Julian Arp was born in 1981 in northern Germany into a big family of musicians. He began to study at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin and learned from Jens Peter Maintz, Boris Pergamenschikow, David Geringas and Eberhard Feltz.
As a soloist and chamber musician, he performs worldwide, playing at venues including Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, and the Berlin Philharmonie.
For over twenty years he has formed the duo Arp/Frantz with the pianist Caspar Frantz. Together they have won a number of prestigious competitions, including the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition, the German Music Competition and the International Chamber Music Competition „Premio Vittorio Gui“ in Florence.
Julian Arp is dedicated to a broad repertoire and is increasingly involved in the performance and creation of new music. Composers such as Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Sven-Ingo Koch, Sarah Nemtsov and Violeta Dinescu have written works for him.
Since autumn 2013 Julian Arp has held a professorship for violoncello at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and is also a sought-after lecturer at international master classes.
Maighréad McCrann has been 1. Concertmaster of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1993. In 1997 she was appointed Professor of violin at the University of Performing Arts in Graz. During this time she has also enjoyed a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician and directing chamber orchestras from the violin. Her passion for teaching has resulted in many master classes and intense coaching with the youth orchestras of Spain, Catalunya, Columbia, the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra and the National Orchestral Institute in Washington.
Born in Dublin where she studied with Brian McNamara, she graduated from Trinity College of music in 1984 and commenced studying in Vienna with Ernst Kovacic. Further violin lessons with Sándor Végh and David Takeno. She was a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and played baroque violin with Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Concentus Musicus.
In 2020 she was appointed to the board of the Wiener Jeunesse Orchestra and became a member of the advisory committee of the Austrian National Bank for the allocation of valuable instruments.
She is artistic director of the Neuberg Masterclasses in Austria.
Violist and conductor Hartmut Rohde delights the audience with his tone and musical language as well as his special commitment to the respective style. Rohde is one of the leading European violists and a founding member of the Mozart Piano Quartet, with which he received the coveted OPUS Klassik Award for the first time in 2018. Chamber music partners include D. Geringas, J. Jansen, J. Widmann, L. Vogt and E. Bashkirowa. Concerts at the Salzburg and Berlin Festival, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Seoul, Sydney, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Solo concerts with the Beethoven Hall in Bonn, the Weimar State Orchestra, the NDR Radio Orchestra Hanover and the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Conductors included K. Nagano, P. Järvi, M. Sanderling or R. Goebel. CD productions were released on EMI Classics, Decca, Sony/BMG, MDG, CPO and Naxos. From 2013 to 2017 he was conductor of the Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra in Wrocław. Rohde also conducted the Biel Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Camerata, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra Budapest, the Aurora Chamber Orchestra Sweden and the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra Lithuania. Performances on tours take him as a conductor to music centers such as the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, the Casals Festival Prades in France, South America or South Korea. The label CPO released highly-acclaimed CD recordings of him as a conductor in 2018 and 2019, with works by W.E. Korngold, Simon Laks and Hans Gàl.
Extensive tours to China, the USA, Canada and South America are on the calendar for 2020/21. In London, Hartmut Rohde will play the world premiere of Philip Sawyer’s viola concerto with the English Symphony Orchestra under Kenneth Woods. The Deutschlandradio is planning a CD recording of Josef Tal’s revised viola concerto by Rohde.
Together with pianist Markus Groh and mezzo-soprano Marina Prudenskaya, Rohde will be performing two trio programs starting 2021/22, the focus of which is dedicated to Schubert and Brahms and those around them for their anniversaries in 2022. As a conductor, Rohde is touring with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and the Seoul Virtuosi to Germany and Korea.
Hartmut Rohde has been a professor at the UdK Berlin since 1993 and is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music London. He plays a viola by Giuseppe Fiorini (1899) and an Ivo Luliano (2016).
Stefan Schilling started his studies at the age of 15 under Professor Hans-Dietrich Klaus in Detmold, Germany. In addition to first prizes in the German youth music competition “Jugend musiziert” and the German Music Academy Competition, he received grants from the Study Foundation of the German People, the Herbert von Karajan Foundation, and the German Music Council.
From 1991 to 1992 he was principal clarinet at the Staatstheater Darmstadt before he took the same position in the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in 1993. An avid chamber musician, he performs with musicians such as Lars Vogt, Mitsuko Uchida, and Leipziger Streichquartett. In addition to his orchestral duties, Schilling is Professor of Clarinet at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. His students hold positions in orchestras and universities throughout Europe and abroad.
Thomas Lange is the founder of resonance theory and has been teaching musicians of all instruments, singing and conducting for 34 years. He is head of the resonance teaching training course in Berlin. His practice in Berlin is a popular contact point for musicians from all over the world.
He studied violin in Berlin with Saschko Gawriloff and Thomas Brandis, and in Paris with Gérard Poulet. He played for 10 years in professional orchestras, including the DSO Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonic.
One of his areas of expertise is preparing musicians for rehearsals and auditions. He attaches particular importance to the fact that sound quality and craftsmanship enable rich expression. Many of his clients hold positions with the most important German orchestras and opera houses, including some solo positions, including the Bavarian State Opera Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, NDR Hamburg, NDR Hannover, Komische Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, Konzerthaus Orchestra, DSO Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker.
He was a lecturer in resonance theory at the Hanover University of Music for five years and was involved in setting up the prevention program for musicians‘ health in collaboration with the Institute for Musicians‘ Medicine and Music Physiology. He is a sought-after guest lecturer at music colleges at home and abroad, in teacher training at music schools, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and at professional orchestras. The musicians of the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover evaluated his course “as by far the best course in the area of body work for musicians that has ever taken place at NDR.
I-Ting Chen was born in 1986 in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. At the age of five she received her first piano lessons and, in a few years, later she also learned to play the violin. With piano teachers such as Yunae Lee, Mag. Dr. Mühlböck, she received a sound piano education in the music schools in Tainan City, Taiwan and continued with concert studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She went to the classes of Professors Alexander Jenner, Heinz Medjimorec and Noel Flores and received valuable musical impulses. After graduation, she gained further chamber music experience while studying at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität, where she was able to expand her knowledge of instrumental correpetition with Prof. Denise Benda.
She won several national and international competition prizes, including 1st prize of Taiwan National Student Competition of Music in 1998, Taipei Chopin Piano Competition- 2nd and Polonaise special prize in 1999 and 2002, Dr. J. Dichler Piano Competition in Vienna- 4th and special prize in 2005.
She has been working as a répétiteur at the Institute for String Instruments at the University of Arts in Graz since 2012.
Among her solo and chamber music concert activities are debut with orchestra ( Mendelssohn 1st piano concerto) in Tokyo /Japan at the age of 14, solo recitals such as Chopin recital in Taipei and Tainan City, in Johannes Nepomuk Chapel, Bösendorfer Salon, Haus Hofmannsthal in Vienna. As a pianist and répétiteur, she was allowed to participate in many master classes and competitions as well as concerts in Switzerland, Turkey, Italy, Poland and Austria.
