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 Michael Helmrath
After studying the oboe and conducting, Michael Helmrath began his musical career as an oboist which led to his being appointed as principal oboist with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and Maestro Sergiu Celibidache, who promoted Michael Helmrath as a conductor and granted him his own series of concerts with the Munich Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.
The new series was acclaimed by the press and public alike as a great success for both the orchestra and its conductor. On account of this success, Michael Helmrath was invited by symphony and chamber orchestras in Europe and abroad (amongst others Radio Philharmonie Hannover, Augsburg Philharmonic, Halle Philharmonic Orchestra, Josef-Suk-Orchestra Prague, Seoul Sinfonietta, Schleswig-Holstein-Festival-Orchestra, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz). Following invitations of the German government, Michael Helmrath performed both with his orchestra and other ensembles like the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie in Eastern Europe and South America, so on a concert-tour to the old opera-houses in the north-east of Brazil.
In festivals like the "Schleswig-Holstein Musik-Festival" he worked as an assistant for conductors like Sergiu Celibidache, Leonard Bernstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Dmitri Kitajenko, Valery Gergejew, Semyon Bychkow and others. In 2000 Michael Helmrath started a new series of concerts with the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie in Munich. In 1999 he was appointed as musical director of the "Brandenburger Symphoniker". From 2000 on Michael Helmrath is artistic director of the festival "Été musical dans la vallée du Lot" in France.
 Antony Hermus
was born 1973 in the Netherlands. He studied at the Music High School of Tilburg piano with Jacques de Tiège and conducting with Jac van Steen and Georg Fritzsch. In the Netherlands he established, in 1996, the orchestra "Ananta", with whom he made some concert tours. Hermus was artistic director of the National Chorus Week in Holland.
He conducted the Bochumer Symphoniker, the Philharmonic Orchestras of Duisburg, Magdeburg, Freiburg, Kiel, Oldenburg, Mönchengladbach, Osnabrück, Bremerhaven, Jena, Herford, Rostock and the WDR Rundfunkorchester Cologne, also the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Orchestre de Bretagne, Orchestre de Haute-Normandie, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Opéra de Rennes (F), Opéra National de Paris. In the Netherlands he conducted the Het Gelders Orkest, Het Brabants Orkest, Limburg Symfonie Orkest, Opera Noord-Nederlands Orkest, Holland Symfonia, Opera Zuid, Nationale Reisopera Holland.
Besides his activities as a conductor Antony Hermus is demanded as an accompanist of soloists and choruses and also as chamber musician. 2002 he was stipendiat of the Richard Wagner Society and received benefit prize of the Benefit Association of the Theater and Orchestra Hagen.
In 1998 Antony Hermus was engaged at the Theater Hagen; first as solo repetitor and director of studies, since 2001 as first conductor and substitute of the General Music Director, in the season 2003/2004 as provisional Generalmusikdirektor. From 2004 till 2008 Antony Hermus was Chief Conductor and Generalmusikdirektor of the Philharmonic Orchestra and the Theater in Hagen. Since 2009 he has been Chief Conductor of the Anhaltische Philharmonie and Theater in Dessau.
More see at www.antonyhermus.com
 Graham Jackson
Graham Jackson was born in England in 1967. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge University, and then completed his musical studies at the Royal Northern College of Music under Timothy Reynish.
He built his operatic repertoire working at the Welsh National Opera, and in 2000 he moved to Germany to take up the position of First Kapellmeister at Bremen Opera. There he made his reputation conducting widely-acclaimed productions of "Cosi fan tutte", "Die tote Stadt" and the world premiere of the opera "Noach" by Sidney Corbett, together with numerous repertoire performances. He also took over the new production of "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" a week before the premiere, with sensational success. As a result he was appointed to the position of General Music Director in Krefeld and Mönchengladbach from September 2003.
In his opening seasons as Music Director, his conducting of new productions of "La Traviata", "Tannhäuser", "Werther", "La Bohème", "Der Freischütz", "Death in Venice" and the German premiere of Friedrich Cerha's opera "Der Riese vom Steinfeld" was universally praised, while on the concert platform his readings in particular of Mahler, Strauss, Beethoven and Stravinsky earned rave reviews.
As a guest conductor Graham Jackson has appeared at the Komische Oper, Berlin, Oper Frankfurt, the Volksoper Vienna, the Hamburg Staatstheater, Rome Opera, the Opera de la Bastille Paris and also in the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. He has conducted concerts throughout Germany, recently in Nürnberg, Augsburg, Lübeck, Bochum, Schwerin, Dessau and Schleswig-Holstein.
 Florian Krumpöck
Since August 2011 Generalmusikdirektor in Rostock and chiefconductor of the Norddeutsche Philharmonie.
Born in 1978 in Vienna, Florian Krumpöck has been the artistic director and principal conductor of the Sinfonietta Baden since the 2006-2007 season. In autumn 2008 he assumed additional duties as assistant to the music director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, where among other things he will oversee new productions of d'Albert's Tiefland and Salome of Richard Strauss.
From his early age Mr Krumpöck studied with some of the leading pianists, including Rudolf Buchbinder, Gerhard Oppitz and Elisabeth Leonskaja.
Encouraged by his mentor Daniel Barenboim, Mr. Krumpöck widened his repertoire and included symphonic works and operas and increasingly lay stress on conducting.
These activities led to Mr Krumpöck's extremely successful performances as guest conductor of the Sinfonietta Baden and the Prussian Chamber Orchestra. In 2006 his sensational debut with the Jerusalem Symphony won international acclaim.
