Pablo Heras-Casado enjoys an unusually varied and broad-ranging career, encompassing the great symphonic and operatic repertoire, historically informed performances, and contemporary scores. His musical character is best reflected by the quality of the long-term relationships he has nurtured with prestigious orchestras all around the world, while developing new ones each season.

During the 2019/20 season he marks his debut with Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Minnesota Orchestra, Royal Stockholm and Czech Philharmonic orchestras and Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, while making return guest appearances with Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonia Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, NHK Symphony and Pittsburgh Symphony orchestras, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk and Verbier Festival Orchestra. He furthermore returns to The Juilliard School in New York to work with their period-instrument ensemble Juilliard415.

In the operatic field, Heras-Casado conducts Wagner’s ›Die Walküre‹ at Teatro Real in Madrid, where he is Principal Guest Conductor, continuing his first-ever complete Ring Cycle, which started with ›Das Rheingold‹ in the previous year and will span four consecutive seasons. He also returns to Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin to conduct ›Don Giovanni‹, a co-production of the opera house with the Salzburg Festival.

He enjoys a long-term collaboration with Freiburger Barockorchester with extensive touring and recording projects and is currently Director of the Granada Festival.

An extensive discography includes a developing series of recordings for the label harmonia mundi, entitled ›Die Neue Romantik‹. Selections of this series feature the music of Mendelssohn, Schumann and other Romantic composers.

Born in Donauwörth, this violinist has gained worldwide recognition for her exceptional talent, musical maturity and aplomb. Veronika Eberle came to international attention in 2006 at the age of 16 when Sir Simon Rattle introduced her at the Salzburg Easter Festival in a performance of Beethoven’s violin concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Since then, she has worked with almost all the renowned orchestras from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to the New York Philharmonic as well as with major conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Kent Nagano, Paavo Järvi and Sir Roger Norrington. Recent concert highlights include performances with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and a tour with the London Symphony Orchestra. Her most recent chamber music projects include performances at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival with Sol Gabetta and Antoine Tamestit as well as the Schubertiade with Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih.

This season, this violinist will make her debut with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer as well as with David Afkham and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, among others. Veronika Eberle also returns to London’s Wigmore Hall as Artist in Residence and performs with Sir Simon Rattle and the Symphonie Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Veronika Eberle plays the Stradivarius ›Dragonetti‹ violin from 1700, generously loaned by the Nippon Music Foundation, as well as the 1693 ›Ries‹ Stradivarius from 1693 courtesy of the Reinhold Würth Musikstiftung gGmbH.