”Her taut musical intelligence and vivid sound combined with a fine instinct for the tender, searching quality of this music … absolutely magical.” The Guardian Since her breakthrough in 1984 winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year, a competition that was broadcast all over Europe and watched live on television by millions, Isabelle van Keulen can now look back on many years of musical diversity. Not only is it always vital for her to approach the musical score with honesty and with an extremely consious approach to interpretation, she also strives to communicate with her audiences and musical partners, allowing her to perform in an inspirational, lively and enthusiastic manner.
Her versatility lies in the fact that she not only plays the violin, but as well viola with the same energy, performing chamber music in any thinkable combination and directing chamber orchestra performances. Whether in the over 20 year intense collaboration with the Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam, concerts with mezzo soprano Christianne Stotijn, performing/directing the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, combining violin and viola in one appearance, or being a soloist with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic or NHK Tokyo. Above all, being faithful to the music is her highest priority.
She has over the course of her career engaged works written by contemporary composers. She had many concertos written especially for her (Theo Loevendie, Erkki-Sven Tüür) and has many other 20th and 21st century works in her repertoire: Concertos by Henri Dutilleux, John Adams and Lera Auerbach. She also likes to perform less known works by Colin Matthews and Concertos by Krenek, Pettersson and Busoni.

Andrew Manze is widely celebrated as one of the most stimulating and inspirational conductors of his generation. His extensive and scholarly knowledge of the repertoire, together with his rare skill as a communicator and his boundless energy, mark him out.
From the 2014-15 season Manze became the Chief Conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover. His contract has recently been renewed, for the second time, until summer 2021. In addition to a busy touring schedule within Germany and Austria, they had a highly successful tour to China and South Korea in autumn 2016 with Sir András Schiff as soloist. In 2017-18 they tour the UK and they will return to the Far East in autumn 19. They have embarked on a major series of recordings for Pentatone initially focussing on the orchestral works of Mendelssohn, the first of which was awarded the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2017.
In great demand as a guest conductor worldwide Manze has long-standing relationships with a number of leading international orchestras including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, the Hallé, Camerata Salzburg and the Scottish and Swedish Chamber Orchestras. He is also a regular guest at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York City. He has a close relationship with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he is Principal Guest Conductor (from 2018/19), and with whom he is in the process of recording the complete Vaughan Williams symphonies for Onyx Classics.
In 2017-18 Manze makes his debut with the Concertgebouw Orkest, Bamberg Symphony, NDR Elbphilharmonie and the Melbourne Symphony. He also makes return visits to the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
From 2006-14, Manze was Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. With the orchestra, he made a number of recordings, including Beethoven Eroica (Harmonia Mundi) and a cycle of Brahms symphonies (CPO). From September 2010 to August 2014, Manze held the title of Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2008-2011.
After reading Classics at Cambridge University, Manze studied the violin and rapidly became a leading specialist in the world of historical performance practice. He became Associate Director of the Academy of Ancient Music in 1996 and then Artistic Director of the English Concert from 2003 to 2007. As a violinist, Manze has released an astonishing variety of CDs, many of them award-winning.
Manze is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and a Visiting Professor at the Oslo Academy and has contributed to new editions of sonatas and concertos by Mozart and Bach published by Bärenreiter, Breitkopf and Härtel. He also teaches, edits and writes about music, as well as broadcasting regularly on radio and television.
In November 2011 Andrew Manze received the prestigious ‘Rolf Schock Prize’ in Stockholm.

In 2003 Andrew Litton became the first American principal conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and the successful partnership was confirmed as his tenure was renewed in 2005 and he was made music director. During his time in Bergen Litton has taken the orchestra on tour both in Norway and abroad, including appearances in 2007 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Royal Albert Hall (the BBC Proms) in London and a 12-concert tour of the United States including Carnegie Hall, New York. Litton and the Bergen Phil- harmonic Orchestra also participated in the creation of a new Norwegian opera company, Den Nye Opera, and in 2006 performed Tosca as its opening produc- tion. The same year Andrew Litton stepped down as music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra after twelve highly successful seasons. He remains conductor laureate of Britain’s Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, whose principal conductor he was between 1988 and 2004. He appears regularly with major orchestras and opera companies around the world, performing at pres- tigious venues and festivals such as Deutsche Oper Berlin and the BBC Proms. Andrew Litton is also a frequent guest at the Minnesota Orchestra, of whose summer festival, the Sommerfest, he has been artistic director since 2003.

