Sofie Grimm: Artist Management Intern

My passion for music began as a small child in a family of musicians where every child started playing an instrument by the age of 4. My parents took my brothers and me regularly to concerts with the Münchner Philharmoniker, BRSO and the opera in Munich. As a teenager, I had my own opera subscription, through which I regularly heard many renowned conductors such as Kirill Petrenko and Zubin Mehta. After playing the violin for 10 years, I switched to the viola because until today I am more fascinated by the darker sound. Besides the school orchestra, I played for years in the Youth Orchestra of the Bayerische Staatsoper, in chamber orchestras and played a lot of chamber music with friends. In my free time, I still play viola for orchestras in Munich.

After graduating from high school, I worked as an au pair for a family with six little boys in Boston for a year. I am currently studying business administration at LMU Munich.

Since 2022, I have worked for Tamara Stefanovich and Martin Grubinger at HarrisonParrott.

Martin Horbach: Assistant Artist Manager

With my mother being a professional cellist and my father enjoying playing the piano, I was surrounded by music early on in my life. I eventually took trumpet lessons and stuck with it, although the drums were a strong competitor. After playing in the school Big Band and the youth orchestras of Munich Philharmonic and the Bavarian State Opera – a highlight was playing a concert conducted by Kent Nagano when I was 15 – I went to Innsbruck to study the trumpet. I love the limits of things and studying the trumpet with everything it involves – practice, masterclasses, concerts, auditions – was really something I couldn’t miss. 

Now I am still making music, playing both solo literature and orchestra concerts in and around Munich. I especially enjoy playing the piccolo trumpet and baroque literature, probably something I picked up listening to my mother playing continuo parts over and over in my childhood. Through all of this, my interest in planning and managing rehearsals, meetings and concerts grew, and I added musicology and culture management to my studies in Munich and Berlin. In music, it’s a small world, and to be able to connect all the people involved in bringing a concert to life is just a wonderful thing. 

I joined HarrisonParrott as an Assistant Artist Manager in October 2022 after working at Bundesmusikverband in Germany. I am working now for Aivis Greters, Eldbjørg Hemsing, Matilda Lloyd (trumpet power!), Vivi Vassileva and Lukáš Vondráček; managing calendars, logistics and engagements of this excitingly diverse list of artists! 

In my spare time, I enjoy drinking coffee (lots!), and playing sports and video games from time to time, which have a whole new world of music to offer! 

Karin Schwarz-Feyhl: Associate Director

I was appointed Associate Director at HarrisonParrott in March 2021 and work with instrumentalists, conductors and composers. I joined the HarrisonParrott Munich office as an Artist Manager in 2010, and was employed as Associate Artist Manager at the HarrisonParrott London office from 2006 to 2008. Prior to these positions I first gained experience in Artist Management at Concerto Winderstein in Munich.

I studied International Cultural and Business Studies at Passau University and graduated with a Master’s Degree, and accompanied my studies with internships with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Salzburg Easter Festival. In my Master’s Thesis ​“From Hugo von Hofmannsthal to Gérard Mortier – The Salzburg Festival idea through the ages” I worked on the development of the Salzburg Festival idea from 1920 until 1997.

Born in Salzburg, I started playing the violin at the age of seven and have performed in various youth and student orchestras in Austria and Germany.

I am a certified Positive Psychology Practitioner, a Professional Mentor and Systemic Coach. I like hiking, am a music and cinema enthusiast and coffee addict.