Horn player Markus Künzig studied at the univeristies of Würzburg and Stuttgart. He later took postgraduate studies in Early Music in the Natural Horn at the University of Music in Leipzig. During his student days he gathered orchestra experience in the Staatskapelle Weimar, at the Stadttheater Würzburg and the Orchestral Academy of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Since completing his studies he has also spent time playing chamber music in various ensembles, including the Homilius Horn Quartet and the Ensemble Dix from Gera.
Markus Künzig’s first position was with the Altenburg-Gera Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been a member of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since 2013.

Born to a Japanese musical family in Stuttgart in 1991, this young bassoonist grew up in Baden Wurttemburg. She completed her studies with Akio Koyama in Trossingen and Dag Jensen in Munich. Rie Koyama plays her instrument with an intensity that is seldom heard. This young musician has won first prize in 24 national and international awards to date including the Muri Competition, the German Music Competition, the Internationial Academic Oboe and Bassoon Competition in Łódź/Polen as well as the German Music College Competition. In 2013 she won Second Prize in the Bassoon category of the ARD International Music Competition (where no First Prize was awarded). She also won the Special Prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned piece.

Rie Koyama has won scholarships from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, the Rohm Music Foundation in Japan and in 2012, was awarded a one-year scholarship of the German Music Foundation. As soloist, she has already performed with several well-known international orchestras in Europe and Asia and frequently appears as guest soloist at eminent music festivals. She is a regular member of a number of chamber music ensembles including Trio Walter, the Veits Quintet and the Franz Ensemble. Rie Koyama has recorded a number of solo and chamber works. Her next solo CD, produced together with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, is due to be released in 2012. She has been Principle Bassoon with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since September 2015.