2023/2024 Season Highlights
Wednesday, October 9th 2024
The 2023/2024 season saw many exciting highlights for Elias. Since 2023 he has been named scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie-Mutter foundation, since 2024 he is a prize winner of the Gauthier Capuçon Foundation.
Out of his busy concert performances, highlights include his debut at the Tonhalle Zürich with the Zürcher Symphoniker with Mozart´s Violin Concerto in A major in January 2024, his Morocco concert tour in October 2023 with Tschaikowski ´s Violin Concerto and Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc, as well as his concert tour as a soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in November 2023 under the baton of Sascha Goetzel and Nayden Todorov in Bulgaria, Austria and Germany, where he gave his debuts at the Großer Saal of Wiener Konzerthaus (Recording by Medici TV, Preview here), Beethovensaal at Liederhalle Stuttgart and Kurhaus Wiesbaden (Rheingau Musikfestival), amongst others.
In 2023, three tours with Anne-Sophie Mutter and „Mutter´s Virtuosi“ took him to Iceland, USA, Canada and throughout Europe, where he also performed as a soloist next to Mutter at venues like Golden Hall of Musikverein Wien, Berliner Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie Luxemburg, Roy Thomson Hall Toronto, Knight Concert Hall Miami, Kravis Center West Palm Beach, Palacio de Festivales Santander as well as Lucerne Festival.
The Vienna Musikverein concert in which Elias is also featured in the Vivaldi Concerto for Three Violins, The third Bach Brandenburg Concerto as well as André Previn ´s Nonet, has been featured on Ms Mutter´s CD with Deutsche Grammophon, commemorating her 60th anniversary. deutschegrammophon.com
Ms Mutter has described Elias as the following: “The pronunciation of his name stands for that, what he is: A gift.”