Berhard Hentrich studied violoncello at the Conservatories of Dresden and Karlsruhe and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Christophe Coin as well as musicology at the Dresden University of Technology. He is performing in Europe, Asia, North- and South America. In the past years he made his debuts at internationally significant festivals like in Adelaide/Australia. Bernhard Hentrich has successfully co-operated with the dancer Thomas Hartmann and the actor Rolf Hoppe.

Bernhard Hentrich is running lectures and seminars focussed on history and performing practise of 17th century string instruments. In 1997 he discovered a violone by Peregrino Zanetto from the end of the 16th century, which he analysed and extensively inquired on behalf of the Continual Conference of Central German Baroque Music. The results of his research on the history of string instruments of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden paved the way for the return of a Tenor-Viola by Antonius & Hieronymus Amati [1613], that until then was regarded to be missing [“Theatrum instrumentorum Dresdense”, 2003]. Currently he is preparing his doctoral thesis in Dresden, for which he conducted research at the German Historical Institute in Rome/Italy within a scientific research scholarship in musicology.