BREMER BAROCKORCHESTER

BREMER BAROCK ORCHESTER

Musicians

Artistic Director, Violoncello

Néstor F. Cortés Garzón

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Néstor Fabián Cortés Garzón is co-founder and artistic director of the Bremer Barockorchester. Throughout his childhood in Columbia, he learned to play various percussion and guitar instruments at the Conservatorio de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, along with percussionist Carlos Arturo Rendón,. He studied modern cello at the Conservatorio de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, where he graduated with honors. Initially, baroque cello was his secondary instrument, but his love for early music grew steadily, especially through numerous projects at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Bogotá and master classes with the Academy for Early Music Berlin, for example. Cortés Garzón then completed a postgraduate and master’s degree under the instruction of the internationally known baroque cellist Viola de Hoog at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen and specialised entirely in historical performance practice.

In addition to his elaborate concert schedule, the Colombian musician intensively researches baroque music from South and Central Americas, and thus successfully reconstructing and arranging works from various codices, as well as musical traditions. Since 2009 the Columbian musician has been implementing the results of his research with the early music ensemble “Los Temperamentos.” The ensemble has produced four albums including several of his arrangements, all of which received exceptional reviews and have been nominated for multiple international prizes. The cellist, who now lives in Bremen, also specializes in the ornamentation practice of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Under the direction of Cortés, the Bremen Barockorchester released its first CD in 2020. With the title “BACH to the Roots!” the cellist and the ensemble show their unique approach to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The album has already been nominated for the “International Classical Music Award 2021”.

Concert tours with various orchestras and ensembles have taken the young cellist all over Europe and Latin America.

Harpsichord, Organ

Nadine Remmert

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Harpsichordist and organist Nadine Remmert initially studied church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. She then graduated from the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen with degrees in harpsichord and continuo playing, under the instruction of Prof. Carsten Lohff and Ludger Rémy. She continued her studies in early music with Prof. Pieter van Dijk at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and in numerous master classes with specialists, such as Wolfgang Zerer, Edoardo Belotti, Menno van Delft, Skip Sempé and Frédéric Haas.

The young musician regularly performs as a soloist, as well as with various orchestras and ensembles nationwide. She has had the privilege of playing with renowned ensembles, such as the Ensemble Weser-Renaissance and Elyma, and is a permanent member of the Bremer Barockorchester and the ensemble Los Temperamentos. She has participated in several CD and radio recordings for Radio Bremen, with the labels CPO and Arcantus.

In addition to her performance schedule, Remmert has coached multiple international productions, master classes and auditions – including summer courses at the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Balthasar-Neumann Choir. Since 2014, Nadine Remmert has been a lecturer of harpsichord, continuo playing and chamber music at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater.

Violin

Meelis Orgse

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Meelis Orgse (b. 1980) was graduated as a modern violinist at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2004. He continued his studies with Baroque violin at Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (Finland) with Kreeta-Maria Kentala and at The University of Arts in Bremen (Germany) with Thomas Albert. From 2004 until 2012 he worked with Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. In 2007 he was chosen to play with European Union Baroque Orchestra. In recent years Meelis Orgse has appeared as a freelance chamber and orchestra musican, concertmaster and soloist with various early music ensembles including Bremer Barockorchester (Germany) and Ensemble Nylandia (Finland). Since 2015 he teaches Baroque violin and string performance history at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.

Violin

Katja Suglobina

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Katja Suglobina was born in 1991 in Kyiv, Ukraine. She received her first violin and piano lessons at the age of 4 at the Kiev Children’s Academy of Arts and later, studied violin at the National Music Academy of Ukraine (violin class of Taras Yaropud).
Katja continued her sudies at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in Germany (classes of Prof. Ariadne Daskalakis and Prof. Richard Gwilt). In 2015 she took part in the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, Germany. During her studies, Katja founded “Cologne Baroque Ensemble” and released with them a CD titled “Chiaconnas and Passacaglias”. In 2019 she took part in “Barocco III”-Project with Balthasar-Neumann Academy led by Enrico Onofri, and in 2021 she participated in Versaille Academy in Prague, Czech Republic.

