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Question? Answer! They are finally coming together to make music together: our chief conductor Jonathan Darlington and his older brother, the celebrated concert organist and highly respected church musician from Oxford, Stephen Darlington. He has brought a work to Nuremberg that allows him to pull out all the stops of the Meistersingerhalle organ and his own art of organ playing. It is the breathtaking, overwhelming, but rarely heard in this country, organ symphony by the US national classic Aaron Copland, composed in the "Roaring Twenties". The organ symphony is contrasted with a "secret" symphony. Tchaikovsky's 3rd Suite is in fact a veritable symphony in terms of dimension and design, including waltzes and a sequence of variations. In between: the enigmatic orchestral piece "The Unanswered Question" by the pioneer of real American art music, Charles Ives. His question: where does music come from, where does music go? Our answer: Definitely from Tchaikovsky to Copland!

Sitting still becomes difficult, remaining emotionally untouched and not being carried away becomes virtually impossible. Because wherever Uwaga! performs, the quartet captivates the audience within seconds with its ecstatic joy of playing. In their new program, the "classical innovators from the Ruhr area", as the WAZ called them, together with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Rasmus Baumann, cover a wide range of music history. From the Renaissance to the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods and then on to jazz and rock'n'roll, the amazed audience is catapulted to the latest pop hits. Mozart, Haydn, Wagner & Co., Stevie Wonder, the Beatles and Metallica are united under the aegis of Uwaga!. With a unique mixture of humor, passion, audacity and virtuosity, the ensemble makes everything its own, deconstructing the styles, reassembling them and thus ensuring ever-surprising excursions into the various eras. Climb into the time machine for a wild ride through the music from the past to the present!

Tickets for this choir concert with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra are only available from the usual advance ticket sales offices or directly from the Hans Sachs Choir.

An event of the Peter-Vischer-Schule in cooperation with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. Advance ticket sales from January 8, 2025 online via the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra webshop.

The foyer is only there for the break - but why? This time we are daring to do something special: we are transforming the foyer with its cool atmosphere and also the music hall of our orchestra's own venue into a veritable exhibition hall to bring music and art lovers together. Nine large-format originals by the Nuremberg artist Manfred Hürlimann will be exhibited in the foyer of the music hall and the pictures will be in direct contact with the music. For the visitors, the dance-like sounds of the piano trio from the Romantic and Modern periods meet the power of Hürlimann's pictures of the classical muses of antiquity. In his three concert parts, both worlds transform the foyer and the music hall into a space that you have definitely never seen or experienced before.

After the great success in April 2023, there will be another edition of famous film music with choir and orchestra.

Old? New! March 2025 will mark the 150th anniversary of the premiere of Bizet's Carmen . It is still probably the most popular of all operas - a hit album made up of countless immortal hits. And the two concert suites present these hits in interrupted order. Old? New! At the podium: audience favorite Gordon Hamilton, the Australian who has chosen to live in Berlin, who, as always when he comes to us, is also bringing a brand new work of his own to the premiere: A Golden Thread , a golden thread that gradually weaves through the string orchestra. In contrast, the most original cello concerto in music history will be played before the break - that of the piano-playing and composing "enfant terrible" Friedrich Gulda. His concerto for cello and wind orchestra is a unique musical surprise package that explodes when opened, setting off musical sparks. From big band blues to church fair music, everything is included! The fireworks of punchlines are set off by the German star cellist Raphaela Gromes, who enchanted our audience in 2023 with the concert by Frederick Delius.

Defeat? Triumph! In 2006 he was our guest for the first time and delivered a non plus ultra interpretation of Tchaikovsky's 3rd Symphony. Unforgettable! In 2008 he came back and conducted Respighi's Fontane di Roma in a congenial manner . Impressive! Now he is coming again: Alan Buribayev, the master of the baton from Kazakhstan, former GMD in Meiningen, former head of the Het Brabants Orkest and now head of the Astana Opera in his homeland. This time he will conduct the overture to the Aeschylus opera L'Oresteia by Tchaikovsky's contemporary Sergei Taneyev and a Mozart concerto alongside the young Dutch violinist Hawijch Elders, who won 1st prize and three special prizes at the Henri Marteau International Violin Competition in 2023. Finally, Tchaikovsky's "Fifth" will be performed. Like the Beethoven symphony with the same number, it is a kind of "symphony of fate" that overwhelmingly presents the "Per Aspera Ad Astra", the dramaturgy of "Through Night to Light". Defeat? Triumph!

The Second World War in Europe ended with the capitulation of the German Wehrmacht on the night of May 8-9, 1945. The "liberation from National Socialism" has shaped German culture of remembrance ever since. This concert commemorates this date, which was so significant for German history, exactly 80 years ago. At the invitation of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the New York-based The Orchestra Now , which consists of talented young performers from all over the world, will play under the direction of Leon Botstein, founder of TON and first guest conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Supported by the Chamber Choir of the Nuremberg University of Music and our first concertmaster, Anna Reszniak, music by Mendelssohn Bartholdy, whose music was banned during the Nazi era because of his Jewish origins, will be played in the Congress Hall. Sending a strong signal for peace and tolerance is the common goal of all those involved.