Born in Kiel in 2002, Benjamin Günst won national prizes as a violinist and pianist at "Jugend Musiziert" during his school years. As a violin soloist, he performed early on with orchestras such as the Kiel Philharmonic, the Karlsbad Symphony Orchestra and the Potsdam Chamber Academy. He is currently studying at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Prof. Antje Weithaas. Having grown up in a family of musicians, Benjamin Günst enjoys improvising and crossing stylistic boundaries between genres in addition to his intensive work as a soloist and chamber musician. In the last two years, he has already performed in numerous concerts at the Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival as a chamber musician, soloist and also as a pianist. He will now return to Heidelberg in 2025 to work on the creative program.

The German-Italian violinist Chiara Sannicandro delights the audience with her expressive, sensitive and sincere playing. She has won prizes at international competitions and is much in demand as a chamber musician. Notable successes include prizes at the 27th Brahms Competition and the prestigious Joseph Joachim Competition 2021. Chiara has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the NDR Hannover, the Camerata Bern, the Göttinger Symphonieorchester and the Philharmonie Salzburg and has taken part in festivals such as the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Davos Festival and the Lockenhaus Festival. Her chamber music partners have included Gidon Kremer, Vilde Frang, Antje Weithaas, Yura Lee, Daniel Müller-Schott, Jens Peter Maintz and Enrico Pace. At the age of 9, Chiara was accepted into the Pre-College program at the Mozarteum Salzburg, where she studied with Klara Flieder. She continued her studies at the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington with Mauricio Fuks and at the Musik Akademie Basel with Rainer Schmidt. She is currently in the class of Antje Weithaas at Hanns Eisler Berlin. Chiara plays a violin by Matteo Goffriller, 1723, on loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Charlotte Spruit was born in the Netherlands in 2000. She is an enthusiastic chamber musician and soloist who has performed in renowned concert halls such as the Concertgebouw, the Wigmore Hall and the Elbphilharmonie. She has played chamber music with renowned musicians such as Janine Jansen, Rachel Podger, Gidon Kremer, Tabea Zimmermann, Lawrence Power and Christian Tetzlaff. Charlotte has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Residentie Orkest Den Haag, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pauliner Barockensemble and the Ensemble Esperanza.

In 2022 Charlotte won first prize as well as the Audience Prize and the Genuin Classics Prize at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig. In 2023 Charlotte was a prizewinner at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Auditions at Wigmore Hall. Charlotte has won prizes at numerous other national and international competitions, such as the International Violin Competition Kloster Schöntal, the Concours International Arthur Grumiaux and the Oskar Back Violin Competition. In 2020, Charlotte received the Anton Kersjes Violin Prize.

Charlotte began her violin studies at the age of 4 with Coosje Wijzenbeek. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music with David Takeno and with Ying Xue at the Royal Academy of Music. She is currently completing her Master's degree at the Royal Academy of Music with Rachel Podger, Pavlo Beznosiuk and Ying Xue. She has taken part in master classes with Shunske Sato, Robert Levin and Liza Ferschtman, among others. Charlotte is regularly invited to festivals such as the Chamber Music Connects the World Festival of the Kronberg Academy, the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht and the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival, where she performed with the Doric String Quartet. Charlotte also likes to explore new ways to bring music closer to the audience, for example by bringing together different art forms. She has collaborated with the artist Jérémie Queyras and created performances that combine painting and music. Together they won first prize at the Goodmesh Concours 2022. Charlotte plays an anonymous Italian violin from the 18th century, on loan from the Dutch Foundation for Musical Instruments.

Emily Turkanik is a prizewinner of the LSO and the ENO and won first prize with the Brompton Quartet at the St. Martin's in the Field Chamber Competition. Emily was concertmaster at the Davos Festival, is a member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Mahler Academy and has participated in the IMS Prussia Cove and the Yellowbarn Festival. As the founder of the Seida Ensemble, she is the pioneer of a new project called music@work. She began her musical training in Austria at the Mozarteum under the direction of Igor Ozim and Wonji Kim-Ozim. She later continued her studies in London at the Royal College of Music with Leonid Kerbel and Daniel Rowland. After completing her solo studies with Marianne Piketty at the CNSMD in Lyon, she will begin her quartet studies in September.

Connie is an exciting British violist, performing across Europe as a soloist and leader, and internationally as a chamber musician. Based in Amsterdam, Connie is a member of the Marigold Piano Quartet who recently took the Netherlands by storm, with performances at the Concertgebouw, Muziekgebouw and multiple features on the Dutch classical Radio 4. She freelances across Europe with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, 12 Ensemble and O'Modernt Chamber Orchestra, and is the co-founder of Seida Ensemble. Connie has a wealth of chamber music experience and enjoys putting together collaborative chamber concerts. Her artistic and conceptual approach has been largely influenced by musicians she has played with at festivals such as Yellow Barn, Mendelssohn on Mull, Ozawa Academy, IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music and Zermatt Music Festival. She plays on a Charle Coquet viola and an Emmanuel Carlier bow.

