Veronika Eberle’s exceptional talent and musicality are highly regarded by many of the world’s finest orchestras, concert halls and festivals, as well as by some of the most renowned conductors. In the 2025/26 season, this violinist will make her debut at Carnegie Hall as part of a tour of Europe and the USA with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Recent highlights include her US debuts with Karina Canellakis and the New York Philharmonic, Nathalie Stutzmann and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and with Petr Popelka conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. Other key partners of this violinist include orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouworkest, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, as well as conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Christian Thielemann and many others. Veronika Eberle also works closely with the composers Toshio Hosokawa and Jörg Widmann.

As a dedicated chamber musician, this violinist regularly performs with musicians such as Sol Gabetta, Steven Isserlis, Julia Hagen, Beatrice Rana, Nils Mönkemeyer and Dénes Várjon, and appears at festivals including Klosters Music, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and the Rheingau Musik Festival, as well as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, to name but a few. In the 2024/25 season, she returned to London’s Wigmore Hall as Artist in Residence. Veronika Eberle plays the 1693 ›Ries‹ Stradivarius, kindly loaned to her by the Reinhold Würth Music Foundation.

The Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has served as Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since 2004. One of the many highlights of this long standing collaboration was the widely acclaimed Beethoven cycle, whose performances were celebrated by critics around the world and honoured with numerous awards, including the Echo Klassik for “Conductor of the Year.” The Beethoven project was followed by an intensive exploration of the symphonic works of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms; both cycles likewise received multiple distinctions. Since autumn 2021, the orchestra has turned its focus to Joseph Haydn’s twelve London Symphonies, followed in 2024 by an in depth engagement with the symphonies of Franz Schubert.

Since the 2019/20 season, Paavo Järvi has also served as Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. Starting with the 2028/29 season, Järvi will assume the position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Estonian Festival Orchestra and the Pärnu Music Festival, which he established in 2011. As a guest conductor, he regularly appears with leading orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, Paavo Järvi was named Artist of the Year by both Gramophone magazine (UK) and Diapason (France). This was followed in 2019 by the Opus Klassik award for Conductor of the Year. Further honours 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 recognition of his commitment to promoting the music of Jean Sibelius, he received the Sibelius Medal in 2015, and in 2012 he was awarded the Hindemith Prize for Art and Humanity. For his dedication to Estonian culture, Paavo Järvi was awarded the Order of the White Star by the President of Estonia in 2013, and in 2024 he received the Bremen Senate Medal for Art and Science.