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.

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).

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.