A three-time Grammy Award winner, she combines expressive musicality, artistic curiosity and technical skill with a diverse repertoire that she shares with the worldwide community. Hilary Hahn is a prolific recording artist whose recordings have won every international award. A staunch advocate of new music, she has also commissioned, premiered and recorded many contemporary works, including the Grammy award-winning Album ›In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores‹. This American violinist is currently Artist in Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and at London’s Wigmore Hall.

This season, Hahn appears as soloist on concertos like Einojuhani Rautavaara’s ›Deux Sérénades‹ in its US premiere and many more. She also performs several solo recitals this season as well as the Bach repertoire.

Since the beginning of her career, Hilary Hahn has cultivated a strong relationship with her fans which, in addition to her social media activities and ›Bring Your Own Baby‹ concerts for parents with small children, also includes various educational initiatives. Hilary Hahn has received numerous awards and much recognition for her multifaceted commitment. In 2021 she was awarded the Herbert von Karajan Prize and in the same year gave the opening address at the annual ›Women in Classical Music Symposium‹. In 2023, she was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by Musical America. Hilary Hahn has a longstanding artistic friendship and collaboration with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen.

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, his only German orchestra, since 2004. One highlight of the collaboration were the celebrated concerts of the Beethoven cycle, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Järvi received numerous awards for the recordings, including the ›Echo Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹ and the prestigious ›Annual Prize of the German Record Critics‹.

Following the Beethoven project, he and the orchestra tackled the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms, which received similarly enthusiastic reviews. Paavo Järvi is also Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, and since 2019/20 Artistic Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly makes appearances as guest conductor with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by the renowned British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. In 2019, he received the ›Opus Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹.