Johannes Wendel began playing the violin at the age of five. After attending the music-focused high school »Schloss Belvedere« in Weimar, he first completed his Bachelor's degree with Liviu Casleanu at the Mainz University of Music and afterwards his Master's degree with Prof. Andreas Lehmann at the »Franz Liszt« University of Music in Weimar. He is currently studying in the Master’s program for Chamber Music at the Folkwang Universität der Künste with Prof. Thomas Hoppe. He has also received important artistic inspiration from Günter Pichler, Eberhard Feltz, Konstantin Heidrich, Sebastian Schmidt and Florian Schötz.

Johannes Wendel has won prizes at international and national competitions and has received scholarships from renowned institutions such as the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, the Erich Bachmann Foundation, the Lions Club Pirmasens, the City of Pirmasens, the Walter Kaminsky Foundation, the Friends of Young Musicians and the “musica aeterna” foundation of the Frankfurter Sparkasse.

His versatile concert activities include engagements throughout Germany and abroad, including as a founding member of the Davidoff Trio. He has worked as principal section leader, assistant section leader and tutti player in renowned orchestras such as the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Hamburg, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz. Additionally, he regularly teaches as a lecturer for the violin sections of the State Youth Orchestras of Rheinland-Pfalz and Hessen.

Johannes plays a violin by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris, 1861), which has been generously made available to him from private ownership.

Christoph Lamprecht received cello lessons from the age of six. He completed his Bachelor’s degree at the Mainz University of Music in the class of Prof. Manuel Fischer-Dieskau. He then completed his Master’s degree at the Basel Music Academy with Prof. Thomas Demenga with distinction and concluded his soloist training there with a Master’s degree in Specialized Soloist Performance. He is currently continuing his education in the Master’s program for Chamber Music at the Folkwang Universität der Künste with Prof. Thomas Hoppe. He has also received important musical impulses from Walter Grimmer, Christoph Poppen, Eberhard Feltz and Günter Pichler, among others.

As a soloist, most recently with the Basel Symphony Orchestra, and as a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Davidoff Trio, he regularly performs throughout Germany and abroad. During his studies, he obtained a temporary contract as assistant principal cellist at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and has been a permanent member of the Meininger Hofkapelle in the same position since the 2022/23 season. He passes on his orchestral experience to young musicians as a sought-after lecturer at the State Youth Orchestras of Hessen and Rheinland-Pfalz.

Christoph Lamprecht currently plays a violoncello by N. F. Vuillaume from 1860, which has kindly been made available to him as a generous loan from Daniel Geiss.

Yona Sophia Jutzi began her piano lessons at the age of six and initially studied at the Peter-Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz as well as at the Moores School of Music in Houston, Texas. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in piano under the guidance of Prof. Thomas Hell and Prof. Sae-Nal Lea Kim. She is currently continuing her studies in the Meisterklasse program with Prof. Boris Kusnezow at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig as well as in the Master’s program for Chamber Music with Prof. Thomas Hoppe at the Folkwang Universität der Künste. She has also received musical inspiration from Elisabeth Leonskaja, Alfred Brendel, Günter Pichler and Eberhard Feltz, among others.

The pianist has won prizes at various competitions and is supported by the Deutschlandstipendium, the Walter Kaminsky Foundation and the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed in Germany and abroad in renowned concert halls, including the Konzerthaus Berlin, and at international music festivals such as the Musikdorf Ernen Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Brixen Classics Festival. Recordings of her performances have been broadcast internationally several times.

In addition to her work as a chamber musician, Yona Sophia Jutzi is the founder and artistic director of the innovative concert series “Konzerte im Nirgendwo” in Mainz, supported among others by the #MusikerZukunft scholarship of the Deutsche Orchesterstiftung.

The name Davidoff Trio refers to the first work the ensemble prepared together: in 1894, Anton Arensky dedicated his First Piano Trio to the memory of the great cellist and composer Carl Davidoff (1838–1889). This music and the process of founding the ensemble are so closely connected that, in a way, the three musicians owe their coming together to the passing of the cello virtuoso whose name they now proudly bear.