Estonian Grammy Award-winner Paavo Järvi is among the foremost conductors of our time, and collaborates with the best international orchestras. He is chief conductor of the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich, artistic director of The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and founder and artistic director of the Estonian Festival Orchestra.
In his fifth season with the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich, he presents the final part of his Bruckner cycle, which includes a recording of the Eighth Symphony with Alpha Classics. Other highlights of the 2023/24 season include a Mahler cycle and a tour of South Korea and Japan.
In 2024 Paavo Järvi celebrates his 20th anniversary as artistic director of The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, with whom he has performed and recorded the complete orchestral works of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms. In 2023 he and the orchestra performed Haydn’s ‘London’ Symphonies in a residency at the Vienna Konzerthaus and on tour to Cologne, Hamburg and Dublin. Their focus in 2024 is on Schubert’s symphonies.
Paavo Järvi concludes each season with concerts and masterclasses at Estonia’s Pärnu Music Festival, which he founded in 2011. He has made guest appearances with the Festival’s resident orchestra – the Estonian Festival Orchestra – at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the BBC Proms and the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. In January 2024 he appeared with the orchestra in Tallinn, Dortmund, Stuttgart, Zurich, Vienna and Munich. They recently released the album KRATT, featuring works by Eduard Tubin, Witold Lutosławski and Grażyna Baciewicz, with Alpha Classics.
Alongside his permanent positions, Paavo Järvi is in demand as a guest conductor, and makes regular appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. He also maintains close relationships with orchestras of which he was previously music director, including the Orchestre de Paris, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra. Recently he has conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 2019 Paavo Järvi received an OPUS Klassik award and the Rheingau Music Prize. His other awards include a Grammy Award, the Gramophone Classical Music Award and the Diapason d’Or as ‘Artist of the Year 2015’, the Sibelius Medal and the Hindemith Prize. The French Ministry of Culture has awarded him the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, and in 2013 the President of Estonia honoured him with the Order of the White Star.
