The South African soprano Golda Schultz is internationally recognised as one of the most talented and versatile artists on the classical music scene. As a radiant stage personality, this singer is equally at home in leading opera roles and as a soloist with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. Trained at the Juilliard School in New York and in the opera studio of the Bayerischen Staatsoper, Golda Schultz now enjoys great success on both sides of the Atlantic and impresses with her captivating charisma at the Salzburg Festival as well as at the Metropolitan Opera, the Wiener Staatsoper and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Opera highlights of the 2024/25 season include her role as Anne Trulove in ›The Rake’s Progress‹ at the Opéra National de Paris and Contessa Almaviva at the Bayerischen Staatsoper, as Agathe in ›Der Freischütz‹ at the Semperoper Dresden and as Pamina at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Her most recent appearances on the concert stage include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Gianandrea Noseda and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and many more. Concert highlights included her return to the BBC Proms for Fauré’s Requiem with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stéphane Denève as well as Strauss’ ›Vier letzte Lieder‹ with Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. Golda Schultz and pianist Jonathan Ware have performed together as acclaimed concert partners at venues including the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, London’s Wigmore Hall and the festivals in Edinburgh, Aix-en-Provence and Lucerne.

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‹.