Keri-Lynn Wilson is a guest conductor of leading international opera companies and orchestras. This season, Ms. Wilson makes her debut at Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House, conducting Carmen; returns to the Munich Opera, conducting La Traviata; the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra, conducting a rare performance of Rossini’s Sigismondo; returns to the Bolshoi Opera to conduct Don Carlo; returns to the Washington Opera to conduct Faust; conducts the annual televised summer opera concert of the NDR Orchestra with a performance of the double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci; makes her debut with the Australian National Opera, conducting Cosi fan Tutte; and returns to the Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal, amongst other engagements.
Recently, Ms. Wilson conducted Madama Butterfly and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Munich Opera, made her debut at the Canadian Opera Company with Tosca, conducted Don Carlo at the Bolshoi Opera, Romeo and Juliette with the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra, Rusalka at the Czech National Opera, Otello at the Montreal Opera, Don Giovanni in Bilbao, L’Elisir D’Amore in Valencia, The Flying Dutchman in Warsaw, a double bill of Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Viktor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis at the Juilliard Opera, Hänsel und Gretel at the Mariinsky Theater, and La Fille du Regiment in Palermo and at the Royal Opera House in Oman. She conducted the Toronto Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the Dusseldorf Symphony, and the orchestras of Iceland and Prague. She also acted as Music Director of the National Slovenian Philharmonic; conducted new productions of Aida and La Fanciulla del West at the English National Opera; conducted Verdi's Attila and Il Trovatore in La Coruna; and televised performances of La Traviata, Rigoletto and La Bohème with the NDR Orchestra.
Other recent highlights include Un Ballo in Maschera and Pique Dame in Stockholm with the Royal Swedish Opera, Madama Butterfly in Tokyo at the New National Theater; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and La Traviata at the Zurich Opera; Flying Dutchman at the Montreal Opera; Nabucco in La Coruna; La Traviata in Bilbao; Eugene Onegin in Warsaw; Turandot at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival with the NDR Orchestra; Otello in Bari; and Boris Godunov in Tel Aviv.
Ms. Wilson has conducted frequently at the Vienna State Opera, Mariinsky Theater, Munich Opera, Bolshoi Opera, Palermo Opera, Juilliard Opera, Israel Opera, Warsaw Opera, Bilbao Opera, and Montreal Opera. She has also conducted opera in Rome, Torino, Bari, Florence, Parma, Verona, Palermo, Oslo, Nice, Bucharest, Los Angeles, Leipzig, and Washington. Ms. Wilson has conducted orchestras in Paris, Los Angeles, Munich, Montreal, Toronto, St. Paul, Houston, Washington, Aachen, Leipzig, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Madrid, Bucharest, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, and Zagreb, amongst others.
Dorian Records has produced a CD, Danzon, of Ms. Wilson conducting the Simón Bolivar Orchestra of Venezuela in a recording of Latin American compositions. A native of Winnipeg, Canada, Ms. Wilson studied the flute, piano, and violin. At the Juilliard School in New York, she was a student of renowned flutist Julius Baker and made her debut at Carnegie Hall at the age of 21. A recipient of the Bruno Walter Scholarship, she continued her studies at Juilliard in the conducting program with Otto-Werner Mueller. Ms. Wilson received her Bachelor and two Masters degrees in both conducting and flute performance from Juilliard in 1994. She made her debut with the National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada at the age of 23. While still a student, she assisted Claudio Abbado at the Salzburg Festival and won a fellowship from the Tanglewood Music Center. Upon graduation, she was the Associate Conductor at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra until 1998, when she launched her international career as a guest conductor.