Born in Locarno, Francesco Piemontesi is a pianist of exceptional refinement of expression, which is allied to a consummate technical skill. The ›Neue Zürcher Zeitung‹ calls him a »Wizard of Sound«. Of his great teacher and mentor, Alfred Brendel, Piemontesi says that Brendel taught him »to love the detail of things«. In his many concerto, recital and chamber music appearances, he reveals all the mesmerising facets of his artistry and takes his audiences on a fascinating discovery journey. Piemontesi has performed with some of the world’s leading orchestras, from the Berlin Philharmonic to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and from the London to the NHK Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he gives regular guest performances at festivals such as the Salzburg, the Lucerne and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festivals as well as at the BBC Proms.
In addition to the concert stage, Piemontesi is equally at home performing chamber music with a variety of partners including Leif Ove Andsnes, Christian Tetzlaff, Jörg Widmann and Janine Jansen. In solo recital, Piemontesi delivers pure piano poetry to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, at the Rheingau Musik Festival and at the Wigmore Hall in London, where he was celebrated for his Mozart Odyssey of the complete piano sonatas. Since 2012, Piemontesi has been the Artistic Director of the Swiss classic festival Settimane Musicali di Ascona.

Sir Roger Norrington played the violin and sang from a young age. After studying History and English Literature, he gained several years’ experience of top-class amateur music making, before returning to musical studies at the Royal College of Music in London and the start of his professional career as a singer and conductor. In 1962 he founded the Schütz Choir.

In 1969, Roger Norrington was appointed Music Director of the Kent Opera. He founded the London Classical Players in 1978 in order to study historically informed performance practices on period musical instruments from the time between 1750 and 1900. As a guest conductor he has worked at the Covent Garden Opera House, the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras as well as the New York, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland orchestras, among others.

Sir Roger Norrington was Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) and of the Camerata Salzburg. At both locations he established a historically informed performance style in a ›modern‹ setting. With The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen he has enjoyed a long and friendly collaboration.

Since 1993, Daniel Sepec has been concertmaster with The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, with which he also appears regularly as a soloist. He has recorded two CDs with the orchestra featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as Antonio Vivaldi’s ›Four Seasons‹, on which he also directed himself.

He has also appeared several times as guest concertmaster with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (including a tour with Claudio Abbado), Camerata Academica Salzburg and the Ensemble Oriol Berlin. As a soloist he has performed with the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood, the Vienna Academy of Music under Martin Haselböck and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées under Philippe Herreweghe.

His CD recording of H. I. F. Biber’s Rosary Sonatas received the German Record Critics’ Award. Daniel Sepec is the only musician to date to have recorded a CD on a rediscovered violin formerly belonging to Ludwig van Beethoven together with pianist Andreas Staier. As a member of the Arcanto Quartet, he has made recordings of the Mozart, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Bartók and Dutilleux string quartets, as well as Schubert’s String Quartet.

From September 2010 until July 2014, he was professor at the School of Music in Basle. In 2014, he was offered a professorship at Lübeck University of Music.