Composer

For his guest appearance with his Hamburg colleagues, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Chief Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra from Hanover, has brought a program featuring three Slavic composers. Nikolai Lugansky, a renowned Rachmaninoff expert who has released a highly acclaimed complete recording of his piano concertos, will be at the piano.

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GDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Nikolai Lugansky / Stanislav Kochanovsky

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

As early as 1773, the traveling scholar Charles Burney noted in his diary that "the Bohemians are the most musical of all nations." Our characteristically warm orchestral style is deeply rooted in this tradition, and we always enjoy celebrating it with exuberant joy. Our principal conductor has once again put together a captivating program from his homeland: It plunges us into the second act of Janáček's poignant national opera "Jenůfa," which premiered in Brno in 1904. The opera revolves around rural life and the prevailing moral codes and social constraints that place immense pressure on a young woman—ultimately leading to the death of her illegitimate child. This magnificent masterpiece is defined by folk music, dramatic moments, and an incredible intensity of emotion.

Jakub Hrůša, Daniela Koch

Bamberger Symphoniker

The prodigiously gifted Euan Shields signs off his tour of duty as the Hallé’s Assistant Conductor with this red-blooded Slavic programme, beginning with Janáček’s atmospheric rhapsody for orchestra, Taras Bulba. Inspired by Gogol’s novella, this gritty portrait of the Cossack leader and his ill-fated sons vividly captures their battle-scarred lives and loves. Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma, whose dazzling artistry blew us all away last season, makes a welcome return with Tchaikovsky’s ardent Violin Concerto. It was written amidst the wreckage of his ill-advised marriage but the composer found inspiration in his friendship with violinist Yosif Kotek and completed the score in less than a month. The result was a triumph; unashamedly virtuosic yet fresh and lyrical, with a heartfelt slow movement and a whirling gypsy finale.

The Hallé

Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

The Fibonacci Quartet is one of Europe’s leading young string quartets. Formed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the quartet teaches as Quartet in Residence at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama as well as at the Royal Academy of Music in their position as Nina Drucker Fellows. Winners at the 2024 Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International auditions, they were also recently appointed as Grand Résident ensemble at ProQuartet in Paris for seasons 2025-2027.

Fibonacci Quartet

Corn Exchange Newbury

Three generations: Smetana, the father of the Czech national style, laid the foundation with the cycle "My Fatherland" in 1879. With full originality, he incorporated his folk music inspirations into it, and with sensitive instrumentation, he translated the poetry and power of his models into music. Leoš Janáček, primarily an opera composer, composed little for the concert hall—no wonder, then, that suites emerged from his popular stage works. Vitēzlav Novák, a student of Dvořák, followed in Smetana's footsteps with his symphonic poem, creating a voluptuous tonal painting of his beloved mountains.

Mein Vaterland

Gewandhaus

Atticus Margulis-Ohnuma, violin

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

The acclaimed vocal ensemble Gentlemen Singers has accepted an invitation to our special concert in May. In the opening notes of Echos of Folksongs by Leoš Janáček, we can hear the young composer influenced by folk music, his travels in Moravia and his first experiences as a choirmaster.

In stark contrast there are the Brigand Songs commissioned from Bohuslav Martinů at the end of his life by the Prague Teachers’ Choir (I) and the Moravian Teachers’ Choir (II).

For the May concert, Gentlemen Singers, together with the violinist Lucia Fulka Kopsová, will also perform Zdeněk Lukáš’s song cycle Spring is Coming, whose choral works are inspired by folk motifs and are characterized by melodic inventiveness, rhythmic vitality and ability to express strong emotions.

Lukáš. Vičar. Janáček

The Professed House, Prague

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Czech-French author Milan Kundera delves into humanity’s quest for meaning, love, and freedom. Actor and theatremaker Yves De Pauw transforms Kundera’s evocative prose into a captivating performance, enriched by music tied to the author’s journey. Born in Brno, where Leoš Janáček found inspiration, Kundera later sought refuge in France, spending his final years in Paris – a city central to the life of composer Darius Milhaud. Experience an intimate concert by the wind players of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, blending literature and music in an homage to Kundera’s legacy.

