Composer

Emily Feng, viola

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

As the first of a trilogy of cantatas, Orff’s irreverent Carmina Burana draws from a 13th century compilation of vagabond songs and poems detailing fate’s fickleness, pagan delights, and corruption, with hypnotic sensuality and powerful rhythms. Hindemith’s reworked Symphonic Dances emerged from a discarded ballet collaboration.

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Carmina Burana

Kleinhans Music Hall

Having already conducted two hugely popular works from the symphonic canon this season – Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Bruckner's 7th Symphony – Stefan Blunier 's third guest appearance presents compositions we don't often encounter in concert. Dmitri Shostakovich may be one of the 20th century's most important composers, but with "Two Pieces by Domenico Scarlatti for Wind Orchestra" we experience him at the very beginning of his career, before he was banned by the Soviet cultural watchdogs. The program then features Paul Hindemith, ostracized by the Nazis, one of Duisburg-born Frank Peter Zimmermann 's favorite composers . His recording of Hindemith's Violin Concerto has even been praised in the music press as a new benchmark recording: a work that shows the composer less as a feared "public enemy," but rather exposes his accessible, lyrical side. The final movement of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 4 offers a spectacular "duel" between two timpani. Here, the horrors of the First World War resonate, to which the composer counters the "inextinguishable" in the hymn-like chorale at the end: the elemental will to live, as Nilsen himself interpreted the title.

The Indelible

CityPalais

While you sip coffee and savor decadent desserts, your gifted host, curator, and pianist Orli Shaham guides you through an afternoon of chamber music by Nadia Boulanger, Paul Hindemith, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, performed by principal musicians of Pacific Symphony in the intimate setting of the Samueli Theater.

Romantic Virtuosity

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Chelsea Park, Oboe

The Juilliard School

He was said to be brittle, sensuous, didactic, neoclassical. We still encounter prejudices against Hindemith. Why? When his music is accessible and honest, challenging, full of joy and dynamism. It was probably National Socialism, with its accusation of left-wing cultural Bolshevism, that has permanently damaged Hindemith to this day and ensures that he continues to be under-recognized in concert life. We're putting that to rest, once and for all! And present the versatile, tragic, serious, and humorous Hindemith. He is so much more than a prelude to the incredible Franz Schubert: an hour of C major.

Basel Chamber Orchestra with Vilde Fang

Stadtcasino Basel

Jimin Lee, Viola

GAMO

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

All Visiting Orchestras tickets include same-day admission to The Baker Museum. Special museum hours on day of Mahler Chamber Orchestra performance: Noon-7pm. In addition, the doors to Hayes Hall will open 90 minutes prior to this performance. Arrive early to enjoy the exhibitions and light fare available at Heidi's Place.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Yuja Wang, piano

Artis–Naples

For the first time this season, a soundscape concert will take place in the DIE EICHE columbarium. An urn cemetery has been created in the historic granary at Hansahafen, enabling a pioneering form of commemoration of the dead and simultaneously serving as a venue for cultural encounters. The events focus on a different theme each year; in 2026, the theme will be nature. The soundscape concert will present works for string quartet and voice that touch on the themes of nature, love, life, and death in diverse ways. The songs in Paul Hindemith's cycle "Melancholie" based on texts by Christian Morgenstern are filled with dreams, moonlight, and ghostly voices in the forest and fog. Johannes Brahms' five Ophelia songs focus on the woman from Shakespeare's "Hamlet," driven to madness and suicide. Her fate is also taken up in the first of Robert Schumann's Six Songs, Op. 107. In addition to and between the sung songs in the program, songs without words from the cycle "Cypresses" for string quartet will also be heard, with which Antonín Dvořák created a touching portrait of his childhood sweetheart.

