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.

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.