Guest Artist Collaborators

Alice Sara Ott is one of today’s most forward-thinking classical musicians, with her visionary artistic projects, globally successful albums, and collaborations with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. Captivating audiences worldwide with her unique interpretations and technical brilliance, Alice’s innovative recital concepts redefine classical music for the modern era. She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon for over 16 years, leading to album streams of over half a billion.

In the 2025/26 season Alice is the Artist in Residence at Konzerthaus Berlin, following her acclaimed past residencies at London’s Southbank Centre, Paris’ Radio France and Utrecht’s TivoliVredenburg. Her residency includes opening the season with Bryce Dessner’s Piano Concerto conducted by Joana Mallwitz, as well as a major European tour later in the spring.

She will also continue her recital tour across China and Europe of her John Field and Beethoven project. Other highlights of the season include; a European tour with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Jaap van Zweden, and the debut of her new chamber music project Papa Haydn, a tribute to the composer and his contemporaries that explores the ways music was shared amongst their friends. Alice will perform with orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Festival Strings Lucerne and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

In December 2025, Alice Sara Ott will star alongside Isabelle Huppert in the world premiere of a conceptually staged programme based on excerpts of the letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham with music by Bryce Dessner at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

Alice’s next recording will be an album of solo piano works by Jóhann Jóhannsson in 2026 on Deutsche Grammophon. This follows her recent album of John Field’s complete Nocturnes (2025), which was a global success and reached No.1 on the Apple Music Classical chart for nine weeks and was awarded their Album of the Year, 2025.

The young Austrian mezzo-soprano Anja Mittermüller began her musical education at with Thomas Künne and is currently studying at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media with Marek Rzepka.

Alongside her studies, the mezzo-soprano has participated in masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaener, Margit Fussi, Claudia Visca, Kurt Equiluz, Robert Holl, Sir András Schiff and Franz Welser-Möst, among others. Together with her duo-partner and pianist Richard Fu, she was awarded first prize in the Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition in 2024, making her the youngest winner in the competition’s history. In January 2026 she won the prestigious Emmerich Smola Förderpreis – SWR Young Opera Stars competition where she was awarded with both the orchestra and the audience prize. Anja Mittermüller was also named Young Artist 2026 by the International Classical Music Awards. Anja Mittermüller is supported by stARTacademy Bayer Kultur, a talent development programme run by Bayer Kultur to support exceptional young artists in the fields of music, dance, theatre, film and the visual arts.

In recent years, she has made her debuts at the Klosterneuburg Opera in Verdi’s La forza del destino (Curra) under the direction of Christoph Campestrini, and at the Vienna Konzerthaus in recital as part of Musica Juventutis, followed by a recital at the Konzerthaus Blaibach. Anja Mittermüller performed with Robert Holl at the Schubertiades in Dürnstein and Atzenbrugg and appeared alongside Michael Schade and Justus Zeyen at the Randhartinger Serenade. She could also be heard together with Daniela Fally and Adrian Eröd at the festival Klassik.Klang Berndorf. In December 2024, she performed Mozart’s Requiem with the Tonküstlerorchester Niederösterreich under the direction of Andreas Ottensamer and made her debut at the Wiener Musikverein as a soloist in Schumann’s Der Rose Pilgerfahrt with the Wiener Singverein and under the direction of Johannes Prinz. In August 2025, Anja Mittermüller made her debut at the Bregenz Festival as Tisbe in Rossini’s La Cenerentola.

The 2025-2026 season includes a Christmas Concert at the Salzkammergut Festwochen in Gmunden (recorded for the Austrian Television), Bach’s Magnificat for the first time with the Tonkünstlerorchester Niederösterreich under Stefan Gottfried, and Bruckner’s Te Deum under Yutaka Sado, Haydn’s Paukenmesse with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Jan Willem de Vriend at the Vienna Konzerthaus, as well as Beethoven’s 9th Symphonie with the Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro Sinfonico di Milano under Emmanuel Tjeknavorian on the occasion of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Lied recitals brought her to the Heidelberger Frühling, the Eppaner Liedsommer, the :alpenarte Schwarzenberg and London’s Wigmore Hall. A further highlight will be Schubertiades with Sir András Schiff and Julian Prégardien at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Kronberg Academy followed by Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes with András Schiff at the piano at his Festival in Vicenza.

