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Adrian Eröd is one of the most successful Austrian singers of his generation. Apart of the Vienna State Opera he performs at the Salzburg Festival, the Bayreuth Festival, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Scala in Milan, the Opéra de Paris, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Opera Zürich and the National Opera in Tokyo. His roles include Figaro in BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, Papageno, Count Almaviva, Eisenstein in THE BAT, Valentin in FAUST, Britten’S BILLY BUDD, Sixtus Beckmesser in DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG, Loge in RHEINGOLD and Prospero in T.Adès’ THE TEMPEST.

Adrian Eröd is also frequently performing on the concert stage. He has appeared with the Vienna and the Berlin Phiharmonic, working with conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christian Thielemann, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle and Andris Nelsons.

He is particularly fond of Lied and is singing recitals with Helmut Deutsch, Justus Zeyen and Christoph Traxler. Adrian Eröd was nominated an Austrian Kammersänger.

Thomas Selditz has made an international name for himself as a chamber musician. After his studies, he played as 1st solo violist under Daniel Barenboim in the Staatskapelle Berlin. Before being appointed professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2010, he held professorships at the conservatories in Hanover and Hamburg.

He belonged to the renowned Gaede Trio for over 20 years and was a member of the Hugo Wolf Quartet from 2013-2016. He has performed in halls such as New York's Carnegie Hall, Vienna's Konzerthaus, London's Wigmore Hall and the Cité de la musique Paris.

As a chamber musician, he has been a guest at many renowned international festivals and has recorded over 20 CDs for labels such as Sony, Largo Records, Tacet, MDG, Audite and Phoenix. His recording of Henri Vieuxtemps' works for viola and piano was awarded the Diapason d'Or and the German Record Critics' Prize in France in 2003. Most recently, the solo recording with the BBC Concert Orchestra London (Sinfonia Concertante by Walter Braunfels) was also awarded the German Record Critics' Prize in 2019.

Tommaso Huber grew up in an environment influenced by folk music in Putzleinsdorf/Mühlviertel. He learned to play the accordion from his father at an early age and began his specific musical education at the Linz Music High School.

He studied concert double bass in Vienna and Graz with Ludwig Streicher, Josef Niederhammer and Johannes Auersperg, and in 2000 was engaged in the orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper, where he has been playing ever since.

As an accordionist he plays in the ensembles AMARCORD WIEN, "The Flying Schnörtzenbrekkers" and in the Duo GürtlerHuber, for which he also composes and arranges.

1998 - 2007 Training as a violin maker privately in the workshop of Konrad Stoll, Haldenwang/Allgäu. In 2010 he passed the professional examination before the Vienna Guild of Craftsmen and obtained the authorisation to practice the violin making trade for new construction and repair of double basses.

At today's concert, Tommaso Huber will play a double bass from his own workshop, built in 2000.

Johannes Flieder was born in Vienna in 1959 and studied violin with M. Biedermann at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität from 1966 to 1977, and subsequently viola with Siegfried Führlinger at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 1977 to 1983.

In 1980 he won 2nd prize at the international ARD competition in Munich and in the same year became principal violist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist he has performed in Austria, Germany and Hungary, including at the Vienna Musikverein with the Wiener Concert-Verein, at the Bregenz Festival, at the Carinthian Summer, as well as in Berlin, Essen and Lübeck.

As a chamber musician he is a member of the Flieder Trio and the HABE Quartet, as well as other formations, and can point to a rich palette of radio and CD recordings. Johannes Flieder is a member of the Wiener Concert-Verein and regularly participates in the Concentus Musicus under Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Sophie Druml was born in Vienna and has been taking piano and violin lessons since the age of six. She studied concert piano at the mdw and at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, as well as concert violin there and at the MUK.

Sophie is a recipient of numerous international awards and prizes and was among the last 12 in the piano duo category at the ARD Competition 2021. She has been invited to various festivals such as the Chopin Festival at Kartause Gaming, Klassik im Burghof Klagenfurt, LOISIARTE Festival, Kyoto International Music Festival, CLASSIX Kempten, Attergauer Kultursommer, Mattseer Diabellisommer, Schloß Walpersdorf and with the Arton Trio to the Megaron Gyzi Festival in Santorini.

With the "Eurydice Quartet" she made her debut as 1st violinist at the Herbstgold Festival 2021 by Julian Rachlin. She is a musical partner of the Aron Quartet, Paul Gulda, Veronika Hagen and members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Born in 1998 in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Andreas Siles-Mellinger received his first violin lessons at the age of eight at the "Instituto Eduardo Laredo". In 2013 he received a scholarship from IMEN (International Music Education Network) to study in Austria at the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School.

He leads a busy concert schedule at home and abroad (Baroque Festival "Misiones de Chiquitos" in Bolivia, Japan, USA, Greece, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Hungary, Germany), playing in famous concert halls such as Vienna Musikverein, Vienna Konzerthaus, Auditorium "Giovanni Arvedi" del Museo del Violino Cremona, Greek National Opera, The Masonic Temple in Washington and others.

Since October 2020, Andreas Siles Mellinger has been studying at the University Mozarteum Salzburg with Prof. Klara Flieder-Pantillon.

The Doppler Quartet (Julia Dueñas and Nora Ratzberger, violins | Laeticia Lermer, viola | Franziska Lermer, violoncello) was founded in Salzburg in 2017. By now the members are between 13 and 16 years young and study at the University Mozarteum Salzburg (Pre-College), at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna mdw (Highly Gifted and Preparatory Course) and at the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School (Intensive Training and Young Masters Programme). As a quartet they are taught by Christophe Pantillon at the Margareten Music School.

The Doppler Quartett is a multiple prize winner in the youth competition "Prima la musica" and records 1st prizes in the regional competition in Salzburg 2019, 2021 and in Vienna 2023, as well as a 1st prize in the national competition in Salzburg 2021. In the national competition 2023, the Doppler Quartett emerged as national winner in the corresponding age category.