Since 2023 Katja is studying Baroque Violin with Midori Seiler at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. That year, Katja played a baroque concert with “SuBerTu” Trio at The National Philharmonic in Kyiv, Ukraine and took part in “Augen-Bilder“-Project done in collaboration with ZAMUS:unlimited in Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, Germany.
Katja completed the master classes with famous professors Vesselin Parashkevov, Ida Bieler, Viktor Tretyakov, Bernard Forck, Enrico Onofri, Stefan Mai and others. She participated in numerous international festivals, such as Duchi d’Acquaviva (Atri, Italy) and Festival international et grand prix de peinture de La Ferte Bernard, 5éme edition (La Ferte Bernard, France). She has also played as a soloist with several orchestras in Ukraine, such as National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, orchestras of Chernihiv, Yalta and Zaporizhzhya Philharmonics, Chamber Orchestra “Kiev Kamerata”.

In 2024, Katja recorded a CD titled “All-in-One” with the music ensemble “The Chambers” that often performs throughout Germany, Switzerland and France. Same year, she took part in the recording of Bruckner 4th Symphony with Concerto Köln under Maestro Kent Nagano.

Violin

Valentín Sánchez Piñero

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Valentín Sánchez Piñero began learning the violin at the age of 5 with his parents, both violin professors. He is the winner of the “The North International Violin Competition”, Sweden. As an orchestral musician, Valentín has performed with renowned conductors including Valery Gergiev, Philippe Herreweghe, Joanna Mallwitz, Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner, Alondra de la Parra, Lütz Köhler and Marc Soustrot, and with orchestras including the Mariinsky Orchestra in Russia (leader of second violins), the State Theatre Nuremberg, Neubrandenburg Philharmonic, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz (leader of second violins) and Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, Spain. He has performed in concert halls such as the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Luxemburg Philharmonie, the Kölner Philharmonie and Frankfurt HR Sendesaal. With a keen interest in baroque music, Valentín has been a member of the Seville Baroque Orchestra since 2021 and he has played with musicians and ensembles such as the Bremer Barockorchester, with which he has played projects with musicians such as Alexis Cardenas, Ryo Terakado and Giovanni Sollima, the Academy of Ancient Music, La Serenissima, Collegium Vocale Gent, The Hanover Band, Hiro Kurosaki, Shunske Sato, Cecilia Bernardini, Victor Julien-Laferrière, and Dorothee Oberlinger. Valentín has played in festivals such as BBC Proms (United Kingdom), Villa Music Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany), Moritzburg Festival (Germany), Grafenegg Festival (Austria), Davos Festival (Switzerland) or Mendelssohn on Mull (Scotland). He counts among his musical influences Helmut Lachenmann, Daniel Gaede, Hartmut Rohde, Robin Wilson, Lena Neudauer, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Heime Müller, Daniel Phillips, Eckard Runge, Suyeon Kang, Albert Breuninger, Daniel Dodds, Simone Bernardini and Roberto González Monjas. He has a master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying with Alexander Redington and Pavlo Beznosiuk, having previously studied with professors Keyko Wataya (University of Music of the Basque Country, Spain), Reto Kuppel (Nuremberg University of Music, Germany), Natalia Prishepenko (Dresden University of Music, Germany), Axel Wilckoz and Michael Barenboim (Academy for Orchestral Studies Barenboim-Said).

Violin

Anna Stankiewicz

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Anna Stankiewicz was born in Poland. The violinist, who now lives in Bremen, began her musical training at the age of 5 and performed with the Kaliszer Philharmonic as a soloist during her youth. Several awards, including a scholarship from Presidents of the Council of Ministers, followed. After completing her master’s degree in violin at the I. J. Paderewski Academy for Music in Poznań (Poland), she furthered her studies at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. In Bremen Anna’s love for baroque music was awakened, which led her to focus on the baroque violin obtain a degree in early music.

Anna Stankiewicz has already performed with renowned musicians such as Dmitry Sinkovsky, Ryo Terakado, Dorothee Oberlinger, Veronika Skuplik and Alfredo Bernardini and regularly gives concerts as a baroque violinist in Germany, Belgium, Italy and Poland.

