With his captivating tone, his outstanding technique and his deeply felt interpretations, Augustin Hadelich is considered one of the world’s best violinists. He is a welcome guest with all major orchestras, concert series and festivals. Highlights of the new season include concerts with the Berlin Philharmoniker, the Concertgebouworkest, the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Cleveland Orchestra. This violinist has also given solo recitals in London, Barcelona, Gothenburg, Tallinn, Melbourne and Abu Dhabi. He can be heard as a duo with pianist Francesco Piemontesi in Budapest, Dresden, Katowice, Rome and Bologna and, in summer 2025, will be giving several concerts with orchestras in Asia.

Born in Italy to German parents and now a US and German citizen, Augustin Hadelich studied with Joel Smirnoff at the Juilliard School in New York. This violinist has received numerous awards, including a Grammy Award. The trade magazine Musical America voted him ›Instrumentalist of the Year‹ in 2018. Hadelich has also been teaching at Yale School of Music since 2021. He plays the 1744 ›Leduc, ex Szeryng‹ by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, on loan from the Tarisio Trust.

Jérémie Rhorer is one of the most versatile and intellectually challenging conductors of his generation. As founder and musical director of the orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, this French conductor is continuing artist-innovator tradition through his exploration of 18th and 19th century repertoire performed on historical instruments. He is also a renowned composer and winner of the Prix Pierre Cardin. For more than ten years, Jérémie Rhorer has developed a close relationship with the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, where he has conducted a wide range of standard, rarely performed and contemporary operas. Rhorer has also conducted major international orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a sought-after opera conductor, he has also conducted productions at the Wiener and Bayerische Staatsoper, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and is regularly invited to Europe’s most prestigious festivals. Highlights of the current season include his debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Bordeaux-Aquitaine and at Zürich Opera House with a new production of Offenbach’s rare opera ›Barkouff‹. In recent years, Rhorer and Le Cercle de l’Harmonie have initiated an innovative residency at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence with an educational programme for new audiences. Jérémie Rhorer has been a regular guest at The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for years. Together they are currently working on a special Tchaikovsky cycle, which will be presented on tour in Germany and Europe this year and in the coming years.