Born in Tokyo in 1999, this young violinist is considered an outstanding talent and one of the most promising violinists of her generation. Moné Hattori began playing the violin at the age of five. She took lessons from Akiko Tatsumi and later studied in Switzerland with Zahar Bron. Aged eight, she performed with an orchestra for the first time and in 2009, she was the youngest musician ever to win first prize and the special prize at the Lipinski Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poland. This was followed by her recital debut in Milan at the age of 11, concerts in Europe and Russia and other internationally renowned prizes such as the Grand Prix at the Boris Goldstein International Competition.

In October 2016, Hattori released her first CD, including Shostakovich’s 1st Violin Concerto, which she recorded with the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and which received many awards. Since then, Moné Hattori has performed on many major stages and tours with orchestras such as the New Japan Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. Her debut in Bremen with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen is eagerly awaited.

The Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti has, in recent years, established a close relationship with many international orchestras. She has given debuts in previous seasons with RTE National Symphony in Dublin, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestra dell’ Arena di Verona, the Irish National Opera and the Orchestra della Toscana – of which she was Principal Guest Conductor until May 2022.

Among the most recent highlights are her return to the Stuttgart Kammerorchester and debuts with the Paris and the Stuttgart Opera Orchestras, the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Dresdner Philharmonie as well as the Helsingborg Symphony. A special highlight at the end of 2023 will be the forthcoming collaboration with the Royal Swedish Opera in a new production of ›Don Giovanni‹. In addition to her preference for the core Classical repertoire of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and her dedication to her work in opera, this conductor also committed to attracting new audiences to classical music with unusual formats. Last year she conducted the Irish National Opera’s first virtual reality community opera whose creative process involved people from all over Ireland. In Bremen, Venditti gave her debut with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen to great acclaim at the 2022 Musikfest Bremen and is now returning to the orchestra.