Violin

Marina Kakuno

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Violinist Marina Kakuno, born in Japan, began taking violin lessons at the age of five and was accepted into a preparatory program at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna at the age of nine. She then completed her diploma and master’s degree in modern violin at the Nuremberg University of Music under Daniel Gaede, where she also worked as a teaching assistant.
Kakuno then successfully completed a master’s degree in baroque violin under Veronika Skuplik at the Bremen University of the Arts. The young violinist was also awarded a scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). She continued to intensify her studies of historical performance practice on the violin under Ryo Terakado and Enrico Gatti.
Marina Kakuno lives in Germany and performs as a baroque violinist in concerts and CD recordings with international historical performance ensembles, including Bach Collegium Japan, Bremer Barockorchester, Ensemble Weserrenaissance, Gächinger Cantorey, Los Temperamentos, and Ensemble La Dolcezza.

Luis Miguel Pinzón Acosta

Viola, Violin

Luis Pinzón

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During his studies at the National University of Colombia, Luis Miguel Pinzón Acosta gained professional experience with the two largest orchestras in Colombia, the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. There he took part not only as an artist, but also as a student and teacher in numerous musical projects. After studying modern violin, the young Colombian violinist came to Germany to learn intensively the historical performance practice. He received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in baroque violin/early music.

As an artist, Pinzón Acosta performs with various orchestras and ensembles, including international groups such as Oltremontano, Elbipolis, the Bremen Baroque Consort, Weser Renaissance, the Bremer Barockorchester and Los Temperamentos. With these ensembles he has had the privilege of participating in various CD productions and performing with renowned artists, such as Ryo Terakado, Midori Seiler, Stéphanie Paulet, Johannes Pramsohler, Dorothee Oberlinger, Thomas Albert, Alfredo Bernardini, Detlef Bratschke, Klaus Eichhorn, Manfred Cordes, Wim Becu, Veronica Skuplik, Midori Sailer, Olivia Centurioni and Dmitry Sinkovsky.

Concert tours have led Luis Pinzón to different festivals all over Germany, Europe and America. The versatile musician is currently working on his doctorate of Fine Arts with a focus on musicology at the University of Guanajuato (Mexico).

Violin

Tomasz Plusa

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From 1997 to 2002, Tomasz Plusa studied at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź, Poland, majoring in violin. His artistic studies included early music, the classical romantic reper-toire and contemporary music. His main areas of study included orchestra, chamber music, orchestral studies, theory, ear training and musicology. With his Music Academy degree, he obtained the qualifica-tions as a concert artist and teacher.
In 2002, he obtained his artistic diploma in Poland. From 2003 to 2007, he completed a bachelor’s degree at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands, with special training in baroque music, orchestral and chamber music. He has received various scholarships, including the Schuurman Schimmel – van Ou-teren Stichting (2006/2007) and the Stichting DORRIE STOOP-FONDS (2004) in the Netherlands.
Tomasz received violin lessons from Ryo Terakado, Elisabeth Wallfisch, Enrico Gatti and Pavlo Bezno-siuk. In 2007 he graduated with the State Artistic Diploma.
From 2013 to 2015 he completed a master’s degree at the Conservatory in Utrecht, the Netherlands, with the baroque violin and viola teacher Antoinette Lohmann. The training included numerous workshops, from jazz and dance music to classical and baroque music, as well as programs for soloists, orchestral and chamber music and the training of instrumental and school music teachers. In 2015 he obtained the State Artistic Diploma. He has participated in numerous master classes, in Cambridge with Judy Tarling, at Dar-tington Hall under Michaela Camberti, in Trondheim under Lucy van Dael, in Warsaw under Simon Standage and in Belgium under Sigiswald Kuijken.
Tomasz Plusa made numerous appearances at baroque music concerts and festivals in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, France, England, Croatia, Portugal, Italy, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, both as a soloist and in ensemble and orchestra. Highlights include appearances at the Zagreb Early Music Festival, the Santiago de Compostella Festival, the Périgord Noir Festival in France, the Copenhagen Early Music Festival and many more.
His first solo album with sonatas by Johann Georg Pisendel was released by Brilliant Classics.

