Andrey Boreyko, music director of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra since the 2009–10 season, was born in St. Petersburg and studied at his home town's conservatory, where he studied conducting and composition with Elisaveta Kudriavzeva and Alexander Dmitriev. He is principal guest conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi San Sebastian, Spain. He will become chief conductor of the Orchestre National de Belgique beginning in September 2012. Previous posts include chief conductor of the Bern Symphony Orchestra, Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Jenaer Philharmonie (of which he is now honorary conductor), Hamburger Symphony, and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, as well as principal guest conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Boreyko has conducted almost all the internationally renowned orchestras. He has led such European and American orchestras as the New York, Berlin, Los Angeles, Munich, and Rotterdam philharmonic orchestras; Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras; Boston, Chicago, London, and Vienna symphony orchestras; and Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Filharmonica della Scala, Zurich's Tonhalle Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio Franc.

Mr. Zimmermann has performed the world premieres of three violin concertos: Augusta Read Thomas's Violin Concerto No. 3, Juggler in Paradise, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Andrey Boreyko in 2009; Brett Dean's 2007 The Lost Art of Letter Writing (which received the 2009 Grawemeyer Award) with Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by the composer; and Matthias Pintscher's en sourdine, his 2003 violin concerto, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Peter Eötvös.

An avid chamber musician and recitalist, Frank Peter Zimmermann gives numerous concerts worldwide. His regular recital partners are the pianists Enrico Pace, Piotr Anderzewski, and Emanuel Ax. During the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons he presented the new Trio Zimmermann, with violist Antoine Tamestit and cellist Christian Poltéra, in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Cologne, London, Milan, Munich, and Paris.

Mr. Zimmermann has been awarded the Premio del Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena (in 1990), the Rheinischer Kulturpreis (1994), and the Musikpreis of the city of Duisburg (2002). In January 2008 he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Recently, he has made numerous recordings for Sony Classical, and recorded virtually all of the major concerto repertoire for EMI Classics. He recorded Ligeti's Violin Concerto with the Asko Ensemble and Reinbert de Leeuw for Teldec Classics, and joined cellist Heinrich Schiff for a disc of violin and cello duos by Honegger, Martin?, J.S. Bach, Ravel, and Matthias Pintscher for ECM. Frank Peter Zimmermann plays a Stradivarius from 1711, which once belonged to Fritz Kreisler, and which is sponsored by the WestLB AG.