Composer

Henley Symphony Orchestra’s 55th season continues with a flourish in Reading Concert Hall with an exhilarating programme of some of the greatest orchestral music of the 20th century American classical repertoire. Gershwin, Copland, Barber, and Bernstein were all prominent American composers who cultivated a distinct American sound by blending European traditions with American folk and jazz influences.

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March 2026 Concert

Reading Concert Hall

A concert like none other! Maestro Adam Flatt welcomes performance poet Frank Oden to share the stage with the Newport Symphony Orchestra!

Listening for Shakespeare

Newport Performing Arts Center

This is the music that shaped modern cinema. Steiner’s landmark 1933 score for King Kong earned him the moniker “The Father of Film Music.” Stéphane Denève conducts Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra, the Nietzschean tone poem Stanley Kubrick used in the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Denève + Hadelich: The Hollywood Sound

New World Center

Get ready for an evening where cinematic drama and symphonic grandeur collide. The night opens with Bernard Herrmann’s suspenseful Psycho: A Short Suite, arranged by Palmer. Violinist Nancy Zhao then takes center stage for Korngold’s lush and romantic Violin Concerto. The evening concludes with Strauss’ awe-inspiring tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra, famously immortalized in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Mind Warp

The Long Center for the Performing Arts

History is replete with turning points, and with the "Eroica" (Heroic), Beethoven forever changed the idea of what a symphony could be. Beethoven’s passion rises to the forefront in this work, using broad strokes of sound to convey the very nature of humanity while reimagining a future for music filled with endless possibilities. With his deft mastery of late-Classical music, Markus Stenz is a perfect fit to lead a piece which advances the symphonic genre into a full exploration of what it means to be human.

Beethoven Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"

Denver Performing Arts Complex

Friday Concert No. 4

Volkshaus Jena

New York Philharmonic’s Audrey Wright Plays Zwillich Violin Concerto

Crosstown Concourse

University of Memphis

Czech baritone Jiří Rajniš is making his mark on prestigious international stages, including the first-ever performance of Rusalka at La Scala. His recital offers an unexpected pairing of songs by Korngold and Mahler. The second half of the programme shifts to a lighter tone with his favorite Neapolitan songs.

Czech Chamber Music Society • Jiří Rajniš

Rudolfinum

Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a decidedly playful overture by a very youthful Felix Mendelssohn (composed when he was just 17 years old). This sparkling work captures the magic of the fairy kingdom, the humor of the lovers’ entanglements, and the grandeur of Theseus’ court. Violinist Rachel Barton Pine returns to play Korngold’s Violin Concerto — a lush and romantic work that glows with cinematic beauty and emotional depth — bridging the worlds of classical music and Hollywood film scores. Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune is dreamlike music inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem about a faun’s sensual reverie that paints a lush and languid musical landscape, and a sense of wonder. Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka tells the story of a tragic puppet brought to life by a magician, set against the vibrant backdrop of a Russian fair. All four of these lively pieces of music will fill us with a lightness of being.

Playful Pursuits

Overture Center for the Arts

The South Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim makes her debut at Berwaldhallen with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, alongside the Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski, performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, one of only two piano concertos he wrote in a minor key. The concert begins with the overture to Austrian composer Maria Theresia von Paradis' comic opera Der Schulkandidat (The School Candidate).

Mozart, Korngold & von Paradis

Berwaldhallen

The Purcell School Symphony Orchestra returns to Cadogan Hall with a romantic programme of big tunes and lush orchestration, inspired by the movies of the 1940s.

This year’s Purcell School Concerto Competition winner, Julia Majewska, is an exciting young violinist who brings passion and verve to the fireworks of the exquisite Korngold Violin Concerto.

Part of Howard Hanson’s Symphony from 1930 was John Williams’ template for E.T., and Doreen Carwithen was the first British woman to write consistently for Hollywood. Walton’s orchestral showpiece from the film The First of the Few completes the programme.

The Purcell School Symphony Orchestra

Cadogan Hall 

A year of political and musical upheaval. The title of French composer Elsa Barraine's 2nd symphony is the Russian word for »war«, a work commissioned by the French Ministry for Culture in 1938. After the annexation of Austria and the Munich Agreement war was in the air, and subsequent events proved her right. But the work hints at a distant future. The war in the 1st movement is followed by a funeral march in the 2nd before the music returns to life in the finale.

