Jan Lisiecki © Christoph Köstlin (Deutsche Grammophon)

Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki looks back on a career spanning a decade and a half on the world’s greatest stages. He works closely with the foremost conductors and orchestras of our time, performing over a hundred concerts a year.

The 24-25 season will see him returning to Boston Symphony, London Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony and Seattle Symphony. He will lead the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in a tour of 19 concerts throughout Germany and Austria, including the complete Beethoven cycles in residencies at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, in Munich and Cologne. As Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s 'Artist in Residence', he will inaugurate the orchestra’s season and return to lead them from the piano in a complete cycle of Beethoven concertos.

He will be bringing his acclaimed 'Preludes' solo recital programme, recently celebrated at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, to La Scala in Milan, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, at BOZAR Brussels and the Klavier-Festival Ruhr. A duo programme of Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann together with Julia Fischer brings him to 15 venues across Europe and the United States, including New York’s Lincoln Center, Chicago Symphony Center, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and Munich Prinzregententheater.

Recent return invitations include the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Staatskapelle Dresden. He made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in spring 2024. Lisiecki is a fixture at major summer festivals across Europe and North America, has performed at the Salzburg Festival and recently made his third appearance at the BBC Proms. His previous recital programme was celebrated in over 50 cities around the globe.

Jan Lisiecki was offered an exclusive recording contract by Deutsche Grammophon at the age of 15. Since then, he has recorded nine albums which have been awarded with the JUNO Award, ECHO Klassik, Gramophone Critics' Choice, Diapason d'Or and Edison Klassiek.

At 18, he received both the Leonard Bernstein Award and Gramophone’s Young Artist Award, becoming the youngest ever recipient of the latter. He, was named UNICEF Ambassador to Canada in 2012.

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Tomo Keller © Thomas Carlgren

Tomo Keller was born in Stuttgart to German-Japanese musicians and started playing the violin at the age of six. At ten years old he gave his first performances with orchestra, going on to study at Vienna’s University for Music and Performing Arts and New York’s Juilliard School of Music. Numerous top prizes and awards followed: the Fritz Kreisler Competition, the Johannes Brahms Competition and the German Music Competition Berlin where he was awarded the Grand Prize. He has since performed at major concert halls all around the world and has been invited to music festivals including the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festspiele, Edinburgh Festival and Bravo! Vail Colorado. He has also been a frequent guest on radio and television broadcasts on ARD, BBC, NHK and ORF.

Tomo is a much sought-after orchestral leader and director, having led the London Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and has also appeared with more than 20 orchestras as guest leader across Europe, the USA and Asia. Tomo was appointed Director and Leader of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in 2016 and appears with them worldwide as leader, director, chamber musician and soloist.

As a soloist, Tomo has also performed with the Beethovenhalle Orchestra Bonn, St Petersburg Camerata, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Concert tours have led him all across Europe, as well as Russia, Asia, America and the Middle East.

2021/22, Tomo was artist-in-residence at the Loh-Orchestra Sondershausen in Germany, featuring as soloist, director and conductor, and premiered a new piece written for him by Christoph Ehrenfellner. ‘Wiener G'schichten’ also received its UK premiere in London with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in 2022.

Tomo’s recordings include solo works by Bach, Bartók and Ysaÿe, orchestral recordings including Stravinsky’s ‘Apollon musagète’ with Sir John Eliot Gardiner/LSO and Grammy Award winning ‘Avant Gershwin’ with Patti Austin and the WDR Big Band. In 2020 a DVD/CD box set with all Beethoven piano concertos was released by Deutsche Grammophon to great critical acclaim, featuring pianist Jan Lisiecki with Tomo directing the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. A CD with works by Kurt Atterberg will be released on Ondine in 2024, featuring the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Tomo as soloist and director in Atterberg’s Suite for violin and viola.

He has given violin, chamber music and orchestral master classes at all major London Music Colleges as well as at Yale university and numerous other schools in the USA and the Far East. In 2022 he was appointed Professor of violin at the HEMU Sion in Switzerland.

Tomo plays a fine violin by Antonio Stradivari known as the ‘ex-Braga/bell’, kindly loaned to him through the Beare’s International Violin Society.

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Daniel Müller-Schott is one of the most sought-after cellists in the world and can be heard on all the great international concert stages. For many years he has been enchanting audiences as an ambassador for classical music in the 21st century and as a bridge builder between music, literature, and the visual arts. Daniel Müller-Schott is particularly interested in lecture concerts and performances in unusual places The New York Times refers to his "intensive expressiveness" and describes him as a "fearless player with technique to burn".

