Taiwan conductor Tung-Chieh Chuang already won numerous competitions at an early age, including second place in the 4th Gustav Mahler Competition in Bamberg and third place in the Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest International Conducting Competition in 2012. He received the Edwin B. Garrigues Annual Fellowship Award 2010 at the Curtis Institute of Music and is a winner of the National French Horn Competition in Taiwan.

Chuang has conducted the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonica George Enescu, The State Philharmonic of Sibiu, North-Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra, l’Orchestre de Besançon Montbéliard Franche-Comté, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan, among others.

In May 2011, Chuang took part in the organization of the Curtis Japan Benefit Concert in the Trinity Church in Philadelphia, the proceeds of which were donated entirely to the Japanese Red Cross following the Tohoku earthquake. In January 2013, Chuang was invited to play with maestro Kurt Masur in New York.

Chuang is currently a concert exam student alongside Nicolás Pasquet at the Franz Liszt College of Music in Weimar, where he is taught by Mark Gibson, Gustav Meier and Otto-Werner Müller, among others.

Leander Kippenberg (*1991) grew up in an artistic family and received his first cello lessons aged 9. At 15 he began studying with Michael Sanderling at the Frankfurt College of Music and the Performing Arts and moved the following year to the Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach School in Berlin where he played solo cello with the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie. The young cellist then returned to Frankfurt where he studied first at the Music College there before moving to London and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2011, where he studied with Louise Hopkins and obtained his MMus with Honours in 2017.

Leander Kippenberg performs as soloist, chamber musician and with various orchestras across Europe and has taken part in several international music festivals. His concert tours and solo performances have taken him to the Tonhalle Zurich, the ›Glocke‹ and the Sendesaal in Bremen as well as The Barbican in London.