6th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts

Alte Oper

Among them, parallel trajectories echo each other with poignant force. Korngold and Schoenberg, two major figures in Viennese music, had to flee Nazism. The former found refuge in Hollywood where he revolutionized film music; the latter reconstructed his musical language in the United States. Their works bear the scars of this uprooting, between nostalgia and audacity. Pablo Casals and Roberto Gerhard, Spanish exiles, embody resistance through music. Casals, an opponent of Franco, transformed El cant dels ocells into a hymn of freedom. Gerhard, a disciple of Schoenberg, blended avant-garde and Catalan folklore in a unique style, shaped by his exile in England. Arvo Pärt, Olga Podgaiskaya, and Samir Odeh-Tamimi extend this reflection on wandering and creation. Pärt, forced to leave Soviet Estonia, found refuge in timeless music. Podgaiskaya and Odeh-Tamimi, heirs to these journeys, in turn question boundaries and shifting identities. An evening resonating with the echoes of a torn 20th century and the persistence of a beauty born of absence. A world concert where each note echoes a lost land, but also the hope of a new beginning.

Exiles #2

Opéra Comédie

Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto begins with a crack of the whip. It conjures up a provocative and colorful music in the hall. The French-Canadian Louis Lortie ignites the necessary keyboard fireworks, while Simone Young conducts the WDR Symphony Orchestra for the first time. She began her career at the Cologne Opera. Today, the Australian is one of the world's most distinguished conductors and was the first woman to conduct the Bayreuth "Ring." With Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Symphony in F-sharp, she offers the opulent late work of an Austrian who, after fleeing the Nazis, rose to global fame in Hollywood's dream factory.

Shimmering - Simone Young & Ravel

Museum Ludwig

Hailed as a “legend of the cello” by The New Yorker, Marcy Rosen joins forces with GRAMMY Award-winning violist Kim Kashkashian and the “invariably energetic” Catalyst Quartet (New York Times) for a rare performance of Erich Korngold’s Sextet in D Major—a work full of bustling energy and sweeping melodies. Against All Odds showcases music by composers who faced significant hardship and oppression during their lives.

Catalyst Quartet Kim Kashkashian, viola Marcy Rosen, cello

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

In the 2025/26 season, three chamber concerts will again take place in the Mainz-Weisenau Synagogue.

3rd Chamber Concert in the Synagogue

Alte Synagoge Mainz-Weisenau

With the world premiere of his one-act opera, VIOLANTA, the 18-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold shifted overnight from child prodigy to one of the leading opera composers of his generation. For VIOLANTA not only heralded the arrival of a young maestro who was as independent as he was variegated in his musical palette, who had an unerring feel for how to render his vision on stage, and who could write melodies that were both expressive and catchy to boot; the 75-minute work to a libretto by Hans Müller, later to be known for co-writing THE WHITE HORSE INN, also served notice that Korngold had caught a contemporary Viennese mood that encapsulated Art Nouveau, psychoanalysis and an end-of-days atmosphere, a quintessence framed by Freud, Klimt and Schnitzler – all mirrored perfectly in the storyline: Violanta, the wife of Venice’s governor, plots during Carnival to avenge, through assassination, her sister, who committed suicide after being seduced by Prince Alfonso. When the moment comes, however, she acknowledges her true motive: to snuff out her own desire to abandon herself to passion. She sacrifices herself to free herself from “lust and guilt”.

Violanta

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Mozart and Korngold are separated by a century and a half, but both fascinated the musical world as prodigies in their time. In his "Sinfonia concertante," Mozart features four wind instruments - oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon - playing together and against each other. This sonic diversity creates exciting dialogues between the instruments, as they compete with each other but also harmonize perfectly. The solo parts are performed by wind players from the Dresden Philharmonic. The second work of the evening, Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Symphony in F sharp major, takes us into a completely different world. Korngold, known for his film compositions, creates opulent soundscapes in this symphony, filled with passion and drama. The symphony is full of energy, profound emotions, and a captivating blend of classical musical language and the grand cinematic elements that characterize the composer. The concert is conducted by Eun Sun Kim, known for her precise and passionate conducting, making her debut on the podium of our orchestra.

