Born in Paris, Antoine Tamestit is internationally renowned as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician for his unsurpassed technique and the beauty of his colourful tone. His repertoire is wide-ranging and extends from the Baroque period to the present day. His involvement with contemporary music is reflected in numerous premières and recordings of new works. Antoine Tamestit regularly performs with major orchestras such as the Berlin and Wiener Philharmoniker, the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as well as with renowned conductors such as Daniel Harding, Paavo Järvi, Klaus Mäkelä, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sir Antonio Pappano, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christian Thielemann and Jaap van Zweden.

The 2024/25 season will see this violist as Artist in Residence with Radio France, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León. He also makes his debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, he is on quintet tours with Isabelle Faust, among others, and on a trio tour with Sir András Schiff and Jörg Widmann. Antoine Tamestit plays a 1672 Stradivarius viola, made available to him by the Habisreutinger Foundation.

With her numerous first-class debuts conducting top international orchestras, her consistently musical output and her joy of discovery across the entire repertoire, Marie Jacquot has played her way to the pinnacle of exciting young conductors. In 2016, she was Kirill Petrenko’s assistant at the Bayerische Staatsoper and conducted two of her own productions at the Münchner Opernfestspiele. After completing a degree in Trombone in Paris, this French conductor studied Conducting in Vienna and Weimar and has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker since 2023. In 2024, she also took on the role of Principal Conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre Copenhagen. From the 2026/27 season, she will be Chief Conductor of the WDR Sinfonieorchester.

Her debuts and re-invitations in recent seasons have included the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Münchener Philharmoniker, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. In the 2023 and 2024 seasons, Marie Jacquot was a guest at the Copenhagen Opera for a new production of ›Eugene Onegin‹ and conducted concerts with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Her awards include the Ernst von Schuch Conducting Prize 2019 and in February 2024 she won the French Victoires de la Musique Classique in the category ›Révélation/Chef d’orchestre‹.

In the 2024/25 season, she will make give debuts with among others the Orchestre National de France, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Hamburger Philharmoniker und the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.