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).

From the beginning of his career Josep Pons has worked on opera and symphonic repertoire. He has been artistic director and now is director laureate of the Spanish National Orchestra. Since 2012 he is music director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. In recent years, he is consolidating a significant international career, being regularly invited by major foreign orchestras such as BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Orchestre de Paris besides The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen.

Josep Pons discography includes thirty titles, most of which have won awards with Diapason d’Or, Grand Prix du Disque, Cannes Classical Awards and a Grammy among them. He has received the awards ›City of Barcelona‹ and ›Catalan National‹. In 1999 he received the ›National Music Award‹ awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain, for his long and outstanding activity for twentieth Century music, the quality of their performances and the interest of their programs.