Maximilian Mangold - Guitar • Lute • Historical Guitar

Duo with Dante Montoya, Flute

Dante Montoya, a distinguished Mexican flute player and teacher based in Germany, has garnered praise for his expressive tone and sensitive interpretations as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra player. His artistic prowess is evidenced by numerous competition awards in Mexico and Germany, and scholarships from prestigious organizations including the Mexican Endowment for Culture and Arts, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Studienstiftung Saar Foundation, the Bruno-Elisabeth-Meindl-Foundation, and the Detmold Alumni Association.

Dante holds a teaching position at the University of Music Saarland in Germany and frequently conducts masterclasses at the National Conservatory of Music and the National Autonomous University in Mexico. His extensive touring has taken him to Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Colombia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Iran, Macedonia, Mexico, Monaco, Portugal, and Switzerland. His performances have been recorded and broadcast by prominent German public broadcasters such as SWR, WDR, SR, Deutschlandfunk, and Radio Bremen.

His orchestral engagements include concerts with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of SWR, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the South Westphalia Philharmonic, and the Detmold Theater. Passionate about contemporary music, Dante is a member of Ensemble Horizonte, collaborating closely with composers to interpret and record new works. Additionally, he has a keen interest in performing Baroque music on period instruments.

Dante began his musical education at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City under Professor María Esther García. He pursued further studies in Germany at the Music Universities in Detmold and Saarland with Professors Gaby Pas-van Riet and Hans-Jörg Wegner, earning Master’s degrees in Orchestral and Pedagogic Music, and completing the Konzertexamen with Honors, the highest academic distinction in German music education. He has also trained with renowned musicians such as Peter-Lukas Graf, Jacques Zoon, Paul Edmund-Davies, Emily Beynon, Andrea Lieberknecht, Renate Greiss, and Felix Renggli.

Duo with Heike Nicodemus (Travers flute)

Heike Nicodemus, travers flute, is a demanded specialist on her instrument and gives numerous concerts as a soloist, chamber musician and orcherstermusician. After successfully graduated recorder studies with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Thieme at the college for music and theater Hannover, she studied flauto traverso first with Prof. Dr. Linde Brunmayr at the college of music Trossingen. The continuous intense comittment with the historic performance practice began already during her recorder studies. Later she studied with the outstanding Traversflutist Barthold Kuijken at the royal conservatoire in Den Hague and obtained already after 2 years the admittance for the concert exam. During her studies the contact with different leading baroque orchestras appeared. So she appeared among others with „Concerto Cologne“, „The small concert“, the „Stuttgart baroque orchestra“, „l’Arpa firm aunt Munich“, „Chursächsische Capelle Leipzig“, „Sol Sol La Sol Salzburg“. In 1995 she took part at opening the Salzburg festivals, in 2000 at the Göttinger Händel festival. Numerous radio broadcasting, television shots and CD-releases (among others with Teldec and Capriccio) followed. As a teacher she was active on different music festivals, among others at the „International festival of music weeks Innsbruck“. Since 2002 she teaches Traversflöte and historic performance practice in the universites for music in Karlsruhe and Trossingen.

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Duo with Clemens Löschmann (Tenor)

The Tenor Clemens Löschmann was born in Berlin where he studied with Professor Johannes Hoefflin at the academy of music and participated in master classes with Aribert Reimann and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He was awarded with scholarships from the Gotthardt-Schierse-Stiftung, the Komische Oper Berlin and the Richard-Wagner-Stiftung. He took part in numerous opera productions of several opera houses and opera companies including Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna and Zurich. Clemens Löschmann was engaged at the opera house in Bremen and has been working as a guest artist at internationally renowned opera houses including the Komische Oper Berlin, the Oper Frankfurt/Main, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genua and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Within the classic and contemporary oratorio and concert repertoire Clemens Löschmann is a soloist of great demand for all the major tenor roles of his type. The great evangelist and tenor parts of Bach’s oratorios and cantatas are central for his concert repertoire. Besides the classic lied repertoire Clemens Löschmann has dedicated himself to contemporary compositions within his recitals. Concert trips have taken him through several countries of Europe. He participated in numerous first performances as well as in many radio, television and CD productions. Clemens Löschmann holds a teaching assignment at the academy of music in Bremen.

Vlach Quartett Prag and Maximilian Mangold

Prag Vlach Quartet (Jana Vlachová, Violin – Karel Stadtherr, Violin – Vladimír Bukač, Viola and Mikael Ericsson, Violoncello). The quartet was created in 1982. In 1985 it gained an important success as a prize-winner of the international string quartet contest in Portsmouth in England. In 1988 it was invited by the Hindemith Corporation to the international master courses of the famous Melos quartet in Switzerland. A quotation from the appreciation of the Melos quartet: „Jana Vlachová radiates as a Primarius of the ensemble a special charisma which ties up not only the listener, but also guarantees absolute homogeneity in the ensemble and leads about the virtuoso playing of middle voices up to great supplement by the cellist Mikael Ericsson“. During its career the quartet gained a large number of prices:

• In 1991 price of the Czech chamber music association
• In 1992 price of the Czech music funds of the CD with recordings of Smetana and Janácek
• In 1995 the quartet gets a contract from the record company NAXOS for the complete chamber music work of Dvorák on 15 CDs
• In 1997 Japan debut – the concert was transferred by the television broadcast station NHK
• In 1997 residence ensemble of the Salamanca-Hall in Japanese Gifu
• In 2000 price of the „German record criticism“ for the CD of the „Esquisses Hébraiques“ with the clarinettist Dieter Klöcker

The current Discographie counts 30 CDs and every year three to four new ones are being published. The Vlach quartet gives concerts not only in whole Europe (most frequently in Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Spain), but also in the USA, in Japan and New Zealand. It appeared in a large number of wellknown festivals, as for example Schleswig – Holstein music festival, Scharwenka festival Lübeck, Sandwiken (Sweden), Santorini (Greece), Auckland (New Zealand), Wiltz (Luxembourg), Tivoli (Copenhagen). It also played in important series of concerts of celebrated concert halls in Prague, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Luxembourg, Stuttgart and others. Its concerts were transferred frequently by broadcasting stations: from the Bavarian radio broadcasting, Swedish radio broadcasting, Danish radio broadcasting, Radio France, Czech radio broadcasting. Celebrated artists help in the interpretation of quintets and other chamber music works. To them belong, e.g.: E. Brunner, D. Klöcker, E. Trenkner, J. Jando, I. Klánsk ý. J. Simon the Janácek quartet among others.