Herwig Zack | violin
Herwig Zack was born in Frankfurt/Main. He started to play the violin at age five and studied with Karl-Albrecht Herrmann, Edith Peinemann and Max Rostal. Scholarships from the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” and from the “Rotary Foundation” made it possible for him to complete his education at Indiana University in …
Bernd Zack | piano
Bernd Zack was born in Frankfurt/Main and studied piano with Wolfgang Schamschula (Mainz), Vitaly Margulis (Leningrad / Freiburg i. Br. / Los Angeles), James Tocco (Bloomington, Ind. /USA), Nikita Magaloff (Geneva) and Leonard Hokanson (Frankfurt/Main). Among his teachers were also Hartmut Höll, Josef Gingold, Franco Gulli and Janos Starker, whose …
Matthew Zalkind | cello
Praised for his “impressive refinement, eloquent phrasing, and singing tone” by The New York Times, following his concerto debut at Avery Fisher Hall, American cellist Matthew Zalkind has performed throughout the United States and abroad as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. As a soloist, Mr. Zalkind has performed concerti …
Thomas Zehetmair | conductor
Thomas Zehetmair is one of today’s outstanding artists. His international conducting career is based on his two positions: as chief conductor of the Northern Sinfonia in England and as Artistic Partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, USA. Concert tours with the Northern Sinfonia have taken him to the Hong …
Beiliang Zhu | cello
Beiliang Zhu won First Prize and the Audience Award at the XVIII International Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2012, the first string player to have received this honor on a baroque instrument. She received her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School in Historical Performance, studying baroque cello with …
