Fresh as Dew

Gernot Adrion has been deputy principal violist in the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin 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.

Bohun Seo was born in South Korea. He studied at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Ye-eun Choi and completed his master’s degree in 2025. From 2024 to 2025, he was employed as an intern at the Darmstadt State Theater. As a soloist, Bohun Seo performed with the orchestra of the Cologne University of Music and Dance in 2024. He is currently studying with Alissa Margulis at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Since November 2025, he has been an academician with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Maud Edenwald has been the Principal Harpist of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB) since November 2015. Born in 1991 in Versailles, France, she began studying harp at the age of six in Bonn with Ms. Straub-Acoulon. She first studied in Versailles at the Conservatoire de Région with Annie Challan. In 2004, she moved to Berlin and studied with Ronith Mues for four years before beginning her studies as a junior student in the class of Maria Graf and Gesine Dreyer at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in 2008. This was followed by a bachelor’s and master’s degree from 2009 to 2015. She also took part in masterclasses with Jana Bouskova, Isabelle Moretti, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, and Christine Icart, among others.

She gained orchestral experience as a member of the German National Youth Orchestra and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. From 2012 to 2013, she was principal harpist with the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra, then an academician at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She then played as principal harpist with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn.

In 2011, she and RSB principal violist Alejandro Regueira Caumel were unanimously awarded first prize by the jury in the youth category of the Chamber Music with Harp Competition in Madrid. In 2014, they won first prize in the adult category there.

Born in 2003, Korean cellist Danbin Lee is considered one of the most promising young musicians of her generation. She is highly regarded for her expressive tone, musical maturity, and refined artistic sensibility. She is currently studying for a Master of Music degree in cello at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Professor Troels Svane. In 2025, Lee was selected as a fellow and solo cellist of the Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra at the Aspen Music Festival and School (USA). Her participation in Aspen marked an important milestone in her international career and demonstrated her exceptional talent as both a soloist and orchestral musician. She is a prize winner at major international competitions, including 1st prize at the 8th International Dotzauer Competition for Young Cellists (2022), 1st prize at the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition (Junior Division), and 1st prize at the David Popper International Cello Competition. As a soloist, Lee has performed with orchestras in Europe and Asia, including the Torrevieja Symphony Orchestra (Spain) and the Dresden University Symphony Orchestra (Germany), interpreting works by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Boccherini, and Haydn. Her solo recitals have been presented at the Hanns Eisler Chamber Music Festival in Berlin, the Kumho Art Hall, and the Elim Art Hall in Seoul, among others. As a dedicated chamber musician, she has performed at festivals such as Music in PyeongChang and the Mostly Cello Festival with Jens Peter Maintz. Since 2024, she has been a member of the Arts Council Korea (ARKO) in Europe Ensemble and has performed at prestigious venues such as the Stiftung Mozarteum Wiener Saal in Salzburg. Her musical development has been shaped by masterclasses with world-renowned cellists, including Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Wen-Sinn Yang, Danjulo Ishizaka, Jens Peter Maintz, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, and Miklós Perényi. Particularly formative were her active participations in the Kronberg Academy Cello Masterclasses and the Kronberg Festival, as well as the Cello Academy Rutesheim (Germany), where she further deepened her artistic expressiveness. With a combination of lyrical sensitivity and intellectual precision, Danbin Lee continues to expand her artistic horizons in Europe, Asia, and the United States, representing a new generation of cellists who share music as a universal language with the world.

Jannis Lichtenfels was born in Heidelberg in 1999. At the age of six, he received his first drum lessons at the municipal music school in Mosbach from Wessela-Kostowa-Giesecke. After graduating from high school,
he began his bachelor’s degree at the Saarbrücken University of Music in 2018 under Prof.
Thomas Keemss, Matthias Weißenauer, and Martin Hennecke. During this time, he was able to gain experience as an intern with the Trier Philharmonic Orchestra before working there on a fixed-term contract as a percussionist and timpanist in the following 2021/22 season. He also gained additional
experience through master classes with Franz Lang, Guido Marggrander, Jochen Schorer, and others.
After completing his bachelor’s degree in Saarbrücken, he won the audition for the Percussion Academy at the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra at the end of 2023, where he worked as an academician until August 2025.
Shortly after beginning his time at the academy, he continued his master’s studies at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf with Prof. Peter Stracke. Since the beginning of the 2025/26 season, Jannis
Lichtenfels has been an academician with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

The violinist Seogyun Noh was born in South Korea and studied violin at the Korea National University of Arts, where she earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She then became a member of the KBS Symphony Orchestra Academy Program in Seoul. She is currently continuing her studies in the Master of Music program at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in the class of Prof. Yeeun Choi. She is a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and, since October 2025, an academician of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Livia Paté was born 2002 in Berlin. She began her musical journey in 2006 with violin lessons under Yoko Hoshino. In 2012, she became a student at the C.P.E. Bach Gymnasium and a junior student at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, studying with Professor Kittel. In 2015, she switched to the viola and continued her studies with Professor Ditte Leser. In the same year, she became a member of the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie and, in 2016, joined the International Music Academy Berlin.

From 2021, Livia Paté studied with Professor Pauline Sachse, initially in Lübeck, and in 2024 she moved with her to the University of Music in Leipzig. In parallel, she became a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie in 2024 and completed an Erasmus semester at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris with Professor David Gaillard in 2024/2025.

Her artistic activity encompasses solo, chamber, and orchestral performances. Highlights include solo concerts within the International Music Academy at the Konzerthaus Berlin (2017), a piano quartet concert as part of the Preludes Concerts series (2019), solo appearances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Rotes Rathaus for the opening of the Music School Congress with Klaus Lederer (2019), and a concert with the Julius Stern Institute Orchestra under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach (2019). Other significant engagements include the chamber music workshop Making Music Together at the Kronberg Academy (2020), various chamber music concerts with quartet lessons under Professor Heime Müller (2022), a masterclass with a concluding solo concert with orchestra in Bad Elster (2023), and participation in the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (2024).

Livia Paté has received numerous awards and scholarships, including a scholarship from the International Music Academy Berlin (2017), support from the Ad Infinitum Foundation (2022), the Young Talent Award of the Chursächsische Philharmonie (2023), and a grant for social engagement with 14 quartet concerts through Musethica (2024).

Yuen Kiu Marco Yeung was born in Hong Kong in 2002 and received his first double bass lessons there at the age of six. After high school, he began his bachelor’s degree with Prof. Peter Kubina at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 2021, and in 2022 he transferred to Prof. Frithjof-Martin Grabner’s class at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. Since 2025, he has been continuing his master’s studies with Prof. Michail-Pavlos Semsis at the Nuremberg University of Music. He has received further inspiration from master classes with Matthew McDonald, Dorin Marc, Dominik Wagner, and others. Since November 2024, he has been a member of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Ji Woo Yoon is a Korean-Australian cellist who, after completing her bachelor’s degree at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover with Prof. Tilmann Wick and Paolo Bonomini, is currently studying at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Konstantin Heidrich.

Her numerous competition successes abroad include: winner of the string category at the Valsesia Juniores Musica Competition 2020 (Italy), 1st prize at the Melbourne Youth Orchestra Virtuosity Competition and a special prize at the J.S. Bach and Great Romantics Competition, both organized by the Melbourne Recital Centre.

She was a prize winner at the Tiroler Festspielhaus Erl Academy 2023 cello audition. She was an intern at the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover and had a temporary contract as a principal cellist with the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra.

Ji Woo loves interacting with other musicians who share the same passion and finds it exciting to share her own ideas and interpretations with other artists and the audience when she is on stage.