David Riniker

David Riniker

David Riniker initially studied with Jean Paul Guéneux and later in the concert class of António Menèses in Basel. Riniker perfected his skills through masterclasses with Arto Noras, Boris Pergamenschikow, Wolfgang Boettcher and David Geringas. Riniker is a laureate of various competitions. Since 1995 he has been a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Riniker performs regularly as a soloist and in demand chamber musician in many European countries, the USA and Japan. The musician is a member of the 12 cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Among Riniker’s chamber music partners were among others Josef Suk, Emmanuel Pahud, Albrecht Mayer, Sebastian Breuninger.

Adrian Oetiker

Adrian Oetiker

After completing his first piano lessons with his father and Hans-Rudolf Boller, Adrian Oetiker studied in the masterclass of Homero Francesch at the Zurich University of the Arts and at Bella Davidovich's Juilliard School in New York. Lazar Berman was also one of Oetiker’s teachers. Early on, he received various national awards and scholarships, and soon followed success in international competitions (Cologne, Clara Haskil, Dublin and others). In 1995 he won the international piano competition of the ARD in Munich.

Since 1996, Oetiker has been a professor for piano at the University of Music Basel. Since 2010, Oetiker has also been The Artistic Director of the International Summer Academy Lenk. In 2011, he was appointed to the University of Music and Theater in Munich.

Christoph Streuli

Christoph Streuli

Christoph Streuli completed his first studies at the conservatory Winterthur with Rudolf Bamert and in the masterclass of Aida Stucki. The Zurich violinist continued his training with Herman Krebbers in Amsterdam from 1991-1994. While in master classes with Franco Gulli, Walter Levin and the Melos Quartet, Streuli perfected his skills. In 1997, Streuli became a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker. As a dedicated chamber musician, he was a member of the Scharoun Ensemble and performed with Guy Braunstein, Leonidas Kavakos, Julia Fischer, Yuja Wang and Bishara Harouni.



„With an extremely elegant approach and beautiful tone, they lay the foundation for creating dramaturgically intense music.“ (pizzicato.lu)

"The Feininger Trio plays with a brisk, exciting style..." (The Art Music Lounge)

About Feininger-Trio

In 2005, Adrian Oetiker (piano) and the Berlin Philharmonic musicians Christoph Streuli (violin) and David Riniker (violoncello) founded the Feininger Trio. The Trio's namesake, the painter, graphic designer and co-founder of the Bauhaus, Lyonel Feininger, whose Berlin studio was not far from the ensemble's rehearsal venue in the Berlin-Zehlendorf district, is a person they feel closely connected to, both as a personality and in his work.

In addition to stylistic diversity, the three musicians base their interpretations on tonal warmth, expressivity and refinement, but also on exploring the border areas. Critics have repeatedly praised the wide spectrum of nuances and timbres, but also the expressive and gripping playing, even the "intoxicating performance" (Fono Forum).

The Feiningers can be heard regularly on concert stages in Berlin, Hamburg, Salzburg, Munich and Valencia as well as in smaller concert cycles such as in Liestal, Solothurn or Bayreuth. In recent years, the trio has also been invited to festivals in Baden-Baden and Zurich, to the Beethovenfest Bonn and to the Prague and Heidelberg Spring Festivals. In the season 2023/2024, the Trio will play among others at the Berlin Philharmonie, in Nordkirchen and in Switzerland.

The Trio has made a name for itself with its dramaturgically well thought-out programmes. After focussing on Bohemia, France and Russia, they have just completed a Brahms cycle which relates his three trios to works by the younger Viennese composers Zemlinsky, Korngold and Krenek. In addition to preparing a Schubert cycle, the Feiningers are also working on an exciting interdisciplinary project with composer Konstantia Gourzi, choreographer Sommer Ulrickson and set designer Alexander Polzin. Part of the collaboration was “Apollon”, a piano trio composed by Konstantia Gourzi for the Feininger Trio and created at the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra’s "Eigenzeit Festival" in May 2023.

The trio also regularly collaborates with the actress Katharina Thalbach. On the occasion of the 2017 Easter Festival in Baden-Baden, they designed an atmospheric programme with the motto "...o sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe", featuring compositions by Schubert and Chopin as well as poetry by Shakespeare, Rilke, Benn, Lasker-Schüler and others.

The Feiningers' lively recording activity is documented on the Avi-music label: Works by Smetana, Suk and Dvořák (2013), trios by Debussy and Ravel (2017), the programme with Katharina Thalbach (2018) and in 2021 the first CD of the Brahms cycle with the trio op. 101 and the Zemlinsky Trio op. 3, created in co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur. The cycle has been completed in October 2023 with the Brahms trio op. 8 and Krenek’s Trio-Fantasie, the second CD (Brahms op. 87 and Korngold op. 1) having been released in September 2022.


„With an extremely elegant approach and beautiful tone, they lay the foundation for creating dramaturgically intense music.“ (pizzicato.lu)

"The Feininger Trio plays with a brisk, exciting style..." (The Art Music Lounge)


David Riniker studied cello with Jean-Paul Guéneux and Antonio Meneses in Basel, the city where he was born. He rounded off his musical training by attending masterclasses with Arto Noras, Boris Pergamenschikow, Wolfgang Boettcher and David Geringas. Riniker has often been selected for foundation scholarships and has won a series of competitions. He became a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1995. He has also performed widely as soloist and as chamber musician (also with the late violinist Josef Suk) at a great number of European, American and Japanese venues. Riniker is also a member of the 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic and of the Breuninger String Quartet.

Swiss pianist Adrian Oetiker received his first piano lessons from his father and from Hans Rudolf Boller. Oetiker studied in the class of Homero Francesch at Zurich School of the Arts and with Bella Davidovich at Juilliard School of Music; Lazar Berman was also one of his teachers. After having reaped a series of successes at competitions, Oetiker won the renowned ARD International Piano Competition in Munich in 1995. Since then he has been pursuing a remarkable worldwide career as soloist, chamber musician and teacher. He has made appearances throughout Europe, Australia and the US, with orchestras including the Tonhalle (Zurich) and the Bavarian RSO (Munich). Oetiker was repeatedly invited to perform in Australia in the wake of his European tour with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has made guest appearances at the Berlin Philharmonie, at Leipzig Gewandhaus, at Salzburg Festival Hall and at La Fenice in Venice. Oetiker has held a piano professorship at Basel School of Music since 1996, and in 2011 he was also appointed to teach at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. Furthermore, in 2010 he was entrusted with the artistic direction of the International Summer Academy in Lenk (Simmental, Switzerland).

Born in Lucerne, Christoph Streuli began playing the violin when he was eight years old. After his first studies in the classes of Rudolf Bauert and Aida Stucki at the Musikhochschule in Winterthur, he pursued his training from 1991 to 1994 under the guidance of Herman Krebbers at Amsterdam Conservatory, and honed his skills in masterclasses with Franco Gulli, Walter Levin and the Melos String Quartet. In 1997, Christoph Streuli became a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker. His passion for chamber music has led him to work within two renowned ensembles, the Scharoun Ensemble (Berlin) and Berlin Baroque Soloists. He also performs in tandem with colleagues such as Guy Braunstein, Amihai Grosz and Ludwig Quandt, Ulrich Knörzer, as well as with pianists Yuja Wang and Bishara Harouni. He also forms a duo with David Riniker.