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.

Patrick Sepec, born in Frankfurt in 1969, studied cello at Basel College of Music between 1990 and 1997 with Thomas Demenga and Reinhard Latzko. His concert exam – for which he received the highest possible accolade – was followed by a period of intensive work on the Baroque cello with Christoph Coin at the Schola Cantorum Basliensis, since which time historically informed performance practice has been an integral part of Sepec’s work.

Patrick Sepec regularly works with internationally renowned ensembles (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music Berlin, Anima Eterna, La Stagione, Al Ayre Espanol) and with conductors such as René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe and Jos van Immerseel. Under Ivor Bolton he has also been a frequent contributor to productions at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

In 2014 he was invited by Bavarian Radio to perform as continuo cellist under the direction of Bernhard Labadie. He has occupied the posts of principal cellist with the Austrian ensemble Modern Times 1800 since 2009 and with Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble under Marc Minkowski since 2013. He is also a member of the ensemble Les Cornets Noirs, dedicated to 17th Century Italian and German music. Alongside Baroque cello, he plays viola da gamba, which, since his Masters degree at the Franz Liszt Music College in Weimar, continues to play an ever-increasing role in his concert activity.

On the modern cello, Patrick Sepec was principal cellist with Ensemble Resonanz in Hamburg between 2001 and 2008; an ensemble which has made a name for itself particularly in the field of modern and contemporary music.

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.