Chamber music: The unbearable lightness of existence

AMUZ (Festival van Vlaanderen Antwerpen)

Alba and Lorenzo Gentili-Tedeschi - 35° Festival Milano Musica

Teatro alla Scala

Doppelganger: Shadow of the Self
"Doppelgänger: Shadows of the Ego." In her program with this title, Svetlana Andreeva embarks on a search for the self in music. It should be said at the outset that she has long since found her (artistic) self – as evidenced not least by her brilliant victory at the Concours international de piano d'Orléans 2024. The competition is entirely dedicated to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries – a home game for the Ukrainian, who is a passionate interpreter of contemporary works and studied composition in addition to piano. In her program, Svetlana Andreeva focuses almost exclusively on early 20th-century repertoire: With Leoš Janáček, she gropes her way through the mists of his eponymous cycle, peers behind Karol Szymanowski's masks, and experiences descent into hell and redemption in Alexander Scriabin's "Black" and "White" Mass. A thrilling musical journey to the limits of consciousness.

Discover Talent: Svetlana Andreeva / Piano Recital

Praised for their “passion, precision, [and] warmth,” the Jerusalem Quartet’s breadth of repertoire and depth of expression have firmly established them in the string quartet tradition. Over 30 years, the ensemble has found its core in a warm, full, human sound and egalitarian balance of voices. This program includes Janáček's Kreutzer Sonata string quartet, inspired by a Tolstoy novella; a new work composed for the Jerusalem Quartet by Shulamit Ran; and Ravel's sole String Quartet with its memorable pizzicato second movement.

Jerusalem Quartet

Stanford University

Dandan Wang, violin

Curtis Institute of Music

Blessed with “poetic and sensitive pianism” (Washington Post) and a “wondrous sense of color” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Grammy Award-nominated pianist Joyce Yang captivates audiences with her virtuosity, lyricism, and interpretive insight.

Joyce Yang, piano

New England Conservatory of Music

Follow the adventures of Vixen Sharp Ears, a spirited young fox, as she draws you into her forest world; and meet a cast of woodland creatures and the humans they cross paths with in a series of quick, dreamlike scenes. Leoš Janáček’s music, full of vibrant folk melodies and lush sounds, paints a picture of life in the woods—the joy and the sorrow, the turning of the seasons. It’s a story that feels like a fairy tale, but dig a little deeper and you’ll find themes of life, loss and the wild beauty of it all.

The Cunning Little Vixen: By Leoš Janáček

Imig Music Building

Chamber Concert 7 »Of Bohemia and Bohème«

Oper Graz

Why are we here, and what comes next? Throughout time, humans have wrestled with these questions, resulting in compositions like Richard Strauss’ radiant swan song, Rachmaninov’s haunting depiction of the journey of souls to the afterlife, Janáček’s portrait of hope and solidarity in a Siberian prison camp and Wagner’s spine-tingling meditation on eternal love.

Songs of Love and Farewell

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The exceptionally large brass ensemble (25 players!) in Leoš Janáček's Sinfonietta is just one of the special features of this concert. Perhaps this is why the five movements sound like film music and have been "sampled" in several television series and films—although not intended as such by the composer. The four-movement Les Eaux célestes (2023) by the French composer Camille Pépin also leaves a special aural impression with its open, enchanting form and colorful instrumentation. Under the direction of Ben Glassberg, the Graz Philharmonic will accompany pianist Ilya Shmukler, who was awarded first prize at the 2024 Concours Géza Anda, in Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1.

3rd Music Association Concert

Stefaniensaal

A young vixen is captured by a forester. On his farm, she grows into a strong and independent fox, inciting the hens to revolt and biting the rooster's throat. She escapes into the wilderness, drives the badger from his den, marries the fox, produces countless offspring, and is finally shot by a poacher.

The clever little fox

Detmold Theatre

Puccini first showcased his operatic voice through the orchestra alone with his Capriccio Sinfonico. Marking the start of his signature musical style, it blends the lyrical and dramatic qualities that later came to define his iconic operas.