3.  Sound Images Concert

Columbario El Roble GMBH

Wind Division Recital

560 Music Center

Yuja Wang does double duty as pianist and director in a program of 20th-century favorites by Prokofiev and Hindemith with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Yuja Wang & Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Davies Symphony Hall

Andrew Zaharis, Tenor Trombone

Wind Symphony

Music Building and Recital Hall

One of the most dynamic pianists of our time, Yuja Wang performs with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, renowned for its passion and exceptional artistry. Together, they promise an unforgettable evening of powerful music-making, showcasing the depth and excitement of this extraordinary collaboration.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Yuja Wang

Join the UD Wind Ensemble for an evocative performance in partnership with student poets from the Department of English!

UD Wind Ensemble "When Silence Speaks"

Roselle Center for the Arts

Joana Mallwitz & Radoslaw Szulc

Munich Residence

We close our season with three tributes, each a reflection on musical lineage and transformation. Brahms’ Variations on a Theme of Haydn, originally for two pianos, pays homage to a melody once thought to be Haydn’s. While the theme’s true origins remain uncertain, the variations echo Haydn’s discipline and craft. We welcome Karen Schubert, ACO’s principal horn, for Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4 – a playful, virtuosic gem, written for his close friend and brilliant horn player, Joseph Leutgeb. The second half explores transformations of piano music. Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis bursts with color and energy, reimagining Weber’s charming four-hand parlor pieces as an orchestral tour de force. In the spirit of musical evolution, Pianist Tao Lin and Maestro Amado will present selections from Weber’s original piano works, illuminating Hindemith’s ingenious craft.

Themes & Variations

Vero Beach Country Club

Discover pioneering English composer Ruth Gipps’ lyrical combination of woodwinds and strings, then a very different treatment of similar forces in the hands of Canadian composer Vivian Fung. Rounding out the program, we present a rare Chamber Series appearance by our lower brass musicians, performing works by Paul Hindemith and Kevin Day.

From Ruth Gipps to Vivian Fung

Benaroya Hall

Eastman Wind Ensemble 2026

University of Rochester

Eastman Theatre

Brahms Double Concerto

Merrill Auditorium

Join us for this special concert celebrating the 90th anniversary of the orchestra’s first performance.  That first concert, in 1936, took place at a time of great music, both classical and popular!  The entire program consists of works composed in or debuted in 1936, and as you can well imagine, features a wide variety of styles, as well as a lot of American composers:  George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Samuel Barber, and Aaron Copland.  Join us for this celebration of the start and launch into the future of ETSO.

A Ninety-Year Legacy: A Symphonic Celebration

The University of Texas at Tyler

MSU composer Zhou Tian presents the world premiere of his Concerto for Saxophone, featuring acclaimed MSU saxophonist Joseph Lulloff. The program also includes Paul Hindemith’s Konzertmusik für Bläsorchester, Op. 41 and Symphony No. 8 by David Maslanka. Kevin L. Sedatole, conductor.

Michigan State University

Enrico Bronzi

Teatro La Fenice

Master’s Solo Recital of Giovanni Pereira, horn

College of Music at Florida State University

Written for his friend and mentor Joseph Joachim, the soaring Violin Concerto represents Brahms at his brightest and is a cornerstone of the Romantic repertoire. Virtuoso Abigél Králik, a veteran of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list, will invigorate this timeless classic with a fresh and youthful perspective. The piece is paired with Paul Hindemith’s probing and powerful symphony Mathis der Maler, a proving ground for material for his opera on the life of Renaissance painter Matthias Grünewald. 

Brahms Violin Concerto

Von Braun Center

Cardillac cannot part with his art. The jeweler must kill anyone who buys jewelry from him. E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novella «Das Fräulein von Scuderi», one of the first German detective stories, served as source material for Paul Hindemith. His 1926 opera is a milestone in the development of music theater. A century years after its premiere, theater and filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó stages this thriller about obsessions, control, and self-alienation. 

