
PROGRAM – PARIS
CLAUDE DEBUSSY – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
ERNEST BLOCH – Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for cello and orchestra
GUSTAV MAHLER – Symphony No. 1 “Titan”
PROGRAM – BERLIN
CLAUDE DEBUSSY – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
W.A. MOZART – Violin Concerto No. 3
ANTON BRUCKNER – Symphony No. 4
PROGRAM – DORTMUND / FREIBURG
CLAUDE DEBUSSY – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
ERNEST BLOCH – Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for cello and orchestra
ANTON BRUCKNER – Symphony No. 4
PROGRAM – HAMBURG / COLOGNE / DÜSSELDORF
CLAUDE DEBUSSY – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
ERNEST BLOCH – Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for cello and orchestra
GUSTAV MAHLER – Symphony No. 1 “Titan”
PERFORMANCES
TUESDAY, MARCH 4 • 8 PM
PARIS – Philharmonie Paris
Presented by: Philharmonie Paris
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5 • 8 PM
BERLIN – Berlin Philharmonie
Presented by: Konzertdirektion Hans Adler GmbH & Co. KG
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THURSDAY, MARCH 6 • 7:30 PM
DORTMUND – Konzerthaus Dortmund
Presented by: Konzerthaus Dortmund GmbH
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FRIDAY, MARCH 7 • 8 PM
FREIBURG – Konzerthaus Freiburg
Presented by: Albert Konzerte GmbH
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SUNDAY, MARCH 9 • 8 PM – SOLD OUT
HAMBURG – Elbphilharmonie
Presented by: Konzertdirektion Dr. Rudolf Goette GmbH
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12 • 8 PM
COLOGNE – Kölner Philharmonie
Presented by: Westdeustche Konzertdirektion Köln GmbH
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THURSDAY, MARCH 13 • 8 PM
DÜSSELDORF – Tonhalle Düsseldorf
Presented by: Konzert Theater Kontor Heinersdorff GmbH
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Dorn Music presents Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in their first tour of Germany with Music Director Designate Tarmo Peltokoski.
They are joined by soloists Sol Gabetta, cello, and Daniel Lozakovich, violin.
Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
Created in the 1960s from the merger between the Orchestre du Capitole and the Orchestre Symphonique de Toulouse-Pyrénées, the Orchestre national du Capitole quickly gained a new dimension thanks to the work of Michel Plasson, its conductor until 2003. In 1981, the Orchestre du Capitole earned the “national” label. From 2005 to 2022 Tugan Sokhiev gave fresh impetus to its 125 musicians and allowed to make this orchestra one of the most renouwned in France and in Europe. From 1 September 2024, Tarmo Peltokoski will serve as the Designate Music Director for the first season and will then occupy the role of Music Director until August 2029. In that position he will exert a pivotal influence in enhancing the already-glowing reputation of the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse on the French and international music scenes over the coming years.
From its historic home in the Halle aux Grains, the Orchestre national du Capitole offers a rich symphonic season along with its opera and ballet and dance seasons.
In France, the Orchestre du Capitole performs regularly in the most distinguished Parisian venues – including the the Philharmonie de Paris and the Théâtre des Champs Élysées – and also in the Occitanie region, strengthening its local rooting and its openness to new audiences. With this in mind, the orchestra has devised an educational programme consisting of concerts for families and schools (more than 25.000 children attend general or educational concerts each season) and is particularly involved in symbolic projects, namely the DEMOS project and the “Tous les matins d’orchestre” scheme.
Musical creation is at the heart of these various seasons. The Orchestre national du Capitole has forged special relationships with musicians such as Bruno Mantovani, Qigang Chen and Benjamin Attahir and created several of of their works.
The Orchestre national du Capitole is invited regularly to perform at the most prestigious concert halls during international tours, including Vienna’s Musikverein, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. It also appears at festivals such as the Granada festival, the Colmar International Festival, Saint Sébastien Musical Fortnight, the Chorégies d’Orange, the Occitanie Montpellier Radio France Festival, the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival, the Bonn Beethoven Festival, the Côte Saint André Berlioz Festival and many more. It has completed many international tours, playing in Germany, Austria, Italy, Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Baltic states, Poland, China, Russia, Japan, South America, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and more.
On top of this, it has for many years been implementing an active and critically acclaimed recording policy in tandem with Warner Classics. The Orchestre has cultivated close ties with Mezzo TV, Medici, Radio Classique and France Musique.
The Orchestre national du Capitole has significantly expanded its broadcasting and online presence: during the restrictions caused by the Coronavirus, the whole season continued and was broadcast online and across social media.
Tarmo Peltokoski
Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski will become the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s Music Director beginning in the 2026/27 season, after serving as Music Director Designate in 2025/26. He was awarded the title “Principal Guest Conductor” of The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in January 2022, the first conductor to hold this position in the orchestra’s 42-year history. In May 2022, Peltokoski was named Music and Artistic Director of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. He started his term in the 22/23 season. He was subsequently named Principal Guest Conductor of the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest. In August 2022 at the age of 22, he completed his first Wagner Ring cycle at the Eurajoki Bel Canto Festival. In December 2022, Peltokoski was announced as Music Director of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.
In recent seasons he made debuts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Göteborgs Symfoniker as well as SWR Symphonieorchester at Pfingstfestspiele Baden-Baden and with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
Summer festival debuts include Rheingau Musik Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, the Verbier Festival, Musikfest Bremen and Festival de Música y Danza Granada.
Tarmo Peltokoski returned to Eurajoki Bel Canto Festival to conduct Tristan und Isolde in April 2023.
In summer 2023 he conducted Siegfried with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and Don Giovanni at the Finnish National Opera in October 2023.