Violin

Saaya Ikenoya

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Saaya Ikenoya was born in Saitama (Japan) and grew up in Spain. She began studying the violin at the age of three and studied elementary and intermediate at the Amaniel Professional Conservatory of Music with Professor Álvaro Puyou, where she was awarded the Amaniel Prize several times in the chamber music and violin categories. She continued her music studies at the Conservatory of the Basque Country Musikene with Catalin Bucataru. She then moved to London to complete a Masters in Violin at the Royal College of Music in London under the guidance of the renowned violinist and pedagogue Detlef Hahn.

In addition, her interest in the historicist interpretation of baroque music has led her to work with musicians such as Lucy Russell, Rachel Brown, Lisa Beznosiuk and Pedro Gandía, and finally she completed a baroque violin degree at the ESMUC under Manfredo Kraemer.

Saaya has attended master classes with renowned teachers such as Olga Vilkomirskaia, Paolo Franceschini, Wilbert Aerts, Shirly Laub, Ulf Hoelscher, Andoni Mercero, Vera Martínez-Mehner, Abel Tomas Realp, Charlotte Scott and Alina Ibragimova.

She has performed with chamber music ensembles and orchestras in the most important venues in Spain, France and the United Kingdom: National Auditorium of Madrid, Auditorium of Zaragoza, Euskalduna of Bilbao, Kursaal of San Sebastián, Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Royal Festival Hall, King’s Place, National Gallery and St. Mary’s Perivale in London. From 2007 to 2009 she was a regular member of the Youth Orchestra of the Community of Madrid and in 2013 of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain. She works with the Orchestra and Choir of the Community of Madrid, the Euskadi Symphony Orchestra and is a member of the up-and-coming Street Orchestra of London. He has also worked with chamber music groups such as the Sacconi Quartet and the Ciklus Ensemble. She regularly performs with pianist Nikos Stavlas.
As a soloist, Saaya played “Autumn” from Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” with the Amaniel String Orchestra in 2011 and “Introduction” and “Rondo Caprichoso” by Saint-Saëns with the youth orchestra “Gregorio Solabarrieta” in 2015. Since 2022, Saaya has also been a regular ensemble member of the Bremen Baroque Orchestra.

Viola

Joaquín Reyes Bórquez

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The violist Joaquín Reyes Bórquez was born in Puerto Varas, Chile. He first studied violin at the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia and later viola at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. In 2013, he moved to Stuttgart, Germany,
where he continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst until 2018. In 2024, he finished his studies in Historical Performance Practice at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt, where he studied with Rebecca Raimondi, Werner Saller, and Petra Müllejans. Over the years, Joaquín has collaborated with ensembles such as the Bremer Barockorchester, Freiburger Barockorchester, La Stagione Frankfurt, Main Barockorchester, Gaechinger Cantorey, Kölner Akademie, Ensemble Reflektor, Kammerensemble Konsonanz and the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn among others. Additionally, he is a founding member of BaroqueLAB Frankfurt and the Orquestra del Miracle.

Viola

Alice Vaz

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The violinist and violist Alice Vaz grew up in Lisbon, Portugal. She came to Germany in 2008 to study violin and viola with Prof. Thomas Klug and Prof. Esther Van Stralen at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen. Additionally, she studied baroque violin with Veronika Skuplik and modern music with Prof. Barbara Maurer at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen. Alice Vaz expanded her knowledge through various master classes with Stéphanie Paulet, Midori Seiler, Jane Rogers and Garth Knox, among others.

She was a member of the orchestra of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the orchestra of the Oldenburg State Theater and has given concerts in several European countries. In the field of early music, she plays with well-known ensembles such as L’Arpeggiata, La Dolcezza, Holland Baroque, the Bremer Barockorchester, De Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, Weser Renaissance and Oltremontano. She can be heard on multiple radio and CD recordings, including Radio Bremen and the Arcantus label.