The Cunning Little Vixen

MediaCityUK

In 2024, she won the coveted UBS Young Artist Award: the young, up-and-coming cellist from Salzburg, Julia Hagen. In addition to the opportunity to perform with the Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann at the renowned Lucerne Festival, which the press hailed as "brilliant," the award places the talented, full-blooded musician in an illustrious gallery, including names such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta, Martin Helmchen, Vilde Frang, and Kian Soltani, for whom the award has once opened the door to international careers. In the master concert at the Mozarteum Foundation, the artist and her piano partner Annika Treutler will devote themselves to the cello works of great composers, including a detour into the world of fairy tales.

Master Concert: Julia Hagen & Annika Treutler

Mozarteum Foundation

Immerse yourself in this exhilarating concert filled with heroic sounds, dazzling virtuosity, and musical drama! Janáček’s dynamic Taras Bulba offers a vivid orchestral portrayal of heroism and sacrifice inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s tales of war and death. Symphony pianist Caroline Hong brings Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue to life with sweeping lyricism and jazzy flair. Rachmaninoff’s lush and dramatic Symphony No. 3 weaves a poignant musical tapestry that will captivate your heart and stir your soul.

Rachmaninoff 3

Ohio Theatre

Observe a working rehearsal as the musicians and conductor put the finishing touches on the weekend’s concert program on Friday, March 13 at 10AM. Doors open at 9AM. Tickets are $17.14; coffee and donuts are included!

Friday Coffee Dress – Rachmaninoff 3

Leif Ove Andsnes is an internationally celebrated pianist recognized for his countless performances in the world’s leading concert halls, collaborations with esteemed orchestras, and extensive discography. An avid chamber musician, he is the founding director of the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival and was the co-artistic director of the Risør Festival of Chamber Music for nearly two decades. Recently, Andsnes performed three times at London’s Wigmore Hall, where he held a residency. Named the Mahler Chamber Orchestra’s first ever Artistic Partner, Andsnes has led the ensemble in major multi-season projects such as Mozart Momentum 1785/86, which produced numerous concerts and two critically acclaimed albums. Subsequently with the MCO, Andsnes conducted and performed “The Beethoven Journey,” a four-season series that toured to 27 countries, was chronicled in a documentary, and recorded three volumes of piano concertos. With more than fifty recordings in his discography, Andsnes has received eleven Grammy nominations and seven Gramophone awards. In 2013, he was inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame. Other achievements include Norway’s two honors, the Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav and the Peer Gynt Prize, as well as the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist Award and the Gilmore Artist Award. Andsnes is an Artistic Advisor at the Professor Jirí Hlinka Piano Academy in Bergen, Norway.

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall

Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, the only one he composed for the instrument and a significant cornerstone of the repertoire, together with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the Italian conductor Robin Ticciati. After the intermission, Antonín Dvořák's optimistic and joyful Symphony No. 8, written during a stay at Dvořák's summer residence in Bohemia in 1889, awaits

Lisa Batiashvili in Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto 

Berwaldhallen

Taras Bulba, based on the Nikolai Gogol novel of the same name, was written in the midst of World War One. It leads the listener through three key moments in the life of the Russian Cossack, including the death of each of his two sons (one at his own hand), and finally, his own capture and demise.

Rush Hour: Shostakovich’s Symphony No.1

The Bridgewater Hall

Euan Shields takes to the podium to lead the Hallé orchestra through this dark and supernatural programme. Taras Bulba, based on the Nikolai Gogol novel of the same name, was written in the midst of World War One. It leads the listener through three key moments in the life of the Russian Cossack, including the death of each of his two sons (one at his own hand), and finally, his own capture and demise. Shostakovich’s First Symphony was a huge success right from its premiere, launching him into instant international stardom at the age of just 19. Written as a graduation exercise from Maximilian Steinberg’s composition class, the symphony possesses a profound maturity, as well as the simultaneous sense of wit and tragedy that would go on to become characteristic of Shostakovich’s later works.

The Hallé – Rush Hour: Shostakovich’s Symphony No.1

The dawn of the 20th century witnessed revolutions in music, literature, philosophy, and science as never before. Composers, liberated by Romanticism and fired by nationalism, explored disparate cultures and wrote music in powerful new ways. Once again the violin was at their sides—the ideal tool for sonic and emotional expression. Here we present works for violin and piano by four innovative composers from across the European continent, each influenced by world events and societies around them, bringing a unique character to a classic genre: the violin-piano duo.