Florian Krumpöck conducted et al. the Philadelphia Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra Trier, Orchester Bremerhaven, Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra (South Korea). Since 2010 Florian Krumpöck has been Chief Conductor of the Schubert Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna and Principal Guest Conductor of the Seoul Classical Players..He also will appear as guest conductor in Germany, Turkey and Spain.
More at http://www.floriankrumpoeck.com/
 Peter Leonard
born in Boston, USA; studied French horn, piano, composition and conducting at the Juilliard School in New York and with Franco Ferrara, Herbert Blomstedt, Sixten Ehrling and John Nelson; 1979 - 83 Music Director of the Bergen Philharmonic, 1984 - 96 Music Director Shreveport Symphony, 1996 - 2003 Chef Conductor in Augsburg; guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic and numerous american and german orchestras and operas (Chicago Lyric Opera, Stuttgart State Opera); concerts and recordings for radio and TV stations in USA and Europe; disc recordings moreover for Koch Classics; festival appearances in Europe and USA (Maifestspiele Wiesbaden, Vermont Mozart Festival asf.)
2004 till 2007 Peter Leonard was Chief Conductor and Generalmusikdirektor of the Norddeutsche Philharmonie and the Volkstheater Rostock; now he is intendant of the Volkstheater Rostock.
 Christian Ludwig
born in Cologne, Germany, in 1978, first studied the violin with Prof. Saschko Gawriloff at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Cologne, and later with Prof. David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He also took chamber music lessons with the Alban Berg Quartet. As a violin soloist, Mr. Ludwig performed with orchestras such as the Berliner-Sinfonie-Orchester, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Saarbrücken, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Beijing, and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest. He also played at numerous music festivals, including the International Music Festival Davos (Switzerland), the Dresdner Musikfestspiele, and the Rheingau Musikfestival.
Following a career-altering hand injury, Christian Ludwig studied orchestra conducting with Prof. Klaus Arp and choral conducting with Prof. Georg Grün at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim. As part of the conducting programme of the German state Baden-Württemberg he conducted various orchestras such as the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Württembergisches Chamber Orchestra (Heilbronn), the Reutlinger Phiharmonie, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Konstanz), as well as the State Orchestra of the Krim (Ukraine). As a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, he organized and conducted concerts of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and Lou Harrison's violin concerto. Mr. Ludwig also participated in master classes given by Mario Venzago, Sylvain Cambreling and Dmitri Kitajenko.In September 2005 Christian Ludwig commenced his Master in conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, London, with Sir Colin Davis, Colin Metters and George Hurst.
In November 2007 Christian Ludwig was invited to conduct the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. The great success of concerts in Munich (Prinzregententheater), Cologne (Philharmonie) and Paris (Théatre des Champs-Elysées) led to immediate reinvitations.With effect of the 2008/2009 season Mr. Ludwig has been appointed musical director of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra.
In opera Mr. Ludwig has conducted Rossini's "Barber of Seville", Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" and recently Puccini's "Turandot" at the National Opera of Korea.
His CD debut will be released in spring 2011 at the label Naxos featuring the complete serenades by Robert Fuchs.
 Uri Segal
The Israeli conductor Uri (Uriel) Segal studied violin and conducting at the Rubin Conservatory in Jerusalem. Then he went to London and enrolled as a conducting student at the Guildhall School of Music from 1966 to 1969. He completed his studies in Siena.
Uri Segal's international career was launched after he won 1st prize in the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition in New York in 1969. After that he served as Leonard Bernstein's assistant with the New York Philharmonic from 1969 to 1970. Subsequently he developed a fine career, conducting major orchestras in Europe and America. His European debut with the English Chamber Orchestra was soon followed by invitations to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony, Paris Orchestra and Suisse Romande Orchestra, among others.
From 1979 to 1984 he was principal conductor of the Philharmonia Hungarica. In 1982, Segal took the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra on a tour of Poland, the first West German orchestra to visit that country after World War II; he continued as Principal Guest Conductor of that orchestra for over fifteen years. Segal was Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony (1980-1982) and the Israel Chamber Orchestra.
In 1989 Segal became Music Director of the Chautauqua (New York) Symphony Orchestra (and Festival) and chief conductor of the Century Orchestra Osaka in Japan. He is also Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra.
In North America, guest conducting engagements include the orchestras of Montreal, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Portland (ME), Dallas, Houston, Louisiana, Virginia, Rochester, Detroit, San Diego, Buffalo and New Jersey. Abroad, he appeared with the Spanish National Orchestra (Madrid), Beethovenhalle Orchestra (Bonn), Hamburg Symphony, Israel Philharmonic and the symphonies of Tokyo, Basel and Quebec. - Since his opera debut in Santa Fe in 1973, Uri Segal has conducted opera extensively throughout Europe, Japan, Israel and the USA.
Segal has recorded for Decca and EMI with such orchestras as the London Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Suisse Romande Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony and the New Zealand Symphony.
 Ronald Zollman *
Belgian; studied at the Royal School of Music Antwerp, 1967 in Paris with Igor Markevitch and Nadia Boulanger; 1989 - 93 Music Director of the Orchestra National Belge; since 1993 of the Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM (Mexico); beginning of August 2002 chief conductor and music director of the Northern Israel Symphony in Haifa; guest conductor moreover of: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, numerous BBC orchestras, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestre Lamoureux, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Residence Orchestra The Hague, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders Antwerp, Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, RSO Berlin, Bamberg Symphony, Zagreb Philharmonic, RSO Ljubljana, San Diego Symphony, Opéra National Belge, English National Opera, The Scottish Opera, Théatre de la Monnaie Brussels; TV and radio appearances in countries of four continents; CD recordings et al. with the Zurich and Swedish Chamber Orchestra
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