Walking concert Gärten der Welt Berlin

Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1984, Simone Gruppe received her first trumpet lessons at the age of 9 at the Frankfurt Youth Music School with Sunhild Pfeiffer. After graduating from high school, she first studied with Prof. Klaus Schuhwerk, Heiko Hermann and Balázs Nemes at the Frankfurt University of Music and with Prof. Sepp Eidenberger at the Bruckner University in Linz/Austria. She then moved to the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe to study with Prof. Reinhold Friedrich, where she completed her master’s degree with distinction.

She gained orchestral experience in the European Youth Orchestra (EUYO) and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, among others. After internships with the orchestra of the National Theater Mannheim and the Stuttgart Philharmonic, she has been a member of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2010.

Jörg Lehmann was born in Eisenhüttenstadt in 1962 and studied bass trombone with Hans Behrends at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin from 1979-1983.

After working as a substitute at the Komische Oper Berlin, he won the audition there and was bass trombonist from 1983-1986 under the then chief conductor, Prof Rolf Reuter.
In the same year he switched to the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, under Prof. Heinz Rögner, later Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and then for a long time under Marek Janowski.

Jörg Lehmann has played with various orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Staatsoper Berlin, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden under renowned conductors such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Claudio Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Andris Nelsons and Christian Thielemann.

In addition to his orchestral activities, Lehmann is an enthusiastic chamber musician.
He was a founding member of the Berlin Trombone Quintet and a permanent member of the Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble.
Numerous guest appearances have taken him to other European countries, Asia, North and South America, the Middle East and Africa.
Jörg Lehmann now devotes himself to concert literature for trombone and organ.