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Born in 1964 in Forlì. Studied violin (with A. Casagrande) and composition (with M. Perrucci) at the "G.B.Pergolesi" music institute in Ancona and at the "G.Rossini" conservatory in Pesaro, then worked with the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana and various ensembles for early, baroque and contemporary music in Italy. In 1982 he founded the international ensemble Oni Wytars in Innsbruck (with Peter Rabanser). Since 1990 he has been a soloist with the Clemencic Consort in Vienna, and since 1991 he has been artistic director (with Katharina Dustmann) of Studio Katharco - sound:creations.

Concerts as a soloist for the Royal Swedish Concert Agency, the "Alla Scala" theater (Milan), the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Philharmonie in Cologne, Berlin and Moscow and for the Camerata Nordica. Jazz concerts and recordings in collaboration with Carlo Rizzo, Jean-Louis Matinier, Valentin Clastrier and Michael Riessler. 1993 "new-comer" & composer at the New Jazz Meeting of the SWF. Co-author (with Michael Posch) of the textbook "Introduction to medieval music". Worldwide concert activity, more than 100 CD productions, as well as radio and television recordings as composer, soloist or as a member of Ensemble Oni Wytars (Germany), Els Trobadors (Spain), Ensemble Unicorn, Ensemble Accentus, Clemencic Consort, Armonico Tributo Austria (Austria), Ensemble Kapsberger (Rolf Lislevand-Norway), Camerata Nordica (Sweden), Jean-Louis Matinier, Michael Riessler and others.

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born in 1963, she continued her education intensively after studying the recorder with G. Höller and W. van Hauwe. She was particularly interested in eras and styles that are not usually covered in her studies: the music of the Middle Ages, improvised music and jazz. Her experience with these different genres shapes her style - exciting, rhythmically pointed and tonally differentiated. Concerts with baroque music, for example at the Festival for Early Music in Herne and appearances at the Moers Jazz Festival, the European Broadcasting Union Festival or as first prize winner in the "Creole" competition show the breadth of her artistic work.

Concert tours have taken her to France, Italy, Canada, Hungary, Poland and Switzerland. Meike Herzig plays in the ensembles "Bois de Cologne", "palatino87", "sYn.de" and with artists such as Dorothee Oberlinger, Maria Jonas, Guillemette Laurens, Carlo Rizzo, Michel Godard, Albrecht Maurer, members of Concerto Köln and Sequenzia, the Hilliard Ensemble and as a guest with Ensemble Oni Wytars. Developing unusual, attractive concert and CD programs is one of her particular strengths.

born in 1963 in Krefeld. After his piano and cello training, he became intensively involved with European folklore and the corresponding instruments. In his youth he traveled all over Europe as a street musician and researched the medieval roots of traditional music.

In 1990 he graduated from the music academy in Gothenburg with the "University Certificate in Music" for early music. He specializes in hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes and historical harps and is considered an internationally recognized specialist in historical performance practice. Since 1982 he has played in various international ensembles for early music such as "Oni Wytars" (D), "Ensemble Unicorn" (A), "Accentus Austria" (A), "Le Concert Spirituel" (F), "Les Menus-Plaisirs du Roy" (B). International courses and concerts, over 80 CD recordings, numerous television and radio productions.

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born in 1969 in Austria; piano lessons with Nono Schreiner, guitar and trombone self-taught; studied classical composition, jazz composition, orchestral and choir conducting in Graz (A); since 1990 playing the hurdy-gurdy, initially autodidact, later lessons with Barbara Grimm, Valentin Clastrier, Riccardo Delfino and Gilles Chabenat; 1st prize at the "Concours des vielles et cornemuses", St. Chartier (F) 1994; concerts & recordings with deishovida (A), Tunji Beier (AUS), Wafir el Din Gibrit (SUD), Ruth Yakoov (ISR), Ross Daly (GR), Djamchid Chemirani (IR), le concert spirituel (FR), Alex Deutsch (A), Hubert von Goisern (A) and others in Europe, Africa, USA; commissioned compositions for the ORF & EBU 1997; Since 1994, teacher of hurdy-gurdy technique and improvisation, author of a hurdy-gurdy book

More information at www.matthias.loibner.net.

In the years following his studies, Jakob Rattinger was able to make a name for himself among the small but fine group of first-class gambists.

His own CD recordings “L´Univers de Marin Marais”, “1633-1767 German & French Chamber Music” & “Voyages-Reisen” attracted press attention and won several awards.

The artist also participated in numerous other CD recordings, which also won awards.

As a soloist and continuist, the artist regularly performed in German and French-speaking countries and was heard as a soloist at the Moritzburg Festival / Dresden, the Early Music Cycle in Prague, the Innsbruck Festival Weeks, the Mainz Summer / SWR, etc.

born in 1962 in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad). He received his first piano lessons at the age of 6. In 1985 he completed his piano studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Vladimir Natansson. After several years of concert activity as a soloist and chamber musician, he continued his studies at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam with Anneke Uittenbosch (harpsichord) and Stanley Hoogland (fortepiano). In 1993 he won a prize at the International Harpsichord Competition in Warsaw. Since 1998 Alexander Puliaev has lived in Germany, where he also teaches at the Cologne University of Music (Wuppertal Department).

He is in international demand as a soloist and chamber musician and has worked with conductors such as Peter Schreier, Ivor Bolton, Marcus Creed and Christoph Spering. In the area of ​​chamber music, partnerships exist with Dorothee Oberlinger, Anton Steck, Hille Perl, Christoph Mayer, Vittorio Ghielmi, Ensemble 1700, Kontraste Köln, Concerto Köln, Das Neue Orchester Köln. Alexander Puliaev regularly appears at international music festivals all over the world (Nantes, Tokyo, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Festa da Musica in Lisbon, Stockstadt Music Days, Arolser Baroque Festival, Banchetto Musicale in Vilnius, etc.). He has recorded various CDs for BIS and MARC AUREL Edition.

More information at www.puliaev.de.