Micro concert #7 at Humboldt Forum Berlin

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).