Walking concert Futurium Berlin

Hannes Hölzl was born in 1987 in Bad Hofgastein, Austria (province of Salzburg). After his musical education started with playing the recorder, he switched to the tenor horn at the age of 5. At the age of 10, he additionally received trombone lessons from Goldegg music school teacher Gernot Pracher. Later he studied at the renowned university “Mozarteum” in Salzburg with Prof. Dany Bonvin.

In the years 1998 to 2000 Hannes Hölzl passed the performance badges of the Austrian Brass Band Association in bronze, silver and gold, all with “excellent success”. Furthermore, he was successful in numerous international competitions: starting as winner of the competition “Prima la musica”, receiving the 2nd prize in Cordoba, Argentina as well as the 1st prize at the “European Solo Champion” in Montreux, the 4th prize at the International Brass Competition in Markneukirchen-Germany, the 4th prize at the “Città” competition in Italy, the 4th prize at the “Città” competition in Italy, the 4th prize at the “Città” competition in Italy, the 4th prize at the “Città” competition in Italy, the 4th prize at the “Città” competition in Italy. Prize at the competition “Città di Porcia” in Italy, 2nd Prize at the “Prague Spring”(1st Prize was not awarded), where he also received the “Gustav Mahler Prize” as the youngest finalist of the whole competition and the “Prize of the City of Prague” as the most successful finalist of the trombone competition. He was also awarded the 2nd prize at the International Trombone Competition in Budapest, also he received the Promotional Prize of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

Hannes Hölzl is a member of various brass ensembles and performs as a soloist with different brass and symphony orchestras at home and abroad, including China, America, Tunisia, Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland, Germany….

At the age of 18 Hannes Hölzl began his career in the great symphony orchestra with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. In the same year he won a 2 year internship with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. During this time Hannes Hölzl gained his first permanent position at the Mainfrankentheater Würzburg, which he took up at the age of 21 as solo trombonist. Since 2012 he is now solo trombonist of the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

Yugo Inoue was born in Tokyo in 1995. He began playing the violin at the age of five and switched to the viola at 16. He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts with Toshihiko Ichitsubo and since 2020 with Veit Hertenstein at the Detmold University of Music.

He gained orchestral experience as an academist with the WDR Symphony Orchestra from 2021 to 2023 and as a substitute in the hr Symphony Orchestra. He received further impetus from master classes with Hariolf Schlichtig, Tabea Zimmermann and Nobuko Imai. Since 2023 he has been playing in the viola section of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

Konstantin Thiersch was born in Potsdam in 1997. At the age of eight, he received his first piano lessons at the Städtische Musikschule. After his first drum lessons with his father
his father, he was a junior student at the Julius Stern Institute of the UdK from 2013-2015 with Jens Hilse, Prof. Thomas Lutz and Hans Jochen Ulrich.
In the winter semester of 2015/2016, Konstantin Thiersch began his Bachelor’s studies at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media with Prof. Andreas Boettger, Erich Trog,
Guido Marggrander, Hilko Schomerus, Agnieszka and Oliver Arlt and graduated with distinction in 2021.
During this time he was a trainee in the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra and subsequently also held a temporary contract there.
In 2021 Konstantin Thiersch also began his master’s degree in Hanover. In the meantime, he gained further orchestral experience through a temporary contract with the Anhlatische Philharmonie Dessau as principal timpanist. In the 2022/2023 season he was an academist in the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne. During this time he also played in the WDR Symphony Orchestra and the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover as a substitute before taking up his first permanent position as principal percussionist in the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin in August 2023.