Fabio Luisi (conductor), a Grammy Award winner, began his tenure as Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 2020 and recently extended this contract through the 2028/29 season. In addition, he serves as Principal Conductor for both the Danish National and the NHK Symphony Orchestras. He previously served for six seasons as Principal
Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera and nine seasons as General Music Director of the Zurich Opera. His 2022/23 season with the DSO included the release of Brahms’s First and Second Symphonies, available through the DSO’s in-house DSO Live label.

Maxim Vengerov (violin) played his first recital in his hometown of Novosibirsk at age five. At ten he took First Prize in the Junior Wieniawski Competition in Poland, and five years later top honors at the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition. The latter led to a Teldec recording contract which launched his career worldwide. His multiple awards include two Gramophone Awards, a Grammy, and a Classic BRIT Award. In 1997 he became the first ever classical musician to be appointed as an International Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. This is his Bravo! Vail debut.