Born in 1986 in Munich, the cellist Valentin Radutiu learned to play cello from his father. He went on to study with Clemens Hagen, Heinrich Schiff and David Geringas in Salzburg, Vienna and Berlin. For his »exciting individual, high-energy playing; his enchanting cantabile in the high register and his clearly contoured, masculine timbre in the lower register,« the Süddeutsche Zeitung praised him as »one of the greatest cello talents of our time« and Valentin Radutiu is indeed one of the most distinguished cellists of his generation.

Valentin Radutiu is prize winner of several national and international competitions, including ›Jugend Musiziert‹ and the Dotzau Competition in Dresden and won first prize in the international Karl Davodov Competition in Riga. In 2011 he was awarded the German Business Music Prize – one of the most important new generation prizes for young musicians in Germany. In 2012, Valentin Radutiu won second prize at the International Enescu Competition in Bucharest. Since the 2012/13 season Valentin Radutiu has received the support of the Bayer Kultur Project ›stART‹ which offers intensive and individual assistance to its musicians.

Valentin Radutiu has performed with the Camerata Salzburg, the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, among several others. He has performed in well-known concert halls in Munich, Berlin, Hong Kong, Bucharest and Riga as well as in several renowned festivals. With his long-term pianist Per Rundberg, Radutiu has recorded and released several CDs and his debut CD, released in 2011, contains recordings of works by Lalo, Ravel and Magnard as well as the exemplary first complete recording of the entire works for cello and piano by George Enescu.

Radutiu plays a 1685 Cremona cello by Francesco Ruggieri.

With his compelling interpretations of Mozart, Jérémie Rhorer took the international music scene by storm almost twenty years ago. Since then, this French conductor and composer has successfully moved between opera and symphonic music. Rhorer was already performing at a high level as a child and went on to study conducting with Emil Tchakarov, Karajan’s renowned assistant, before finally finding his artistic calling whilst studying composition with Thierry Escaich.

Through Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, which he founded in 2005 and continues to lead to this day, Rhorer is regarded as one of the pioneers of historically informed performance practice for the Classical and Romantic repertoire, exploring a path stretching from Haydn and Mozart through Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms to Bruckner, and from Gluck and Berlioz to Verdi and Wagner –  always with the aim of reviving the timbres and theatricality, in keeping with the spirit of the work.

Guest engagements regularly take him to renowned orchestras worldwide as well as to Europe’s leading opera houses and festivals in Vienna, Amsterdam, Zurich, Brussels, Salzburg, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Venice and Florence, with a repertoire expanding from Mozart to Schoenberg.

In 2025, Jérémie Rhorer received the Honor of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.

This sought-after conductor has been working closely with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years. Their current collaboration focuses on works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.