• Sat. 13.04.
  • 7.30 p.m.

  • ·Heidelberg
    ·Aula der Neuen Universität

Works by Schubert and Brahms

Heidelberger Frühling

Unfortunately Nicola Benedetti has had to cancel her participation in our concerts in Bremen, Hamburg and Heidelberg as she is expecting her first child. We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to her and her family. We would like to thank Veronika Eberle for agreeing to stand in as substitute. The programme remains unchanged.

Programme

    • Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
    • Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major op. 77
    • Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
    • Symphony no. 2 in B major D 125

Conductor

Paavo Järvi

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‹.

Violin

Veronika Eberle

Born in Donauwörth, this violinist has gained worldwide recognition for her exceptional talent, musical maturity and aplomb. Veronika Eberle came to international attention in 2006 at the age of 16 when Sir Simon Rattle introduced her at the Salzburg Easter Festival in a performance of Beethoven’s violin concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Since then, she has worked with almost all the renowned orchestras from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to the New York Philharmonic as well as with major conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Kent Nagano, Paavo Järvi and Sir Roger Norrington. Recent concert highlights include performances with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and a tour with the London Symphony Orchestra. Her most recent chamber music projects include performances at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival with Sol Gabetta and Antoine Tamestit as well as the Schubertiade with Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih.

This season, this violinist will make her debut with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer as well as with David Afkham and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, among others. Veronika Eberle also returns to London’s Wigmore Hall as Artist in Residence and performs with Sir Simon Rattle and the Symphonie Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Veronika Eberle plays the Stradivarius ›Dragonetti‹ violin from 1700, generously loaned by the Nippon Music Foundation, as well as the 1693 ›Ries‹ Stradivarius from 1693 courtesy of the Reinhold Würth Musikstiftung gGmbH.

Conductor

Paavo Järvi

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‹.