During the summer of 2026 Anja Mittermüller will make her debut at the Salzburg Festival. She takes part at the Young Singer’s Project and will sing the role Dryade in a new production of Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos alongside Elina Garanca and under the baton of Manfred Honeck.

Augustin Hadelich is one of the great violinists of our time. Known for his phenomenal technique, insightful and persuasive interpretations, and ravishing tone, he appears extensively on the world’s foremost concert stages. Hadelich has performed with all the major American orchestras as well as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, and many other eminent ensembles.

In the 2025 summer festivals season, Hadelich appears with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood Music Festival, Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, Orchestre de Paris at the Lucerne Festival, as well as BBC Proms in London, Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, and the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago.

In the 2025/26 season, Hadelich will be the Artist in Residence with the Boston Symphony Orchestra where he will be featured in concerto, chamber music, and solo violin recital formats. He will also appear with the Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Houston Symphony, St Louis Symphony, San Diego Symphony, New World Symphony and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Further invitations bring him to Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Bamberg Symphony, DSO Berlin, Munich Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, Vienna Symphony, WDR Radio Symphony Cologne, Festival Strings Lucerne, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Barcelona Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Belgian National Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, NCPA Orchestra Beijing, Orchestre National de Lyon and São Paulo Symphony. In April 2026, he will be in residence at the Tongyeong International Music Festival in South Korea. Recitals take him to New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Graz, Heidelberg, Cremona and Taipei.

Hadelich’s discography reflects his stylistic versatility and encompasses much of the violin repertoire. In 2016, he received a GRAMMY Award for his recording of Dutilleux’s Violin Concerto “L’Arbre des songes” with Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot. A Warner Classics Artist, his most recent album “American Road Trip”, a journey through the landscape of American music with pianist Orion Weiss, was released in August 2024 and was awarded an OPUS KLASSIK in 2025 for Chamber Music Recording of the Year. Other albums for Warner Classics include Paganini’s “24 Caprices” (2018); Brahms and Ligeti Violin Concertos (2019); the GRAMMY-nominated“Bohemian Tales”, which includes the Dvořák Violin Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Jakub Hrůša (2020); the GRAMMY-nominated recording of Bach’s complete Sonatas and Partitas (2021); and “Recuerdos”, a Spain-themed album featuring works by Sarasate, Tarrega, Prokofiev and Britten (2022).

Augustin Hadelich, a dual American-German citizen born in Italy to German parents, rose to fame when he won the Gold Medal at the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Further distinctions followed, including an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009), U.K.’s Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship (2011), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter in the U. K. (2017). In 2018, he was named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by the influential magazine Musical America. Hadelich holds an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Joel Smirnoff, and in 2021, was appointed to the violin faculty at Yale School of Music. He plays a 1744 violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, known as ‘Leduc, ex Szeryng’, on loan from the Tarisio Trust.

Conrad Tao is a pianist and composer celebrated for his boundary-defying artistry as well as his powerful performances of traditional repertoire. He has been described by New York Magazine as “the kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music,” and praised by The New York Times for his “probing intellect and open-hearted vision.”

In the 2025–26 season, Tao returns to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as both soloist and recitalist, performing Bartok with Karina Canellakis, and later presenting a recital program featuring Gershwin song arrangements alongside works by Schoenberg, Strayhorn, Schumann, and others. He also returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl with Marin Alsop, and to the New York Philharmonic at the Bravo! Vail Festival performing with Santtu-Mathias Rouvali. Recital highlights include returns to Germany’s Klavierfestival Ruhr, and to the Celebrity Series of Boston, and the Seattle Symphony with Poetry and Fairy Tales, a program blending works by David Fulmer, Rebecca Saunders, Todd Moellenberg, Brahms, and Ravel.

Tao reunites with Robert Spano for performances of John Adams’ Century Rolls (San Diego Symphony) and Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety (Atlanta Symphony). He also joins Matthias Pintscher and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin for Pintscher’s NUR, and travels to Tokyo to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 with the NHK Symphony and Jaap van Zweden. He makes his harpsichord debut at Princeton University in Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s Dies Irae.

