He is founder and Artistic Director of the Cologne Classical Ensemble (Kölner Klassik Ensemble). Between 2005 and 2008 he was appointed lecturer at the University of Cologne. In 2009 he founded, with Hubert Käppel KSG Exaudio, a new label especially for guitar music. He is performing as soloist, with the Cologne Classical Ensemble, the Astor Trio and in different duo combinations. He has released recordings with Sony Classical and KSG Exaudio and has been broadcast on several TV and radio stations, e. g. ARD, WDR, HR, Bayrische Rundfunk and SWR. His arrangements and compositions have been published by Tonos (Darmstadt) and KSG Edition (Köln).
The WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne is a German radio orchestra based in Cologne, where the orchestra mainly performs at two concert halls: the WDR Funkhaus Wallrafplatz and the Kölner Philharmonie.
Goran Krivokapić is a Montenegrin classical guitarist.
Andreas Staier is a German pianist and harpsichordist.
Hubert Käppel is a German classical guitarist.
Collegium Vocale Köln is a German vocal ensemble, founded in 1966 as a quintet when its members were still students at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne. It is directed by Wolfgang Fromme, who also sings tenor in the ensemble. They are best known as the group for which Karlheinz Stockhausen composed Stimmung in 1968, a work which they had performed more than three hundred of times throughout the world by 1986. The original impetus for the ensemble's founding, however, was an appearance by Alfred Deller at the Cologne Courses for Early Music, and the group has always performed both early and contemporary works.
The Cologne Classical Ensemble was formed by graduates of the Hochschule für Musik Köln in 2003. With over 30 concerts per year it has become a renowned ensemble for classical music. Founder and Artistic Director of the ensemble is Tobias Kassung. The basic formation of the Cologne Classical Ensemble consists of three violins, viola, cello, double-bass, guitar and piano. Especially their recording of classical arrangements of music by Ástor Piazzolla for Sony Classical became popular.
Concerto Köln is an ensemble specialising in music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Frank Bungarten is a classical guitarist from Germany. Although he is often regarded as a Bach expert on the guitar, Bungarten plays a wide and diverse repertoire.
Raymund Havenith was a German classical pianist.
Richard Siegal is an American dancer and choreographer. He is founder and artistic director of Richard Siegal/Ballet of Difference (2016), a contemporary ballet company based in Cologne, Germany, in partnership with Schauspiel Köln and tanz.köln. He is also founder of The Bakery (2006), an interdisciplinary platform for performance art.
Silke Aichhorn is a German harpist who performs as a soloist as well as a chamber musician.
Thierry Mechler is a French organist and organ and improvisation teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He teaches future concert students and gives international masterclasses for students of improvisation, piano and organ playing.
Sarah Louvion is a French classical flautist. The award-winning player has been the principal flute of the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester from 2002, and is active as a soloist and chamber musician. She has given international master classes.
Florence Millet is a Franco-German classical pianist who serves as Professor of Piano and Chair of the Piano Department at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
Vincent Royer is a French violist and composer.
Detlev Müller-Siemens is a German composer and conductor.
Lazzaro Uzielli was an Italian pianist and music educator.
Manos Tsangaris is a German composer, musician, sound art installation and performance artist, and a poet.
Sabine Bauer is a German harpsichordist, pianofortiste and flautist specialising in the repertoire of Baroque music and classical period, adept at historically informed performance, i.e. performance on ancient instruments.
Christoph Lehmann is a German organist, harpsichordist, church musician and composer, especially in the field of Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL). He has worked as a continuo harpsichordist and organist in performances and recordings of early music with several ensembles.
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