Martin Helmchen has established himself as one of today’s most in-demand and sought-after pianists, characterised by the originality and intensity of his interpretations, alongside his excellent tonal sensitivity and technical abilities. As a soloist, he has performed in recent years with some of the world’s most renowned orchestras on this side and the other side of the Atlantic, including the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, the Concertgebouworkest, the Orchestre de Paris as well as with the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, the New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra. Martin Helmchen also enjoys regular collaborations with renowned conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Manfred Honeck, Andrew Manze or Paavo Järvi and many others.

Chamber music has a special significance for the pianist. Close chamber music partners include his wife Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Julian Prégardien, Antje Weithaas, Carolin Widmann and Frank Peter Zimmermann, with whom Helmchen will perform at recitals this autumn in London, Luxembourg and Monaco. Further highlights of the 2022/23 season included concerts with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, with whom Helmchen presented three different projects. Martin Helmchen is also an exclusive artist with Alpha Classics. In 2020 he received the prestigious Gramophone Music Award for his recording of Ludwig van Beethoven’s complete piano concertos.

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.