One of today’s most sought-after conductors, acclaimed worldwide for his incisive musicianship and adventurous artistic commitment, Vladimir Jurowsk was born in Moscow in 1972.This season Vladimir Jurowski takes up the position of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin. He also celebrates ten years as Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic. Vladimir Jurowski appears regularly at festivals including the BBC Proms, Salzburg Festival, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the George Enescu Festival of Bucharest, Musikfest Berlin, and the Dresden, Schleswig Holstein and the Rostropovich Festivals. For the Easter Tour 2018 Vladimir Jurowski appears for the second time with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester after 2012.

At the young age of 25, Lorenzo Viotti won the Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award in 2015. He also won the 11th Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition and first prize in the conducting competition sponsored by the MDR Symphony Orchestra. The International

Opera Award in London named him “Newcomer of the year” in 2017. Since 2016/17, Lorenzo Viotti is Assistant Conductor of the GUSTAV MAHLER JUGENDORCHESTER. In this position, he has already conducted two much acclaimed concerts during the Easter Tour 2017 in Lisbon (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian) and the two residency concerts during the Summer Tour 2017 in Aquileia (Basilica di Aquileia) and Tolmezzo (Duomo di Tolmezzo).