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Péter Keserű was born in Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary in 1977.

He received his first horn lessons from Ferenc Jankovszki in 1986 at the local music school and later continued his training at the Zoltán Kodály middle school for music in Kecskemét with István Szilágyi. From 1995 to 2001 he studied with Prof. Miklós Kökényessy at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. After this he took regular private tuition with Prof. István Vincze in Dresden.

In 1999 he was accepted into the Ernö Dohnányi Orchestra in Budapest as principal horn, a position he also held in the Budapest Concert Orchestra from 2000. From 2002 to 2003 he was principal horn with the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Budapest and held the same position in the Bruckner Orchestra in Linz under principal conductor Dennis Russell Davies until 2008. Since 2001 he has regularly assisted in the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer.

Péter Keserű has been principal horn with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2008.

Peter Erdei was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1975. He received his diploma in Budapest in 1999 from the Franz Liszt Music Academy having studied with Ferenc Tarjani.

His first engagement as a professional musician was at the State Opera in Budapest. He has won several national and international prizes in horn competitions. He has worked with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Sir John Elliot Gardiner and Daniele Gatti.

Peter Erdei has played ripieno horn with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2000.

Jakob Hutterer, born 1996 in Ebersberg had his first music lessons with Peter Pfaff at the local music school. He did his Bachelor's degree in Würzburg with Wolfgang Gaag and Sibylle Mahni andcis currently completing his master's degree in Berlin.
He gained his first professional experience during an academy at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg and the Nuremberg State Philharmonic. This was followed by temporary contracts in the orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and the Staatskapelle Dresden.
He played under Christian Thielemann, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Zubin Mehta and Kirill Petrenko.
Since February 2023 he is playing as deputy principal horn in the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Luise Bruch was born in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1988, where she also received her first horn lessons. She moved to the Berlin University of the Arts in 2004 to study with Prof. Christian-Friedrich Dallmann; she continued her studies later with Prof. Robert Langbein and Prof. Raimund Zell in Dresden and Graz.

Luise Bruch has participated in numerous competitions, with reaching the finals of the 2010 ARD International Music Competition and being awarded the U21 Special Prize among her greatest achievements.
In addition to various temporary contracts, for example in the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg and the Royal Opera Stockholm, Luise Bruch has been a regular guest with, among others, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, as well as various chamber orchestras such as the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the German Chamber Orchestra.

Since 2017, she has been deputy principal horn in the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna.

Matthias Rieß was born in Stuttgart in 1983 and studied with Prof. Thomas Hauschild in Leipzig, Prof. Erich Penzel in Maastricht, Prof. Marie-Luise Neunecker in Berlin and Prof. Gergely Sugar in Oberschützen.

He gained his first experience of orchestral playing in the regional and national youth orchestras as well as the Schleswig-Holstein festival orchestra. This was followed by engagements with the State Orchestra of Lower Saxony in Hanover and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin.

Since 2009 Matthias Rieß has been playing second and fourth horn in the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.