Kerstin Reinboth belongs to a young generation of musicians that focus on the interpretation of music from eras with historical instruments. At first, she wanted to become a physicist like her parents but, shortly before finishing high school, she combined her classes with violin studies at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin. She graduated in modern violin in 2005 and specialised in her field as a student of Sigiswald Kuijken in Brussels, whereupon she completed her studies cum laude in 2008.
In the same year, she founded the violin consort RinascitaConsort, where she also works as an art director and with which she succeeded in qualifying for the International Young Artist's Presentation in the ensemble's year of foundation, what earned the group a praiseworthy mention from an international jury of specialists. In addition, she plays a repertoire from the 17th and 18th centuries in the up-and-coming international group Concerto Zanni.
She has shown her talent as a guest musician in Germany and other European countries among others with ensembles such as Leipziger Concert, Merseburger Hofmusik, Academia Montis Regalis, Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Concerto Sacro, Octopus Barockorkest at the concert hall Leipziger Gewandhaus and the festivals Bachfest Leipzig, MDR Musiksommer, Renaissancefestival Wittenberg and the Centropalia Festival. She has also participated in CD productions for the labels Hyperion and BIS as well as in radio productions for the German broadcasting companies Mitteldeldeutscher Runfunk and Bayerischer Rundfunk. Kerstin has gathered valuable experiences at masterclasses, courses and orchestra projects with Christine Busch, Stanley Ritchie, Mira Glodeanu, Hélène Houzel, Amandine Beyer, Alessandro de Marchi, Barthold Kuijken, and Enrico Onofri.
Kerstin has collaborated with Thuon Burtevitz on the composition Raba in Sard ... for violin and prepared piano, which was awarded the renowned Stuttgart Composition Prize (Stuttgarter Kompositionspreis) in 2008. For the project “Musica Nova” she asked for compositions from Thuon Burtevitz, Robert Rehning and Cecilia Arditto for RinascitaConsort.
Both in 2008 and 2009 Kerstin has received scholarships from the Academia Montis Regalis (Italy). She lives in Leipzig and Brussels and plays, among others, replicas from original instruments from Jacobus Stainer (1678) and Andrea Amati (1566). She also loves and plays viola. Her experience is complemented by performances as contralto in various choir projects, vocal lessons taught by Marek Rzepka and Anja Lipfert, improvisation studies with Martin Erhardt and Jean Tubery.
Anne Kaun, born in 1986, grew up in Berlin. At the age of 7 she got her first violin lesson, later she changed as a junior student for the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler to get lessons from Prof. Michael Vogler. However after school she began to study medicine in Leipzig. Despite she kept being exalted and interested in music, especially “ancient music”. Therefore she took classes with Georg Kallweit (concertmaster of Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin). In 2009 she finally began to study the baroque violin at the HMT Leipzig with Susanne Scholz.
Marie Catherine Cumps was born in 1986 in Antwerp. Grown up in a musicians family with a clear preference for early music, she became familiar with renaissance and baroque music when she was still very young. At the age of 8, she started to play violin with Jorien Van Tuinen and later with Els Sykora, both also baroque violinists. When she was 11, she got a baroque violin to play a Clérambault cantata with musical friends from her parents.
At the Rudolf Steiner school in Antwerp, where she was educated, the music lessons were given by Jan Melaerts who is also very active in early music and who asked her to play with him in the Melisma Consort during a concert of his choir Melpomene. At the age of 14 she played some sacral works and madrigals of Monteverdi with the chamber choir Camerata Vocale directed by Philippe De Clerck. From the age of 15 on she played regularly in baroque opera projects (youth summer courses organized by Muziektheater Transparant) where the music was directed by Marcin Lasia, Jan Van Outryve, Ayala Sicron and Thomas Baeté. Before going to the conservatory, she followed baroque violin lessons with Stéphanie de Failly during one year and also with Marcin Lasia.
Since 2007 Marie Catherine Cumps is studying baroque violin at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in the classes of Mira Glodeanu and Benoit Douchy. She participatet at masterclasses with Stefano Montanari and Elisa Citterio in Urbino. She played with ensembles as La Cetra d'Orfeo (directed by Michel Keustermans) and Concerto Sacro (directed by Gregor Meyer).
Julia Saretz was born in 1982 in Torgau/Germany. As her parents are both musicians, she early came in contact with music. At the age of 6 she started to play violin and also piano playing and choir singing were part of her musical education.
From 1997 to 1999 she studied violin in Leipzig with Constanze Beyer, the concertmaster of the Leipziger Barockorchester. In 1999 she started to play the viola, first with Stefan Fehlandt (Berlin) and since September 2000 at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig with Tatjana Masurenko and Klaus Schwenke. After finishing her viola studies she studied music science at the University of Leipzig.
Already during her studies she became interested in Historical Performance Practice. She worked together with Amici musicae, a specialised ensemble in Repertoire of Baroquemusic with singers and instrumentalists, and with the Baroque Orchestra Musica Lipa. She was part of several music projects with students from the Baroque Department of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig and she was also involved in chamber music with violinist Bernhard Forck (Berlin) and the Forck Ensemble. Last but not least Julia is playing the Kontrabass in a Jazzband.
Since july 2009 Julia works as a manager for the well known ensemble "Akademie für Alter Musik" in Berlin.
Isolde Winter started playing the violoncello at the age of 7. Early in her youth while being a junior student in Berlin she startet to be interested in Early Music. Since 2001 she is engaged intensively with Historical Performance Practise. She has studied baroque cello in the European centres of Early Music like Basel and The Hague with Christophe Coin, Petr Skalka and Jaap ter Linden. At that time she has also got her pedagogical education.
Isolde Winter finished her advanced studies with Peter Hörr at the Music High School in Leipzig with the "concert exam" in Mai 2009. She plays in different ensembles like Merseburger Hofmusik, Musica Lipa, LeipzigBarock, Private Musick and others. In 2008 she got a scholarship by the Italian baroque orchestra Academia Montis Regalis. Masterclasses with well known artists like Freiburger Barockorchester, Phoebe Carrai, Reinhard Goebel and others have given her further impulses.
