Lisa Batiashvili is a Georgian-born German violinist. Recent highlights include a tour with the Munich Philharmonic, appearances with Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Montreal and Philadelphia, and a tour with the Oslo Philharmonic and Klaus Mäkelä. Other engagements include projects with Filarmonica della Scala, Potsdam Kammerakademie, City of Birmingham Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and her passion project City Lights with the Lucerne Symphony. She debuted with the San Francisco Symphony in January 2006 and toured to Southern California with the Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen in March 2024.

Recording exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon, Batiashvili’s recent releases include Secret Love Letters with Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, City Lights, and Visions of Prokofiev. Her discography has earned an Opus Klassik Award and international critical acclaim. In 2021, she founded the Lisa Batiashvili Foundation, fulfilling a lifelong commitment to supporting exceptional talented young Georgian musicians and helping them thrive in international music careers. Advocacy and cultural responsibility are central to her artistic life. She lives in Berlin and performs on a 1739 Joseph Guarneri del Gesù violin, generously loaned by a private collector.

Gautier Capuçon is one of the foremost cello ambassadors in the 21st century. Performing worldwide with leading conductors and instrumentalists, he also created the Fondation Gautier Capuçon in 2022, dedicated to supporting outstanding young musicians.

Highlights of his 2026–27 season include a return to the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony and appearances with the Singapore Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony, Filarmonica della Scala, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Sydney Symphony, and Boston Symphony, among others. He also tours with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic, and Orchestre de Paris. In addition to the current trio tour with Lisa Batiashvili and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, he also performs Beethoven piano trios with Evgeny Kissin and Maxim Vengerov at Chicago’s Symphony Center and Carnegie Hall.

An exclusive recording artist for Erato (Warner Music), Capuçon has a rich discography that has earned numerous awards. His 2020 release Émotions reached gold status in France, topping the charts for more than 30 weeks. His next album, Sensations (2022), became the first classical recording to reach No. 1 in France’s all-genre charts, followed by Destination Paris (2023). In 2025, he released the album Gaïa with 16 new compositions commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony and premiered on the Great Performers Series. Capuçon made his San Francisco Symphony debut in November 2009 as a Shenson Young Artist.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet has earned a reputation as one of the world’s finest pianists and is especially known for his diverse interests beyond the classical world, including numerous collaborations in film, fashion, and visual arts. He is the first-ever artist in residence at the Colburn School, which awards several scholarships in his name. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in October 1994.

A prolific recording artist, Thibaudet has appeared on more than 70 albums and six film scores. His extensive catalog has received two Grammy nominations, two Echo Awards, the German Record Critics’ Award, the Diapason d’Or, the Choc du Monde de la Musique, the Edison Prize, and Gramophone Awards. Thibaudet is the soloist on Dario Marianelli’s reissued score for Pride & Prejudice, which was certified Gold by the RIAA in 2025. His playing can also be heard on Atonement, The French Dispatch, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and Wakefield. His concert wardrobe was designed by Vivienne Westwood.