Eva Meier
A graduate of the Otto-Falkenberg Drama School in Munich she made her debut at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan with a programme of Brecht songs, which jumpstarted her career as a chanson singer. Her broad repertoire includes music by Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler and Paul Dessau to lyrics by Bert Brecht and Kurt Tucholsky, chansons by Werner Richard Heymann, Friedrich Hollaender and Mischa Spoliansky as well as Weill's American musical songs. Peer Raben, who has written the scores for all Fassbinder films, has set to music for Meier poems ranging from Heinrich Heine to Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

The artist has thrilled audiences in numerous countries outside her native Germany, including Spain, Italy, USA, Japan, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, North Africa, and in particular Britain where she has performed at the Linbury Studio of the Royal Opera House in the context of the Covent Garden Festivals of 1998, 2000 and 2001 and at the Purcell Room for the Jewish Music Festivals of 2001 and 2002 as well as at the Mayfair, Edinburgh, Arundel and Dublin Festivals. Other venues were the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid and Salamanca, the European Cultural City 2002. More recently she has performed in New York at New Gallery and the German House, at the Jüdische Festwochen in Frankfurt, the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau, the Oxford Lieder Festival and the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
Since 2004 Eva Meier is often performing in Asia: Hong Kong, Shanghai, Bejing and 2008 she is invited to the Festival "Germany in China" in Kanton.

Eva Meier is frequently featured by both radio and television, including broadcasts by the BBC, NHK Tokyo an all major German radio stations and in 2006 for RTHK Radio 4 Hong Kong”.

Conor Linehan - Pianist
was born in Ireland and divides his time between Ireland and Britain. After studying Music and English at Trinity College Dublin he continued his piano studies with Peter Feuchtwanger in London.

As a soloist he has given the world premieres of piano concertos by Ronan Guilfoyle (with the RTE Concert Orchestra) and Don Ray (with the Sinfonia Bulgarica in Sofia). He has also performed Strawinsky's concerto for piano and wind with the National Syphony Orchestra of Ireland and further concertos by Chopin, Grieg and Litlolff with the RTECO. In addition he performs a large range of solo and chamber music from the Baroque period to contemporary works. He has composed extensively for the theatre, such as for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and The Abbey Theatre Dublin.

He has also written scores for dance, short films, and radio. Linehan has worked with Meier for almost ten years. They have toured worldwide and recorded three albums of German Cabaret songs.

Paul Cibis - Pianist
Born in Germany, the pianist Paul Cibis studied piano in Hanover. Afterwards he read musicology and philosophy at universities in Berlin and London before he attended the Accompanist Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London studying with Graham Johnson and Robin Bowman. Since 1998 he has also worked with Peter Feuchtwanger - firstly as a private student, since 2002 as his assistant.

Paul Cibis has performed in concerts at home and abroad since 1994. Engagements have brought him regularily to many places in Germany, France and the UK. He was invited by the Feuchtwangen Piano Festival and the Beethoven Society London, and performed concert tours in the US with solo recitals in Los Angeles and New York City, and in 2003 as an accompanist in New Zealand. He played for radio and TV broadcasts for the WDR, 3Sat, ORB, HR and the BBC. Not less in demand as a pedagogue, Paul Cibis gives his third masterclass for pianists in Taiwan in April 2006. Since October 2005 he also works as a vocal coach at the Trinity College of Music in London.

His first collaboration with Eva Meier took place for a series of concerts in Munich in April 2001. Since then they have regularly performed together in Berlin, Munich and London, and for recitals in Shanghai, at the Kurt Weill Fest in Dessau and the Jüdische Kulturtage in Frankfurt am Main. Further engagements this year include recitals in Hong Kong, Berlin and London.