Born in Paris in 1988, Camille Thomas began playing the cello at 4 years of age. She went on to study first with Frans Helmerson at the Hanns Eisler Music College in Berlin, and later with Wolfgang Emmanuel Schmidt at the Franz Liszt Music College in Weimar. Even during her studies, this young cellist was already enjoying huge success in renowned concert halls such as the Théâtre des Champs-Èlysèes in Paris, the Victoria Hall in Geneva and in the Jerusalem Music Center. She has worked with orchestras such as the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Baden Baden Philharmonie, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2017 she appeared at the ›Echo Klassik Gala‹ in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie.

Alongside her work as a soloist, Camille Thomas is also a passionate chamber musician and has performed with colleagues such as Menahem Pressler, Beatrice Berrut and Julien Libeer. In 2014, this Franco-Belgian musician was nominated Newcomer at the French Grammy equivalent ›Les Victoires de la Musique‹ and was also named ›New Talent of the Year 2014‹ by the European Broadcasting Union Competition. She has also received rave reviews for her first CD, and for her second she was awarded an ›Echo Klassik‹. Thomas is now an exclusive artist for Deutsche Grammophon. Her debut album appeared in 2017, performed together with Alexandre Bloch and the Orchestre National de Lille. Camille Thomas’ instrument is a prized Ferdinand Gagliano.

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‹.