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Already at 28 years old, Austrian pianist Aaron Pilsan has made a name for himself on the international music scene, having received numerous awards and having already performed in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London and Vienna’s Konzerthaus.

Selected by the influential German magazine Fono Forum as "Best Young Artist of the Year" in 2011, he was subsequently chosen as a "Rising Star" for the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) in 2014 which resulted in invitations to perform in many of Europe's most prestigious concert halls. Aaron Pilsan often performs with cellist Kian Soltani and together they have made recordings for Deutsche Grammophon. In order to be in constant exchange with his audience and help young artists, he created the Pilsan
Academy, through which he mentors amateur and future pianists.
Recently he has gained much praise for his recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 that was selected by Gramophone Magazine as one of the best recordings of 2021. He has performed the Well-Tempered Clavier in such renowned venues as Vienna’s Konzerthaus and at the Festival Bach in Montréal, Canada.
Aaron Pilsan is a strong believer in the power of music for change in our lives and in our world and has played a Bach Marathon „BACHathon“ including both books of the Well-Tempered Clavier for the Ukraine at the philharmony in Stettin in June, as his contribution to bringing his talents to the service of others in need. This concert has been streamed all around the world including international partners in the United States in Europe and in Australia.
Aaron Pilsan has studied with among others, Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Lars Vogt in Hannover and has been regularly mentored by Sir András Schiff, Maria João Pires and Daniel Barenboim.

Ein Italiener mit starker Affinität zum deutschen Repertoire.
Ein „Melodiker von Natur“ (Der Tagesspiegel), der die Detailfreude der stilistisch informierten Interpretationspraxis überzeugend auf den großen Apparat zu übertragen versteht. Ein echter Orchesterpraktiker überdies, dessen künstlerische Gestaltungskraft sich mit dem Bedürfnis nach einem partnerschaftlichen Musizierstil verbindet. Antonello Manacordas Vielseitigkeit als Dirigent liegt in der Fülle seiner musikalischen und kulturellen Prägungen begründet: In Turin in eine italienisch-französische Familie hineingeboren, in Amsterdam ausgebildet und seit vielen Jahren in Berlin zu Hause, war Manacorda Gründungsmitglied und langjähriger Konzertmeister des von Claudio Abbado ins Leben gerufenen Mahler Chamber Orchestras bevor er bei dem legendären finnischen Lehrer Jorma Panula ein Dirigierstudium absolvierte. Heute ist Antonello Manacorda in Opernproduktionen an den bedeutendsten Opernhäusern der Welt ebenso häufig zu erleben wie am Pult führender Sinfonieorchester. Mittelpunkt seines Schaffens ist die Kammerakademie Potsdam, der er seit 2010 als Künstlerischer Leiter vorsteht und mit der er eine Reihe von preisgekrönten Aufnahmen vorgelegt hat.

In der Saison 2023/24 führen Antonello Manacorda Opernproduktionen an die Wiener Staatsoper (La traviata), das Teatro La Fenice (Hoffmanns Erzählungen), das Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Carmen) und an die Staatsoper Stuttgart (Il trovatore).

Im Bereich der Symphonik ist Antonello Manacorda in der Saison 2023/24 als Gastdirigent u.a. bei der Sächsischen Staatskapelle Dresden, dem Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, dem Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, dem Gewandhausorchester Leipzig und dem SWR Symphonieorchester zu erleben.

In den vergangenen Spielzeiten arbeitete Antonello Manacorda unter anderen mit dem Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, dem Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale die Santa Cecilia, den Berliner Philharmonikern und dem Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra erfolgreich zusammen. Mit seinen Debüts an der Metropolitan Opera in New York (Le Nozze di Figaro), einer Neuproduktion Dmitri Tcherniakovs von Webers Der Freischütz an der Bayerischen Staatsoper und mit seinem Debüt an der Semperoper Dresden – ebenso mit Der Freischütz – feierte er große Erfolge.

Mit der Kammerakademie Potsdam hat Antonello Manacorda für Sony sowohl einen Mendelssohn-Zyklus als auch einen Schubert-Zyklus eingespielt, die beide von der Kritik gefeiert wurden. Beim ECHO Klassik 2015 erhielt die Kammerakademie Potsdam für den Zyklus aller Schubert Symphonien den Preis in der Kategorie „Orchester des Jahres“. Im Oktober 2022 wurde Antonello Manacorda zusammen mit der Kammerakademie Potsdam der OPUS KLASSIK in derselben Kategorie für die Einspielung der letzten Mozart Symphonien verliehen. Im selben Monat erschien die neueste Einspielung des Ensembles mit Antonello Manacorda – die Sinfonien Nr. 1, 2 und 7 von Ludwig van Beethoven – der Auftakt einer Gesamtaufnahme aller Sinfonien Beethovens, die in den Konzerten der Kammerakademie Potsdam seit langem eine zentrale Rolle spielen.

