Both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, Tanja Tetzlaff is one of the leading cellists of her generation. Her repertoire is broad and varied, bridging the standard repertoire with contemporary compositions from the 21st century. She studied cello with Bernhard Gmelin at Hamburg College of Music and Drama, followed by studies with Heinrich Schiff at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She has won many international competitions, including the ARD Competition and has also worked with numerous renowned orchestras – the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Orchestre de Paris and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Daniel Harding and Vladimir Ashkenazy. She has also recorded the cello concertos Wolfgang Rihm and Ernst Toch with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen on the Neos label.

Last season saw Tanja Tetzlaff in Tokyo with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and also on stage with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. For the 2018 season she is Artist in Residence with the SWR Schwetzinger Festival where she can be heard in a number of performances throughout the season. She has a particular interest in chamber music und performs regularly with Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt and can be seen on stage at the renowned Heidelberg Spring Festival, at festivals in Bergen, Baden-Baden and at the Edinburgh Festival. This much sought-after performer is a core member of the Heimbach Festival ›Spannungen‹ as well as being a member of the Tetzlaff Quartet, which she co-founded in 1994 with Christian Tetzlaff, Elisabeth Kufferath and Hanna Weinmeister. She was, for many years, principal cellist with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen; a post she held until 2018.

Lars Vogt has rapidly established himself as one of the leading pianists of his generation and is an internationally sought-after soloist and chamber musician. He first came to public attention when, aged 20, he won second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition.

In recent years, Lars Vogt has enjoyed a rapid rise to fame internationally in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia, working with such conductors as Riccardo Chailly, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph Eschenbach, Claudio Abbado, Kurt Masur, Sir Simon Rattle and Franz Welser-Möst. He has appeared at guest concerts for example with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Orchestre de Paris, the London Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra as well as the orchestras in Cleveland, Los Angeles and Atlanta.

Lars Vogt’s versatility is reflected in his repertoire, which includes works from the Classical and Romantic periods, through to compositions from the 20th century. Apart from his career as a soloist, Mr Vogt continues to develop his new role as conductor. In 1998 he founded his own festival in Heimbach/Eifel. Known as ›Spannungen‹, this has become a major venue for high-profile chamber music concerts.