Born in Locarno, Francesco Piemontesi is a pianist of exceptional refinement of expression, which is allied to a consummate technical skill. The ›Neue Zürcher Zeitung‹ calls him a »Wizard of Sound«. Of his great teacher and mentor, Alfred Brendel, Piemontesi says that Brendel taught him »to love the detail of things«. In his many concerto, recital and chamber music appearances, he reveals all the mesmerising facets of his artistry and takes his audiences on a fascinating discovery journey. Piemontesi has performed with some of the world’s leading orchestras, from the Berlin Philharmonic to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and from the London to the NHK Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he gives regular guest performances at festivals such as the Salzburg, the Lucerne and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festivals as well as at the BBC Proms.
In addition to the concert stage, Piemontesi is equally at home performing chamber music with a variety of partners including Leif Ove Andsnes, Christian Tetzlaff, Jörg Widmann and Janine Jansen. In solo recital, Piemontesi delivers pure piano poetry to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, at the Rheingau Musik Festival and at the Wigmore Hall in London, where he was celebrated for his Mozart Odyssey of the complete piano sonatas. Since 2012, Piemontesi has been the Artistic Director of the Swiss classic festival Settimane Musicali di Ascona.

Jérémie Rhorer is one of the most versatile and intellectually challenging conductors of his generation. As founder and musical director of the orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, this French conductor is continuing artist-innovator tradition through his exploration of 18th and 19th century repertoire performed on historical instruments. He is also a renowned composer and winner of the Prix Pierre Cardin. For more than ten years, Jérémie Rhorer has developed a close relationship with the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, where he has conducted a wide range of standard, rarely performed and contemporary operas. Rhorer has also conducted major international orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a sought-after opera conductor, he has also conducted productions at the Wiener and Bayerische Staatsoper, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and is regularly invited to Europe’s most prestigious festivals. Highlights of the current season include his debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Bordeaux-Aquitaine and at Zürich Opera House with a new production of Offenbach’s rare opera ›Barkouff‹. In recent years, Rhorer and Le Cercle de l’Harmonie have initiated an innovative residency at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence with an educational programme for new audiences. Jérémie Rhorer has been a regular guest at The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for years. Together they are currently working on a special Tchaikovsky cycle, which will be presented on tour in Germany and Europe this year and in the coming years.