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Chamber music to tune in to summer

Richard Polle was born into a family of musicians. At the age of six, he began his first violin lessons with his mother. At 12, Richard started his studies as a junior student at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar with Jost Witter and continued his education two years later at the Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere Weimar. He completed his bachelor’s degree with honors under Josef Rissin at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and earned his master’s degree with Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin.

He won numerous national and international competitions, including first prizes and special prizes in solo and duo categories at the “Jugend musiziert” national competition, the international violin competition “Postacchini” in Fermo (Italy), the “Villa de Llanes” competition in Llanes (Spain), as well as awards at the international violin competition “Kocian” in Ústí nad Orlicí (Czech Republic), the international Lake Constance Violin Competition, and the competition of the Kulturfonds Baden e.V.

He has performed with the Kammerorchester der Rheinischen Philharmonie Koblenz, the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Suhl, the Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt, the Philharmonie der Stadt Kirow (Russia), the Junge Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, and the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim. He has also participated in several masterclasses, including those with Thomas Christian, Olga Parkhomenko, Roman Nodel, Ana Chumachenko, Boris Garlitsky, and Jörg Widmann.

Richard Polle has been a scholarship recipient from the Thüringen Ministry of Culture, the Sparkassenstiftung Erfurt, the Friends of the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, the Musikinstrumentenfonds of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, and received the Gerd Bucerius Scholarship from the ZEIT Foundation in the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

From 2014 to 2016, he was a scholarship holder at the Orchestral Academy of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, and since 2016, he has been a permanent member of the first violins.

Alejandro Regueira Caumel, born in 1991 in Málaga/Spain, began playing the violin and piano at the age of six. In Madrid, he studied with Anna Baget and moved to Dionisio Rodríguez as a violist in 2008. In 2009 he came to Germany and studied at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” with Pauline Sachse and Tabea Zimmermann. Master classes with Wilfried Strehle, Andreas Willwohl, Roberto Díaz, Felix Schwartz and Jean Sulem complemented his education.

Chamber music has been a particular focus of his career to date. He participated in the chamber music festival of the “Kronberg Academy” and in the “Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland”, performed repeatedly with the Frielinghaus Ensemble and can be heard regularly at chamber music festivals such as the “Festival Ribeira Sacra” or in the Nikolaisaal Potsdam. He also won first prizes at various competitions, including the “Concurso Ibérico de Música de Cámara con Arpa” (in duo with harpist Maud Edenwald), the XII. International Competition for Viola and Cello “Villa de Llanes”, at the “Concurso María Cristina” for young soloists and at the competition of “Jeunesses Musicales” in Spain.

Alejandro Regueira Caumel gained orchestral experience as a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, as well as through substitute work with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and as principal violist with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana and the Orquesta Nacional de España.

From 2010 to 2012 he was an academist with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and has been its principal violist since 2015.

The oboist Clara Dent-Bogányi, who grew up in Salzburg, comes from a family of musicians. A number of important international awards decorated the beginning of her artistic career, such as the ARD Competition and the Geneva Competition (CIEM).

Clara Dent-Bogányi performs as a soloist with many renowned orchestras and has already recorded numerous solo works on CD and for radio. Her solo albums “Les Folies D`Espagne” and “La Primadonna” have received critical acclaims.

As a chamber musician she attends invitations to festivals throughout Europe and Asia, as she has already performed during the Berlin festival weeks, the Schloss Elmau Festival, the Bach Festival Weeks in Salzburg and the “International Oboe Festival” in China. Her chamber music partners include artists such as Radek Baborak, Irena Grafenauer, the Kuss Quartet and many more.

Since 1999, Clara Dent-Bogányi has been the solo oboist with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and a welcome guest with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bayerische Staatsoper München and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

In 2009, Clara Dent-Bogányi responded to the call of the Nuremberg University of Music and since then has held the professorship of oboe.

Violinist Ania Bara-Rast began her violin studies as a junior student in Conrad von der Goltz’s early development class in Regensburg and continued her studies after graduating from high school in Krzysztof Wegrzyn’s class at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. She completed her bachelor’s degree with top marks, as well as her master’s degree at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg with Tanja Becker-Bender.
She received special musical impulses in numerous masterclasses with professors such as Maxim Vengerov, Mauricio Fuks, Ulf Wallin and Nora Chastain.
She has won several national prizes in the “Jugend musiziert” competition, both as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles.
She was concertmaster of the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra and a member of renowned youth orchestras such as the German National Youth Orchestra, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
Ania has been a trainee at the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover since 2012, was accepted into the Academy of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Hamburg for the 2013/2014 season and was also a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss.
She has played in the 2nd violin section of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2016.
She has also been 2nd violinist in the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra since 2021.

Iris Ahrens was born in Bremen in 1967. She began her musical education at a very early age, specializing in piano and chamber music in Georg Espitalier’s folk music group. There she got to know the production work in the recording studio.

Her double bass lessons began at the age of 11. During her music studies, Iris Ahrens initially majored in piano and double bass. After a short time, she decided to deepen her double bass studies. At the age of just 20, she took up her first position in the Bremen State Orchestra. Iris Ahrens then studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin with Klaus Stoll. During her studies, the musician was an active member of the ensemble for new music “attacca berlin”.

This was followed by an internship at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and a one-year contract with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. Iris Ahrens has been a member of the double bass section of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 1994.

Gudrun Vogler has been an oboist and English horn player with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2002.

From 1988 to 1992, she was the principal oboist at the National Theatre Weimar.

As a two-time prizewinner of the ARD Music Competition in the field of chamber music with the wind quintet “Kammervereinigung Berlin,” she recorded CDs with this ensemble for renowned labels, initially performing extensively throughout Germany and later internationally.

As a member of the specialized ensemble for contemporary music “KNM Berlin,” where she was active from 1992 to 2019 and performed in cities such as Buenos Aires, Tokyo, and Taipei, she explored her role as an instrumentalist, performer, and creative and vibrant interpreter with great curiosity and joy.

Since 2015, she has also been involved in the music education program of the RSB. As a music ambassador in classrooms, she shares her enthusiasm for classical music with young people in schools. She has developed concepts for children’s and youth concerts in various teams.

In addition to her concert and chamber music activities in various ensembles and genres, she has been performing successfully and regularly as a member of the solo formation “Date for three” since 2016.