ÉRMA ENSEMBLE MEMBERS LOTTE NURIA ADLER Lotte Nuria Adler (* 28th May 1998) discovered the mandolin for herself at the age of seven. From 2011 to 2015 she participated in the talent program of the Folkwang Music School Essen. Later, she has repeatedly taken master classes with Joseph Brent, Mike Marshall, Gertrud Weyhofen, Marga Wilden-Hüsgen, Markus Stockhausen and others. After graduating from high school in 2016, Lotte Nuria Adler took up her studies at Cologne Music College (Wuppertal branch) with Prof. Caterina Lichtenberg. At the same college she concurrently studies Elementary Music Pedagogy. Lotte Nuria Adler has frequently participated in both national and international competitions since 2008. As a child already, she had won numerous first prices and reached the maximum score at the federal competition of Jugend musiziert more than once. Participating in the most renowned international competitions for mandolin she has obtained a second prize at the 2nd International Solo Mandolin Competition Luxembourg in 2016 and the first price along with the audience award at the Yasuo-Kuwahara-Wettbewerb in 2018 where earlier she had already obtained the third price along with the audience award in 2015 at the age of 16. At the age of 13 Lotte Nuria Adler became concertmaster of the Plucked String Orchestra Düsseldorf. Regular guest performances with different orchestras from across the province have granted her entry to numerous concert houses such as Tonhalle, German Opera on the Rhine and Philharmonie Essen. In 2017, Lotte Nuria joined the «Studio Musikfabrik“, youth ensemble of the «Ensemble Musikfabrik». From an early age she has been attached to Contemporary Music. With her siblings she played music by Mauricio Kagel and Karl-Heinz Stockhausen in a trio (accordion, harp and mandolin) and premiered compositions by her grandfather Prof. Karl-Heinz Zarius. Her enthusiasm for Contemporary Music finally led her to the ÉRMA Ensemble. Since 2017, Lotte Nuria Adler has been fellow of the Werner Richard – Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation and of the association Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now. In the year 2018 she received a scholarship of the prestigious Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Foundation). This way, she keeps getting ahead in her ambition to establish the mandolin as a concert instrument. ÉRMA ENSEMBLE AMARYLLIS BARTHOLOMEUS Amaryllis Bartholomeus (°1995, BE) started playing viola at the age of 4. She continues with Inneke Van Riel, Gudrun Vercampt, Erik Sluys and Thérèse- Marie Gilissen. In 2010, she start taking lessons with Paul De Clerck, with whom she will continue studying at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel until 2018, when she obtains het Master in Music. Since a very young age, she has played in many youth orchestras, and is now a regular replacer in some of the well-known Belgian professional orchestras, on modern as well as historical instruments (e.g. Anwerp Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic orchestra of La Monnaie, Il Gardellino). She is also very active in chamber music and is a founding member of the Sonos Ensemble (BE). ÉRMA ENSEMBLE VERONIQUE DE RAEDEMAEKER Veronique De Raedemaeker (°16-03-1996, Belgium) began her violin study with Francis Reusens in the Academy for Music, Word and Dance in Lier, Belgium. In 2016 she graduated at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp with the bachelor degree of Music with Alissa Margulis, and in 2018 she received her master degree of Violin Solo at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Köln with Barnabás Kelemen. Veronique also had the opportunity to learn from other renowned musicians such as Ivry Gitlis, Julia Fisher, Philippe Graffin, Pavel Vernikov. Her interpretations are appreciated for the richness of tone and a touching phrasing. She won prices at several national and international violin and chamber music competitions such as Young Belgian Talent (2015), the Internationaler Anton Rubinstein Wettbewerb (Düsseldorf, 2013, 2015) and Concours Breughel (Brussels, 2008, 2012, 2014). As a fervent chamber music player, Veronique plays in festivals and concerts series such as Arte Amanti, Musica et Poetica, Budapest Festival Academy, Montepulciano, Young Masters Amuz & De Bijloke. Together with the pianist George Tyriard she recorded under the sponsorship of ‘Young Belgian Talent’ the CD ‘Malinconia’ which received in 2020 the quality label ‘Klara’s Choice’ by the flemish radio for classical music. With Roel Dieltiens, Michaël Mannes and the orchestra La Passione, Veronique played in 2014 the triple concerto of L. v. Beethoven and in 2018, she interpreted the violin concerto of L. v. Beethoven with the Hungarian symphony orchestra of Gödöllö. Veronique participates in projects of the Austrian Haydn-Philarmonie under the baton of N. Altstaedt and E. Onofri as well as with Le Concert Olympique under the baton of J. Caeyers. During her second master ‘Interpretation Neue Musik’ in Köln she had the opportunity to perform in several radio-broadcasts for Deutschlandfunk. In 2019 she co-founded the ÉRMA Ensemble which specialises in contemporary music. Furthermore she worked with Spectra Ensemble from Ghent and Notabu Ensemble from