Redmond O’Toole is described by the Irish Times as “Ireland’s most distinctive guitarist”. He plays on an 8-string Brahms guitar and has been “Artist in Residence” at prestigious venues in Ireland such as the National Concert Hall and the National Opera House. In 2019 concert tours will take him to Finland, Germany and the USA. In April he will make his US solo debut at the renowned Rhode Island Guitar Festival.

As a former member of the Dublin Guitar Quartet, he has toured around the world and appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the BBC Ulster Orchestra and the Irish Baroque Orchestra. As a guitarist he accompanied the legendary Irish group “The Chieftains” on various tours.

O’Tooles repertoire includes the most important works of the classical guitar, which have been reworked for his 8-string guitar, as well as new arrangements and commissioned compositions. He has premiered works by internationally renowned composers such as Nico Muhly, Kevin Volans, Micheal Gordon and Ian Wilson and has collaborated with artists such as Raphael Wallfisch, Derek Gripper and the Vanburgh String Quartet.

In addition to his extensive concert programme, Redmond teaches at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and is a winner/award winner of the RDS Music Bursary and the Rising Star Award of the National Concert Hall.

The field of action of the percussionist Günter Bozem is very diversified. Born in 1965, he already played drums and percussion in jazz bands as a student. The studied professional musician and instrumental pedagogue (e.g. as lecturer at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory of the city of Mainz) has more often engagements at theatres and various musicals, e.g. at the Schauspiel Frankfurt at the musical “Hair” or for the production of “Cats” at the Luisenburg Theater.

He is a partner and co-founder of the “Blue Noises” label and has drummed and shaken all kinds of percussion and percussion instruments on numerous CD productions.

He is the author of a conga and percussion school. As a specialist for Odd-Meters he has been playing with the well-known Kurdish musician Mikail Aslan for years and is a permanent member of Paddy goes to Holyhead. He has also worked together with others: Emil Mangelsdorff, Vitold Rek, Clare Fischer, Phil Mattson, Gunter Hampel, Manolo Lohnes, Alfred Harth, Annemarie Roeloffs, Barbara Dennerlein, Manni von Bohr, Patrick Steinbach and Ron Williams.

Hello, my name’s Lou. I myself participated three times as a participant in the international music camp in Oberwesel (cello in Rockestra). Since 2015 I have been allowed to participate as a tutor.

Even outside the camp, I was able to gain some experience in working with children. I supervised children’s groups in various holiday play programmes and have been working as a substitute for the “Reliable School” since 2014. I am studying to become a teacher for the primary school (exam expected in autumn 2018) and hope to start my legal clerkship in May 2019.

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I study teaching for grammar schools with the subjects music and mathematics. In the main subject I study the viola, but I started playing the violin when I was 9 years old. My minor subject is piano. I also like to play the trumpet, clarinet and saxophone.

I have been part of the International Music Camps Oberwesel since 2009 and I have been a member of the IMC team since 2015. Since 2014 I have been secretary of the society.

I have experience in conducting string ensembles as well as string and wind classes. In addition, I work regularly in the holiday care of primary schools.

Frauke Preisler is a teacher of music and English at the Dreieichschule Langen. The Gymnasium is a school with a focus on music. There she has been conducting the string orchestra since 2004 and wind classes since 2005. In addition to the main focus of the wind classes in the 5/6 grade, she mainly teaches music in the upper grade. This experience led to her being appointed to the Music Commission of the HKM (Hessian Ministry of Culture) in 2011, which is responsible for the tasks of the Hessian Central Abitur in the field of music.

Since 2004, she has been a lecturer at the IMC String Camp (then still Pirazzi) and is one of the initiators of the wind camp. Together with Jon Diven she founded the Rockestra in 2007 and later took over the deputy camp management.

Her main instrument is the violin, but she also feels at home on the viola and double bass. As a “pure” string player, she studied wind instruments more intensively after her studies, took trombone lessons and, after completing her string class training, also completed the wind class training at the Academy for Music Pedagogy.

Dr. Markus Kiefer founded and organized the camp in 1999 and has been leading the annual summer week ever since. His basic idea has remained the same to this day: To offer children from string and brass classes, beginners and advanced instrumentalists a beautiful, exciting and musically profitable summer week.

After initial support from the Peter Pirazzi Foundation – which gave the camp its name – and under the auspices of the Academy for Music Education in Wiesbaden, the camp has been independent since 2011. The association “Internationale Musikcamps Oberwesel e.V.” is the organisational basis of the summer week. Parents, friends and alumni volunteer their time to help us organize the summer camp.

At the camp Markus Kiefer takes over the co-leadership of an orchestra and rehearses the common pieces of all participants for the concert on Friday.

Simon Gößling comes from Tübingen. At the age of five he was taught the recorder by his mother, at nine he began to play the piano. With the change to the grammar school he began to learn French horn with Peter Hoefs (HfM Stuttgart). During his school time he made trips abroad with various ensembles and took part in competitions. He won the German Orchestra Competition with the Symphony Orchestra and the Wind Orchestra, as well as various competitions with the Brass Ensemble. After graduating from high school, Simon Gößling began to study history in Tübingen. During this time he changed from horn to trombone.

From 1997 to 2002 he studied music for the teaching profession at grammar schools in Mainz. After completing his state examination, Simon Gößling studied trombone in Mannheim with Prof. Ehrhard Wetz. He completed his studies very successfully in 2004.

She lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. Music and dance have accompanied her since early childhood. Already during her secondary school years she began to teach this to young people.

Inspired by her older sister, she also received piano lessons at pre-school age. With the visit of the orchestra class of the Bettinagymnasium from the 5th school year the cello became her main instrument.

Since 2007 she has been teaching music as a primary school teacher and has gained extensive experience in leading school choirs, rhythm and dance groups for children and young people. She taught string classes at the Schumann primary school in Wiesbaden for several years.

Since 2004 she has been regularly working in the string camp and has been leading the elementary orchestra for several years.

I find children inventive and full of ideas. I am interested in getting to know each of them as a person of their own.

This goes very well through making music together.

It would be nice if your child came back from the brass camp encouraged and motivated. The sense of achievement lies in how “unhewn” sounds can begin to shine and how each individual with his instrument in the ensemble contributes to the formation of a sound body.

Music becomes an emotional experience.

I am at your disposal to accompany solo works from the piano as well as to supervise duos/trios and quartets. The corresponding sheet music may be sent to me beforehand.