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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.

More? Sea! For the brilliant end of the season of our symphonic concerts, we're heading to the water. Debussy's impressionistic mega-masterpiece La Mer takes us to a luminous Mediterranean scenery. This is what summer by the sea sounds like! You want more! Voilà: With Frank Bridges' suite of four sound pictures The Sea, we travel to the coast of the southern English county of Sussex - sometimes in sunlight, sometimes in moonlight or in a storm. The piece has probably never been heard in Nuremberg. A real discovery! "When I heard the piece for the first time, I was thrown off track," admitted Bridges' composition student Benjamin Britten. He gets his due here with his vocal-instrumental serenade. Six poems from five centuries of English poetry form the basis. They conjure up evening and nighttime moods with effective horn playing and haunting tenor singing. The Symphoniker's solo horn player Matthias Nothhelfer and the Glasgow-born tenor Thomas Walker will provide solo brilliance.

"When we touch each other with music," wrote Leonard Bernstein, "we touch each other's hearts, minds and souls - all at once." Indeed, like no other art, music opens up access to the inner world of people. Also and above all to the souls and hearts of people with dementia. Our afternoon concert offers those affected and their families the opportunity to experience music together and thus continue to be able to participate in social and cultural life. Experience an afternoon of classical evergreens that awaken memories of old times. Because nothing brings the past back and makes it come alive in us like music.

We are delighted to be able to be guests at the Herkulessaal in Munich again after 2016. An event by the Munich Oratorio Choir eV.