Cardillac

Zurich Opera House

Special «Cardillac» Chamber Concert

Perfect for a romantic evening out, this concert highlights musical couples, from the sweeping passion of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture to the joyous sparkle of Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture. Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Weber, a colorful orchestral tour de force written shortly after he immigrated to America, references the story of Turandot and Prince Calaf. Mozart’s deeply expressive Sinfonia Concertante features a real-life couple as soloists, violinist Qing Hou and violist Lawrence Neuman, bringing an extra layer of connection to the performance.

Couples Therapy

Paul Shaghoian Memorial Concert Hall

Guildhall postgraduate string students present a varied programme of repertoire in this informal concert.

Postgraduate Strings Concert

Milton Court Concert Hall

Chamber Concert 3

WDR Funkhaus

From Joseph Wilcox Jenkins’s spirited American Overture to Frank Ticheli’s expressive Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble, this program invites listeners into a vibrant musical mosaic. Chicago-based composer Stacy Garrop offers a fresh reimagining of her work Radiant Glow in a world premiere performance. The evening culminates in Paul Hindemith’s monumental Symphony in B-flat, composed after his emigration to the United States. Together, these works reflect the evolving landscape of American music, shaped by reflections on artistic identity and reinvention.

Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Northwestern University

Jess Walter, New York Times best-selling author, brings us his own witty, irreverent, and lyrical take on Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” (aka “The Inland Northwesterner’s Guide to the Orchestra”).

Masterworks 5: Stolen Melodies

Martin Woldson Theater

Riccardo Chailly / Hindemith / Gershwin

Teatro alla Scala

Following a sold-out performance in 2023, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra returns with the illustrious Maestro Riccardo Muti, bringing the sweeping romance of The Gypsy Baron to the dramatic power of Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, and the rhythmic intensity of Ravel's beloved, Spanish-inspired ballet Boléro.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

On rare occasions has The Soraya’s Great Hall resounded with Brahms, the Romantic composer often grouped with Bach and Beethoven as the most important composers of two centuries of music, encompassing the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods.

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts

Edward Elgar, Johannes Brahms, Paul Hindemith, Gabriel Fauré

2nd Chamber Concert / Kaleidoscope

Rostock Art Gallery

Bienen piano professor Christopher Guzman is joined by violinist and recent Los Angeles Philharmonic assistant concertmaster Akiko Tarumoto, as well as Chicago Symphony Orchestra principal viola Teng Li and CSO assistant principal cello Kenneth Olsen.

Bienen Faculty and Guests

Titled Almost a Night at the Movies, the Wind Symphony presents music with direct and indirect connections to the music of the stage and screen. The concert opens with Icelandic musician Björk’s Overture from the movie Dancer in the Dark. Björk starred in the lead role as an immigrant factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition and is saving for an operation to prevent her young son from suffering the same fate.

Wind Symphony Concert “Almost a Night at the Movies”

Illinois State University

Beethoven chose E-flat major for his last piano concerto, the heroic key from his Eroica. This weighty classic, played here by the sensationally talented young pianist Justus Friedrich Eichorn from Weimar, who had already caused quite a stir, is correspondingly energetic, brilliant, and virtuosic. And before Hindemith sends his painterly hero from the time of the Peasants' War, who would later become the title character of his famous opera, through a turbulent life, cast in music and sadly too rarely heard, Mozart's Schürzenjäger takes the stage. The overture to "Don Giovanni" is a masterpiece in just a few minutes, a character study of the title character that is among the most artistic in operatic literature.

Heroes

Stadthalle Göttingen

Paul Hindemith’s Symphonie Mathis der Maler is a riveting musical portrait of the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grünewald, who ultimately abandoned his art to devote himself to his people’s political and military struggle for freedom. Ottorino Respighi’s brilliantly crafted four-movement tone poem, The Pines of Rome, paints a vivid musical picture of four settings around the perimeter of the Eternal City: the gardens of the Villa Borghese, the ancient Catacombs, the Janiculum hill, and the grandiose Appian Way.

