Born into a Swiss-Hungarian family of artists in 1995, Äneas Humm joined the Zurich Boys‘ Choir at the age of six and went to boarding school at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory in Feldkirch at the age of 15. This baritone then completed his vocal training at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen and at the Juilliard School in New York. In 2022, he was honoured with the Opus Klassik award as Young Artist of the Year. Prior to this, this singer received the Deutschlandfunk sponsorship award. While still a student, he made his debut at the Bremerhaven Municipal Theatre and accepted guest engagements at the Osnabrück Theatre. Permanent engagements took him to the Nationaltheater Weimar and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Äneas Humm was a member of the ensemble at the St. Gallen Theatre until summer 2023, where he appeared as Papageno in Mozart’s ›Zauberflöte‹, among other roles. This was followed by debuts at the Opera di Roma as Papageno and as Harlequin at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

Äneas Humm is also in great demand singing concert and lied repertoire and is always a welcome guest with renowned European ensembles, at festivals and in various concert halls. In 2020, he performed Beethoven songs at Berlin’s Schloss Bellevue at the invitation of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. In December 2023, he once again performed Bach’s ›Weihnachtsoratorium‹ in John Neumeier’s choreography at Hamburg Staatsoper. Lieder recitals have taken this singer to the Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Bremen Music Festival, the Beethoven House in Bonn and the two major Swiss festivals in Davos and Lucerne.

Dominik Emanuel Wagner (born in 1997) was born in Vienna and is considered one of the most promising talents on his instrument. Aged only 5, he began his musical training initially on the cello, switching to double bass in 2007. Between 2009 and 2015 he attended the University for Music in Vienna, where he was taught in the class for exceptionally gifted students by Josef Niederhammer and Werner Fleischmann. He is currently studying with Dorin Marc at the Music College in Nuremberg.

In 2017 Dominik Emanuel Wagner was awarded an ›Echo Klassik‹ in the category for up-and-coming artists. He also boasts an impressive array of prizes from numerous international competitions; for example the ARD Music Competition, the Eurovision Young Musicians’ Competition or the International Osaka Competition. As soloist, he has already performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the South West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim, the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic, the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz and many others.

Dominik Emanuel Wagner has already performed in several international chamber music events and constellations, including at the Chelsea Music Festival of New York. Together with the clarinettist Vera Karner, he was awarded the ›Fanny Mendelssohn Prize‹. Dominik Emanuel Wagner has been an Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation Scholar since 2016.

David Danzmayr (born in 1980) is considered one of the most talented and exciting European conductors of his generation. Initially a student of Piano at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, he later switched to conducting and continued his studies with Dennis Russell Davies. On completing his studies in 2005 he was awarded the highest honours and also received the ›Bernhard Paumgartner Medal‹ from the International Mozarteum Foundation.

Austrian by birth, David Danzmayr has won several prestigious competitions such as the ›International Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition‹ and the ›Nicolai Malko Competition for Young Conductors‹. He was a scholarship holder with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestras and gained invaluable experience as assistant to Neeme Järvi, Stephane Deneve, Carlos Kalmar, Sir Andrew Davies and Pierre Boulez. As part of an additional study programme, he also attended the conducting class of Leif Segerstam at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Most recently, David Danzmayr has been Assistant Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and has served as Music Director of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra in Chicago, before taking up the position of Chief Conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also very much in demand worldwide as a guest conductor – e.g. with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. David Danzmayr has conducted concerts in many of the world’s greatest concert halls; the Concert House Vienna, the Great Festival Hall Salzburg, the Usher Hall in Edinburgh and Symphony Hall in Chicago to name but a few.

Riccardo Cellacchi, born in Rome in 1999, received his first flute lessons from his father. In 2009, he began his studies at the O. Respighi Conservatory in Latina, where, upon completion in 2015, he obtained the highest possible grade. Parallel to this, he also took flute lessons at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome from 2012 to 2014. Since 2016 he has been enrolled as a junior student at the College of Music and Drama in Munich, where he is a student of Andrea Lieberknecht.

Even as a very young flautist, his playing was heard by respected musicians. In 2012 he won the ›Severino Gazzelloni‹ International Flute Competition and in the two years that followed he won it again – securing first and second prize respectively. As winner of the ›E. Krakamp‹ Flute Competition in Benevento Italy, he has taken part in several CD recordings.

In 2015 he captivated listeners with his effortless performance at ›Premio Abbado‹. Riccardo Cellacchi has won further international prizes in Bucharest (at the ›Jeunesses International Flute Competition Dinu Lipatti‹) and, in 2017, at the International Flute Competition in Krakow.

Riccardo Cellacchi was Principal Flute with the Italian National Conservatory Orchestra (Orchestra Nazionale Sinfonica dei Conservatori Italiani) and, aged only 15, made his debut as soloist with Mozart’s D Major Concerto and the O. Respighi Orchestra. The following year, he performed Nielsen’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic, going on to perform with the Perugia Chamber Orchestra and the Krakow Chamber Orchestra in 2017.