Chamber concert Theater im Delphi

Bianca Reim studied piano, singing, school music and French at the University of the Arts and Humboldt University in Berlin as well as at the Conservatoire de Genève. She intensified her vocal training in master classes with Ingrid Figur, Susanne Rydén, Peter Kooij and Barbara Bonney.

She regularly performs as a soloist throughout Germany. Her repertoire ranges from early baroque lute songs to the parts of the great oratorios and contemporary compositions. Together with Wolfram Teßmer and the lutenist Olaf Neun, she founded the ensemble Vox Coelestis and is also a member of the Amalien-Ensemble, which was formed within the Rundfunkchor.

She has been a permanent member of the Rundfunkchor Berlin since 2005 and is also entrusted with solo roles in these concerts, most recently the role of the Shepherd in Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” under the direction of Marek Janowski.

The baritone Wolfram Teßmer first studied church music at the church music school in Greifswald. He completed his vocal training at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music with Kammersänger Prof. Wolfgang Hellmich. He was a member of the Lied classes of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Wolfram Rieger, attended master classes with Peter Schreier and Max van Egmond, among others, and was a scholarship holder of the Komische Oper Berlin.

Wolfram Teßmer has been a permanent member of the Rundfunkchor Berlin since 2004. As a soloist, he has worked with renowned conductors and orchestras such as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester under Ingo Metzmacher, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester under Marek Janowski and the Berliner Philharmoniker under Pierre Boulez and Simon Rattle.

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.