Julian Prégardien is one of the outstanding classical vocal artists of our time. His clarity of voice, deep understanding of text and abilities as a story teller make him an especially gifted recitalist. Julian's artistic activities focus particularly on romantic song recitals and chamber music projects. He is giving recitals all over Europe and he recently has created a new project named "Will the Miller" about the song cycles of Franz Schubert and Wilhelm Müller: Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise. In occasion of the 200th anniversary of the composition of "Müllerin" he is producing several unique formats, the most outstanding being "Miller*in' Vienna" in Octobre 2023, as well as a radio play, a documentary, a concert film and a cd recording in coproduction with the german radio station SWR.

On the concert stage his season's highlights are invitations by the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig to sing the role of the Evangelist in both Passions by Johann Sebastian Bach, his role debuts as Monteverdis Orfeo at Chateau de Versailles and as Don Ottavio at Mozartwoche Salzburg as well as Mozarts Requiem with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä, the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst and at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli in a staging by Romeo Castellucci together with Raphael Pichon and Ensemble Pygmalion. Further concert appearances will bring him to Stockholm, Paris, New York, Basel and to Händel Festival Halle and to the prestigious festivals of Aix en Provence and Salzburg.

Julian Prégardien was born in Frankfurt in 1984 and received his earliest music training in the choirs of Limburg Cathedral. He studied voice in Freiburg with Reginaldo Pinheiro and with Susanna Eken at the vocal academy of the Aix-en-Provence opera festival and in Copenhagen. He was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble from 2009 to 2013. As an opera singer, he has appeared at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, at the Hamburg and Bavarian State Operas and at the Opéra Comique in Paris. In 2018 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Narraboth in Richard Strauss’ Salome (director: Romeo Castellucci) with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Franz Welser-Möst. In 2019 this was followed by his debut as Tamino in a new production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Berlin State Opera under the baton of Alondra de la Parra. As a concert singer he has been appearing in the main european concert halls since more than a decade, focusing especially on the demanding role of the Evangelist by Johann Sebastian Bach. He has recorded both Saint John's and Saint Matthew's Passion with the Bavarian Radio Choir and Concerto Köln. In 2022 a new recording of St Matthew's Passion together with Ensemble Pygmalion and Raphael Pichon has been released on Harmonia Mundi.

Julian's recital recordings include Winterreise, Schwanengesang and Dichterliebe for Alpha Classics, An die Geliebte and Schubertiade for Myrios Classics, Father and Son for Challenge records and Orpheus for cpo. Amongst his artistic partners for song recitals are Daniel Heide, Els Biesemans, Eric le Sage, Kris Bezuidenhout, Lars Vogt, Martin Helmchen and Michael Gees. He has created several projects together with his father Christoph. They have been performing their Duo recital for 15 years allready at many of the most prestigious recital halls and festivals of europe. Other highlights of their unique artistic connection were concert performances of Mozarts Idomeneo together with Kent Nagano and Concerto Köln, a Monteverdi recital together with Anima Eterna Brugge and an orchestra recital together with Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Lars Vogt.

In 2017 Julian Prégardien was appointed as a professor at the Munich University of Music and Theatre’s vocal department. He is a member of the Schumann Network and artistic director of the Brentano Academy in Aschaffenburg, Germany. He has curated an entire season of recitals and chamber music in Zurich in 2016/2017, was Artist in Residence at Mozartfest Würzburg in 2019 and at Cologne Philharmonic Hall in 2020/2021.

Simon Bode gehört zu den vielgefragten lyrischen Tenören seiner Generation und ist sowohl auf der Opernbühne als auch im Konzertfach weltweit aktiv. Er ist regelmäßig zu Gast bei renommierten Festivals wie dem Heidelberger Frühling, dem Kissinger Sommer und den Salzburger Festspielen. In der Saison 2022/23 wird er als Residenzkünstler für drei Liederabenden mit den Pianisten Igor Levit, Simon Lepper und Jonathan Ware an die Londoner Wigmore Hall zurückkehren. Daneben tritt er unter anderem bei den Münchner Philharmonikern in Beethovens Neunter Symphonie unter Maxim Emeljanitschew auf.

Felix Klieser is an exceptional artist in several aspects. At the age of 5, he took his first horn lessons, at the age of 13 he enrolled as a junior student at the University of Music and Theater in Hannover. In 2014 Felix Klieser was awarded the ECHO Classic prize in the category best young artist and published an autobiographical book about his fascinating life story. In 2016 he received the prestigious Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.

