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Christian Tetzlaff has been one of the most sought-after violinists and most exciting musicians on the classical music scene for many years. “The greatest performance of the work I’ve ever heard,” wrote Tim Ashley (The Guardian, May 2015) of his interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Daniel Harding.
Concerts with Christian Tetzlaff often turn into an existential experience for both the interpreter and the audience; suddenly old familiar works appear in a completely new light. In addition, he frequently turns his attention to forgotten masterpieces such as Joseph Joachim’s Violin Concerto which he successfully championed, and he also attempts to bring important new works into the repertoire such as Jörg Widmann’s Violin Concerto, which he premiered in 2013. He has an unusually extensive repertoire and performs approximately 100 concerts every year.
Born in Hamburg in 1966 and now living in Berlin with his family, there are three things that make this musician unique, aside from his astounding skill on the violin. He interprets the musical manuscript in a literal fashion, perceives music as a language, and views great works as narratives which reflect existential experiences. As obvious as it may sound, he brings an unusual approach in his daily concert routine.
Christian Tetzlaff tries to follow the manuscript as closely as possible – without regard for “performance tradition” and without indulging in the usual technical short-cuts on the violin – often allowing a renewed clarity and richness to arise in well-known works. As a violinist Tetzlaff tries to disappear from the music – paradoxically this makes his interpretations very personal.
Secondly, Christian Tetzlaff “speaks” through his violin. Like human speech, his playing comprises a wide range of expressive means and is not aimed solely at achieving harmoniousness or virtuosic brilliance.
Above all, however, he interprets the masterpieces of musical history as stories about first-hand experiences. The great composers have focused on intense feelings, great happiness and deep crises in their music; as a musician Christian Tetzlaff also explores the limits of feelings and musical expression. Many pieces deal with none other than life and death. Christian Tetzlaff’s aim is to convey this to his audience.
Christian Tetzlaff played in various youth orchestras for many years. His teacher at the Lübeck University of Music was Uwe-Martin Haiberg, for whom musical interpretation was the key to mastering violin technique, rather than the other way round.
Christian Tetzlaff founded his own string quartet in 1994, and until now chamber music is still as important to him as his work as a soloist with and without the orchestra.
The Tetzlaff Quartett received the Diapason d’or in 2015, and the trio with sister Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt was nominated for a Grammy award. Christian Tetzlaff has also received numerous awards for his CD recordings, including the “Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik” in 2018, the “Diapason d’or” in July 2018 and the Midem Classical Award in 2017. The new Ondine recording of Beethoven and Sibelius violin concertos with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Robin Ticciati is highly anticipated in autumn 2019.
Of special significance is his solo recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, which he has recorded for the third time and was released in September 2017. The Strad magazine praised this recording as “an attentive and lively answer to the beauty of Bach’s solos”.
Christian Tetzlaff plays a violin made by the German violin maker Peter Greiner and teaches regularly at the Kronberg Academy.
Young Latvian pianist Daumants Liepins is one of the piano world’s most exciting new talents. In 2019 he took First Prize along with the Public and Orchestra prizes at the prestigious Maria Canals International Piano competition in Barcelona, and was awarded the Verbier Festival’s Vendôme Prize. He then topped Pianist magazine’s list of ‘Pianists to Look Out For in 2020’. Already firmly established as a core artist in his home country, he opened the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra’s 2020/21 season with Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto. Concerto appearances beyond his home shores meanwhile have included with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and the Georgian National Symphony Orchestra. He currently studies at the Ingesund School of Music at Karlstad University, Sweden, with Professor Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist.
MILOŠ is one of the world’s most celebrated classical guitarists. Born in Montenegro in 1983, his career’s meteoric rise began in 2011 with his international best-selling Deutsche Grammophon debut album Mediterraneo. Earning legions of fans, awards and acclaim through tours, chart-topping recordings and TV appearances, MILOŠ was named one of ‘Six of the Best Classical Guitarists of the past century’ by BBC Music Magazine. Now exclusive to Decca Classics, MILOŠ is committed to growing the classical guitar repertoire through new commissions; his latest release The Moon and the Forest features world premiere concertos by Howard Shore and Joby Talbot. His current season includes performances in New York, London, with orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony, and solo and chamber projects at summer festivals. He is an active patron of many charities that support young musicians globally.
Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, and is recognised worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. An exclusive Nonesuch artist, Goode is a regular performer in the major recital halls and festivals across Europe and the US and performs as soloist with some of the world’s finest orchestras. In a recent season, The Daily Telegraph said, “There are brilliant young things among pianists, and there are wise old birds, who show their wisdom naturally in everything they do, without grandstanding or elaborate highlighting of details. Richard Goode is one of the latter sort.”
In recital, Goode performs every season at London’s Wigmore Hall and in major music centres across Europe, which in recent seasons has included Paris, Lyon, Verbier, Amsterdam, Budapest, Madrid, Stockholm, amongst others, and he has been a regular performer over the years at the Edinburgh International Festival, Kissinger Sommer and Pianos aux Jacobins in Toulouse. In 2019/20, highlights include his debut with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jurowski and an appearance at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad Festival, as well as a recital tour across Italy and a UK festivals tour, finishing with a return to the Oxford Piano Festival in the summer of 2020.
In the US, Goode performs in all the major cities and in 2019/20 appears in recital at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, in New York at Tisch Center for the Arts, in Boston, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, and in Canada in Montreal and Toronto. Goode has performed as soloist with most of the major orchestras across the US and many across Europe; recent highlights included debuts with Oslo Philharmonic and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, and returns to the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and Cleveland Orchestra.
Goode has made more than two dozen recordings over the years, ranging from solo and chamber works to lieder and concertos. His latest recording of the five Beethoven concertos with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer was released in 2009 to exceptional critical acclaim, described as “a landmark recording” by the Financial Times and nominated for a Grammy award.
Highly sought-after as a conductor and violinist, Roberto González-Monjas is rapidly making his mark on the international scene. He has built a strong reputation as a natural music leader, distinguished by his compelling artistic vision, remarkable charisma, boundless energy and enthusiasm, and sharp musical intellect. He is Chief Conductor of the Musikkollegium Winterthur in Switzerland (since August 2021), Music Director of the Galicia Symphony Orchestra in Spain (since August 2023), Chief Conductor of the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg (since September 2024), and Artistic Director of Iberacademy in Colombia. In addition, Roberto was Principal Guest Conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra between 2022/23 and 2024/25, and the Dalasinfoniettan in Sweden named him Honorary Conductor following a four-year tenure as their Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Dalasinfoniettan between 2019 and 2023.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season include a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg and Così Fan Tutte at the Zurich Opera House, as well as the world premiere of Edmund Finnis’ Cello Concerto with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The season also features an extensive UK tour with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, an Asian tour with the Mozarteumorchester, as well as guest debuts with the Spanish National Symphony Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony. Following a series of successful guest conducting debuts in recent seasons, Roberto returns in the 2025/26 season to collaborate with the Oslo Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. Upcoming highlights beyond 2025/2026 include distinguished debuts and re-invitations with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Dresden Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, and Frankfurt Radio Symphony, among others.
Roberto regularly collaborates with a distinguished roster of singers and instrumentalists, including Joyce DiDonato, Rolando Villazón, Ian Bostridge, André Schuèn, Hilary Hahn, Lisa Batiashvili, Juan Diego Flórez, Clara-Jumi Kang, Andreas Ottensamer, Fazil Say, Reinhard Goebel, Mao Fujita, András Schiff, Jan Lisiecki, Kirill Gerstein, Yeol Eum Son, Alexandre Kantorow, Paul Lewis, Kit Armstrong, and Steven Isserlis. He is also deeply engaged with the music written by living composers, having premiered works and worked closely with composers such as Richard Dubugnon, Andrea Tarrodi, Anders Hillborg, Diana Syrse, Thierry Escaich, and Hannah Kendall, among others.
Driven by a deep commitment to education and the development of young talent, Roberto co-founded Iberacademy (Ibero-American Orchestral Academy) alongside with conductor Alejandro Posada. The institution is dedicated to building an efficient and sustainable model of music education in Latin America, with a particular focus on reaching vulnerable segments of the population and supporting exceptionally gifted young musicians. Based in Medellín, Colombia, Iberacademy also operates in Bolivia, Perú, Chile, and Cuba, offering life-changing opportunities to its students. In addition to his work in Latin America, Roberto is a violin professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, where he regularly mentors and conducts the Guildhall School Chamber and Symphony Orchestras at the Barbican Hall.
Following the international success of Mozart Serenades – his acclaimed debut recording with the Mozarteumorchester for Berlin Classics – Roberto’s latest album, featuring Mozart’s complete violin concertos, is set for release by Berlin Classics in early 2026. His recordings with the Musikkollegium Winterthur reflect his broad stylistic range and musical curiosity, spanning repertoire from Mozart, Beethoven, and Saint Saëns to Schoeck, Prokofiev, C.P.E. Bach, and Andrea Tarrodi. A regular collaborator with the Berlin Baroque Soloists, Roberto also appears as a soloist on their Sony Classical recording of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, conducted by Reinhard Goebel.
