Sarah Christian’s wish is to convey the honest emotion and energy of classical music to her listeners. In her artistic life, she enjoys combining all influences, not having to compromise anything in her many roles as soloist, chamber musician, the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen’s concert master or as Artistic Director of a chamber music series in her home town of Augsburg. Here she makes the highest demands on herself. Her focus, when studying scores, is always on the music itself, which she approaches with the greatest respect. Her most important teacher is Antje Weithaas, with whom she studied at the Hanns Eisler Music College in Berlin and whose assistant she later became. As professor, Sarah Christian supervises her own class at the Stuttgart College of Music and Performing Arts.

One of her greatest competition success is the ARD Music Competition 2017, at which she won 2nd Prize (no 1st prize was awarded). She also won the audience prize and the Munich Chamber Orchestra’s special prize. Sarah Christian has performed in many European countries, as well as in China, Japan, South America and The United States. As soloist, she has played with orchestras such as the Camerata Salzburg, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia. She gave her debut at Carnegie Hall with the Bavarian State Orchestra in March 2018. Her Debut CD (GENUIN, 2017), featuring Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 and Schubert’s C Major Fantasy has been greatly praised by the press »Sarah Christian’s solo debut is simply fantastic! This violinist has proven to be an extremely sensitive interpreter and she is technically quite simply unimpeachable.« (klassik.com).

In the classical music world, violinist Christian Tetzlaff is known as an exceptional musician and is highly praised for his expressive and sensitive interpretations. His individual approach to the score, in which he always seeks the emotional and structural depth of a composition, is often described in concerts as a truly existential experience. Since his spectacular debut with Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto in Berlin, Munich and Cleveland in 1988, this violinist has performed with leading orchestras of the highest calibre and has collaborated with multiple renowned conductors. His extensive repertoire ranges from Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas to lesser-known concertos by Giovanni Battista Viotti and Joseph Joachim to contemporary works by György Ligeti, Jörg Widmann and Thomas Ades. In February 2026, the violinist is giving the world premiere of Ondrej Adamek’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in Paris, followed by national premieres in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

Chamber music is an integral part of Christian Tetzlaff’s career. In 1994, he founded the Tetzlaff Quartet together with his sister, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff, and which was awarded the Diapason d’or l’année. This violinist has also received numerous awards for his many recordings as soloist, including the Diapason d’or, the German Record Critics’ Award and the Midem Classical Award. In 2023, he also took over as artistic director of the Spannungen Festival in Heimbach. This extraordinary musician has enjoyed a close friendship with The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years.