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.

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since 2004. One of the many highlights of this collaboration has been the acclaimed, globally celebrated performances of the Beethoven cycle, for which Järvi received numerous awards including the ›Echo Klassik Conductor of the Year‹ award and the prestigious annual ›German Record Critics‹’ award. Their Beethoven project was followed by an intensive exploration of the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms; both cycles also received numerous awards. Since autumn 2021, the focus has been on Joseph Haydn’s twelve London symphonies, and since 2024, an intensive exploration of Franz Schubert’s symphonies.

Paavo Järvi has been Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich since the start of the 2019/2020 season. He is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Estonian Festival Orchestra and the Pärnu Music Festival, which he established in 2011. He regularly appears as a guest conductor with major orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by both the British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. This was followed in 2019 by the Opus Klassik award for ›Conductor of the Year‹. Other awards include a Grammy Award for his recording of Sibelius’ Cantatas with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the title ›Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres‹, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2015, Paavo Järvi also received the Sibelius Medal in recognition of his work in bringing this Finnish composer’s music to a wider audience, and in 2012 he received the Hindemith Prize for Art and Humanity. As a committed supporter of Estonian culture, Paavo Järvi was awarded the Order of the White Star by the President of Estonia in 2013.