Artists

He was born in 1989 in Santiago de Chile. He started playing the French horn at the age of 18. He graduated from the Unversidad Catolica de Chile and then attended masterclasses and privacy lessons with Ignacio Garcia in Berlin.

In 2008, Matias won solo horn player Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile, where he worked until 2014. In the same year he entered the orchestra academy of Staatskapelle Berlin. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Chile and Europe.

Since 2016 he has been a principal horn player in the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.

Andre Schoch has been a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2017.

From 2014 to 2017 he was principal trumpet at the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. Before that, engagements as principal trumpet took him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. As soloist, Schoch has performed with the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg conducted by Kent Nagano, the Polish Kammerphilharmonie as part of the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Prague Chamber Orchestra and the Berliner Barock Solisten.

Alongside his orchestral engagements Andre Schoch is also in high demand as a chamber musician. He is a founding member of the ensemble “10forBrass” and the Duo Schoch/Höricke. Regularly Schoch is also invited to play with the famous ensemble “German Brass”.

Since 2020 Schoch is tutoring trumpet students at the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker and frequently leads rehearsals for the academy’s brass ensembles. From 2015 to 2017 he taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Schoch has given serval acclaimed Masterclasses at the Karajan Academy, the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Manhattan School of Music.

Born in 1987, Schoch was given his first trumpet lesson at the age of eight by Ansgar Dümchen. From 2004 to 2007 he was a student at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, studying with Professor Reinhold Friedrich and Professor Klaus Bräker. Later he studied with Professor Matthias Höfs at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and from 2010 to 2012 with Gábor Tarkövi at the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Schoch‘s versatile repertoire, as soloist and chamber musician, has been released on various audio- and video recordings by labels such as Berlin Classics, Dabringhaus & Grimm and Genuin.

Horn playing runs in Yun Zeng’s family. Both his grandfather and his father were professional players of the instrument. The soft, flexible sound fascinated Yun Zeng from an early age. He received his first horn lessons at the age of six from his father, who was the principal horn of the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra. A television recording of Schumann’s Konzertstück for Four Horns with the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring orchestra members Stefan Dohr and Georg Schreckenberger in the solo quartet, impressed him so deeply that he began to dream of one day becoming part of that ensemble. At the age of ten, Yun Zeng stepped in for an ill horn player of the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra and discovered how fulfilling it is to perform in an orchestra. “I realized this is my dream job.”

In 2011, Yun Zeng moved to Beijing to study at the conservatory there in the class of Quan Wen. In 2019/20, he studied at the Haute École de Musique de Genève with Bruno Schneider. He is a multiple prizewinner of major international competitions, including first prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019, as well as second prize at the 70th ARD International Music Competition in 2021 and the Prague Spring Competition in 2018. In 2022, he became principal horn of the Staatskapelle Berlin. From there, he moved in the 2024/25 season to the Berlin Philharmonic in the same position.

a horn player originating from Turkey, has been the 1st/3rd horn player of the Basel Symphony Orchestra since the 2018/19 season. From 2016 to 2018, she was engaged as the principal horn player at the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn. Before that, she was employed as a utility horn player in the orchestra of the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Her decision to become a musician was likely influenced not only by her talent but also by a dedicated primary school teacher in her homeland, who sang with all the children and fostered the most talented ones from an early age. As a result, she received excellent vocal training at the age of seven and sang in the Ankara Radio Children’s Choir (TRT).

During this time, she began her long-term musical education at the Hacettepe University, the State Conservatory in Ankara, where she started horn lessons with Prof. Erol Gömürgen at the age of eleven. Later, she switched to M. Cem Akcora. At the State Conservatory, she attended the high school and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree. During this period, she was a prize-winner in various national competitions, such as “Young Musician of the Year” by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Competition, and participated in various international youth orchestras. At the age of 17, she received her first permanent orchestra engagement as a horn player with the Presidential Symphony Orchestra in Ankara.

