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.
Olivia Giovetti
Olivia Giovetti is an editor at VAN Magazine. Previously, she has served as the Classical & Opera Editor at Time Out New York, and as a host on WNYC's New Sounds (formerly Q2 Music). Her writings about culture and classical music have been published in the Washington Post, London Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Gramophone, and Architectural Digest. She has also written liner notes for Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, and EMI; and program notes for the New York Philharmonic, Glyndebourne, Scottish National Opera, and Miller Theatre at Columbia University.In addition to her career as a journalist and critic, Olivia has also worked in the digital marketing sector of classical music for clients including the New York Philharmonic, Dmitri Hvorostovksy, Elīna Garanča, Rolando Villazón, Mojca Erdmann, Cho-Liang Lin, and Edgar Meyer.
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.
Photo © Peter Hönnemann
Matan Porat
Matan Porat is a pianist and composer known for his narrative-based programming. His repertoire ranges from Bach’s Partitas, the complete Schubert sonatas to Ligeti’s piano concerto. He performed recitals at the Philharmonie in Berlin, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall and played as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthaus Berlin, Helsinki Philharmonic and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, working with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Susanna Mälkki, Ludovic Morlot and François Xavier Roth. Chamber music partners include the Artemis Quartet, Cuarteto Casals, Modigliani, Schumann and Jerusalem Quartets. His compositions were commissioned and performed by Nicholas Altsteadt, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Andreas Scholl, Avi Avital and Vladimir Jurowski. In addition to playing and composing, Porat is also improvising to silent movies.
Photo © Arnaud Ele
Julian Steckel
Julian Steckel studied cello in Berlin and Vienna. He currently performs with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. Besides performing as a soloist, Steckel has held concerts at festivals in Lucerne, Mondsee, Heimbach, Lockenhaus, Zermatt, Bonn, Jerusalem, and Prussia Cove; his chamber music partners include Lars Vogt, Martin Helmchen, Denis Kozhukhin, Paul Rivinius, Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithaas, Janine Jansen, Antoine Tamestit and the Ébène, Armida und Modigliani string quartets. He lives in Berlin with his family and teaches a small cello class at the Musikhochschule in Munich.
THE
JURY
Photo © Privat
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.
Olivia Giovetti
Olivia Giovetti is an editor at VAN Magazine. Previously, she has served as the Classical & Opera Editor at Time Out New York, and as a host on WNYC's New Sounds (formerly Q2 Music). Her writings about culture and classical music have been published in the Washington Post, London Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Gramophone, and Architectural Digest. She has also written liner notes for Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, and EMI; and program notes for the New York Philharmonic, Glyndebourne, Scottish National Opera, and Miller Theatre at Columbia University.In addition to her career as a journalist and critic, Olivia has also worked in the digital marketing sector of classical music for clients including the New York Philharmonic, Dmitri Hvorostovksy, Elīna Garanča, Rolando Villazón, Mojca Erdmann, Cho-Liang Lin, and Edgar Meyer.
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.
Photo © Peter Hönnemann
Matan Porat
Matan Porat is a pianist and composer known for his narrative-based programming. His repertoire ranges from Bach’s Partitas, the complete Schubert sonatas to Ligeti’s piano concerto. He performed recitals at the Philharmonie in Berlin, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall and played as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthaus Berlin, Helsinki Philharmonic and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, working with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Susanna Mälkki, Ludovic Morlot and François Xavier Roth. Chamber music partners include the Artemis Quartet, Cuarteto Casals, Modigliani, Schumann and Jerusalem Quartets. His compositions were commissioned and performed by Nicholas Altsteadt, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Andreas Scholl, Avi Avital and Vladimir Jurowski. In addition to playing and composing, Porat is also improvising to silent movies.
Photo © Arnaud Ele
Julian Steckel
Julian Steckel studied cello in Berlin and Vienna. He currently performs with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. Besides performing as a soloist, Steckel has held concerts at festivals in Lucerne, Mondsee, Heimbach, Lockenhaus, Zermatt, Bonn, Jerusalem, and Prussia Cove; his chamber music partners include Lars Vogt, Martin Helmchen, Denis Kozhukhin, Paul Rivinius, Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithaas, Janine Jansen, Antoine Tamestit and the Ébène, Armida und Modigliani string quartets. He lives in Berlin with his family and teaches a small cello class at the Musikhochschule in Munich.