Violist Hartmut Rohde, professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London, is renowned for his stylistic breadth and his work with the Mozart Piano Quartet. Oboist Emanuel Abbühl, former principal oboist of orchestras in Basel, Rotterdam and London, is an internationally acclaimed soloist and long-standing collaborator of eminent conductors. Pianist Ken Nakasako, trained in Tokyo and Berlin, works as a chamber musician and collaborative pianist at music universities in Berlin. Pianist Kimiko Imani appears regularly at festivals in Europe and Asia, collaborates closely with wind ensembles and teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin.

The stylistically varied programme connects works ranging from the late Romantic idiom to contemporary musical currents. In his chamber music, Robert Kahn shapes a lyrical and intimate sound world that enters into dialogue with the legacy of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, whose melodious piano miniatures Songs Without Words will also be performed. A completely different world is opened by Luciano Berio’s composition for solo oboe, one of his celebrated Sequenze, which use extended playing techniques to explore the expressive limits of the instrument. The work of Przemysław Pujanek, a violist and composer from Leipzig, represents contemporary musical creativity, while August Klughardt’s chamber composition reflects the influence of the New German School of the late nineteenth century.