Erika
Tandiono
Indonesian-born soprano Erika Tandiono specialises in music from the 16th to 18th centuries and is praised for her “bell-clean” voice, virtuosity and excellent musical ornamentation. Highlights of her engagements in 2022 include a CD recording and her debut at Wigmore Hall (London) with the award-winning ensemble Vox Luminis. In 2020 she was awarded the Bovicelli Young Talent Award for her own diminutions in the Bovicelli Competition. Erika performs regularly in concerts and music festivals worldwide with some of the most renowned vocal and instrumental ensembles, such as Ensemble Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Ensemble Café Zimmermann, {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna, Melbourne Baroque Orchestra and Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra. Erika successfully completed her master's degree in early music (voice) at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen in 2022 with Prof. Benno Schachtner, Bettina Pahn and Gerd Türk.
Michael
Fuerst
American-born Michael Fuerst began his studies in his hometown of Madison (USA), which he continued at the Eastman School of Music (USA). There he had harpsichord and organ lessons with Arthur Haas and Russel Saunders and was assistant to lutenist Paul O'Dette. In 1994 he moved to Germany, where he completed his studies as a Fulbright Scholar with Robert Hill at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. He was a collaborator on a project on 17th century German instrumental music funded by the German Research Foundation and is a board member of the International Dieterich Buxtehude Society. In addition to an extensive concert career at home and abroad, Michael Fuerst has participated in numerous CD recordings - 2 of which were awarded Echo-Klassik prizes. He holds lectureships at the conservatories in Lübeck and Bremen and regularly presents the historical keyboard instruments of the collection of the Museum of Hamburg History to the interested public in his own concert series. Since 2022 he has been organist at the historic organ in Borstel (Altes Land).
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