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.

As one of the leading conductors of opera and concert repertoire, Omer Meir Wellber regularly works with renowned orchestras such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra or the Swedish Radio Symphony. Since 2025, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburg Staatsoper and the Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester. His first opera production there in autumn 2025 was Schumann’s ›Das Paradies und die Peri‹. The programme with the Hamburg Philharmonisches Staatsorchester centres on the »multi-faceted concept of performance«. This is complemented by the new ›Die Blaue Woche‹ festival featuring chamber concerts and philharmonic concerts, with contemporary commissioned works woven into nearly all programmes. 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 and, until 2022, Principal Guest Conductor of the Semperoper Dresden. Highlights from his time as Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic from 2019 to 2022 included concerts at the BBC Proms. In 2022, the multi-talented conductor 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. Omer Meir Wellber has enjoyed a close artistic friendship with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years, as well as an intensive collaboration – most recently during a joint orchestra tour with the violinist Hilary Hahn, and conducting the Kammer­philharmonie at the Neuschwanstein Concerts in 2026 and the BBC Proms in London.