Musicians:
Markus Placci, violin
Winner of numerous international prizes such as the "Brahms Preis", the "Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize" and the prestigious "XXVI Vittorio Veneto Biannual Competition", Violinist Markus Placci has performed worldwide in renowned venues such as the Great Philharmonie Hall in St. Petersburg, the Kursaal in Baden-Baden, the Teatro Monumental in Madrid, the Teatro Comunale and Mozart Hall in Bologna, the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, and the Richardson Auditorium in Princeton. Described by the press as having "a magnificent personality, a superb energy, a total command and an extremely convincing taste" (La Libre Belgique), Markus Placci has appeared as soloist with major symphony orchestras like the
Barcelona Symphony, the Radio Television Orchestra of Spain (RTVE), the Baden-Baden Philharmonie, Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra Milan, Teatro San Carlo of Napoli Symphony, the St. Petersburg State Philharmonie and the Annapolis Symphony, since his solo debut at age 13 with the Bologna Symphony. Mr. Placci has collaborated with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, and has been broadcast live on BBC Radio, Bartok Radio Hungary, RaiRadio and RTV Espana. In 2005 he premiered with great acclaim the Violin Concerto by Spanish composer J. Cervello. Markus Placci plays on a 1871 J.B. Vuillaume violin, copy of the "Alard" Stradivari.
Burkhard Maiss, viola
Founding member of the "Jacques Thibaud Trio Berlin", Burkhard Maiss has traveied the world giving concerts for more than twenty-five years. The New York Times wrote that "Burkhard Maiss's violin sound is rieh and warm, like full-bodied red wine". He appeared in hundreds of venues, including London's Wigmore Hall, New York's Lincoln Center, Washington DC's National Gallery, Seoul University and the Berlin Philharmonie. Mr. Maiss was born in 1969 in Düsseldorf and started music lessons at the age of 5. He studied at the "Berlin College of Art" with Koji Toyoda and at the "Folkwang Hochschule der
Künste" where he made his Performance exam with distinction. Maiss is prize winner of many prestigious competitions, including the Stipendium of "Deutscher Musikwettbewerb" in Bonn and the first prize of the "Folkwang Wettbewerb" and was awarded with a scholarship from "VillaMusica" and the DAAD. He gave numerous master classes a.o. at Stanford, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Brüssels and Seoul, Princteon, Cornell, MIT, UCLA and followed many invitations to most prestigious festivals including MusicaMundi, MostlyMozart, Gidon Kremer's Echternach Festival, Sweden's Bastad Festival, Denmark's
Roskilde-Schubert-Festival. Together with the Jacques Thibaud String Trio he recorded 12 CD's. The audite recording "Beethoven, Complete String Trios" from 2015 was nominated for the ICMA (International Classical Music Award).
Bogdan Jianu, Violoncello
Born in Bucharest, Bogdan Jianu began his Cello studies with Anca larosevici at the Dinu Lipatti Music School and continued his studies at the Bucharest Music Academy with Marin Cazacu. In 1996 he moved to Berlin where he attended the class of
Prof. Markus Nyikos at the UdK and received his master's degree. Prizewinner in different Romanian, Czech and German competitions, he attended many masterclasses hold by prestigious musicians such as Radu Aldulescu, Markus Nyikos, Laszio
Varga, Artemis Quartet, Fine Arts Quartet and Menahem Pressler. He has been a member of several ensembles, including the Radio Chamber Orchestra Bucharest, the Kammerphilharmonie Berlin, German Radio Orchestra Berlin and the Solistes
Europeens Luxembourg. As the Cellist of the "Jacques Thibaud Trio Berlin" he performed for the last 11 years in the most important chamber music series around the world. The trio's concerts took place in hundreds of venues in USA, Canada,
Korea, Europe, including New York's Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center, Stanford University, Seoul University, and the Berlin Philharmonie. With the Jacques Thibaud Trio he recorded 6 CD's, receiving tremendous acclaim from the critics and received a nomination for the "International Classical Music Award" in 2015. As a teacher for cello and chamber music he gave numerous masterclasses a.o. in San Francisco, Saint Louis, New Orleans, Seoul University and Stanford University.
Ambassador Dr. Martin Ney, flute
Before receiving two law degrees from Wuerzburg University and a Masters degree in politics and economics from Oxford University, Dr. Ney served as the co-principle flautist with the First German Airforce Band in Munich. Düring this period, Dr.
Ney occasionally played at the Munich Opera as a second flautist. In 1978/79 whilst reading International Lawin Geneva, he studied with the acclaimed flautist Maxence Larrieux at the Geneva Conservatory. Düring his diplomatic postings Dr. Ney has had the opportunity to play with many acciaimed international orchestras. Since 2005, Dr. Ney has regularly performed as a soloist with the "Frankfurter Solisten". In October 2005 he first performed Asim Horozic's piece for solo flute and orchestra entitied Screm iz Njedara, written especially for his Performance with the Sarajevo Symphony Orchestra. Düring his posting as Ambassador to the UNin New York he performed with professors of the Julliard School. In 2010 he played the Holocaust Memorial Concert as a soloist with the Nürnberg Philharmonics before the General Assembly of the UN.
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