Sonntagskonzert im Spiegelsaal

In the organizer's words:

Hildegard Niebuhr

was born in Leipzig in 1991 and received her first violin lessons at the age of 5. From 2008, she studied at the Schloss Belvedere music high school in Weimar, where she graduated in 2011, before taking up her bachelor's degree with Thomas Brandis in Lübeck in the fall of 2011. From 2015 onwards, she studied with Daniel Sepec and completed her master's degree in 2020.

Since her childhood, Hildegard Niebuhr has gained a lot of experience in various ensembles and orchestras, her time as concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester from 2015-17 was particularly formative. After her time as an academist with the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, she became a member of the 1st violins of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in summer 2019.

She regularly receives invitations to play with other orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, NDR Hannover, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ensemble Resonanz, MDR Leipzig and others.

She was inspired by teachers such as Igor Ozim, Uwe-Martin Haiberg, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Matthias Wollong and Heime Müller and has played as concertmaster under renowned conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Ton Koopman, Kent Nagano, Helmuth Rilling, Daniel Harding, Philippe Jordan and Christoph Eschenbach.

Moritz Weigert

received his first cello lessons at the age of five in Dessau. After his family moved to Leipzig and several years of lessons at the local music school, he moved to the HMT Leipzig as a junior student with Anna Niebuhr. From 2011 to 2016, Moritz studied with Michael Sanderling in Frankfurt and then with Peter Bruns in Leipzig.

From 2020 to 2024, he also studied chamber music with the Soleri Trio both in Munich with Dirk Mommertz and at the UdK Berlin with the Artemis Quartet.
As a member of the Soleri Trio, he has achieved several successes, including a 1st prize at the "Premio Città di Padova" 2023, two 3rd prizes at the international competition "Schubert and the Music of Modernism" in Graz 2022 and at the international competition "Eugene Ysaye", a "Highly Commended" at the Parkhouse Award

2021 at Wigmore Hall and a 2nd prize at the international competition of the music academies of the "Società Umanitara di Milano" 2021.
He has received further musical inspiration from Wolfgang Böttcher, Frans Helmerson, Ralph Kirshbaum, Gidon Kremer, Günther Pichler, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Wolfgang-Emanuel Schmidt, Troels Svane and Wen-Sinn Yang, among others.
He has performed as a soloist with the HfMDK Frankfurt University Orchestra, the Loh Orchestra Sondershausen and the Leipzig Youth Symphony Orchestra, including at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the Alte Oper Frankfurt.
From 2014-2016 he was a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and played with various orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Museum Orchestra Frankfurt.
In 2017, he was accepted into the Academy of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra as a scholarship holder and has already played under conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Paavo Järvi, Mariss Jansons and Franz Welser-Möst.
Moritz was a scholarship holder of the Peter Pirazzi Foundation of the HfMDK Frankfurt and received several grants from the DAAD, until 2023 he was a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica Rheinland Pfalz, which provided him with a cello by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume for several years.
Moritz has been a member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra since 2022.