Remembrance

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.

Anne Mentzen was born in Braunschweig in 1981, where she received her first piano lessons at the age of five. At the age of nine she began horn lessons and from 1998 was trained by Theodor Wiemes, principal horn of the Radiophilharmonie Hannover. After graduating from high school, she began studying horn in the fall of 2000 in the class of Marie-Luise Neunecker at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. From 2003 she studied with Thomas Hauschild at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, where she graduated with honors. Anne Mentzen won several federal prizes at “Jugend musiziert” as well as prizes at other competitions, both with the horn and on the piano. In 1999, in addition to the first national prize, she was awarded a special prize by the Hanover Artists’ Association and in 2000 she was also awarded the Lower Saxony Prize for “outstanding achievements in the cultural field”. She has also received scholarships from the Volkswagen Bank (1999), the Richard Wagner Association (2000), and the Gustav Mahler Academy (2002, 2005). The hornist gained orchestral experience in the state and national youth orchestras, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, and was invited several times to the International Orchestra Academy of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. After an internship with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and a temporary position with the Staatsorchester Kassel, she went to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as an intern in 2005. Since 2006 Anne Mentzen has been a horn player with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Here she plays in various chamber music formations, such as the ensemble “Samtblech”.

Yuki Inagawa was born in Sapporo, Japan, and studied in Tokyo with Keiko Takeuchi and in Berlin with Georg Sava.

She began her piano studies at the age of six, later adding composition, ensemble work, and vocal training to her education.

She won early prizes in various competitions and performed winner concerts in Japan, Hungary, and Germany. In 2003, during her postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin, she received the Steinway Promotion Prize.

Due to her intelligent and highly sensitive ensemble playing, Yuki Inagawa is a highly sought-after chamber music partner. Since 2001, she has regularly performed as a keyboard instrumentalist with the musicians of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin in several chamber music ensembles, performing in all major concert halls in Berlin as well as at various outdoor concerts.

As an orchestral keyboard instrumentalist and accompanist, she has engagements with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, and has been involved in numerous CD and radio recordings, as well as film productions. In February 2018, her first chamber music CD with Gernot Adrion, the associate principal violist of the RSB, was released and received excellent reviews.

Her other great passion is choral music and choral symphonies. For nearly 20 years, she has worked as an accompanist with the Berliner Konzert Chor. She also serves in the same role with the Ernst Senff Chor. Since 2003, Yuki Inagawa has been deeply involved with the Clara-Schumann Children’s and Youth Choir of the Schostakowitsch Music School Berlin-Lichtenberg, working as part of the leadership team.