about
The Davidoff Trio was founded in january 2021 at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz and is supported by regular chamber music lessons with Prof. Boris Kusnezow (HMT Leipzig), Prof. Thomas Demenga (Musikakademie Basel) and Prof. Andreas Lehmann (HfM Weimar). Coaching sessions with Emanuel Wehse (Morgenstern Trio) as well as the Ensemble Modern complement the chamber music training of the young musicians.
In April 2021, the trio was chosen as one of the winning ensembles of the chamber music competition "Kammer? Musik!" by the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and was selected in September 2021 for a concert and study residency in San Ginesio (Italy), also sponsored by the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and Mr. Eckart Sachse. In addition, the Davidoff Trio is a laureate of the “Orpheus Chamber Music Competition” 2021 (Fribourg, CH) as well as a finalist of the international chamber music competition "Premio Amici della Musica di Verona".
The young musicians gave their debut concert in March 2021 at the Landesmusikakademie Rheinland-Pfalz in Neuwied. In addition to further concerts in various cities in Germany, invitations to recitals in Italy and Switzerland have already followed, among others to the Festival Musikdorf Ernen, the Chamber Music Festival Adelboden and the Brixen Classics Festival. Concert recordings of the Davidoff Trio have already been broadcast internationally on the radio several times, most recently on SRF-Kultur. Starting in the winter semester 2023/24, the trio will study in the Master Chamber Music program with Prof. Thomas Hoppe at Folkwang Universität der Künste.
johannes wendel
Johannes Wendel started playing the violin at the age of 5. After finishing high school at the Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere Weimar, he completed his Bachelor's degree with the best possible grade under Liviu Casleanu at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz. He is currently studying for a master's degree with Prof. Andreas Lehmann at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt" Weimar.
As an orchestral musician the young violinist has been a permanent member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and was already engaged as a temporary substitute in the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra Hamburg, State Orchestra Kassel and most recently became part of the 1st violin section in the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart on a temporary contract. In his musical career he has received several prizes at the German Youth Music Competition ‚Jugend Musiziert‘, as well as scholarships from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation of Commerzbank Frankfurt, Erich Bachmann Foundation, Lions Club Pirmasens and the City of Pirmasens. Concerts have already taken him to various countries around the world, including the United States of America, South Africa, Switzerland, France, Italy and Romania, as well as to renowned concert halls in Germany, such as Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Berlin Philharmonie and Cologne Philharmonie.
christoph lamprecht
Christoph Lamprecht received cello lessons from the age of 7. He completed his bachelor's degree at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz in the class of Prof. Manuel Fischer- Dieskau. In March 2021 he graduated with distinction with a master's degree from the Musikakademie Basel under Prof. Thomas Demenga and is currently continuing his education there with the Specialized Soloist Performance master’s degree program. He received important musical impulses at master classes with Prof. Walter Grimmer, Prof. Christoph Poppen and Prof. Hariolf Schlichtig, among others.
Christoph Lamprecht also is a multiple prize winner at Jugend musiziert, a member of the scholarship academy of the Neumeyer Consort for Early Music and was awarded the cultural promotion prize of the Rotary Club Mainz. In the 2020/21 season he was engaged as deputy principal cellist at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and currently holds the same position at the Staatstheater Meiningen.
yona sophia jutzi
Yona Sophia Jutzi received her first piano lessons at the age of six and was taught at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz and the Moores School of Music (Houston, Texas). She completed her Bachelor's degree at the Hochschule fьr Musik Mainz in the class of Prof. Thomas Hell, where she also continued her master degree studies with Prof. Sae-Nal Lea Kim. Currently she is studying for a master’s degree in chamber music at the Hochschule fьr Musik und Theater Leipzig with Prof. Boris Kusnezow.
The pianist is a multiple prize winner of various competitions, most recently in 2020 she was awarded the 1st Young Talent Award from the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and received scholarships from the federal ministry of education and research as well as the Walter- Kaminsky Foundation.
Yona Sophia Jutzi participated in master classes with Valentin Erben (Alban Berg Quartet) and Alfred Brendel, among others. She has performed both as a soloist and as a chamber musician in Germany and abroad, including France, Italy, Finland and Switzerland.