Truls Mørk is an internationally renowned artist, whose playing combines intensity and grace. He has performed with the most distinguished orchestras, including the Orchestre de Paris, the Berlin, Münchner und the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Concertgebouworkest, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig as well as the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra, among many others. In doing so, he has worked with eminent conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, David Zinman, Manfred Honeck, Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Christoph Eschenbach.

As a great advocate of contemporary music, Truls Mørk has premiered over 30 new works, including Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto, under whose direction it has been performed in the Royal Festival Hall, in the Lincoln Center and at the Aix en Provence Festival. Further works he has premiered include Einojuhani Rautavaaras ›Towards the Horizon‹ with John Storgårds and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pavel Haas’ Cello Concerto with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Krzysztof Penderecki’s Concerto for Three Cellos with the NHK Symphony Orchestra. In addition, Truls Mørk has recorded many of the great works for cello on labels such as Virgin Classics, EMI and Deutsche Grammophon, for which he has won several awards, including a Grammy and an Echo Klassik. IN the 2022-23 season and in addition to his appearances with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, this cellist will also be performing with Vladimir Jurowski and the Sinfonieorchester Berlin, as well as with Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic 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‹.