Instr. Soloists
![Gabriel Rivano](https://www.releases.kuk-art.com/sites/default/files/category_pictures/gabriel-rivano.jpg "Gabriel Rivano ~ Bandoneonist
Gabriel Rivano was born in Buenos Aires in 1958. Descended from a family of musicians, he is the grandson of Adolfo Pérez Pocholo, bandoneonist and composer of the old guard of tango, from whom he inherited his bandoneon. Between 1979 and 1988 he studied bandoneon with Daniel Binelli, Rodolfo Daluisio, Alejandro Barletta and Rodolfo Mederos.
Since 1981 he has been a member of numerous tango groups and has played alongside artists of different genres, such as "Roberto Pansera's Typical Orchestra" - accompanying the singers Alberto Podesta and Roberto Rufino, among others.
He recorded two free tango albums - "Será una noche" and "La Segunda" - in the Gándara monastery, Buenos Aires Province, for the Japanese label Marecordings with the musicians Santiago Vazquez, Marcelo Moguilevsky, Pedro Aznar, Lidia Borda and Edgardo Cardozo.
He played in a duo with Victor Villadangos, Ensemble "La Chimera" - a group with which he recorded an album in a church in Italy and made successful tours around the world - and with a Chamber Sextet presenting his compositions at the Opera of Zurich.
Rivano has performed concerts uninterruptedly from 1981 to the present, as a soloist and with different projects, in prestigious auditoriums in numerous countries, from America, Europe, Oceania and Asia. He played five times at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires with different ensembles. He was the first bandoneon player and arranger of "Tango, Vals, Tango" by choreographer A. Stekelman between 1999 and 2004. In 1997 he premiered his "Concerto for bandoneon, guitar and orchestra".
In 2007 Gabriel Rivano won the first prize in the international composition contest of the Argentine Secretary of Culture with his "Concierto para bandoneón y Orquesta Sinfónica". In 2015 he premiered his "Concerto for Bandoneón y Banda Sinfónica" together with the Symphonic Band of Buenos Aires. He currently distributes his artistic activity between Argentina and Europe, where he performs Bandoneon solo concerts and participates in other projects with renowned musicians.
The K&K Verlagsanstalt produced in 2006 live with the Gabriel Rivano Trio the CD “La Luminosa” as part of the Castle Concerts. The trio members are Gabriel Rivano (bandoneon), Victor Villadangos (guitar) and Mónica Taragano (traverse flute).
See also: Gabriel Rivano Trio")
![Julia Schröder](https://www.releases.kuk-art.com/sites/default/files/category_pictures/julia-schroeder.jpg "Julia Schröder ~ Violin
The violinist Julia Schröder studied at the conservatory "Gasteig" in Munich, at the Basel Music Academy and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Since 2004 Julia Schröder is the concert-mistress and director of the Basel Chamber Orchestra. Under her leadership the ensemble played in major concert halls in Europe such as the Vienna Musikverein, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique in Paris and the Barbican Centre in London. In parallel she is a soloist accompanying artists such as Sol Gabetta, Andreas Scholl and Cecilia Bartoli. In 2010 she was called at the Freiburg Music Academy (D) to be a violin professor. She enjoys playing with Maurice Steger, Marcelo Nisinman, Gerard Wyss, Werner Güra and Christoph Berner. Julia Schröder is now a modern and universal musician, feeling comfortable in the world of modern violin as well as in the style of baroque play, while being also at ease in the improvisations of Jazz and she likes to play tango, too.
Links: Website Bach Cantatas")
![Linus Roth](https://www.releases.kuk-art.com/sites/default/files/category_pictures/roth.jpg "Linus Roth ~ Violinist
Born in 1977 in Ravensburg, Linus Roth was accepted to Prof. Nicolas Chumachenco's class at the Freiburg Conservatory at the age of 12. He continued with his studies in 1993 under the wing of Zakhar Bron at the Luebeck conservatory, where he passed his artistic final exams in 1998/99. Roth is the recipient of numerous national and international violin competition awards such as the "Wieniawski-Lipinski Competition" held in Lublin, and the "International Violin Competition Novosibirsk" where he received an honourable award for the best Bach interpretation. In 2006 Linus Roth received the "Echo Classik" of the German Phonoacademy as "Best Newcomer". He plays a violin "Dancla" by Antonio Stradivari, built in the year 1703.
