Born in 1984 in Moscow, Boris Giltburg moved to Tel Aviv at an early age, studying with his mother and then with Arie Vardi. In 2013 he won first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, catapulting his career to a new level.

Giltburg has appeared with many leading orchestras such as Philharmonia Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, DSO Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Baltimore Symphony. He made his BBC Proms debut in 2010 and has toured regularly to South America and China.

Giltburg has played recitals in leading venues such as Carnegie Hall, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Tokyo Toppan Hall, Bozar Brussels, London Southbank Centre, Louvre, and Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He has also worked with conductors such as Marin Alsop, Jiří Behlohlávek, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Neeme Jaervi, Alexander Shelley and many more.

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, his only German orchestra, since 2004. One highlight of the collaboration were the celebrated concerts of the Beethoven cycle, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Järvi received numerous awards for the recordings, including the ›Echo Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹ and the prestigious ›Annual Prize of the German Record Critics‹.

Following the Beethoven project, he and the orchestra tackled the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms, which received similarly enthusiastic reviews. Paavo Järvi is also Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, and since 2019/20 Artistic Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly makes appearances as guest conductor with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by the renowned British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. In 2019, he received the ›Opus Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹.

With his extreme skill and virtuosity as well as a willingness to transcend genre boundaries, Jeroen Berwaerts is outstanding in both the well-known standard repertoire, and as a pioneer of new works and exciting programming experiments. Jeroen Berwaerts’ open-mindedness and resplendent playing have brought him invitations to internationally renowned music festivals, including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Takefu International Music Festival in Japan and many more.

He has appeared as a soloist with leading orchestras including the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and the Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen under conductors such as Alan Gilbert or Yakov Kreizberg.

His recent concert highlights include the Dutch premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s second trumpet concerto with the Philharmonie Zuidnederland, as well as the Belgian premiere of Francesco Filidei’s ›Carnevale‹. His performances of HK Gruber’s virtuosic trumpet concerto ›Busking‹ at the First Hamburg International Music Festival and Bregenz Festival garnered high praise.

As well as his burgeoning trumpet career, Jeroen Berwaerts has completed jazz vocal studies at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. He has developed several programmes with piano, strings, organ and brass ensemble in which he combines trumpet and voice as well as classical, jazz and other genres in a truly unique way. His latest release – ›Signals from Heaven‹, recorded with Salaputia Brass – includes music by Takemitsu, Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Gershwin and Ellington as well as American spirituals.