Simon Rattle is a British conductor, born January 19, 1955 in Liverpool, this student of piano and violin began a career as a percussionist before taking the direction of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 1974. Simon Rattle rose to fame in head of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted from 1980 to 1988. Known in 1994, Sir Simon Rattle was consecrated in 2002 when he took the reins of the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic, succeeding Claudio Abbado. In July 2012, Sir Simon Rattle took the lead of the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympic Games. Since September 2017 Sir Simon Rattle is Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Andris Nelsons was born in Riga in 1978. His mother founded one of the first music orchestras in Latvia and his father was conductor cellist. As a youth, Andris Nelsons studied piano and mastered the trumpet by the age of 12. He also sings as a bass baritone for his mother’s orchestra, and is particularly passionate about early music. Andris Nelsons is studying conducting with Alexander Titov in St. Petersburg. He caught the attention of Mariss Jansons when he was urgently called to the post of 1st trumpet of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra while on tour. Jansons becomes his mentor and Andris Nelsons has worked with him in conducting since 2002. In 2003 Andris Nelsons was appointed Principal Conductor of the Latvian National Orchestra and remained in office for four years. His passion for opera led him to conduct large orchestras such as the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra or the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra as well as major events such as the Bayreuth Festival or the New Year’s concert in Vienna.

Audiences and critics worldwide agree: Daniil Trifonov is an exceptional pianist and has catapulted himself into the top tier of artists with his technically brilliant and at the same time expressively virtuoso piano playing. Trifonov, whose full name is Daniil Olegovich Trifonov, was born in 1991 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and received his first piano lessons at the age of five. He later studied piano and composition at the Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow and at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Trifonov’s extensive repertoire spans epochs from solo concertos to chamber music and large orchestral concerts. In addition to the classical piano repertoire, Trifonov regularly performs his own compositions with great success and recognition.
In the course of his concert activities, the pianist has worked with renowned orchestras and renowned conductors, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna, Berlin and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, the Mariinsky Orchestra or the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra as well as Sir Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev and Riccardo Muti, among others.
Trifonov’s CD recordings have also been nominated several times for Grammy Awards and his album "Transcendental" was awarded the prize for Best Instrumental Solo Album 2018.