CRISTINA GÓMEZ GODOY
CRISTINA GÓMEZ GODOY
(*1990, Linares/Spain) studied at the Academia de Estudios Orquestales of the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Sevilla and at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Rostock. In 2012, at the age of 21, she became solo English hornist at the Staatskapelle Berlin. Since 2013 she is the orchestra’s solo oboist. She has won numerous international competitions, such as the ARD Music Competition and the BR Classical Music Prize. She also performs as a solo artist in the major music halls of the world, including Carnegie Hall in New York, and with orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic, or in chamber music groups.
She premiered on 22.1.2021 in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, one of six young talents selected from 22 major concert houses in Europe. Due to the pandemic, the concert was streamed live, without an audience. In the train from Hamburg to Berlin she wrote: “It is a very strange feeling, especially when one plays a recital and there are only two or three people on stage and otherwise only cameras. Digital is certainly a possibility, but live is simply live. It is a dialogue and an exchange of energies between musicians and spectators; that’s what I like so much and what many people miss so much.”
THOMAS MEYER
(*1967, Delmenhorst) studied from 1990–1996 at the Academy of Arts in Bremen. 1996 BFF Advancement Award. 1999 solo exhibition KAUFLAND – RETAIL SPACES IN EASTERN GERMANY, Gallery of the School of Art, Yale University, USA. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2000. 2004–2006 photographer for the FAZ ad campaign “Dahinter steckt immer ein kluger Kopf”. Since 2008 he has taught at the Ostkreuz School of Photography. Solo exhibitions: INSIDE STASI (2009), Gallery Focale, Nyon, Switzerland; EXILE IN CALCUTTA (2014), Drik Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and in the Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Kolkata, India. Since 2019 he is the in-house photographer of the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau. His book BAUHAUS DESSAU ARCHITEKTUR was published in 2019 by Hirmer Verlag, Munich.