Michael Wolf is Professor of double bass at the Berlin University of Arts and Visiting Professor at the Irish World Academy. Pianist Una Hunt and two of his students from Berlin, Okhhee Lee and Wieland Bachman join him. This performance at the Sionna Festival is part of the initiative between the MA in Classical String Performance programme at the Irish World Academy, the Irish Youth Orchestras Association and DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama to feature and popularise the double bass to Irish audiences and young Irish string players. Over this weekend Prof. Wolf will be giving Master Classes at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick and at Dublin Institute of Technology.

Okhhee Lee was born in South Korea and began studying the double bass with Prof. Ki Bum Lee at the Ewha University of Seoul. She was repeatedly awarded the highly coveted first and second prizes of the Korean Music Association Competition and the "Baroque Ensemble Seoul" Music Competition.
In 2005, Okhee began studying with Prof. Michael Wolf at the University of the Arts Berlin, graduating with the highest possible honors and subsequently becoming a member of the University faculty. She performs regularly with the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin on the basis of an internship, and is also a fixed-term contracted member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig.

Wieland Bachmann was born in 1989 in Berlin to a musical family. He had his first violin lesson when he was six and began learning the double bass under Prof. Michael Wolf at the age of eleven. At thirteen, he was permitted to enlist as a student at the University of the Arts Berlin, performing with the chamber orchestra of the Julius Stern Institut and becoming the youngest member of Prof. Wolf's double bass class.

Besides performing with numerous other youth orchestras, Wieland is a member of the Deutschen Streicherphilharmonie, with whom he has regularly appeared in international venues, including in Europe, the Baltic States and the far East. In 2004, Wieland won first prize in the nationwide German musical competition "Jugend musiziert". His frequent recitals before sold-out audiences as a soloist with piano or orchestra, including a performance of the double concerto "Passione Amorose" by Giovanni Bottesini together with Prof. Wolf and the Julius Stern Chamber Orchestra, are consistently met by enthusiastic ovations.