Veronika Eberle’s exceptional talent and musicality are highly regarded by many of the world’s finest orchestras, concert halls and festivals, as well as by some of the most renowned conductors. In the 2025/26 season, this violinist will make her debut at Carnegie Hall as part of a tour of Europe and the USA with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Recent highlights include her US debuts with Karina Canellakis and the New York Philharmonic, Nathalie Stutzmann and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and with Petr Popelka conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. Other key partners of this violinist include orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouworkest, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, as well as conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Christian Thielemann and many others. Veronika Eberle also works closely with the composers Toshio Hosokawa and Jörg Widmann.

As a dedicated chamber musician, this violinist regularly performs with musicians such as Sol Gabetta, Steven Isserlis, Julia Hagen, Beatrice Rana, Nils Mönkemeyer and Dénes Várjon, and appears at festivals including Klosters Music, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and the Rheingau Musik Festival, as well as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, to name but a few. In the 2024/25 season, she returned to London’s Wigmore Hall as Artist in Residence. Veronika Eberle plays the 1693 ›Ries‹ Stradivarius, kindly loaned to her by the Reinhold Würth Music Foundation.

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 was the Beethoven cycle, acclaimed worldwide by audiences and critics alike, 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. From autumn 2021, the focus was on Joseph Haydn’s twelve London symphonies, and since 2024, an intensive exploration of Franz Schubert’s symphonies.

Järvi has been Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich since the start of the 2019/20 season. He is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Estonian Festival Orchestra and the Pärnu Music Festival. From the 2028/29 season, Järvi will take up the post of Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He also regularly appears as a guest conductor 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, 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.