Fabian Müller has established himself as one of the most remarkable pianists of his generation. As early as 2017, he caused a sensation at the International ARD Music Competition in Munich, where he received no less than five prizes, including the Audience Award. Since then, Müller, born in 1990, has developed an international concert career at the highest level. In 2018, for example, he made his debut with the Bayerische Staatsorchester at New York’s Carnegie Hall and performed for the first time at the Elbphilharmonie the same year. In the meantime, he has made regular guest appearances at renowned concert halls and major festivals. Müller has performed with orchestras such as the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, the hr-Sinfonieorchester, the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin.

In addition, this pianist is Artistic Director of his brainchild the chamber music series ‘Bonner Zwischentöne’. His chamber music partners include Igor Levit, Liisa Randalu, Maximilian Hornung, the Schumann Quartet and Albrecht Mayer, with whom the pianist also recorded a joint Mozart album. Fabian Müller is also committed to music education. As festival pianist for the Ruhr Piano Festival’s Education Project, he works with over 300 children every year who engage creatively with modern music. This project was awarded the Junge Ohren Prize in 2014 and the Echo Klassik in 2016.

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.