Mozart and Korngold

Palace of Culture

Korngold Mackeben Slatkin Bernstein

Gasteig HP8

Guest conductor Josep Vicent leads the orchestra in a captivating concert starting with Falla’s Three Cornered Hat Suite and featuring Korngold’s emotionally rich Violin Concerto that will delight you and elevate the evening with its lyrical beauty. Falla’s El amor brujo and Márquez’s Danzón No. 2 completes the program in a lively homage to Flamenco, Latin dance and Spanish passion.

Latin Rhythms and Hollywood Drama

Ohio Theatre

Observe a working rehearsal as the musicians and conductor put the finishing touches on the weekend’s concert program on Friday, January 16 at 10AM. Doors open at 9AM. Tickets are $17.14; coffee and donuts are included!

Friday Coffee Dress – Latin Rhythms and Hollywood Drama

The Snowman

Experience a journey like no other, from the exhilarating pace of John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine to the lush romanticism of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Violin Concerto, brought to life by rising star, Aubree Oliverson. After intermission, be transported to a magical realm with Stravinsky’s The Firebird, presented in its complete brilliance, filled with vibrant colors, rhythmic energy and lush harmonies. It’s paired with stunning visuals that amplify the drama and enchantment of this timeless masterpiece."

Shelley Conducts Stravinsky's Firebird

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Katharina Wincor, in her Hallé conducting debut, will be joined by Anna Lapwood to perform Joseph Jongen’s Symphonie concertante, celebrating the ‘king of instruments’. Composed in 1926, this electrifying piece has been cemented as one of the greatest twentieth-century works for organ and orchestra. From resounding opening to blazing end, we have the rare opportunity to hear the magnificent Bridgewater Hall organ take a virtuosic starring role. Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier is a firm audience favourite, and the composer’s influence is woven throughout Korngold’s Schauspiel-Ouvertüre, which opens the programme. Premiering when Korngold was just 14 – having already had huge success with earlier works including his Der Schneemann (The Snowman) ballet at age 11 – the overture has many flavours of his later cinematic works.

The Hallé – Anna Lapwood Plays...

The Bridgewater Hall

Katharina Wincor, in her Hallé conducting debut, will be joined by Anna Lapwood to perform Joseph Jongen’s Symphonie concertante. Composed in 1926, this electrifying piece has been cemented as one of the greatest twentieth-century works for organ and orchestra. From resounding opening to blazing end, we have the rare opportunity to hear the organ take a virtuosic starring role.

Anna Lapwood Plays…

It couldn't be more Christmassy! The anticipation of the upcoming holidays is audible in this concert full of Christmas tunes, sleigh rides, and Christmas wishes. The focus is on the music for Erich Wolfgang Korngold's fairytale ballet "The Snowman": Colombine and her admirer Pierrot attempt to escape from the clutches of Uncle Pantaloon – and succeed with the help of a snowman. The story is narrated. Finally, things get particularly festive with Otto Nicolai's Christmas Overture, featuring ever-changing variations of the chorale "Vom Himmel hoch."

Christmas & Fairy Tales

Berliner Philharmonie

Celebrate the magic of Christmas with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra in the Queen Elisabeth Hall. Clara’s journey with The Nutcracker sweeps you into a fairytale of romance and wonder, as Tchaikovsky’s heartwarming music ignites the festive spirit in all ages. Under the baton of Nicolas Altstaedt, who also shines as cello soloist in the elegant Rococo Variations, the orchestra brings a sparkling programme of winter treasures to life. From iconic melodies to hidden gems, this Christmas gala promises a night of joy and splendour.

Christmas gala with Nicolas Altstaedt

Queen Elisabeth Hall

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was just eleven years old when he composed the ballet The Snowman . The piece's musical brilliance caused such a sensation that even the emperor took notice of the child prodigy's creation and commissioned a performance at the Imperial and Royal Court Opera. This year, excerpts from The Snowman, reminiscent of Tchaikovsky's great ballets, will open the Christmas concert, in which the KSO and the City Theater Chorus will strike a festive, contemplative, and cheerful tone—including Mozart's Ave verum corpus and Leroy Anderson's exhilarating Sleigh Ride .

Christmas concert

Konzerthaus Klagenfurt

The irresistible sway of Johann Strauss’s An der schönen blauen Donau has made it arguably the most famous waltz of all time.

