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.

Aurel Dawidiuk is considered by the Hamburger Abendblatt as a »new star in the conducting firmament«.  This is not least due to the rapid rise of this promising 25-year-old’s exceptional talent. Dawidiuk is also a very successful pianist and organist. In the 2025/26 season, he will begin his second season as deputy conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and will also make many debuts, including with the Bamberg Symphoniker the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and many others. In addition, this versatile musician will embark on an organ concert tour in spring 2026, with performances at venues including the Tonhalle Zurich, the Vienna Konzerthaus and Köln Philharmonie. Aurel Dawidiuk has already performed with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen on several occasions, both as a pianist and as a conductor.

Born in Hanover, Aurel Dawidiuk began his piano training at the age of six and became a junior student at Hanover College of Music, Drama and Media in 2014. He then studied conducting with Johannes Schlaefli and Christoph-Mathias Mueller at Zurich College of the Arts. Since then, Aurel Dawidiuk has attended masterclasses with Paavo Järvi, Jaap van Zweden, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Joana Mallwitz, and counts Hatto Beyerle, Gabriele Leporatti and Ulrike Adler among his mentors. Aurel Dawidiuk has also won numerous awards, including the Ritter Prize 2024, the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Menhuin Festival 2023 and first prize at the International Hans von Bülow Competition Meiningen 2023 in the category ›Conducting from the Piano‹. His current album, ›B-A-C-H; Hommage à…‹ earned him two nominations for the Opus Klassik award.