Maximilian Hornung - Rachmaninoff & Stravinsky: Music for Cello & Piano (2014)

Gerhard Vielhaber (*1982 Attendorn) received private lessons from Karl-Heinz Kämmling from the age of twelve, before studying with him at the Hanover University of Music and Performing Arts. After graduating, he attended Jacques Rouvier's solo class at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1997 he received first prize in the international broadcasting competition "Concertino Praga", in 2002 the culture prize of the district of Olpe and in 2003 the GWK music sponsorship prize. Gerhard Vielhaber has performed both as a soloist and in chamber music, including with the Mariani Piano Quartet, both at home and abroad. He played at important festivals such as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Rheingau Music Festival. in the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, in the Berlin Philharmonie, in North and South America, North Africa and Japan.

Maximilian Hornung was born in Augsburg in 1986 and received his first cello lessons at the age of eight. His teachers were Eldar Issakadze, Thomas Grossenbacher and David Geringas. Since winning the German Music Competition in 2005, he has been busy giving concerts. Maximilian Hornung was a guest at numerous festivals, including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rheingau, Heidelberg, Kissingen, Ludwigsburg, Lucerne, Verbier, Ravinia and London, and gave concerts in the Konzerthaus and the Philharmonie Berlin, the Konzerthaus Wien, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the KKL Luzern, the Tonhalle Zürich, the Herkulessaal in Munich and the Wigmore Hall in London. Maximilian Hornung's chamber music partners include Christian Tetzlaff, Lisa Batiashvili, Francois Leleux, Mischa Maisky and Lynn Harrell. Maximilian Hornung's debut CD with works for cello and piano was released on the Genuin label and was awarded the French record prize "classique-info Ring".