Julia Galic
Violin, chamber music
Julia Galic was born in Tübingen and received her musical training from Prof. Dierick, Prof. Baynow and Prof. Agostini. She completed her music diploma and soloist diploma, with honors, from the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, under the guidance of Prof. Ingolf Turban. Julia has attended master classes with Valery Gradov, Yfrah Neaman, and Igor Ozim, amongst others.
As soloist she has performed with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, the Zagreb Soloists, the Lithuanian and Polish Chamber Orchestras, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Tübingen Chamber Orchestra. Together with the establishment of "Transcendent Ensemble", she has conceived new artistic ideas for various chamber music formations and concerts, with thematic concepts beyond the usual classical concert tradition. She has produced radio recordings with the South German Radio Orchestra and the former South-West Radio Orchestra.
Julia Galic is a lecturer of the violin at the Tübingen Music School. She has been appointed the position of Violin Professor for the Winter Semester 2011/2012 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.
Sebastian Bohren
Violin, chamber music
The Süddeutsche Zeitung has described Bohren as “one of the most serious-minded, forthright musicians of his generation” while BBC Music Magazine’s 5* review of his Avie recording of Mozart violin concertos praised his “gorgeous solo playing … vividly alert to the music’s every shift and turn.”
Bohren has made concerto appearances with the Sinfonieorchester Basel, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Orchestra Svizzera Italiana, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Argovia Philharmonic, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Kammerorchester Basel, Festival Strings Lucerne, Camerata Zürich, St. Petersburg State Academic Cappella, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Münchner Kammerorchester, Kölner Kammerorchester, Göttinger Sinfonieorchester, KKO Mannheim, WKO Heilbronn, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Romanian Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto. Conductors with whom he has collaborated include Philippe Bach, Douglas Boyd, Elim Chan, Thierry Fischer, James Gaffigan, Clemens Heil, Heinz Holliger, Axel Kober, Patrick Lange, Andrew Litton, Cristian Macelaru, Andrew Manze, Leo McFall, Christoph Poppen, Gábor Takács-Nagy and Mario Venzago.
Sebastian Bohren, who was born in 1987, trained in Zurich with Jens Lohmann, and subsequently Robert Zimansky and Zakhar Bron, before studying in Lucerne with Igor Karsko and at Munich’s University of Music and Performing Arts with Ingolf Turban. Musicians he cites as a decisive influence are Ana Chumachenco, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Christian Tetzlaff and Heinrich Schiff.
He plays a 1761 violin made in Parma by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, the “Ex-Wanamaker-Hart”.
Erik Borgir
Cello, chamber music
The son of Norwegian musician parents, Erik Borgir grew up in the USA and studied at the Oberlin and New England Conservatories. He received cello lessons from Steven Doane, David Wells, Harvey Shapiro, Siegfried Palm and Rudolf Metzmacher, among others. Furthermore he received important impulses in the field of chamber music from Menahem Pressler, Eugene Lehner (Kolisch Quartet), Louis Krasner, the Juilliard Quartet and the Alban Berg Quartet.
From 1993-2001 he performed in many European countries as a member of the internationally acclaimed Emanon Trio. In the years that followed, Erik Borgir was also active as an orchestral musician, including as principal cellist of the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra, cellist with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the RSO Stuttgart.
As a sought-after soloist and chamber musician, he regularly appears at international festivals, among others as a specialist for contemporary music. He has commissioned numerous works and recorded them on CD. He is one of the founding members of Ensemble Ascolta, which is one of the most renowned contemporary music ensembles in the world.
Erik Borgir developed a special passion for teaching at an early age. Immediately after graduating, he was hired as a teaching assistant at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he worked intensively with aspiring professional cellists.
Erik Borgir has been a lecturer for violoncello and chamber music at the Lucerne School of Music since 2011.
