Hannfried Lucke (born 1964) is a German organist and improviser. He is a member of the organ faculty at Mozarteum University, Salzburg.
Hannfried Lucke grew up in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, and received his musical training at Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, the Salzburg Mozarteum, and Geneva Conservatory. He earned the highest degree in church music (the "A examination") and also took a performance degree on the organ. From 1989 to 1991 he was a scholarship student of the German Academic Exchange Service. His awards include the Prize from the Austrian Ministry of Culture (1991) and the premier prix from Geneva Conservatory (1993).
His concert tours and broadcast recordings have taken him to the United States, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, and most countries of Europe.
Many of his numerous recordings have been awarded prizes.
In 1997 he became a professor at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Graz, and in 2000 he was appointed professor of organ at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Hannfried Lucke teaches master classes in Europe and the USA and is a jury member in organ competitions.
Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt or more correctly Johann Nikolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt; was an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier. Starting out as a classical cellist, he founded his own period instrument ensemble, Concentus Musicus Wien, in the 1950s, and became a pioneer of the Early Music movement. Around 1970, Harnoncourt started to conduct opera and concert performances, soon leading renowned international symphony orchestras, and appearing at leading concert halls, operatic venues and festivals. His repertoire then widened to include composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2001 and 2003, he conducted the Vienna New Year's Concert. Harnoncourt was also the author of several books, mostly on subjects of performance history and musical aesthetics.
Peter Ruzicka is a German composer and conductor of classical music. He was director of the Hamburg State Opera, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hamburg and the Salzburg Festival. Ruzicka was managing director and Intendant of the Salzburg Easter Festival and is professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. The list of his compositions includes numerous orchestral and chamber music works as well as the opera "Celan", about the poet Paul Celan, which was premiered in Dresden in 2001. His opera "Hölderlin" had its premiere at the Berlin State Opera in 2008. Ruzicka's third opera "Benjamin", about the philosopher Walter Benjamin, was written in 2015/16 for the Hamburg State Opera and premiered in 2018.
Sándor Végh was a Hungarian, later French, violinist and conductor. He was best known as one of the great chamber music violinists of the twentieth century.
Michael Jarrell is a Swiss composer and academic teacher, whose operas, such as Cassandre, have been performed internationally.
Radovan Vlatković is a Croatian born horn player. He was the former principal horn of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. He left that post in 1990 to devote himself to a solo career and has recorded many of the major works for horn. He is now professor of horn at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid. Vlatković also participates as a senior artist at the Marlboro Music Festival, has performed in chamber music and solo recital for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and is widely considered to be one of the world's most exceptional horn players.
Jan Schultsz (Amsterdam) is a Dutch pianist and conductor. He is an accompanist in lieder recitals.
Viktor Vidović is a Croatian classical guitarist.
Ingmar Lazar is a French classical pianist.
Marios Joannou Elia, is a Cypriot composer and artistic director. He was the youngest director in the history of the European Capital of Culture (2013–15). He is ambassador in tourism of the Republic of Cyprus. Since 2016 he has been the director of the large-scale project "Sound of Vladivostok", on behalf of Zarya Foundation, in Russia; from January 2018, director of "Sound of Kyoto", on behalf of Kyoto City and Kyoto Arts and Culture Foundation after an invitation of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.
Gerhard Wimberger was an Austrian composer and conductor.
Pierre Amoyal is a French violinist and is the artistic director of the Conservatory of Lausanne.
Alexis Golovin is a Russian classical pianist.
Joaquín Clerch is a classical guitarist and composer. He was a close friend and protégé of Cuban guitarist and composer Leo Brouwer. Clerch's composition Yemaya won first prize in both the 1987 National Cuban Composition Competition and the 1987 Toronto International Guitar Competition. He currently resides in Düsseldorf, Germany where he is a Professor of Guitar at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf.
Jela Špitková is a Slovak/Austrian violinist. Spitková is an international concert performer, a role she combines with that of teacher at Vienna Music University, the Banská Bystrica Fine Arts Faculty, “Akademia Umeni Banská Bystrica" and the Academy of Music in Prague. She has recorded more than 900 minutes of music including 30 violin concertos and has global appeal.
Andrea Bonatta is an Italian pianist and conductor.
Ziyu He is a Chinese violinist born in Qingdao, China. In 2011, he moved to Salzburg, Austria. At the age of 15, he won the 2014 Eurovision Young Musicians. He also won the Menuhin Competition in 2016.
Martin Schmeding is a German church musician, concert organist and academic teacher, who has made recordings of the complete organ works by composers such as Brahms, Mendelssohn, Franz Schmidt, Max Reger and Tilo Medek.
Lisa Smirnova is an Austrian pianist, originally from Moscow.
David Timm is a German pianist, organist, choral conductor and jazz musician. Since February 2005 he has been Universitätsmusikdirektor of the Leipzig University, and thus also director of the Leipziger Universitätschor, succeeding Wolfgang Unger.
Ulrich Aloysius Konrad is a German musicologist and professor at the Institute for Music Research of the University of Würzburg. He is considered an expert on European music of the 17th to 20th centuries, especially the works of Mozart, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. He wrote a biography, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, and studied the composer's sketches.
