Jan Lisiecki’s interpretations and technique testify to a maturity far in advance of his years. At the age of 28, this Canadian can be seen giving concerts on the world’s great stages across the globe. In recent years, he has built up close relationships with conductors such as Sir Antonio Pappano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Daniel Harding, Manfred Honeck and Claudio Abbado and has performed with renowned orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestre de Paris, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the London Symphony Orchestra. Recent re-invitations have brought him together again with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Filarmonica della Scala and others.

At the age of 18, Jan Lisiecki was the youngest ever winner of the Young Artist Award by Gramophone Magazine and received the Leonard Bernstein Award. At the age of 15, the musician signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. His cycle of Beethoven songs recorded with Matthias Goerne was awarded the Diapason d’Or. Lisiecki’s eighth recording for this traditional label – a double album of Frédéric Chopin’s collected Nocturnes – immediately reached the top of the classical music charts in North America and Europe. Following his debut the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen in 2019, this outstanding pianist now returns.

The Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra owes her international breakthrough to her rousing concerts and her commitment to music by Latin American composers. She is the official cultural ambassador of her homeland Mexico and to date has conducted over one hundred of the world’s most renowned orchestras, including the Orchestre de Paris, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphoniker and the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. Between 2017 and 2019, Alondra de la Parra was also General Music Director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, making her the first ever female chief conductor of an Australian orchestra.

She became known to a wide audience due to her many live concert broadcasts and appearances, in particular through the web and television editions of the Deutsche Welle’s ›Musica Maestra‹ in which Alondra de la Parra was not only a protagonist but also appeared as the reporter. In the 2019/20 season, the concert she conducted in the Frauenkirche with the Staatskapelle Dresden was broadcast on ZDF, as indeed was her celebrated return to the Orchestre de Paris, which was broadcast live on ARTE. Further highlights of the last season include a world premiere of the new production about Carlus Padrissa – T.H.A.M.O.S. – at the Salzburg Mozart Week, together with the Camerata Salzburg and the Catalan theatre group La Fura dels Baus, as well as her debut at the Easter Festival in Aix-ex-Provence.

This artist has enjoyed a close and regular working relationship with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for many years.