Roberto began his career as solo violinist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader. He served as concertmaster of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for six years and as the leader of the Musikkollegium Winterthur until summer 2021. He plays a 1710 Giuseppe Guarnieri ‘filius Andreae’ violin kindly loaned to him by five Winterthur families and the Rychenberg Stiftung.
Matthias Goerne is one of the most versatile and internationally sought-after vocalists and a frequent guest at renowned festivals and concert halls. He has collaborated with the world’s leading orchestras, conductors and pianists. Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer in Leipzig, and later with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
Matthias Goerne has appeared on the world’s principal opera stages including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro Real in Madrid, Paris National Opera, and the Vienna State Opera. His roles range from Wolfram, Amfortas, Wotan, Orest, and Jochanaan to the title roles in Béla Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and Alban Berg’s Wozzeck.
Goerne’s artistry has been documented on numerous recordings, many of which have received prestigious awards, including four Grammy nominations, an ICMA Award, a Gramophone Award, the BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award 2017, and a Diapason d’or arte. After his legendary recordings with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Alfred Brendel for Universal Music, he recorded a series of selected Schubert songs on 12 CDs for harmonia mundi (The Goerne/Schubert Edition) with eminent pianists. His latest recordings of Brahms songs with Christoph Eschenbach, of Schumann songs with Markus Hinterhäuser, of Mahler songs with the BBC Symphony, and of Wagner arias with the Swedish Radio Symphony have received rave reviews.
In addition to his residency with the New York Philharmonic further highlights of the 2018/19 season include concerts with other top orchestras in the U.S. (Pittsburgh, Houston, Los Angeles), Europe and Japan. Furthermore, Mr. Goerne appears as Kurwenal (Tristan) at the Paris National Opera. Song recitals with Daniil Trifonov, Leif Ove Andsnes and Sir Antonio Pappano will lead him to the Philharmonie in Berlin, Philharmonie de Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, Palau de la Música in Barcelona and other major European venues. Last but not least Goerne will be guest at the 2019 summer festivals in Ravinia, Salzburg and Verbier.
Michael Tilson Thomas is Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, and Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra. In addition to conducting the world’s leading orchestras, MTT is also noted for his work as a composer and a producer of multimedia projects that are dedicated to music education and the reimagination of the concert experience. He has won eleven Grammys for his recordings, is the recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors, and is an Officier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.
Sir Simon Rattle was born in Liverpool and studied at the Royal Academy of Music.
From 1980 to 1998, Sir Simon was Principal Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and was appointed Music Director in 1990. In 2002 he took up the position of Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker where he remained until the end of the 2017-18 season. Sir Simon was appointed Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra in September 2017, a position he remained in until the 2023-24 season when he became the orchestra’s Conductor Emeritus. In 2023-24, Sir Simon took up the position of Chief Conductor with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Munich. He is a Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Founding Patron of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
Sir Simon has made over 70 recordings for EMI record label (now Warner Classics) and has received numerous prestigious international awards for his recordings on various labels. Releases on EMI include Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms (which received a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance) Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Rachmaninov’s The Bells and Symphonic Dances, all recorded with the Berliner Philharmoniker. His most recent recordings include Berlioz’ Le damnation de Faust, Helen Grime’s Woven Space, Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande , Turnage’s Remembering, and Beethoven’s Christ on the Mountain of Olives, which were all released by the London Symphony Orchestra’s own record label, LSO Live.
Sir Simon regularly tours within Europe, the United States and Asia, and has strong longstanding relationships with the world’s leading orchestras. He regularly conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Czech Philharmonic. Recent operatic highlights include Der Rosenkavalier with the Metropolitan Opera New York, Janáček’s Katya Kabanova with the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, and Wozzeck with the London Symphony Orchestra at Festival d’Aix en Provence.
