Born into a musical family with Korean roots, Clara-Jumi Kang was the youngest student ever to have attended the Mannheim College of Music, at only four years of age. She continued her studies with Zakhar Bron at Lübeck College of Music and, at only seven years old, obtained a full scholarship at the New York Julliard School. She completed her studies at Munich College of Music. Aged only five, she gave her debut with the Hamburg Symphoniker and went on to perform with such renowned orchestras as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Köln Kammerorchester. In 2012, Clara-Jumi Kang was named by the Korean newspaper ›Dong-A Times‹ as one of the top 100 most promising and influential Koreans.

Her most recent highlights include her debut at the London Proms with conductor Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, as well as performances with the Gürzenich Orchester and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. As a passionate chamber musician, this violinist is also a member of the ›Spectrum Concerts‹ series at the Philharmonie in Berlin. Most recently, she has been the subject of great critical acclaim for her recording of Beethoven’s violin sonatas with the pianist Sunwook Kim and has also been nominated for the Opus Klassik 2022 award. Clara-Jumi Kang’s concerts in South Korea with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen are her debut with this orchestra.

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, his only German orchestra, since 2004. One highlight of the collaboration were the celebrated concerts of the Beethoven cycle, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Järvi received numerous awards for the recordings, including the ›Echo Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹ and the prestigious ›Annual Prize of the German Record Critics‹.

Following the Beethoven project, he and the orchestra tackled the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms, which received similarly enthusiastic reviews. Paavo Järvi is also Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, and since 2019/20 Artistic Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly makes appearances as guest conductor with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by the renowned British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. In 2019, he received the ›Opus Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹.