Tanya Tomkins
Tanya Tomkins received her Soloist Diploma from The Hague Conservatory in The Netherlands as a student of Anner Bijlsma. It was in Holland, where she lived for fourteen years, that she became interested in early instruments. She founded the Trio d’Amsterdam, which toured extensively throughout Europe and made their New …
Gérard Wyss (piano)
Gérard Wyss studied with Paul Baumgartner at the Music Academy in Basle, where he now teaches Lied interpretation and chamber music for graduate soloists. His preference for playing in partnership turned into a vocation, and soon he was playing with Pierre Fournier and Arthur Grumiaux. Today he is in great …
Jon Lord
Founder member of Deep Purple, Jon Lord was born in Leicester. He began playing piano aged 6, studying classical music until leaving school at 17 to become a Solicitor’s clerk. Initially leaning towards the theatre, Jon moved to London in 1960 and trained at the Central School of Speech and …
Bernd Zack (piano)
Bernd Zack was born in Frankfurt/Main and studied piano with Wolfgang Schamschula (Mainz), Vitaly Margulis (Leningrad / Freiburg i. Br. / Los Angeles), James Tocco (Bloomington, Ind. /USA), Nikita Magaloff (Geneva) and Leonard Hokanson (Frankfurt/Main). Among his teachers were also Hartmut Höll, Josef Gingold, Franco Gulli and Janos Starker, whose …
Herwig Zack (violin)
Herwig Zack was born in Frankfurt/Main. He started to play the violin at age five and studied with Karl-Albrecht Herrmann, Edith Peinemann and Max Rostal. Scholarships from the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” and from the “Rotary Foundation” made it possible for him to complete his education at Indiana University in …
