According to the French newspaper ›Le Monde‹, the London-born Timothy Ridout has – with just a few strokes of his bow – earned himself a place in the exclusive circle of great viola players. This season, at 31 years old, he is once again a guest performer with many leading international orchestras, including with Hannu Lintu and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lorenza Borrani and the Orchestre de Paris and Sir Mark Elder with the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. At the invitation of Roberto Abbado, he is also a guest performer with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Bologna and continues his close collaboration with Sir Simon Rattle. A highly regarded chamber musician, Ridout presents both solo and ensemble programmes. His chamber music partners include Janine Jansen, Frank Dupree, Isabelle Faust, Vilde Frang, Pablo Ferrández, Denis Kozhukhin and Klaus Mäkelä.

In March 2026, Timothy Ridout will be the artistic director of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Spring Festival, where he will present 17 programmes. He will also continue his three-year residency with the Junge Wilde in Dortmund and play three different programmes at Wigmore Hall. In Asia, he will perform at the first edition of the Verbier Festival in Shenzhen, the Beare’s Premiere Music Festival in Hong Kong and the NSO International Chamber Music Festival in Taipei. Ridout is also known for his extensive discography and records regularly for Harmonia Mundi. His next album, together with pianist Jonathan Ware and featuring 20th-century French music, will be released in May 2026.

Born in Donauwörth, this violinist has gained worldwide recognition for her exceptional talent, musical maturity and aplomb. Veronika Eberle came to international attention in 2006 at the age of 16 when Sir Simon Rattle introduced her at the Salzburg Easter Festival in a performance of Beethoven’s violin concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Since then, she has worked with almost all the renowned orchestras from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to the New York Philharmonic as well as with major conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Kent Nagano, Paavo Järvi and Sir Roger Norrington. Recent concert highlights include performances with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and a tour with the London Symphony Orchestra. Her most recent chamber music projects include performances at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival with Sol Gabetta and Antoine Tamestit as well as the Schubertiade with Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih.

This season, this violinist will make her debut with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer as well as with David Afkham and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, among others. Veronika Eberle also returns to London’s Wigmore Hall as Artist in Residence and performs with Sir Simon Rattle and the Symphonie Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Veronika Eberle plays the Stradivarius ›Dragonetti‹ violin from 1700, generously loaned by the Nippon Music Foundation, as well as the 1693 ›Ries‹ Stradivarius from 1693 courtesy of the Reinhold Würth Musikstiftung gGmbH.