Sarah Christian’s wish is to convey the honest emotion and energy of classical music to her listeners. In her artistic life, she enjoys combining all influences, not having to compromise anything in her many roles as soloist, chamber musician, the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen’s concert master or as Artistic Director of a chamber music series in her home town of Augsburg. Here she makes the highest demands on herself. Her focus, when studying scores, is always on the music itself, which she approaches with the greatest respect. Her most important teacher is Antje Weithaas, with whom she studied at the Hanns Eisler Music College in Berlin and whose assistant she later became. As professor, Sarah Christian supervises her own class at the Stuttgart College of Music and Performing Arts.

One of her greatest competition success is the ARD Music Competition 2017, at which she won 2nd Prize (no 1st prize was awarded). She also won the audience prize and the Munich Chamber Orchestra’s special prize. Sarah Christian has performed in many European countries, as well as in China, Japan, South America and The United States. As soloist, she has played with orchestras such as the Camerata Salzburg, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia. She gave her debut at Carnegie Hall with the Bavarian State Orchestra in March 2018. Her Debut CD (GENUIN, 2017), featuring Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 and Schubert’s C Major Fantasy has been greatly praised by the press »Sarah Christian’s solo debut is simply fantastic! This violinist has proven to be an extremely sensitive interpreter and she is technically quite simply unimpeachable.« (klassik.com).

Born in Paris, Tristan Cornut has won prizes at many international competitions, including the ARD Music Competition, the Domnick Competition and the Gaspar Cassado Competition. He studied with Roland Pidoux at the Paris Conservatoire and at Stuttgart College of Music as well as with Jean-Guihen Queyras at Freiburg College of Music.

He has performed as soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphonie Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk, the Stuttgart Kammer Orchester, the Münchner Kammer Orchester, the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and Ensemble Resonanz, among others. Since 2012, he has been principal cellist of the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen.

A passionate chamber musician, he has performed alongside Yo-Yo Ma, Antonio Meneses, Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Giuranna, Miguel da Silva and Daniel Hope as well as being prize-winner at the Melbourne, Trondheim and Joseph Haydn (Vienna) chamber music competitions.

Tristan Cornut has been Professor of Violoncello at the Stuttgart University of Music since 2017. He currently plays a 2005 Urs Mächler cello.

Born in London in 1971, Thomas Adès is considered one of today’s most important contemporary composers. In addition, this musician is also well known as a pianist and conductor, performing regularly with leading orchestras, opera ensembles and festivals right across the world. Among his works feature several operas; ›The Exterminating Angel‹ which was premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2016, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and again at the Royal Opera House in London with Adès on the conductor’s podium, ›The Tempest‹ and the Chamber Opera ›Powder Her Face‹ – which Adès composed aged only 24. His orchestral works include ›Asyla‹, ›Tevot‹ and his violin concerto ›Concentric Paths‹ – with performances in Carnegie Hall, at the Festspiele Berlin and the BBC Proms – as well as numerous celebrated chamber and solo pieces.

As a conductor, Thomas Adès appears regularly with great international orchestras such as Los Angeles, Helsinki and the London Philharmonic Orchestras, The Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Concertgebouworkest, with whom Thomas Adès is Artist in Residence 2019/20. Among his numerous awards include the Grawemeyer Award, the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, the Diapason D’Or of the year, the Echo Klassik as well as the Gramophone Award for his CD recording of ›The Tempest‹ from The Royal Opera House. This versatile musician is also winner of a Grammy Award and was awarded the prestigious Léonie Sonning Music Prize in 2015.

Chris Rogers-Beadle began studying violin at the age of 5 before switching to viola at the age of 16. He went on to get his Bachelor’s degree at the Colburn School in Los Angeles under the tutelage of Paul Coletti and would later graduate from Yale University with a master’s degree having studied with Ettore Causa.

Chris has participated in many masterclasses and festivals in the US and Europe and has been a prizewinner in national competitions in the US.

Chris has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras including the Philharmonic Baden-Baden and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Also a seasoned chamber musician, Chris has performed in concert with artists such as Anthony Marwood, Ivan Monighetti, and Augustin Hadelich.