Chamber Music Evening N° 7

Tibor Gyenge

Born in Sibiu, Romania, in 1989 into a Hungarian-Romanian family of musicians, Tibor Gyenge received his first violin lessons from his father. 

Subsequently he attended the Béla Bartók Music School and the Music High School in Szombathely before moving to Graz to study at the city’s University of the Arts under Prof. Silvia Marcovici. In 2012 he completed his bachelor’s degree with distinction. From 2014 to 2016 Tibor Gyenge studied for a master’s degree under Prof. Daniel Gaede at the Nuremberg University of Music. During these years he also held a teaching position at the university.

His musical education was further enriched by numerous master classes given by star violinists such as Zakhar Bron, Leonidas Kavakos, Daniel Stabrawa, György Pauk, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Ulf Hoelscher and Kristóf Baráti.

Sebastian Herberg

Sebastian Herberg has been principal viola of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden for over 30 years and has been a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna since 2016.

He was born in 1968 into a family of musicians and theatre artists in Potsdam. His grandfather Willy Herberg, who was a violist in the Staatskapelle Berlin, awakened in him a love of the viola. He received his first lessons on the instrument at the Potsdam Music School with Marita Grunwald.

Sebastian Herberg completed his studies at the Franz Liszt School of Music in Weimar with Prof Thomas Wünsch. This was followed by additional studies at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Prof Alfred Lipka. He received important impulses for his artistic development as principal violist of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra in 1989 and 1990 from Leonard Bernstein and Sir Georg Solti, among others.

In 1991, Sebastian Herberg took up his first engagement as principal viola with the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin before moving to the same position with the Staatskapelle Dresden in 1994.

Herberg has performed as a soloist under conductors such as Michael Sanderling, Sakari Oramo and Fabio Luisi in major concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Mozarteum Salzburg, Kitarra Hall and the Lucerne Festival Theatre. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Dresdner Kapellsolisten, of which he was a founding member.

With the Dresdner Streichtrio, which celebrated its 25th stage anniversary in 2020 and continues to exist under its current name ‘Streichtrio Dresden’, as well as the Dresdner Oktett and the Arabella Quartett, he has performed concerts all over the world.

Various CD recordings, released by labels such as Sony, Querstand and Hänssler, bear witness to his great passion for chamber music and his work as a soloist.

Sebastian Herberg has been teaching the next generation of musicians since the founding of the Giuseppe Sinopoli Academy of the Staatskapelle Dresden. He has been a guest professor at the Pacific Music Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra on several occasions. He also taught at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden for many years before taking up his professorship at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 2016.

Andreas Ehelebe

Andreas Ehelebe was born in Wernigerode in 1994. He received his first double bass lessons at the age of eleven and was initially trained by Andreas Nettels and Prof. Frithjof- Martin Grabner, during his studies then by Prof. Dorin Marc at the Nuremberg University of Music. He also received important impulses as an academist in the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, where Janne Saksala was his mentor.

Andreas gained his first orchestral experience in the state and national youth orchestras, and later in the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the Orchestra Academy of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. Today he is a welcome guest of numerous top orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the BR, SWR, NDR and MDR Symphony Orchestras, the Bamberg Symphony, the Munich Philharmonic, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin.

At the German Music Competition 2015, Andreas was awarded a scholarship and participated in the Federal Selection Concerts of Young Artists in the 2016/2017 season. He also received 1st prize and the audience prize at the International Lake Constance Music Competition Überlingen 2015 and at the International Instrumental Competition Markneukirchen 2017. At the 2018 International Johann Matthias Sperger Competition, Andreas was also awarded a first prize, along with several special prizes. Andreas is supported by the Märkische Kulturkonferenz, the Richard-Wagner Verband, the Peter Pirazzi Foundation, the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz.

Since 2020, he has played as principal double bass in the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, where he is also active as a pedagogue in the Giuseppe Sinopoli Academy. In addition, he has been teaching at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy" Leipzig since 2022 as part of a teaching assignment.

From October 2023 Andreas Ehelebe will teach as a professor at the Rostock University of Music and Drama.