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.

Veronika Eberle’s exceptional talent and musicality are highly regarded by many of the world’s finest orchestras, concert halls and festivals, as well as by some of the most renowned conductors. In the 2025/26 season, this violinist will make her debut at Carnegie Hall as part of a tour of Europe and the USA with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Recent highlights include her US debuts with Karina Canellakis and the New York Philharmonic, Nathalie Stutzmann and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and with Petr Popelka conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. Other key partners of this violinist include orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouworkest, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, as well as conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Christian Thielemann and many others. Veronika Eberle also works closely with the composers Toshio Hosokawa and Jörg Widmann.

As a dedicated chamber musician, this violinist regularly performs with musicians such as Sol Gabetta, Steven Isserlis, Julia Hagen, Beatrice Rana, Nils Mönkemeyer and Dénes Várjon, and appears at festivals including Klosters Music, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and the Rheingau Musik Festival, as well as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, to name but a few. In the 2024/25 season, she returned to London’s Wigmore Hall as Artist in Residence. Veronika Eberle plays the 1693 ›Ries‹ Stradivarius, kindly loaned to her by the Reinhold Würth Music Foundation.