About us

Portraits

• Ethem Emre Tamer       Violin
  
  Ethem Emre Tamer was born in Ankara in Turkey. He started playing the violin at the age of eleven. After his studies in Ankara his way led him to the Spohr Akademie to Wolfgang Marschner and then to the Berlin Hochschule der Künste to Prof. Ilan Gronich and Axel Gerhardt. He studied playing the baroque violin with Simon Standage. Between 1992 and 1996 he achieved outstanding experiences in orchestral playing by various temporary contracts with the Berlin Philharmonic and the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. He has also played with many different orchestras as a soloist. In 1996 Emre Tamer joined the Orchestra of the Staatstheater Darmstadt as second violin leader. Together with Michael Schubert he founded the ensemble "Händel With Care" in 1999.

  
  

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• Michael Schubert       Oboe
  
  Michael Schubert was born 1956 in Kelheim/Donau, he started his education in oboe playing at the age of ten with Hansjörg Schellenberger and Heinz Brune. Several times he won first prizes in the nationwide Young Musicians Competition (Jugend musiziert) and for long years he was a member of the Federal Youth Orchestra (Bundesjugendorchester). Michael Schubert studied the oboe at the Munich Musikhochschule with Manfred Clement and in 1980 took his concert examinations in Detmold with Prof. Helmut Winschermann. His musical course led him to master classes and chamber music in Weikersheim, Hitzacker and Interlochen (USA) to concerts with the Münchener Bachorchester, the Deutsche Bachsolisten, the Mainzer Bläserensemble, Trio d’anches Detmold and several other ensembles, playing literature from baroque to avant-garde composers. In 1999 he founded the ensemble "Händel With Care" aiming at playing and presenting well-known and rarely performed music of the 16th and 17th centuries.
  Since 1980 Michael Schubert has been principal solo oboist in the Orchestra of the Staatstheater in Darmstadt.

  
  

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• Friederike Eisenberg       Violoncello
  
  Friederike Eisenberg was born in Bielefeld; she took her first cello lesson at the age of ten. From 1986 to 1991 she was a student at the Hoch’sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt/Main. During the following years she studied cello with Prof. Christoph Henkel at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. There she gathered important experiences in chamber music and orchestra playing by performing numerous concerts in various settings. For several years Friederike Eisenberg was a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie; in addition she absolved a practical course with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Freiburg. She attended master classes with Uzi Wiesel in Tel Aviv and Gustav Rivinius in Saarbrücken and increased her activities taking lessons in chamber music with the Emerson String Quartet and the Cherubini String Quartet. After her orchestra diploma she absolved her research studies taking her exam as concert cellist in 2001 with Prof. Michael Sanderling in Frankfurt/Main. Since August 2001 Friederike Eisenberg has been a member of the Orchestra at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt.

  
  

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• Toshinori Ozaki       Theorbe
  
  Toshinori Ozaki started his musical career primarily as a guitarist and as early as in 1981 he was prizewinner at the Kyushu Guitar Competition in Japan. He studied ancient music in Osaka at the College of Music in his main instrument lute and later continued his studies in Frankfurt/Main at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst with Yasunori Immamura. In 1998 he finished with the diploma. Toshinori Ozaki gives concerts all over Europe, Japan and Taiwan as a soloist and is asked for continuo playing at important festivals and places.
  He periodically plays with notable ensembles like Camerata Köln, La Stagione Frankfurt with Michael Schneider, the ensemble Seaven Teares with Michael Schopper, L’arpa festante and his own ensemble Viaggio Musicale and the Ensemble d4 with which he performs operas and produces for broadcast and CDs.