Professors & Instructors

Prof. Peter Bruns

Artistic credibility and interpretative authenticity, tonal temperament, and precise, nuanced phrasing characterize his playing: Peter Bruns is one of Germany’s leading cellists. Solo concerts and recitals have brought him to the most renowned music centers, including the Berlin Philharmonie, New York’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Tokyo and Hong Kong, the Semperoper Dresden, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, as well as major festivals such as Kuhmo and Bergen, the Berlin and Dresden Music Festivals, the Budapest Spring Festival, and Gidon Kremer’s Lockenhaus Festival.

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Prof. Jens ­Peter Maintz

Jens Peter Maintz enjoys an excellent reputation as a versatile soloist, sought-after chamber musician, and dedicated and successful cello professor.

Originally from Hamburg, he studied with David Geringas and attended masterclasses with other great cellists such as Heinrich Schiff, Boris Pergamenschikow, Frans Helmerson, and Siegfried Palm. Additionally, his intensive chamber music studies with Uwe-Martin Haiberg and Walter Levin were formative.

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Prof. Troels Svane

He studied with Asger Lund Christiansen in Copenhagen and with David Geringas at the Lübeck University of Music, completing both his diploma and concert examination with distinction and the highest marks in all subjects.

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Annegret Kuttner

“Annegret Kuttner’s playing is characterized by great professionalism and perfection, by her contagious, electrifying joy in music, and by the strong stylistic confidence of her interpretation.”

— Sächsische Zeitung

“…Kuttner’s light-footed playing impressed with airy clarity…”

— Irish Times

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Yukino Kaihara

Yukino Kaihara was born in Hiroshima, Japan. In 2015 she was a semifinalist at the International Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in Paris, and in 2016 she qualified for the preliminary round of the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. In the same year, she won 3rd prize at the 14th Tokyo Music Competition, one of the most prestigious competitions in Japan.

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Yoko Kuwahara

Yoko Kuwahara was born in Japan. She graduated from the prestigious Toho High School of Music and went on to study at the Toho College of Music in Tokyo, where she completed her degree with distinction.

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