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David Wurm and pianist Levi Schechtmann marked the tenth anniversary of their duo Duobsession with a concert at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in October 2024. Partners since 2014, the two have presented a wide-ranging recital repertoire alongside innovative concert concepts that transcend genre boundaries and introduce classical music to new audiences - a decade of shared work brought to Hamburg's landmark hall.

David Wurm takes the concertmaster's chair with the Hamburger Kammerorchester for an evening of Vivaldi at the Forum of the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater Hamburg - the hall where his own studies began at the age of fourteen. The programme places the ensemble's string playing at the centre, with the concertmaster leading from the first desk in the baroque manner rather than from the podium.

David Wurm and flautist Nane Schulz opened the summer with Vivaldi and Haendel at the Empire Riverside Hotel Hamburg. The two instruments share the melodic lead throughout this baroque programme, and the evening's relaxed setting above the harbour made for a lighter counterpart to the orchestral engagements either side of it in the calendar.

David Wurm leads the Hamburger Kammerorchester as concertmaster at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg in a programme built around Bizet and Puccini. Founded in 2022, the orchestra unites established professional musicians from the city with exceptional young talents, and Wurm has helped shape its artistic profile as a founding member as well as from the first desk.

David Wurm appears as soloist with the Albert Schweitzer Youth Orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, performing the Carmen Fantasy. As Concertmaster and Artistic Director of the orchestra since June 2022, he combines artistic leadership with the mentoring of young musicians - a role that gives this appearance in Hamburg's landmark concert hall a particular resonance.

David Wurm returns to the first desk of the Hamburger Kammerorchester for a concert at the JazzHall Hamburg. The venue takes the ensemble out of the traditional concert hall and into a space better known for another repertoire entirely - the kind of setting in which the orchestra's mix of seasoned professionals and young players tends to come across most directly.

David Wurm is joined by flautist Nane Schulz at the Empire Riverside Hotel Hamburg for a programme of Vivaldi and Haendel. The pairing of violin and flute in this baroque repertoire lets both instruments trade the leading line, and the hotel's setting above the harbour offers an informal counterpart to the duo's concert-hall appearances.

David Wurm and pianist Levi Schechtmann bring their duo programme to the Walter Schwarzkopf Saal in Reutte, Austria. Partners since 2014, the two have built a wide-ranging recital repertoire alongside concert formats that deliberately cross genre boundaries, and this Austrian appearance continues a collaboration that reached its ten-year mark at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

David Wurm performs the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto as soloist with the Albert Schweitzer Youth Orchestra at the Stadttheater Heide. The orchestra draws together music students from the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater Hamburg and talented school pupils, functioning as both a youth and a training ensemble - and Wurm steps out in front of players he otherwise leads as concertmaster and artistic director.

David Wurm performs the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto as soloist with the Albert Schweitzer Youth Orchestra at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. The concerto closes a season in which he has appeared with the ensemble both as soloist and as its concertmaster and artistic director, and returns him to a hall that has featured in his concert life since his student years at the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater Hamburg.