Violinist Arabella Steinbacher, a native of Munich, has firmly established herself as one of today's leading violinists on the international concert scene, performing with the world's major orchestras. The New York Times reports that she plays with, "Balanced lyricism and fire - among her assets are a finely polished technique and a beautifully varied palette of timbres." After her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto under Christoph von Dohnányi, The Chicago Tribune reported, "From her magical entry over hushed orchestral strings to the biting swagger she brought to the dancing finale, it was evident that her feeling for this music runs as deep as her technical command. The central Adagio came off especially beautifully, Steinbacher conveying its brooding melancholy with a rich vibrato, impeccable intonation and a remarkable breadth of phrasing."

Ms. Steinbacher's career was launched in 2004 with an extraordinary and unexpected debut in Paris, when she stepped in on short notice for an ailing colleague and performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Sir Neville Marriner. Her diverse and deep repertoire includes more than thirty concertos for violin. In addition to all of the major concertos of the Classical and Romantic period, she also performs those of Barber, Bartók, Berg, Glazunov, Khatchaturian, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Szymanowski, Hindemith, Hartmann, and Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium. Among Ms. Steinbacher's numerous recording honors are 2 ECHO-Klassik Awards (considered to be the German equivalent of the Grammy) "Les Chocs du Mois" from Le Monde de la Musique, and two German Record Critics Awards as well as the prestigious Editors Choice Award from Grammophone magazine.

Ms. Steinbacher is recording exclusively for PentaTone Classics. Her first CD on that label, released in autumn 2009, included Dvorák's Violin Concerto in A Minor and Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1, as well as Dvorák's Romance in F Minor, with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin led by Marek Janowski. Ms. Steinbacher recorded her second PentaTone release, which features Bartók's First and Second Violin Concertos, in July 2009. The CD was released in October 2010. Arabella Steinbacher is appearing with the leading international orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Philharmonia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, WDR Symphony Orchestra, and NHK Symphony Orchestra; she has worked with the world's leading conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Herbert Blomstedt, Marek Janowski, Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner and Yannick Nezet-Seguin, among others.

Highlights for her 2011-12 season include performances with the Danish National Radio Symphony, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Orchestre et Opera National de Montpellier, Orchestre de Paris, returns to the San Francisco Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as her Cleveland Orchestra debut.
Highlights of the 2010-11 season included Ms. Steinbacher's Carnegie Hall debut with the conductor-less Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and her subscription debut with both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the San Fransisco Symphony Orchestra, as well as her debut at Maggio Musicale in Florence under Zubin Mehta and her debut with the Israel Philharmonic. During the 2009-10 season, Arabella Steinbacher made her much-anticipated debut at the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra led by Jonathan Nott.

Born in Munich in 1981 to a German father and a Japanese mother, Ms. Steinbacher began studying the violin at the age of three. Her mother is a professionally trained singer who came to Germany from Japan to study music, and her father was the first Solorepetitor in the Bayerische Staatsoper, from 1960 to 1972. At nine, she became the youngest violin student of Ana Chumachenko at the Munich Academy of Music. She received further musical inspiration and guidance from Ivry Gitlis. In 2001, Ms. Steinbacher won the sponsorship prize of the Free State of Bavaria and in the same year she was awarded a scholarship by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.

Ms. Steinbacher currently plays the "Booth" Stradivari (1716) generously provided by the Nippon Music Foundation. She lives in her hometown of Munich, and her general manager is Tanja Dorn at IMG Artists. 

The New York Times credits Rui Lopes as “the richly gifted bassoonist”. Gramophone concurs: “highly musical and virtuoso”. 
Although Rui only began studying the bassoon at eighteen, his musical temperament and virtuosity were quickly recognized and received many awards, including first prize in the prestigious Estoril International Competition. One of the most promising bassoonists of his generation, he shares his great passion for music with concert audiences all over the world. 
Rui has appeared as a soloist with Zurich Symphony Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Czech Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, Finnish National Opera, Algarve Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Artists Orchestra, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Collegium Musicum Basel, Camerata Antiqua de Curitiba, Portuguese Symphony, and other orchestras. 
Rui is a member of the Camerata Variabile Basel and the Portuguese Chamber Soloists, and has played at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Festival Bohuslav Martinu, SoNoRo Festival, Crusell Festival, Oficina de Música de Curitiba, Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival, Boswiler Sommer, Lucerne, and other festivals and in May 2015, he had his Debut recital at the Carnegie Hall. 
Rui’s first recording, Through Time, with the English Chamber Orchestra, featuring pieces by Vivaldi, Mozart, Elgar, Villa-Lobos, Françaix and including two world premieres, received unanimous international critical acclaim. He studied with Hugues Kesteman in Artave and Porto Music Academy, Sergio Azzolini at the Music Academy in Basel (soloist diploma with distinction) and with Marco Postinghel at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. 
Rui’s passion for teaching led him to deliver regular masterclasses in Europe, America, South America, and Africa and teach the bassoon and chamber music in different academies and universities for several years. Rui is professor of Bassoon at the Academy in Strasbourg (HEAR – Haute école des arts du Rhin). For this recording he used a Heckel 15 '639, one of the rare copies from the Azzolini model.

