Artistic Director of Tongyeong International Music Festival
Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Munich Chamber Orchestra

Alexander Liebreich, who has been hailed by press as Munich's most exciting conductor and a pioneer in a new generation of conductors, was named as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Munich Chamber Orchestra in October of 2006. Following his victory in the Kondrashin Conducting Competition in 1996, he was appointed assistant to Edo de Waart at the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest-Holland. The following year, he filled in for de Waart to conduct in Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and this earned him huge acclaim from all critics. Liebreich conducted the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, BBC Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestras. In 2002, Liebreich visited North and South Koreas with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, and conducted the Bucheon Philharmonic on . In 2006, he made a debut with the Polish Radio Symphony, Strasbourg Philharmonic, and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras and he also conducted the Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo and the Berlin Philharmonic Soloists. In January 2008, Records released Liebreich’s first CD with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, which included pieces by Haydn and Isang Yun together by ECM. With his high level of knowledge in music and foreign collaborations, Liebreich will take charge of Tongyeong International Music Festival as its Artistic Director, beginning in 2011. With his huge interest in Korea, he will undoubtedly help this festival establish an identity of its own, and aid the further development of its international relations from Asia to the entire world in the near future.

Professor of University of Music in Freiburg

The Munich clarinettist Stefan Schneider is a visiting professor in the University of Music in Freiburg im Breisgau since 2009. He has performed with internationally renowned orchestras such as the Bavarian National Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the BR Symphony Orchestra or the SWR-Orchestra of Freiburg and Baden-Baden. In addition, he worked with personalities like Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Daniel Harding, and Kent Nagano. In 2009, Schneider played the bass clarinet solo part of by Unsuk Chin in the National Opera of Bavaria in Munich. His other solo performances in big opera productions include the ones in of Aribert Reimann. Since 1995 he is a permanent principal clarinettist in the Munchener Kammerorchester. In addition, he is a frequent guest in the Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester of Heilbronn, in the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie of Bremen and many other orchestras. As member of so different ensembles Stefan Schneider played already numerous premieres composed by Sebastian Claren, Adriana Holzsky, Jorg Widmann, Juliane Klein, Marc Andre, and Tobias PM Schneid. Also he is committed to a huge repertoire of not only chamber music, but also of contemporary music.

Concertmaster of the Munich Chamber Orchestra

Daniel Giglberger was born in 1972 in Freising. He studied with Christoph Poppen, Donald Weilerstein and Gerhard Schulz and attended master classes with Franco Gulli, Walter Levin, Miriam Fried and Joseph Gingold. He was Fellow of the European Mozart Foundation and the Karl Klingler Foundation and won the Jugend musiziert competition and the II. Concours International de Chateau du Courcillon in France and the Chamber Music Competition of the Hochschule fur Musik Detmold. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has given numerous concerts in Japan, China, the USA and Europe and was a guest at many prestigious festivals, such as the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival. As concert master Daniel Giglberger is well received with many other orchestras; he regularly works with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the NYDD Ensemble Tallin as well as the Ensemble Oriol. Since 1999 he is concertmaster of the Munich Chamber Orchestra. Daniel Giglberger is equally interested in contemporary music as well as historical performance practice in baroque and classical styles.

Principal of Munich Chamber Orchestra

Kelvin Hawthorne was born in New York, and studied at Indiana University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, concluding his studies with the Master of Music. His professional career began as Principal Violist of the Orquesta Filarmonica de Caracas in Venezuela. He was a member of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, and has been the Principal Violist of the Munich Chamber Orchestra since 1987. As a soloist and chamber musician Kelvin Hawthorne has recorded for the Bavarian, West German, and Austrian Radio and collaborated with the labels Cavalli and Wergo Records. In recent years he has been invited to renowned international festivals. Together with the Ensemble Triolog and Xsemble Munich Kelvin Hawthorne has appeared at the Musica Viva in Munich, the Munich Biennale, Ultraschall Berlin, the Donaueschingen Musiktage, the Schleswig-Holstein and the Rheingau Music Festivals. He is also a frequent guest artist with the Henschel Quartet.

Member of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Cellist Kristin von der Goltz studied under Christoph Henkel in Freiburg and William Pleeth in London. She was also a member of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra from 1991 to 2004. Today she performs on the modern and the Baroque cello and is in international demand as a solo cellist, working with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ton Koopman, Marc Minkowski and others. She has been a member and soloist with the BerlinBarockSolisten since 2006 and, since 2009, as a soloist with the Munich Chamber Orchestra. She was a guest lecturer at the International Bohemia Festival in Prague and at the Mannheim Orchesterakademie. From 2004 to 2009 she taught Advanced Class in Modern Cello at the College of Music for Catholic Church Music in Regensburg, Germany. After lectureships in Duisburg and Munich, she became Professor of Baroque Cello at the College of Music in Frankfurt in 2009.

Ensemble TIMF was founded in 2001 as an ambassador of publicity for Tongyeong International Music Festival with a hope to establish a professional performing group. Consisting of Artistic Director Uzong Choe and other young performers, Ensemble TIMF actively performs both nationally and internationally. Its diverse repertoire ranges from classical to contemporary music and the Ensemble has been marked for its contribution to increasing contemporary music listeners and enthusiasts. Ensemble TIMF also has been strengthened its position as the representative and the most promising ensemble in Korea. From not only classical or contemporary music but also to opera or movie’s original sound track, the ensemble has been broadening its stage scope. The ensemble extends its stages to Asia and more, bridging Tongyeong and the rest of the world as a musical diplomat. Since 2003, Ensemble TIMF has been invited to several contemporary music festivals that hold significant meaning and position in New Music. After the successful first concert in international stage as an invited guest orchestra at the Opening of Romania's Bacau Contemporary Music Days, Ensemble has been invited to the prestigious contemporary music festival, Darmstadt International Music Festival, the 48th Warsaw Autumn 2005, ARCO Arts Fair in Madrid, Venice Biennale in 2007, Aspekte Salzburg 2008, Musicarama Hong Kong in 2008 and Alexandrina Contemporary Music Biennale 2009 in Egypt, Klara Festival 2009 in Belgium, Champs Libres Festival 2010 in France and KlangZeit Munster 2010. And Ensemble TIMF already has numerous concert plans till the end of 2011.