Nina Scheidmantel, Art Director and piano

_{She is a German Chinese pianist, made her first appearance with a piano recital at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 2016, showing a promising future for her artistic career. At the age of 10 she already performed her first solo-concert. 2006 she got invited by the “Bayrischer Rundfunk” to a workshop in Munich with the world-famous pianist Lang Lang. Countless concerts led to many cities in Germany, but also to other European countries and China. In 2012 she played a concert at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with such a remarkable success that she got invited again two years later to perform a concert tour throughout the country with a concert in Zhongshan Concert Hall as a highlight. Nina got to play as a soloist with a number of reputable orchestras such as the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bad Reichenhall or the Philharmonic Orchestra of Coburg, conducted by Arn Goerke, Roland Kluttig and Christian Simonis. She won several prices at German-wide competitions and received scholarships by the “Richard Wagner Verband Coburg e.V.” and the “Deutsche Johann-Strauß-Gesellschaft e.V.” Besides the solo career she has her attention on chamber music especially on duos with violin. Being invited to the international Chambermusic Festival Pablo Casals in Prades, she worked together with the Artis Quartett and the Shanghai Quartett. In 2015 they got admitted to the foundation of Yehudi Menuhin “Live Music Now Franken e.V.” and in 2019 they won the furtherance prize of the Fischer-Flach-Competition.}

Hannah Solveij Gramß, violin

She started playing the violin at the age of four. The multiple prize-winner of the competition “Jugend – musiziert”(among others 2nd prize at the national competition 2013) was awarded both the cultural promotion prize of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in the category of music, and the special prize “Prix Peyras” at the international violin competition “Marie Cantagrill”. She is an academist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and was previously a member of both the national and federal youth orchestras, as well as the young German philharmonic orchestra. Together with her harpist Catharina Mothes, she earned a concert scholarship with “Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now”. As a soloist, Hannah is increasingly in demand as an artist who enjoys crossing genre boundaries. Together with composer and conductor Gordon Hamilton, she composed her own violin concerto for solo violin, live electronics and orchestra, which she premiered with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra at the Tonhalle in January 2021.