Violoncello

Azzurra Raneri

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Azzurra began her cello studies with Vadim Pavlov (principal cellist at the Teatro Vincenzo Bellini in Catania). In 2008 she continued her studies at the Conservatorio “V. Bellini” in the class of Maurizio Salemi and attended master classes with Giovanni Gnocchi (professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg), Umberto Clerici (Sidney Symphony Orchestra), Massimo Polidori (principal cellist at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan). She has also participated in numerous festivals such as the “Francigena Festival”, the “Portogruaro Music Festival”, the “Festival Oude Musik” in Utrecht, and the “Aurora Music Festival” in Stockholm.
In 2013 she began her studies in Timora Rosler’s class at the HKU Utrecht Conservatory (Netherlands). Of her great interest in baroque repertoire, in 2015 she started studying baroque cello with Prof. Viola de Hoog. This was complemented by chamber music lessons and master classes with greats such as Natalia Gutmann, David Geringas,Rita Wagner, Aran Talayan, Siegmund von Hausseger,Gerhard Darmstadt, Han Tol, Veronika Skuplik,Olga Paschtschenko, Mechthild Krakow, Marten Root, Bruno Cocset and Thomas Klug.
She has also performed in numerous concerts in Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands with Hamburger Symphoniker and frequently been invited to perform with Bremer Barockorchester under the direction of François Fernandez, Ryo Terakado, Stéphanie Paulet, and Midori Seiler.
In February 2020 she completed her master’s degree with distinction at the Hochschule für Kunst in Bremen with Prof. Alexander Baillie and in February 2024 completed her master’s degree in Baroque Cello with Prof. Viola de Hoog and Olaf Reimers at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen.
In August 2022 she was in the finals at the “Biagio Marini Competition” with the chamber music group “Le Sablier”. In October 2022 she was part of the Vannes Early Music Festival in France and in November 2022 of the Bach Academy 2022 in Leipzig. She has been selected to play at the Berlioz Festival in La Côte-Saint-André in France in August 2023 with the Jeune Orchestre Rameau and Enrico Gatti as concertmaster.
In the season 2024/25 she will be also part of the OAE scheme with the Age of Enlightenment Orchestra.

Double bass, Violone

Yuval Atlas

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Yuval Atlas grew up in Tel Aviv (Israel), where he first studied recorder and then double bass with Nir Comforty. He studied with Heinrich Braun in Munich and with Alexandra Scott and Alexandra Hengstebeck in Karlsruhe. Yuval Atlas attended master classes with: Dorin Marc, Nabil Shehata, Matthew McDonald, Janne Saksala, Günter Klaus, Bogusław Furtok and Duncan McTier. In addition to studying the modern bass, Yuval has also been studying baroque music and historical performance practice with Jonathan Cable (in Lyon) since 2009. Other master classes and lessons in this area: Maggie Urquhart, Joseph Carver, Axel Bouchaux, Dane Roberts, David Sinclair, Love Persson, Xavier Puertas and Ageet Zweistra (baroque cellist). As a soloist, Yuval has played solo with orchestras in Israel, Germany, China and Brazil. Orchestra/ensemble experience includes: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bochum Symphony Orchestra, Potsdam Chamber Academy, Jeune Orchestre Atlantique, Ambronay Baroque Academy, West Eastern Divan Orchestra, Cologne Academy, Bremen Baroque Orchestra, Los Temperamentos, Concerto Foscari, Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Harmonie Universelle, Orchestra of the Klangverwaltung, Hofkapelle Stuttgart and Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra – under conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Louis Langrée, Philippe Herreweghe, Jos van Immerseel, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Pablo Heras-Casado, Duncan Ward, Thomas Hengelbrock, Frieder Bernius, Konrad Junghänel, Daniel Harding and Paul Agnew. Yuval has worked on temporary contracts in German orchestras such as the Wiesbaden Theater, the Mainz Philharmonic, the Bielefeld Philharmonic and the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra (as a soloist). Yuval was an academic in the orchestra Les Musiciens du Louvre in Paris. He has given master classes at the Xi’an Conservatory (China), the Buchmann Mehta School of Music (Tel Aviv, Israel), The Early Music Workshop (Jerusalem, Israel), in Guatemala City in three different music schools and in Brazil in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

Juan Diaz

Double bass, Violone

Juan Diaz

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The double bass player Juan Diaz is a versatile orchestra and chamber music player who covers various styles from early music to contemporary music on the appropriate instrumentation.

He was a selected member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) in the season 2016/2017 and a fellow of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Academy in 2018, with whom he has also performed since then.

