Soprano Katja Maderer is currently studying for her Master's degree in "Concert Singing" at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in the class of Prof. Lars Woldt. She completed her Bachelor's degree with KS. Prof. Christiane Iven and Sabine Lahm in 2023. The young musician has already performed at renowned concert series such as the Europä ische Wochen Passau, ION Nuremberg, Schubertíada Vilabertran, as well as at the chamber music weeks of Tabea Zimmermann and Christian Gerhaher at Schloss Elmau. She is also a prizewinner of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin and the International Competition for Lied Art of the Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart.

Wolfram Rieger studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich with Erik Werber and Helmut, and attended several masterclasses with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He began teaching at the Munich Hochschule in 1991 while still a student. In 1998 he became a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and regularly holds masterclasses throughout Europe and Japan. He is frequently invited to important venues and festivals around the world, such as the Feldkirch and Vilabertran Schubertiades, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, London’s Wigmore Hall, and the Vienna Musikverein. He has accompanied Brigitte Fassbaender, Barbara Bonney, Juliane Banse, Michelle Breedt, Thomas Hampson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Matthias Goerne, and Thomas Quasthoff, among others.