The artistic director, Werner Ehrhardt

• studied under Sigiswald Kuijken (Brussels),
  Professor Karl-Heinz Bloemeke (Detmold),
  and Kato Havas (Oxford)
• has conducted the world-famous
  Concerto Köln Chamber Orchestra
  from 1985 to 2005
• has given guest performances with
  international opera, symphonic, and chamber orchestras,
  such as the Orchestra of the State Opera in Stuttgart,
  the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra,
  the Bern Symphony Orchestra,
  the Hamburg Symphony, Capriccio Basel,
  the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra,
  and the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève
• has worked with such soloists as
  Daniel Hope, Magdalena Kozena, Barbara Hendricks,
  Christine Schäfer, Eva Mei, Andreas Scholl,
  Olli Mustonen, Christiane Oelze, and Thomas Zehetmair