"His stylistic knowledge is highly developed and his open, charismatic personality convinces me every time I hear him." (Prof. Anne-Sophie Mutter)")
![Olja Kaiser](https://www.releases.kuk-art.com/sites/default/files/category_pictures/olja-kaiser.jpg "Olja Kaiser ~ Harp
Olja Kaiser began to study the harp at the age of 5. She completed her studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where she graduated with distinction. Olja furthered her professional abilities participating in master classes given by Isabelle Perrin, David Watkins, Susanna Mildonian, Chantal Mathieu and Isabelle Moretti. She also learned baroque harp playing at the Scola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel). In her youth she was already appearing internationally as a soloist and in chamber music recitals. Olja Kaiser has won prizes in the Concorso Internazionale Premio Rovere d'Oro in San Bartolomeo al Mare in Imperia (Italy) and the Concert Artists Guild Music Competition in New York. In addition to appearing in festivals (e.g. Pacific Music Festival, Abu Dhabi Classical Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Moselfestwochen, Mecklenburgischer Musiksommer, Musikwoche Bad Wörishofen, Rheingau Musikfestival), Olja Kaiser has toured throughout Europe, the United States, Japan, China and Hongkong. Olja Kaiser regularly plays in solo concerts with symphony orchestras and chamber orchestras including the Moscow State Chamber Orchestra, the Cologne Youth Philharmonic and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic. She was engaged as the principal harpist in the Gorky Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Great Hall Symphony, the Bolshoi Ballet Orchestra, the Philharmonia Hungarika and at the Apollo Theater in Stuttgart, prior to pursuing her solo career. Miss Kaiser is regularly invited to perform as principal harpist with many symphony and chamber orchestras, e.g.: Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Köln, Moscow Radio 1 Symphony Orchestra, Bolshoi Theater Ballet, Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken, Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. Her experience playing in opera and ballet orchestras in Germany includes the following opera houses: Mannheim, Darmstadt, Saarbrücken, Freiburg, Koblenz, Kaiserslautern and Heidelberg. She has been an assistant to Prof. O. Erdely at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, she has taught at the Prokofiev Music School in Moscow and at a conservatory in Luxembourg. She was a member of the jury for the German competition "Jugend musiziert". Due to her many worldwide appearances as solo harpist as well as in chamber music recitals, including radio and television recordings, Olja Kaiser is one of the most active and many facetted harpists of her generation.")
![Simone Eckert](https://www.releases.kuk-art.com/sites/default/files/category_pictures/eckert.jpg "Simone Eckert ~ Viola da gamba and Diskant-Viola da Gamba
At the age of eight, when asked what she wanted to be Simone Eckert answered: "gamba player". Ignoring the warning that she should get a "proper job" she lives and works as a freelance musician in Hamburg.
She studied at the Musikhochschule Hamburg and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensiswith H. Mueller and J. Savall. She finished her studies in 1990 with a diploma in early music.
In 1991 she founded the ensemble Hamburger Ratsmusik. She has taught, since 1992 at the Hamburger Konservatorium and holds seminars on the viola da gamba in both Germany and England.
Apart from the repertoire of the renaissance, baroque and early classics she also concentrates on modern music for the viol.
A large number of works have been dedicated to her and performed by her for the first time. She performs as a soloist, ensemble leader and lecturer in Germany, other European countries an Japan.")
![Ulrich Herkenhoff](https://www.releases.kuk-art.com/sites/default/files/category_pictures/herkenhoff.jpg "Ulrich Herkenhoff ~ Pan Flute
Ulrich Herkenhoff was born in 1966 in Osnabrueck, Germany. He had his first piano lesson at the age of six and, at 14, he first saw the pan flute in a concert given by the Rumanian, Gheorghe Zamfir. This inspired him to intensively study the instrument allowing him to eventually achieve the reputation as "the best non-Rumanian pan flute virtuoso". After studying the flute at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and subsequently the pan flute in an advanced class with Prof. Jochen Gaertner, Ulrich Herkenhoff rapidly become an internationally renowned soloist. He received special assistance from Georghe Zamfir's discoverer, the Swiss music ethnologist and publisher, Marcel Cellier, to study and promote Rumanian folklore. In 1990, he recorded his first CD of Rumanian improvisations with Cellier on the organ. With his interpretations of "classical" works, Ulrich Herkenhoff has inspired many contemporary composers to pen original compositions for the the pan flute.")
![Wolfgang Bauer](https://www.releases.kuk-art.com/sites/default/files/category_pictures/bauer.jpg "Wolfgang Bauer ~ Trumpet
Wolfgang Bauer studied in Berlin with Konradin Groth at the Berlin Philharmonic's Orchesterakademie. At the age of 21 he was taken on by the RSO Franfurt while still a student as principal solo trumpeter. He stayed with that orchestra for 12 years and was also solo trumpeter with the symphony orchestra of Bavarian Radio.
He has attended intensive study courses with Lutz Köhler and Ed. H. Tarr. His breakthrough as a soloist came in 1993, when Wolfgang Bauer won the German Music Competition and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in quick succession. Since then, he has been acknowledged as one of the leading trumpeters of his generation and has appeared as a soloist with famous orchestras like the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, the Orchestre National de France, the SO of Bavarian Radio, the radio symphony orchestras of Stuttgart and Frankfurt, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Radio Philharmonic of Hanover, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Polish Chamber Philharminic, and the Württemberg and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra under conductors like Lorin Maazel, Carl St Clair, Donald Runnicles, Dimitri Kitayenko, Andrey Boreyko, Denis R. Davis and Eliahu Inbal. In 2000 Wolfgang Bauer was appointed a professor of trumpet at the "University of music and performing arts" in Stuttgart. In 2009 he was honoured with the ECHO Klassik as "best instrumental soloist of the year".")
The list of instrumental soloists and all releases performed by them
The list of instrumental soloists and all releases performed by them
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The list of instrumental soloists and all releases performed by them
courtesy of webmatter.de