Emmanuel Pahud
The Swiss and French flutist Emmanuel Pahud is one of today’s most exciting and adventurous musicians. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory with the Premier Prix after which he continued his studies with Aurèle Nicolet. At the age of 22 Emmanuel Pahud was appointed as Principal Flute with the Berlin Philharmonic and appeared with the orchestra performing the flute concertos by Marc-André Dalbavie and Elliott Carter. In addition to his engagements in Berlin Emmanuel Pahud enjoys an extensive career as soloist with orchestras and in chamber music with Eric Le Sage, Yefim Bronfman and Hélène Grimaud. He has made more than 20 recordings which have received unanimous critical acclaim as the flute concertos by Devienne, Gianella, Gluck, Pleyel, Dalbavie, Jarrell, Pintscher, Vivaldi, the complete work for flute by Frank Martin, J.S. Bach Sonatas for flute, Fantasy: A Night at the Opera as well as the album ‚Around the World’ for Warner and EMI. Emmanuel Pahud founded the Chamber Music Festival Musique à l’Empéri together with Paul Meyer and Eric Le Sage in Salon-de-Provence.

Francois Leleux
François Leleux’s pre-eminence as an oboist is internationally recognised but over the last twenty years he has in parallel developed a significant reputation as conductor, and is now in demand on the podium both with and without oboe in hand. Leleux is regularly invited by the world’s leading orchestras, festivals and concert series, both as soloist and player/director with repertoire ranging from baroque to newly commissioned works. The 2016/17 season reflects every aspect of Leleux’s performing life, including concerto performances with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra at the Beethovenfest Bonn, and Münchener Kammerorchester: as Artist in Residence with the hr-Sinfonieorchester in Frankfurt, with whom he will appear as soloist, conductor and chamber musician: and as conductor and soloist with Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich (with whom he makes his conducting debut at Vienna’s Musikverein), Camerata Salzburg, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, and Stavanger, Aalborg and Gävle symphony orchestras.

Paul Meyer
Paul Meyer studied at the Paris Conservatory and in Basel. In 1982 he won the "Concours Eurovision des Jeunes Musiciens Français" and in 1984 the "Young Concert Artists Auditions" in New York. Today Paul Meyer is regarded as one of the best clarinetists worldwide and performs regularly with the leading orchestras in Europe, USA, Far East and Australia. Paul Meyer is an active performer of contemporary music and many concertos have been composed for him including works by Penderecki, Jarrell, Chen, Berio, Escaich and Dusapin.  His large discography emcompasses recordings by Mozart, von Weber, Copland, Busoni, Krommer, Pleyel, Brahms, Schumann, Bernstein, Arnold, Piazzolla, Poulenc, Messiaen for the Labels CBS, Sony, EMI, BMG, DGG, Denon and Erato which were awarded the Diapason d’Or among others.

Gilbert Audin
Gilbert Audin is Principal bassoon at the Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris and teaches at the Paris Conservatory. This ambassador of the French bassoon and its prestigious school is in demand all over the world for master classes and international academies. Chamber music marks a particular interest for him. Gilbert Audin made his musical studies in Nîmes and at the Paris Conservatory with Maurice Allard. The Frenchmen won with 19 international competitions in Geneva and Munich and in consequence he won first prizes in Geneva and Toulon. For RCA Red Seal he recorded works by Haydn (»London« trios with Jean-Pierre Rampal), concertos by Jean Françaix and Marcel Landowski,  quartets by Rossini, concertos and symphonies by Mozart and all chamber music of Francis Poulenc for RCA Red Seal and Sony.

Radovan Vlatković
Winner of the ARD Competition in Munich in 1983, Radovan Vlatković completed his studies of horn in Zagreb and Detmold. Vlatković is one of the leading horn players of his generation and has travelled the globe extensively as soloist and popularising the instrument. Chamber music is an important part of his engagements. Radovan Vlatković’s repertoire includes all music for horn from baroque to contemporary music and first performances of works by Elliott Carter, Heinz Holliger, Krzysztof Penderecki and works of various Croatian composers.  His award-winning recordings with orchestra and chamber music for EMI, DECCA, Philips, Deutsche Grammophon and Denon feature the horn concertos by Mozart and Richard Strauss as well as works by Saint-Saëns, Britten and Leopold Mozart. The Croatian musician teaches in masterclasses and at the university Mozarteum in Salzburg and Escuela Superior Reina Sofia in Madrid.

Éric Le Sage
French pianist Éric Le Sage completed to study piano at the age of 17 at the Paris Conservatory and continued his studies with Maria Curcio in London. Prizewinner of several international competitions, Le Sage performs worldwide as as soloist and in chamber music. Highlights of his work are recordings with all music for piano by Francis Poulenc und Robert Schumann, which Le Sage recorded for Alpha winning the Annual prize of the German Record critics and the Grand Prix du Disque of the Academy Charles Cros. Together with Paul Meyer and Emmanuel Pahud he founded the Chamber Music Festival Musique à l’Empéri together in Salon-de-Provence. Since 2010 Éric Le Sage is professor for piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg.