Angelika grew up in Hamburg and was exempted from schooling by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg due to her special musical talent and from then on received home lessons. At the age of four she gave her first concerts, at five she began to compose and from the age of seven she performed as a soloist with renowned orchestras, received numerous special prizes for outstanding interpretations and was a long-time scholarship holder of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation. Her teachers included Prof. Michael Goldstein, Prof. Evelyn Distler, Prof. Petru Monteanu and Roland Greutter, the 1st concertmaster of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Angelika's own works are published by Breitkopf & Härtel.
After graduating from high school, Angelika studied philosophy, German language and literature, and pedagogy at the University of Hamburg. She also studied music and speech training at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater, and she completed her master's degree in psychology at the University of Wuppertal.
Angelika is the founder of Salut Salon and performs on all continents. In 2011, she received the Federal Cross of Merit from the German President for her worldwide volunteer work. She was also awarded the inventio for the most innovative music project in Germany by the Federal President, and in 2016 Angelika received the ECHO Klassik with Salut Salon.
Since 2015, she has been an honorary Alster lock-keeper - an honor awarded for nearly 40 Hamburg citizens who have distinguished outstanding services as ambassadors for Hamburg in the world, including Siegfried Lenz, Dr. Michael Otto and Uwe Seeler.
Angelika is the artistic director of The Young ClassX, a music initiative that she developed in 2007 together with Alexander Birken, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Otto Group, and which has since given more than 30,000 children and young people free access to classical music. Patrons are Prof. Dr. Michael Otto, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Otto Group, and Dr. Peter Tschentscher, First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. In 2019, The Young ClassX was awarded the German Cultural Promotion Prize of the Cultural Circle of German Business in the BDI and in 2022 received the OPUS Klassik in the category of promoting young talent.
In 2020, Angelika and rapper Samy Deluxe founded Salut Deluxe, an association funded by the Haspa Music Foundation of Hamburger Sparkasse, with the goal of musically stimulating and promoting children and young people regardless of their social background, as well as making them fit for teamwork and personal responsibility so that they grow into open, strong personalities.
Angelika has been an ambassador for Kindernothilfe since 2003. Since then, she has been involved as a sponsor for the Chilean music school Escuela Popular de Artes in the poor district of Achupallas and has also worked on other Kindernothilfe projects in Brazil, Haiti, Kosovo and Sri Lanka. She always uses her private travels (she has now been to more than 100 countries) to support local children's and social projects, to work musically with children and to provide financial support. In doing so, she enjoys unusual encounters with people on the ground, such as with young people in Palestine and Israel, with perpetrators and victims of genocide in Rwanda, or with schoolchildren in North Korea. In 2015, during a concert tour in Kenya and musical workshops with children and young people, she initiated the Skype Classes project for young string players of the Ghetto Classics in Korogocho, a slum in the Dandora landfill in Nairobi.
Angelika founded the children's and youth orchestra Die Coolen Streicher in 1992 and has been director of the Hamburg Instrumental Competition since 2013. She has been a member of the board of trustees of the foundation Chancen für Kinder since 2004. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Haspa Music Foundation of Hamburger Sparkasse. From 2018 to 2020, Angelika was vice president of the Landesmusikrat Hamburg.
In addition to her artistic activities, Angelika is a Systemic Business Coach, Scrum Master and Resilience Coach. She is an expert and consultant for organizational transformation and agile culture change. As a technical book author, she writes about agile methods such as strategy implementation with OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). She is also a rhetoric and stage fright coach, gives storytelling workshops, works therapeutically in stress and burnout prevention. She is a lecturer for agile organizational transformation and for communication at the Hochschule Fresenius - University of applied sciences in Hamburg and at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Angelika is currently working on her doctorate in sociology on the topic of "Interventions in juvenile detention".

