Lena Eckels studied with Barbara Westphal and Lars Anders Tomter. She was the violist of the Amaryllis Quartet for a decade, with whom she performed worldwide and won, among other awards, the International Chamber Music Competition in Melbourne, Australia. She has been teaching viola at the Lübeck University of Music since 2018.

Valentin Scharff, cellist of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1999, honed his skills under Christoph Henkel in Freiburg. He has manifested his artistry through chamber music, notably influenced by the Vermeer Quartet, gracing numerous festivals worldwide and contributing to numerous radio recordings.

Cellist Daniela Shemer, a passionate chamber musician, has played with the HR Symphony Orchestra since 2019. She specialises in contemporary music and has performed throughout Europe with such distinguished ensembles as Ensemble Modern and the SWR Experimentalstudio. She has received scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Barenboim-Said Andalusian Public Foundation (West-Eastern Divan Orchestra).

Shelly Ezra studied with Sabine Meyer, Reiner Wehle, Diethelm Jonas, Joy Farral, Martin Spangenberg, Linde Brunmayr-Tutz, Anton Steck and Itshak Kazap. She has been awarded prizes at such prestigious competitions as the International ARD Competition in Munich, the Freiburg International Clarinet Competition, the Braunschweig Classix Festival Competition and the International Max Reger Chamber Music Competition, Karlsruhe. As a soloist she has performed with renowned orchestras, those including the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Bonn Classical Philharmonic, Collegium Musicum Basel, the Jena Philharmonic, and the Israel Chamber Orchestra.

Clarinetist Teddy Ezra received his musical training with Itshak Kazap, later continuing his studies with Chen Halevi and Ernst Schlader at the Trossingen University of Music. He is the recipient of numerous honours, including awards from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. In the competition held by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he won first prize across all instrumental categories and was also awarded a prestigious distinction by the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation. Teddy has served as principal clarinetist of the Israel Symphony Orchestra of Beer Sheva and has collaborated with renowned period ensembles such as Concerto Köln. Since 2019, he has been a faculty member at the Trossingen University of Music.

Kristian Katzenberger, having previously served as the solo horn player in the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra from 2016 to 2020, transitioned to the same role in the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2021. He has also collaborated with major orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Berlin. As a chamber musician he has performed with such celebrated artists as Lars Vogt, Maximilian Hornung and the Scharoun Ensemble. 

Naaman Wagner studied piano with Arie Vardi and Eitan Globerson and conducting with Evgeny Zirlin. He is a first prize winner of the Jerusalem Music Academy’s Piano-, Chamber music- and Beethoven Competitions and has won scholarships from the Israel-American Cultural Foundation for his outstanding achievement in piano performance and composition. With baritone Assaf Levitin he has recorded all of Alberto Hemsi’s Piano Songs, which were published by Saarländischer Rundfunk and Rondeau Production