Eric Lu won the First Prize and coveted Gold Medal at the 2025 Chopin International Competition in Warsaw. He is also the winner of the XIX Leeds International Piano Competition in England. Eric’s always thoughtful, poetically imbued and powerful interpretations have already made him one of the most distinctive artists on the international music scene.

Recent and forthcoming orchestral collaborations include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Stockholm Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber, Finnish Radio Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Orchestre National de Lille, Shanghai Symphony at the BBC Proms, amongst others. Conductors he collaborates with include Riccardo Muti, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Ryan Bancroft, Fabio Luisi, Marin Alsop, Duncan Ward, Vasily Petrenko, Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder, Thomas Dausgaard, Ruth Reinhardt, Earl Lee, Kerem Hasan, Nuno Coehlo, Dinis Sousa, and Martin Frӧst.

Active as a recitalist, he is presented on stages including the Köln Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Leipzig Gewandhaus, San Francisco Davies Hall, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, BOZAR Brussels, Flagey, Tokyo Opera City Hall, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Klavierfestival Ruhr, La Roque-d’Anthéron Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Seoul Arts Centre, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, and Sala São Paulo. In 2025, he is appearing for the 7th consecutive year in recital at Wigmore Hall London.

Eric’s third album on Warner Classics was released in December 2022, featuring Schubert Sonatas D. 959 and 784. It was met with worldwide critical acclaim, receiving BBC Music Magazine’s Instrumental Choice, writing, “Lu’s place among today’s Schubertians is confirmed”. His previous album of the Chopin 24 Preludes, and Schumann’s Geistervariationen was hailed ‘truly magical’ by International Piano. He will release a new album of the complete Schubert Impromptus on Warner Classics in early 2026. Deutsche Grammophon released a live album of the highlights of the 19th International Chopin Competition in November 2025.

Born in Massachusetts in 1997, Eric Lu is a graduate of the Curtis Institute Music, studying with Robert McDonald and Jonathan Biss. He also studied with Dang Thai Son from 2011-2018. Eric was awarded the International German Piano Award in 2017 and Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2021.

Jan Lisiecki’s interpretations and technique speak to a maturity beyond his age. At 28, the Canadian performs over a hundred yearly concerts worldwide, and has worked closely with conductors such as Antonio Pappano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Daniel Harding, Manfred Honeck, and Claudio Abbado (†).

In 2021/2022, Lisiecki presents a new recital programme featuring Chopins Nocturnes and Études in more than 30 cities all around the globe. Recent return invitations include Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for performances at Carnegie Hall and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Lisiecki recently performed a Beethoven Lieder cycle with baritone Matthias Goerne, among others at the Salzburg Festival, and has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchestre de Paris, Bavarian Radio Symphony and London Symphony Orchestra.

At the age of fifteen, Lisiecki signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. The label launched its celebrations of the Beethoven Year 2020 with the release of a live recording of all five Beethoven concertos from Konzerthaus Berlin, with Lisiecki leading the Academy of St Martin in the Fields from the piano. His Beethoven Lieder cycle with Matthias Goerne, released shortly after, was awarded the Diapason d’Or. Lisiecki’s eighth recording for the prestigious label, a double album of Frédéric Chopin’s Complete Nocturnes which he also showcases in his current recital programme, appeared in August 2021 and in February 2022 on vinyl, immediately topping the classical charts in North America and Europe. Most recently, his previous solo programme Night Music, featuring works by Mozart, Ravel, Schumann and Paderewski, was released as a digital album. His recordings have been awarded with the JUNO and ECHO Klassik. At eighteen, Lisiecki became both the youngest ever recipient of Gramophone’s Young Artist Award and received the Leonard Bernstein Award. He was named UNICEF Ambassador to Canada in 2012.

Praised for her “silken grace” and “brilliant command” (The Strad), American violinist Stella Chen first gained international recognition as the winner of the 2019 Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition. Her critically acclaimed debut album Stella x Schubert, released in 2023 on Apple Music’s Platoon label, earned her the Young Artist of the Year title at the Gramophone Awards.

