Sebastian Steinhilber was born in 1990 and began learning the violin aged 8 but quickly switched to the viola. He gained his first orchestral experiences in Reutlingen Youth Orchestra and in the Baden Württemberg Regional Youth Orchestra. While at college, Sebastian Steinhilber was a member of the Young German Philharmonic for many years and therefore gained deep insights into the world of orchestral playing. Between 2014 and 2016 he completed a course of study at Bamberg Symphony Orchestra’s Joseph Keilberth Orchestra Academy which enabled him to further deepen his already professional experiences.

Sebastian Steinhilber is currently studying wth Tatjana Masurenko at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy College of Music and Drama Leipzig, having previously earned his bachelor’s degree with Professor Roland Glassl at the College of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. He has also taken inspirational and instructive masterclasses with teachers such as Hartmut Rohde, Atar Arad, Garth Knox and Françoise Gneri. Sebastian Steinhilber has been a third year Academy Student with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since March 2019.

1989年、ベルリン郊外の音楽家一家に生まれ、5歳よりヴァイオリンを学ぶ。少女時代を通してダンスにも力を注ぎ、音楽家をめざす決意をしたのは随分遅くなってから。州立青少年管弦楽団の一員としてオペラ制作に関わったことが決定的な転機をもたらす。

ロストック音楽・演劇大学でアクセル・ヴィルチョクとシュテファン・ヘンペルに師事。卒業演奏会ではロストック北ドイツ・フィルハーモニー管弦楽団と共演し、モーツァルトのヴァイオリン協奏曲を披露。グスタフ・マーラー・ユーゲント管弦楽団に在籍経験があり、大学在学中はタンゴ演奏にも力を注ぐ。

様々なアンサンブルの一員として経験を積み、音楽家としての幅を広げる。例えば、ダニエル・バレンボイム率いるシュターツカペレ・ベルリンのアカデミー生として歌劇場の運営の舞台裏を経験。また、イングリッシュ・バロック・ソロイスツ、そしてオルケストル・レヴォリューショネル・エ・ロマンティックでの研修を通し、古典派およびバロック音楽演奏の腕を磨く。その際、ワークショップや講義を指導するジョン・エリオット・ガーディナーとのコラボレーションは貴重な経験となる。

2018年10月にドイツ・カンマーフィルハーモニーに入団。

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Yuko Hara, born in New York in 1987, studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Geneva Conservatory and The Music Academy in Basel. She has won prizes at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition as well as the Tokyo Music Competition. She has performed as soloist with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and has also performed with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, the Opera House Orchestra in Zurich (a member of the Orchestra Academy between 2012 and 2014) as well as performances on baroque viola with the Orchestra La Scintilla Zurich. She is a passionate chamber musician who performs regularly in string quartets and who won third prize at the International Osaka Chamber Music Competition. She has been viola player for the Ardeo Quartet in Paris since 2016.