Season 2025/26 Forthcoming Concerts

Born in the Czech city of Brno, Magdalena Kožená is widely regarded one of the finest singers performing today. As celebrated for her performances in the opera house as in the concert hall, she an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon since 1999 and has since been awarded multiple prizes for her albums including Gramophone’s Solo Vocal Award, Gramophone’s Artist of the Year, the Echo Klassik Prize, Record Academy Prize Tokyo, and the Diapason d’or. In 2017, Magdalena Kožená forged a long-term relationship with Dutch label Pentatone and her recordings with the company include Il Giardino dei sospiri with harpsichordist Václav Luks and Collegium 1704; an intimate chamber music album Soirée; and Nostalgia, with the celebrated pianist Yefim Bronfman.

During her illustrious career, Magdalena Kožená has worked with the world’s leading conductors, including Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Gustavo Dudamel, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mariss Jansons, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Roger Norrington. Her list of distinguished recital partners includes the pianists Daniel Barenboim, Malcolm Martineau, András Schiff and Mitsuko Uchida, with whom she gave a memorable concert for Camerata Musica Cambridge last year.

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Recognized as one of the world’s leading pianists specializing in Lieder, Malcolm Martineau has worked with many of the world’s greatest singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Olaf Bär, Barbara Bonney, Ian Bostridge, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Della Jones, Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager, Magdalena Kožená, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Karita Mattila, Anna Netrebko, Anne Sofie von Otter, Frederica von Stade, Bryn Terfel, and others.

He has appeared throughout Europe, including London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Opera House; La Scala, Milan; the Chatelet, Paris; the Liceu, Barcelona; Berlin’s Philharmonie and Konzerthaus; and his recording projects have included Schubert, Schumann and English song recitals with Bryn Terfel (for Deutsche Grammophon); Schubert and Strauss recitals with Simon Keenlyside (for EMI); the complete Britten Folk Songs for Hyperion; the complete Beethoven folk songs for Deutsche Grammophon; the complete Poulenc songs for Signum; and Britten Song Cycles as well as Schubert’s Winterreise with Florian Boesch for Onyx.

Frank Peter Zimmermann is widely recognised as one of the very greatest violinists performing today, praised for his inspired musicality, his technical brilliance and keen intelligence. For more than four decades he has been working with the world’s major orchestras and renowned conductors. His many concert engagements take him to all important concert venues and international music festivals in Europe, the United States, Asia, South America and Australia.

Highlights in 2025 and 2026 include appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris all conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk, a Paris residency with both the Orchestre National and Orchestre Philharmonique de France with Cristian Măcelaru and Alain Altinoglu, Staatskapelle Dresden and Daniele Gatti, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Rafael Payare, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Alain Altinoglu, Wiener Symphoniker and Robert Trevino, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, among others. Together with pianist Dmytro Choni he gives recitals in Paris, London, Amsterdam and Vienna.

Over the years Frank Peter Zimmermann has built up an impressive discography for BIS Records, Warner Classics, Sony Classical, hänssler CLASSIC, Ondine, Decca, Teldec Classics and ECM Records. He has recorded virtually all major concerto repertoire, ranging from Bach to Ligeti, as well as recital repertoire. Many of these highly acclaimed recordings have received prestigious awards and prizes worldwide. His most recent releases include the Stravinsky Violin Concerto, coupled with Martinů’s Suite Concertante and Bartók’s Rhapsodies with the Bamberger Symphoniker and Jakub Hrůša (BIS), the complete Sonatas and Partitas by J.S. Bach (for BIS) and the complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin by Beethoven with Martin Helmchen (also for BIS).

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Ukrainian pianist Dmytro Choni is internationally recognised for his technically impeccable pianism, stupendous virtuosity, clarity of articulation and finest sensitivity. In recent years he garnered international attention by winning numerous top prizes and awards, including the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2022, the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2021, the Bösendorfer USASU in 2019 and the Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition in 2018.

Recent highlights include his debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai in Turin, replacing at short notice Yefim Bronfman, performing Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 conducted by Juraj Valčuha. He also appeared with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Badische Philharmonie Pforzheim and the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, and gave highly successful debut recitals in among others Vienna (Konzerthaus), Hamburg (Elbphilharmonie), Düsseldorf (Robert-Schumann-Saal), Hannover (NDR Sendesaal), at the Lucerne Festival, had a 3-concert residency in the Edesche Concertzaal and made his return to the Palau de la Música in Barcelona. His future engagements include recitals in London, Amsterdam, Munich, Barcelona and in various cities throughout the USA, including in New York. He will also undertake recital tours to South Korea and China.

This concerts inaugurates a series dedicated to the complete Beethoven String Quartets, which will be offered jointly by the Quatuor Ébène and the Belcea Quartet, concluding in 2027 – the 200th Anniversary of Beethoven’s death in 1827.

Founded in Paris in 1999, Quatuor Ébène has established itself as one the most innovative and adventurous of all quartets performing in the major concert halls of the world. With their charismatic playing, their fresh approach to tradition and their open-mindedness with new forms, the musicians have won a string of major prizes and regularly receive five-star reviews for their concerts.

Quatuor Ébène's albums, with recordings of Bartók, Beethoven, Debussy, Haydn, Fauré and Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, have received numerous awards, including Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, and the Midem Classic Award. In 2015 and 2016 the musicians dedicated themselves to the theme ‘Lied’. They participated in the album Green (Mélodies françaises) by Philippe Jaroussky and released a Schubert album with Matthias Goerne (arrangements for String Quartet, baritone, and double bass, by Raphaël Merlin) and the Schubert String Quintet with Gautier Capuçon. Together with the violist Antoine Tamestit, Quatuor Ébène recorded the Mozart String Quintets K. 515 and K. 516, which were released in the spring of 2023. The album has received accolades such as Choc Classica, Diapason d'Or, and Gramophone Award.