Jeroen Berwaerts
performs a wide-ranging repertoire, and is internationally recognised for his outstanding technical skills and sensitive musicality. As a soloist, he has performed with leading orchestras such as the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester and Belgian National Orchestra. He is a regular guest at major international festivals such as the Schleswig- Holstein Musik Festival, the BBC Proms and the Takefu International Music Festival.

He enjoys programming standard trumpet repertoire in dramaturgically unusual contexts, and his extraordinary commitment to contemporary music has been demonstrated through numerous premieres and first performances, including Toshio Hosokawa’s first trumpet concerto Voyage VII, which was released on the Neos label.

Berwaerts studied in Karlsruhe with trumpet virtuoso Reinhold Friedrich and holds professorships for trumpet at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Paul Huang
Recipient of the prestigious 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, violinist Paul Huang is considered to be one of the most distinctive artists of his generation. Recent highlights have included acclaimed debuts with the Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with Lahav Shani, Detroit Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin, Houston Symphony with Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra with Markus Stenz, NHK Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Symphony Orchestra with Fabio Luisi, San Francisco Symphony with Mei-Ann Chen, and recital debuts at the Lucerne Festival and Aspen Music Festival.

Huang plays on the legendary 1742 ‘ex-Wieniawski’ Guarneri del Gesù on extended loan through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

The Residentie Orkest
plays a strong role in supporting The Hague’s wider profile, and since 2021 has been located in the Amare, the new performing arts centre of the city. The orchestra can also be frequently heard at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht and De Doelen in Rotterdam, and often collaborates with Dutch classical radio and Dutch National Opera.

Since its first concert in 1904, the Residentie Orkest has developed into one of the most prominent symphony orchestras in the Netherlands. Founded by Dr Henri Viotta, it attracted composers such as Strauss, Stravinsky, Reger, Ravel, Hindemith and d’Indy. Guest conductors have included Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein and Hans Knappertsbusch. Willem van Otterloo was chief conductor from 1949 to 1973, and he was succeeded by Jean Martinon, Ferdinand Leitner, Hans Vonk, Evgeny Svetlanov, Jaap van Zweden, Neeme Järvi and Nicholas Collon.

The orchestra has built up a rich discography with labels such as BIS, Chandos, Challenge Records, Deutsche Grammophon and Naxos, and has toured internationally.

Jun Märkl
is a highly respected interpreter of core Germanic repertoire and is renowned for his refined and idiomatic explorations of the French Impressionists. He currently serves as music director of the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and is the chief conductor of the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague, Netherlands. He is also principal guest conductor of the Oregon Symphony.

Märkl’s expertise in the world of opera and long relationships with the state operas of Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera and New National Theatre in Tokyo have been complemented over the past decades by his orchestral music directorships of the Orchestre National de Lyon, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Basque National Orchestra and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Märkl regularly guest conducts leading international orchestras, and has led The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, among many others.

He also has an extensive discography of over 55 recordings, and in 2012 he was honoured with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He studied in Munich with Sergiu Celibidache and at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Märkl is highly dedicated to work with young musicians: for many years he worked as principal conductor at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. He teaches as a guest professor at the Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo and recently founded the National Youth Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan.