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From Bach to Adès, pianist Kirill Gerstein’s playing is distinguished by a ferocious technique and discerning intelligence, matched with an energetic, imaginative musical presence that places him at the top of the international profession, with solo and concerto engagements taking him from Europe to the United States, East Asia and Australia. Born in the former Soviet Union, Gerstein is an American citizen based in Berlin whose heritage combines the traditions of Russian, American and Central European music-making with an insatiable curiosity. These qualities and the relationships that he has developed with orchestras, conductors, instrumentalists, singers and composers, have led him to explore a huge spectrum of repertoire both new and old.
In the coming season, Gerstein will feature as a Spotlight Artist with the London Symphony Orchestra, performing four concerti across the season at the orchestra’s Barbican Centre home and on tour, including Adès with Antonio Pappano, Rachmaninov and Ravel with Susanna Mälkki, and Gershwin with Simon Rattle. Gerstein’s flair for curation recently also found expression as Artist-in-Residence with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, in presenting a three-part concert series entitled ‘Busoni and His World’ at London’s Wigmore Hall, and as resident artist at the Festival Aix-en-Provence.
Elsewhere during 2023-24 season, Gerstein will return to orchestras such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus with Nelsons, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Ticciati, Orchestre national de France with Măcelaru, Rotterdam Philharmonic with Shani, Boston Symphony and Los Angeles Philharmonic with Adès, Munich Philharmonic with Popelka, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala with Harding, Orchestre national de Lyon with Szeps-Znaider, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila with Kavakos and with Hrůša, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich with Payare, Minnesota Orchestra with Søndergård, and the radio orchestras of Stuttgart, Hamburg, and Cologne, among others. In recital, Gerstein will reprise with Christian Tetzlaff Suite from The Tempest for violin and piano, which was written for them by Thomas Adès, for premières in New York, Washington, and Boston. Gerstein will also appear in solo recital at Carnegie Hall New York, Chamber Music Napa Valley, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Abu Dhabi Festival among others.
David Guerrier commence l’étude de la trompette à sept ans et sort en juin 2000 avec un Premier Prix (mention très bien à l’unanimité, félicitations du Jury, mention spéciale pour la qualité exceptionnelle de la prestation) au Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. Il étudie également le cor au CNSM de Lyon.
David Guerrier complète son éducation musicale au sein de l’Orchestre des Jeunes de l’Union Européenne avec Sir Colin Davis et Bernard Haitink en 1999 et Vladimir Ashkenazy en 2000, ainsi qu’à l’Académie de Musique du XXème siècle avec Pierre Boulez et David Robertson en juillet 1999.
Depuis il enchaîne les succès : avec l’Orchestre National de Bordeaux et Hans Graf à Bordeaux et aux Folles Journées de Nantes, avec l’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, au Théâtre des Champs Elysées dans le Chostakovitch avec l’orchestre de chambre de Moscou. Il a depuis été l’invité de l’Ensemble Orchestral de Paris / John Nelson, le Philharmonique de Radio France / Christian Zacharias et Diego Matheuz, Orchestre National de France / Yoel Levi et Kurt Masur, Les Siècles / François-Xavier Roth, les orchestres de Lille / Thierry Fischer et Theodor Guschlbauer, Lyon / Hugh Wolff et Jun Märkl, Marseille, Pau, l’Ensemble Matheus / Jean-Christophe Spinosi, La Chambre Philharmonique et les Orchestres du Luxembourg et de Barcelone / Emmanuel Krivine, NDR de Hanovre, l’orchestre Rio de Janeiro, les Wiener Symphoniker/Fedosseyev, l’Orchestre d’Euskadi/ Paul McCreesh, l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Marek Janowski, ainsi que des festivals de Saint-Denis, Strasbourg, la Roque d’Anthéron, La Grange de Meslay, Colmar, Radio-France et Montpellier, Schwarzenberg, Verbier, Rheingau. En décembre 2011, il effectue une tournée européenne avec l’Orchestre de chambre du Verbier Festival et Martha Argerich.
David Guerrier a reçu de nombreuses distinctions : en octobre 2000, le Premier Prix du Concours International Maurice André (à Paris) et en septembre 2001, le Premier Prix du Concours International Philys Jones (à Guebwiller) avec le Quintette de Cuivres Turbulences. En janvier 2003 il reçoit lors du Midem à Cannes le Prix AFAA (Association Française d’Action Artistique) et à New York le Prix du «Young Concert Artists Auditions ». En 2003, il remporte le premier prix au concours de l’ARD de Munich. Le dernier à avoir obtenu le premier prix de trompette était Maurice André. Il est « Soliste instrumental de l’Année » aux Victoires de la Musique 2004 et 2007.
