Cultivated, technically brilliant and musically subtle – an eloquent summary of why Piemontesi is one of the most outstanding pianists of our time. Born in Locarno, he began his studies with Arie Vardi and continued with Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Cécile Ousset and Alexis Weissenberg. He has taken up invitations to perform with some of the world’s leading orchestras, for example the Cleveland Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic, the Hessian and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic. In addition, this virtuoso musician has worked with respected conductors such as Marek Janowski, Manfred Honeck, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Charles Dutoit and he enjoys a particularly close working relationship with Sir Roger Norrington.

In addition to his solo career, Piemontesi is an equally devoted advocate of chamber music. He is a passionate creator of chamber and recital programmes which can be heard in major concert halls and renowned festivals across the world, performing with eminent musicians such as Antoine Tamestit, Jörg Widmann, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Daniel Müller-Schott and the Emerson Quartet. In 2016 he began a Mozart Cycle in London’s Wigmore Hall, performing all the Mozart sonatas over three seasons. Piemontesi has also released several highly acclaimed CD recordings, featuring works by Mozart, Schumann, Dvorak, Debussy and, just recently, the Années de Pèlerinage by Liszt. As prize-winner of several renowned competitions, Piemontesi has won international acclaim and in 2009 was named a BBC New Generation Artist.

Jérémie Rhorer is one of the most versatile and intellectually challenging conductors of his generation. As founder and musical director of the orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, this French conductor is continuing artist-innovator tradition through his exploration of 18th and 19th century repertoire performed on historical instruments. He is also a renowned composer and winner of the Prix Pierre Cardin. For more than ten years, Jérémie Rhorer has developed a close relationship with the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, where he has conducted a wide range of standard, rarely performed and contemporary operas. Rhorer has also conducted major international orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a sought-after opera conductor, he has also conducted productions at the Wiener and Bayerische Staatsoper, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and is regularly invited to Europe’s most prestigious festivals. Highlights of the current season include his debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Bordeaux-Aquitaine and at Zürich Opera House with a new production of Offenbach’s rare opera ›Barkouff‹. In recent years, Rhorer and Le Cercle de l’Harmonie have initiated an innovative residency at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence with an educational programme for new audiences. Jérémie Rhorer has been a regular guest at The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for years. Together they are currently working on a special Tchaikovsky cycle, which will be presented on tour in Germany and Europe this year and in the coming years.