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 is a freelance violinist in Munich. She worked as a concertmaster at the Ulm State Theatre, the Plauen-Zwickau Theatre, the Cottbus Theatre and the 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.
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.
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.
Our musicians
1. Violin
Margarita Nastouli Concertmaster
Prof. Heinz Haunold
Myroslava Shcherbina
Olga Skrypkina
Clara Perez Campuzano
Annemarie Berkel
Felix Graf Lambsdorff
Marie Leithold
Theresa Hofer
Mengxi Wang
Patricia Hibler
Dr. Christian Pfeiffer
Flute
Nika Jeraj
Johanna Scheifele
Oboe
Gustav Berger
Marc Megele
Clarinet
Gabriela Trost
Miriam Dietrich
2. Violin
Darya Lushch Principal
Anna Schmitt
Claire Jacobs
Johannes Kunz
Amelie Kaiser
Lucia Beer
Felix Schwarzacher
Willi Patzelt
Gabriel Bittner
Esther Bredenbeck
Bassoon
Maximilian Geier
Amrei Tribula
Horn & Wagner-Tuba
Franziska Maier
Johannes Knippertz
Elena Höfer
Christian Spitzenberger
Max Linßen
Maria Schönnenbeck
Alicia Werdeling
Wilko Martens
Maximilian Moritz
Viola
Martin Babica Principal
Alfons Puschej
Johanna Hohenwallner
Astrid Reitinger
Timon Bartholmé
Katharina Herkommer
Violoncello
Gregor Babica Principal
Magdalena Baudisch
Florian Giesa
Anna Hubner
Laura Martí Pons
Korbinian Seibold
Double Bass
Nicolas Lang Principal
Charlotte Lasch
Yadilton Ramirez
Trumpet
Julian Grote
Lukas Geiger
Konstantin Schiela
Trombone
Philipp Schwärzer
Andreas Jürgens
Michael Stiglbauer
Tuba
Maximilian Müller
Timpani
Cornelius Hirsch
Percussion
Michael Weymar
Maximilian Moritz