Violin Visionaries

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Rockwood Piano Competition

Longmire Alumni Building

The Soviet authorities called it an “optimistic tragedy”. Shostakovich simply called it his Tenth Symphony. Dark, tense, packed with secret messages and featuring a hair-raising musical portrait of Stalin himself; what’s certain is that Shostakovich’s Tenth is one of the mightiest of 20th-century symphonies – one of those pieces that you simply have to hear live.

Critics have described the conductor Daniel Raiskin as “stunningly good”, so who better to probe Shostakovich’s secrets – and to partner the distinguished British violinist Jennifer Pike in Britain’s favourite romantic violin concerto?

Czech Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra

Cadogan Hall 

Special «Cardillac» Chamber Concert

Zurich Opera House

This chamber music concert spans a wide range from the Baroque to Viennese Classicism and Czech Modernism. Jan Dismas Zelenka and Johann Friedrich Fasch were contemporaries of Johann Sebastian Bach. Zelenka came from Bohemia and worked at the Saxon court in Dresden, while Fasch, from Thuringia, worked briefly in Prague. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Cello sonata in G minor in Berlin and dedicated it to King Frederick William II of Prussia. The last two works on the program take us back to the Czech Republic. Leoš Janáček’s Pohádka tells the Russian fairy tale of Tsarevich Ivan and Princess Marya in a rhapsodic tone. Bohuslav Martinů initially studied in Prague and moved to Paris in 1923. There he absorbed various musical influences: the esprit of the Groupe des Six, the formal rigor of Igor Stravinsky and the nonchalance of jazz.

4. Chamber Music Concert

Liederhalle Cultural and Congress Center

At the February concert the Prague Philharmonia’s Chamber Music Series will host the Ševčík Quartet for the very first time. Among other things, they will play Leoš Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1, which he composed upon a suggestion of the Czech Quartet. It is a masterpiece by a composer who in his early seventies realized the importance of the string quartet as a musical form and brought his inspiration from Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata into the work.

Janáček. Kodály. Shostakovich

A quartet of guitars is far from a standard ensemble, yet the Prague Guitar Quartet has been delighting audiences with this unusual format for over forty years. Known for reimagining works originally written for other instruments, they bring listeners into their unique sound world. This concert will include, amongst other works, Grieg’s famous suite from the music to Peer Gynt. A new piece written especially for the group by Lukáš Hurník will also receive its first performance.

Czech Chamber Music Society • Prague Guitar Quartet

Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

For Elina Makropoulos, this dream becomes reality in an involuntary and paradoxical experience. Long ago, her alchemist father tested an elixir of life on her. Since then, she has traveled throughout Europe, constantly changing her identity and her lover. Now 337 years old, an opera singer known as Emilia Marty, she finds herself embroiled in an inheritance dispute. While her beauty and undiminished voice still captivate, her sole objective is to rediscover the formula for the elixir, whose effects are threatening to fade. But is eternal life truly an enviable destiny?

The Makropoulos Affair

Lille Opera

In the 20th century, the nations of Central Europe experienced both glory and terror – and composers responded with music that blazes with energy and imaginative power. For LPO Principal Conductor Edward Gardner, it’s a source of pure inspiration, and tonight, in the first of two Phoenix Lands concerts, he shares his passion. Janáček retells bloody folktales, Grażyna Bacewicz strikes a note of defiance, and Lutosławski and Martinů each do their own deliriously imaginative thing. These composers have a thousand tales to tell, and with the aid of the superb young Czech violinist Josef Špaček, their story starts here.

Bohemian Rhapsodies

Southbank Centre

The explorative Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes gives a recital focused on Central European music by Kurtág, Janáček, Bartók, and Liszt—all radically inventive composers of their eras. Works by Robert Schumann frame the program, including his dizzying piano cycle Carnaval. Andsnes was named one of Classic FM’s 25 best pianists of all time and called “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power, and insight” by The New York Times.

