Katja Maderer debuted recently in Copenhagen as a soprano soloist in Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion. She was one of the winners of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin in 2020 and, together with the pianist Amadeus Wiesensee, she won the special prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary Lied at the Internationaler Wettbewerb für Liedkunst in Stuttgart in 2022. Katja has given concerts at the Festspiele Europäische Wochen in Passau and at the Musikfest ION in Nuremberg, as well as at the Kammermusikwoche Tabea Zimmermann and the Christian Gerhaher Liedwoche at Schloss Elmau. Having completed her studies under professors Christiane Iven and Sabine Lahm at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich (where she studied violin in addition to singing), Katja Maderer continued her training in the class of professor Lars Woldt.
continua els seus estudis a la classe del professor Lars Woldt.
Jonas Müller was born in Deggendorf in 1999. His soloistic focus is on lied singing, which is supported by his close collaboration with pianist Gerold Huber. Jonas Müller is a scholarship holder of the Liedakademie of the Heidelberger Frühling under the direction of Thomas Hampson. Since 2022 he attends the Lied class at the HMT Munich with Prof. KS Christian Gerhaher. In May 2021 Müller made his operatic debut as Papageno in a production at HMT Munich; in 2022 he sang Count Almaviva in Mozart's Figaro and Lubano in "Der Stein der Weisen" . Since 2021 he has been a scholarship holder at Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now München e.V. and Fritz Wunderlich Gesellschaft e.V.; in the same year he received a grant from the Hans und Eugenia Jütting-Stiftung Stendal. In 2022/23 he is a scholarship holder of the Thomas Gotthold Greinwald Foundation.
Amadeus Wiesensee was born in 1993 and debuted at the age of twelve with the Munich Radio Orchestra. In 2019, the Süddeutsche Zeitung described his interpretation of Brahms’s Piano Trio No. 1 as “top-class, poetic and captivating”, while the Münchner Abendzeitung named him the Cultural Star of the Year in the classical music category. Amadeus Wiesensee has performed at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Rheingau Musik Festival and the Würzburg Mozartfest, among other venues. In 2021, he was awarded the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis. Amadeus Wiesensee was the first resident artist of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn in the 2021/22 season, and he debuted in the Frauenkirche in Dresden, at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, at Die Glocke in Bremen and at the Schloss Elmau with the Goldberg Variations.
After her junior studies at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich, she studied piano there with Prof. Silke Avenhaus and Prof. Bernd Glemser in Würzburg and is currently continuing her studies in Lied accompaniment with Prof. Christian Gerhaher, Prof. Gerold Huber and Prof. Fritz Schwinghammer. She has won numerous prizes at various competitions such as 2nd prize at the Harald Genzmer Competition. She also performs at concert series such as the Swiss Chamber Festival, the Espresso concerts at Konzerthaus Berlin or Schubertíada Vilabertran and takes part in children's concerts at the Bavarian State Opera. She received musical impulses from Brigitte Fassbaender (Schubertiade Schwarzenberg) and Ian Bostridge, among others. In addition, she is a multiple recipient of the Deutschlandstipendium and participant in the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now program. Furthermore, she holds a teaching position at the Leopold Mozart Centre of the University of Augsburg.