Theres Linder-Ammann had discovered the joy in making music in her family. Her father was was a talented trumpet player and Theres started accompanying him on the piano at early age. Both Theres’s siblings are music teachers (music and high school).

Her experience in playing and accompanying musicians and the teaching diploma earned at the conservatory of Berne (teacher Michael Studer) made Theres a musically and pedagogically skilled teacher. She teaches at the music school in Laupen (BE, Switzerland) and loves passing on the wonderful spirit of music to her students. Another bit part of Theres’s musical activity is composing. She imprints her musical ideas onto the music sheets with great passion and customizes them for the desired music formation.

Moreover, Theres also composes for different genres and for diverse instrumentations. With her 15 minute long composition “Alp-Horn-Alp”, composed for alphorn and a wind ensemble, Theres won the International Composing Competition from Alphorn in Concert 2004. In 2006 she was honored with the jury-award at the same competition for her composition “Waldwurzle” (Alphorn and traditional music). For Theres it is a particular joy to write commissioned compositions that add a special festive touch to an important celebration.

Markus Linder, born in Balsthal (Switzerland), was first taught how to play the alphorn by his father, Paul Linder. He then also learned playing the tenor horn and has been a soloist in different brass bands. In 1992 he was the first in Switzerland to receive the teaching diploma for the tenor horn.

He graduated as wind music conductor at the Lucerne University of Arts, conducted different formations and directed the wind orchestra Bern-Bümpliz. With a focus on supporting young people, he has conducted the cadets music Burgdorf and has been performing for over 12 years with his family (Furioso Romantica).

Besides being a teacher at several musical schools, Markus Linder increasingly devoted himself to his passion for the alphorn in the past 15 years. Accompanied by an orchestra, organ or piano, concert tours lead him abroad to Columbia, Poland, Bulgaria, Norway, Ireland and Germany. Moreover, he was course instructor at the “Schönrieder Alphornwochen” and the “Bregenzer Alphorn-Seminar”. Currently he also teaches his own courses for beginners and advanced alphorn players.