https://www.imme-jeanne-klett.de/home.html

 

Imme-Jeanne Klett comes from Hamburg and studied at the Hochschule für Musik & Theater Hamburg with Prof. Jean-Claude Gérard and Prof. Ingrid Koch-Dörnbrak. After taking her final examination she worked successfully as a soloist with various orchestras and the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, the Hamburg Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Hamburg Camerata, Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg, Hamburg Ratsmusik, Vilnius String Camerata and many more, and performed as a chamber musician with various ensembles in Germany and abroad, with regular concert trips to the US and throughout Europe.

 

Imme-Jeanne Klett took up an invitation as soloist at the International Flute Festival and has performed frequently as a soloist and chamber musician at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Music Festival, Lower Saxony Musik Festival, Festival EuroKlassik, the Kultursommer Hohenlohe, Festival Arabesques Hamburg, China-Time Hamburg and Berlin, the Corveyer Musikwochen, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Music Summer and the Wismar Mozart Festival, and also in performances combining music and speech, in cooperation with acclaimed actors such as Christian Brückner, Maria Hartmann, Claus Bantzer, Christiane Hörbiger and Clemens von Ramin.

 

In addition to the standard flute repertoire of all periods, Imme-Jeanne Klett has a special interest in rarely played literature for flute solo and for the flute in unusual chamber music combinations.

 

In 1995 she founded Ensemble Obligat Hamburg (wind, strings, harp, piano and harpsichord), which is dedicated to presenting chamber music of all periods in a wide range of sounds and instrumental combinations. The Ensemble has given guest performances with exquisite programmes and full chamber music formation at prestigious concert series and acclaimed international festivals. Since 2005 it has been the ensemble in residence at OBLIGAT!, the premium chamber music festival in Hamburg (formerly “Summer Serenade”).

 

Imme-Jeanne Klett is the Artistic Director of OBLIGAT!, Festival of Chamber Music in Hamburg, with venues at the White Room of Jenisch House, the Galionsfigurensaal of Altona Museum and the Inner Courtyard of the Museum of Hamburg History.

 

She has made CDs with Dabringhaus und Grimm Detmold, Genuin Leipzig and the C2/ES-Dur label Hamburg. Her radio credits include many recordings for Deutschlandradio Kultur and NDR, Hessischer Rundfunk, Radio Bremen, and broadcasts on BR, RBB, WDR, SWR, Radio France, Radio Finland, Radio New Zealand, and many more.

 

Imme-Jeanne Klett is Professor of Flute at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg and teaches flute and chamber music courses.

 

Her orchestral engagements included the 1998-99 season with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and since 1999 she has been principal flautist with Hamburg Camerata.

 

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/giovannigandolfo.piccoloflute

 

Giovanni Gandolfo was born in 1978 in Enna, Italy.

 

After having studied the flute at the Istituto Musicale “V.Bellini”, Caltanissetta-Italy, he continued his studies at the École Nationale de Musique “Marcel Dupré” Meudon (Paris) in the class of François Veilhan, where he received the “Prix de Perfectionnement avec Mention Tres Bien” both for the Flute and for the Chamber Music .

 

Since 2018 he is the Co-Principal Flutist of the Oper Frankfurt Orchestra and since January 2019 he switched to the Piccolo Solo position of the same Orchestra.

 

In his career as orchestra flutist and piccolo flutist Giovanni Gandolfo has performed with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Orchestra Haydn di Trento e Bolzano, the Orchestra and the Filarmonica del Teatro alla Scala (Milano), the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), the NDR-Elbphilharmonie-Orchester (Hamburg), the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Orchestre National de France (Paris), the Opera di Roma, the Cyprus State Symphony Orchestra, and has been invited as Piccolo Solo at the Bayreuth Festival.

 

He has worked together with distinguished musicians as Claudio Abbado, Thomas Ades,Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Andrey Boreyko, Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, Ottavio Dantone, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Daniele Gatti, Edward Gardner, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, Daniel Harding, Thomas Hengelbrock, Manfred Honeck, Gustav Kuhn, Alain Lombard, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda, Antonio Pappano, Kirill Petrenko, Georges Prêtre, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Yuri Temirkanov, Christian Thielemann, Michael Tilson Thomas, Myung Whun Chung and Alberto Zedda.

 

He has participated at the DVD recording of Bruckner’s 1st Symphony and Wagner’s Die Walkure with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden under Christian Thielemann. He has performed in various recordings for the TV and radio with the Orchestra e Filarmonica di Teatro alla Scala, Milano and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome.

 

He is regularly invited worldwide to give Masterclasses.

 

He is Bulgheroni Piccolos Artist.

 

 

 

https://eduardbelmar.com/

 

Eduard Belmar (Mallorca, 1992) started flute studies at 8. Endorsed by impeccable academic training at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona, with Vicens Prats, and later at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris, with Sophie Cherrier and Vincent Lucas as professors, and also at the Hochschule für Musik of Stuttgart under the supervision of professor Davide Formisano. Later he concluded his musical education with Prof. Felix Renggli in the Hochschule für Musik Basel.

