Formed from the Camerata Aquisgrana in 2019, the Euregio Chamber Orchestra plays a leading role in the cultural life of the Eifel region as a professional orchestra made up of graduates and students from music universities in NRW. Numerous members have won prizes at international music competitions and perform as soloists at home and abroad.  In addition, the members of the Euregio Chamber Orchestra are also active in German and international state orchestras like Aachen State Symphony Orchestra, Bonn Beethoven Orchestra, Stockholm State Opera Orchestra, Essen Philharmonic Orchestra or Warschau Philharmonic Orchestra. With the flood disaster in 2021, the Euregio Chamber Orchestra decided to take on a role as a cultural driving force for the affected flood areas. Our musicians want to use music to encourage those affected. They will therefore perform numerous concerts in the districts of Heinsberg, Düren, Aachen and Euskirchen. With virtuoso playing, a balanced ensemble sound and interpretative sovereignty, the chamber orchestra stands for outstanding quality. As musical director of the chamber orchestra, renowned guest conductors from Germany and abroad such as Conrad van Alphen (Sinfonia Rotterdam), Alfredo Oyaguez Montero, Marek Stilic and Björn Wiede  have been recruited.

KONSTANTIN ILIEVSKY is a conductor, piano player and a composer.

He comes from a Bulgarian family of famous musicians. He started studying piano at the age of 5 with Prof. Milena Kurteva in Sofia, and from the age of 14 continued his studies in Bratislava (Slovakia) under  Prof. Peter Čerman. Ilievsky has won several international piano competitions and participated in masterclasses with renowned pianists such as Prof. Eugen Indjic, Prof. Peter Topperzer, Prof. Marián Lapšanský, Prof. Lee Kum Xing and others. During his studies in Bratislava, he worked with the orchestra and choir at the Bratislava Conservatory and graduated summa cum laude from the classes in orchestral and choral conducting of Prof. Zdeněk Bílek and Prof. Dušan Bill. Later on, he completed his studies at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts, where he studied composition under Prof. Detlev Müller-Siemens and orchestral conducting under Prof. Uroš Lajovic. In Vienna, Ilievsky participated in prestigious masterclasses in conducting, with renowned conductors and orchestras such as Bertrand de Billy with the Webern Symphonietta Wien; Prof. Ralf Weikert with the Vienna Pro Arte Orchestra, and Daniel Harding with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.

 

In 2010, Ilievsky was part of the jury of the International Composition Competition “Artistes en Herbe” in Luxembourg and became an honorary member of the international Armenian organization “AGBU” for outstanding musical achievements. In 2011, his book The Composer as an Interpreter of His Own Perception of the World was released by Dr. Müller Publishers.

 

In 2012 he was nominated for the prestigious Crystal Lyre Award and participated in the 200th anniversary season of the Geselschaft der Musikfreunde Wien, giving a concert at the Musikverein Vienna with the Wiener Concert Verein (Chamber Orchestra of the Wiener Symphoniker). In 2013, he was selected as one of the 20 participants in the finals of the renowned 53rd Young Conductors Competition in Besançon, France with the Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté.

 

Between 2014 and 2020, Konstantin Ilievsky was chief artistic director of the Dianopolis Chamber Orchestra in Yambol, Bulgaria. From 2015 to 2019 he also worked as a Director of the Golden Diana music festivities in Yambol and as lecturer at the Bratislava Conservatory. In 2016 he became conductor of the Sliven Symphony Orchestra as well; he also successfully debuted with the Slovak Philharmonic in the concert hall Reduta – Bratislava.

 

Since 2017 he has been regularly recording with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio, in 2018 he was awarded the Crystal Lyre in the category “conductor” by the SBMTD for their joint performance. He conducted in Bratislava the official concert on the occasion of the Bulgarian EU Presidency with soloist Svetlin Roussev (violin) and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. At the beginning of 2019 Konstantin Ilievsky conducted the first ever concert tour of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in China, and in the summer of the same year he recorded a CD with the chamber orchestra Dianopolis. Together with that orchestra he led, he was again awarded the Crystal Lyre for 2019. Since 2020 he has also been conductor of the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava). In 2021, he was composer-in-residence of the Proxima Ensemble (Bratislava). Since 2022 Konstantin Ilievsky has been a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. As a guest conductor or soloist he has worked with a number of renowned European orchestras, including many Bulgarian ensembles, with the China National Symphony Orchestra (Ningbo).

 

As a pianist, he is a frequent soloist with various orchestras in Europe, regularly giving solo and chamber concerts. As a composer, he has written solo, chamber, concerto and symphonic works which have been performed in various countries throughout Europe and the USA by prestigious contemporary music ensembles or orchestras. He has participated in numerous international festivals and worked with renowned world-class soloists. He has recorded for major radio and television companies in Bulgaria, Austria and Slovakia, and records regularly with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) and the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra.

