Born in 1990, Fabian Müller is one of the most remarkable pianists of his generation. In 2017, he caused a sensation at the International ARD Music Competition in Munich, where he won an impressive five prizes. Since then, this pianist has developed a concert career at a high international level, making his debut with the Bayerischen Staatsorchester at Carnegie Hall in New York the following year and performing for the first time in the Elbphilharmonie. He now regularly appears in major concert halls, festivals and with renowned orchestras. Last season, Fabian Müller gave recitals for the first time at the Laeiszhalle as part of the prestigious Hamburg Master Pianists series and at London’s Wigmore Hall. At the invitation of Daniel Barenboim, he also performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas over eight evenings at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin.

As an enthusiastic chamber musician, Fabian Müller performs with Benjamin Appl, Bomsori Kim, Maximilian Hornung, Julia Hagen, Igor Levit, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Schumann Quartet, to name but a few. Fabian Müller also has an exclusive collaboration with the Berlin Classics label. His album featuring Schubert’s last three sonatas was released in 2022. Together with oboist Albrecht Mayer and the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, he has also recorded a Mozart album.

Fabian Müller is also committed to music education. As a festival pianist with the Echo Klassik award-winning Education Project of the Ruhr Piano Festival, he works with over 300 children every year, encouraging them to engage creatively with modern music.

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since 2004. One of the many highlights of this collaboration has been the acclaimed, globally celebrated performances of the Beethoven cycle, for which Järvi received numerous awards including the ›Echo Klassik Conductor of the Year‹ award and the prestigious annual ›German Record Critics‹’ award. Their Beethoven project was followed by an intensive exploration of the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms; both cycles also received numerous awards. Since autumn 2021, the focus has been on Joseph Haydn’s twelve London symphonies, and since 2024, an intensive exploration of Franz Schubert’s symphonies.

Paavo Järvi has been Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich since the start of the 2019/2020 season. He is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Estonian Festival Orchestra and the Pärnu Music Festival, which he established in 2011. He regularly appears as a guest conductor with major orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by both the British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. This was followed in 2019 by the Opus Klassik award for ›Conductor of the Year‹. Other awards 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 2015, Paavo Järvi also received the Sibelius Medal in recognition of his work in bringing this Finnish composer’s music to a wider audience, and in 2012 he received the Hindemith Prize for Art and Humanity. As a committed supporter of Estonian culture, Paavo Järvi was awarded the Order of the White Star by the President of Estonia in 2013.