Violinist Konstanze Lerbs studied in Hanover and Cologne. She did post-graduate studies with Rainer Kußmaul at the University of Music in Freiburg and also studied Baroque violin in Trossingen. This was followed by numerous performances as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, before she joined The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen in 1995.

Apart from the orchestra, she continues to pursue her interest in chamber music, in which she has a wide stylistic range and also loves making excursions into the cross-over genre.

Outside music, she dedicates her attention and her interest to her children and her home in Bremen.

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.

カンマーフィルの現本拠地ブレーメンからさほど遠くないヴィルヘルムスハーフェンで育つ。北海沿岸の町を離れ、ハンブルク、次いでフライブルクの各音楽大学で学ぶ。1982年にはドイツ・カンマーフィルの前身ともいえる、当時のユンゲ・ドイチェ・フィルハーモニー室内楽団に入団。

楽団メンバーとして、また各種アンサンブルでの室内楽奏者としての多忙な演奏活動の傍ら、人文学の分野に特に関心を注ぐ。2012年には音楽学、ドイツ学、英語学の各学科を優等で卒業したマンタイは、その熱意と豊富な知識を活かし、長年ブレーメンにおける定期演奏会事前イベント「en passant」と「Auftakt」の企画・実施に携わってきた。

音楽や音楽学以外の余暇の一番の楽しみは読書である。