The artistic director, Werner Ehrhardt

• studied under Prof. Franz Josef Maier,
  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 worked with such soloists as Daniel Hope,
  Magdalena Kozena, Barbara Hendricks, Christine Schäfer,
  Eva Mei, Andreas Scholl, Olli Mustonen, Christiane Oelze,
  and Thomas Zehetmair
• 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