Specialising in violone and Viennese bass, he performs with early music orchestras and ensembles such as the Orchestra of the 18th Century (Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw), the Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, the Bremer Barockorchester, La Real Cámara,the Bach Orchestra of the Netherlands, the Odyssee Ensemble, the Collegium Musicum Den Haag and the Florilegium Musicum sharing stage with musicians like Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Margaret Faultless, Alfredo Bernardini, Bojan Cicic, Alexander Melnikov, Maria Keohane, Maria Espada, Kenneth Montgomery, Emilio Moreno, Ryo Terakado, Pieter Wispelway and Sunske Sato.

As a modern double bass player, Juan Diaz was principal double bass of the Spanish National Youth Orchestra (Joven Orquesta Nacional de España, JONDE) in 2009 and has performed with orchestras as with the Het Gelders Orkest, the Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen, the Oviedo Filarmonía and the Castleton Festival Orchestra, founded by Lorin Maezel, with musicians such as Fabio Luisi, Rafael Payare, Alisa Weilerstein, Nils Mönkemeyer, Friedrich Haider, Pablo González and Asier Polo.

In 2013 he was selected for the Lucerne Festival Academy, where he worked intensively on contemporary music until 2017. Here he had the opportunity to work with its founder Pierre Boulez and other artists including David Robertson, Pablo Heras-Casado, the Ensemble Interconteporain, Matthias Pintscher, Isabelle Faust and Wolfgang Rihm. He also appeared as solo bass player at the contemporary music festival ManiFeste at the IRCAM of the Centre Pompidou in Paris with Peter Eötvös and was invited as solo double bass of the Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the JACK Quartet in 2017.

Born in Oviedo (North-Spain), Juan Diaz started his studies at the Conservatory of his hometown and later graduated from the Conservatorio Superior de Música del País Vasco Musikene (San Sebastian, Spain) with professor Niek de Groot, Wolfgang Güttler and Bernard Salles. This was followed by a Master’s study at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen with professors Niek de Groot, Olivier Thiery and Matthew Mcdonald and in 2017 a Master’s degree specialising in Early Music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Professor Margaret Urquhart.

In addition he has also received instruction and inspiration from musicians such as Robert Franenberg, James Oesi, Alexander Michno, Sigiswald Kuijken, Diego Zecharies, Nicolas Crosse and Joshua Cheatham.

Juan Diaz is currently based in Bremen, Germany.

Oboe

Olga Marulanda

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Olga Marulanda is a Colombian oboist and improviser. Her work is mainly dedicated to his-torical performance with period instruments, from baroque to romanticism, and to instrumen-tal and sound experimentation. Marulanda has worked with orchestras such as Bremer Barockorchester, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, La Scintilla at Zürich Opera, Les Talens Lyriques, Il Giardino Armonico, Il Pomo d’Oro, among others, with whom she has performed throughout Europe, Russia and Latin America. She has been part of record productions for major labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Accent, Pan Classics, among others. As an improviser, she works with different musical collectives, interdisciplinary projects, con-cepts and innovation projects through music and art. She is part of the experimental music or-chestra “Unorthodox Jukebox Orchestra” and “Insub Meta Orchestra”, based in Basel and Geneva. She was founder and artistic director of the National Oboe Academy Foundation, an educational project for Colombian oboists. She holds a bachelor and master degree in histori-cal oboes from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel, Switzerland, a master degree in mod-ern oboe and improvisation from the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel, Switzerland, and a postgraduate diploma in historical oboes from the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Austria.