Leif Ove Andsnes

A captivating programme unfolds with the soloists of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, showcasing a rich blend of Czech and French musical traditions. Dvořák’s Terzetto in C major brings a lively, spirited trio to life, followed by Suk’s deeply emotional Meditation on the old Czech Hymn ‘St Wenceslas’, a tribute to Czech heritage. Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1, ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ sears with intensity, capturing the drama of Tolstoy’s novella. The concert concludes with Fauré’s lush Piano Quintet No. 1, a work of sweeping lyricism and passionate contrasts.

Chamber Music at Merton

Merton College

The Makropoulos Affair contains some of Janáček’s most compelling music, starting with its Prelude that hints at the 16th-century birth year of Emilia Marty, complete with pounding timpani and fanfares. From there, Janáček spins a taut drama culminating in a heartbreaking scene as Emilia finally confesses to her identity.

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

Barbican Centre

For its first concert of 2026, Cascade Symphony performs Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony along with music by Richard Wagner, Leos Janacek and Edouard Lalo. Cellist Sunnat Ibragimov, an Uzbekistan native and current Seattle Symphony member, previously served as Principal Cellist of the prestigious Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. He has performed with major orchestras in Asia and North America and is pursuing doctoral studies at the renowned Peabody Institute. He joins Cascade Symphony to perform Edouard Lalo’s lyrically romantic cello concerto.

Beethoven’s Fifth

Edmonds Center For the Arts

Concert in the Wiener Konzerthaus

Wiener Konzerthaus

In both song cycles performed by Petr Nekoranec and Ahmad Hedar, the subject is always a young man who embarks on a path paved with uncertainties out of love.

The heart has its reasons

Concert of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna

Musikverein Wien

3rd Subscription Concert

Vienna Music Society

A psychological drama between duty and freedom

Katja Kaba­nova

German Oper am Rhein

Once upon a time… Love Story. Love… a passionate and oh-so-human impulse. The common thread of our destinies. The one for which we live and die, the true driving force of all existence. For centuries, no subject has so inflamed minds as love. The Ensemble Émeraude, formed within the OPRL, explores its various aspects through works by German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Russian composers. The concert is passionately presented by Stéphane Dado, art and music historian and OPRL Project Manager.

Love Story

Philharmonic Hall of Liege

At the heart of Věc Makropulos is a recipe for a life-prolonging elixir invented by the doctor Hieronymus Makropulos for Emperor Rudolf II. It was tested on the doctor's beautiful daughter, who has now been on earth for 337 years and has had countless affairs over the generations. In the end, however, the seemingly young woman has to realize that an endless life on this side of the world only brings loneliness...

Věc Makropulos

Vienna State Opera

With bold musicality and technical brilliance, the Finnish ensemble Meta4 has captivated audiences around the world. The quartet has received numerous awards, including first prize at the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna. Now they return to Konserthuset Stockholm for a concert where intimacy and emotional depth take centre stage.

Meta4

Stockholm Concert Hall

Czech Philharmonic • Variations

Karlovy Vary City Theatre

European tour with Sir Simon Rattle

National Music Auditorium, Madrid

Palau de la Música Catalana

Philharmonie Luxembourg

Jardín del Turia

Bruckner said that the beginning of his Seventh Symphony came to him in a dream, played by an angel. This huge, glowing mountain-range of sound is basically soul music by any other name.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle

Known for “desert island-worthy” performances (The Guardian) and interpretations “full of poetry, joy and sorrow, realised to such perfection” (The Observer), the London-based Castalian Quartet has distinguished itself as one of the most dynamic, sophisticated young string quartets performing today. As Royal Philharmonic Society prizewinners and the resident ensemble at Oxford University, the Castalian Quartet is taking the international chamber music scene by storm. The quartet has performed everywhere from Carnegie Hall to maximum security prisons to the Colombian rainforest, and now they bring their fierce sound to Logan Center in a program featuring works by Haydn, Janáček, and Brahms.

Castalian Quartet

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts

The dynamic duo of violinist Adam Millstein and pianist Dominic Cheli performs works by innovative composers who profoundly impacted the trajectory of 20th-century music.

