Since 1993, Daniel Sepec has been concertmaster with The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, with which he also appears regularly as a soloist. He has recorded two CDs with the orchestra featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as Antonio Vivaldi’s ›Four Seasons‹, on which he also directed himself.

He has also appeared several times as guest concertmaster with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (including a tour with Claudio Abbado), Camerata Academica Salzburg and the Ensemble Oriol Berlin. As a soloist he has performed with the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood, the Vienna Academy of Music under Martin Haselböck and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées under Philippe Herreweghe.

His CD recording of H. I. F. Biber’s Rosary Sonatas received the German Record Critics’ Award. Daniel Sepec is the only musician to date to have recorded a CD on a rediscovered violin formerly belonging to Ludwig van Beethoven together with pianist Andreas Staier. As a member of the Arcanto Quartet, he has made recordings of the Mozart, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Bartók and Dutilleux string quartets, as well as Schubert’s String Quartet.

From September 2010 until July 2014, he was professor at the School of Music in Basle. In 2014, he was offered a professorship at Lübeck University of Music.

Jürgen Winkler is an enthusiastic Go player. This passion has awakened in him an affinity for traditional Japanese culture, so that both musically and privately he especially looks forward to the orchestra’s trips to Japan.

Alongside his fulfilling musical work with The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, Jürgen Winkler is also interested in the non-musical, entrepreneurial side and was active on the management board for many years. For example, he was principally responsible for producing the vinyl disc of the Beethoven Symphony cycle with Paavo Järvi.

Very unusually for a present-day professional orchestra player, Jürgen Winkler came to The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen from the Young German Philharmonic in 1982 while he was still studying Mathematics, Biology and Geography in Tübingen. He subsequently switched subjects and studied the viola with Serge Collot and Emile Cantor.

He completed his musical training with various masterclasses and intensive quartet training under the tuition of the Melos Quartet and the LaSalle Quartet.

Alongside his orchestra activities, Jürgen Winkler’s musical passion is chamber music and playing in ensembles for Early Music.

Born in Paris, Tristan Cornut has won prizes at many international competitions, including the ARD Music Competition, the Domnick Competition and the Gaspar Cassado Competition. He studied with Roland Pidoux at the Paris Conservatoire and at Stuttgart College of Music as well as with Jean-Guihen Queyras at Freiburg College of Music.

He has performed as soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphonie Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk, the Stuttgart Kammer Orchester, the Münchner Kammer Orchester, the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and Ensemble Resonanz, among others. Since 2012, he has been principal cellist of the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen.

A passionate chamber musician, he has performed alongside Yo-Yo Ma, Antonio Meneses, Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Giuranna, Miguel da Silva and Daniel Hope as well as being prize-winner at the Melbourne, Trondheim and Joseph Haydn (Vienna) chamber music competitions.

Tristan Cornut has been Professor of Violoncello at the Stuttgart University of Music since 2017. He currently plays a 2005 Urs Mächler cello.

Violinist Konstanze Lerbs studied in Hanover and Cologne. She did post-graduate studies with Rainer Kußmaul at the University of Music in Freiburg and also studied Baroque violin in Trossingen. This was followed by numerous performances as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, before she joined The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen in 1995.

Apart from the orchestra, she continues to pursue her interest in chamber music, in which she has a wide stylistic range and also loves making excursions into the cross-over genre.

Outside music, she dedicates her attention and her interest to her children and her home in Bremen.

Patrick Sepec, born in Frankfurt in 1969, studied cello at Basel College of Music between 1990 and 1997 with Thomas Demenga and Reinhard Latzko. His concert exam – for which he received the highest possible accolade – was followed by a period of intensive work on the Baroque cello with Christoph Coin at the Schola Cantorum Basliensis, since which time historically informed performance practice has been an integral part of Sepec’s work.

Patrick Sepec regularly works with internationally renowned ensembles (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music Berlin, Anima Eterna, La Stagione, Al Ayre Espanol) and with conductors such as René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe and Jos van Immerseel. Under Ivor Bolton he has also been a frequent contributor to productions at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

In 2014 he was invited by Bavarian Radio to perform as continuo cellist under the direction of Bernhard Labadie. He has occupied the posts of principal cellist with the Austrian ensemble Modern Times 1800 since 2009 and with Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble under Marc Minkowski since 2013. He is also a member of the ensemble Les Cornets Noirs, dedicated to 17th Century Italian and German music. Alongside Baroque cello, he plays viola da gamba, which, since his Masters degree at the Franz Liszt Music College in Weimar, continues to play an ever-increasing role in his concert activity.

On the modern cello, Patrick Sepec was principal cellist with Ensemble Resonanz in Hamburg between 2001 and 2008; an ensemble which has made a name for itself particularly in the field of modern and contemporary music.