Alvina began playing the violin at the age of six in her hometown Kiev. At the age of ten, she became a student at the Kyiv Lysenko State Music Lyceum for highly gifted children, from which she graduated with honours. At the age of 16, she was accepted as a junior student at the Lübeck Academy of Music. She was a scholarship holder of the Ad Infinitum Foundation and received further musical impulses at international masterclasses such as the Carl Flesch Academy with Prof Reiner Kussmaul, the Kronberg Academy with Prof Pavel Vernikov and with Gidon Kremer.
Alvina has won prizes at many national and international competitions. She won 1st prize at the Olimpo Musicali international violin competition in Lithuania and a special prize for the best interpretation at the Queen Sophie Charlotte international violin competition.
Alvina plays in renowned orchestras such as the Orchestre de chambre de Paris and the SymphonikerHamburg directed by Daniel Barenboim and Jeffrey Tate, as well as with inspiring artists such as Misha Maiskiy and Martha Argerich. She performs worldwide in renowned venues such as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Elbphilharmonie and Carnegie Hall.
In her music, Alvina likes to think outside the box of classical music; for example, she was part of the classical heavy metal crossover band Athonite, with whom she performed at the world-famous Wacken Open Air.

Maria, a German-French cellist, was a cello junior student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich in the class of Prof. Helmar Stiehler at the age of 15. She completed her artistic diploma and master's degree with distinction and attended master classes with Natalia Gutmann, Clemens Hagen and Daniel Müller-Schott, among others. Early on, Maria won several First National Prizes at "Jugend musiziert" and was sponsored by Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now.
Together with her brother, violinist Matthias Well, she founded the violin-violoncello duo "twoWell" in 2015. As a soloist, Maria has performed with orchestras such as the Munich Symphony Orchestra and given chamber music concerts with Arabella Steinbacher, Igor Levit and Michael Schöch, among others. Maria Well regularly gives guest performances at international music festivals, but also in this country, such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival or the Gezeitenfestival.

Kristiina received her first piano lessons at the music school in Tallinn at the age of seven. She later continued her studies at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater with Marko Martin and Prof. Ivari Ilja. In September 2010, Kristiina moved to London to study with prof. Joan Havill at the famous Guildhall School of Music & Drama, graduating with distinction . During that time she worked with many excellent pianists, including Richard Goode, Angela Hewitt and Steven Osborne.
Kristiina received several awards; e.g. the Sergej Rachmaninov Award, the Guildhall School Scholarship Trust and the Estonian Students Fund in the USA. She also received the Estonian Ministry of Culture Prize in 2015 and 2016. Apart from that, she was also successful in numerous competitions, including prizes at the Croydon Music Festival, the Beethoven Competition of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe and the Amy Brant International Piano Competition in Birmingham, Great Britain.
She has given concerts at venues such as the Barbican Hall and most recently the Wiener Konzerthaus. As a soloist with ensembles such as the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra - with conductors such as Christian Vasquez, Mihail Gerts, Olari Elts and Risto Joost. In addition, she has performed in Great Britain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Finland.
On top of it all, Kristiina is a devoted harpsichordist and holds numerous salon evenings with readings and theatrical musical afternoons for children and youth.

Rahel was born into a family of musicians in Stuttgart and received her first violin lessons at the age of four. She later studied with Wolf-Dieter Streicher in Stuttgart, with Yair Kless in Tel Aviv, with Michael Mücke in Berlin and with Nora Chastain in Zurich/Winterthur. She was principal violinist in the NDR Symphony Orchestra (now the Elbphilharmonie Orchestra) in Hamburg for three years and regularly plays in orchestras such as the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, the Kammer-symphonie Berlin, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Komische Oper Berlin.
She has performed as a soloist in Germany and abroad, for example with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Elbphilharmonieorchester Hamburg, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz and the Orquesta Sinfonica Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. She regularly gives masterclasses in Venezuela and is a regular guest at various music festivals in the USA, South America, Europe and Asia.
Rahel's passion is chamber music. She founded her own annual chamber music festival in Hohenstaufen in 2006 and has performed with Simon Rattle, Magdalena Kozena, Jörg Widmann, Amihai Grosz, Daishin Kashimoto, Guy Braunstein and Jacques Ammon, among others. Together with her sister Sara Rilling and her husband David Adorján, she recorded the music of her Jewish great-grandfather Robert Kahn. Rahel is co-founder of the ‘Prelude Concerts’ series in Berlin, which is dedicated to chamber music for and with children, and she is a coach for international youth orchestras. She plays her own arrangements of classical, jazz and pop music with the string quartet ‘Die Nixen’.