Adam Millstein & Dominic Cheli

Colburn School

Two star flutists team up to premiere Alice Ho’s Celestial Concerto and sparkle 

in a Vivaldi favourite; the orchestra shines in Romantic masterpieces  

Flute Magic

Trinity-St. Paul's United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts

The dynamic duo of violinist Adam Millstein and pianist Dominic Cheli performs works by innovative composers who profoundly impacted the trajectory of 20th-century music. 

The dynamic duo of violinist Adam Millstein and pianist Dominic Cheli performs works by innovative composers who profoundly impacted the trajectory of 20th-century music.

Recovered Voices: Adam Millstein, Violin and Dominic Cheli, Piano

This concert is a celebration of everything stirring and sensuous in Romantic music, led by Chief Conductor Simone Young.

Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition

Sydney Opera House

Experience the sublime artistry of the Jerusalem Quartet in an evening of intimate and powerful chamber music. Celebrated worldwide for their exceptional skill and deep musical connection, the quartet offers a captivating blend of classical mastery and fresh interpretations that continue to thrill audiences. The Jerusalem Quartet weaves together classical repertoire with the kind of transparency and artistry that only this ensemble can deliver. Their performances reveal not just the technical brilliance of each player, but a deep sense of connection and collaborative spirit, drawing the audience into an intimate musical dialogue.

Irvine Barclay Theatre

Experience the sublime artistry of the Jerusalem Quartet in an evening of intimate and powerful chamber music. Celebrated worldwide for their exceptional skill and deep musical connection, the quartet offers a captivating blend of classical mastery and fresh interpretations that continue to thrill audiences.

American conductor Dennis Russell Davies is the point of connection in this vibrant concert, which crosses continents and musical genres. The Principal Conductor of the Brno Philharmonic also has deep roots in jazz, having worked with luminaries such as Keith Jarrett and Dave Brubeck. The latter’s 1963 concerto for jazz quartet and orchestra, Brandenburg Gate Revisited, receives its first live UK performance with leading British pianist Freddy Kempf and a Czech jazz trio spinning sepia melodies around a subtly noir orchestral accompaniment. Freddy also takes the lead in Gershwin’s Variations on I Got Rhythm, a sprightly showpiece exploring similar terrain to his famous Rhapsody in Blue.

Brno Philharmonic

Usher Hall

What can music say—can a violin order a pizza? Join us for a fantastical journey as enchanting fairy tales from around the world are brought to life through music!

Meet the Music: Musical Fairy Tales

Richardson Auditorium

Richard Goode Plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

In a provincial town, Katya’s dull, loveless life is made worse by her tyrannical mother-in-law, Kabanicha. She longs for freedom and, when her husband leaves on business, she is swept into a brief but passionate romance with an outsider, Boris, who has loved Katya from afar. When her husband returns, she finds herself tormented by her guilty conscience and the pressures of society.

Katya Kabanova

Palais Theatre

Kempf, a former BBC Young Musician of the Year, will be on double duty for two American classics: Gershwin’s electrifying ‘I Got Rhythm’ variations and Dave Brubeck’s Brandenburg Gate, joined by a trio of leading Czech jazz musicians.

Brno Philharmonic Orchestra

Leoš Janáček, a Moravian born in the small town of Hukvaldy, amidst vast forests and mountains, is known for his unique musical language. His String Suite from 1877 is his first orchestral work and combines Slavic Romanticism with Baroque influences. Therefore, the music perfectly complements the preludes by Dmitri Shostakovich, which are also performed and pay tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach.

Masters Of The 20th Century

Zeughaus Neuss

A moment of carelessness leads a young vixen to be captured. She grows up on a forester's farm, surrounded by pestering children, a misunderstood dachshund, and a flock of chickens whose eagerness to serve only further encourages the vixen to give in to her hunting instinct. After escaping to freedom, she encounters a fox, with whom she starts a family—not without some forest dwellers commenting indignantly on the young couple's courtship. But in the forest, not only fox and badger, but sometimes also forester and schoolmaster say "good night" to each other when they meet on their way back from the pub. And when the paths of humans and animals cross, the animals often come out on the short end...

