The pianist Nikolai Lugansky is known for his outstanding interpretations of Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Chopin and Debussy in particular. He has already received numerous awards for his recordings and artistic merits, including the Diapason d’Or and many others. His most recent recording ›Richard Wagner‹ was released in March 2024 and won the Premio Abbiati del Disco 2024 for solo repertoire. According to ›Bachtrack‹, »Lugansky‘s mastery of the piano is outstanding«. The renowned classical music magazine ›Gramophone‹ ranks him as one of the »seminal« artists of all time.

Nikolai Lugansky regularly works with conductors such as Kent Nagano, Yuri Temirkanov, Manfred Honeck, Vasily Petrenko and Lahav Shani and has been invited by leading international orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and many more. In the 2024/25 season, he will perform at the Teatro alla Scala, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Wiener Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall and the Tonhalle Zurich, among others. On tour, Nikolai Lugansky will also be returning to Korea, South America and the USA.

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.