Christian Gerber

is one of the most sought-after and versatile bandoneonists of his generation in Europe. He began focussing on Argentine tango in 1996 and has since shared the stage with numerous tango greats such as Alberto Podestá, Juan José Mosalini, Alfredo Marcucci, Raul Garello, Grammy award winner Luis Stazo and others. As a guest soloist he has performed with the WDR Radio Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Hanover State Opera, Hamburg Philharmonic and the Berlin Konzerthausorchester. In addition to participating in numerous cross-genre projects and contemporary music concerts, his musical activities are rounded off by film and theatre music and compositions (e.g. for the Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schaubühne Berlin, and the Hamburger Schauspielhaus), since 2003 he has also played with the group “Tangocrash” (German Record Critics’ Award in 2008) and since 2011 has given concerts all over Europe with a quartet led by violinist Isabelle van Keulen. He has made several new arrangements of Astor Piazzolla’s music for this formation.

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Samuel Lutzker

is a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle. He studied in Berlin and Weimar with Jens Peter Maintz and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and has received various scholarships and awards from different foundations and competitions, including the German National Academic Foundation, the Villa Musica Foundation, the Bodensee Music Competition and the Khachaturian Competition. Alongside a variety of solo appearances, chamber music is the main focus of his work. His chamber music partners include Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Atar Arad and Lynn Harrell. Regular invitations to the chamber music festival of the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove in Cornwall, England were formative sources of inspiration. Since 2016 he has been cellist with the prize-winning piano trio Trio Gaon with concert activities throughout Europe and Asia.

Cellist Johannes Henschel is a regular guest player of the Quinteto Ángel

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Frank Schulte

first studied music pedagogy at the University of the Arts in Berlin, followed by opera accompaniment and Lied interpretation at the Leipzig University of Music. He graduated with honours in 2006. He received his pianistic training from Prof. Thomas Menrath and Prof. Markus Tomas. He has worked as solo répétiteur at the Komische Oper Berlin since 2008 and played as an orchestral pianist in many performances and guest performances at numerous opera houses, for example in Budapest, Zurich and New York. He regularly performs chamber music with musicians of the orchestra at the Komische Oper. As a piano accompanist, he is frequently engaged for competitions such as the German Federal Singing Competition. He also works as a pianist and Lied accompanist with many singers and ensembles, including the actress and singer Dagmar Manzel, with whom he has worked for many years. Frank Schulte has been intensively involved with Argentine tango since 1996. Together with Christian Gerber, he was the second winner of the 4th Premio Internazionale “Astor Piazzolla” in Castelfidardo / Italy in 1997.

Bernhard von der Gabelentz

studied in Dresden and Berlin and has been a freelance violinist since 2003. He is a member of the Berliner Symphoniker and also makes regular guest appearances at the Cottbus State Theatre, the Brandenburg State Theatre Frankfurt / Oder, the Magdeburg Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin amongst others. In 2001 he was one of the founding members of the Quinteto Ángel. Since then, the Argentine tango has not let go of him. He is 1st violinist in the Orquesta típica “Sabor a Tango” and the Sexteto Stazo Mayor, with whom he toured Europe with the world-famous tango show “Tango Pasión” in 2008 and 2009. In 2008 he played with celebrities such as Luis Stazo, Alfredo Marcucci and the tango violinist Fernando Suarez Paz at the tango show “Café de los maestros”.

Rodolfo Paccapelo

born in Buenos Aires, plays as a versatile musician in numerous ensembles and is at home in various musical styles. He studied double bass and improvisation in Buenos Aires and Berlin with Herman Merlo, Oscar Giunta, Juan Cruz Quiza and Ernesto Jodos and has worked with musicians such as John Schröder, Rudi Mahall, Felix Wahnschaffe, Georg Pfister, Steve Grossman, Richie Beirach and Ralph Towner.

Johannes Henschel

was a permanent member of the Quinteto Ángel until 2008 and has continued to be a welcome guest of the quintet ever since. Born in Berlin, he completed his cello studies at the Hanns Eisler University of Music and has performed with the Berliner Symphoniker, the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt / Oder and the German Chamber Orchestra Berlin. In addition to his activities as a theatre musician at the Berlin Schaubühne, Hans Otto Theater Potsdam and the Berliner Ensemble, he has worked regularly with the songwriter Klaus Hoffmann and actress Andrea Sawatzki.