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The Munich-based soprano completed her vocal studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with a master’s degree in singing (Lied).

She has a busy concert schedule, with a wide-ranging repertoire from the Renaissance to the modern era, and has already performed with orchestras such as the Münchner Philharmoniker, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, and Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto.

She has won prizes in the Richard Strauss Competition and International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition and regularly gives recitals, including at the Schubertíada in Spain. In 2020, Anna-Lena Elbert made her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper in the leading role in a children’s opera (Spring doch by Gordon Kampe, premiere), and in 2022 she also makes her debut at the Salzburger Festspiele.

Saskia Fikentscher is a Baroque oboist and recorder player from Munich. She has studied, among others, with Katharina Arfken, Ku Ebbinge, Han Tol, and Pedro Memelsdorff.

For almost 30 years she has been working as a freelance Baroque oboist and recorder player with various ensembles and Baroque orchestras, such as Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln, Musica Antiqua Köln, Nova Stravaganza (Echo Klassik Award 2005), Ensemble Explorations, Norsk Barokkorkester, Berliner Barock Solisten, and Freiburger Barockorchester, performing in concerts and recordings all over the world both as orchestra member and as a soloist.

Since 2009, she has been a teacher of Baroque oboe, historical performance practice and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, where she was awarded the title “Professor” in 2019.

The cellist Kristin von der Goltz studied with Christoph Henkel in Freiburg and with William Pleeth in London. She was a member of the Freiburger Barockorchester (1991–2004). Today she plays the modern and the Baroque cello as a soloist with various orchestras (e.g. Berliner Barocksolisten, La Stagione Frankfurt) and conductors, such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marc Minkowski, Ton Koopman, Michael Schneider, and Reinhard Goebel.   She is a founding member of the Trio Vivente, with which she has performed and recorded many CDs over two decades. In the last few years, she has become a dedicated teacher of the Baroque cello and historical performing practice as a professor at the music universities in Frankfurt am Main and Munich, for which she gave up her steady job as the principal cellist with the Münchener Kammerorchester. She has released solo CDs on the Raumklang label to outstanding reviews.

The harpsichordist Flóra Fábri completed her studies in Budapest, Munich, and Essen with Anikó Soltész, Christine Schornsheim, and Christian Rieger. Her first solo CD was released in 2020, the second was recorded in 2021.

She forms a duo with Eva Leonie Fegers (Duo F/F) and performs actively as a soloist & chamber musician throughout Europe. She appears on over 10 CDs of the Orfeo Orchestra and has also played with Concerto Köln, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and B’Rock. She is a member of the Köthener BachCollektiv under Midori Seiler and actively collaborates with Bernhard Forck (several productions at the Nationaltheater Mannheim).

Teaching activity: at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main; at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien, and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.