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.

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.