Described by the Tagesspiegel newspaper as a »once-in-a-century talent«, Tarmo Peltokoski was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen in January 2022, thereby becoming the first conductor in the orchestra’s history to hold this position. In May 2022, he was appointed Music and Artistic Director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and was later appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Since the 2025/26 season, this Finnish conductor has been Music Director of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. From the 2026/27 season, Peltokoski will become Music Director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, having served as Designated Music Director in 2025/26. In addition, Peltokoski will begin his three-year residency as ›Exclusive Artist‹ at the Konzerthaus Dortmund in the 2025/26 season.

Peltokoski has already conducted numerous orchestras of note worldwide, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and The Los Angeles Philharmonic. He conducted his first complete ›Ring Cycle‹ at the age of 22 at the Eurajoki Bel Canto Festival. His upcoming Wagner opera productions include ›Tristan und Isolde‹ (Dutch National Opera), his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with ›Parsifal‹,  and ›Lohengrin‹ with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra.

In 2023, he received the OPUS Klassik award for his recording with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen. In October of the same year, he signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon; his debut album was released in May 2024.

Martin Fröst discovered the clarinet at the age of nine. Undoubtedly one of the most outstanding wind instrumentalists of today, Martin Fröst’s musical highlights include debuts with renowned orchestras such as the Concertgebouw Orchester, the Orchestre National de France, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, Fröst regularly collaborates with such musicians as Leif Ove Andsnes, Janine Jansen, Roland Pöntinen and Christian Tetzlaff at international concert halls and festivals. He is also Artistic Director of the ›Vinterfest‹ chamber music festival in Mora, Sweden, and of the International Chamber Music Festival in Stavanger, Norway.

Keen to expand the existing clarinet concerto repertoire, Fröst has personally championed contemporary composers, premiering works by Krysztof Penderecki and Kalevi Aho, among others. Since playing the main role in Wilfried Hiller and Michael Ende’s opera ›Der Rattenfänger‹, for which he was nominated as 1995/96 Interpreter of the Year by the magazine Opernwelt, the exceptional Swedish clarinettist has repeatedly experimented with new ideas about how to combine elements of drama, pantomime and dance in his performance presentation.