Maximilian Krome has played the clarinet with The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since April 2014. He was born in Höxter, North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and studied with Prof. Martin Spangenberg at The Liszt School of Music in Weimar, where he gained an Artistic Diploma in June 2012. During this time he had a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.

He is a multiple prizewinner in national competitions as well as at the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Competition in England. As a scholar of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and the German Foundation for Musical Life, he played solo engagements at the opening of the Schwetzingen Mozart Festival, the Essen Philharmonic, the Margravial Opera House of Bayreuth and in Switzerland.

His concert activities focus on performances with various chamber music ensembles, with appearances, for example, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the international music festival The Next Generation at the Harenberg-Center Dortmund, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Cologne Philharmonic and at the invitation of the Academy of St.Martin-In-The-Fields in London.

From 2012-2014, Maximilian Krome was Academist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich.

Today, he regularly plays as a guest with the Chamber Academy Potsdam, the Camerata Bern and the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra.

Juliane Bruckmann was accepted as a young student at the University for Music and Dance in Cologne, initially with Prof. Gottfried Engels. After gaining her university entrance qualification she switched to the University of Music in Freiburg and continued her studies under Prof. Bozo Paradzik. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in summer 2016 and is currently working for her Master’s degree. She received further important musical input by attending masterclasses with, among others, Prof. Dorin Marc, Prof. Janne Saksala, Prof. Esko Laine and Prof. Christine Hoock. Juliane Bruckmann is a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Association, Freiburg.

Orchestral playing always has been and still is her passion. She was a long-standing member of the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie and of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, and regularly played in the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg. Juliane has been a member of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since 2016.

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.