Rodrigo Blumenstock studied in Freiburg and Hanover with Ingo Goritzki, Heinz Holliger and Hans Elhorst. He is Principal Oboe with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen – a position he has also held in other leading orchestras (e.g. Bamberg Symphoniker, WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne).

He has appeared as a soloist in Frankfurt (Alte Oper), Vienna (Konzerthaus), Cologne (Philharmonie), Munich (Herkulessaal), at the ›Bachwoche Ansbach‹ , the ›Shanghai International Radio Music Festival‹ , the ›Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus‹  (where he collaborated with Nikolaus Harnoncourt) and the ›Mozart Festival Würzburg‹, accompanied by the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie, the Bachwoche Ansbach community of solists and the WDR-Sinfonieorchester Cologne.

With Gidon Kremer as partner, he has toured Scandinavia and Italy where they performed Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante.

His musical activity encompasses period instrument performance, chamber music (including with the Beaux Arts Trio) and teaching (with teaching posts for oboe, chamber music and wind section training at Cologne/Wuppertal College of Music, the Folkwang College in Essen and Lübeck Music College). Several composers have dedicated works to him including the oboe concerto ›Extase‹ by Messiaen’s student Qigang Chen.

As Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen principal oboe he has been awarded an Echo Prize.

As conductor, Rodrigo Blumenstock has directed premieres of works by Sofia Gubaidulina (Köln Philharmonie), Xiaoyong Chen (Laieszhalle Hamburg) und Luca Lombardi (Hanseatic College of Science Inauguration). With Gidon Kremer as the soloist, he has conducted the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie on a European tour, appearing in halls such as the Barbican Centre (London), the Châtelet (Paris) and the Musikverein (Vienna). Guest appearance as conductor have taken him to Brazil and the ›Orquestra Sinfônica da Bahia‹. He is also the conductor of the Bremen Orchestra ›Sinfonia Concertante‹.

A CD of the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen features him as oboist, chamber musician and conductor.

Kiveli Dörken’s temperament, passion and dedication to music can be felt in every moment of her concerts. Her infectious enthusiasm and engaging charisma give her a close rapport with her audience. She likes to talk to them before she sits down at the piano and explore the boundaries of sound possibilities and artistic expression. Her musical path began as a 7-year-old pupil of the renowned piano teacher Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, by whom she was taught for ten years. She then continued her training with Lars Vogt, with whom Kiveli Dörken still studies in Hanover.

Dörken’s concert activities have already taken her to many renowned concert halls and to most countries in Europe, China and the USA. She has performed at the Kissinger Sommer, the ‘Spannungen’ festival in Heimbach, the Gezeitenkonzerte, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the ‘Sommets musicaux’ in Gstaad and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Highlights included performances for the Dalai Lama in 2007 and in 2009 for the then German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington D.C. In 2015, together with her sister Danae, Kiveli Dörken founded the Molyvos International Music Festival on the Greek island of Lesbos and of which she is Artistic Director. Between the financial crisis and the refugee drama, the festival not only brings the tradition of classical music to Lesbos but has become a beacon of hope for the region.