Chamber concert Kühlhaus Berlin

Alice Lackner’s voice has been described by the press as “beguilingly secure, with astral heights and penetrating power” (Oper!) and as “utterly enchanting” (Tagesspiegel). She regularly appears with orchestras such as the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Essener Philharmoniker, Russian State Orchestra Kaliningrad, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester, lautten compagney Berlin, Ensemble 1700 and Concerto Theresia, under the direction of renowned conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Wolfgang Katschner, Dorothee Oberlinger, Tomáš Netopil, Andrea Marchiol and Andreas Reize.
Highlights of recent seasons have included the soprano solo in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at the Konzerthaus Berlin, “Martha” in the world premiere of Gordon Kampe’s “Dogville” at the Aalto Theater Essen, “Ruggiero” in Handel’s “Alcina” in a production by lautten compagney Berlin, and “Negiorea” in Andrea Bernasconi’s “L’Huomo” at the Margravial Opera House Bayreuth and at the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival. Other engagements have taken her to the Berlin Philharmony, the Berlin Music Festival, the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the Days of Early Music in Herne and the Mosel Music Festival.
Alice Lackner’s core concert repertoire includes the alto roles in cantatas and oratorios by J.S. Bach, Handel, Mozart and Mendelssohn. However, the mezzo-soprano’s repertoire also includes less frequently performed works such as the masses for the dead by Duruflé or Suppè, the “Membra Jesu Nostri” (Buxtehude) and “Der Sieg des Glaubens” (Ries). Recently, she has also appeared in concert as a soprano, for example in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, in Mozart’s “Great Mass in C minor”, in Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solenelle” and in Stravinsky’s “Les Noces”.
A major focus of her work is lieder singing. In 2021, Alice Lackner released her debut CD “Ernsthaft?!” with the GENUIN label, together with her lied accompanist Imke Lichtwark. In addition to songs by Schönberg and Zemlinsky, this CD also includes first recordings of songs by the composer Sven Daigger. In October 2023, Alice Lackner recorded a first edition of all songs by George Antheil for Deutschlandfunk together with pianist Philip Mayers. Further recordings for cpo, BR-Klassik and ARTE Concert testify to her artistic work.
Alice Lackner was born in Munich, studied singing with Prof. Kunz-Eisenlohr at the HfMT Cologne/Aachen and is currently receiving further training from Sami Kustaloglu in Berlin. She holds a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and has won prizes from “cantatebach!”, the Rheinsberg Castle Chamber Opera, and the “Podium junger Gesangssolisten”. With a degree in sociology, she works as a researcher at ZOiS Berlin. From 2025 onwards, she will take over the artistic direction of the “Güldener Herbst” festival in Thuringia.

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.

Violinist Oleh Kurochkin was born in 1994 in Yevpatoriya on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea into a family of musicians. He received his first violin lessons at the age of five. At the age of eleven, he was admitted to the M.Lysenko Kyiv Central Music School, in the class of Prof. Jaroslava Rivnjak. From 2012 to 2016, he studied at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree. This was followed by studies at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf with Prof. Ida Bieler. In 2020, he will graduate from the Folkwang University of the Arts with a Master’s degree in Solo Professional Performance under Prof. Boris Garlitsky. He is currently completing his concert exam at the Folkwang UdK.
Oleh Kurochkin has won prizes at numerous national and international competitions. In 2010 he won the 1st prize at the International Chamber Music Competition “Ignacy Jan Paderewski” with his piano trio as well as the 1st prize at the violin competition “The Art of the XXI Century” as a soloist. In 2012 he won the 1st prize at the Euhen-Stankovich International Violin Competition.

His solo activities have taken him to numerous concert halls in Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Moldavia, Russia, Bulgaria and Hungary.
and Hungary. He has also appeared as a soloist with the symphony and chamber orchestras of chamber orchestras of Düsseldorf, Bonn, Berlin, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Krim, Zaporizhzhya and Odesa.
Since January 2023, Oleh has been first principal with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. As first guest concertmaster, he performs with, among others.
Copenhagen Philharmonic, Sofia Philharmonic, Basler Kammerorchester ITEMPI, Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, Zermatt Festival, Aurora Festival Stockholm, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Rheingau Festival, Philharmonie der Nations. Between 2019-2020 Oleh was academist in 1st violins of the Staatskapelle Berlin and from 2021-2022 member of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

He received further important musical impulses from encounters with with the greatest conductors of our time: Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle, Kirill Petrenko, Zubin Petrenko, Zubin Mehta, Andris Nelsons, Herbert Blomstedt, Christian Thielemann,
John Williams, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Gustavo Dudamel.
Oleh is an internationally sought-after chamber musician and works regularly with, among others. with Renaud Capuçon, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Valery Sokolov, Claudio Bohorquez, Martin Stadtfeld, Alexander Hülshoff, Pedro Halffter, Alexander Zemtsov, Tomáš
Jamník and “Scharoun Ensemble Berlin”.
Due to his successes, he was initially awarded a scholarship by the from 2009 to 2012, received a scholarship from the Ukrainian government, from 2015 to 2019 a “Germany Scholarship” from 2015 to 2019 and the DAAD Graduation Award in 2017.
Since 2018, he has been a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica Foundation, which gave him the historical violin “ex-Schubert” Pietro Guarneri (Mantua, 1702) for three years.
provided. Since 2019, Oleh has been supported by the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Neuss am Rhein, and since 2020 by the “Vere Music Fund.”
In March 2022, Oleh became the initiator and co-founder of the project UAmusic.DE, the platform for helping Ukrainian musicians who had to leave their homeland due toRussian war of aggression.
Since 2021, Oleh Kurochkin has been playing the Michele Decon Foundation, the Michele Deconet “ex Castelberg” (Venice, 1775).

