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Xavier de Maistre is one of the leading harpists of today and a deeply creative musician. As a passionate advocate for his instrument, he has expanded the harp repertoire and commissioned new works from composers. He also creates transcriptions of significant instrumental repertoire. He is regularly invited by top-tier orchestras from around the world and has appeared at many prestigious festivals, including the Rheingau Festival, Salzburg Festival, Vienna Festival Weeks, Verbier, Budapest Spring Festival, Würzburg Mozart Festival, and Mostly Mozart in New York. De Maistre has been an exclusive artist with Sony Music since 2008. Recent releases include, among others, a DVD with Diana Damrau, his transcription of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major, K. 459, with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg conducted by Ivor Bolton, Moldau (2015), and La Harpe Reine (2016). Born in Toulon, the artist studied harp with Vassilia Briano at the local conservatory and honed his technique with Catherine Michel and Jacqueline Borot in Paris. He also studied at Sciences-Po Paris and the London School of Economics. In 1998, de Maistre won first prize (along with two performance prizes) at the prestigious USA International Harp Competition (Bloomington) and, in the same year, became the first French musician to join the Vienna Philharmonic. Since 2001, he has been teaching at the Hamburg University of Music.

Lise Berthaud is unanimously praised as an outstanding personality in the international music scene. She has performed in some of the world's most prestigious concert halls (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Elbphilharmonie, Musikverein, Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, etc.) alongside artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Baiba Skride, Julian Steckel, Daishin Kashimoto, Eric Le Sage, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and Emmanuel Pahud. As a soloist, Lise has performed with all of the BBC orchestras, including her BBC Proms debut in 2014 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Litton. Other solo engagements have taken her to the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Orchestre National de Lyon, les Musiciens du Louvre, Wroclaw Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, working with conductors such as Sakari Oramo, Fabien Gabel, Emmanuel Krivine, Andrew Litton, François Leleux, Paul McCreesh, Marc Minkowski, and Leonard Slatkin. The latter invited Lise to perform and record Harold in Italy with the Orchestre National de Lyon as part of the orchestra's complete Berlioz recording for Naxos. Born in 1982, Lise Berthaud began her violin studies at the age of five. She studied with Gérard Caussé at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and was awarded a prize at the European Competition for Young Instrumentalists in 2000. In 2005, she won the Hindemith Prize. She was nominated as "Révélation de l'Année" (Newcomer of the Year) by the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2009.

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Magali Mosnier has been Section Principal at the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France since 2003. After she won the Rampal Competition in Paris (2001) and she was awarded the First Prize and the Audience Prize at the prestigious Munich ARD competition (2004), Magali Mosnier has established herself as one of the most exciting and sought after flautists worldwide. In 2006 she was awarded the German Klassiche Echo for Most Promising Artist and nominated twice for Soloist of the Year at the french Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2016 and 2020. As a soloist, Magali Mosnier has recorded four albums for Sony Classical: Fantaisie, Bach, Mozart and Mozart double concerto with Xavier De Maistre. She also contributed to several chamber music recordings dedicated to Ravel, Dutilleux, Jacques Lenot, Laurent Lefrançois... and recently the Debussy Sonata together with Xavier De Maistre and Antoine Tamestit for Harmonia Mundi (2018). Alongside her activities as a performer, Magali has always been involved in teaching and transmission. After two years at the HEMU Lausanne, she has been a professor at the CRR de Paris for eight years. She also regularly gives masterclasses worldwide and participates in juries for prestigious competitions such as the ARD in Munich or the Geneva Competition. Magali Mosnier is represented by Konzertdirektion Dr. Rudolf Goette Hamburg.

Specialising in German Expressionist and Classical Modernist works on paper, Thole Rotermund Kunsthandel has been one of the leading contacts for collectors throughout Europe in this field for over 20 years. The focus is on important artists of the early 20th century: August Macke, Franz Marc, Paul Klee, Alexej von Jawlensky, Lyonel Feininger, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde and others. But the abstract tendencies of early post-war art, such as Ernst Wilhelm Nay and Eduard Bargheer, are also represented. Contemporary art is not normally the focus of the Hamburg paper experts, but when it comes to the passion for this special medium, extraordinary collaborations are possible. In the gallery on the EUROPA 2, Thole Rotermund Kunsthandel presents the Berlin artist and paper lover Peer Kriesel, who uses ‘designed’ print products that have become obsolete in their original form as painting surfaces for his exciting overpaintings.

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Dr Regelind Heimann grew up in a very art-loving family. A study visit to Florence shortly after leaving school was the initial spark: she studied art history and history in Göttingen and Berlin and completed numerous internships in important German collections - including the Berlin National Gallery and the Dresden Art Collections - always with an eye on the art market. Following her doctorate (2006-2009), funded by a Gerda Henkel scholarship, with a thesis on the Berlin Oriental painter Wilhelm Gentz, Regelind Heimann worked as a trainee at the Hauswedell & Nolte auction house in Hamburg. Since March 2010, she has been an expert in modern art at Thole Rotermund Kunsthandel, where she is responsible for provenance research, exhibitions and fairs as well as scientific documentation.