„We will never die“
Concert as part of the celebratory year #2021JLID - Jewish Life in Germany
Werke von Kurt Weill und anderen Komponisten der 1920er-Jahre
Christine Lichtenberg
Vocals
Judith Simonis
Vocals
Judith Simonis - Vocals
Juliane Färber-Rambo
Violin
Enrico Palascino
Violin
Enrico Palascino - Violin

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.
Lydia Rinecker
Viola
Lydia Rinecker - Viola

Lydia Rinecker has been the principal violist of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2016. From 2014 to 2015, she held the same position with the Staatskapelle Weimar. Born in Meiningen in 1989, she attended the Music High School Schloss Belvedere in Weimar and then studied at the music universities in Weimar and Berlin, specializing in viola under Erich Krüger and Ditte Leser.
She is a prizewinner of various national and international competitions. Among her accolades, she received multiple 1st prizes at the national “Jugend musiziert” competition, the 1st prize at the 17th International Johannes Brahms Competition, a 3rd prize at the Walter Witte Viola Competition in 2011, and a special prize for “outstanding talent” at the 62nd International Music Competition of the ARD, awarded by the Henning Tögel Talent Promotion Foundation. In 2011, she was a scholarship recipient of the “Hans and Eugenia Jütting” Foundation in Stendal.
During her studies, she gained orchestral experience as a substitute in the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and the Staatskapelle Weimar. As a soloist, Lydia Rinecker has performed with orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Schwerin, the Orchestra of the Theater Vorpommern, the Central German Chamber Philharmonic, the Czech orchestra “Virtuosi Brunensis,” and the Young Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
She plays a viola made around 1860 by the violin maker Karl Brandl from Pest.
Romane Montoux-Mie
Violoncello
Musicians of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Shelly Kupferberg
Gesprächspartnerin
Shelly Kupferberg - Gesprächspartnerin

Shelly Kupferberg, born in Tel-Aviv in 1974, grew up in West Berlin. She studied journalism, theater and music at the Free University of Berlin and began working as a journalist for public radio while still a student. In addition to numerous contributions for ARD, she has been presenting cultural, literature and social magazines for 25 years and works as a freelance editor and host for Deutschlandfunk Kultur (including “Lesart”) and hosts daily live culture programs on rbbKultur.
In addition to culture, her thematic focus is on social issues such as education, cultural mediation, digitization, civil society, gender, democracy and participation, discrimination and migration issues, and provenance research. From 1997-2007 she worked for the Jewish Culture Days Berlin and curated her own series. In addition to her regular live radio broadcasts and concert broadcasts, she moderates numerous lectures and conferences, film screenings, and high-profile events for various foundations, ministries, cultural institutions, and festivals. She is also a volunteer presenter for Terre des Femmes.
Chamber concert