Johannes Wolfgang Zender was a German conductor and composer. He was the chief conductor of several opera houses, and his compositions, many of them vocal music, have been performed at international festivals.
Lars Vogt was a German classical pianist, conductor and academic teacher. Noted by The New York Times for his interpretations of Brahms, Vogt performed as a soloist with major orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic. He was the music director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris at the time of his death and also served as the music director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia. He ran a festival of chamber music, Spannungen, from 1998, and succeeded his teacher Karl-Heinz Kämmerling as professor of piano at the Musikhochschule Hannover.
Fritz Brun was a Swiss pianist, conductor and composer of classical music.
Harald Feller is a German organist, choral conductor and composer teaching at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. He was awarded the 1983 Grand Prix du Disque Liszt.
Wolfgang Meyer was a German clarinetist and professor of clarinet at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe. He worked internationally as a soloist, in chamber music ensembles, and in jazz, with a repertoire from early music played on historical instruments to world premieres.
Christian Gerhaher is a German baritone and bass singer in opera and concert, particularly known as a Lieder singer.
Jörg Widmann is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist. In 2018, Widmann was the third most performed contemporary composer in the world. Formerly a clarinet and composition professor at the University of Music Freiburg, he is composition professor at the Barenboim–Said Akademie. His most important compositions are the two operas Babylon and Das Gesicht im Spiegel, an oratorio Arche, his string quartets and the concert overture Con brio. Widmann wrote musical tributes to Classical and Romantic composers. He was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 2018.
Toshiyuki KamiokaKamioka Toshiyuki is a Japanese conductor and pianist, who lives and works predominantly in Germany since 1984.
Valentina Babor is a German classical pianist. She began performing before audiences and winning youth competitions as a child. At 12, she was accepted by Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum, where she became part of the university's "Initiative Hochbegabten-Förderung", a program for highly gifted students. In 2009, barely an adult, she played Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto in C minor in concert. She continues to perform internationally.
Edgar Krapp is a German organist and music professor. Krapp is a member of the Board of the Neue Bachgesellschaft in Leipzig and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Miku Nishimoto-Neubert is a classical pianist.
Kirill Troussov in Saint Petersburg, is a German violinist and violin teacher based in Munich, Germany.
Kristin Merscher is a German classical pianist and professor at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken, Germany.
Peter Bruns is a German cellist and university professor.
Shirley Brill is an Israeli clarinetist living in Germany.
Julian Steckel is a German cellist and academic teacher.
Conrad Hansen was a German pianist and an eminent piano teacher.
Caspar Frantz is a German pianist and music educator.
Paul Büttner was a German choir director, music critic, music educator and composer of the late Romantic period.
Nicolai Pfeffer is a German clarinetist, music editor and ordinary clarinet professor at the "Talent Music Master Courses University of Music" in Brescia, Italy.
