Orquestra Concertgebouw com Jean‐Yves Thibaudet

Paavo Järvi, galardoado com um Grammy, construiu uma reputação notável como maestro. Nascido em Tallinn, na Estónia, estudou percussão e direção na Escola de Música de Tallinn e, em 1980, mudou‐se para os EUA, onde continuou os seus estudos no Curtis Institute of Music e no Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, com Leonard Bernstein.
Para além dos seus numerosos cargos permanentes, Paavo Järvi é muito solicitado como maestro convidado, aparecendo regularmente com orquestras como a Sinfónica de Chicago, Los Angeles, Filarmónica de Nova Iorque, Boston, Staatskapelle Dresden, La Scala e Sinfónica NHK.

The 'Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra' is a symphony orchestra of international renown, whose character has been shaped by several generations of musicians, longstanding collaboration with each of the six chief conductors, and the unique acoustic properties of the Concertgebouw’s main hall.

The Orchestra has gained its unique international position with its ‘velvet’ strings, ‘golden’ brass and the exceptional and personal timbre of the woodwinds. The musicians are the guardians of the playing culture that gives the Orchestra its unique sound and flexibility. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra consists of 120 virtuosos who perform together at the highest level.

During the fifty years of Willem Mengelberg’s reign, a wide variety of composers such as Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky conducted the Concertgebouw Orchestra several times. Celebrities such as Béla Bartók, Sergey Rachmaninoff and Sergey Prokofiev performed their own works as soloists. This crucial bond with contemporary composers was continued with Bruno Maderna, Peter Schat, Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze, Luigi Nono and John Adams, and is still RCO policy.