Sonntagskonzert im Spiegelsaal

In the organizer's words:

Senka Brankovic

studied at the Mozarteum Salzburg and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. As a pianist, she has already performed in renowned concert halls around the world, including the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Cairo Opera House, the Alexandria Opera House and in Kyoto. She has released four CD recordings to date. In 2024, she will release her new CD with the melodrama "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke" by Viktor Ullmann and Rainer Maria Rilke, which she recorded together with Helmut Mooshammer for Gramola/Vienna. Senka Brankovic is a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts.

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Helmut Mooshammer

was born in Styria and began his acting training at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz in 1977. This was followed by engagements at the Städtische Bühnen Münster, the Stadttheater Konstanz, the Staatstheater Kassel and the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf.

From 2000 to 2009, he was a member of the ensemble at the Thalia Theater Hamburg. He also taught at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and at the Theaterakademie Hamburg.

Helmut Mooshammer has been a member of the ensemble at Deutsches Theater Berlin since the 2009/10 season. In 2019 and 2020, he was part of the "Jedermann" ensemble at the Salzburg Festival.

In 2024, a joint CD recording with Senka Brankovic and Helmut Moos- hammer will be released: the melodrama "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke" by Viktor Ullmann and Rainer Maria Rilke, produced by Gramola/Vienna.

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Marija Mücke wasborn in 1975 in Kragujevac, Serbia. She performed as a soloist from an early age and won prizes at national and international competitions. From 1991, she studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Prof. Edward Zienkowski. Her master's degree was awarded with distinction and the Würdigungspreis für Bildung und Kultur. She attended master classes with Vladimir Spivakov, Zakhar Bron and the Borodin Quartet. From 2002 to 2004, Marija Mücke was an orchestral academist with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since 2004 she has been a member of the second violin section of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and enjoys playing chamber music with the string quartet "16 Springs" and the "Polyphonia Ensemble Berlin".

Nika Somborac

is a versatile musician with strong roots in ensemble playing. Since 2011, she has performed in Europe and overseas as a cellist with the

Furiant Quartet and in other chamber music formations. She also performs regularly as a guest with orchestras such as the Kammerakademie Potsdam,

the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. In addition to her passion for the baroque cello and historically informed performance practice, contemporary music and working with composers such as Helmut Lachenmann also play a major role in her artistic activities.

She has performed chamber music and solo concerts at the Festival d!Aix-en-Pro- vence in France, the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival in South Africa, the Rheingau Music Festival and the Gezeiten-Konzerte in Germany, the Amici del- la Musica Udine in Italy, the Festival Ljubljana in Slovenia and the Eufonia Festival in Romania.

Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Nika Somborac received her first music lessons from her father and continued her studies with Igor Mitrovič in Klagenfurt. She completed her bachelor's and master's degree in Rostock in the cello classes of Thomas Kaufmann, Va- lentin Radutiu and Natalie Clein as well as in the chamber music class of Eberhard Feltz at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. She received further inspiration in master classes with renowned musicians such as Heime Müller, Kristin von der Goltz, Leonid Gorokhov, Rainer Schmidt and members of the Casals and Belcea Quartets.

In the academy of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Bathasar Neumann Orchestra, she was able to deepen her experience in historically informed performances of early music.

In 2016, Nika Somborac won first prize at the Boris Pergamenschikow Prize and third prize at the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation Competition for Young Quartets in Berlin.

A passionate teacher, she teaches at the City-West Music School in Berlin and at the Rostock University of Music and Drama.

Mladen Somborac

is a versatile orchestral and chamber musician. Since September 2023 he has been a new member of the viola section of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and is regularly involved in ensembles such as

Camerata Bern, Ensemble Resonanz, Camerata Salzburg, Balthasar Neumann Choir and Ensemble, Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, oenm - Austrian Ensemble for New Music.

As an enthusiastic chamber musician, he has performed with Alina Ibragimova, Stefan Hempel, Wolfgang Redik, William Coleman, Clemens Hagen and worked with Veronika Hagen, Reiner Schmidt, Günter Pichler, Heime Müller, Alasdair Tait and Louis Hopkins.

His musical journey began at the age of seven at the

at the age of seven at the music school in Montenegro, where he received violin lessons. At the age of eleven, he moved to Belgrade, Serbia, and completed his schooling with a focus on music at the

music at a secondary music school.

At the age of seventeen, he discovered his passion for the viola, which led to a significant turn in his musical career. After just two years of viola lessons, he was accepted to the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where he obtained his bachelor's degree under the guidance of Prof. Thomas Riebl. His musical talent led him on to a master's degree and a postgraduate degree, which he successfully completed under the guidance of Prof. William Coleman.

Since joining the Balthasar Neumann Orchestra Academy under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock in July 2014, Mladen Somborac has been an active member of the ensemble to this day. He regularly takes part in various projects of the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and continues to benefit from valuable musical mentoring by renowned teachers such as Matthias Goerne, Daniel Sepec, Bernhard Forck, Michael Behringer, Prof. Elisabeth Scholl, Christoph Dangel and other outstanding personalities of the music world.

Between 2021 and 2023, Mladen was funded twice as part of the German Music Council's NEUSTART KULTUR program: once for his innovative concert concept with the Furiant Quartet and once again for the "Viola Evening 1919" project.