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 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.

Philipp Beckert was born in Dresden. He attended the specialised school for music and studied violin at the conservatories in Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin.
At the same time, he attended masterclasses with Ruggiero Ricci, Ion Voicu, Saschko Gawriloff and André Gertler. Beckert joined the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra as first violinist in 1986 and was deputy concertmaster there until 1996. He has been a member of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in the first violin section since 1996. Philipp Beckert has appeared in RSB chamber concerts with solo works by Eugene Ysaÿe and Niccolò Paganini. In 2005 he presented the “Beckert Quartet Berlin” (BQB) as part of the RSB chamber concerts together with Franziska Drechsel, Andreas Willwohl and So Yung Lee.

In 2010, at the suggestion of Marek Janowski, he put together a high-calibre ensemble to rehearse Franz Schubert’s Octet, in which he himself played the first violin part. The octet was performed on the occasion of a Schlüterhof concert by the RSB at the German Historical Museum.
Together with the Israeli pianist Einav Yarden, Philipp Beckert played Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata in further RSB chamber concerts in 2011, as well as César Franck’s Violin Sonata in 2013. In 2015, he took on the role of first violin in Arnold Schönberg’s string sextet “Verklärte Nacht”, again at a Schlüterhof concert. He has performed as a soloist with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt. He has also taken part in numerous world premières by contemporary composers. The Hamburg label Es-Dur released a CD with the octet by Franz Schubert and the octet “Dunkle Lichter” by Mario Wiegand.
In 2016, Philipp Beckert recorded Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s flute quartets on CD with his colleagues Ulf Dieter Schaaff, Andreas Willwohl and Georg Boge for the Dutch label PENTATONE.

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.

Peter Albrecht began playing the cello at the age of nine. After studying with Walther Nothas (Munich), Alexander Baillie (Bremen), and Michael Sanderling (Frankfurt/Berlin), he started his career as a cellist with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin in 2002.

In parallel, he completed the Konzertexamen, which he finished in the summer of 2005. He also participated in numerous master and chamber music courses, including those with the Artemis Quartet, Henry W. Meyer, Frans Helmerson, Anner Bylsma, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Johannes Goritzki.

He performs together with Nadine Contini, Martin Eßmann, and Christiane Silber in the Contini Quartet, as well as in the cello quartet “Just Four Cellos” with Volkmar Weiche, Jörg Breuninger, and Christian Raudszus.

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.