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Sebastian Stevensson was born in a musical family in Sigtuna, Sweden in 1987.  Principal Bassoon Munich Philharmonic in 2015. Since 2012 Principal Bassoonist of Danish National Symphony Orchestra (DR) and bassoon teacher at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music.
1st Prize in Gillet Fox Bassoon Competition in New York 2014 and 1st Prize in the Swedish Soloist Prize in 2016.
Appeared as a soloist with Swedish Radio Symphony, Duisburg Philharmonic, Orquestra Sinfônica de Minas Gerais of Sau Paolo and Nordic Youth Orchestra.
Guest Principal in Philharmonia Orchestra London, Deutsches SinfonieOrchester Berlin, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic.
Student of Prof. Ole Kristian T. Dahl in Mannheim Musikhochschule and Prof. Knut Sønstevold in Royal College of Music in Stockholm

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principal bassoon of the bavarian state opera

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PENTATONE is a classical music label with outstanding artists specialising in high-end surround sound recordings. PENTATONE enjoys a reputation for excellence, its catalogue, one of largest collections in high resolution audio, comprising some of the very best that classical music has to offer.

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Geboren in Palermo(Italien) am 24.01.1990 

seit 2010 Solo-Fagott Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg
Studium:
2003-2008 Sprach Gymnasium
1997-2002 Privat Fagott Unterricht beim Prof. Maurizio Barigione
2004-2008 Komposition mit Prof. Marco Betta
1998-2008 Klavier Bachelor Diplom beim Prof. Leandro Palacino in Conservatorio di Palermo
2002-2008 Bachelor fuer Fagott bei Prof. Paolo Carlini beim Istituto Pareggiato P.Mascagni in Livorno(Diplom absolviert mit Auzeichnung)
2008-2012 Masterstudium fuer Fagott bei Prof. Marco Postinghel an der Universitaet Mozarteum Salzburg(Mit auszeichnung bestanden)

Sprach Kenntnis :
 Italienisch,Deutsch,Englisch,Spanisch,Franzosich,Japanisch.

Wettbewerbe:
1. Preis beim „Concorso Nazionale  di Musica da Camera „ in Grosseto.
1  Preis Publikumspreis für die beste Darbietung im Barock beim „Concorso nazionale Nuovi Orizzonti” in Arezzo.
1. Preis beim “international competition per fagotto Città di Chieri”(Torino)
2006 1.Preis  beim “international Rossini competition for Basson” in Pesaro
2016 1.Preis beim IDRS Competition .


Orchester Ausbildung :

2005-2007 Jeunesses Musical World Orchestra (JMWO)

Principal Bassoon Accademia Teatro alla Scala
2006-2007    Principal Bassoon European Youth Orchestra (EUYO)
2009-2010 Principal BassoonGustav Mahler Jugendorchester (GMJO)
Aushilfe Solo-Fagott beim “Teatro Verdi di Trieste”
2007-2008 Aushilfe Solo-Fagott beim Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana
2009-2010 Aushilfe Solo-Fagott in “Teatro Regio di Torino”
2012 Aushilfe Solo-Fagott Muenchner Symphonie Orchester
2012 Aushilfe Wiener Philharmoniker
2014 Solo-Fagott Orchestra Mozart
2014 Aushilfe solo-Fagott Muenchener Philharmoniker 
2015 Aushilfe Solo-Fagott Musikkollegium Winterthur
2015 Aushilfe Solo-Fagott Wiener Staasoper
2015 Aushilfe Solo-Fagott Philharmoniker Hamburg

Kammer Musik :

International Chamber Music Festival, Ljubliana Chamber Music Festival,Diabelli Sommer,Salzburg Orchester Solisten,Ventus quintett,OENM(oesterreichisches Ensemble Neue Musik)
Orchester :
Er spielte u.a. in der Philharmonie in Berlin, im Konzerthaus in Berlin, dem Großen Saal in Peking, im Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, im Teatro Real in Madrid, in den BBC Proms in London, in der Dvorak Hall in Prag und dem Musikverein in Wien, Thèatre des Champs-Elysèes in Paris, Grande Auditiorio dos Gulbenkian Foundation in Lissabon, Teatro alla Scala in Mailand, Tonhalle in Zürich und Teatro San Carlo in Neapel, Semperoper in Dresden, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Grossen Festspielhaus Salzburg,Tokyo Suntory Hall and Tokyo Opera.
Gearbeitet unter Leitung von Antonio Pappano,Herbert Blomstedt,Ivor Bolton,Giovanni Antonini,Mark Wigglesworth,Leopold Hager,Pablo Heras-Casado,Dmitri Kitajenko,Vladimir Ashkenazy,Marc Minkowski,Riccardo Muti.


Solist Leistungen:
als Solist  mit dem “Orchestra del Mediterreaneo” , “Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana “,Bad Reichenall Sinfonie Orchester,Mozarteum Orchester,Columbus Symphony Orchestra.



Alte Musik :
Riccardo Terzo beschäftigt sich neben dem klassischen Repertoire mit der barocken Literatur auf historischen Instrumenten. Er spielt  mit den Orchestern „Concert Des Nations“ und „European Union Baroque Orchestra“ unter Jordi Savall und im den Salzburger Pfingstenfestspiele 2012 mit Giardino Armonico Giulio Cesare in Egitto von Händel. Mit Cecilia Bartoli,philippe Jarrousky,Anne sophie von Otter.Giovanni Antonini





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