Born in 1991, Maja Dvoracek had her first piano lessons at the age of five.

In 2001, she started to learn the harp with Ilse Rheinders in Ulm and from 2005 was taught by Ragnhild Kopp in Munich. Maja Dvoracek won first prize in the 2007 German Harp Association Competition, and in 2008 she scored the maximum amount of points in the national ›Jugend musiziert‹ competition.

As a soloist she has played among others with the Brandenburg State Orchestra and ›Concerto Konstanz‹; from 2008 to 2011, Maja was a junior student at Music Conservatory in Zurich under Catherine Michel.

At the Musikschule Konstanz while still at school she played in numerous solo and chamber music concerts and was a sought-after accompanist. In the 2011 ›Jugend musiziert‹ Solo Piano Competition, she won first prize at federal state level.

After graduating from school, Maja studied the harp at the University of the Arts in Bremen in the 2011/2012 winter semester. Since October 2012, she has been a student of Xavier de Maistre´s at the HfMT in Hamburg. In 2011, she received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Society in Constanz; since 2013, she has been supported by ›Life Music Now Hamburg‹.

Born in 1993, Christina Brabetz went to the German School in Cape Town and began climbing the ladder of local and national music competitions. She won numerous first prizes and was soon acclaimed as the Most Promising Candidate.

At the early age of 11, Christina Brabetz played as a soloist at the renowned Hugo Lambrechts Concerto Festival in Cape Town. Two years later, she was admitted to the University of Music in Detmold to study violin with Prof. Thomas Christian and also studies at the Vienna Conservatory private university.

The peak of her career up to now was to win the prestigious TONALi GRAND PRIX, followed by the opportunity to play a solo concert with Kurt Masur as conductor and engagements at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the BASF concerts and other music festivals.

Debuts at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam subsequently followed.

Christina Brabetz plays a violin made by Giambattista Guadagnini (Turin, 1779) provided by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben from the Deutsche Musikinstrumentenfonds.

Taiwan conductor Tung-Chieh Chuang already won numerous competitions at an early age, including second place in the 4th Gustav Mahler Competition in Bamberg and third place in the Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest International Conducting Competition in 2012. He received the Edwin B. Garrigues Annual Fellowship Award 2010 at the Curtis Institute of Music and is a winner of the National French Horn Competition in Taiwan.

Chuang has conducted the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonica George Enescu, The State Philharmonic of Sibiu, North-Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra, l’Orchestre de Besançon Montbéliard Franche-Comté, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan, among others.

In May 2011, Chuang took part in the organization of the Curtis Japan Benefit Concert in the Trinity Church in Philadelphia, the proceeds of which were donated entirely to the Japanese Red Cross following the Tohoku earthquake. In January 2013, Chuang was invited to play with maestro Kurt Masur in New York.

Chuang is currently a concert exam student alongside Nicolás Pasquet at the Franz Liszt College of Music in Weimar, where he is taught by Mark Gibson, Gustav Meier and Otto-Werner Müller, among others.

Simon Höfele, born16.5.1994, took trumpet lessons with Michael Schmeißer from the age of seven. From the winter semester 2008 he was a junior student and from summer semester 2012 a regular student with Prof. Reinhold Friedrich.

He won first prizes in the national Jugend Musiziert competition, the Concours Europeen des jeunes trompetistes (2006 and 2010) and the U21 special prize at the ARD International Music Competition. Simon Höfele holds several scholarships, including from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

He has made solo appearances with the Munich Youth Orchestra, Frankfurt Soloists, Philharmonie Merck and Sinfonietta Darmstadt, among others. In summer 2012, he performed Matthias Pintscher’s Concerto for Two Trumpets with Reinhold Friedrich.

Simon Höfele is a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra.