Jonathan Aner (piano) has performed with leading orchestras in Israel, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta. He has won numerous international piano and chamber music competitions, including in Melbourne, Florence, Dortmund, Berlin, Weimar and at the European Chamber Music Competition in France. The ‘chamber musician par excellence’ (Frankfurter Rundschau) and Opus Klassik award winner 2024 is a member of the Oberon Trio and performs regularly with clarinettist Shirley Brill. He has performed with tenors Ian Bostridge and Christoph Prégardien, violinists Guy Braunstein and Daishin Kashimoto, violist Tabea Zimmermann, cellist Jakob Spahn, the Ariel Quartet and the Vogler Quartet at venues including the Berlin Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Oriental Arts Centre in Shanghai, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, the Bergen International Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Festival Radio France, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Bach Festival in Leipzig and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. Jonathan Aner received his musical training from Prof. Arie Vardi at the Hanover University of Music and from Prof. Konrad Elser at the MHL and the New England Conservatory in Boston. Jonathan Aner is professor of piano chamber music and director of the Centre for Chamber Music at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.
Tim Frederiksen (viola) studied with Gunnar Frederiksen and Erling Bloch in Copenhagen and with Prof. Max Rostal at the Conservatory of Music in Switzerland. In 1980, he became principal violist of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted from 1983 to 1996. He has performed as a soloist with renowned Danish orchestras. Tim Frederiksen is also a sought-after chamber musician. As first violinist of the Danish String Quartet, he has given numerous concerts throughout Europe and recorded the complete string quartets of Brahms, N?rholm, Nielsen and Hindemith. His latest recording was awarded the German Record Prize in 1997. Together with Elisabeth Westenholz (piano) and Niels Thomsen (clarinet), he founded the Trio Soleil, which has released a CD featuring works by Mozart, Schumann and Bruch. In 1995, Tim Frederiksen was appointed professor of viola and chamber music at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. During his 28 years as a professor, Tim Frederiksen trained Denmark's leading violists. In his role as head of the chamber music department, he mentors award-winning Danish ensembles such as Trio Ondine, the Paizo Quartet, the Jalina Piano Trio, The Danish String Quartet, the Ismena Piano Trio, The Nightinggale String Quartet, Trio Vitruvi, the Nordic String Quartet, the Erlendis Guitar Quartet, the Novo Quartet and the Absalon String Quartet. Tim Frederiksen is a sought-after teacher at international and national masterclasses and a jury member at various international music competitions, including the Max Rostal Competition in Berlin, the International Chamber Music Competition in Trondheim and the Oscar Nedbal Viola Competition in Prague, where he has been jury chairman for many years.