Philharmonic chamber music: Sound magic for flute and harp

Biographies

Stephan Koncz

Stephan Koncz comes from an Austro-Hungarian family of musicians and began studying the cello at the age of eight at the University of Music and Performing Arts in his home city of Vienna. In 2000, he went on to study at the Vienna Conservatory with Róbert Nagy, and from 2002 also studied composition and conducting at the university in Vienna. Masterclasses with Daniel Barenboim, Steven Isserlis, Heinrich Schiff, Olaf Maninger, Tamás Varga and chamber music activities with Julian Rachlin, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, the 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker and others provided further decisive impulses.

Simon Roturier

Simon Roturier comes from Concarneau, a small coastal town in Brittany. He began playing the violin at the age of seven, and decided to make music his profession when he was fourteen. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique with Boris Garlitsky and Itamar Golan, he went on to become a student of Vladimir Nemtanu at the Lyon Conservatoire. He also attended masterclasses with Ulf Hölscher, David Grimal and Ida Händel. In addition to other competitions, he won the audience prize at the David Oistrakh Competition in 2004.

Angelo de Leo

Angelo de Leo was introduced to the violin by his older brother, who is also a violinist. Born in Böblingen, he received his first lessons at the age of six. Five years later, he became a junior student at the Stuttgart University of Music, where he was taught by Christian Sikorski. He played in the Bregaglia Quartet for several years before becoming the leader of the De Leo Quartet, which he founded with other students from the Stuttgart University of Music. From 2011, he studied in Lübeck with Thomas Brandis; in 2015, he continued his training in Berlin with Antje Weithaas and at the Karajan Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Ignacy Miecznikowski

Ignacy Miecznikowski, born in Krakow in 1976, studied violin and viola at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon, where he was accepted into the soloist class of Tasso Adamopoulos in 1998; he received his soloist diploma two years later. From 1996, he gained his first orchestral experience in various French orchestras, including the orchestra of the Opéra National de Marseille. In 1998 he became principal viola in the Orchestre National de Lyon, where he played until joining the Berliner Philharmoniker in December 2009. 

Bruno Delepelaire

Bruno Delepelaire has been principal cellist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, with whom he has repeatedly appeared as a soloist, since November 2013. He also makes guest appearances with other orchestras. Born in Paris, the musician studied at the conservatory in his home city with Philippe Muller. He came to Berlin in 2012 to continue his training with Jens Peter Maintz at the Universität der Künste and with Ludwig Quandt at the Karajan Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker; he also attended masterclasses with François Salque, Wen-Sinn Yang and Wolfgang Boettcher.

Emmanuel Pahud

Geneva-born Emmanuel Pahud has been principal flautist of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 1993. He studied at the Académie d'Uccle in Brussels and with Peter-Lukas Graf in Basel. He completed his studies in 1990 with the “Premier Prix” of the Paris Conservatoire; Aurèle Nicolet was subsequently his teacher. Pahud won first prize at competitions in Duino, Kobe and Geneva before becoming principal flautist of the Berliner Philharmoniker during the Abbado era at the age of just 22. He has also enjoyed an international career as a soloist and chamber musician.

Wenzel Fuchs

Wenzel Fuchs, who has been the Berliner Philharmoniker's principal clarinettist since 1993, studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Peter Schmidl, played as a substitute at the Vienna State Opera and with the Vienna Philharmonic at the same time. After graduating with honours and winning several prizes, the Innsbruck native began his career as principal clarinettist at the Vienna Volksoper at the age of 19, before moving to the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he was also principal clarinettist, and later to the Berliner Philharmoniker - in the same position.

Marie-Pierre Langlamet

Marie-Pierre Langlamet was born in Grenoble and studied at the conservatory in Nice with Elizabeth Fontan-Binoche. At the age of 15, she won first prize at the Maria Korchinska International Harp Competition, and, a year later, first prize at the Cité des Arts competition in Paris. At the age of 17, she became solo harpist in the Nice Opera Orchestra. She gave up this position shortly afterwards to continue her training at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Before joining the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1993, she had been assistant principal harpist at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for five years.