CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS 2021

German conductor David Niemann is establishing himself as one of the most promising conductors of his generation. Second prize winner of the 2015 Malko Conducting Competition, in February 2015 he was appointed Assistant Conductor at the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, where he worked alongside chief conductor Michael Schønwandt from 2015 until 2018....

Angelika Merkle was a student of Prof. Hugo Steurer in Munich and England from the age of 14 until she finished school. During this time she won the first prize in the competition "Mozart for the Young" (Augsburg) and was a prize winner in the national competition "Jugend musiziert". In 1985 she began her studies at the Munich University of Music with Prof. Klaus Schilde, which she completed with distinction....

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From 1988 to 2003 he was the principal clarinetist of the Munich Philharmonic and a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.
In 1997 he was appointed professor for clarinet at the “Franz Liszt” University of Music in Weimar and has been professor at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin since 2013.