Oboe

Sergio Sanchez

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Venezuelan artist Sergio Sanchez was appointed the professor for oboe at the Conservatory of Lübeck (Germany) in 2023. He started his career in Germany as principal oboist at the Braunschweig State Theater, and became principal oboist of the Augsburg Philharmonic in 2019. At the same time, he studied baroque oboe with Alfredro Bernardini at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, where he completed his studies in 2022. As a soloist, he has played with renowned orchestras, including the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Augsburg Philharmonic, as a guest principal oboist he has performed with such orchestras as NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Bamberger Symphoniker, Radio France Philharmonique, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Staatsoper Hannover. He has taken part in various international competitions and is a laureate of the ARD Music Competition, the international Double Reed Society Gillet-Fox oboe competition, the Chieri International Competition and the Barbirolli International Oboe Festival and Competition.
As part of the Venezuelan cultural project “El Sistema”, Sergio Sánchez received his first oboe lessons at the age of eleven and gained his first orchestral experience in the Caracas Children’s Orchestra. As a founding member and principal oboist of the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra, he worked under the direction of Ulyses Ascaneo, Gustavo Dudamel and Claudio Abbado. International tours have taken him to numerous concert halls in Europe, Asia and the USA with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. As a Venezuelan, it is a matter close to Sergio Sánchez’s heart to make the music of his homeland better known. He recently took part in the CD productions of the chamber ensemble “Barroqueanas Venezolanas”.

Blockflöte, Fagott

Jeongguk Lee

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Traverso

Felipe Egaña

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Felipe Maximiliano Egaña Labrín was born in Santiago de Chile. He studied art, music and flute at the Universidad de Chile and transverse flute with Wilbert Hazelzet at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague. The Chilean flautist continued his training with a master’s degree and concert exam with Marten Root at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen.

Felipe Egaña has given concerts with numerous early music ensembles and baroque orchestras, such as the Bach Choir and Orchestra of the Netherlands, Le concert d’Apollon, Nuevo Mundo, La dolcezza, The Netherlands Bach Society, and Los Temperamentos. He is also an active member of various chamber music ensembles such as Les points cardinaux and the Cancrizans duo.

He has performed chamber music and orchestral concerts in Chile and Mexico with the baroque orchestra Nuevo Mundo. Engagements, such as the Académie Baroque Européenne d’Ambronay under the direction of Sigiswald Kuijken, have taken the transverse flutist to many European countries. Felipe Egaña has performed at international festivals and concert series throughout Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Mexico and Chile, among others.

Isabelle Raphaelis

Traverso

Isabelle Raphaelis

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Isabelle Raphaelis is a flautist who is committed to both historical performance practice and the search for an experimental sound language in the context of current, interdisciplinary and performing art forms. She is a flutist and founding member of the contemporary Ensemble New Babylon, part of the Unbroken Consort, the Bremer Barockorchester and the ensemble reflektor. She is also a guest at “CrossingLines” Barcelona and the “Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen”.

Isabelle completed her studies with Bettina Wild at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. She received additional inspiration from master classes and chamber music classes with Prof. Wally Hase, Prof. Michael Martin Kofler and Roberto Fabbriciani, among others. In order to expose herself to an even wider spectrum, she is currently studying historical transverse flutes with Prof. Marten Root at the HfK Bremen and has attended courses with Prof. Marc Hantaï, Anne Smith and Kate Clark. She has been a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation since March 2019.

Guitar, Lute

Fernando Olivas

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Born in Mexico in 1991, Fernando Olivas first learned to play the electric guitar at the age of 11. He later studied classical music with a major in guitar at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo. He moved to Germany to specialize in historical plucked instruments (theorbo, baroque guitar, baroque lute, Renaissance lute, etc.). He studied early music with Joachim Held at the Bremen University of the Arts.

Characterized by his energetic and passionate stage presence, the young musician is already in demand for concerts and CD productions all over Europe. His musical activities have taken him to Italy, Belgium, Holland, France, England, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Austria, Scotland, Denmark and other countries.

Guitar, Lute

Hugo de Rodas

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Lutenist and guitarist Hugo Miguel de Rodas Sanchez was born in Mexico City, where he originally studied classical guitar at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. In 2004 he won the Rosa Mistica, a guitar competition in Curitiva, Brazil, before he began focusing on historical lute instruments and early music performing practices. He attended numerous master classes and was invited by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra to enhance his studies in Europe. He then studied lute instruments and baroque guitar with Lee Santana and Joachim Held at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen.

He has performed under well-known conductors, such as Gabriel Garrido, throughout many countries in Europe, Central and South America with various ensembles and orchestras, including the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Knabenchor Hannover, Bremer Barockorchester and Orkiestra Historyczna.

He regularly gives master classes in Mexico. In 2020 he presented his first edition reconstruction of a Mexican manuscript of Follia by Arcangelo Corelli for guitar with Tree Edition.