Katja Maderer debuted recently in Copenhagen as a soprano soloist in Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion. She was one of the winners of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin in 2020 and, together with the pianist Amadeus Wiesensee, she won the special prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary Lied at the Internationaler Wettbewerb für Liedkunst in Stuttgart in 2022. Katja has given concerts at the Festspiele Europäische Wochen in Passau and at the Musikfest ION in Nuremberg, as well as at the Kammermusikwoche Tabea Zimmermann and the Christian Gerhaher Liedwoche at Schloss Elmau. Having completed her studies under professors Christiane Iven and Sabine Lahm at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich (where she studied violin in addition to singing), Katja Maderer continued her training in the class of professor Lars Woldt.

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.