Stefan Latzko’s career path took him from the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra via the University of Music in Munich, Würzburg and Hanover, to a scholarship at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He graduated with distinction and gave his concert recital at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf under Prof. Rosa Fain.

Orchestra playing remains his great passion to this day. This was decisively shaped by his membership in the Young German Philharmonic. Subsequently, he was also a member of the ›Chamber Orchestra of the Young German Philharmonic‹. From here, in 1989, he came to The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie, which at that time still resided in Frankfurt.

In addition to playing in the orchestra, Stefan Latzko is a keen chamber musician, having founded his first string quartet during his student days. Today he also regularly performs as a soloist and passes on his experience teaching the violin at the University of the Arts Bremen and coaching the Bremen Youth Orchestra.

Stefan Latzko spends much of his spare time cycling and has already cycled across Europe. His next ambition is to explore New Zealand on two wheels.

Furthermore he is concertmaster of the Sinfonietta Oldenburg and the orchestra ›Sinfonia Concertante‹ in Bremen.

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.

Born in 2001, Pedro Silva began his musical career at the age of four in the tradition-steeped wind band Banda de Música de Famalicão, before beginning his musical training on the bassoon at the Centro de Cultura Musical at the age of ten. At the age of 12, he continued to develop his musical skills at the Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave, initially with his teacher Lurdes Carneiro and later with Sandra Ochoa and Hugo Mendes. He finally completed his bachelor’s degree at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo do Porto, where he was taught by Pedro Silva, Raffaele Giannotti and Axel Benoit. Today, this young Portuguese bassoonist, who is currently completing his master’s degree with Guilhaume Santana at the Hochschule für Musik Saar, works with various orchestras and ensembles, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Luxembourg, the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, the Orquestra do Norte, the Orquestra Clássica do Centro, the Mannheim Philharmonic and others.

Pedro Silva was a member of the Jovem Orquestra Portuguesa in the 2020/21 season and has played in the Famalicão Youth Orchestra since 2019. In the 2022/23 season, he received a guest contract with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Trier. He is also a passionate chamber musician and regularly collaborates on chamber music projects with various ensembles. In 2019, he won 2nd prize at the national Prémio Jovens Músicos in Portugal with the In time quintet.

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.

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.

Sophie Stein has been playing the oboe since the age of nine and received her first lessons from Detlef Groß. She was enthusiastic about orchestral playing from an early age and was initially a member of the NRW State Youth Orchestra in 2014 and the National Youth Orchestra from 2015 to 2019. There, she also had the opportunity to take part in various projects including under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, Alondra de la Parra, Kirill Petrenko, Elias Grandy and Paavo Järvi.

Sophie Stein is a multiple national prizewinner of Jugend musiziert and was awarded a special prize in the category ‚Best Interpretation of a Contemporary Work‘ in the WESPE competition in 2018. From 2016 to 2018, this young oboist was a junior student of Kai Frömbgen at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in 2023. In 2015 and 2017, she was given the opportunity to perform as a soloist with an orchestra: First as the winner of the Bühne frei competition with the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker and later with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen as part of a charity concert. From, 2018 she was a scholarship holder of the Dr Carl Dörken Foundation for two years, in 2022 solo oboist of the Moritzburg Festival Academy and in 2024 she participated in a project as solo oboist under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. Since the 2023 autumn term, Sophie Stein has been studying for her master’s degree with Viola Wilmsen at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin.