Born in Weimar, pianist Daniel Heide is one of the vocal accompanists and chamber musicians most in demand on the current international music scene, making appearances throughout Europe as well as in the Far East. Heide studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in his hometown with Prof. Ludwig Bätzel, and received valuable counsel from outstanding artists including Christa Ludwig and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
He collaborates on a regular basis with renowned vocalists including Andrè Schuen, Christoph Prégardien, Konstantin Krimmel, Julian Prégardien, Simone Kermes, Katharina Konradi, Patrick Grahl, Ingeborg Danz, Britta Schwarz, Johannes Weisser, Roman Trekel, and Natalie Perez.
Heide also collaborated as a duo partner with the late German-Greek mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis: their CD Poemes with artsongs by Claude Debussy was awarded the German Record Critics’ Prize.
In chamber music he gives public performances with soloists including Tabea Zimmermann, Antje Weithaas, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Jens Peter Maintz, Friedemann Eichhorn, Andreas Willwohl, Barbara Buntrock, Julian Steckel, Isang Enders, Konstanze von Gutzeit, Benoit Fromanger, Danjulo Ishizaka, and the Mandelring Quartett.
Heide laid a further foundation for his career as vocal accompanist in 2011, when he launched Der lyrische Salon at Ettersburg Castle near Weimar, a vocal recital series where he has accompanied a great number of outstanding singers on over 70 occasions.
Apart from his intense concert schedule, Heide’s activities are documented on a number of CD releases – most recently Dichterliebe with Patrick Grahl (CAvi, 2020), Liebende with Katharina Konradi (CAvi, 2021); Schubert‘s Die schöne Müllerin mit André Schuen released by DG (2021).
In 2016 André Schuen‘s first Lieder recital partnered with Daniel Heide received the ECHO, the album Wanderer 2019 the OPUS award (both CAvi-music). For the next years Daniel Heide is masterminding the 7 CD project with the complete songs by Franz Liszt subsequently folloed by a new work catalogue of Liszt‘s artsong output.
He also loves the genre of melodrama, working in spoken word programmes with actors and actresses of the likes of Christian Brückner, Thomas Thieme, Hanns Zischler, Markus Meyer, Sky Dumont, and Udo Samel.
For 13 years, Heide taught vocal accompaniment, chamber music, and instrumental accompaniment (Korrepetition) at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and at the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar. He is currently much in demand giving masterclasses and private coaching in the same areas, also with the intent of promoting and supporting young vocal artists and their piano partners.
With the onset of the Corona pandemic in March 2020, Daniel Heide devoted more of his time to studying solo piano repertoire, focussing on sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert.

Andreas Willwohl is one of the leading violists of his generation. He trained with Professor Alfred Lipka at the Universities of Musik “Franz Liszt“ in Weimar, and “Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin; he also received valuable artistic counsel from renowned musicians including Wilfried Strehle, Norbert Brainin, Eberhard Feltz, Kim Kashkashian, and the members of the Alban Berg Quartet. He was a prizewinner at the Concours International de Bordeaux (2002) and at the Salzburg Mozarteum Summer Academy, and was awarded study grants by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation in Berlin.
As a viola virtuoso and chamber music partner, Andreas Willwohl has appeared at a number of international festivals including Salzburg, Schubertiade, Schleswig-Holstein and Bogotá; he played with colleagues including Johannes Moser, Julian Steckel, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Isang Enders, Marc-André Hamelin, Lauma Skride and Daniel Heide.
As a soloist he has concertized with the Berlin RSB, Korean Chamber Orchestra, the Brandenburg Symphony, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, and the Metamorphosen Chamber Philharmonic (Berlin), collaborating with conductors of the likes of Marek Janowski, Patrick Lange, Christoph Poppen, Matthias Foremny, Conrad van Alphen, and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, and appearing in venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Seoul Arts Center, Toppan Hall in Tokyo, the Auditorium in Dijon, and Metz Congress Hall. A great number of broadcast recordings and CD releases on the Pentatone and Audite labels offer further proof of his versatile talent.
In 2011, Andreas Willwohl was appointed viola professor at Nuremberg University of Music; he imparts masterclasses in Europe and Asia on a regular basis. He has been a member of the Mandelring Quartet since 2015, and in 2012 he founded the Ceres Ensemble. After one of his appearances at the Berlin Philharmonie, a critic wrote: “Not since the Alban Berg Quartet’s Thomas Kakuska have I found the performance of a violist in a chamber music ensemble so utterly convincing.” Andreas Willwohl plays an instrument by Stefan Peter Greiner with a bow by Dominique Peccatte.

Isang Enders has rapidly established himself as a dynamic artist in search of new concepts and works for the cello, as displayed in his particularly wide range of repertoire. Upon the CD/vinyl release of his recording of the Bach suites for solo cello, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hailed his “stunning technical prowess and precocious musical understanding”, leading to “an interpretation that can measure itself with the best.” The BBC Music Magazine also published a rave review.
Isang Enders concertizes around the globe, and his exceptionally wide range of repertoire is on full display in his solo and chamber music appearances. Thus he has performed Unsuk Chin’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in Stavanger, Paris, and São Paolo. More recently, with his colleagues of the Sitkovetsky Trio, he performed the world première of Charlotte Bray’s Triple Concerto in the UK. He is a regular guest in Germany at the music festivals of Heidelberg and Rheingau, as well as at further renowned festivals an international scale. Isang Enders has often shared the podium with renowned conductors in major classical music venues. He has thus collaborated with Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Myung-Whun Chung, and Eliahu Inbal. In a duo collaboration with renowned pianist Igor Levit he is one of the prominently featured artists at the Shostakovich Festival in Gohrisch (Germany). Isang Enders has recorded on the Oehms Classics, Berlin Classics and BIS labels.
Born in 1988 in Frankfurt, Isang Enders was accepted as a gifted young student into the class of Michael Sanderling at the age of twelve. He has received much inspiration and encouragement from masterclasses given by Gustav Rivinius, Truls Mørk, and, above all, through the mentoring of American cellist Lynn Harrell. After a four-year stint as Principle Cello of the Dresden Staatskapelle, he went freelance in 2012.
Isang Enders plays on a cello made in Paris in 1840 by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume – the acquisition of which is supported through a generous grant from the Francesco Von Mendelssohn Fund (USA) – as well as on a cello by Tobias Gräter (Heidelberg, 2015).