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In 2016, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla was appointed Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, succeeding conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle and Andris Nelsons. The CBSO has since given numerous performances under her direction, including guest appearances and tours worldwide. She stepped down as music director at the end of the 2021-22 season but remains Associate Artist of the orchestra.

Recent highlights include a highly acclaimed new production of Mieczysław Weinberg’s The Passenger at Teatro Real Madrid, debuts with New York Philharmonic and Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden as well as guest appearances with Münchner Philharmoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Philadelphia Orchestra.

The 2024 edition of the Salzburg Festival sees Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla making her first operatic appearance there with a new production of Weinberg’s The Idiot, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski. Other projects in 2024-25 encompass returns to Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Münchner Philharmoniker and Bayerische Staatsoper, as well as debuts with Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Wiener Philharmoniker.

A native of Vilnius, Lithuania, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla was born into a musical family. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in choral and orchestral conducting from the University of Music and Fine Arts, Graz, Austria. Afterwards she continued to study at the Music Conservatory in Bologna, the Music Conservatory in Leipzig and the Music Conservatory in Zurich.

Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla’s debut CD was released by Deutsche Grammophon in spring 2019. It was hailed as a significant contribution to the rediscovery of Mieczysław Weinberg’s oeuvre and won both the Opus Klassik and Grammophon Awards in 2020.

Latvian pianist Georgijs Osokins has gained international attention through his participation at age of 19 in the XVII^th International Chopin Piano Competition where he quickly became an absolute Audience Favorite. Shortly after the Chopin Competition, Osokins made important debuts at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Laeiszhalle and Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, International Piano Series in Bern, Lockenhaus Festival, Gstaad Music Festival, Narodowe Forum Muzyki in Katowice, the Vancouver Playhouse, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Hall, Tongyeong Hall in South Korea. In 2021 Georgijs Osokins performed at the 101^st Salzburger Festspiele.

Georgijs is actively collaborating with Gidon Kremer, touring in the UK, Ireland, Russia, Poland, Germany, Asia and US. Alongside Lucas Debargue, Georgijs Osokins was announced the first permanent Guest Artist of Kremerata Baltica in its 25-year history. In 2024 Georgijs makes his solo debut at Pierre-Boulez Saal in Berlin and returns to Milan’s Serate Musicali Festival and London’s Wigmore Hall.

UK’s label “Piano Classics” released Osokins’ two CD albums focused on Chopin’s Late Works and works of Rachmaninoff. These recordings received brilliant reviews from important British, Canadian, German, Danish and French music magazines. German label Accentus has released the first chamber music album of Georgijs Osokins alongside Gidon Kremer containing trios of Chopin and Beethoven – this CD was nominated for both International Classical Music Awards 2020 and Opus Klassik 2021. He received the Cross of Merit awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland and the Latvian Grand Music Award – highest honour in music in Latvia – and remains youngest recipient in the Awards’ history.

Founded in 1918 by Ernest Ansermet, who was its principal conductor until 1967, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) is made up of 112 permanent musicians. It gives subscription concerts in Geneva and Lausanne, symphonic programmes for the City of Geneva, the annual United Nations Day concert and accompanies operatic performances at the Grand Théâtre of Geneva. Over the decades, the OSR has built up an international reputation thanks to its historic recordings and its interpretation of the 20th-century French and Russian repertories.