Born in Geneva in 2001, Johannes Moehrle began learning the viola with Laurent Rochat at the age of 4. He completed his junior studies with Noemie Bialobroda in 2017. He then studied in London with Andriy Viytovych and in Berlin with Tabea Zimmermann. He also studied literature at the University of Oxford. In the course of his training, Johannes has also benefited from lessons from Nobuko Imai, Garth Knox and Mathieu Herzog, among others. His love for chamber music has led him to participate in many festivals and academies, such as Verbier, Zermatt and the Seiji Ozawa Academy. He has also been a member of the Gstaad Festival Orchestra since 2021. He has also been President of the Puplinge Classique Festival in Geneva since 2024.

The 24-year-old British cellist Joseph Pritchard initially studied at Wells Cathedral School and the Yehudi Menuhin School. A former finalist in the BBC Young Musician category, he was awarded the Raphael Sommer Scholarship and the Elias Fawcett Prize at the Royal Overseas League Competition and won first prize at the Two Moors Festival Competition. As a chamber musician, he has performed at venues including Wigmore Hall, King's Place, BOZAR, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. As a concerto soloist, he has performed with the Orion Orchestra, the Giovane Ensemble and the Dorking Chamber Orchestra; in November 2023 he made his concert debut in the Berlin Philharmonie with Capella Amadeus. His recent orchestral projects include performances with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble. Joseph is currently studying under Nicolas Altstaedt at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin.

Willard started cello lessons at the age of 4 with Elizabeth Anderson. He joined Wells Cathedral School as a chorister at the age of 8, and moved to the Purcell School to study cello with Alexander Boyarsky in 2013. In 2016 Willard joined the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music for additional study of chamber music. In 2018 Willard started learning with Ivan Monighetti at the Escuela de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid and from 2023 he is studying at the Barenboim-Said Akademie with Frans Helmerson. In January 2024, Willard played at the Berlin Konzerthaus as part of the series Hope@Home. In July 2023, he played his first solo recital at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and in November 2023 he was invited back for the second consecutive year to the Radio Classique Festival in St Malo. Willard has performed as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Gstaad New Year Festival, as well as performing in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Buckingham Palace, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and Windsor Castle. In May 2019 he performed for the second time in Buckingham Palace, which was later broadcast on Classic FM. He has since been selected as a Rising Star for Classic FM. In May 2021, Willard played a recital in the Solsberg festival in Switzerland, in June he played the Brahms double concerto in the Teatro Romano in Merida for the queen of Spain, live on TV and in August 2021, Willard played the Elgar cello concerto with the Gstaad Festival Orchestra in the Gstaad Festival. Willard has been mentored by extraordinary musicians, in particular Vasily Petrenko and Jaap Van Zweden.

The young double bassist brings his experience as a member of the first two years of the Festivalcampus-Ensemble 2023 and 2024 and takes on extensive responsibility as co-curator. Hans Greve is interested in interdisciplinarity and unusual forms of collaboration. In addition to his master's degree at the Freiburg University of Music, he is studying philosophy and psychology. In the 2023/24 academic year, he studied as an exchange student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and at the Sorbonne Université. As a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra member, he is involved in various projects, including the Swiss ensemble collective arte frizzante, for which he has already planned several concert seasons and conceived interdisciplinary projects with dance and scenography, among other things.

Clarinetist and vocalist Žilvinas Brazauskas is a versatile soloist and chamber musician, known for his charismatic performances ranging from classical repertoire to jazz improvisations. Born in Lithuania, he has won prizes at competitions such as the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition and the "Jeunesses International Music Competition" in Bucharest and was a semi-finalist at the ARD Music Competition. As a soloist he has performed with orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Brussels Philharmonic and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. He also plays in the chamber ensembles Jazzical Class and Trio Agora, where he explores a wide range of styles from jazz and light music to contemporary music, as well as his own compositions and arrangements.

His passion for singing began at an early age when he joined a jazz choir at the age of 6; two years later he started playing the clarinet. Over time, he integrated the clarinet into his concerts and now weaves both instruments seamlessly and sometimes even simultaneously into his performances.

In addition, Žilvinas plays various instruments such as piano, guitar and the traditional Lithuanian folk instrument Birbynė, the peculiarities of which he enthusiastically presents to his audience.

Tamara Kurkiewicz is a Polish percussionist and performer with a strong focus on new and experimental music. In 2018, she won the grand prize at the 12th Competition for Music of the 20th and 21st century for young performers in Poland. As a soloist and chamber musician, Tamara performs at various national and international festivals, including Warsaw Autumn, KODY Festival of Traditional and Avant-Garde Music, Klangspuren Schwaz Tyrolean Festival of New Music and IMPULS Festival. The performative aspect of the works and their extra-musical context are of particular importance to the percussionist. She regularly participates in concerts and co-organizes events herself that highlight feminist concerns as well as other social issues.