Mary Rose discovered her passion for music at an early age in her US home in New Mexico. In addition to violin and viola, she also learned piano, oboe and singing as a young child.
Mary Rose received her further musical training in Viterbo, Italy, at the public school Viterbo Cesmi and at the Liceo Musicale di Santa Rosa di Viterbo before gaining her Master's degree at the renowned Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Also in Rome, Mary Rose won the Giovani Musici competition and has also performed in Italy with orchestras such as the Camerata Fiorentina and Opera Stravaganza.
Mary Rose loves performing in different musical genres and contexts. She has presented Mexican musical traditions on international tours with the group Romatitlan and regularly brings electronic sounds to the stage with her duo Tornasol66.

Joke began her training as a cellist at the age of six. She studied at the Lemmensinstituut of the LUCA School of Arts in Leuven, Belgium, before being accepted as a junior student at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Antwerp and Brussels at the age of 16. Joke then studied in Hamburg at the University of Music and Theatre with Prof. Niklas Schmidt. During her studies, Joke took part in numerous international masterclasses and learnt from cellists such as Maria Kliegel, Wen-Sinn Yang and Arto Noras. She completed her master's degree with honours in the class of Prof. Johannes Krebs at the Bremen University of the Arts.
Since childhood, Joke has won numerous first prizes at renowned music competitions such as the Concours de Musique Breughel and the Concours Axion Classics. In 2017, she took first place (Prix Edmond Baert) at the Concours de Violoncelle de Woluwe-Saint-Pierre in Brussels. Due to her artistic achievements, Joke has also received scholarships from various institutions, including the Sinfonima Foundation and Rotary International.

Maria studied cello at the University of Music Würzburg with Prof. Xenia Jankovic. After graduating with honours, she studied in a master class with Prof. Orfeo Mandozzi and attended numerous master classes, including with Heinrich Schiff, Gustav Rivinius and Christoph Richter.
Maria has won various first prizes, for example with the Trio Majory at the Würzburg Musical Academy Competition and with her own compositions Trio gruberich at the Creole - Global Music Contest in Berlin. She has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Mannheim National Theatre and the Munich Chamber Orchestra, and concert tours have taken Maria throughout Europe, South Africa, South-East Asia, South America, New Zealand and Australia.
Maria is at home in a wide variety of musical genres, and enjoys playing jazz, blues, bossa nova, folk and many other styles in addition to classical music.

Mariya began playing the piano at the age of five. She received various scholarships and won first prizes at national piano competitions in Ukraine as a child, including Kalmiuska Brama in Donetsk, the Karamanov Competition in Simferopol and the Heinrich Neuhaus Competition in Kirovograd. Mariya later successfully took part in the Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte in the Czech Republic, among others, and most recently won first prize at the Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria.
Mariya received her training at the Kyiv Lysenko State Music Lyceum and the National Music Academy of Ukraine ‘Peter Tchaikovsky’ in Kiev. At the same time, she performed regularly in Russia, Poland and her native Ukraine. Mariya then studied in Germany with Professor Shoshana Rudiakovan at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, where she also completed her training as a concert soloist with honours in 2010. She was supported by various scholarships, including from the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation. Mariya received further artistic inspiration from Leon Fleischer, Dmitrij Baschkirov, Paul Badura-Skoda and André Marchand, among others.
Mariya performs both as a chamber musician and as a soloist with renowned orchestras such as the Stuttgart Philharmonic.

Karine studied piano in the class of Prof Detlef Kaiser at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden. She then went to the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig for her Master's degree. There she studied piano chamber music and song accompaniment with Prof. Gudrun Franke, Prof. Alexander Schmalcz and Prof. Jacques Ammon, among others, and graduated with honours. Karine received further musical inspiration from Riccardo Marini at the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome and from the internationally renowned pianist Oxana Yablonskaya.
As a prizewinner of various competitions, Karine is both a sought-after soloist and chamber music partner. In addition to her concerts with Salut Salon, she teaches solo recital at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theatre in Leipzig and piano at the Johann Sebastian Bach School of Music. Karine also enjoys organising and realising her own projects. For example, she organised a German-Italian exchange with joint concerts in Rome, l'Aquila and Dresden, as well as two evenings in honour of the composer Avet Terterjan, her great-uncle.