Highlights of the 2021/2022 season are the beginning of Felix Klieser’s two-year residency with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and his US debut as part of an extensive tour with the Basel Chamber Orchestra and tenor Ian Bostridge in spring 2022. Among others Felix Klieser will be performing with the London Mozart Players at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest and with the Festival Strings Lucerne in the Munich Prinzregententheater. Other highlights of the season are appearances at music festivals such as the Gezeitenkonzert, the Staufener Musikwoche and the Moselmusik festival. Felix Klieser will present his current album Beyond Words with transcriptions of baroque vocal works in several concerts with the CHAARTS Chamber Artists before his new recording with the Zemlinsky Quartet will be released on the Berlin Classics label in early 2022. In December he will be the soloist at this year’s Audi Christmas Concert in Ingolstadt.

In exciting chamber music projects, the young horn player will appear in various line-ups at the Brahmstage Baden-Baden, the Beethovenhaus Bonn, the Schubertiade Hohenems, the Dubrovnik Music Festival and the Heidelberger Frühling. His chamber music partners include the Danish String Quartet, Sebastian Manz, Andrej Bielow, Martina Filjak, Boris Kusnezow, Tanja Tetzlaff, Dag Jensen, Dominik Wagner and Klieser’s long-time piano partner Christof Keymer.

As a member of the project ensemble “The Impossible Orchestra” of the conductor Alondra de la Parra, Felix Klieser will play in the first edition of the Pax Festival in Mexico in the summer of 2022. The cast of the virtual orchestra created during the corona pandemic includes Rolando Villazón, Alisa Weilerstein, Edicson Ruiz, Albrecht Mayer and Maxim Vengerov. In Mexico, the musicians of the “Impossible Orchestra” can be seen live together for the first time after their digital success. The contemporary composer Rolf Martinsson is dedicating a horn concerto to Felix Klieser, which will be premiered and recorded with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern in spring 2022.

In March 2019 Felix Klieser’s recording of the complete Mozart horn concertos with the Camerata Salzburg (with the label Berlin Classics) was released, represented in the Top 10 of the German classical music charts for 3 months. His debut album Reveries with works for horn and piano, which was released in 2013 and was awarded the ECHO-Klassik, was followed in 2015 by Horn Concertos, Klieser’s first orchestral CD with works by Mozart and the brothers’ Joseph and Michael Haydn, which he performed together with the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn under the musical direction of Ruben Gazarian. In September 2017 he published his third CD Horn Trio, recorded with the violinist Andrej Bielow and the pianist Herbert Schuch at the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) in Munich, on which the horn player not only devotes himself to the profound trio for horn, violin and piano by Johannes Brahms but also to lesser-known works for this exciting line-up.

In the past season Felix Klieser already appeared as soloist with the Camerata Salzburg as well as the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the Fondazione Orchestra Sinfonica Milano Guiseppe Verdi (Milan), the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, the Festival Strings Lucerne, the Slovenska Filharmonija (Bratislava), the chamber orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Saarländisches Staatsorchester, the Magdeburgische Philharmonie and the Kammerakademie Potsdam. He has also made chamber music appearances at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Glocke Bremen, the Essener Philharmonie, the Beethovenhaus Bonn, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Oxford Chamber Music Festival, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival.

From 2008 till 2011 he was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany (Bundesjugendorchester), where he frequently performed at major venues such as Berlin Philharmonie, Beethovenhalle Bonn, Köln Philharmonie and Philharmonie am Gasteig Munich. He also participated in numerous productions by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and has undertaken tours to Austria, Switzerland, Italy and South Africa.

On social media, Klieser likes to let his audience participate in his everyday life as an artist and also take a look behind the scenes at concerts. His horn “Alex”, a model 103 from the Alexander Brothers (Mainz) leads a life of its own on Instagram and Facebook and can be seen cooking, reading and vacationing. Felix Klieser has been teaching his own horn class at the Münster University of Music since 2018. He regularly passes on his knowledge in master classes.

“Born in 1997 in Vienna, Dominik Wagner takes Bottesini’s tonal beauty, vocal and melodic attractiveness so passionately serious, and masters the required artistry with such breathtaking lightness, that one would like to think the double bass is the softest-sounding and most virtuosic string instrument.”

Dominik Wagner aims to liberate his instrument from its existence in the shadow of the cello, and present new facets of the double bass. He succeeds not only with an engaging stage presence, impressive virtuosity and vocal melodic delivery, but also with a tireless commitment to expanding the repertoire, whether through commissions or his own arrangements.

