Nadja Reich was initially taught as a junior student by Matias de Oliveira Pinto at the University of the Arts in her hometown of Berlin, and later by Jens Peter Maintz. Between 2013 and 2019, this young cellist studied with Thomas Grossenbacher at Zurich University of the Arts. She was further inspired by musical encounters with Truls Mørk, Steven Isserlis und Alfred Brendel. She is a passionate chamber musician and has performed as such with the Doric Quartet and Midori, among others.

Between 2012 and 2017, Nadja Reich was a scholarship holder and the Music Academy Liechtenstein. She won first prize at the Guilhermina Suggia Competition in Porto in 2017 and in 2015 she won the special prize at the TONALi Competition in Hamburg. As part of the TONALi tour, concerts at the Trans-Siberian Art Festival in Moscow and Samara followed. Alongside other accolades, this musician won the Swiss Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Music Prize 2018 as well as the Migros-Kulturprozent Study Award. In addition to her numerous performances at renowned festivals, Nadja Reich is dedicated to the search for new concert formats and is an advocate of free improvisation and contemporary music in a variety of contexts.

Her instrument – a Filippo Fasser cello – is on generous loan from Sol Gabetta.

During her school days Friederike Latzko was a junior student at the University of Music in Cologne, where she received intensive chamber music lessons from the Amadeus Quartet. After earning her university entrance qualification, she changed to the University of the Arts in Berlin, where she gained further ensemble experience in all of the major West Berlin orchestras. She was a DAAD and Herbert von Karajan Foundation scholarship holder, associate teacher and lecturer with the German National Youth Orchestra and the Young German Philharmonic, as well as chamber music partner to renowned soloists.

In 1980, Friederike founded The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen together with like-minded fellow students – at first under the name ›Chamber Orchestra of the Young German Philharmonic‹, then later from 1987 in Frankfurt ›Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie‹. In the meantime, she has been a solo violist and dedicated music teacher here for over 30 years.

With Mark Scheibe, she created the ›Melody for Life‹ and with Rodrigo Blumenstock, Stefan Latzko and Gunther Schwiddessen the orchestra project ›Sinfonia Concertante‹, in which members of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen play alongside dedicated amateurs.

Friederike Latzko has two grown-up children and spends any spare time in her studio painting and working on her next exhibition.