David Garrett as conductor and violinist at the Interlaken Classics Festival

David Garrett makes his debut as a conductor with a performance of his piano concerto as part of the Interlaken Classics Festival.

It is an unforgettable concert experience in Interlaken. The programme covers a wide and varied range and concludes with impressive encores in a duo by Zakhar Bron and David Garrett.

Festival founder and David Garrett's violin teacher, Zakhar Bron, opens the programme with the Largo from Antonin Dvorak's 9th Symphony. The young conductor Anna Handler then leads the festival orchestra with great verve in Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony".

After the intermission, Olga Scheps plays the solo part in the piano concerto "One World" by David Garrett and John Haywood. This is David Garrett's debut as a conductor.

David and Olga then play three pieces for violin and piano by Fritz Kreisler and Christoph Willibald Gluck.

As an encore - and here the circle closes again - Zakhar Bron plays two duos by Dmitri Shostakovich from Op. 97d with his "pupil" David and the festival orchestra. Zakhar Bron taught David at the age of 8.

A successful evening that many will remember for a long time to come.