Sol Gabetta is as welcome a guest with the major international orchestras as in the world’s major concert halls and at the most important festivals. Highlights from recent seasons include her celebrated residencies with the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Bamberg Symphoniker, her brilliant performance with Eun Sun and the Orchestre National de France and concerts with Valery Gergiev and the Münchner Philharmoniker. In 2020 she premiered the ›Concerto en Sol‹ composed for her by Wolfgang Rihm. In 2018 in her role as ›Artiste étoile‹ at the Lucerne Festival, she joined forces once again with Franz Welser-Möst and the Wiener Philharmoniker, François-Xavier Roth and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and also with Marin Alsop and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Her chamber music projects are also in worldwide demand such as in New York’s Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Rhiengau Music Festival and the Bonn Beethovenfest. A large network of eminent musicians appears at Switzerland’s Solsberg Festival, founded by Sol Gabetta and directed by her since its inception in 2006. This Argentinian cellist has received numerous awards for her outstanding artistic activities, including the Herbert von Karajan Prize at the Salzburg Osterfestspiele 2018 and the Opus Klassik ›Instrumentalist of the Year‹ Award 2019. Sol Gabetta has worked with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years.

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.