Radiant Reflections: "Echoes of the Past"

North Central College

Fall Concert 2025

Cokesbury Church

Riverview Theatre

Symphonic Metamorphosis

Ohio Wesleyan University

This chamber concert takes the audience on an exciting journey through the world of violin sonatas, from the Classical period (Mozart, Beethoven) through the Romantic period (Brahms) to the modern era (Hindemith). It's interesting to observe how differently the composers handled the two instruments and their musical interplay, which was certainly also due to their personal relationships with the instrument: Mozart and Hindemith were also violinists themselves, while Beethoven and Brahms were pianists.

1st Chamber Concert

Kunsthaus Meyenburg

St. Crucis

The virtuosity of the Houston Symphony will be on full display with dazzling delights guaranteed to get your blood pumping and your toes tapping! Ginastera’s Variaciones Concertantes crackles with Argentinian rhythms, while Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 unfurls an exhilarating whirlwind of folk-dance flavor. In Gabriela Ortiz’s showstopping Antrópolis, joyful percussion grooves transport you to the colorful dance halls of Mexico City. Debussy’s shimmering Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun sets the stage, and Hindemith’s splashy Symphonic Metamorphosis ends the program with a brass-filled bang.

Shall We Dance?

Jones Hall

This is your chance to hear Gil Shaham playing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto and Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler two exceptional works that combine musical beauty with historical depth, all brought to life by one of the world’s most renowned violinists. Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto is a passionate masterpiece that blends elements of African folk music with the classical tradition. Shaham’s virtuosic and expressive interpretation will bring out the work’s lyrical elegance, offering a fresh perspective on this often-overlooked gem of the violin repertoire.

Gil Shaham Returns

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

The sonorous sounds of the viola anchor both works in this program featuring MSO musician Fiona Sargeant. Hindemith’s concerto—based on German folk song— portrays a travelling medieval musician.

The Voice of the Viola: Fiona Sargeant

Melbourne Recital Centre

Nangnak Garden

Music of the Greats

McAllen Performing Arts Center

Holst’s best-known composition The Planets evokes planetary gods such as War, Peace, and Magic in an unforgettably powerful orchestral experience. Hindemith’s legendary viola concerto Der Schwanendreher features rising star viola virtuoso Emad Zolfaghari. We also will present the much-anticipated world premiere of Voices by Santa Cruz native Benjamin Goodwin.

The Planets

Civic Auditorium Santa Cruz

Watsonville High School

Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti returns with an all-time orchestral favorite: Dvořák’s New World Symphony. Its glorious melodies capture the folk songs and spirituals the composer heard in America, dosed with a heartfelt longing for his Czech homeland. Composed in 1939, Hindemith’s majestic Mathis der Maler portrays an eminent Renaissance artist’s struggles against political repression.

Muti Conducts Strauss, Hindemith & Dvořák 9

The timeless art of the recital is perpetuated in the hands of present-day masters of the genre.

Yura Lee & Angus Webster

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Chamber music concerts are an important part of the program. In various formations and ensembles, the musicians of the Orchester der Oper Zürich explore a wide repertoire. At close quarters and in intimate spaces, audiences experience the intensity of the musicians as they make music.

3rd Chamber Concert

Hall of Mirrors

Metamorphosis

Saenger Theatre

Although violin and cello are essentially siblings, there were no significant double concertos for these two instruments before Brahms. He actually only wrote one because he had two special artist colleagues in mind for whom he wanted to compose something: the famous violinist Joseph Joachim and the cellist Robert Hausmann. However, it was a complete success, and today the concerto is among the most popular and frequently performed of its kind. Completed unfinished - that's how one could also call Franz Schubert's Symphony in B minor, because even without the "missing" movements, it is a masterpiece. Moreover, it is full of secrets. To this day, it is not known why Schubert did not finish it, nor why a friend kept it locked away for 40 years. It is also unknown why Schubert wrote it in the key of B minor, which was unusual in his time. However, all of this does not diminish the work, on the contrary, with each listening one can discover something new and be amazed.

