Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos is a regular guest with North America's top orchestras. He is also conducting The Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Cincinnati, Boston, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Montreal symphony orchestras. He appears annually at the Tanglewood Music Festival and regularly with the National, Chicago and Toronto symphony orchestras.

Born in Burgos, Spain, in 1933, Mr. Frühbeck studied violin, piano, music theory, and composition at the conservatories in Bilbao and Madrid, and conducting at Munich's Hochschule für Musik, where he graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Richard Strauss Prize. From 2004 to 2011 he was chief conductor and artistic director of the Dresden Philharmonic, and in the 2012–13 season will begin his post as chief conductor of the Danish National Orchestra.

Mr. Frühbeck has made extensive tours with such ensembles as the Philharmonia of London, London Symphony Orchestra, National Orchestra of Madrid, and Swedish Radio Orchestra. He has toured North America with the Vienna Symphony, Spanish National Orchestra, and the Dresden Philharmonic.

Named Conductor of the Year by Musical America in 2011, Mr. Frühbeck's other numerous honors and distinctions have included the Gold Medal of the City of Vienna, Bundesverdienstkreutz of the Republic of Austria and Germany, Gold Medal from the Gustav Mahler International Society, and Jacinto Guerrero Prize, Spain's most important musical award, conferred in 1997 by the Queen of Spain. In 1998 he was appointed Emeritus Conductor by the Spanish National Orchestra. He has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Navarra in Spain. Since 1975 he has been a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos has recorded extensively for the EMI, Decca, Deutsche Gramophone, Spanish Columbia, and Orfeo labels. Several of his recordings are considered to be classics, including his interpretations of Mendelssohn's Elijah and St. Paul, Mozart's Requiem, Orff's Carmina burana, Bizet's Carmen, and the complete works of Manual de Falla.

Violinist Augustin Hadelich is the winner of the 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the gold medalist of Indianapolis's 2006 International Violin Competition. He made his Cleveland Orchestra debut in August 2009, and was invited to return to perform the Mendelssohn Concerto in March 2011. Other highlights include his Paris recital debut at the Louvre Museum; a BBC young artist's debut recital at The Sage Gateshead in Newcastle; a return to the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl; and debuts with the Helsinki Philharmonic and the Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Seattle, Utah, and Vancouver symphony orchestras.

Mr. Hadelich made three Carnegie Hall appearances in 2008. His orchestral engagements have included the Colorado, Columbus, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Houston, New Orleans, Pacific, Santa Barbara, and Syracuse symphony orchestras, and the Rochester Philharmonic and Memphis's IRIS Chamber Orchestra. Abroad, he has performed with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern, Dresden Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Museumsorchester Frankfurt, Nürnberg Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, as well as with chamber orchestras in Budapest, Cologne, Hamburg, Lucerne, and Toulouse. He has appeared in recital at the Frick Collection and the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center (in New York), Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), Chamber Music Society of Detroit, Clark Memorial Library (Los Angeles), La Jolla Music Society, University of Texas at Austin, and Kioi Hall (Tokyo). He has performed chamber music at the Marlboro, Ravinia, and Seattle festivals, and collaborated with Midori at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater. Augustin Hadelich has released two CDs on the Naxos label, as well as a solo violin disc on AVIE; a second disc for AVIE was released in 2011.

Born in Italy in 1984 and the son of German parents, Augustin Hadelich holds a graduate diploma and artist diploma from The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Joel Smirnoff.  As first-prize winner of the Indianapolis Competition, he plays on the 1683 ex-Gingold Stradivari violin.