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She has performed as a soloist with orchestras, given recitals and chamber music concerts in various formations at home and abroad. She was a member of the Winterthur Piano Trio, with whom she made CD recordings with works by the Swiss composer Josef Peter Heinzer, and played chamber music with well-known musicians such as Raphael Wallfisch, Ulrich Koella, Rudolf Koelman, Michel Rouilly, Walter Grimmer, Hans-J\u00fcrg Strub and Stefan Goerner at renowned music festivals.<\/p>\n
Since its founding in 2004, Lea Gabriela Heinzer has been a member of the Estarellas Quartet, with which she has been invited to concerts both in Switzerland and abroad, as well as to national and international festivals, and is a prizewinner of the ORPHEUS Swiss Chambers Music Competition and the Migros Culture Percentage Chamber Music Competition. With the quartet, she has premiered works by composers such as Gabriel Estarellas, R. Maldonado, R. Coinel, M. Porten, J. Hagen, J. P. Heinzer and all works for string quartet, piano quintet and voice & string quartet by Ant\u00f3n Garc\u00eda Abril. As a member of the Estarellas Quartet, she is also active in teaching and supports the Thurgau Youth Orchestra, where she leads the viola group’s register rehearsals.<\/p>\n
Since 2004, Lea Gabriela Heinzer has been a permanent member of the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra and an accredited newcomer to the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. She has also been teaching a viola class at the Kreuzlingen Music School since 2025.”][\/team_member][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” enable_animation=”true” animation=”grow-in” animation_easing=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”1467″ bio_image_url=”1467″ team_memeber_style=”bio_fullscreen” image_loading=”default” team_member_bio_full_html=”simple” name=”Johannes Herzog” job_position=”Vice President” team_member_bio=”Johannes Herzog received his first cello lessons at the age of 5. He completed the Thurgau gifted program and preparatory studies at the Winterthur Conservatory with Emanuel R\u00fctsche. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s studies with Prof. Martina Schucan at the Zurich University of the Arts. In summer 2019, he completed his Master of Arts at the ZHdK with distinction.<\/p>\n
He is co-founder of the Thurgau-based string collective (chamber orchestra) Camerata Aperta and is the solo cellist of the chamber orchestra of the Schaffhausen Music College as well as the Swiss Symphony Orchestra under Annedore Neufeld. In addition to the modern cello repertoire, he also plays with enthusiasm on the baroque cello (gut strings) in old tuning, with which he performs with the Schaffhausen Baroque Ensemble, among others. In the 24\/25 season he will take over the lead role in the Wil Symphony Orchestra under Hugo Bollschweiler.<\/p>\n
He is very concerned with promoting youth and bringing people of all ages to music and the cello as an instrument. He teaches two cello classes at the St. Gallen Music School and the F\u00fcrstenland Music School (Gossau SG).”][\/team_member][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” enable_animation=”true” animation=”grow-in” animation_easing=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”2671″ bio_image_url=”2671″ team_memeber_style=”bio_fullscreen” image_loading=”default” team_member_bio_full_html=”simple” name=”Gabriel Estarellas Pascual” job_position=”Artistic Director” team_member_bio=”Born in Palma de Mallorca, the Spanish violinist and conductor Gabriel Estarellas Pascual completed his music studies at the \u201cConservatorio Superior de M\u00fasica de Madrid\u201d and at the Zurich University of the Arts under Professors Victor Mart\u00edn, Rudolf Koelman and the Carmina Quartet, where he graduated with teaching, soloist, ensemble and orchestral conducting diplomas. He has received various scholarships, including from the Zurich University of the Arts, \u201cM\u00fasica en Compostela\u201d (Spain), the University of Houston (USA) and the Bruno Schuler Foundation, and attended master classes with Nobu Wakabayashi, Emile Cantor, Andrzej Grabiec, Lucie Robert, Atso Almila and Jorma Panula.<\/p>\n
He has performed as a soloist with orchestras, given recitals and chamber music concerts in various formations in Spain as well as in the USA, Italy, Switzerland, France, Estonia, etc. He has been invited to perform at well-known international music festivals. In 2004 he founded the \u201cGarc\u00eda Abril Quartet\u201d (now Estarellas Quartet), with which he won prizes in the chamber music competitions \u201cORPHEUS Concerts\u201d (Zurich) and \u201cMigros Culture Percentage\u201d.<\/p>\n
