Sonic Warmth

Gernot Adrion has been deputy principal violist with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1996. He studied at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg with Hans Kohlhase until 1995 and has won prizes at various competitions, including the national competition “Jugend musiziert,” the IHK competition, the Dr. Drexel competition in Nuremberg, and the German Conservatory Competition in Darmstadt.
In addition to his pedagogical activities as a mentor at the RSB Orchestra Academy, he has a particular love for chamber music. Since 2006, he has collaborated regularly with Susanne Herzog and Hans-Jakob Eschenburg in the Gideon Klein Trio, and since 2012 in a duo with pianist Yuki Inagawa.
Gernot Adrion plays a viola by Petrus Gaggini.

Peter Albrecht began playing the cello at the age of nine. After studying with Walther Nothas (Munich), Alexander Baillie (Bremen), and Michael Sanderling (Frankfurt/Berlin), he joined the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra as a cellist in 2002. At the same time, he completed his concert exam, graduating in the summer of 2005. He also took part in numerous master classes and chamber music courses, including with the Artemis Quartet, Henry W. Meyer, Frans Helmerson, Anner Bylsma, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Johannes Goritzki. He performs with Nadine Contini, Martin Eßmann, and Christiane Silber in the Contini Quartet, as well as in the cello quartet “Just four Cellos” with Volkmar Weiche, Jörg Breuninger, and Christian Raudszus.

Georg Boge, born in Berlin-Pankow in 1980, began playing the cello at the age of twelve. He was principal cellist and soloist in various Berlin youth orchestras (e.g., the RIAS and the JugendStreichOrchester Berlin), and his intensive string quartet work also gave him extensive concert experience. In 2000, he began studying cello at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Stefan Giglberger. In 2003, he moved to Frankfurt am Main to study with Michael Sanderling, where he completed his diploma and subsequent concert exam. He joined the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra as a substitute in 2004. He then completed an internship with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, before returning to the RSB, first on temporary contracts and then, since 2010, as a permanent member. Georg Boge plays an instrument built in 2011 by Urs Mächler and an 18th-century cello by Anton Bachmann, the first documented master violin maker in Berlin.

Neela Hetzel de Fonseka, born in Sydney, made her decision to study music relatively late in life. At the age of 19, she began her studies with Goetz Richter in her Australian hometown. She furthered her studies with Kolja Blacher in Hamburg and completed her diploma and concert exam with Nora Chastain in Berlin. Substitute contracts took her to the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she was a member of the first violin section from March 2009 to January 2012. She also performed with the Kaleidoskop soloist ensemble and the Absolute Ensemble New York. She has been a member of the RSB since February 2012.

Yugo Inoue was born in Tokyo in 1995. He began playing the violin at the age of five and switched to the viola at 16. He studied at Tokyo University of the Arts with Toshihiko Ichitsubo and, since 2020, with Veit Hertenstein at the Detmold University of Music. He gained orchestral experience from 2021 to 2023 as an academician with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, as well as through temporary positions with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. He received further inspiration from masterclasses with Hariolf Schlichtig, Tabea Zimmermann, and Nobuko Imai. Since 2023, he has been playing in the viola section of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Enrico Palascino, born in Turin in 1982, has been a member of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2011. He performs regularly as a chamber musician and soloist and also plays as a substitute with Hessischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. He received his first violin lessons at the age of 8, later studied with Giacomo Agazzini at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Torino, and then, thanks to the Claudio Abbado Music Foundation DESONO, continued his studies with Valeri Gradow in Mannheim and Stephan Picard in Berlin. He also completed additional studies in chamber music with Susanne Rabenschlag in Mannheim and won the Yuval Quartet Federal Competition. This was followed by performances at the Schwetzingen Festival, live recordings with Deutschlandradio, and tours in Spain and Italy. In 2016, he followed his family to Namibia. There, he founded a music school for disadvantaged children in Windhoek (YONA) with singer Gretel Coetzee. He helped reestablish the Namibian National Symphony Orchestra (NNSO), organized concerts, composed and arranged Namibian folk songs, and worked publicly to promote a better understanding of classical music in Namibia.
In August 2018, he returned to Berlin, where he continues to be involved with YONA and the NNSO. In his free time, he is a passionate triathlete.