Music education is of supreme importance to Sir Simon, and his partnership with the Berliner Philiharmoniker broke new ground with the education programme Zukunft@Bphil, earning him the Comenius Prize, the Schiller Special Prize from the city of Mannheim, the Golden Camera and the Urania Medal. He and the Berliner Philharmoniker were also appointed International UNICEF Ambassadors in 2004 – the first time this honour has been conferred on an artistic ensemble. In 2019, Sir Simon announced the creation of the LSO East London Academy, developed by the London Symphony Orchestra in partnership with 10 East London boroughs. This free program aims to identify and develop the potential of young East Londoners between the ages of 11 and 18 who show exceptional musical talent, irrespective of their background or financial circumstance. Sir Simon was awarded a knighthood by Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 and received the Order of Merit in 2014. He received the Order of Merit in Berlin in 2018. In 2019, Sir Simon was given the Freedom of the City of London.
His inaugural season (23/24) as Chief Conductor of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks will include tours in the US and Europe, concert performances of Idomeneo, as well as an important new commission by Thomas Adés. Appearances elsewhere include concerts with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Czech Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra and at the Verbier Festival 2024.
November 2023
Fabio Luisi is Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Danish Radio National Symphony Orchestra (DR Symfoni Orkestret) and Emeritus Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI based in Torino.
In addition, starting from the 2022/2023 season he will be Principal Conductor of the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo.
He conducts the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Münchner Philharmoniker, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, just to name a few.
A former Principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Luisi has been honored with the Gold Medal and Gold Ring dedicated to Bruckner. His past engagements include Music Director at the Dresden Staatskapelle and the Sächsische Staatsoper, Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Artistic Director of the Leipzig Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Music Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Principal Conductor of the Tonkünstler-Orchester in Vienna and Artistic Director of the Graz Symphony Orchestra.
Luisi received a Grammy Award for his conducting of the last two operas of The Ring of the Nibelung, and the DVD of the same cycle, recorded live at the Metropolitan and released by Deutsche Grammophon, was named Best Opera Recording in 2012. His extensive discography includes works by Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Salieri, and Vincenzo Bellini; symphonies by Arthur Honegger, Ottorino Respighi, and Franz Liszt; music by Franz Schmidt and Richard Strauss; and his award-winning interpretation of Anton Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony. In 2015, the Philharmonia Zürich launched its own Philharmonia Records record label with Luisi’s interpretations of Hector Berlioz, Richard Wagner, and Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, to which was recently added the rare performance of the original version of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony.
He was born in Genova in 1959 where he was awarded the Grifo d’Oro, for his contribution to the cultural heritage of the city. When not busy at the podium, he is a passionate perfume maker.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung reveres him as an ‘icon of early music’, and the New York Times applauds him as a ‘light in a sea of mediocrity’. Reinhard Goebel specialises in the repertoire of the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries; As an expounder of period performance practice for both early music ensembles and modern orchestras, and as an endless fount of knowledge about gems of the repertoire, he is a world-renowned specialist.
The multi-award-winning CD series, “Beethoven’s World”, was released by Sony Classical during the 19/20 and 20/21 seasons, starring Germany’s leading radio orchestras (WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Radio Orchestra), ten soloists and seven world premieres. In keeping with Reinhard Goebel’s view, “If you want to appreciate Beethoven’s life achievements you first have to know his contemporaries”, the series is intended to inspire closer investigation into Beethoven’s milieu.
Following this immense success, the next series, “New Mozarts” with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, is due for release by Sony Classical in the 21/22 season, featuring arrangements and compositions by Mozart of which most have never yet been recorded. Furthermore, Reinhard Goebel and the Berlin Baroque Soloists will release two recordings on the Hänssler Classic label with symphonies by the Bach family and works for string orchestra by Mozart.
Musical encounters in 21/22 include the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Bruckner Orchester Linz, the Noord Nederlands Orkest, the Radio Orchestra of Cologne and four concerts with the Neues Bachsches Collegiom Musicum – the baroque orchestra of Gewandhaus Leipzig. A further highlight is a tour with the Berlin Baroque Soloists with performances in the Lucerne Festival, Grafenegg to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Brandenburg Concertos.
Reinhard Goebel was the founder of the legendary Musica Antiqua Köln, whom he directed for 33 years. As a conductor, his unique way of amalgamating passion for music with meticulous musicological knowledge, inspires, captivates and polarises today’s orchestral scene.
In April 2007 the IMA award was conferred on Reinhard Goebel in London.
He is awardee of the Buxtehude Prize of the city of Lübeck (1984), the North Rhine-Westphalian State Prize (1997), the Teleman-Prize of the city of Magdeburg (2002), the Bach-Medaille of the City of Leipzig (2017) and the Dancing Shepard Prize of the city of Würzburg (2020). In 2015 the BBC Music Magazine chose him to appear on their list of the 20 best violinists of all time.