CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS 2021

Peter Tilling is a conductor and cellist, he teaches new music as a professor at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe.

At the Bayreuth Festival in 2011 he conducted "Tannhäuser" with great success, where in 2019 he conducted a concert with works by Wagner, Stockhausen, Boulez and Cage, and in the Corona year 2020 he directed the multimedia premiere of The Nibelung Loop by Simon Steen - Andersen...

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.