Born into a family of musicians, Elizaveta was surrounded by people who were devoted to music from an early age. She began violin lessons at the age of five and switched to the viola nine years later. After graduating from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2009, where she studied with Roman Balashov and Yuri Bashmet (viola) and Alexander Rudin (chamber music), she continued her training in Germany. She studied with Wilfried Strehle at the Berlin University of the Arts and graduated in 2016 with a master’s degree as an instrumental soloist with distinction.
Elizaveta discovered her passion for orchestral playing during her studies. As a young violist, she was accepted into the Verbier Festival Orchestra in 2007 and later played in the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Zermatt Music Academy and the Russian-German Music Academy. She took up her first permanent orchestral position with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden in 2014, before moving to the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and finally to the Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB).

Elizaveta regularly appears as a guest musician with renowned ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and others. She has also been a member of the Estonian Festival Orchestra since 2019. In addition to her orchestral performances, Elizaveta is an enthusiastic chamber musician and passionate teacher. She also teaches at the Orchestra Academy of the Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB).

Raphaela Paetsch from Switzerland was born in 1996, into a family of musicians, thus, her first cello lessons were from family as well, her dad teaching her since the age of four. In 2003, she started to learn the grand piano at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana music school in Lugano, and at the age of fifteen was a student at the cello class of the preparatory course of the conservatory under prof. Monika Leskovar. In 2007-2012 Raphaela was a soloist for the „Orchestra d’Archi Della Svizzera Italiana” and won first prizes at the International Torneo music competition and the international youth music festival Summa Cum Laude. The latter presented her with opportunities to perform in the Musikverein and Konzerthaus halls in Vienna. Raphaela has won many competitions in the cello solo, cello and violin duet, grand piano trio, and grand piano duet categories, as well as taking part in numerous masterclasses hosted by famous cellists and receiving lessons from masters of chamber music, such as the Artemis Quartet. The cellist frequently performs in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Finland, Spain, and the USA. Her musical biography includes many solo performances with famous orchestras and ensembles, like the Corelli Ensemble, the Locarno Chamber Orchestra, the New Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchester Berliner Musikfreunde. In 2016 the artist performed in the Grachten festival, in Amsterdam, and in 2017 was invited to open the first Maroggia Classica Festival in Switzerland with her recital. In the same year, the famous Artemis quartet invited Raphaela and her string quartet to perform in the Kyoto music festival in Japan, and in Zurich the group performed at a gala concert together with the Zurich University of the Arts orchestra. The cellist regularly performs in concerts with the Eroica Berlin Orchestra and collaborates with The Young Classicals Team, as well as studying at the Berlin University of the Arts under prof. Konstantin Heidrich and receiving scholarships from the Fritz-Gerber Stiftung Zürich and the Ottilie-Selbach-Redslob-Stiftung foundations.

Marvin Wagner, born in Munich in 1993, received his first double bass lessons from Erich Hehenberger at the age of eight. After graduating from high school in 2012, he began his artistic studies in Prof. Dorin Marc’s class in the autumn of the same year. During his training, he became a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. He was able to gain professional experience in various orchestras with the help of temporary contracts, for example as deputy principal double bass at the Nuremberg State Opera and as a tutti player with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2017, he continued his studies at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Prof Janne Saksala. He supplemented his training with masterclasses under Prof Paradzik and Prof Mctier.

Marvin Wagner is 1st prize winner of the 8th International Johann Matthias Sperger Competition for Double Bass 2014 and has performed as a soloist with the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra, the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Marienbad, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra and the Rheinische Philharmonie State Orchestra, among others.

Marvin Wagner has repeatedly received a scholarship from the Peter Pirazzi Foundation and was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation.

He has been Deputy Principal Double Bass with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since the beginning of 2019.

The pianist, organist, harpsichordist and musicologist Anastasia Timofeeva was born in Novgorod, Russia. She won her first international piano competition at the age of eight. Since then she has won more than 15 prizes in national and international competitions.
In her home town of Novgorod, she graduated from the Rachmaninov Art School with a degree in piano and musicology. She went on to study piano and organ at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and obtained a doctorate in song accompaniment and musicology. At the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, she studied for a master’s degree in correpetiton, which she completed in 2015.
Anastasia Timofeeva performs regularly as a solo and ensemble pianist. Most recently, she has performed at the Staatstheater Berlin, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Berlin Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Schloss Charlottenburg and in the concert halls of the Universität der Künste Berlin and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin.
Anastasia Timofeeva was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture Russia, a scholarship holder of the association “New Names” Russia, winner of the DAAD prize, scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association Minden, scholarship holder of the association “Yehudi Menuhin Live Musik Now Berlin e. V.”
Anastasia Timofeeva has been a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2015 and at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin since 2018.