Discographie Virgin Classics / Erato : Septuor de Camille Saint-Saëns (« Choc » / Le Monde de la Musique, disque du mois / Gramophone) et concertos de Mozart (père et fils) pour cor et trompette avec l’Orchestre de chambre de Paris et John Nelson chez Virgin Classics. Chez Naïve : le Konzertstück pour quatre cors de Schumann avec La Chambre Philharmonique et Emmanuel Krivine.
En DVD, le concerto de Chostakovitch avec Martha Argerich et l’Orchestre de chambre du Verbier Festival (Idéale Audience). Il a été cor solo de l’Orchestre National de France et l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg. Il enseigne au CNSM de Lyon.
Timur Martynov is an outstanding trumpet player, one of the golden cast of Maestro Gergiev’s musicians. Every performance he gives is filled with great talent and virtuosity, whether he plays solo or with the orchestra.
Timur Martynov was born in 1979 to a family of musicians. At the age of eight he started to study trumpet and later continued his studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
During his career, Timur has given performances at many prestigious venues around the world and participated in various festivals such as BBC Prom, Salzburg Music Festival, Beethoven Festival, Diaghilev Festival Perm, Stars of the White Nights and the Moscow Easter Festival. In 2010, at the BBC Proms he performed a solo trumpet part in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the World Orchestra for Peace.
Beside performing, Timur founded himself in lecturing and coaching. He regularly gives masterclasses in Russia and abroad and has been teaching at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and at the Special music school of the conservatory since 2019.
The Russian violinist Ilya Gringolts wins over audiences with his extremely virtuosic playing and sensitive interpretations and is always seeking out new musical challenges. As a sought-after soloist, he devotes himself to the great orchestral repertoire as well as to contemporary and seldom-played works. He has premiered compositions by Peter Maxwell Davies, Augusta Read Thomas, Christophe Bertrand, Albert Schnelzer, and Michael Jarrell. This season he will add a new work by Bernhard Lang to this list. He is also interested in historical performance practices and collaborates regularly with ensembles such as the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and Arcangelo.
Ilya Gringolts has performed with leading orchestras around the world such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and both orchestras of the SWR (Southwest German Radio). Recent highlights include projects with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Singaporean Symphony Orchestra, and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
He kicked off the 2019/20 season at the Enescu Festival with a performance of Michael Jarrell’s Violin Concerto. This is followed by further invitations to play with internationally renowned ensembles such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra della Toscana, and NRK Norwegian Radio Orchestra. In spring 2020, Ilya Gringolts is artist in residence at the Badenweiler Musiktage, where in addition to his own Gringolts Quartet Meta4 and Kristian Bezuidenhout will guest.
Ilya Gringolts is also first violinist of the Gringolts Quartet, which he founded in 2008 and which has enjoyed great success at the Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad and Edinburgh Festival, and at major international houses such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Dortmund Konzerthaus and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. An in-demand chamber musician, Ilya Gringolts regularly collaborates with artists such as James Boyd, David Kadouch, Itamar Golan, Peter Laul, Aleksandar Madzar, Nicolas Altstaedt, Christian Poltera, Andreas Ottensamer, Antoine Tamestit, and Jörg Widmann.
He has made numerous critically praised recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, BIS, Hyperion and Onyx, and received outstanding reviews for his recording of Paganini’s 24 Caprices for solo violin in 2013. In the orchestral realm, he has released recordings of Mieczysław Weinberg’s Violin Concerto with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra in 2015 as well as Dvorak’s violin concerto with the Prague Philharmonia for Deutsche Grammophon, and concertos by Korngold and Adams with the Copenhagen Philharmonic under Santtu-Matias Rouvali. In 2018 he released the second CD in his recording project of Stravinsky’s complete violin works, recorded with the Orquestra Sinfónica de Galicia under Dima Slobodeniouk.
After studying violin and composition in St. Petersburg, he attended the Juilliard School of Music where he studied with Itzhak Perlman. In 1998 he won the International Violin Competition Premio Paganini, the youngest finalist in the history of the competition. In addition to his position as professor of violin at the Zurich Academy of the Arts, he is also a Violin International Fellow at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Ilya Gringolts plays a Stradivari (1718 “ex-Prové”) violin.
