Born in Shenzhen, China, Penghua Huang discovered his passion for music, especially symphonies, at a young age. He received his first violin lessons at the age of six. Under the guidance of his teachers Ling Jing and Xu Zhang from the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, he further developed his skills and gained much recognition as a winner of several prizes at various youth competitions during his childhood. In 2010, he became a member of the Shenzhen Youth String Orchestra, where he also became principal 2nd violin. From 2018, Penghua Huang studied with Wei Wei at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music. Due to his outstanding achievements, he was also awarded a scholarship from the Xinghai Conservatory of Music.

In 2020, this young violinist ventured to Germany to continue his studies at the University of the Arts in Bremen where he was taught by Stefan Latzko. He also expanded and deepened his knowledge of orchestral training under the guidance of Thomas Klug. Penghua Huang devotes himself with great dedication to both orchestral and chamber music activities, where he is able to further develop his talent.

Julia Pałęcka first studied violin and viola in Warsaw and then continued her studies at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (UMFC) in Warsaw with Konstanty Andrzej Kulka. A year later, she began her viola studies with Hartmut Rohde at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She has also attended numerous masterclasses.

Julia Pałęcka has won prizes at many international and national viola and chamber music competitions and has performed at international music festivals, including the IMS Prussia Cove, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, the Zermatt Festival and Manchester Music Festival, as well as many others. She has worked with many prominent musicians, including Bruno Giuranna, Kim Kashkashian, Miguel da Silva, Philip Setzer, Sergey Malov, Lukas Hagen, Noah Bendix-Balgley and Wolfgang Böttcher. She has also performed in major concert halls such as the Berlin and Warsaw Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing and others. From 2021 to 2023 she was a member of the Kurt Sanderling Academy of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin.

During her school days Friederike Latzko was a junior student at the University of Music in Cologne, where she received intensive chamber music lessons from the Amadeus Quartet. After earning her university entrance qualification, she changed to the University of the Arts in Berlin, where she gained further ensemble experience in all of the major West Berlin orchestras. She was a DAAD and Herbert von Karajan Foundation scholarship holder, associate teacher and lecturer with the German National Youth Orchestra and the Young German Philharmonic, as well as chamber music partner to renowned soloists.

In 1980, Friederike founded The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen together with like-minded fellow students – at first under the name ›Chamber Orchestra of the Young German Philharmonic‹, then later from 1987 in Frankfurt ›Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie‹. In the meantime, she has been a solo violist and dedicated music teacher here for over 30 years.

With Mark Scheibe, she created the ›Melody for Life‹ and with Rodrigo Blumenstock, Stefan Latzko and Gunther Schwiddessen the orchestra project ›Sinfonia Concertante‹, in which members of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen play alongside dedicated amateurs.

Friederike Latzko has two grown-up children and spends any spare time in her studio painting and working on her next exhibition.

Çiğdem Tunçelli was born in Lausanne (Switzerland) in 1999 and received her first violin lessons at the age of five. She won numerous prizes early on, including first prize for violin at the Swiss Youth Music Competition. From 2015, she studied with Gyula Stuller at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne and completed her bachelor’s degree with the highest honours. This young violinist then studied with Eva-Christina Schönweiß at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule Berlin before moving to Raphael Oleg at the Musikhochschule Basel in autumn 2023. Çiğdem Tunçelli pursued her special interest in Baroque music at the renowned Scola Cantorum Basiliensis. In the course of her training, she also had lessons with Leonidas Kavakos, Donald Weilerstein, Schmuel Ashkenasy, Gabor Takacs-Nagy and the Ysaÿe and Aviv Quartets.

A passionate orchestral and chamber musician, Çiğdem Tunçelli is a member of several prominent youth orchestras and has performed at many international summer festivals under conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding and Valery Gergiev. She was also invited to the Yellow Barn Festival in the USA in summer 2022 and 2023. Social issues are also close to Çiğdem Tunçelli’s heart, to this end she has already given numerous concerts with Musethica, whose purpose is to enable disadvantaged people and groups to enjoy concert experiences.

Rebecca Falk, born in 1998, was initially a junior student at the Musikhochschule Freiburg for four years. She studied cello and piano with Beverley Ellis, Elena Cheah and Christoph Sischka. From 2017 to 2023, she studied with Troels Svane at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, later in Hanover with Alvin Wong and now in Rostock with Natalie Clein. This passionate young musician has already won several prizes with her cello playing, including numerous special prizes at WESPE and four first national prizes at Jugend musiziert. In 2015, she was also awarded the Eduard Söring Prize of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben together with pianist Viktor Soos. In the same year, she completed a traineeship with the Sinfonieorchester Basel. She also won a place in the orchestra academy with Lübeck Philharmonie and has been a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie for a number of years.

In addition to performances throughout Germany, this young cellist has already given concerts in France, Switzerland, Denmark, Hungary and Bolivia. In summer 2019, she performed with Janine Jansen, Amihai Grosz and Jens Peter Maintz at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. As a passionate chamber musician, she also performs regularly with the Luboš Ensemble and Trio Phi. As passing on the joy of music is also a matter close to her heart, until very recently she also taught at the Musik und Kunstschule Lübeck.