Cultivated, technically brilliant and musically subtle – an eloquent summary of why Piemontesi is one of the most outstanding pianists of our time. Born in Locarno, he began his studies with Arie Vardi and continued with Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Cécile Ousset and Alexis Weissenberg. He has taken up invitations to perform with some of the world’s leading orchestras, for example the Cleveland Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic, the Hessian and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic. In addition, this virtuoso musician has worked with respected conductors such as Marek Janowski, Manfred Honeck, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Charles Dutoit and he enjoys a particularly close working relationship with Sir Roger Norrington.

In addition to his solo career, Piemontesi is an equally devoted advocate of chamber music. He is a passionate creator of chamber and recital programmes which can be heard in major concert halls and renowned festivals across the world, performing with eminent musicians such as Antoine Tamestit, Jörg Widmann, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Daniel Müller-Schott and the Emerson Quartet. In 2016 he began a Mozart Cycle in London’s Wigmore Hall, performing all the Mozart sonatas over three seasons. Piemontesi has also released several highly acclaimed CD recordings, featuring works by Mozart, Schumann, Dvorak, Debussy and, just recently, the Années de Pèlerinage by Liszt. As prize-winner of several renowned competitions, Piemontesi has won international acclaim and in 2009 was named a BBC New Generation Artist.

Sir Roger Norrington played the violin and sang from a young age. After studying History and English Literature, he gained several years’ experience of top-class amateur music making, before returning to musical studies at the Royal College of Music in London and the start of his professional career as a singer and conductor. In 1962 he founded the Schütz Choir.

In 1969, Roger Norrington was appointed Music Director of the Kent Opera. He founded the London Classical Players in 1978 in order to study historically informed performance practices on period musical instruments from the time between 1750 and 1900. As a guest conductor he has worked at the Covent Garden Opera House, the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras as well as the New York, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland orchestras, among others.

Sir Roger Norrington was Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) and of the Camerata Salzburg. At both locations he established a historically informed performance style in a ›modern‹ setting. With The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen he has enjoyed a long and friendly collaboration.

Since 1993, Daniel Sepec has been concertmaster with The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, with which he also appears regularly as a soloist. He has recorded two CDs with the orchestra featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as Antonio Vivaldi’s ›Four Seasons‹, on which he also directed himself.

He has also appeared several times as guest concertmaster with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (including a tour with Claudio Abbado), Camerata Academica Salzburg and the Ensemble Oriol Berlin. As a soloist he has performed with the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood, the Vienna Academy of Music under Martin Haselböck and the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées under Philippe Herreweghe.

His CD recording of H. I. F. Biber’s Rosary Sonatas received the German Record Critics’ Award. Daniel Sepec is the only musician to date to have recorded a CD on a rediscovered violin formerly belonging to Ludwig van Beethoven together with pianist Andreas Staier. As a member of the Arcanto Quartet, he has made recordings of the Mozart, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Bartók and Dutilleux string quartets, as well as Schubert’s String Quartet.

From September 2010 until July 2014, he was professor at the School of Music in Basle. In 2014, he was offered a professorship at Lübeck University of Music.