In just his mid-20s, Wagner is a scholarship recipient of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation and an ECHO Klassik winner, 2022 he was furthermore awarded the Opus Klassik as Young Artist of the year. He is also a prize-winner in almost all double bass competitions, such as the Bradetich Foundation International Double Bass Solo Competition, the ARD International Music 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 or the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and in concert halls in Vienna (Musikverein and Konzerthaus), Berlin (Konzerthaus), Munich (Herkulessaal) and Hamburg (Elbphilharmonie), among others. He is associated with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra as a WKO Young Artist.

The 2021 season included the release of his first solo CD „Giovanni Bottesini – Revolution of Bass“ with Berlin Classics, performances of Georg Breinschmid’s Double Bass Concerto written for him with the Camerata Salzburg and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, and several world premieres, including one by Wolfram Wagner at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

In the 2022/23 season, Dominik Wagner will be touring the USA twice: first with the Bradetich Foundation, where he will also play his debut recital in Carnegie Hall, and then with the ensemble Mutter’s Virtuosi via the Anne Sophie Mutter Foundation.

In addition to his solo activities, Dominik is a passionate chamber musician and is constantly searching for new timbres through new orchestrations. This has resulted in a duo with jazz double bassist Georg Breinschmid, as well as a clarinet trio with Vera Karner and Aurelia Visovan. With the latter he won, among others, the Fanny Mendelssohn-Förderpreis.

Dominik Wagner was initially trained as a cellist before switching to the double bass in 2007. His 4 years in the concert choir of the Vienna Boys Choir were a formative musical influence.

He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Josef Niederhammer and Mag. Werner Fleischmann from 2009 to 2015, and from 2015 to 2022 with Prof. Dorin Marc at the HfM Nuremberg. In addition, he regularly gives master classes in Europe and the USA, in institutions like the Juilliard School, The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and the UNT Texas.

“A brilliant display of artistry on the violin”, says the Kölner Stadtanzeiger about Fedor Rudin. As an international award-winning violinist, including top prizes at the Premio Paganini and George Enescu competitions, he is considered one of the most versatile soloists of his generation with his affinity for different genres and a very varied repertoire.

In the 22/23 season, Fedor Rudin will make his debuts with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirill Karabits in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto (broadcast on the BBC), with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra under the baton of Petr Popelka (Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 2), with the South Denmark Philharmonic conducted by Johannes Wildner, with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra led by Eivind Gullberg Jensen (Britten Violin Concerto) and with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. With the Deutsches Kammerorchester, he will debut at the Berlin Philharmonie. Chamber music projects will take him for the first time to the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and the Prague Rudolfinum. At the International Summer Music Academy in Kroměříž, Fedor Rudin has debuted under the baton of Tomáš Netopil with Prague Philharmonia.

During the latest concert seasons, he made his debuts as a soloist with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSB), the Orchestre de chambre de Paris and the Munich Chamber Orchestra under conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Darrell Ang, Christoph Poppen and Lorenzo Viotti. Appearances have taken him to the Paris Philharmonie, the Tonhalle Zurich and the Stern Auditorium of Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as to the Salzburg Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. In the 23/24 season he will make his debut at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival.

Fedor Rudin also came to international attention as he got appointed concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic in 2019, becoming the orchestra’s youngest member at that time. A position he has held for three seasons, playing under conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Andris Nelsons, Christian Thielemann and Zubin Mehta, before entirely devoting himself to his own concert activity.

Fedor Rudin is also a graduated conductor himself, beside his violin studies. After completing his conducting studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, he received further valuable artistic impulses in master classes with Jorma Panula, Neeme, Kristjan and Paavo Järvi, Marin Alsop and Isaac Karabtchevsky.

Already at the age of 20, Fedor Rudin was appointed guest conductor of the Georgian National Philharmonic. In September 2022, he made his debut as an opera conductor in a production of Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” at the Opera i Filharmonia Podlaska. Fedor Rudin has also recently led the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (ORF RSO) at the Vienna Musikverein, the Jena Philharmonic in a benefit concert for Ukraine and the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra among others.

Born in 1992, grandson of the famous avant-garde composer Edison Denisov, Fedor Rudin grew up in Paris and later studied in Cologne, Salzburg, Graz and Vienna. Because of his musical heritage, he feels particularly committed to the Franco-Russian musical tradition. He is artistic director of the festival "Rencontres Musicales de Sologne" in France since 2022.

Fedor Rudin plays a violin by Lorenzo Storioni (Cremona, 1779) from the German Musical Instrument Fund, a generous loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in Hamburg. He is a Thomastik-Infeld artist, has a Private Pilot License and lives with his family in Vienna.