Artists

• Santtu-Matias Rouvali

  Conductor

  In the 2023–24 season Santtu-Matias Rouvali starts his third year as principal conductor of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra and continues as chief conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony. In August 2023, he returns to BBC Proms with the Philharmonia Orchestra, performing the Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Seong-Jin Cho alongside Richard Strauss’s Aus Italien. Touring highlights of the season include a residency in Salzburg with the Gothenburg Symphony in November 2023 featuring music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Korngold, as well as extensive European touring with the Philharmonia, leading Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, and Shostakovich. Rouvali and the Philharmonia continue regularly performing in London and the rest of the United Kingdom.

  Throughout this season and last, he continues his relationships with top level orchestras across Europe, including Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, as well as returning to the New York Philharmonic. He is also artist-in-residence for Vienna’s Musikverein, which features concerts with the Vienna Symphony and both of his own orchestras. He works with soloists including Bruce Liu, Lisa Batiashvili, Seong-Jin Cho, Nicola Benedetti, Nemanja Radulović, Leif Ove Andsnes, Arabella Steinbacher, Gil Shaham, Baiba Skride, and Daniil Trifonov.

  Rouvali continues to build on his discography. In January 2019 with Gothenburg, he released a celebrated first disc of an ambitious Sibelius cycle, pairing the Symphony No. 1 with the early tone poem En saga. The album won the Gramophone Editor’s Choice award, the Choc de Classica, a prize from the German Record Critics, and the prestigious French Diapason d’Or Decouverte. In February 2020 they released the second volume, which features Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 and King Christian II; it was also immediately awarded a Choc de Classica award. The third disc — Sibelius’s Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5 and Pohjola’s Daughter — was released in October 2022, and was awarded the Radio Classique Trophée the following month. Philharmonia Records’ first release — the double CD Santtu conducts Strauss — is due to be released in March 2023, following the recent releases of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5.

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• Nemanja Radulović

  Violin

  Serbian-French violinist Nemanja Radulović has appeared with orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dresden Staatskapelle, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Orquesta Nacional de España, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, NDR Radiophilharmonie, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Belgian National Orchestra, Orchestre national de Lille, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra della Toscana, Copenhagen Phil, Geneva Camerata, Macao Orchestra, and Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa; Munich, Royal, Royal Liverpool, and Tampere philharmonic orchestras; and Tokyo, Yomiuri Nippon, and Queensland symphony orchestras. Recent and forthcoming engagements include a UK tour with the Gavle Symphony Orchestra and Jaime Martin, Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, and Berlin Philharmonie; and the opening concert on the Vienna Konzerthaus’s Jeunesse Musicale series. He regularly undertakes a play / direct role with his chamber orchestra, Double Sens, recently featured in the film Unique – One Artist, One Monument, One Concert. He has performed chamber music in notable venues, ranging from New York’s Carnegie Hall to the Melbourne Recital Center. Signed exclusively to Warner Classics in 2021, Radulović’s debut album on the label, ROOTS, reflects his influences and inspirations. Earlier recordings were releases by Deutsche Grammophon and Universal Music Group. Born in Serbia in 1985, Nemanja Radulović studied at Belgrade’s Faculty of Arts and Music, Saarbrücken’s Saarlandes Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Cremona’s Stauffer Academy with Salvatore Accardo, and Conservatoire de Paris with Patrice Fontanarosa. His honors include 2015 Echo Klassik Award for Newcomer of the Year; BBC Music Magazine’s Critic’s Choice Award; International Revelation of the Year by the Victoires de la musique Classique; an honorary doctorate from the University of Arts in Niš, Serbia; and the ELLE Style Award for Musician of the Year. He won the Joseph Joachim, George Enescu, and Stradivarius violin competitions.

  
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