Düsseldorf. Veronique regularly plays compositions from Ruben De Gheselle that were created on her proposal: ‘Finite Infinity’ (2015), ‘Changing Mechanics’ (2016) and ‘Wildlands’ (2018). Since 2017 she is a member of Live Music Now and plays on a violin from Stefan-Peter Greiner (Bonn 2005), on friendly loan by Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Köln e.V.. ÉRMA ENSEMBLE RAMON GARDELLA Ramón Gardella (1989 - ) is an Argentinian percussionist based in Cologne, Germany. He studied classical and contemporary percussion at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires “Astor Piazzolla” and then at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln where he attends his Konzertexamen degree with Prof. Carlos Tarcha and Dirk Rothbrust. He is formal member of Kollektiv 3:6 Köln für Zeitgenössische Musik and has already performed with Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Tra I Tempi, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Gürzenich Orchester Köln, Neue Philharmonie Westfallen, Bochumer Symphoniker, Bergische Symphoniker and Jungen Philharmonie Köln. He also participated in important contemporary music festivals like Klangspuren 2016 (International Ensemble Modern Academy), Impuls 2017 and 2019, Stockhausen Courses Kürten 2017, Ensemble Academy Freiburg 2018, pgnm_ Biennale Aktueller Musik Bremen 2018, Ruhrtriennale 2018, Festival Now! 2018, Percussion Summit Bochum 2018, Acht Brücken Köln 2016/2017/2019, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik 2019. ÉRMA ENSEMBLE ANTON GERZENBERG Born in 1996 in Hamburg, Anton Gerzenberg began playing the piano at the age of four. Initially he was taught by his mother, the pianist Lilya Zilberstein, before taking piano lessons from Julia Suslin. Already by the age of nine he had been awarded 1st prizes at national competitions for young musicians in Germany. At the age of eleven he started studying with pianist Julija Botchkovskaia at the Andreas Franke Akademie in Hamburg. Then he has been studying under Jan Jiracek von Arnim in Vienna. Currently, he is studying with Pierre-Laurent Aimard at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Anton Gerzenberg has participated in master-classes conducted by Robert Levin, Joseph Paratore, András Schiff, Ronald Brautigam and Dmitri Bashkirov. He has appeared with such musicians as Martha Argerich, Dora Schwarzberg, Jonathan Stockhammer and Alvise Vidolin as well as with various orchestras including the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the Münchner Symphoniker Orchester and the Hamburger Camerata. He is also a frequent guest at festivals including the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, the Klavierfestival Ruhr, the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Accademia Chigiana in Siena and the Mozartfest Würzburg. ÉRMA ENSEMBLE ELIO HERRERRA Elio Herrera was born in San Carlos-Cojedes, Venezuela. Under the care of the world-famous music project «El Sistema», he received his first cello lessons at the age of ten. With the Teresa Carreño Youth Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the then only 16-year-old performed under the direction of Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, Eduardo Marturet, Sung Kwak, Frühbeck de Burgos, Maria Guinand, Placido Domingo, Christian Vasquez, Rebecca Miller, Eugene Kohn and Nikolaj Znaider and Robert HP Platz. In the same year he began studying at the University of the Arts in Caracas with William Molina and Marek Gazjler, which he completed in 2013 with the Bachelor of Music. From 2016-2019, Herrera studied violoncello in a master’s at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in the class of Nadège Rochat and Prof. Maria Kliegel. In addition to numerous projects at the university, he attended the Academy for Performing Arts and Music in Montepulciano in 2018 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Florence Millet and Prof. Johannes Schöllhorn. Since February 2018 he has been a member of the «Aelius Trio» for chamber music. In the same year he made a guest appearance at the Cologne Opera with the «Gargonza Arts» funding project for new art. Since 2019 Herrera has been studying contemporary music at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen in the class of Prof. Barbara Maurer and Prof. Günter Steiker. His passion for music has brought him to other international stages of renowned concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Concert Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Madrid Auditorio Nacional de Música, the Toulouse Halle aux Grains, the Theater am Kirchplatz in Lichtenstein, and the Stavanger Konzerthus in Norway, the Konzerthaus in Stockholm, the München Gasteig, the Lisboa Grande Auditório, the Royal Festival Hall, the Istanbul Zorlu Center Performing Arts ̧ the Festspielhaus Salzburg and the Teatro Alla Scala Milano. “For me as a musician, it is not just the cello playing alone that fills me. It is much more the exchange between people and cultures to experiment with music and to be able to develop new concepts ÉRMA ENSEMBLE JINHEE KIM Guitarist Jinhee Kim, who Slava Grigoryan defined as «a rising star in the classical music scene», has entered the limelight with her sensitive, powerful and deep way of playing.