The violinist, viola player and composer Julian Rachlin counts as one of the most exciting and respected musicians of our time. Born in Lithuania, he moved to Vienna with his family in 1978, where he later studied at the Conservatory. After receiving the ›Young Musician of the Year‹ Award at the 1988 Eurovision Competition, Rachlin gave his debut as the youngest soloist with Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic. Today, this violinist can look back on a number of appearances as soloist with some of the world’s leading conductors and orchestras including with Mariss Jansons and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, with Riccardo Chailly and the Filarmonica della Scala and with Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Last season’s highlights include the collaboration between Krzysztof Urbański and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, performances with Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and also with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra. As a chamber musician and recitalist Julian Rachlin has performed with renowned artists such as Martha Argerich and Misha Maisky.  More recently, Julian Rachlin has also established himself as a highly regarded conductor, known for his dynamic style and lively interpretations. Julian Rachlin plays the ›ex Liebig‹ violin, made by Stradivarius in 1704, on loan from the Angelika Prokopp Private Foundation.

With his compelling interpretations of Mozart, Jérémie Rhorer took the international music scene by storm almost twenty years ago. Since then, this French conductor and composer has successfully moved between opera and symphonic music. Rhorer was already performing at a high level as a child and went on to study conducting with Emil Tchakarov, Karajan’s renowned assistant, before finally finding his artistic calling whilst studying composition with Thierry Escaich.

Through Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, which he founded in 2005 and continues to lead to this day, Rhorer is regarded as one of the pioneers of historically informed performance practice for the Classical and Romantic repertoire, exploring a path stretching from Haydn and Mozart through Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms to Bruckner, and from Gluck and Berlioz to Verdi and Wagner –  always with the aim of reviving the timbres and theatricality, in keeping with the spirit of the work.

Guest engagements regularly take him to renowned orchestras worldwide as well as to Europe’s leading opera houses and festivals in Vienna, Amsterdam, Zurich, Brussels, Salzburg, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Venice and Florence, with a repertoire expanding from Mozart to Schoenberg.

In 2025, Jérémie Rhorer received the Honor of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.

This sought-after conductor has been working closely with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years. Their current collaboration focuses on works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.