Daniel Lozakovich was born in Stockholm in 2001 and began playing the violin at the age of seven. Two years later, he made his solo debut with Vladimir Spivakov. Today, this young musician captivates international critics and audiences alike and is one of the most sought-after violinists across the globe. In addition to his high-profile engagements and performances with leading orchestras and renowned conductors, Daniel Lozakovich has also achieved considerable success as a recording artist. At the age of only 15, he was signed by Deutsche Grammophon.

The 2025/26 season will be marked by a series of important debuts and high-profile engagements for Daniel Lozakovich. Among other events, he will tour with conductor Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and perform in Korea, followed by concerts with several orchestras including the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Helsinki Philharmonic. This violinist will also tour Europe with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen and his close artistic partner Tarmo Peltokoski. Another highlight of the season will be in March, when Lozakovich will perform as the dedicatee of Pascal Dusapin’s second violin concerto at its world premiere at the Fondation Vuitton with Teodor Currentzis and the Ensemble Utopia. Daniel Lozakovich plays the 1713 ›ex-Sancy‹ Stradivarius, on generous loan by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.

Omer Meir Wellber is one of the leading conductors of opera and concert repertoire. Since the 2025/26 season, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburger Staatsoper and the Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester. To mark the start of his tenure, he staged Schumann’s ›Das Paradies und die Peri‹ in collaboration with director Tobias Kratzer. The programmes with the Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester centre on the ‘»multi-faceted idea of a play«, complemented by ›Die Blaue Woche‹ festival; six chamber concerts and ten philharmonic concerts into which contemporary commissioned works are woven. Until 2024, Wellber was Music Director of the Teatro Massimo Palermo where he was awarded the Special Prize of the Italian Association of Music Critics. Prior to that, he was Music Director of the Volksoper Wien, Principal Guest Conductor of the Semperoper Dresden and Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, where he conducted at the BBC Proms, among other engagements.

In 2022, Wellber was the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s featured artist, appearing there both as a conductor and as a performer on the accordion, harpsichord and piano. He regularly works with renowned orchestras such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Symohoniker and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. This conductor has enjoyed a close artistic friendship with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years, as well as an intensive collaboration on numerous joint projects. He has toured with the orchestra on several occasions, including at the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Festival Internacional Santander in Spain and various others.