Schubert Unfinished

Palace of Culture

Our season opener kicks off with Verdi’s electrifying La Forza del Destino Overture, a masterwork of operatic tension and sweeping emotion, where the power of fate is announced with bold brass and lyrical fervor. Soloist Alexi Kenney then takes the stage with Korngold’s Violin Concerto, a fusion of Romantic concert tradition with the shimmering warmth of Hollywood film music, featuring sweeping melodies, dazzling virtuosity, and heartfelt emotion.

Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center

Carlos Simon’s The Block, Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler, and Mussorgsky’s iconic Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated by Ravel) come together in a visually inspired program that celebrates the connection between visual and musical arts.

Pictures at an Exhibition

Lancaster Country Day School

Join us for an unforgettable evening of drama, imagination and lyricism. The concert opens with Alexander Borodin’s Overture to Prince Igor, a vivid tapestry of Slavic color and sweeping grandeur. Next, Paul Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber dazzles with bold orchestration, rhythmic vitality, and playful wit. The program culminates in Ludwig van Beethoven’s brilliant Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, a masterwork of profound introspection and lyric beauty. The extraordinary artistry of John Chernoff promises to illuminate every nuance of this immortal concerto.

Contrast & Transformation

Arkley Center for the Performing Arts

The Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra makes a spectacular start to the new season with Beethoven's brilliant 5th Piano Concerto, a work that demonstrates how well Beethoven knew that when exploring heights and depths, the soul prefers the Swiss Alps to the flatness of Holland. With Ben Kim, you will experience a pianist who has already been celebrated for his Chopin interpretations – it is said that he plays as if he breathes the music.

Beethoven

Mendelssohn Hall

Join us on an unforgettable journey through Europe – a journey where wine and classical music merge in a relaxed, atmospheric atmosphere.

Taste the notes

Aarhus Music Hall

Join us for New Millennium Chamber Orchestra’s annual chamber music concert featuring members of the orchestra.

Chamber Music Concert

Transfiguration Episcopal Church

The church in Rosenow, built in the mid-19th century in the neo-Gothic style, provides an idyllic setting for the "Young Elite" concert series and performances by promising young artists. Violinist Jeremias Pestalozzi has long been one of these artists. Born in 2005, he began playing the violin at the age of five and was later accepted as a junior student at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. Accompanied by Magdalene Ho, winner of the 2024 International German Pianist Award, the current student of violin virtuoso Julia Fischer presents a multifaceted program featuring classics of the violin repertoire.

YOUNG ELITE Jeremias Pestalozzi

Dorfkirche Rosenow

Music in the Exil – Escape to Exile VI

Church Gsteig

Celebrate summer in the heart of Denver with the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra! Join us under the iconic Cheesman Park Pavilion for a laid-back afternoon of live chamber music.

Cheesman Chamber Concert

Cheesman Park

Chamber Concert Leonkoro Quartet

Mozarteum Foundation

Mozart, Hindemith, Clarke, Fauré

This anniversary program invites you to a Hindemith-style celebration of his milestone birthday: with music that is unusual and rich, playful yet provocative, from his mature and youthful, rebellious days – all by Hindemith. This pioneer of modernism from Hanau opposed the cult of genius and the confessional nature of Romanticism throughout his life, in favor of a "new objectivity" that embraced parodic elements, quotations, and a playful engagement with popular genres. From Hindemith's extensive oeuvre, you will experience four sonatas for viola, oboe, and cello – with, without, or even solo piano – as well as an unconventional serenade. Chamber music at its finest!

Chamber Music Festival

Hessischer Rundfunk

The Staatskapelle Halle and the Moritzburg Art Museum present a chamber music series in a special format: art and music come together in the jointly organized gallery concerts.

