Castro Ricardo

In 2013, Ricardo Castro became the first Brazilian to receive the Honorary Membership from the Royal Philharmonic Society. The nomination put him alongside illustrious personalities in the history of Western music.  Born in Vitória da Conquista in 1964, his first...

Ingeborg Scheerer

Born into a family of musicians, she started to play the violin at the age of 6 years. She studied with Max Rostal and Sandor Végh. In 1974 she was Co-founder of the “Junge Deutsche Philharmonie” which she was leading for 4 years and which won the First Prize at the...

Christine Sörensen

Born in Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Christine Sörensen studied violin at the Musik Akademie in Basel with Alexandre Zöldy (Vegh Quartet) and then with Ayla Erduran at the Lausanne Conservatoire, where she was awarded a 1st Prize for Virtuosity. She then went on to...

Michael Gehrke

Michael Gehrke, tenor, teaches as a vocal professor at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar, where he is the director of the Institute for Vocal Studies / Musical Theater. In its international class, all voices and vocal subjects are represented. Its graduate...

Annette Ziegler

Annette Ziegler received her first violin lessons at the age of 6 at the Taunus Music Schoolwith Christiane Bergmann. Further training was provided by Prof. Alfred Breith (University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt a.M.) and Phillip Roy (Concertmaster of the...