Natalia Gerakis is considered one of the most accomplished flutists in Greece today. Both Stuttgart- and Athens-based, she has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra player at major halls and festivals throughout Germany and Greece. Besides, concerts and tours have brought her to numerous European and Mediterranean countries. She has been principal flutist of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, has performed with the Athens State Orchestra, the Mikis Theodorakis Popular Orchestra, the Wuerttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn and has collaborated with the Chamber Theater of the Stuttgart State Opera Haus.
She completed her studies in Paris at the Nadia & Lili Boulanger Conservatoire in Paris with the "1er Prix de la Ville de Paris" and at the State Music Academy in Stuttgart under Prof. Jean-Claude Gérard on scholarship of the Greek State. Currently Natalia Gerakis is a sought-after tutor of international music courses. She particularly enjoys working for concentrated short periods of time with young flutists, helping them towards achieving their own goals.
Volker Höh is one of the most versatile German guitarrists. As a soloist, with orchestras and in chamber-music groups he is at home on international and festival stages, often as cultural ambassador for the Goethe Institute. His CD productions, awarded prizes by specialised critics, show stylistic diversity and varied sound-aesthetics. Like his concert programmes they are thematic and range from contemporary music through classical repertoire with historical instruments to Spanish/Latin-American music.
Besides teaching positions at the University of Koblenz and the Music-Grammar-School of Rheinland-Pfalz (Montabaur) he works as editor and author for publishers and technical publications and as jury-member and teacher at international competitions and festivals.
