Paavo Järvi

Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi is widely recognised as one of today’s most eminent conductors, enjoying close partnerships with the finest orchestras around the world. He currently serves as Music Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and is both the founder and Artistic Director of the Pärnu Music Festival and Estonian Festival Orchestra.

In addition to his permanent positions, Paavo Järvi is much in demand as a guest conductor, regularly appearing with the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Philharmonia and the New York Philharmonic. He also continues to enjoy close relationships with many of the orchestras of which he was previously Music Director, including Orchestre de Paris, Frankfurt Radio Symphony and NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo.

With the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich Paavo Järvi has recorded the complete symphonies of Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn, and their release of Bruckner 8 received “Best Symphonic” Prize at the 2024 International Classical Music Awards. This Spring Alpha Classics releases Mahler: Symphony No. 5 – the first recording in Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester’s new project to perform and record the complete Mahler cycle over the next four years.

With the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, he has won both the 2024 Opus Klassik and 2023 Gramophone “Orchestra or the Year” award, and his recording of Sibelius’ Cantatas with the Estonian National Symphony was awarded a Grammy. In 2012 he received the Hindemith Prize for Art and Humanity and in 2015 was presented with the Sibelius Medal. As a committed supporter of Estonian culture, he has also been awarded the Order of the White Star by the President of Estonia.