Guest Faculty 2025
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Michael Barenboim
(Soloist, Barenboim-Said Academy)
Violin
Michael Barenboim is a soloist and chamber musician on violin and viola, ensemble founder, concertmaster of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and professor at the Barenboim-Said Akademie. His breakthrough as a soloist came in 2011 with Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto conducted by Pierre Boulez. Since then, he has been firmly established in the international concert scene, performing with renowned orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Vienna Philharmonic.
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Andrea Obiso
(Concertmaster Accademia di Santa Cecilia)
Violin
Born in Palermo, Andrea Obiso is concertmaster of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Andrea is the winner of numerous international competitions, including firsrst Prize the 2017 ARD Competition and at the 2017 Prix Ravel. He made his debut at the Berlin Philharmonie with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin in 2018. Andrea studied at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Boris Belkin, at the Maastricht Conservatory as well as at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.
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Veronika Hagen
(Hagen Quartet)
Viola
Veronika Hagen is the violist of the famous Hagen Quartet, with which she has performed in all the world’s major concert halls over the last forty years. Veronika has appeared as a soloist in important European and Japanese concert halls, as well as at the Salzburg Festival, in Lockenhaus and at the Lucerne Festival. Her recording of the Brahms Sonatas together with Paul Gulda was released by Deutsche Grammophon. She holds a professorship at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and plays a Guadagnini from 1765. Veronika studied in her hometown Salzburg with Helmut Zehetmair, as well as with Hatto Beyerle in Vienna.
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Floris Mijnders
(Principal Münchner Philharmoniker)
Cello
Floris Mijnders is principal cellist of the Munich Philharmonic and was previously principal cellist of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been guest principal cellist at the Gewandhausorchester, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. As a soloist, Floris has performed with many orchestras, including the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Valery Gergjev and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Floris studied with Jean Decroos at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and attended masterclasses with Heinrich Schiff and Mstislav Rostropovich.
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Philipp Stubenrauch
(Principal Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks)
Double bass
Philipp Stubenrauch discovered the double bass at the age of 13. After completing his secondary education, he studied in Frankfurt am Main and then became a scholarship holder of the newly founded BRSO Academy under Lorin Maazel. In Geneva, he completed his studies with Franco Petracchi, earning the Diplôme de Soliste.
In 2004, he was appointed Principal Double Bass of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO). As a soloist, he has performed on several occasions with his orchestra under the baton of the former chief conductor Mariss Jansons. A sought-after chamber musician, Philipp Stubenrauch is a member of various ensembles and has performed with artists such as Maria João Pires, Valery Afanassiev, Baiba Skride, and Maximilian Hornung. Together with Wen-Sinn Yang and Hariolf Schlichtig, he recorded a highly acclaimed CD featuring new chamber music works by Sofia Gubaidulina.
He also greatly enjoys working with young musicians: for over 20 years, he has coached the double bass section of the Bavarian Youth Orchestra and serves as a faculty member at the BRSO Academy. He gives masterclasses at many music conservatories across Europe and Asia and, in 2023, was appointed professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart.
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Marco Postinghel
(Principal Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks)
Winds
The award-winning bassoonist from Bolzano, is currently solo bassoonist in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, after an engagement with the Orchestre de Paris. He is also a regular guest with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Cappella Andrea Barca and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Since 2005, he has been a professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, lecturer at the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, and jury member at the ARD Competition in Munich. His chamber music partners include Y. Bronfman, I. Faust, G. Kremer, F. Leleux, A. Schiff and T. Zimmermann. He has a particular passion for early music and period instruments, which has led to close collaborations with ensembles such as the English Baroque Soloists, Il suonar parlante, Concerto italiano and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble.
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor
Sir John Eliot Gardiner is respected as one of the world’s most innovative and dynamic musicians, constantly at the forefront of enlightened interpretation. In September 2024, Gardiner announced the foundation of The Constellation Orchestra and Choir. The ensembles embark on their first tour of world-renowned concert venues in December 2024. His work as Founder and Artistic Director of the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique marked him out as a central figure in the early music scene.
As a regular guest of the world’s leading symphony orchestras, Gardiner conducts amongst others the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Berlin Philharmonic. He has performed regularly at the world’s major venues and festivals, including Salzburg, Berlin and Lucerne festivals, Carnegie Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall. Gardiner has conducted opera productions at the Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, Opéra national de Paris, Royal Opera House, and at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1990 and awarded a knighthood for his services to music.