As a conductor, he has led various orchestras such as the Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra (Bulgaria), the Academic Symphony Orchestra Sofia (Bulgaria), the Chamber Orchestra “Antonio Soler“ (Spain), the Polish Philharmonic Symphony Baltic (Poland), the Symphony Orchestra St. Gallen (Switzerland), the Orquestra Simf\u00f2nica de les Illes Balears (Spain), etc. From 2014 to 2024 he was the artistic director of the Zurich Orchestra Association (OVZ). Since January 2025 he has been the new chief conductor and artistic director of the Neum\u00fcnster Orchestra Zurich.<\/p>\n
Since 2008 he has been the artistic director of the Thurgau Youth Orchestra. Due to his outstanding performance as artistic director of the Thurgau Youth Orchestra, Gabriel Estarellas Pascual was awarded the Thurgau Cantonal’s Cultural Promotion Prize in 2013 and the City of Amriswil’s Cultural Prize in 2016.”][\/team_member][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” enable_animation=”true” animation=”grow-in” animation_easing=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”2127″ bio_image_url=”2127″ team_memeber_style=”bio_fullscreen” image_loading=”default” team_member_bio_full_html=”simple” name=”Saskia Guler” job_position=”Cashier” team_member_bio=”Saskia Guler-van Ooijen grew up in Gachnang TG. She is married and the mother of an adult daughter.<\/p>\n
After finishing school at the Frauenfeld Cantonal School, she entered professional life. Various positions ultimately led her into the accounting department of various companies. She rounded off her knowledge with training as a finance and accounting specialist with a federal professional certificate, which she successfully completed in 2021. Today she works for two companies in her home office and is responsible for finance and HR.<\/p>\n
She discovered her passion for music at an early age and received her first recorder lessons at school. She tried out various instruments but remained loyal to the recorder family. Today she performs as a soloist and leads the Gachnang recorder group, which was founded by her father over 40 years ago.”][\/team_member][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” enable_animation=”true” animation=”grow-in” animation_easing=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”1145″ bio_image_url=”1145″ team_memeber_style=”bio_fullscreen” image_loading=”default” team_member_bio_full_html=”simple” name=”Susanna Fr\u00f6hlich” job_position=”Parents representative” team_member_bio=”Susanna Fr\u00f6hlich-Baumann grew up in Mauren TG and attended the teacher training college in Kreuzlingen after compulsory schooling. After working as a primary school teacher in Zurich for a year, she studied violin with Andrej L\u00fctschg at the Zurich Conservatory. Since graduating in 1992, she has worked with great joy and commitment as a violin teacher and ensemble leader, in Bischofszell until 2013 and at the Amriswil Youth Music School for more than 30 years. She has also had a teaching position at the Thurgau University of Teacher Education since 2006.<\/p>\n
She plays in various orchestral and chamber music formations and has been a permanent member of Stradi’s Orchestra since 1999.<\/p>\n
Susanna Fr\u00f6hlich-Baumann is a mother of five children and lives with her family in Leimbach TG.<\/p>\n
Since 2021 she has been a parents’ representative on the board of the Thurgau Youth Orchestra JOTG. It is very important to her to promote and support children and young people making music together.”][\/team_member][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” enable_animation=”true” animation=”grow-in” animation_easing=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”1140″ bio_image_url=”1140″ team_memeber_style=”bio_fullscreen” image_loading=”default” team_member_bio_full_html=”simple” name=”Benjamin B\u00e4r” job_position=”Interim Actuary” team_member_bio=”Benjamin B\u00e4r (*1996) grew up in Eastern Switzerland and received his first trumpet lessons from Christoph Luchsinger in Amriswil. During his time at the Kreuzlingen Pedagogical Maturity School (PMS), he completed the school’s art and sports program, through which he enjoyed lessons with Andr\u00e9 Meier at the Winterthur Conservatory, where he also attended the preparatory course. Benjamin spent most of his time studying in Zurich, where he studied his Bachelor of Arts and Master’s in Music Education with a major in trumpet under Laurent Tinguely at the Zurich University of the Arts. During these 5 years, Benjamin studied jazz trumpet with Daniel Schenker, piccolo trumpet with Frits Damrow and baroque trumpet with Simon Lilly as a minor. He then studied the Master of Music Performance at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in the trumpet class of Immanuel Richter and Huw Morgan, which he successfully completed in summer 2023.
