The young conductor Elim Chan, originally from Hong Kong, is making her debut at the Musikfest Berlin with the Staatskapelle Berlin in a very special programme with a focus on music from the provinces of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire. Chan brings lyrical and folkloric Romanticism into the Philharmonie Berlin with Antonín Dvořák’s 8th Symphony and Béla Bartók’s highly virtuoso and dramatic 1st Violin Concerto, featuring Patricia Kopatchinskaja, as the soloist brings a fresh breeze of thrilling summer love into the concert hall.