Bernhard Endres

Born 1962 in Saarbrücken, Bernhard Endres began his studies of piano, chamber music and conducting at the University of Music Saar with Alexander Sellier (piano). He then enrolled at the Ecole Normale de Musique/Alfred Cortot in Paris,where he studied with Serge...

Alexandre Faure

Born in 1977 in Metz, Alexandre Faure began learning the trombone at Harmonie de Woippy, then continued his musical studies at the CRR – National Conservatory of Metz Region in Gilles Senon’s trombone class.In 1993, at the age of 16, he joined the CNSMD...

Frédérique Friess

Soprano  French soprano Frédérique Friess studied singing at the National Conservatory in her hometown, Strasbourg; at the Higher Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art ofStuttgart (in the classes of Luisa Bosabalian, then Dunja Vejzovic); at the MozarteumSalzburg...

Mechtild Georg

Mechthild Georg received a complete musical education from his father, singer and director of music.She continued her musical studies in Cologne and then perfected herself with Professor Ingeborg Reichel at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf. After...

Christopher Houlding

In 1980, age 20, Chris toured with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Celibidache at the invitation of Denis Wick and was appointed Principal Trombone of the Orchestra of Opera North in the following year, a seat he held for twenty seven years. He has since...