Violinist Janine Jansen has longstanding relationships with the world’s most eminent orchestras and conductors. During the season 2025/26 she is “Artist-in-Residence“ with the Berliner Philharmoniker as well as “Featured Artist” with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Both residencies include a number of orchestral and chamber music projects throughout the season.
Extensive tours are planned with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Mäkelä, London Symphony Orchestra/Pappano and the Tonhalle Orchester/Järvi. She continues her Artistic Partnership with Camerata Salzburg culminating in tours across Asia and Europe.
Further orchestral engagements are planned with Orchestre de Paris/Mäkelä and Filarmonica della Scala/Luisi.
She continues her musical partnership with Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky in a number of concerts including in Vienna, Lucerne and Tokyo. Alongside her regular duo partner Denis Kozhukhin.she presents a Brahms Sonata programme on tour in South Korea and Japan.
Janine records exclusively for Decca Classics. Her latest recording released in June 2024 features Sibelius Violin Concerto and Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 together with Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and was met with high critical acclaim throughout.
She is the Founder and Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht as well as Co-Artistic Director of Sion Festival. Since November 2023 she is Professor of Violin Studies at Kronberg Academy.
Janine studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn and Boris Belkin.
Janine Jansen plays the Shumsky-Rode Stradivarius from 1715, on generous loan from a European benefactor.
Janine Jansen is a PIRASTRO artist playing Evah Pirazzi Neo strings.
Iván Fischer is founder and Music Director of the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Music Director of the Konzerthaus and the Konzerthausorchester in Berlin. Recently he has also been active as a composer: his works have been performed in the US, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Germany and Austria. He also staged successful opera performances, recently a Mozart cycle in Budapest and New York.
The 30 year-old partnership with the Budapest Festival Orchestra has become one of the greatest success stories of classical music. Intense international touring and a series of acclaimed recordings for Philips Classics, later for Channel Classics have contributed to Iván Fischer’s reputation as one of the world’s most visionary and successful orchestra leaders.
Both in Berlin and Budapest he has developed and introduced new types of concerts, “cocoa-concerts” for young children, “surprise” concerts where the programme is announced from the stage, “public dress rehearsals” where he talks to the audience, open-air concerts attracting tens of thousands of people and “staged concerts” combining concert and theatre. He has founded several festivals, including one composer marathons, the Budapest Mahlerfest which is also a forum for commissioning and presenting new compositions and the Bridging Europe Festival.
As a guest conductor Fischer works with the finest symphony orchestras of the world. He has been invited to the Berlin Philharmonic more than ten times, he leads every year two weeks of programs with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and appears with leading US symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic and the Cleveland Orchestra.
Earlier music director of Kent Opera and Lyon Opera, Principal Conductor of National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, his numerous recordings have won several prestigious international prizes.
Ivan Fischer studied piano, violin, cello and composition in Budapest, continuing his education in Vienna in Professor Hans Swarowsky’s conducting class.
Mr. Fischer is a founder of the Hungarian Mahler Society, and Patron of the British Kodály Academy. He received the Golden Medal Award from the President of the Republic of Hungary, and the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum for his services to help international cultural relations. The French Government named him Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2006 he was honored with the Kossuth Prize, Hungary’s most prestigious arts award. He is honorary citizen of Budapest. In 2011 he received the Royal Philharmonic Award and the Dutch Ovatie prize. In 2013 he was awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Nikolai Lugansky is a pianist who combines elegance and grace with powerful virtuosity, a true embodiment of the great Russian piano tradition on the international stage. A recognized master of the Russian repertoire and late Romanticism, Lugansky is particularly acclaimed for his interpretations of Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Chopin, and Debussy. The recipient of numerous awards for his recordings and artistic excellence, he collaborates regularly with conductors of the calibre of Kent Nagano, Yuri Temirkanov, Manfred Honeck, Gianandrea Noseda, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Vasily Petrenko, Lahav Shani and he is invited by leading international orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orquestra Nacional de España.
Described by Gramophone as “the most trailblazing and meteoric performer of all”, Nikolai Lugansky is a pianist of extraordinary depth and versatility. He is invited by some of the world’s most distinguished festivals, including the Aspen, Tanglewood, Ravinia and Verbier festivals. Chamber music collaborators include Vadim Repin, Alexander Kniazev, Mischa Maisky and Leonidas Kavakos.
In 2023, he celebrated the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninov’s birth by performing cycles of monographic programs at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and the Wigmore Hall in London, along with other performances throughout Europe, including at the Konzerthaus in Vienna and Berlin, the Bozar in Brussels, the Rudolfinum in Prague and the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
“Lugansky’s mastery of the piano is outstanding: over the years, his sonority has broadened and become denser, his palette of sounds even more diverse as his stature as a musician has asserted itself. […] He is in the moment and in the projection of that moment into the greater whole of a work that he makes accessible: he hears everything and lets us hear it without explaining it, letting the music happen without interfering.” (Bachtrack).
