• Michael Hasel, Flute
• Andreas Wittmann, Oboe
• Walter Seyfarth, Clarinet
• Fergus McWilliam, Horn
• Henning Trog, Bassoon

Michael Hasel (flute) was born in Hofheim near Frankfurt and began his music studies on piano and organ, intending to graduate as a church musician. He studied the flute first with Herbert Grimm (Mainz) and Willy Schmidt (Frankfurt) and then with Aurèle Nicolet at the Freiburg  Musikhochschule.

His first orchestral appointment was from 1982 to 1984 with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, after which he became a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan.

For several years he performed as principal flute with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra under conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Pièrre Boulez and James Levine.

In 1994 he was appointed Professor of Wind Ensemble and Chamber Music at the Heidelberg-Mannheim Musikhochschule.

He is internationally active as a soloist, chamber musician, conductor and teacher and in 2006 he became Artistic Director of Ensemble Madrid-Berlin, a musical collaboration of leading Spanish and Berlin Philharmonic musicians.