Born in Vienna in 2001, Lukas Sternath performed as a Viennese choirboy on the major stages of Europe, North America and Asia. He received his musical training on the piano from Anna Malikova and Alma Sauer at the Vienna College of Music and Performing Arts. Since 2022, he has been studying with Igor Levit at Hanover College of Music, Drama and Media. His other mentors include Till Fellner, Ingolf Wunder and Sir András Schiff. In September 2022, Lukas Sternath caused a sensation at the International ARD Music Competition; in addition to first prize, he was awarded seven other special prizes including the Audience Award. The previous year, he won several prizes at the International Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition in Bolzano, the International Schubert Piano Competition in Dortmund and the European Piano Competition in Bremen.

In recent seasons, Lukas Sternath has made his recital debut at the Musikverein Vienna and performed for the first time with the Wiener Symphoniker, the SWR Symphonie Orchester and the Münchner Philharmoniker. Most recently, he made his debut in the recital series of the Brussels Flagey, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Munich Prinzregententheater, the Turin Lingotto and the Tonhalle Zürich. Further highlights included a tour with Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphoniker, performances at the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival and the Heidelberger Frühling. Nominated in 2023 by the Musikverein and Konzerthaus Wien as well as the Philharmonie du Luxembourg, Lukas Sternath was named ECHO Rising Star of the 2024/25 season.

Constantinos Carydis was born in Athens. After studying music theory and piano at Athens Conservatoire, he went on to complete his conducting studies at Munich College of Music and Performing Arts. Sought after across the world, he now receives invitations from numerous internationally renowned orchestras, including the Wiener and Berlin Philharmoniker, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, to name but a few.

During the 2025/26 season, he will be guest conductor with ensembles such as the Orchestra della Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Deutsches Sinfonie Orchester Berlin and the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. He is also returning to the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, amongst others. As an opera conductor, Carydis works regularly at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Frankfurt Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, The Wiener Staatsoper and the Berliner Staatsoper and many others. Constantinos Carydis can also be seen at major festivals in Salzburg, the Edinburgh International Festival, Dresden and Bucharest. In 2018, he made an impressive debut with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and the following year, he conducted that same orchestra at the BBC Proms in London’s Royal Albert Hall.