The violinist Lisa Batiashvili has been praised by critics, colleagues and audiences alike for her virtuosity and »profound sensitivity« (Financial Times). This award-winning musician has built close relationships with some of the world’s best orchestras, conductors and soloists. From 2019 until 2021 Batiashvili will be Artistic Director of the Audi Summer Concerts in Ingolstadt.

Highlights of the 2018/19 season include the concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Boston, Chicago and BBC Symphony Orchestras as well as tours with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the Accademia Nazionalie di Santa Cecilia and as part of a trio with Gautier Capuçon and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. This violinist has also thrilled audiences as Artist in Residence with the Munich-based Konzertdirektion Hörtnagel.

As a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive artist, Lisa Batiashvili has most recently released the album ›Visions of Prokofiev‹ with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, which was awarded the 2018 Opus Klassik Award and which has been nominated for the Gramophone Award 2018. Previous recordings include the violin concertos by Tchaikovsky and Sibelius with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin.

Having studied with Ana Chumachenco and Mark Lubotsky, Lisa Batiashvili gained international recognition as the youngest participant to take part in the Sibelius Competition at 16 years of age.  She was named Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America in 2015, was named Gramophone’s Artist of the Year in 2017 and in 2018 received an honorary doctorate from the Sibelius Academy of the University of Arts in Helsinki.

Lisa Batiashvili plays a 1739 Joseph Guarneri ›del Gesu‹ violin, on generous loan from a private collector.

The Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has served as Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since 2004. One of the many highlights of this long standing collaboration was the widely acclaimed Beethoven cycle, whose performances were celebrated by critics around the world and honoured with numerous awards, including the Echo Klassik for “Conductor of the Year.” The Beethoven project was followed by an intensive exploration of the symphonic works of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms; both cycles likewise received multiple distinctions. Since autumn 2021, the orchestra has turned its focus to Joseph Haydn’s twelve London Symphonies, followed in 2024 by an in depth engagement with the symphonies of Franz Schubert.

Since the 2019/20 season, Paavo Järvi has also served as Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. Starting with the 2028/29 season, Järvi will assume the position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Estonian Festival Orchestra and the Pärnu Music Festival, which he established in 2011. As a guest conductor, he regularly appears with leading orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, Paavo Järvi was named Artist of the Year by both Gramophone magazine (UK) and Diapason (France). This was followed in 2019 by the Opus Klassik award for Conductor of the Year. Further honours include a Grammy Award for his recording of Sibelius’ Cantatas with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the title Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture. In recognition of his commitment to promoting the music of Jean Sibelius, he received the Sibelius Medal in 2015, and in 2012 he was awarded the Hindemith Prize for Art and Humanity. For his dedication to Estonian culture, Paavo Järvi was awarded the Order of the White Star by the President of Estonia in 2013, and in 2024 he received the Bremen Senate Medal for Art and Science.