Chen has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia in concerto, recital, and chamber music settings. She recently made debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Her performances have taken her to some of the world’s most iconic venues, including the Vienna Musikverein, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Berlin Philharmonie. She appears frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, both in New York and on tour.

Highlights of Chen’s 2025–26 season include concerto debuts with the Vancouver Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, and Antwerp Symphony orchestras, and an American tour with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, including a performance at Carnegie Hall. She appears in recital and chamber music performances at La Jolla Music Society, Chamber Music San Francisco, and leads a residency at San Francisco Conservatory.

A dedicated chamber musician, Chen has been featured at festivals including the Kronberg Academy, Moritzburg Festival, Ravinia, Seattle Chamber Music Society, Perlman Music Program, Music@Menlo, Bridgehampton, Rockport, and Sarasota Music Festival, where she returned as faculty in 2025.

Chen is the inaugural recipient of the Robert Levin Award from Harvard University, where she was mentored and inspired by Robert Levin. Her teachers and mentors have included Donald Weilerstein, Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried, Li Lin, and Catherine Cho. She received her doctorate from the Juilliard School, where she was recently appointed to the College and Pre-College Division Faculty. She also serves as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Shenandoah Conservatory and is on the faculty of the Nume Festival and Academy in Cortona, Italy.

Chen performs on the “General Kyd” 1720 Stradivarius, generously on loan from Dr. Ryuji Ueno and Rare Violins In Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative.

Acclaimed for his stellar stage presence and joyous musicianship, cellist Sterling Elliott is a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the winner of the Senior Division of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition. Still in his mid-twenties, Elliott has appeared with orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony and the Dallas Symphony, working with noted conductors including Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Thomas Wilkins, Jeffrey Kahane, and Mei Ann Chen, among others.

In 2025/2026 Sterling Elliott debuts with the Phoenix Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony, and at the BBC Proms with Edwin Outwater. As featured soloist with the Sphinx Virtuosi, he takes part in a mutli-city tour with performances at Carnegie Hall, Shriver Concert Series, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Gardner Museum, and Schubert Club and more. As a chamber musician, he continues his residency in the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, appearing with CMLSC at Alice Tully Hall and on tour throughout the United States, as well as in trio performances with Anthony McGill and Gloria Chien.

Recent highlights include debut performances with the Atlanta, San Francisco, New Jersey, Columbus, Ann Arbor, and Grand Rapids Symphonies, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Reno Philharmonic. Elliott has also made returns to Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s led by Louis Langrée, and performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Madison Symphony alongside Gil Shaham and Orli Shaham. He premiered a new orchestral version of John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria, commissioned for him by a consortium of orchestras, led by the Orlando Philharmonic and music director Eric Jacobsen.

As the Robey Artist with the London-based Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in partnership with Music Masters, Elliott regularly performs throughout the UK and Europe including at Wigmore Hall, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as well as on tour in New Zealand. In 2024, Elliott was named a BBC New Generation Artist.

Sterling’s long association with the Sphinx Organization began when he won the 2014 Junior Division Competition. The following year he went on to tour with the Sphinx Virtuosi before being awarded the Organization’s Isaac Stern Award in 2016. He became the first alumnus from the Sphinx Performance Academy to win the Sphinx Competition (in 2019). Sterling received the Sphinx Medal of Excellence in 2024, the highest honor bestowed by the Sphinx Organization.

Born into a musical household, Sterling initially wanted to play the violin like his older brother and sister. After a bit of encouragement, he completed The Elliott Family String Quartet, an ensemble that enjoyed personalized arrangements of genres such as bluegrass, gospel, and funk music.

He is an ambassador of the Young Strings of America, a string sponsorship operated by Shar Music. He performs on a 1741 Gennaro Gagliano cello on loan through the Robert F. Smith Fine String Patron Program, in partnership with the Sphinx Organization.

A highly respected chamber musician, Ridout continues to present both solo and ensemble programmes across major venues and festivals. In summer 2025, he appeared at Verbier, Lanaudière, Salzburg, Rosendal, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Ryedale festival where he was Artist in Residence. This season, he plays around the UK with Federico Colli, with Leonkoro Quartet at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and with his regular quartet partners – Benjamin Grosvenor, Hyeyoon Park, Kian Soltani – at Vienna Musikverein.

