Sachiko Hara grew up in Fukuoka, Japan. She studied piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. In addition to the classical repertoire she devotes herself to contemporary music and she has often been a guest performer with renowned ensembles. She performed in several theater pieces directed by Johan Simons and with music by Carl Oesterhelt at the Münchener Kammerspiele.

She received the City of Munich's "Sponsorship Award for Music" in 2009.

Johannes Öllinger performs as a soloist and chamber music musician in ensembles, orchestras, and music theater productions. His main instruments are the acoustic and electric guitars, and he also plays banjo, theorbo, and electric bass guitar. Öllinger's spectrum ranges from early music on ancient and modern instruments to the classical guitar repertoire to contemporary music in diverse variations. As a soloist he has performed concerts at Laeiszhalle in Hamburg; Prinzregententheater in Munich; Konzerthaus Wien in Vienna; and at the Salzburg Festival. As part of "steuber.öllinger," a guitar duo specializing in contemporary music, he has been a guest performer at festivals in Germany; Poland; and the U.S. He performs regularly with ensembles such as Resonanz; musikFabrik NRW; Ensemble Modern Orchestra; and with the orchestras Staatsorchester Stuttgart and the symphony orchestra of the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. He has been a guest performer and musician at theaters in Berlin; Vienna; Hamburg; Frankfurt; and Düsseldorf, and he has worked with the directors Anna Malunat and Florentine Klepper.

Hans-Henning Ginzel (b. 1988) is a composer and cellist. He has won several national instrumental competitions and received numerous grants and sponsorship awards, among others, from the City of Munich. He studied violoncello under Professor Helmar Stiehler at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, and also under Professor Iagoba Fanlo at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música in Madrid. Ginzel is the founder of the Arcis Cello Quartett and a cellist in the ensemble Breakout. Ginzel traveled to Taiwan on his first tour through Asia in 2015. That same year M Music Records also released his CD "ASTURIAS" with the Arcis Cello Quartett. Ginzel received his first instruction in composition from Dieter Acker, and he studied composition under Jan Müller-Wieland in Munich. As a cellist and composer he has worked with, among others, the Arditti Quartett; Ian Pace; Ensemble Plural (Madrid); Salome Kammer; Holger Falk; and Markus Wolf. Ginzel has received several international awards, such as, for example, First Prize in the Harald Genzmer Composition Competition; the Special Award of the 9^th New Composition Competition Chengdu (China); and First Prize in the Hugo Wolf Akademie composition competition. Ginzel participates in numerous festivals, for example EVIMUS (Saarbrücken); Grafenegg (Austria); the festival of the Hugo Wolf Akademie (Stuttgart); and the aDevantgarde Festival (Munich). His works are performed on international stages.

Thomas Hastreiter is recognised internationally as a percussionist. Appearances as a chamber and orchestral musician have taken him to the main concert halls of Europe, North America and Australia. He has performed at prestigious festivals including Lucerne Festival and Aix-en-provence Festival. He has worked with conductors such as Kyrill Petrenko, Christoph Eschenbach, Kent Nagano and Alan Gilbert.

Since 2010 Thomas Hastreiter is a lecturer at the Leopold-Mozart Centre University in Augsburg. He studied at the Hochschule Nürnberg-Augsburg under the tuition of Stefan Blum, Jörg Hannabach, Guido Rückel and Thomas Höfs.

The foundation of the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR by the conductor Ralf Ludewig demonstrates how he rose to the challenge of realizing a long term dream he and many friends of music and culture in Munich have in common: a top level boys’ choir whose very name epitomizes the rich variety of culture the Bavarian state capital continues to offer.In the past citizens and representatives of the City of Munich frequently approached the then Music Director of the Tölzer Knabenchor and announced their wish to see a new name in the music world, one that would signal to all just how success, quality and fame can be attributed to a boys‘ choir comprising Munich’s own children – the City of Munich has, after all, a child in its famous coat of arms.Inspired by these requests Ralf Ludewig decided to establish a choir of his own. Many boys were inspired by this idea of a new musical adventure and followed their long time choir leader, supporting him in forming a new choir that would be associated with music-making of the highest level.Within a very short time, the new choir had been engaged for several productions in renowned theaters, including performances in the famous Magic Flute; or as we know it in Europe Die Zauberflöte.As the Music Director of the Tölzer Knabenchor for over five years, Ralf Ludewig shouldered the musical responsibility for the renowned choir which, under his leadership from 2009 to 2014, established an impressive track record.

Ralf Ludewig is responsible as Artistic Director of the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR. He was Artistic Director and Managing Director of the Tölzer Knabenchor for many years before founding his own choir in September 2014.

1974-1981 Vocal coach with the Tölzer Knabenchor
1979-1981 Performances as treble soloist under Herbert v. Karajan, Claudio Abbado and Nikolaus Harnoncourt et al. in many renowned opera and concert halls
1989-1994 Musical studies in Osnabrück and Amsterdam, including voice, conductiong and music pedagogy, Development of the Bach Ensemble for Early Music in Holland, Bass soloist for oratorios and song recitals, Winner of various song contests
1994-1997 Training as a certified speech therapist, focus on functional and neurological voice malfunctions, research in the voice as an instrument
1997-2002 Owner of two speech therapy practices
1996-2002 Vocal coach and choirmaster with several music schools in the North of Germany, Choirmaster with various youth and adult choirs
2002-2009 Vocal coach and choirmaster with the Tölzer Knabenchor
2009-2014 Artistic Director and Managing Director of the Tölzer Knabenchor
2013 Winner of the French Diapason d’Or for Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem co-conducted with Mariss Jansons