Chamber concert at silent green

Born in Zurich, David Nebel began playing the violin at the age of five. He first attended the conservatory in Zurich and later studied with Boris Kuschnir in Vienna and Yair Kless in Graz. David then continued his studies at the Royal College of Music in London with Professor Alexander Gilman as a Leverhulme Arts Scholar. In 2021 he won the prestigious Emily Anderson Prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society in London. David Nebel was a member of the LGT Young Soloists, a string ensemble of highly talented young musicians led by Alexander Gilman.

Nebel has also been a guest soloist at renowned festivals, including the Khachaturian Festival in Armenia, the Kissinger Sommer in Germany, where he performed the world premiere of Gediminas Gelgotas’ Violin Concerto, and the Pärnu Music Festival in Estonia as part of the Järvi Academy. He has also performed at concerts organized by the Orpheum Foundation in Switzerland. Highlights of recent seasons include performances and recordings with the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra.

In 2020, David Nebel released his first solo CD album with conductor Kristjan Järvi on the Sony Classical label. Together with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic, he recorded the Violin Concerto No. 1 by Philip Glass and the Violin Concerto by Igor Stravinksy. The album received excellent reviews from the international press, including Strad Magazine and Bayerischer Rundfunk.

David Nebel has been concertmaster of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since January 2023.
Nebel plays on a violin by Antonio Stradivari, which was provided by a private sponsor.

Nadine Contini, principal second violin, has been a member of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since March 2005.

She was born in 1979 in Saarbrücken and received her first violin lessons at the age of 5 years with Ms Christa Schmitt-Rink. Later she studied under Ulrieke Dierick. In 1996 she was admitted to the Pflüger-Stiftung Freiburg and the Spohr-Akademie for the promotion of highly gifted young violinists, where she was trained by Wolfgang Marschner and Ariane Mathäus. In 2000, she began her studies at the Musikhochschule “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin with Antje Weithaas, where she graduated with the concert exam of 2008. She attended master classes with Antje Weithaas, Wolfgang Marschner, Christian Tetzlaff, Guy Braunstein, and Boris Pergamenchikov.

Nadine Contini has won awards in numerous competitions: In 1998, she was awarded with the first “Young Musicians” federal prize. In addition, she received a second prize at the International Max Reger Competition and a special prize for the best interpretation of a solo work by Max Reger. In 2004, she won the competition of Ibolyka-Gyarfas-Stiftung. She was awarded with prizes for cultural promotion by the Casino Gesellschaft Saarbrücken and the Saarländischen Rundfunk. In addition, she was the prize winner and scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

As a soloist, she has performed with the Landesjugendorchester of Saarland, the Cairo Chamber Orchestra, the Cairo Opera Orchestra, the Deutsche Spohr Philharmonie, the Symphonieorchester des Saarländischen Rundfunks as part of the concerts of young artists, the Max Bruch Philharmonie and the Brandenburger Symphoniker.

Nadine Contini plays a violin made by master violinmaker Stefan-Peter Greiner from Bonn and is involved as a mentor in the orchestra academy of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

Hans-Jakob Eschenburg received his first cello lessons at the Rostock Conservatory. After studying with Josef Schwab at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin, he was principal cellist of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1988.

With the renowned Petersen Quartet, of which he was a founding member until 2000, he won several international competitions (Prague, Evian, Florence, Munich) and appeared on the major concert stages and at numerous festivals in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. Several of the Petersen Quartet’s numerous CD recordings have won international awards.

Since 1999 Hans-Jakob Eschenburg has been principal cellist of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. He held the same position in the chamber orchestra “Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach”. He frequently appears as a soloist and chamber musician, including as a member of various chamber ensembles such as the Gideon Klein Trio. Hans-Jakob Eschenburg teaches as an honorary professor at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin. He is also involved as a mentor of the Orchestra Academy of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.