This past season’s highlights included orchestras such as the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo (Dutoit), the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (Denève), the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover (Kochanovsky), the Brussels Philharmonic (Ono), the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (Peltokovsky), the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchester (Valčuha), the Philharmonia London (Rouvali), the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (Alsop) and recitals at the Teatro alla Scala, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Wiener Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall, Seoul Arts Center, Zurich Tonhalle, Oxford Piano Festival, Piano à Lyon, among many others.
Recently appointed Chief Conductor and Music Advisor of the Philadelphia Orchestra as well as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit regularly collaborates with the world’s pre-eminent orchestras and soloists.
Renowned for polished and idiomatic interpretations of an eclectic array of musical styles and since his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1980, Charles Dutoit has been invited each season to conduct other major orchestras of the United States, including those of Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Pittsburgh.
He has also performed regularly with all the great orchestras of Europe, including the Berlin Philharmonic and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra as well as with all the London orchestras, the major orchestras of Japan, South America and Australia.
Charles Dutoit has recorded extensively for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Philips, CBS, Erato among other labels with American, European and Japanese orchestras. His more than 170 recordings, half of them with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, have garnered over 40 awards and distinctions around the world.
For 25 years (1977 to 2002) Charles Dutoit was Artistic Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, a dynamic musical partnership recognized the world over.
He has also been closely associated with the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1990 as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestra’s summer festival at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in upstate New York and he led the Orchestra in a series of distinctive recordings.
From 1991 to 2001, Charles Dutoit was Music Director of the Orchestre National de France with which he made a number of critically lauded recordings, and toured extensively on the five continents. In 1998, he was appointed Music Director of the NHK Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo) with which he has toured Europe, the United States, China and Southeast Asia and is today Music Director Emeritus of the Orchestra.
When still in his early 20’s, Charles Dutoit was invited by Von Karajan to lead the Vienna State Opera. He has since conducted regularly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, New York and the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. He also led a highly acclaimed new production of Berlioz’s masterpiece Les Troyens at the Los Angeles Music Center Opera.
In 2003, he began a series of Wagner operas – Der fliegende Holländer and the complete Ring Cycle – at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.
Artistic Director for three seasons of the Sapporo Pacific Music Festival, Charles Dutoit is presently Artistic Director of the Miyazaki International Music Festival in Japan as well as Artistic Director of the Canton International Summer Music Academy (CISMA) in Guangzhou (Canton), China which he founded in 2005.
Charles Dutoit also participated in a series of educational documentary films entitled Cities of Music produced by the NHK Television of Tokyo and which features ten musical capitals of the world.
In 1991, Charles Dutoit was made Honorary Citizen of the City of Philadelphia. In 1995, the government of Québec named him Grand Officier de l’Ordre national du Québec and in 1996, he was invested as Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France. He is the recipient of two awards by the Canadian Conference of the Arts and in 1998, Charles Dutoit was invested as Honorary Officer of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest award of merit whose other honorary recipients include John Kenneth Galbraith, James Hillier, Nelson Mandela, The Queen Mother, Vaclav Havel and Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
Charles Dutoit was born in Lausanne, Switzerland and his extensive musical training included history of music, composition, violin, viola, piano and percussion at the conservatoires of Geneva, Siena, Venice and Boston. A globetrotter motivated by his passion for history and archaeology, political science, art and architecture, Charles Dutoit has traveled in all 195 nations of the world. He maintains residences in Switzerland, Paris, Montreal, Buenos Aires and Tokyo.
English by birth, Christian Thompson worked in London as an agent representing prominent musicians for three companies in London. He left London in 2005 to become Director of the Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland, where he played an important role in nurturing and developing many extraordinary young artists who now have international careers.
In 2014, he was appointed Délégué Artistique at the Auditorium de Lyon, a 2000 seat concert hall with its own resident orchestra, the Orchestre national de Lyon with Music Director Leonard Slatkin.
Four years later, Christian moved to Stockholm to become Head of Artistic Planning for Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Music Director Daniel Harding), Swedish Radio Choir and Baltic Sea Festival, all under the umbrella of Swedish Radio’s concert hall, Berwaldhallen.
He has remained committed to helping and advising the next generation of musicians and, in 2019, was Director of the Tsinandali Festival Academy in its inaugural year.