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Barbara Lebitsch
Barbara Lebitsch has been director of artistic planning at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg since 2018. After earning degrees in theater studies, musicology, psychology, and journalism, she served as an artistic planner and director of production at the Konzerthaus in Vienna and for the Wien Modern festival from 2002 to 2012. From 2012 to 2015, she was assistant to the artistic director at the Berlin Philharmonic Foundation. She joined the Elbphilharmonie in 2015 as lead dramaturge.
Photo © Esther Haase
Hanni Liang
Hanni Liang is a pianist, concert creator, lecturer at the University of Music and Theatre Munich and founder of the TONALiSTEN Collective. In her works, she addresses artistically topics of today and understands the concert as an open room for encounters, questions and reflection.
Performances brought her to places like Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Piano Festival Ruhr, Royal Concert Hall Nottingham, Pinakothek der Moderne, State Opera Hanover or festivals like Heidelberger Frühling, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Reeperbahn Festival and Mozartfest Würzburg. One of her main focuses also includes co-creativity in developing concerts together with people from all different kind of backgrounds. The next season sees her in projects at Konzerthaus Berlin, Haus Styriarte Graz, Kissinger Sommer among others.
Photo © Marco Borggreve
Tamara Stefanovich
Tamara Stefanovich is a pianist who performs a repertoire ranging from Bach to the music of living composers. Raised in Belgrade, she studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Conservatory in Cologne. She has performed with orchestras such as the London Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and others, and performed solo recitals at venues such as Suntory Hall and the Salzburg Festival. She also performs with a free-improvisation quartet.
William Coleman
William Coleman performs regularly as a chamber musician and soloist. He is the violist of the renowned Berlin Kuss Quartet and a professor at the Mozarteum Salzburg. He has performed at the Salzburg Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, London's Wigmore Hall and New York's Carnegie Hall. His chamber music partners include Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Miklos Perenyi, Kim Kashkashian, Boris Pergamenschikov, Leif Ove Andsnes and Mischa Maisky. He also gives masterclasses at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music as well as the Royal Academy of Music London, the Kronberg Academy and the Suntory Academy in Tokyo.
Photo © Andrej Grilc
Eric Lamb
Flutist Eric Lamb was a core member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and is currently a member of Ensemble Reconsil (Wien), Synchronos Ensemble (Zagreb), Quasars Ensemble (Bratislava), as well as co-artistic director of ensemble paladino. A versatile performer equally at home with Bach and the composers of today, and in settings from orchestra to chamber music, Eric has premiered over 200 new works by composers including John Adams, Kaija Saariaho, George Lewis, HK Gruber, Michel van der Aa, and Nico Muhly. Among many other projects, Eric has worked in close collaboration with the Stockhausen Stiftung and the Theater Basel to re-create the role of Luzifer in Stockhausen's opera "Donnerstag aus Licht." He teaches flute at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
THE
JURY
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Barbara Lebitsch
Barbara Lebitsch has been director of artistic planning at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg since 2018. After earning degrees in theater studies, musicology, psychology, and journalism, she served as an artistic planner and director of production at the Konzerthaus in Vienna and for the Wien Modern festival from 2002 to 2012. From 2012 to 2015, she was assistant to the artistic director at the Berlin Philharmonic Foundation. She joined the Elbphilharmonie in 2015 as lead dramaturge.
Photo © Esther Haase
Hanni Liang
Hanni Liang is a pianist, concert creator, lecturer at the University of Music and Theatre Munich and founder of the TONALiSTEN Collective. In her works, she addresses artistically topics of today and understands the concert as an open room for encounters, questions and reflection.
Performances brought her to places like Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Piano Festival Ruhr, Royal Concert Hall Nottingham, Pinakothek der Moderne, State Opera Hanover or festivals like Heidelberger Frühling, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Reeperbahn Festival and Mozartfest Würzburg. One of her main focuses also includes co-creativity in developing concerts together with people from all different kind of backgrounds. The next season sees her in projects at Konzerthaus Berlin, Haus Styriarte Graz, Kissinger Sommer among others.
Photo © Marco Borggreve
Tamara Stefanovich
Tamara Stefanovich is a pianist who performs a repertoire ranging from Bach to the music of living composers. Raised in Belgrade, she studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the Conservatory in Cologne. She has performed with orchestras such as the London Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and others, and performed solo recitals at venues such as Suntory Hall and the Salzburg Festival. She also performs with a free-improvisation quartet.
Photo © privat
William Coleman
William Coleman performs regularly as a chamber musician and soloist. He is the violist of the renowned Berlin Kuss Quartet and a professor at the Mozarteum Salzburg. He has performed at the Salzburg Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, London's Wigmore Hall and New York's Carnegie Hall. His chamber music partners include Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Miklos Perenyi, Kim Kashkashian, Boris Pergamenschikov, Leif Ove Andsnes and Mischa Maisky. He also gives masterclasses at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music as well as the Royal Academy of Music London, the Kronberg Academy and the Suntory Academy in Tokyo.
Photo © Andrej Grilc
Eric Lamb
Flutist Eric Lamb was a core member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and is currently a member of Ensemble Reconsil (Wien), Synchronos Ensemble (Zagreb), Quasars Ensemble (Bratislava), as well as co-artistic director of ensemble paladino. A versatile performer equally at home with Bach and the composers of today, and in settings from orchestra to chamber music, Eric has premiered over 200 new works by composers including John Adams, Kaija Saariaho, George Lewis, HK Gruber, Michel van der Aa, and Nico Muhly. Among many other projects, Eric has worked in close collaboration with the Stockhausen Stiftung and the Theater Basel to re-create the role of Luzifer in Stockhausen's opera "Donnerstag aus Licht." He teaches flute at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.