Artists
Amadeus Wiesensee was born in 1993 and debuted at the age of twelve with the Munich Radio Orchestra. In 2019, the Süddeutsche Zeitung described his interpretation of Brahms’s Piano Trio No. 1 as “top-class, poetic and captivating”, while the Münchner Abendzeitung named him the Cultural Star of the Year in the classical music category. Amadeus Wiesensee has performed at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Rheingau Musik Festival and the Würzburg Mozartfest, among other venues. In 2021, he was awarded the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis. Amadeus Wiesensee was the first resident artist of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn in the 2021/22 season, and he debuted in the Frauenkirche in Dresden, at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, at Die Glocke in Bremen and at the Schloss Elmau with the Goldberg Variations.
Born in Jerusalem, he began playing piano at the age of four. Developing an early love for the art song, Ammiel is internationally recognised as a leading song pianist of his generation and performs regularly at notable venues across Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia. After initial studies in South Africa, where he raised, he furthered his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig and at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique in Paris. Ammiel is a prize-winner at numerous competitions, including the Wigmore Hall Competition in London or the International Schubert Competition in Stuttgart. One of the last private students of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, he mentors regularly at Thomas Hampson’s Heidelberg Lied Academy. In addition to his activities as a pianist, Ammiel is also active as a musicologist and specializes in research on Schubert and Wagner. He has been named a Stenway Artist in 2025.
Baritone Andrè Schuen comes from the Ladin area of La Val of South Tyrol in Italy and grew up speaking three languages (Ladin, Italian and German). Although the cello was his chosen instrument for many years, he decided to attend the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, studying with Horiana Branisteanu, and Wolfgang Holzmair. With his Lied partner Daniel Heide, he can be heard worldwide in Lied centres such as London's Wigmore Hall, the Schubertiade, the Schubertíada Vilabertran, the Munich's Prinzregententheater, the Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Tanglewood and the Aspen Music Festival. His opera roles include Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Figaro and Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro), Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin or Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Ford (Falstaff) or Rodrigo (Don Carlo). Since 2021, he has been an Exclusive Recording Artist for Deutsche Grammophon.
Agnès Mauri es va formar com a violista i pianista a l'Escola de Música de Vic i posteriorment va ampliar estudis a Barcelona, Salzburg i Basilea amb mestres com Jonathan Brown, Silvia Simionescu i Thomas Riebl, i va rebre consells de Tabea Zimmermann i Kim Kashkashian. Com a solista, ha actuat en espais com el Palau de la Música Catalana o l’Auditorio Nacional i ha estat artista convidada de Joventuts Musicals. En música de cambra, ha participat en festivals europeus com el Festival de Lucerna i el Festival Castell de Peralada. També s’ha destacat en música contemporània amb compositors com Unsuk Chin i Joan Magrané. Ha guanyat premis internacionals com El Primer Palau, concursos a Basilea i Lucerna i ha enregistrat per Catalunya Música, ARD i Toccata Classics.
She completed her bachelor's degree at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and is studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Together with pianist Richard Fu, she won First Prize at the 2024 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition, becoming the youngest winner in the competition's history. She has also won the prestigious Emmerich Smola Advancement Prize at the SWR Competition for Young Opera Stars and the ICMA Young Artist Award 2026. She has recently been selected by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. She made her debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus in 2021 and from the 2026-27 season, she will be featured as a Vienna Konzerthaus “Great Talent”. An active recital artist, she has appeared at the Heidelberger Frühling, the Schwarzenberg Festival, and London's Wigmore Hall. From autumn 2026, she will join Wigmore Hall as an Associate Artist.