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Orchestra

Our orchestra consists mainly of young professional musicians from the extended region and selected, advanced music students from, among others, the Bruckner Music University Linz, the University of Music and Theatre Munich and the Mozarteum University Salzburg - a well-balanced mixture that promises quality, passion, vitality and youthful energy.

Concertmaster Margarita Nastouli

Margarita Nastouli already has extensive experience as a concertmaster, among others at the Regensburg Theater, the Ulm State Theater, the Plauen-Zwickau Theater, the Cottbus Theater and with Capella Aquileia. She was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, the Athens State Symphony Orchestra and gives benefit concerts with the organization “Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now”. Margarita Nastouli studied at the Apollonium Conservatory in Athens, at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and with Prof. Zakhar Bron (Onassis-Foundation scholarship). In 2013 she was a scholarship holder of the ORFF Academy of the Munich Radio Orchestra. She has worked with Sir Colin Davis, Herbert Blomstedt and Vladimir Ashkenazy, among others. As a soloist and chamber musician Margarita Nastouli has performed in Greece, Italy, Russia and Germany. Prize winner: 1st prize at the state music competition in Greece (at 12 and 15 years old), 1st prize at the competition of the “Musical Youth of the Planet” festival in Moscow and many more. 

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Principal Viola Martin Babica

Martin Babica, a native of Passau, is a freelance (solo) violist. He studied at the Richard Strauss Conservatory and at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich. He received further stimulus from J. Sutil, M. Rohde, H. Schlichtig, D. Goritzki, H. Nicolai, V. Hagen and L. Power. Martin Babica collaborated as a solo violist with the Kammerphilharmonie dacapo, the Camerata Munich, the taschenphilharmonie Munich, the Nymphenburg String Soloists and the New Philharmonic Munich. After an internship with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, he worked with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Mainz and Wiesbaden State Orchestras, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria and the Beijing Symphony Orchestra (European tour). Martin Babica was also involved in CD recordings for the German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Principal Violoncello Manfred Pferinger

Manfred Pferinger, born in Dingolfing, studied violoncello at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich with Horatiu Cenariu. He gained important inspiration from master classes with Wolfgang Boettcher, Claude Starck, Attila Pasztor, and Maximilian Hornung, as well as from his study of historical performance practice in the viola da gamba with Hartwig Groth. After an internship with the orchestra of the Hessian State Theater in Kassel, Manfred Pferinger was a cellist with the Münster Symphony Orchestra until 2006. He also played in various orchestras in the region, including the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra Herford, the Oldenburg State Orchestra, the Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra, the Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra, the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen, and the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra. As a teacher, he passes on his musical experience to students of all ages and abilities. Chamber music and solo performances have taken him to other European countries and Japan. Manfred Pferinger has been a member of the Sinfonietta Passau since 2023.

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Concertmaster Hanna Asieieva

Hanna Asieieva, born in 1987 in Kiev, has been a member of the Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich since 2016 and associate concertmaster since 2022. In 2011 she received a scholarship from Queen Sofia of Spain to study at the International Institute of Chamber Music in Madrid. She received her soloist diploma at the Karlsruhe University of Music. She has cooperated with Sir Simon Rattle, Andris Nelsons, Kiril Petrenko, Mikhail Jurowski and Roger Norrington, among others. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Switzerland, Portugal and Finland. Prize winner: Gold Medal 3rd Intern. Music Competition in Manhattan, 1st prizes: Intern. Kiejstut Bacewicz Chamber Music Competition in Łódź (Poland), Intern. Shostakovich Chamber Music Competition in Moscow, 2nd Intern. Chamber Music Competition in Madrid, Semifinalist 15. Intern. Wieniawski Violin Competition and many more.

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Our musicians

1. Violin

Margarita Nastouli Concertmaster

Jonathan Ort

Patricia Hibler

Heike Fischer

Felix Graf Lambsdorff

Marie Leithold

Amelie Kaiser

Theresa Hofer

2. Violin

Olga Becker Principal

Annemarie Berkel

Anna Schmitt

Monika Strasser

Claire Jacobs

Luzia Beer

Mengxi Wang

Gabriel Bittner

Viola

Martin Babica Principal

Alfons Puschej

Valentin Koch

Martin Wutz

Timon Bartholmé

Violoncello

Manfred Pferinger Principal

Sebastian Stoiber

Florian Giesa

Jakob Noll

Double bass

Nicolas Lang Principal

Charlotte Lasch

Flute

Nika Jeraj

Johanna Scheifele

Oboe

Gustav Berger

Marc Megele

Elias Bello

Clarinet

Gabriela Trost

Nadja Schopf

Bassoon

Amrei Tribula

Maximilian Geier

Horn

Franziska Maier

Johannes Knippertz

Max Linßen

Christian Spitzenberger

Trumpet

Simon Reitberger

Jakob Heckenlauer

Trombone

Michael Stiglbauer

Philipp Schwärzer

Bastian Gugerbauer

Timpani

Cornelius Hirsch

Percussion

Michael Weymar

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