This August Peltokoski will conduct Wagner’s Götterdämmerung in Riga. In September he will make his
BBC Proms debut at Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Symphony and later in the fall conduct Filarmonica della Scala and Philharmonia Zürich as well as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
In the spring of 2025 he will tour Germany with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, make his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Bayerisches Staatsorchester, conduct Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer in Luxembourg and Brussels and will make his Japan debut conducting the NHK Symphony. In the summer of 2025 he will be conducting Parsifal with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra.
He has worked with soloists including Yuja Wang, Asmik Grigorian, Matthias Goerne, Julia Fischer, Golda Schultz, Martin Fröst, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Janine Jansen, Martin Helmchen, Leonidas Kavakos, Camilla Nylund and Sol Gabetta.
Tarmo Peltokoski began his studies with professor emeritus Jorma Panula at the age of 14 and studied with Sakari Oramo at the Sibelius Academy. He has also been taught by Hannu Lintu, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Also an acclaimed pianist, he studied piano at the Sibelius Academy with Antti Hotti. His piano playing has been awarded at many competitions and he has appeared as a soloist with all major Finnish orchestras.
In October 2023 Tarmo Peltokoski signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. His debut album was released in May 2024.
In 2022 he received the Lotto Prize at Rheingau Musik Festival and in 2023 he received the OPUS Klassik for his recording with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
In addition Tarmo Peltokoski has also studied composing and arranging, and especially enjoys music comedy and improvisation.
Sol Gabetta
Following her recent residencies with Staatskapelle Dresden and Bamberger Symphoniker, Sol Gabetta opens the 2024/25 season with a tour of Europe with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck. At the Wiener Konzerthaus, where Gabetta has thrilled audiences time and again, she will be featured in her portrait series across two chamber music evenings and as a soloist, performing concertos by Shostakovich and Saint-Saëns with Wiener Symphoniker and Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. After her long-anticipated return to the U.S. for a debut with the New York Philharmonic and performances with The Cleveland Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Klaus Mäkelä, one of her most esteemed musical colleagues, Gabetta will join the New York Philharmonic and Jakub Hrůša in 2025 once again for a guest performance at the Bravo! Vail Festival in Colorado.
Gabetta maintains her longstanding connection to the Philharmonia Orchestra illuminating Weinberg’s Cello Concerto under the direction of Santtu-Matias Rouvali and returns to the Munchner Philharmoniker to collaborate with Lahav Shani after earning wide acclaim for her powerful rendition of Lutosławski’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra last season. Upcoming engagements will see Gabetta reunite with Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, as well as with Gewandhaus Orchestra led by Andris Nelsons. Other highlights included appearances with Constantinos Carydis and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in tribute performances to Shostakovich and Schnittke, two eminent composers who stood resilient against repression and remained vocal in their expression, and performances with Gabetta’s fellow ‘inventer’, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja presenting known and unknown works as part of a tour of Germany, as well as apperances with Staatskapelle Berlin and Edward Gardner, performances with Concertgebouw Orchestra and a European tour with Oslo Philharmonic – both led by Klaus Mäkelä. A respected advocate of new compositions for her instrument, Sol Gabetta gave the world premiere performance at Radio France of a newly commissioned Cello Concerto by Francisco Coll which was created especially for her. Gabetta recently brought this concerto to the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, following a previous performance at the BBC Proms Japan, where she shared the stage at Tokyo’s Orchard Hall with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
A sought-after guest artist at leading festivals, Sol Gabetta was Artiste étoile at Lucerne Festival where she appeared with Wiener Philharmoniker and Franz Welser-Möst, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and François-Xavier Roth and the London Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Marin Alsop. She continues drawing inspiration from a wide circle of collaborators and musical encounters at the Solsberg Festival, which flourishes under her committed artistic direction.
Chamber music is at the core of Gabetta’s work, visible in her upcoming trio recitals with Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, a tour with her longtime recital partner Bertrand Chamayou through Europe, and recent appearances with Kristian Bezuidenhout and Francesco Piemontesi at Gstaad Festival and at the Schubertiade. In the past, chamber music performances led her to venues such as New York’s Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall in London, Lucerne, Verbier, Salzburg, Schwetzingen and Rheingau festivals, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Beethovenfest Bonn.
In recognition of her exceptional artistic achievements, vision, and creativity, which have made a significant contribution to Europe’s cultural life, Sol Gabetta was honoured with the European Culture Prize in 2022. She also received the Herbert von Karajan Prize at the Salzburg Easter Festival in 2018 where she appeared as soloist with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann. In 2019 she was awarded the first OPUS Klassik Award as Instrumentalist of the Year for her interpretation of Schumann’s Cello Concerto. The ECHO Klassik award saluted her accomplishments biennially between 2007 and 2013, and in 2016. A GRAMMY Award nominee, she also received the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award in 2010 and the Würth-Preis of the Jeunesses Musicales in 2012 as well as commendations at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. She continues to build her extensive discography with SONY Classical, the most recent releases being a recording of late Schumann works and a live recording of the cello concertos by Elgar and Martinů with Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle / Krzysztof Urbański. In 2017, Gabetta joined forces with Cecilia Bartoli on an extensive tour throughout Europe showcasing their album Dolce Duello, released on Decca Classics.
Sol Gabetta performs on several Italian master instruments from the early 18th century, including a cello by Matteo Goffriller from 1730, Venice, provided to her by Atelier Cels Paris, and since 2020, the famous “Bonamy Dobree-Suggia” by Antonio Stradivarius from 1717, on generous loan from the Stradivari Foundation Habisreutinger. She has been teaching at the Basel Music Academy since 2005.