Staatstheater Mainz

The season begins with Brass and Brahms, a celebration of orchestral mastery and brass brilliance. NJ Festival Orchestra and Imperial Brass present Janáček’s majestic Sinfonietta, a work of striking ceremonial energy, paired with the noble lyricism of Brahms’ Symphony No. 1. An evening of distinction, depth, and unforgettable musical artistry.

Brass & Brahms

The Presbyterian Church in Westfield

Many musical masterpieces have been used in cinema for their powerful evocative power, such as Barber's famous Adagio, heard in over twenty films. Another American composer, Bernard Herrmann, has often been associated with the great director Alfred Hitchcock, for whom he composed numerous original scores, including that of the film Psycho, which left its mark on the imagination through its unforgettable use of string instruments.

Shadow and Light, cinema to listen to

Palais Montcalm

Don’t miss a powerhouse night of classical music! Join Natasha Paremski and the OKC Philharmonic on Sept 20 for Rachmaninoff, Janáček, Ortiz, and the thunderous 1812 Overture.

Legends: Ortiz, Rachmaninoff, Janacek, Tchaikovsky

Civic Center Music Hall

Serbian violinist Jelena Horvat has performed as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician in venues including the Menuhin Hall and Kings Place and Liszt Academy Grand Hall in Hungary. Jelena’s 2025 Spring/Summer season included solo debuts at St Martin-in-the-Fields and the 1901 Arts Club as part of the Hattori Foundation Recital Series.

Jelena Horvat Violin & Svitlana Kosenko Piano

Inselmusik 2025 brings together experienced and young chamber musicians who will immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the island of Rügen for three days of music-making. Eckart Runge, former cellist of the legendary Artemis Quartet, and his duo partner Jacques Ammon will lead the festival and also present their own transcendent programs. The young musicians will have the opportunity to showcase their work in portrait concerts.

Opening concert of the island music

im-jaich Naturoase Gustow

The Chen Family Quartet

Bargemusic

The audience has the floor: After the prizewinner in residence and her pianist have delivered a virtuoso performance of works by Janáček and Strauss in the first part of the concert, they become wish-fulfillers after the interval. Two dozen works from Beethoven to Radiohead are available to choose from, all of which will be performed this evening.

Surprise!

Hotel Alte Schule Fürstenhagen - Daniel Schmidthaler

Alexander Malofeev captivates audiences worldwide with his exceptional piano playing, strong expression, and technical brilliance. His interpretations of the classical and romantic repertoire are internationally celebrated, as reflected in his numerous awards and guest appearances with renowned orchestras, as well as invitations to the world's most prestigious concert halls. Last year, he thrilled audiences in the Prince von Metternich Hall of Johannisberg Castle with an impressive piano recital full of sonic intensity, receiving a standing ovation. That's why we insisted on inviting the winner of the 2014 International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians to the Rheingau again this year, performing a virtuoso program with works by Schubert, Liszt, Scriabin, and others.

Alexander Malofeev, piano

Schloss Johannisberg

Rákos Rákoczy

Park of the Špilberk Castle

A revival of the Festival 2021 production

Káťa Kabanová

Glyndebourne

Trapped in an unhappy marriage Káťa is drawn into a passionate affair. As a wild storm brews, she is overwhelmed by her actions. Damiano Michieletto’s raw staging cuts to the heart of Káťa’s guilt and despair as she makes a choice between love and life itself.

The iconic duo of Jonathan Crow and Philip Chiu returns to kick off the final week of the Festival! Join us for Jonathan’s last solo recital as Artistic Director of TSM! 

Composer

Leoš Janáček

Events

Upcoming events

Jun 22, 2026

Hugo Ticciati violin; Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano · Wigmore Hall

Jun 23, 2026

Smetana: Opera Choruses… AND MORE! · Prague Philharmonia

Jul 7, 2026

Quartet in Residence: Opus13 · Leeds Conservatoire

Jul 9, 2026

Anghiari Festival Chamber Music Preview · Boston Court Pasadena

Jul 24, 2026

Verona Quartet · Caramoor

Past events

18 - 19 Jun, 2026

GDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Nikolai Lugansky / Stanislav Kochanovsky · Elbphilharmonie

Jun 15, 2026

Jakub Hrůša, Daniela Koch · Bamberger Symphoniker

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