 

At only 17 years of age Konstantin Ilievsky founded the Sinfonietta dell’Arte in Bratislava, of which he is still the General Musical Director, Chief Conductor and Artistic Director. Musicians from all continents have played in it. Sinfonietta dell’Arte has established itself over the last 20 years as a professional orchestra, with successful and regular tours in Austria, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Germany.

 

A special place in Konstantin Ilievsky’s activity is occupied by his work with chamber ensembles, such as string orchestras and ensembles for contemporary or early music. The development of concert repertoire for such ensembles features regularly in his concert schedule, for example with the Hilaris Chamber Orchestra (Bratislava), the professional Bratislava Vocal Consort Chamber Choir, the Sinfonietta dell’Arte Chamber Orchestra and its ensemble for contemporary music, in collaboration with the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

les Olivieri-Munroe regularly appears with major orchestras and opera houses throughout the world including the Israel Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Royal Brussels Philharmonic and others. Equally at home in the opera house, Olivieri-Munroe has appeared at the Sydney Opera, Berlin Opera, Frankfurt Alte-Oper, Hong Kong Opera, Prague National Theatre, and Venice Teatro Fenice. Born in Malta, Charles Olivieri-Munroe grew up in Canada where he studied the piano with the eminent pedagogue Boris Berlin at the Royal Conservatory of Music and at the University of Toronto.  Following his graduation in 1992 he won three Canadian government scholarships to study with Otakar Trhlik in Czechoslovakia at the Janacek Academy of Music in Brno. His international career was launched when he won the  First Prize in the 2000 Prague Spring International Music Festival Conducting Competition.

Czech conductor Marek Štilec is known as an interpreter of Classical orchestral repertoire and is a specialist in Czech Romantic and contemporary music. He has collaborated with orchestras the world over, including the New World Symphony, Ulster Orchestra, London Classical Soloists, Orchestra of the Swan, Berlin Camerata, Kammerphilharmonie Graz and Sinfonietta Bratislava. A prolific recording artist, he has made over 30 albums for labels including Naxos, ArcoDiva, cpo and Supraphon. In the field of historically informed performance Štilec has collaborated with ensembles including Czech Ensemble Baroque and Ensemble 18+. He is also the founder of the Wranitzky Kapelle and artistic director of Academy Prague Mannheim with Das Kurpfälzische Kammerorchester Mannheim. He attended the masterclasses of conductor Leonid Grin at the International Järvi Academy for Conducting, and has also taken masterclasses with Michael Tilson Thomas, Jorma Panula and Gerd Albrecht. Since 2020 he has been the permanent principal choirmaster of the Czech Boys’ Choir, Boni Pueri.

Conrad van Alphen has gained tremendous popularity with orchestras and audiences alike for his visionary interpretations which he craftly directs in his energetic, efficient, kind and communicative performance style. Equally at ease with the classical genre as with large symphonic repertoire Conrad van Alphen boasts an impressive array of appearances with orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Bochumer Symphoniker, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Russian National Orchestra, Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Bogota Philharmonic, Enescu Philharmonic Bucharest, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu and many more. At the turn of the millennium Conrad founded Sinfonia Rotterdam, of which he remains chief conductor and artistic director. The orchestra presents successful concert series at de Doelen in Rotterdam, Amare in The Hague and at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Under Conrad’s energetic leadership Sinfonia Rotterdam is regularly invited to perform in venues and festivals around Europe and intercontinentally tours to Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Chile, China and Russia. Soloists of the highest calibre hail Conrad for his masterful concerto accompaniments, to mention only a few: Mikhail Pletnev, Maxim Vengerov, Nikolai Lugansky, Ronald Brautigam, Alexei Volodin, Simone Lamsma, Alena Baeva and Mischa Maisky.

Born in St. Petersburg in 1968 with German-Russian-Ukrainian roots, he has been similarly shaped by the musical traditions of Eastern and Western Europe and has long been one of the most exciting talents of his generation. Juri Gilbo made his conducting debut in 1997 and has since worked with numerous world-class soloists including Nigel Kennedy, Mischa Maisky, Vadim Repin, Sir James Galway, Igor Oistrakh, Edita Gruberova, Gautier Capuçon, Fazil Say, Martin Stadtfeld, Ute Lemper, Sergei Nakariakov, Giora Feidman, Simone Kermes, Gabor Boldoczki, Dmitri Berlinsky, Lilya Zilberstein, Michael Barenboim, Richard Galliano, Ksenija Sidorova, Nils Landgren, Francesco Tristano and many other well-known artists. He is a frequent guest in the most important concert halls such as the Berlin, Cologne and Munich Philharmonic Halls, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Zurich Tonhalle, Vienna Concert Hall, Teatro Real Madrid, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Theater des Champs Elysées, Béla Bartók Hall Budapest, Jerusalem Theatre, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatru Manoel Malta, Teatro Solìs de Montevideo, Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica as well at numerous renowned international festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, George Enescu Festival Bucharest, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Istanbul Music Festival, Al Bustan Festival Beirut, Haydn Festival Seoul and others. In addition he is a regular guest conductor of various orchestras throughout Europe, Israel, Latin America, South Korea, Lebanon, China and Turkey.