Patricia Kopatchinskaja is known for her unlimited creative potential and her eclectic repertoire. With a combination of depth, brilliance and humour, her focus is always on getting to the heart of the music – be it with an extraordinary performance of a traditional violin classic or with a scenic project that she presents as an experimental performance dramatist. She is a »player with rare expressive energy and disarming informality«, writes the ›New York Times‹ about this exceptional, Moldovan-born musician and her boundary-breaking approach. Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s absolute priority is the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. She works with leading orchestras, conductors and festivals worldwide.

This season, Kopatchinskaja brings her versatility to innovative curated projects and residencies at London’s Southbank Centre, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Philharmonie Essen. She is also an Associated Artist of the SWR Experimentalstudio, one of the most important international research centres in the field of electronic music. The 2023/24 season began for this violinist with a tour with the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Antonio Pappano, concerts with Hannu Lintu and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Aziz Shokakimov and the Philharmonique de Strasbourg as well as the world premiere of Aureliano Cattaneo’s Violin Concerto and performances with the Ensemble Intercontemporain.

The violinist, conductor and composer Pekka Kuusisto is well known for his artistic freedom and refreshing approach to the repertoire. This versatile musician debuted as a violinist in 2022 with the Berlin Philharmoniker and will be appearing in 2023 with, among others, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Featured among the most recent highlights as a conductor are appearances with the Concertgebouworkest, the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, whose ›Artistic Best Friend‹ he has been since 2017.

Since 2022, Pekka Kuusisto has been Artistic Director of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and for the 2023/24 season, will also be the First Guest Conductor and Artistic Co-Director of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.

An enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music, who regularly premieres new works, and as a talented improvisor, Pekka Kuusisto reguarly collaborates with people from across the artistic spectrum. Unfazed by the conventional boundaries of genre, his most recent projects have included collaborations with composer and pianist Hauschka and percussionist Samuli Kosminen, Dutch neurologist Erik Scherder and electronic music pioneer Brian Crabtree, among others. In 2022, Kuusisto will release his first album as a conductor together with violinist Vilde Frang and the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen.

Bettina Wild moved from her native city of Münster to study the flute in Vienna, where she graduated ›with distinction‹ and received the Prize of Merit of the Austrian Ministry for Outstanding Artistic Achievements.

Subsequently she was a member of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. Following a brief appointment in Münster, she became a soloist with The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen in 1993.

She has also had a teaching assignment at the University of the Arts in Bremen since 1997 and gives masterclasses at the Orchesterzentrum Dortmund and the University of Music in Lübeck.