A three-time Grammy Award winner, she combines expressive musicality, artistic curiosity and technical skill with a diverse repertoire that she shares with the worldwide community. Hilary Hahn is a prolific recording artist whose recordings have won every international award. A staunch advocate of new music, she has also commissioned, premiered and recorded many contemporary works, including the Grammy award-winning Album ›In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores‹. This American violinist is currently Artist in Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and at London’s Wigmore Hall.

This season, Hahn appears as soloist on concertos like Einojuhani Rautavaara’s ›Deux Sérénades‹ in its US premiere and many more. She also performs several solo recitals this season as well as the Bach repertoire.

Since the beginning of her career, Hilary Hahn has cultivated a strong relationship with her fans which, in addition to her social media activities and ›Bring Your Own Baby‹ concerts for parents with small children, also includes various educational initiatives. Hilary Hahn has received numerous awards and much recognition for her multifaceted commitment. In 2021 she was awarded the Herbert von Karajan Prize and in the same year gave the opening address at the annual ›Women in Classical Music Symposium‹. In 2023, she was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by Musical America. Hilary Hahn has a longstanding artistic friendship and collaboration with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen.

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.