domingo, the Juan Pablo Duarte Jugendsinfonieorchester and the National Jugendsinfonieorchester in her home country.
In 2009 she recorded Epitaffio nr.2 "y su sangre ya viene cantando" with the orchestra Junge Philharmonie Wien for the label Gramola.
In 2013 and 2016 she was nominated for the art award "Premios Soberanos" in the category "Distinguishing Artist Abroad" and has been a member of the ensemble Spirituosi since 2013.
Veronika Unger, Violin
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vita
Veronika Unger, violin, born in Vladivostok, Russia. Musical education in Russia. Soloistic, chamber music and pedagogical studies at the Music College of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Zoria Shikhmursaewa. 2002 - 09 Studies at the Hochschule Stuttgart with Christine Busch, chamber music studies with Peter Buck. She has performed with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR, among others. Since 2010 permanent member of the 2nd violins of the Stuttgart State Orchestra.
Eberhard Klotz, music theory-aural training
- Vita
Musikpädagogisches Studium in Klavier und Orgel an der Staatlichen Musikhochschule in Basel mit Abschluss Diplom Klavier- und Orgellehrer.
Konzertreife-Diplom für Orgel (mit Auszeichnung) bei Professor Guy Bovet.
Generalbass, Alte Musik, Continuo bei Jean Goverts an der Schola Cantorum Basel.
Theorie und Kompositionsstudien bei Rudolf Kelterborn an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe und bei Wolfgang Neininger in Basel.
Regelmäßiger Besuch der Sommerkurse für Komposition bei Theo Brandmüller und Martin Redel in Weikersheim.
Orgelkurse bei Radulescu, Marie-Claire Alain, Rübsam, Tagliavini, Guy Bovet u.a.
Preise bei Jugend Musiziert und beim internationalen Musikwettbewerb der Stadt Junien.
Eberhard Klotz konzertiert regelmäßig an internationalen Orgelkonzertreihen. Unter anderem »Les Concerts de la Collegiale Neuchatel«, »Orgelkonzerte St. Leonhard Basel«, »Concerts spiritueis« in der Kathedrale in Genf.
Radioaufnahmen bei Schweizer Radio DRS 2.
Ca. 25 Konzertauftritte im Jahr.
Studium der Musikwissenschaft in Straßburg und Vorträge über musikwissenschaftliche Themen.
Seit 1992 Kirchenmusiker in Basel und Leiter der »Stunde der Kirchenmusik«.
Seit 2002 lebt er als freischaffender Musiker. Als Hornist wirkte Eberhard Klotz bei der Jungen Süddeutschen Philharmonie mit. Er betreut die Ausgaben der Edition Friedemann Immer, für die er Orgelfassungen, Continuorealisationen sowie Rekonstruktionen großer Orchesterwerke der Barockzeit schuf.
Einer seiner Schwerpunkte liegt auf alter Musik, was sich unter anderem in zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen - z.B. Fassungen der Brandenburgischen Konzerte 1, 2 und 4 für Soloinstrument und obligate Orgel - ausdrückt. Diese Fassungen wurden 2010 vom Schott-Verlag für die Zeitschrift Organ auf CD aufgenommen. Zudem veröffentlichte er Orgelversionen zu Sinfonischer Musik von Bruckner und Mahler.
Neben einer regen Konzert- und Kompositionstätigkeit widmet sich Eberhard Klotz mit Begeisterung seiner musikpädagogischen Profession und der Weitervermittlung der musikalischen Kultur an Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene.
Joachim Hess, Violoncello
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Joachim Hess studierte Violoncello an der Musikhochschule Stuttgart bei Prof. Peter Buck sowie Klavierkammermusik bei Maria Sofianska. Besonders geprägt hat ihn die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Miró-Quartett (USA) und dem Artemisquartett in Berlin.
Joachim Hess ist zudem Cellist des Staatsorchesters Stuttgart. Neben solistischen Auftritten gilt sein Engagement vor allem der Kammermusik, wofür er zahlreiche Stipendien und Auszeichnungen erhielt. So ist er unter anderem Cellist des Sikorski Quartetts Stuttgart, des Syrinx Trios und Lehrbeauftragter an der Stuttgarter Musikhochschule. Als Dozent für Violoncello und Kammermusik unterrichtet er regelmäßig bei Kursen in Bergell (Schweiz), in Weikersheim im Rahmen von Jeunesse Musicales und in Ochsenhausen. Zahlreiche CDs sowie Rundfunk- und Fernsehaufnahmen belegen seine vielfältigen Tätigkeiten.
Prof. Matthias Weber, Double Bass
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1981 to 83
Assistant principal bassist in the Bergen Symphony Orchestra/Norway
1983 to 86
First solo bass of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Oper am Rhein)
1986 to 2012
First principal bassist of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (chief conductors: Sergiu Celibidache, James Levine, Christian Thielemann,)
since 1990
Member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
1991 to 2008
Lecturer for double bass at the State University for Music and Theatre Munich
At the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences since WS 2004/05, since SS 2007 as professor.
Teaching focus: Technical and musical education of orchestra musicians
languages: German, English, Norwegian, French
Alexandra Neumann, Piano
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Alexandra Neumann studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia with Eleanor Sokoloff, at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Lev Vlassenko and in Stuttgart with Oleg Maisenberg. She also received important impulses from Vladimir Ashkenazy and Alfred Brendel.
Alexandra Neumann is a winner and prize-winner of many international competitions (including Senigallia, YAMAHA) and has been a guest at numerous festivals (Athens, Patras, Perugia, Schwetzingen).
She was supported by the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Landesgraduiertenförderung, DAAD, Rotary.
She has performed with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the RSO Stuttgart, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Rhenish Philharmonic Orchestra, the Athens and Thessaloniki State Orchestras, among others.
Her musical partners include Misha Maisky, Neville Marriner, Sasha Roshdestvensky, Sebastian Manz and many others.
She has made radio recordings for SWR, HR, NDR and SRF. Her solo and chamber music CDs have received great acclaim in the international press, the Schumann CD was awarded the Supersonic Award.
She has taught at the conservatories of Stuttgart and Weimar. Many of her students have won prizes at national and international competitions and have been offered positions at conservatories, music schools and opera houses.
Teaching languages are German, Greek, English, Russian.