Half a year later, she was awarded a scholarship for Young Musicians by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and began her horn studies in 2005 at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig with Prof. Thomas Hauschild. Following her successful completion in Leipzig, she pursued a Master’s degree in Chamber Music/Horn at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with Prof. Christian Lampert. She also received lessons from the renowned horn pedagogue Prof. Erich Penzel.

She gained further orchestra experience, among others, with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Halle, at the Frankfurt Opera, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. In addition to orchestra activities, chamber music in various ensembles is a significant passion for the young musician. She is regularly engaged at various master classes and festivals for her high pedagogical skills.

Adam Rapa is a dynamic performer, composer, producer and educator who has become widely known for the excitement, energy and enthusiasm he brings to stages and classrooms around the world.
Rapa was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He began studying the trumpet at 11 years old, playing professionally at age 13 and was playing lead trumpet in many of the big bands at Berklee College of Music by age 16. By the age of 18, he had appeared in many Jazz festivals around the country and played at every major Jazz club in Boston and many in New York, including the Blue Note. Rapa has been featured as a special guest artist and clinician at trumpet conferences around the globe including the International Trumpet Guild (ITG) conference, and festivals in dozens of countries.

Adam is grateful to have shared the stage and/or recorded with Grammy Award winners Nicholas Payton & Roy Hargrove, Christian McBride, Doc Severinsen, Soulive, Wycliffe Gordon, Eric Reed, Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Cyrus Chestnut, Fred Wesley, Jorge Pardo, Belgian Brass, Alice in Chains, Academy Award winning film composer A.R. Rahman, and many other great artists over the years.

From 2001 to 2007, Rapa starred in the Tony and Emmy Award winning Broadway show, “Blast!” and several other productions by the same company, performing over 2000 shows across North America, Japan and the U.K. Since then he has composed and co-produced several brass theater productions in Japan. His first solo album, “Life on the Road” received critical acclaim for its vast musical diversity, virtuosity and soul. And his second album, “Rebelión” (with Zoltan Kiss, of Mnozil Brass) gave the brass world a unique and unparalleled fusion of Classical, Jazz and Tango sensibilities.
Adam looks forward to a long career of producing innovative and inspiring musical and theatrical experiences, and contributing to the greater good through the medium of art.

For more info, and exclusive audio/video clips, please visit:

www.adamrapa.com

graduated with honors from the Music High School in Gorzów in the trumpet class of Mr. Włodzimierz Kozłowski. He is a graduate of the trumpet class of Prof. Igor Cecocho at the Academy of Music in Wrocław (AMUZ Wrocław). In 2005, as a fourth-year student, he began working at the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra, where he holds the position of principal solo trumpeter. Since then, he has performed nearly a thousand concerts with Sinfonia Varsovia, appearing in the most prestigious concert halls around the world. He has also performed as a soloist on numerous occasions, including with Sinfonia Varsovia, the Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra, the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kielce Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gorzów Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Lower Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra. In July 2006, he performed as a soloist at the inaugural concert of the Chopin and His Europe festival. Together with Martha Argerich and the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra under the direction of Alexander Rabinowich-Barakovsky, he performed Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 for piano, trumpet, and string orchestra, Op. 35, from which a CD was released.

He has collaborated with many orchestras, including the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Aukso, Leopoldinum, the Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra, the Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra. He conducts master class sessions (e.g., at ZAM Lusławice, Letnie Tortury Muzyczne Wadowice) as well as webinars. The artist is also involved in numerous ensembles such as Queen Symfonicznie, Sinfonia Varsovia Brass, and the Polish Brass Quintet.

In addition to classical music, the artist also performs popular music. He collaborates with entertainment orchestras led by Zygmunt Kukla, Tomek Szymuś, Grzegorz Urban, Daniel Nosewicz, and Krzysztof Herdzin. He has participated in many television productions such as the KFPP Opole festival, Top Of The Top Sopot, and Dancing With The Stars. He has recorded albums for artists such as Zbigniew Wodecki, Ania Szarmach, Maryla Rodowicz, Piotr Rubik, Robert Gawliński, Krzysztof Herdzin, as well as several theme songs for television programs (e.g., 997).

