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.

In recent years, Duncan Ward has established himself as one of the most exciting and versatile conductors of his generation, whose lively interpretations of the classical repertoire are praised as much as his interpretations of 20th century masterpieces. Duncan Ward has been Chief Conductor of Philzuid since 2021. In addition to concerts in the Netherlands, the 2026/27 sees Duncan return to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Osaka Philharmonic and Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra, and debut with the Tampere Philharmonic, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Warsaw Philharmonic.

Highlights of the previous three seasons have included debuts with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester and NDR Radiophilharmonie; alongside returns to the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony, Gürzenich-Orchester, Orchestre Philharmonique du
Luxembourg, Musikkollegium Winterthur and Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen.

Duncan made his North American debut conducting ›Die Zauberflöte‹ at The Metropolitan Opera in 2022.

Recent opera credits have included ›A Midsummer Night’s Dream‹ for Opernhaus Zürich, ›Turn of the Screw‹ for English National Opera, ›Così fan tutte‹ for Opéra National de Lyon, ›Death in Venice‹ for Stuttgart Staatsoper, ›Peter Grimes‹ for Oper Köln and ›Bluthochzeit‹ for Oper Frankfurt.

Duncan’s passion for a wide range of repertoire has seen him work with leading specialist ensembles ranging from Les Siècles and Balthasar Neumann Orchestra to Ensemble Modern and Ensemble intercontemporain. He studied Indian classical music with Ravi Shankar as a result of his charitable work in Europe and Asia.

According to the French newspaper ›Le Monde‹, the London-born Timothy Ridout has – with just a few strokes of his bow – earned himself a place in the exclusive circle of great viola players. This season, at 31 years old, he is once again a guest performer with many leading international orchestras, including with Hannu Lintu and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lorenza Borrani and the Orchestre de Paris and Sir Mark Elder with the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. At the invitation of Roberto Abbado, he is also a guest performer with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Bologna and continues his close collaboration with Sir Simon Rattle. A highly regarded chamber musician, Ridout presents both solo and ensemble programmes. His chamber music partners include Janine Jansen, Frank Dupree, Isabelle Faust, Vilde Frang, Pablo Ferrández, Denis Kozhukhin and Klaus Mäkelä.

In March 2026, Timothy Ridout will be the artistic director of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Spring Festival, where he will present 17 programmes. He will also continue his three-year residency with the Junge Wilde in Dortmund and play three different programmes at Wigmore Hall. In Asia, he will perform at the first edition of the Verbier Festival in Shenzhen, the Beare’s Premiere Music Festival in Hong Kong and the NSO International Chamber Music Festival in Taipei. Ridout is also known for his extensive discography and records regularly for Harmonia Mundi. His latest album, together with pianist Jonathan Ware and featuring 20th-century French music, was released in May 2026.