Born in Paris, Antoine Tamestit is internationally renowned as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician for his unsurpassed technique and the beauty of his colourful tone. His repertoire is wide-ranging and extends from the Baroque period to the present day. His involvement with contemporary music is reflected in numerous premières and recordings of new works. Antoine Tamestit regularly performs with major orchestras such as the Berlin and Wiener Philharmoniker, the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as well as with renowned conductors such as Daniel Harding, Paavo Järvi, Klaus Mäkelä, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sir Antonio Pappano, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christian Thielemann and Jaap van Zweden.

The 2024/25 season will see this violist as Artist in Residence with Radio France, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León. He also makes his debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, he is on quintet tours with Isabelle Faust, among others, and on a trio tour with Sir András Schiff and Jörg Widmann. Antoine Tamestit plays a 1672 Stradivarius viola, made available to him by the Habisreutinger Foundation.

The Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra owes her international breakthrough to her rousing concerts and her commitment to music by Latin American composers. She is the official cultural ambassador of her homeland Mexico and to date has conducted over one hundred of the world’s most renowned orchestras, including the Orchestre de Paris, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphoniker and the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. Between 2017 and 2019, Alondra de la Parra was also General Music Director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, making her the first ever female chief conductor of an Australian orchestra.

She became known to a wide audience due to her many live concert broadcasts and appearances, in particular through the web and television editions of the Deutsche Welle’s ›Musica Maestra‹ in which Alondra de la Parra was not only a protagonist but also appeared as the reporter. In the 2019/20 season, the concert she conducted in the Frauenkirche with the Staatskapelle Dresden was broadcast on ZDF, as indeed was her celebrated return to the Orchestre de Paris, which was broadcast live on ARTE. Further highlights of the last season include a world premiere of the new production about Carlus Padrissa – T.H.A.M.O.S. – at the Salzburg Mozart Week, together with the Camerata Salzburg and the Catalan theatre group La Fura dels Baus, as well as her debut at the Easter Festival in Aix-ex-Provence.

This artist has enjoyed a close and regular working relationship with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years.