In March 2026, he is Guest Artistic Director at Festspiele Frühling Mecklenburg Vorpommern presenting 17 programmes. He also continues his three-year residency at Junge Wilde in Dortmund and performs three different programmes at Wigmore Hall. In Asia, he plays at the very first edition of the Verbier Festival in Shenzhen, at Beare’s Premiere Music Festival in Hong Kong and at the NSOInternational Chamber Music Festival in Taipei. His other chamber partners include Janine Jansen, Frank Dupree, Isabelle Faust, Vilde Frang, Pablo Ferrández, Denis Kozhukhin and Klaus Mäkelä.

Recent orchestral highlights include concerts with Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Hamburger Symphoniker, WDRSinfonieorchester, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg and Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

Across his engagements, he has worked with conductors such as Sakari Oramo, Jonathan Darlington, Martyn Brabbins, Riccardo Minasi, Sir András Schiff, Lionel Bringuier, Sylvain Cambreling, Nicholas Collon, David Zinman, and Kazuki Yamada.

Known for his wide-ranging discography, Ridout regularly records for Harmonia Mundi and his next album features 20th century French music with pianist Jonathan Ware and is coming out in May 2026.

In 2025, he won the Opus Klassik award in the ​‘Young Instrumentalist of the Year’ category for his first solo viola album featuring works by Telemann, Bach, Britten and Shaw, and in 2024 he released an album which paid tribute to the great violist Lionel Tertis. Ridout also won a Gramophone Award for his recording of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, arranged for viola by Lionel Tertis, in the Concerto Category in 2023.

Previous recordings include works by Prokofiev, Schumann, Britten, Vaughan-Williams, Hindemith, Martinu and see Ridout collaborating with BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne as well as with pianists Frank Dupree and James Baillieu.

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and Kronberg Academy, Ridout has earned accolades such as First Prize at both the Lionel Tertis and Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competitions. As well as being a former BBC New Generation Artist, he is also a recipient of the Borletti Buitoni Trust Fellowship and was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society 2023 Award for Young Artist. He was the inaugural recipient of Hamburger Symphoniker’s Sir Jeffrey Tate Prize and took part in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program.

Timothy Ridout performs on a 1565 – 75 viola by Peregrino di Zanetto, generously on loan from a patron of the Beare’s International Violin Society.

Lucas and Arthur Jussen are among the most sought-after piano duos of our time. Given their illustrious international careers, it is fair to say the Jussen brothers (born 1993 and 1996) are the Netherland’s pre-eminent ambassadors for classical music. With their energetic, almost symbiotic playing, their great refinement of sound, and gripping interpretations, they are praised vigorously by press and audiences alike. “It is like driving a pair of BMWs”, exclaimed conductor Michael Schønwandt about the two pianists after directing them in concert.
The Jussen brothers have performed with orchestras internationally, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, Budapest Festival Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. They collaborate with the renowned conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Iván Fischer, Sir Neville Marriner, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nezét-Séguin, Jukka-Pekka Saraste und Jaap van Zweden.

In the 2024/25 season, the Jussen brothers will be Artists in Residence at the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, performing multiple programmes there. Other highlights of the season include concerts in Leipzig and then a European tour with the Gewandhausorchester. In addition to their debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Israel Philharmonic, reinvitations will take the Jussens back to perform with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, Dresdner Philharmonie, Bergen Philharmonic, Antwerp Symphony, and Warsaw Philharmonic. They will also be performing with the Wiener Kammerorchester at the Konzerthaus Wien. Together with the Brasilian youth Orchestra of Neojibá, they perform the captivating work ‘Nazareno’ by Argentinian Osvaldo Golijov in tour concerts in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands and in June 2025, they return to Asia for multiple concerts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. In recital, they can be heard in Paris, Amsterdam, the Hague, London, Rome, Naples, Zürich, Mannheim, Stuttgart, and Potsdam, among others.

