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.

Sir Roger Norrington played the violin and sang from a young age. After studying History and English Literature, he gained several years’ experience of top-class amateur music making, before returning to musical studies at the Royal College of Music in London and the start of his professional career as a singer and conductor. In 1962 he founded the Schütz Choir.

In 1969, Roger Norrington was appointed Music Director of the Kent Opera. He founded the London Classical Players in 1978 in order to study historically informed performance practices on period musical instruments from the time between 1750 and 1900. As a guest conductor he has worked at the Covent Garden Opera House, the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras as well as the New York, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland orchestras, among others.

Sir Roger Norrington was Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) and of the Camerata Salzburg. At both locations he established a historically informed performance style in a ›modern‹ setting. With The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen he has enjoyed a long and friendly collaboration.