Patricia Kopatchinskaja is known for her unlimited creative potential and her eclectic repertoire. With a combination of depth, brilliance and humour, her focus is always on getting to the heart of the music – be it with an extraordinary performance of a traditional violin classic or with a scenic project that she presents as an experimental performance dramatist. She is a »player with rare expressive energy and disarming informality«, writes the ›New York Times‹ about this exceptional, Moldovan-born musician and her boundary-breaking approach. Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s absolute priority is the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. She works with leading orchestras, conductors and festivals worldwide.

This season, Kopatchinskaja brings her versatility to innovative curated projects and residencies at London’s Southbank Centre, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Philharmonie Essen. She is also an Associated Artist of the SWR Experimentalstudio, one of the most important international research centres in the field of electronic music. The 2023/24 season began for this violinist with a tour with the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Antonio Pappano, concerts with Hannu Lintu and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Aziz Shokakimov and the Philharmonique de Strasbourg as well as the world premiere of Aureliano Cattaneo’s Violin Concerto and performances with the Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Violinist, conductor and composer Pekka Kuusisto is widely recognised for his artistic freedom and fresh approach to the repertoire. He is Artistic Director of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Co-Director of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also an artistic partner of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and has been an ›Artistic Best Friend‹ of the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since 2017. Last season, Kuusisto made his debut as a violinist with the Berliner Philharmoniker and as conductor with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. This season he has performed with the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, among others.

In addition to being an enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music who regularly premieres new works himself, Pekka Kuusisto is a gifted improviser, collaborating with people from across the artistic spectrum. Unfettered by conventional genre boundaries, his recent projects have included collaborations with composer and pianist Hauschka and percussionist Samuli Kosminen, Dutch neurologist Erik Scherder, electronic music pioneer Brian Crabtree and many more. In 2022, Kuusisto will release his first album as a conductor together with violinist Vilde Frang and the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen.

Bettina Wild moved from her native city of Münster to study the flute in Vienna, where she graduated ›with distinction‹ and received the Prize of Merit of the Austrian Ministry for Outstanding Artistic Achievements.

Subsequently she was a member of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. Following a brief appointment in Münster, she became a soloist with The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen in 1993.

She has also had a teaching assignment at the University of the Arts in Bremen since 1997 and gives masterclasses at the Orchesterzentrum Dortmund and the University of Music in Lübeck.