4th Gallery Concert

Art Museum Moritzburg Halle

Under the heading "Time Machine", the 11th Philharmonic Concert as part of the Duisburg Philharmonic's "New Ways" project offers a journey back in time: The program refers to a concert that was played exactly 100 years ago as part of a music festival in the city of Duisburg. The "Concerto for Orchestra" by Paul Hindemith had its premiere there, conducted by the prominent General Music Director Paul Scheinpflug. Also on the program from 100 years ago: Beethoven's Violin Concerto and music by Rudi Stephan, who was one of the most promising young composers at the time before he died tragically young in the First World War. Instead of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, Axel Kober has put his 4th Piano Concerto on the program, in which the young British pianist and rising star Isata Kanneh-Mason makes her debut with the orchestra. And as a musical tribute to the former General Music Director, there is also the "Shakespeare Overture" by Paul Scheinpflug. However, the concert is not just a reconstruction of Duisburg's rich musical history, but also a lively and critical examination of history: the music festival took place on the occasion of the "millennial celebration of the Rhineland", so it was definitely in a German-national context.

A music festival from old times

Philharmonie Mercatorhalle

composers' music

Die Glocke

A hen, a swan, the nightingale and other birds come together here: Haydn had anything but poultry in mind when he wrote his Symphony No. 83, but because of the "cackling" theme in the second movement, a clever contemporary gave the work its famous nickname - "La poule". Hindemith, on the other hand, used some themes from folk songs in his viola concerto, including in the third movement. "Seid ihr nicht der Schwanendreher" is heard there - and the concerto already had its nickname. Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Un petit rien is also ornithological. The work, which was created as radio play music, consists of seven aphoristic movements that are clearly more than just "Ein kleine Nicht". Igor Stravinsky's symphonic poem Le chant du rossignol was based on his first opera The Nightingale, which is based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen. It will not only be incredibly good, but also magical – and with Elena Schwarz at the podium and violist Tabea Zimmermann, it will be another highlight of the anniversary season!

Feather-light flights of fancy

With humor

Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr

Nicholas Wilbur performs Hindemith's virtuosic Op. 31 No. 4 sonata, an Ernst showpiece never before performed on viola and is joined by Guzal Isametdinova for Shostakovich's last work.

Student Degree Recital: Nicholas Wilbur D.M.A. viola recital

University of Maryland

We’re full of surprises. Every Masterworks concert has a surprise inside – a short mystery piece that connects to the program in an unexpected way. Each one is Michael Francis’ little secret.

TFO: Pictures at an Exhibition

Ruth Eckerd Hall

Duke Energy Center for the Arts

Emerging conductor Ruth Reinhardt makes her SLSO debut in a program that burns with radiance. Warmth emanates from Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler Symphony, a statement of defiance in troubled times. Longing sings through the unforgettable melodies of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, performed by rising star Andrei Ioniță. Soulful darkness touches the SLSO’s strings in Bacewicz’s long-forgotten Concerto for Strings.  

Dvořák's Cello Concerto 

Enterprise Center

O.N.E. welcomes WTHN's Ann Nyberg for a joyous reading of Ogden Nash's witty verses to accompany Saint-Saens' perennial favorite The Carnival of the Animals.

Carnival!

Unitarian Society of New Haven

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Composer

Paul Hindemith

Events

Upcoming events

Jun 20, 2026

4th Gallery Concert · Staatskapelle Halle

Jul 11, 2026

Burning Cella · Paliesius Manor

Sep 23, 2026

Thursday Night Concert: The Sound of Devotion · Musikhuset Aarhus

Sep 24, 2026

Dvorak 7 · Musikhuset Aarhus

Oct 3, 2026

Americana: Gershwin and Bernstein for Trumpet · Sheffield Theatres

Past events

May 31, 2026

Emily Feng, viola · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

30 - 31 May, 2026

Carmina Burana · Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

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