Michael David Dan wurde 1980 in eine Musikerfamilie in Rumänien hineingeboren. Ein früher Klavierunterricht und die aktive Mitwirkung in der lokalen Konzert- und Kirchenmusikszene prägten sein Leben. Mit dem Wechsel zum Musikkonservatorium in Budapest kam die Orgel als zweites Hauptfachinstrument hinzu. Er absolvierte anschließend ein Orgel-, Tonmeister- und Klavierstudium an der Universität der Künste Berlin; 2008 schloss er sein Orgel-Konzertexamen mit Auszeichnung ab.

Anschließend an das Studium trat Michael David Dan seine erste Kirchenmusikerstelle in Florø (Norwegen) an, 2012 entschied er sich, mit seiner Familie wieder nach Deutschland zu kehren.

Nach einem Jahr in Kaltenkirchen (Holst.) studiert Michael David Dan Kirchenmusik an der Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Tübingen, welches er 2018 mit Masterabschluss erfolgreich beendete.

Michael David Dan ist seit 1996 mit dem Brüderensemble TrioDan in vielen Ländern Europas über 600mal aufgetreten. Das TrioDan hat mehrere CDs eingespielt. Darüber hinaus ist Michael David Dan als Pianist, Organist, Dirigent, Arrangeur und Korrepetitor vieler namhafter Ensembles, Chören und Orchester aktiv.

Michael David Dan wohnt seit 2012 in Tübingen zusammen mit seiner Ehefrau Dorothea und deren gemeinsamen fünf Söhnen.

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Michael Miensopust is a director, actor and author.
He comes from Kiel and has directed at theaters in Salzburg, Zurich, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Baden-Baden, Wiesbaden, Heilbronn and Tübingen, among others, as well as realizing productions abroad.
He was artistic director at the Junges Theater Heilbronn and until 2018 of the Junges LTT at the Landestheater Tübingen.
He develops his own acting solos and other independent theater productions, writes theater texts and screenplays and has already directed two television feature films.
Modern, lively and diverse theater for young audiences is at the heart of his artistic work, alongside productions for adults.
His productions have been invited to Brazil, the USA, Iran, Myanmar, Japan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Angola, among others.

Friedamaria Wallbrecher initially studied music for teaching at grammar schools at the Munich University of Music, majoring in viola. She received her vocal training from Susanne Bernhard and Stanislava Stoytcheva. She has been a member of the Munich Philharmonic Choir and the vocal chapel of the Theatinerkirche (formerly the royal court chapel) since 2012. Since 2013 she has sung et al. in the concert choir of the Bavarian Radio Choir and in the opera choir of the Munich State Opera (including in 2019 the “Missa Solemnis” by L. v. Beethoven under Kirill Petrenko). In 2016, she went on several tours with Enoch zu Guttenberg to China, South Korea, Canada and the USA, et al. to Carnegie Hall. Friedamaria Wallbrecher performs regularly as a soloist. In 2022, she toured Bavaria with the Yara Ensemble and performed both the Christmas Oratorio and, at Easter 2023, the St. John Passion by J.S. Bach as a soloist. In February 2023, she performed a cabaret program with the Munich Philharmonic’s jazz quartet Ilona Cudek. Friedamaria Wallbrecher loves musical diversity and has regularly performed in world premieres of experimental contemporary music as part of the “Ascending voices” concert series since 2015. She founded the vocal octet “Voxonans” in 2020 and has also been a member of the barbershop quartet “Time4Tunes” and the Chilean-German band “Fronteras Dispersas” since 2016.

Kristina Pfeffer studied piano at the Tallinn Nõmme Music School and music theory at the Georg Ots Music College, where she also began playing the organ with Kristel Aer. In 2012, she completed her studies in business law at the Tallinn University of Technology. She also studied organ and composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Drama in the class of Prof. Andres Uibo from 2010 to 2016 and spent a year abroad in the class of Prof. Hartmut Rohmeyer in Lübeck. She took organ lessons with Echo Klassik award-winning organist Prof. Christian Schmitt in Stuttgart.
Kristina Pfeffer took part in master classes with Guy Bovet, Michael Radulescu, Edouard Oganessian, Peter van Dijk, Martin Sander, Alexey Schmitov etc. She is also active as a composer, has published many of her compositions and won the Composition Prize awarded by the Estonian Society of Church Music in 2013.
Kristina Pfeffer worked as a teacher of music theory and ear training at the Tallinn Lasnamäe Music School and as an organist at the Protestant church in Keila. She was also the concert organist at St. Nicholas Church in Tallinn. She regularly plays concerts in Estonia, Germany, Belgium, Latvia and Switzerland. She frequently performs at major festivals such as the Tallinn International Organ Festival, BachFest Tallinn, Tübinger Orgelsommer, SICG Stuttgart and the Antwerp International Organ Festival.
She works as an organist at the Waldkirche and Gedächtniskirche in Stuttgart. Since October 2022, she has been studying for a Master’s degree in Church Music at the Tübingen University of Church Music.
Since January 2021, she has been directing the pop choir “Cocktail Vocale” in Sindelfingen and from September 2021
she took over the direction of the Sickenhausen/Degerschlacht church choir (Reutlingen).

After her successful apprenticeship as a men’s tailor at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, Eva Winter studied costume and set design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and graduated with a Master of Arts degree.
She then worked at numerous national theaters such as the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Residenztheater Munich, Oper Frankfurt and gained international experience working at the Grand Theatre du Geneve, Opera National de Paris, Teatro Real Madrid, among others with renowned stage designers such as Anna Viebrock and Herbert Murauer.