He teaches trumpet at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music as an assistant professor.

Jakub Waszczeniuk is an artist endorsed by Schilke.

is a former Principal Trumpet of both the BBC Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under conductors Sakari Oramo and Andris Nelsons. He is also a member of two of the country’s leading brass chamber groups in Onyx Brass and Septura Brass Septet.

He is currently Principal Trumpet of the London Mozart Players and has played on countless movie soundtracks.

Alan is a Trumpet Professor at the Royal College of Music and Trumpet Tutor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and is also Trumpet Tutor to the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

Alan was Principal of the European Union Youth Orchestra and a winner of The Philip Jones Brass Prize, Royal Overseas League and the Shell/LSO Scholarship, where he performed the Hummel Trumpet Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra in the at The Barbican.

During the Pandemic, Alan joined Royal Air Force Music Services and is Principal Trumpet of the renowned Central Band of the Royal Air Force. During this time, he has taken part in the State Funerals of HRH Queen Elizabeth II and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, The Platinum Jubilee, and was in the RAF Fanfare Team in Westminster Abbey for The Coronation of King Charles III and the following Coronation Concert at Windsor Castle.

He was born in 1977 in Germany. He studied with Michael Höltzel in Detmold and with prof. Christian-Friedrich Dallmann in Berlin. He was a member of the German Youth Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra. After performing with the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, the Komische Oper Berlin and the Staatskapelle Dresden, he was a member of the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig for almost ten years.

He is a prize-winner at several international competitions. In addition to playing in the orchestra, he is active internationally as a chamber musician, soloist and teacher. For six years he taught at the Universität der Künste Berlin in the horn class of Christian-Friedrich Dallmann, in 2011–2012 he was a professor of French horn and chamber music at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern, Switzerland, in 2012–2015 he taught French horn at the Universität für Musik und Musik darstellende Kunst in Graz, Austria. Since 2012, he has been professor of horn at the Anton-Bruckner-Universität in Linz.

He is a professional mental trainer, lives in Vienna.

He was born in 1982 to an Israeli family living in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He began playing the trombone at the age of 13 under the guidance of his grandfather, a former trombonist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He enrolled in studies at the Rotterdam Codarts University, and later was admitted to the Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, where he had the opportunity to work under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. He continued his studies with Andreas Klein, Rainer Vogt, and Prof. Stefan Schulz, graduating with a master’s degree from the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin in 2013.

Since 2012, Tomer has been serving as the bass trombonist of the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin. He occasionally performs with orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Lucerne Festival, Staatskapelle Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Boston Symphony.

He is also a member of various brass ensembles, including the International Trombone Ensemble, Berlin Trombone Quarter, and Trombone Unit Hannover, with which he won the first prize at the 2011 Deutsche Musikwettbewerb. Additionally, he is a frequent guest artist with the Berliner Philharmoniker Brass Ensemble and the Lucerne Festival Brass Ensemble.

In addition to music, he is passionate about performance art, dance, and acting, which resulted in the multimedia production “NO-MAD,” with dancer and choreographer Oren Lazovski, premiered in 2016 at Radialsystem in Berlin. In his latest project “Sliding thru the Opera,” Tomer collaborates with another trombonist Lars Karlin and pianist Ohad Ben-Ari. The performance includes operatic hits arranged for trombone, bass trombone, and piano, with the premiere scheduled for the upcoming season at the Berlin Philharmonic.

Since 2023, he has been an artist endorsed by Bach.

He is a soloist of the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra and a lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

After studying at the Birmingham Conservatory (2007) and again in Poland, he continued the family tradition as a trumpet teacher at all school levels. In addition to intensive work as a trumpeter of Sinfonia Varsovia, and a lecturer, Jan remains active in music, engaging in interesting projects outside the circles of classical music (including SV Brass, Szymon Nidzworski Project).