\nHe received further musical inspiration from Prof. Malte Burba, Sergei Nakariakov, Matthias H\u00f6fs, David Bilger, Patrick Henrichs and Marco Pierobon, among others.<\/p>\n
Benjamin gained his first orchestral experience in the Winterthur Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Thurgau Youth Orchestra. With the Winterthur Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Zurich Orchestra Association, he has performed as a soloist in Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Slovenia.<\/p>\n
Benjamin is currently teaching trumpet and cornet at the Kreuzlingen Pedagogical Maturity School, the Kreuzlingen Cantonal School, the Thurgau University of Education, the Kreuzlingen Music School and the Waldkirch-Bernhardzell Music School. At the Kreuzlingen Pedagogical Maturity School, he also works as a supervisor for the musicians in the art and sports classes. Since November 2023 he has been playing in the Swiss Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Annedore Neufeld.<\/p>\n
Freelance musician and music teacher<\/p>\n
Benjamin B\u00e4r works as a trumpet teacher and freelance musician. His studies took him to Zurich and Lucerne.<\/p>\n
benj.baer@bluewin.ch
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He first learned the violin and, thanks to and since joining the Oberthurgau Youth Orchestra with Martin Sigrist and Gabriel Estarellas, who sparked his enthusiasm for orchestral playing, he has fortunately even played the viola. Between 2006 and 2019 he was a member of the Thurgau Youth Orchestra with great joy and was able to experience wonderful tours to Tuscany, Alicante and Neubrandenburg. In between and since then he played in various other orchestras and is now a member of the Niederamt Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n
Daniel Hofer studied civil engineering at ETH Zurich and works as a civil engineer at Rothpletz, Lienhard + Cie AG in Olten.<\/p>\n
He is a member of the board of the Thurgau Youth Orchestra and is very happy when many more young people can make music together with dedication in the JOT, discover the beauty of classical music and have a wonderful time together.”][\/team_member][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” enable_animation=”true” animation=”grow-in” animation_easing=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][team_member image_url=”2231″ bio_image_url=”2231″ team_memeber_style=”bio_fullscreen” image_loading=”default” team_member_bio_full_html=”simple” name=”Niklaus Moderlak” job_position=”Orchestra Representative – Auditor” team_member_bio=”Niklaus Moderlak received his first cello lessons at the age of five. As the son of a family of professional musicians, he was fascinated from an early age by making music together in ensembles, string orchestras, and later symphony orchestras. He has been a member of the JOTG since 2019 and has been actively involved as a youth representative and auditor since 2023. He is also the president of the Chamber Orchestra MCS Schaffhausen and regularly performs with other ensembles from the region.
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Aline has been a member of the Jugendorchester Thurgau since the age of eleven and has now been playing in the orchestra for ten years. Making music together in a large ensemble, the close collaboration, and the strong sense of community continue to shape her musical development. One particularly meaningful experience for her was performing in her hometown of St. Gallen at the Tonhalle, a concert she associates with great pride.<\/p>\n
Since September 2025, Aline is serving as concertmaster of the Jugendorchester Thurgau. In addition to this musical role, she is responsible for all duties of the orchestra\u2019s administrative office. Her passion lies both in orchestral performance at a high artistic level and in chamber music, which she pursues within the orchestra in various ensemble settings.”][\/team_member][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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