David Marlow has been the Chief Conductor of the Vogtland Philharmonie since 2014. From 2010 to 2015, he was Musical Assistant to Andris Nelsons at the Bayreuth Festival. On Nelson’s behalf, he took over the rehearsals for Lohengrin with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at short notice in December 2015. The overwhelmingly positive resonance from the orchestra has led to further engagements in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Ireland.

To kick off the 2016/2017 season, Marlow debuted with the Ulster Orchestra Belfast and Rotterdam’s Philharmonisch Orkest, where he rehearsed all three concert programmes for the Gergiev Festival dedicated to the music of Prokofiev. Upcoming engagements include the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and Het Gelders Orkest as well as continued collaborations with the WDR Sinfonieorchester, the Jenaer Philharmonie and the Duisburger Philharmoniker.

His career as Kepellmeister led him first to Aachen and later to Chemnitz. From 2010 to 2013, David Marlow was the chorus master of the WDR Rundfunkchor. Over the last few years, Marlow has intensified his focus on symphonic music. As chief and guest conductor, he has performed many principal works from the classical and romantic repertoire as well as modern works. In the field of contemporary music, David Marlow has recently conducted such works as Con brio by Jörg Widmann, Industrial by Moritz Eggert and Takemitsu’s From me flows what you call time in addition to the German premieres of the operas Pinocchio by Jonathan Dove, Selma Jezkova by Paul Rouders as well as Ludger Vollmer’s Lola rennt.

David Marlow is also passionate about music education, and since 2014 has been involved in the »Werkbetrachtungen« for WDR3 radio listeners. One music education project with children, adolescents and adults in 2013 led him to work with the Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra together with musicians from the WDR and BR Sinfonieorchester and the Ensemble Modern.

Violoinist Sandro Roy was born in 1994 as the youngest member of a Sinti family which has produced a number of music directors. He received his first violin lesson with Harald Christian in Augsburg at the age of 7 and at 13 was a national prize-winner in the German ›Jugend musiziert‹ competition. More first prizes followed in the Duo catgegory. From the age of 15, Sandro Roy was a student of Prof. Jens Ellermann in Munich, who among others also taught Nigel Kennedy. Further inspiration came from international master classes with Igor Ozim (Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg) and Benjamin Schmid (Bern). He is currently studying with Prof. Linus Roth (Echo Klassik prize-winner) at Augsburg University’s Leopold Mozart Centre.

In 2011, Sandro Roy was the recipient of a special prize from the city of Augsburg promoting the arts. In 2014, he won the Rotary Club Augsburg-Fuggerstadt ›Young Talents Award‹.

Sandro Roy is a jazz as well as a classical musician and has played alongside jazz greats such as Bireli Lagrene. In 2015, he received the Jazz Sponsorship Award of the renowned Munich Concert Society.

Other successful appearances include the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Deutsche Mozartfest Augsburg, the St. Ingbert International Jazzfestival, the Elbinsel Gypsy Festival Hamburg and a concert tour in the USA to the ›Django in June‹ Gypsy Jazz Festival in Northampton, Massachusetts. As a soloist, he has played with the Amalien Kammerorchester München and Augsburg University Orchestra. Roy has performed for former Federal President Joachim Gauck at Schloss Bellevue, on the TV morning magazine show ZDF Morgenmagazin and as a soloist with the RTV Symphony Orchestra Slovenia.

In the 2015 season, Sandro Roy released his debut album ›Where I come from‹, which was heralded as a »fantastic start of a super talent« (Kulturspiegel).