Recording exclusively with Deutsche Grammophon since 2010, their debut recording of works by Beethoven received platinum status and was awarded the Edison Klassiek audience award. Following a Schubert album and ‘Jeux’, a recording of French piano music, in 2015 their recording of Mozart’s piano concertos KV 365 and KV 242 together with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Sir Neville Marriner was released and the album reached gold status. The Jussen brothers also recorded Poulenc’s double piano concerto and Saint-Saëns’ ‘The Carnival of the Animals’ with the Concertgebouworkest and Stéphane Denève, and in 2019 they released a recording of concertos and chorales by Bach with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. On ‘The Russian Album’ (2021) they interpret works for two pianos by Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, and Arensky. The latest addition to their discography is ‘Dutch Masters’ (April 2022) which is devoted to works by Dutch composers, in collaboration with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. The recording was awarded an Edison Klassiek, as well as the audience award.
Lucas and Arthur received their first piano lessons in their native town of Hilversum. As children, they were invited to perform for the Dutch Queen Beatrix; and distinctions and awards in competitions followed. In 2005, the brothers met the Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires. During the following years they took lessons from both Pires and renowned Dutch teachers. Lucas completed his studies with Menahem Pressler in the US and with Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid. Arthur graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory, where he studied with Jan Wijn.

One of the most dazzling American pianists of her generation, Anne-Marie McDermott has played concertos, recitals, and chamber music in hundreds of cities throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. She is one of the most versatile, respected, and best-reviewed pianists of our time. McDermott continues her tenure as music and artistic director of the Bravo! Vail music festival, in Colorado, through 2026, which hosts world-renowned artists and orchestras from around the world. She is also the artistic director of the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival, in Florida; the artistic director of the McKnight Center’s Chamber Music Festival, at Oklahoma State University; and a former curator of the Mainly Mozart Spotlight Series, in San Diego.

Highlights of McDermott’s 2024-25 season include three performances of the Piano Concerto by the 20th-century American composer Amy Cheney Beach with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, with which she makes her subscription debut, and with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MA); her debut in Galway, Ireland, performing music by Bach, Busoni, and Brahms at a Music for Galway recital; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Paducah Symphony Orchestra (KY); Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Des Moines Symphony, Palm Beach Symphony, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA (WA); performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall in New York City, and on tour in Chicago, Grand Rapids, Kansas City, Ashland (OR), and Vienna (VA); a special chamber music program at the New World Symphony, in Miami Beach, that includes Mozart’s Quintet in E-flat major and Olivier Messiaen’s wartime masterwork Quartet for the End of Time; performances as a member of the SPA Trio—with soprano Susanna Phillips and violist Paul Neubauer—at the Rockefeller University (New York City), and at Arizona Friends of Chamber Music (Tucson); and a chamber music program at the McKnight Center for the Performing Arts, in Stillwater (OK).

McDermott’s 2023-24 season included performances with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, both resulting in immediate re-engagements. She also performed Mozart with the New York Philharmonic at the McKnight Center in Stillwater. Recent international highlights include recitals in France at the famed Piano aux Jacobins, in Toulouse; performances with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra at the Cartagena International Music Festival; and an all-Haydn recital tour of China.

The breadth of McDermott’s repertoire ranges from Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven to Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Scriabin, also including works by today’s most influential composers. A recording artist, McDermott is currently recording the complete Beethoven piano concertos with Mexico City’s illustrious Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, under conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto. She has also recorded the complete piano sonatas of Prokofiev, solo works by Chopin, Bach’s English Suites and Partitas (Editor’s Choice, Gramophone Magazine), and Gershwin’s complete works for piano and orchestra with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (also Editor’s Choice, Gramophone Magazine). In 2013 she released an album of Mozart concertos with the Calder Quartet that was praised as “exceptional on every count” by Gramophone Magazine. She has recorded five Haydn piano sonatas and two Haydn concertos with the Odense Philharmonic, in Denmark, including two cadenzas written by the late American composer Charles Wuorinen.

In recent years, McDermott participated in the New Century Chamber Orchestra’s Silver Jubilee all-Gershwin program and embarked on a cycle of Beethoven concertos at Santa Fe Pro Musica. She also premiered and recorded a new concerto by the Danish composer Poul Ruders with the Vancouver Symphony, alongside Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Variations, and returned to play Gershwin with the New York Philharmonic at Bravo! Vail. Other recent highlights include performing the Mozart Concerto, K. 595 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Sir Donald Runnicles; the Bach D minor concerto with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra; and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the New York City-based Le Train Bleu.