Highlights of Daniel Müller-Schott's 2024/25 season are the Germany tour with Jan Lisiecki and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Beethoven's Triple Concerto; Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott together with the NDR Radiophilharmonie and Cornelius Meister with the Brahms Double Concerto, two exceptional soloists who have a close musical and friendly relationship for decades. Further concerts in Europe are planned with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra. His start to the season begins with a special momentum when Daniel Müller-Schott performs in a concert with the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carnegie Hall in New York. The concert is dedicated to German-American friendship and was initiated by the Siemens Arts Program as part of the UN General Assembly. With the Euskadi Symphony Orchestra, the cellist goes on tour through Spain with Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante. He plays Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Helsinki Philharmonic and Miguel Harth-Bedoya as well as the Cello Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Thomas Søndergård. Daniel Müller-Schott will perform Schumann's Cello Concerto with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz under Markus Poschner, Elgar's Cello Concerto with the Spanish Radio Television Symphony Orchestra under Katharina Wincor, and Saint-Saen's Cello Concerto No. 1 will be performed with the Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano under Emmanuel Tjeknavorian.

Daniel Müller-Schott is Artist in Residence at the Zurich Chamber Orchestra Festival 2025. At the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, he celebrates his 30th anniversary.

A chamber music highlight are the concerts together with David Fray. Daniel Müller-Schott is a guest with internationally renowned orchestras; among others in the United States with the orchestras in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles; in Europe, among others, with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the radio orchestras of Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Prague and Paris, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, the London Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Spanish National Orchestra, as well as in Australia with the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, in Asia with Tokyo's NHK Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan's National Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestras.

The cellist works with outstanding conductors such as Marc Albrecht, Karina Canellakis, Thomas Dausgaard, Christoph Eschenbach, Iván Fischer, Alan Gilbert, Manfred Honeck, Neeme Järvi, Fabio Luisi, Cristian Măcelaru, Susanna Mälkki, Jun Märkl, Juanjo Mena, Andris Nelsons, Gianandrea Noseda, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Kirill Petrenko, Vasily Petrenko, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Dalia Stasevska, Krzysztof Urbański, Jaap van Zweden and Simone Young. He has worked for many years with Yakov Kreizberg, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel and Sir André Previn.

With great passion, Daniel Müller-Schott not only performs the great cello concertos from the Baroque to the modern era. The discovery of unknown works, the expansion of the cello repertoire, for example through his own arrangements, and collaboration with the composers of our time, also have a firm place in his concerts. George Alexander Albrecht, Sir André Previn and Peter Ruzicka have dedicated cello concertos to him.

Daniel Müller-Schott's artistic credo is to create a higher intensity of perception between music, visual arts and literature. He gives introductions to the background of the music and the composers and has written many of his CD booklet texts. At his festival in Vevey, he initiated a Bach project with dance to visually translate the music. The cellist has developed a great affinity for the visual arts, especially for French painting of the 19th century.

Daniel Müller-Schott is regularly invited to international music festivals. In his chamber music concerts, Daniel Müller-Schott works with Kit Armstrong, Renaud Capuçon, Veronika Eberle, Julia Fischer, Janine Jansen, Sabine Meyer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Francesco Piemontesi, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Simon Trpčeski and with the Modigliani, the Aris and Ebènes Quartets, among others.

Daniel Müller-Schott has been involved in the "Rhapsody in School" project for many years and regularly gives master classes worldwide.

In a career spanning over twenty-five years, Daniel Müller-Schott has produced an impressive discography that has been honoured with numerous international awards, including the Diapason d'Or, Gramophone Editor's Choice, Strad Selection, BBC Music Magazine's "CD of the month" and the International Classical Music Award (ICMA). His recordings include works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Haydn, Schumann, Grieg, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Schubert, Khachaturian, Shostakovich, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Walton, Britten, Dvořák, Lalo, Honegger and Saint-Saëns.

Daniel Müller-Schott studied under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis. He was supported personally by Anne-Sophie Mutter and received, among other things, the Aida Stucki Prize as well as a year of private tuition under Mstislaw Rostropovich. At the age of fifteen, Daniel Müller-Schott won the first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in 1992 in Moscow.

Daniel Müller-Schott plays the “Ex Shapiro” Matteo Goffriller cello, made in Venice in 1727.

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