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).

Reinhard Goebel, a conductor who specialises in 17th, 18th and early 19th century music, is revered as an »early music icon«. In demand worldwide, he acts not only as a mediator of historical performance practice to modern orchestras and early music ensembles alike, but also as an inexhaustible source of repertoire treasures.

In 1973 he formed the legendary Musica Antiqua Köln which he has directed for 33 years. Since then, he has inspired and polarised the contemporary orchestral landscape with his unique ability to amalgamate his passion for music with a detailed knowledge of musicological sources. Reinhard Goebel’s multifaceted works have won numerous awards: in 1984 he was awarded the Buxtehude Prize by the city of Lübeck, in 2015 he was selected by BBC Music Magazine as one of the top 20 best violinists of all time and he was awarded the Bach Medal of the city of Leipzig in 2017.

The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen has for years maintained a musical friendship with the conductor and gives regular concerts under the direction of his baton; the 2021/22 season is no exception. He will also be appearing with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk as well as with the Swedish Radio Orchestra Stockholm. After the immense success of his CD series ›Beethoven’s World‹, the series ›New Mozart‹ with the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg – in which largely previously unrecorded arrangements and works by Mozart will feature – will also be appearing during the 2021/22 season.