McDermott continues to perform with many leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the symphonies of Dallas, Seattle, Houston, Colorado, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Atlanta, San Diego, New Jersey, Columbus, and Baltimore. She has also toured with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Moscow Virtuosi.

McDermott, who studied at the Manhattan School of Music, is a winner of the Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women, the Young Concert Artists auditions, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She is the recipient of a 2024 Honorary Doctorate from

St Martin’s Voices is one of the UK’s most versatile, professional vocal ensembles. They sing for concerts and broadcasts at London’s iconic St Martin-in-the-Fields and beyond, and perform alongside the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, London Mozart Players, Southbank Sinfonia, and Will Todd Ensemble. They have toured to the USA and South Africa as well as undertaking extensive tours across the UK. The choir regularly feature in broadcasts including BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and Classic FM. Their recent CD, ‘A Winter Breviary – Choral Works for Christmas’ on Resonus Classics was met with critical acclaim. In response to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, St Martin’s Voices have extended their digital recording projects, as well as featuring in the Church of England’s online worship resources that have attracted more than 4 million downloads. ‘The choir, under director Andrew Earis, is almost miraculously polished’ – Gramophone

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is the principal orchestral partner of St Martin-in-the-Fields, its historic London home.

St Martin-in-the-Fields is a landmark church, concert venue and visitor attraction on London’s Trafalgar Square. It is a friendly and forward-thinking community and the building itself is steeped in beautiful Georgian architecture. With a huge programme of services, concerts, events, exhibitions and lectures, St Martin’s welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world each year. A strong musical tradition flourishes at St Martin’s. Their concerts series includes over 350 performances and gigs every year, featuring some of the UK’s finest ensembles, chamber orchestras, choirs and musicians. An outstanding music programme is provided by the Choir and Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields, some of London’s finest voices who are regular performers on the BBC and in concert. In the Crypt you can find St Martin’s award-winning Café, Shop, Brass Rubbing Centre and a number of excellent spaces available for hire for meetings, celebrations and corporate events.

Jackie has led the Academy’s work with people experiencing homelessness for 25 years.

She is a composer and percussionist, whose work sits at the intersection between improvisation and composition. Jackie has devised community and participation projects for leading arts organisations in the UK and overseas, and her work on Musical Portraits at Wigmore Hall was shortlisted for an Innovative Practice award by the National Autistic Society in 2017. She is a lecturer at The Royal Academy of Music. Her research there investigates improvisation and interaction in ensembles, and has attracted funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Art Fund, Thamesmeade Community Fund and Research England.

Yusuf Narcin is a London-based trombonist, performance artist, and community music leader whose practice spans classical, jazz, contemporary and experimental music. Alongside an extensive career as a performer, Yusuf is deeply committed to making music accessible, collaborative and empowering in community settings.

Yusuf is an artistic associate with the Multi-Story Orchestra and a graduate of the Spitalfields Music Traineeship, where he has also supported training for emerging leaders. He has also worked as a music leader with Wigmore Hall, Britten Pears Arts, and the Paraorchestra, among others. He is also lead artist at ARK: Inspiring Excellence. His community practice is rooted in co-creation, group improvisation, and inclusive musicianship, often using percussion, voice and movement practice as integral tools for musical expression.

Yusuf has delivered creative projects in schools, prisons, healthcare settings and a variety of other spaces. At ASMF, he is contributing to the development of their social purpose programme in homeless shelters.

Equally at home on stage and in workshop spaces, Yusuf performs with a wide range of ensembles including the London Contemporary Orchestra, The Heritage Orchestra, and Chineke! Orchestra. He also plays with The London Jazz Orchestra and is a founding member of Patchwork Jazz Orchestra and interdisciplinary performance-music group Perhaps Contraption. His dynamic career includes performing and recording with artists such as Dua Lipa, Elton John, Laura Mvula and Little Simz, as well as theatrical work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe.

Whether leading a songwriting session in a school or performing at a major venue, Yusuf brings energy, warmth, and playfulness to his work. He believes in the transformative power of making music together and in nurturing spaces where everyone can find creative freedom.