Jon Lord
Founder member of Deep Purple, Jon Lord was born in Leicester. He began playing piano aged 6, studying classical music until leaving school at 17 to become a Solicitor’s clerk. Initially leaning towards the theatre, Jon moved to London in 1960 and trained at the Central School of Speech and …
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 …
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 …
Wen-Sinn Yang (cello)
In 1989, at the age of 24, Wen-Sinn Yang became principal cellist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra where he stayed until 2005 when offered a chair at the Munich College of Music. In 1991 he won first prize in the Geneva International Music Competition. Since then he has performed …
European Brandenburg Ensemble
The European Brandenburg Ensemble is an international formation of two dozen specialist musicians from different backgrounds and of different generations, which Trevor Pinnock drew together to celebrate his 60th birthday. With them he chose to revisit Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, which he first recorded with The English Concert nearly thirty years …
