Artistic Director

Chorus Director

The BFO’s Children’s Choir is set to make its debut at a grand concert. The project, which was conceived by Iván Fischer, brings together young singers with exceptional abilities from different parts of Hungary and offers them opportunities to perform and participate in individual and group musical training sessions. The program combines the rich traditions of Hungarian choral singing with the cutting-edge educational methods of the best international schools. As part of this, the children’s choir will perform songs from different national traditions, from Hungary to Israel, Japan, and Mexico. The leitmotif of the entire selection is the conviction that we belong not only together but also to the natural world around us. The young titans will be followed by another “Titan,” Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, a composition which captures a rich palette of emotions and which premiered in Budapest (and includes a children’s song).

Fischer and Mahler’s Titan – Storytime with Iván

Müpa Budapest

“The Ninth,” referred to with this simple term, is a masterpiece known to everyone. Beethoven’s last, longest, and most monumental symphony is at once the embodiment of the ideas of the genius and the rebellious artist, as well as a celebration of the whole of humankind. It is a work that pushes and indeed breaks down boundaries in every sense of the word, as it incorporates into a purely instrumental genre the human voice, which sings in the finale of how “all men become brothers.” Along with Beethoven’s universal musical and philosophical ideas, audiences can enjoy the return of the BFO’s much-loved guest artists, a Swedish soprano, a Dutch alto, an English tenor, and a German bass-baritone, who will ensure that this concert, where, together with the Pan-European Choir, they will sing Schiller’s immortal lines (now the text of the European Union anthem), will traverse national boundaries.

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Tour: Beethoven Ninth

KKL Lucerne

The Concertgebouw

Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona

Bozar, Brussels

Konzerthaus Dortmund

Alte Oper

Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

“The Ninth,” referred to with this simple term, is a masterpiece known to everyone. Beethoven’s last, longest, and most monumental symphony is at once the embodiment of the ideas of the genius and the rebellious artist, as well as a celebration of the whole of humankind. It is a work that pushes and indeed breaks down boundaries in every sense of the word, as it incorporates into a purely instrumental genre the human voice, which sings in the finale of how “all men become brothers.” Along with Beethoven’s universal musical and philosophical ideas, audiences can enjoy the return of the BFO’s much-loved guest artists, a Swedish soprano, a Dutch alto, an English tenor, and a German bass-baritone, who will ensure that this concert, where, together with the Pan-European Choir and the Hungarian National Choir, they will sing Schiller’s immortal lines (now the text of the European Union anthem), will traverse national boundaries.

Fischer and Beethoven’s Ninth

Artistic Director, Chorus Director

Irene Verburg

Events

Upcoming events

14 - 16 Feb, 2027

Fischer and Mahler’s Titan – Storytime with Iván · Budapest Festival Orchestra

4 - 12 Apr, 2027

Tour: Beethoven Ninth · Budapest Festival Orchestra

14 - 17 Apr, 2027

Fischer and Beethoven’s Ninth · Budapest Festival Orchestra

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