Chamber concert at the silent green

Enrico Palascino, born in 1982 in Turin, has been a member of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2011. He regularly performs as a chamber musician and soloist, and also works as a substitute with the Hessian Radio, Bavarian Radio, West German Radio, and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. He began his violin studies at the age of 8 and later studied with Giacomo Agazzini at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Torino. He then continued his studies with Valeri Gradow in Mannheim and Stephan Picard in Berlin, supported by the Claudio Abbado Music Foundation DESONO.

In parallel, he completed a supplementary chamber music program with Susanne Rabenschlag in Mannheim and became a prizewinner at the Federal Competition with the Yuval Quartet. This led to performances at the Schwetzinger Festspiele, live recordings with Deutschlandradio, and tours in Spain and Italy.

In 2016, he followed his family to Namibia. There, he co-founded a music school for disadvantaged children in Windhoek (YONA) with singer Gretel Coetzee. He also contributed to the re-establishment of the Namibian National Symphony Orchestra (NNSO), organized concerts, composed and arranged Namibian folk songs, and worked publicly to foster a better understanding of classical music in Namibia.

Since returning to Berlin in August 2018, he has continued his involvement with YONA and the NNSO. In his free time, he is passionate about training for triathlons.

Gernot Adrion has been the deputy solo violist of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 1996.

He studied at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg until 1995 with Hans Kohlhase and has been awarded prizes in various competitions, including the national competition “Jugend musiziert,” the IHK competition, the Dr. Drexel competition in Nuremberg, and the German Conservatory Competition in Darmstadt.

In addition to his pedagogical work as a mentor at the RSB Orchestra Academy, chamber music holds a special place in his heart. Since 2006, he has regularly collaborated with Susanne Herzog and Hans-Jakob Eschenburg in the Gideon Klein Trio, and since 2012, in a duo with pianist Yuki Inagawa.

Gernot Adrion plays a viola by Petrus Gaggini.

Yugo Inoue was born in Tokyo in 1995. He began playing the violin at the age of five and switched to the viola at 16. He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts with Toshihiko Ichitsubo and since 2020 with Veit Hertenstein at the Detmold University of Music.

He gained orchestral experience as an academist with the WDR Symphony Orchestra from 2021 to 2023 and as a substitute in the hr Symphony Orchestra. He received further impetus from master classes with Hariolf Schlichtig, Tabea Zimmermann and Nobuko Imai. Since 2023 he has been playing in the viola section of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

Peter Albrecht began playing the cello at the age of nine. After studying with Walther Nothas (Munich), Alexander Baillie (Bremen), and Michael Sanderling (Frankfurt/Berlin), he started his career as a cellist with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin in 2002.

In parallel, he completed the Konzertexamen, which he finished in the summer of 2005. He also participated in numerous master and chamber music courses, including those with the Artemis Quartet, Henry W. Meyer, Frans Helmerson, Anner Bylsma, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Johannes Goritzki.

He performs together with Nadine Contini, Martin Eßmann, and Christiane Silber in the Contini Quartet, as well as in the cello quartet “Just Four Cellos” with Volkmar Weiche, Jörg Breuninger, and Christian Raudszus.

Born in North Macedonia, Mezzo-Soprano Ema Nikolovska grew up in Toronto where she studied violin at The Glenn Gould School, before studying voice with Helga Tucker. She received her Master’s in Voice at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, where she also completed the Opera Course. Ema was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2019-2022.  In 2019 she won first prize at the International Vocal Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize (Kathleen Ferrier Awards), and was a prize-winner at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Auditions.  In 2022 she became a recipient of the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust award.

In the 2025/26 season, she sings Boulez’ Le Marteau sans maître under Jean Deroyer and Ensemble intercontemporain at Gulbenkian Fundaçāo, returns to Staatsoper Berlin with Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann under Bertrand de Billy and Staatskapelle Berlin, Wigmore Hall recital with Hikaru Kanki to include Strauss, Rachmaninoff and Alma Mahler. In opera, Ema makes her house debuts as Cherubino Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro under Pierre Dumoussaud with Opernhaus Zurich and later title role Neuwirth’s Orlando under Johannes Kalitzke at Komische Berlin.

Elsewhere last season, Ema revived the lead role of the Woman in George Benjamin’s Picture a Day Like This at Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg, having made her debut in the role at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre the season prior. Following her tremendous role debut as Octavian Der Rosenkavalier at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin in 2023, an alumnus of their Opera Studio, she returned for Stéfano Roméo et Juliette. Previous roles at the theatre include Lucile in Henze’s Cubana, Christian Jost’s Die Arabische Nacht, Second Lady Die Zauberflöte, Schäferin Jenůfa, Giovanna Rigoletto, and Diane in Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie under Sir Simon Rattle.

Previous concerts include Mozart’s Coronation Mass with Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and Roberto González-Monjas at the Salzburg Festival, Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri and Mozart’s Requiem with the Staatskapelle Berlin and Marc Minkowski, Jaquet de la Guerre’s Céphale et Procris on tour with Reinoud van Mechelen and Nocte Temporis in Versailles, Namur and Brussels, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Munchener Rundfunkorchester and Howard Arman, Mozart’s Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Adrian Partington, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Musikkollegium Winterthur and Barbara Hannigan, and Ravel’s Chansons Madecasses with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and George Benjamin.

An internationally celebrated recitalist, in the 23/24 season her partners included Martha Argerich, Andras Shiff, Charles Richard-Hamelin, and guitarist, Sean Shibe in concerts throughout Europe and her debut recital tour of North America, including her debut at Carnegie’s Weill Hall. At Wigmore Hall, where she is a regular favourite, she was an artist in residence, performing five diverse programmes across the season.  Elsewhere, Ema has performed at the Pierre Boulez Saal, Konzerthaus Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and at the Schubertíada Vilabertran, Verbier, Heidelberg, Gstaad, Aldeburgh, Leeds Lieder and Toronto Summer Music Festivals, collaborating with Malcolm Martineau, Wolfram Rieger, Andras Schiff, Graham Johnson, Joseph Middleton, Kunal Lahiry amongst others.