The ARTISTS of the festival

Born 1940 Görlitz/Germany; Music Study in Berlin; master classes: H. Fryba, L. Montag, L. Streicher, T. Toschev, F. Poszta. 1961-1989 member of the German National Opera House/Staatskapelle Berlin; 1968-1989 teaching at the State Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin; 1989/90 member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; 1991 professorship at the Conservatory of Music in Saarbrücken/Germany; 1994-2008 Professor at the State Hochschule für Musik in Munich with big international class; editor (many first editions), member in international juries (ARD-Munich, Geneva, USA, Koussewitzky-competitions Moskow und St. Petersburg, Avignon, Reimes, Isle of Man, Markneukirchen, Kromeriz-CR, Debrecen – Hungaria, Simandl – competition, Mittenwald); recordings for Broadcasting Companies and CDs; leader of master courses in Europe, USA, Asia; president of the International Johann-Matthias-Sperger-Society; founder and art director of the International Johann-Matthias-Sperger-Competition. „Scholarship-Award“ of the International Society of Bassists/USA for “Merits for the Contrabass”. Founder and leader of International Double Bass Ensemble “Bassiona Amorosa”.