Richard Strauss enjoyed spending time in the great outdoors from a young age. Extensive mountain hikes relaxed and inspired him. During this year's musical walks, we will experience Richard Strauss, played by Andreas M. Bräu, who will guide the group of visitors through Garmisch-Partenkirchen together with artistic director Dominik Šedivý. Musical accompaniment will be provided by horn player Johannes Bernhard.
Andreas M. Bräuwas born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He has been working as a freelance author, actor and presenter for more than fifteen years. He was a long-standing ensemble member at the Kurtheater Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a permanent guest performer at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz and has appeared in numerous comedies on tour. In the meantime, he has expanded his portfolio to include readings and his own programs as a writer and journalist, as well as presenting and writing. Since studying German and history, he has been writing theater texts and blogs as well as presenting his own cabaret and stage shows. He is also involved in literary readings as an intersection between literature and (music) theater. Since 2016, he has also been teaching at a Munich grammar school with a focus on German, history, social studies and theater. Bräu lives in Munich and Garmisch.
Johannes Bernhardwas born in Kaufbeuren (Allgäu). Inspired by the three-part theme of the wolf from Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf”, he switched to the horn at the age of nine after two years of trumpet lessons. From 2007 to 2016, he studied at the Munich University of Music with Prof. Wolfgang Gaag and Prof. Johannes Hinterholzer, graduating with a pedagogical diploma and an artistic master’s degree. In the 2012/13 and 2014/15 seasons, he was employed as principal horn with the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Orchestra on a temporary basis. Johannes Bernhard has performed as a soloist with the Mozartensemble Berlin and the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. Johannes Bernhard has been a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now association since 2009. Accompanied by the Munich University Symphony Orchestra, he was heard in 2012 at the benefit concert to mark the 20th anniversary of the foundation and on BR-Klassik with Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4. Engagements have taken him to the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt, the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the municipal theaters of Augsburg and Ulm and the Bavarian State Opera (stage music). He is particularly fond of playing the alphorn and the historical natural horn. In his homeland, which is characterized by brass music, he also dedicates himself to instrumental training – including at the Ludwig Hahn Sing-including at the Ludwig Hahn Sing- und Musikschule Kaufbeuren.
