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Harp & Organ Ulrike Northoff - Organ Programme: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Josef Blanco (1775-1811): Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (1882-1955): Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893): Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Isaak Albeniz(1860-1909): Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999): Pearl Chertok (1918-1981): Théodore Dubois (1837-1924): Jean-Michel Damase (*1928) :
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OLJA KAISER began to study the harp at the age of 5. She completed her studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where she graduated with distinction. Olja furthered her professional abilities participating in master classes given by Isabelle Perrin, David Watkins, Susanna Mildonian, Chantal Mathieu and Isabelle Moretti. She also learned baroque harp playing at the Scola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel). In her youth she was already appearing internationally as a soloist and in chamber music recitals. Olja Kaiser has won prizes in the Concorso Internazionale Premio Rovere d'Oro in San Bartolomeo al Mare in Imperia (Italy) and the Concert Artists Guild Music Competition in New York. In addition to appearing in festivals (e.g. Pacific Music Festival, Abu Dhabi Classical Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Moselfestwochen, Mecklenburgischer Musiksommer, Musikwoche Bad Wörishofen, Rheingau Musikfestival), Olja Kaiser has toured throughout Europe, the United States, Japan, China and Hongkong. Olja Kaiser regularly plays in solo concerts with symphony orchestras and chamber orchestras including the Moscow State Chamber Orchestra, the Cologne Youth Philharmonic and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic. She was engaged as the principal harpist in the Gorky Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Great Hall Symphony, the Bolshoi Ballet Orchestra, the Philharmonia Hungarika and at the Apollo Theater in Stuttgart, prior to pursuing her solo career. Miss Kaiser is regularly invited to perform as principal harpist with many symphony and chamber orchestras, e.g.: Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Köln, Moscow Radio 1 Symphony Orchestra, Bolshoi Theater Ballet, Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken, Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Mannheim, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. Her experience playing in opera and ballet orchestras in Germany includes the following opera houses: Mannheim, Darmstadt, Saarbrücken, Freiburg, Koblenz, Kaiserslautern and Heidelberg. She has been an assistant to Prof. O. Erdely at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, she has taught at the Prokofiev Music School in Moscow and at a conservatory in Luxembourg. She was a member of the jury for the German competition "Jugend musiziert". Due to her many worldwide appearances as solo harpist as well as in chamber music recitals, including radio and television recordings, Olja Kaiser is one of the most active and many facetted harpists of her generation. More information at
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Saxophone & Organ Ulrike Northoff - Organ
Programme: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Aléxandre Guilmant Cantilène (1837-1911): Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901): Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897): Hiroyuki Itoh (*1963): Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897): Remo Giazotto (1910-1998): César Franck (1822-1890): Traditional: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
Since 1999: Koryun Asatryan has "collected" many first and second prizes including:
His musical activities also extend to chamber music accompanied either by piano or accordion. Since 2005 Koryun Asatryan is a member of the "Alliage" Quartet. |
Koryun Asatryan -
Saxophone
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Pan-Pipes & Organ Ulrike Northoff - Organ Programme: Jeremiah Clarke (1686-1707): Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707): Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739): Esprit Philippe Chédeville (1696-1762): Michel Richard De La Lande (1657-1726): Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Anonym / Michael Praetorius (16.Jh./1571-1621): Théodor Dubois (1837-1924): Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759): Henry Purcell (1659-1695):
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Philippe Emmanuel Haas, Pan-Pipes in ancient music, was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1962. Studies of Pan-pipes in ancient and classical music in Berne and at the Hilversum Conservatory, in the Netherlands. Participation in masterclasses for the interpretation of ancient and classical music on copies of historical instruments at the "Centre International de Formation Musicale" in Nice, France, with Jean-Loup Grégoire and Simion Stanciu "Syrinx"; at the "Gesellschaft für Alte Musik" in Rastatt, Germany, with Hans-Martin Linde; as well as at the "Académie de Musique de Sion", within the "Festival Tibor Varga" in Sion, Switzerland, under the direction of Jordi Savall. Concerts as a soloist, accompanied by the organ, the harpsichord, the harp or the lute, and as a member of ensembles of ancient music, during international music festivals in Austria, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Artistic director of the international Festival "Festliche Musik in der Kirche Rötteln / Lörrach", Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, dedicated to the ancient music. Guest lecturer at the "Académie Musique et Danse Florigammes" at Sartène-Propriano, Corsica. Teacher of Pan-pipes at music schools in Switzerland. CD recordings, for the labels AUROPHON CLASSICS and VDE-GALLO, of music of the Renaissance and the Baroque periods, accompanied by the harpsichord, the violoncello and the organ.
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Cello & Organ Ulrike Northoff - Organ Programme: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1701-1775): Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759): Theodor Kirchner (1823-1903): Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901): Peter Mathews ( geb. 1944):
Principal cellist of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Leipzig Gewandhaus Quartet |
JÜRN JAKOB TIMM
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Piano & Organ Ulrike Northoff - Organ ~ Programme is being developed ~
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Monica Gutman