 

Has participated at the Pablo Casals Festival in France and twice at the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, with conductors like Christoph Eschenbach, Manfred Honeck and Michael Sanderling.

 

He has taken part in several international music competitions in Spain, Italy and Germany, the last one at ARD 2015 in Munich, where he was awarded with the third prize.

 

Eduard Belmar has collaborated with several orchestras like the Orchestre de Paris, Munich Philarmonic, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, the Orquestra Simfònica del Liceu de Barcelona, the SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, the HR Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt or the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, the NDR Elbphilarmonie Orchester (Hamburg) and, as a soloist, with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk and the Münchener Kammerorchester.

 

He has been principal flutist at the Badische Staatskapelle based in Karlsruhe, Germany, since 2014. In April 2016 he won the audition for principal flute at the Oper Frankfurt und Museums Orchester, position he currently holds.

 

Since 2020, he is associate teacher in the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main.

 

 

 

https://www.albertoacunaflutist.com/biography

 

Considered as "... a musician to follow in the upcoming generation..." Alberto has already been a prizewinner at several of the most important international competitions and has been invited to play with some of the most prestigious orchestras with conductors like Seiji Ozawa, Fabio Luisi, Kirill Petrenko, Jonathan Nott or Daniel Harding.

 

Currently, he is Academist in the ¨Karajan Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker¨ under the tutelage of Emmanuel Pahud, Mathieu Dufour, Michael Hasel, Jelka Weber and Egor Egorkin. And at the same time enrolled at the Soloist Master degree program at the Haute École de Musique of Geneva in the class of professor Jacques Zoon.

 

He has been awarded at several competitions such as the “Carl Nielsen International Competition (Denmark) 2022”, the “Maxence Larrieu International Competition 2019 (France)”, the “Aurèle Nicolet International Competition (GuangZhou, China) 2018”, the “Cluj-Napoca International Flute Competition in 2019 (Rumania)”, “Riddes Flute Competition 2018 (Switzerland)” or “Andalucia Flauta International Competition (Spain) 2016”.

 

Alberto Acuña, initiated his musical studies at the age of 8 years in Seville (Spain) with Manuel Jesus Lucas Traves and Wendela Claire van Swol in Córdoba, finishing in 2014 his intermediate level studies, with a honorific prize.

 

In 2012, at the age of 16, he was selected to attend the Academy for Orchestral Studies of the Barenboim-Said Foundations, located in Seville, working with Professor Thomas Beyer (principal flute, Staatskapelle Berlin), and in 2013 and 2014 he was selected to join the prestigious Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra under the baton of Daniel Harding.

 

He has received masterclasses from distinguished flutists, like Philippe Bernold, Davide Formisano, Silvia Careddu, Pierre Yves-Artaud, Felix Renggli and Emmanuel Pahud.

 

As a soloist he has performed with orchestras such as the Odense Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de Córdoba, Orquesta Filarmonica de Malaga, the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra or the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice.

 

He is playing as Academist with the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra, and also frequently invited to play as 1st flute with the Saito Kinen Orchestra (Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Music Festival), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Switzerland), Mito Chamber Orchestra (Japan), Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña, Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria, and Turku Philharmonic. These invitations have lead him to perform in some of the greatest venues, such as the Victoria Hall, the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, the Grand Theatre de Geneve, the Mito Concert Hall, the GuangZhou Concert Hall (China), the Auditorio Nacional de España or the Philharmonie de Berlin.

 

Alberto is also very active in chamber music, having toured around Europe and South America with the Aurora Piano Quartet and Echos Ensemble (Wind Quintet).

 

He is supported by the Pour-Cent-Culturel-Migros since 2020

 

 

 

https://www.beomjaekim.com/

 

The New York Times has praised flutist Beomjae Kim’s playing for its “memorable eloquence.” Beomjae [pronunciation: buhm-jae] has appeared in various concerts at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, Weill Recital Hall and Stern Auditorium, Lincoln Center, (le) Poisson Rouge, National Sawdust, Trinity Wall Street, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Kimmel Center for Performing Arts and the Seoul Arts Center. His performances have been broadcasted live on New York City’s WQXR, Philadelphia's WRTI, Chicago’s WFMT and Medici TV.

 

Beomjae is an alumnus of Ensemble Connect (formerly known as Ensemble ACJW) – a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and Weill Music Institute. As an orchestral musician, he has performed with renowned orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, American Composers, and Korean National Symphony Orchestra. Throughout his career, he has worked with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, Marin Alsop, Semyon Bychkov, and many others. Beomjae was also featured as one of the six emerging artists in classical music by Symphony Magazine (published by League of American Orchestras) in their Winter 2020 issue, and on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase.

 

Beomjae is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Flute at Ocean County College in Toms River, New Jersey. He has given guest lectures and masterclasses at the Manhattan School of Music, Stony Brook University, California State University Fresno, Dickinson College, and Skidmore College. Additionally, he served as a faculty member in flute performance at JCC Thurnauer School of Music in New Jersey.

 

Beomjae holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, a master’s degree, the prestigious Artist Diploma, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music.