Fabian Müller has established himself as one of the most remarkable pianists of his generation. As early as 2017, he caused a sensation at the International ARD Music Competition in Munich, where he received no less than five prizes, including the Audience Award. Since then, Müller, born in 1990, has developed an international concert career at the highest level. In 2018, for example, he made his debut with the Bayerische Staatsorchester at New York’s Carnegie Hall and performed for the first time at the Elbphilharmonie the same year. In the meantime, he has made regular guest appearances at renowned concert halls and major festivals. Müller has performed with orchestras such as the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, the hr-Sinfonieorchester, the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin.

In addition, this pianist is Artistic Director of his brainchild the chamber music series ‚Bonner Zwischentöne‘. His chamber music partners include Igor Levit, Liisa Randalu, Maximilian Hornung, the Schumann Quartet and Albrecht Mayer, with whom the pianist also recorded a joint Mozart album. Fabian Müller is also committed to music education. As festival pianist for the Ruhr Piano Festival’s Education Project, he works with over 300 children every year who engage creatively with modern music. This project was awarded the Junge Ohren Prize in 2014 and the Echo Klassik in 2016.

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‹.