The Blue Danube

MediaCityUK

When the days get shorter, the temperatures drop, we need hats, scarves, and gloves, and our breath creates clouds in the air—then one of the most wonderful times of the year begins! Soon the first delicate snowflakes fall, becoming thicker and softer, and finally the snow lies so deep that we can have snowball fights, build snow huts, and snowmen. And if you make friends with one of these snowmen, you can learn a lot of things you never even imagined! Because a snowman is much more than just three round snowballs stacked on top of each other.

The Journey of the Snowflakes

Bonn Opera House

Concert in Madrid

National Music Auditorium, Madrid

Exiled in the United States, Bartók and Korngold poured their longing for home into their concertos—one steeped in Hungarian traditions, the other blending Viennese charm with Hollywood melodies. Showcasing the brilliant Simone Lamsma, this concert promises an enchanting journey full of emotion, cinematic splendour, and symphonic brilliance. A magical evening where mesmerizing melodies will allow you to discover a rich cultural heritage.

Echoes of Europe in Hollywood

Place des Arts

Discover the Happy Symphonic Hour version of our December 3 program and be swept away by nostalgic European sounds and iconic Hollywood melodies. This 60-minute concert also offers a chance to meet comedian Philippe-Audrey Larrue-St-Jacques, who will be hosting the evening. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to discover—or rediscover—the incredible violinist Simone Lamsma, acclaimed for her outstanding performance in 2024.

From Europe to the Movies

“More for a Caruso than a Paganini,” Korngold said, is how he wrote his Violin Concerto. This means: a bold embrace of lyrical richness. Renaud Capuçon, with his rich, velvety violin tone, is the ideal interpreter, and Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony provides a stark counterpoint. This symphony is like a history lesson. Its title, “The Year 1905,” refers to Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg and the massacre of demonstrating workers in front of the Tsar’s palace. The tension, the confrontation between the people and the authorities, the grief for the dead are vividly audible here. Revolutionary songs, workers’ anthems, protest songs—this is the material from which Shostakovich crafts a powerfully evocative symphony—one that resonates just as strongly with its year of composition, 1957, with the Hungarian Uprising that had just been brutally suppressed, as it does with our own time. With this performance, Alain Altinoglu and the hr Symphony Orchestra continue their recording of all Shostakovich symphonies this season. Also physically demanding, energetic, and featuring a powerful percussion section, is "Alaraph," a work by Focus artist Unsuk Chin, being heard for the first time in Germany. The title comes from one of the so-called "heartbeat stars," whose pulsation resembles the heart rate in an electrocardiogram.

Shostakovich 11

It's a now iconic masterpiece: Aaron Copland's legendary Fanfare for the Common Man. This music promises pure goosebumps. Together with the ballet music to Billy the Kid, it embodies the sound of America – endless expanses, an unbroken spirit of adventure, a pathos that still resonates today. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's suite from The Sea Hawk offers real adventure. Hollywood was Korngold's new home, and film music his artistic salvation. With Korngold's lush orchestral sound as cinema for the ears, the epic soundtrack to The Sea Hawk promises pure drama. And Sibelius? He is considered the epitome of the Nordic sound. No composer has shaped Finland musically like he has. His Second Symphony is more than "just" music; it is also a story of protest, of hope, of the Finnish struggle for freedom. It is not for nothing that it bears the nickname "Symphony of Independence." A manifesto in music, powerful, courageous, timeless.

Film music & Sibelius | Jonathan Stockhammer

The Bell, Bremen

Elgar’s Enigma Variations contain one of the most fascinating mysteries in British classical music. Consisting of a theme and 14 variations—some dark and searching, others playful and assertive—the orchestral work builds upon a wistful theme that was written as a countermelody to an unknown piece that Elgar never shared. A century later, no one has cracked the code to the secret tune. Roberto González-Monjas opens the program with another set of variations, this time by Korngold, overflowing with golden harmonies and a folkish warmth.

Elgar’s Enigma

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Czech Philharmonic • Variations

Karlovy Vary City Theatre

Korngold's Hollywood Concerto

Artis–Naples

Peter Pan flies back to the Volksoper! The popular ballet for the whole family celebrates its revival and its return to the stage. Vesna Orlić’s loving and playful choreography based on J. M. Barrie’s enchanting novel of the same name transports young and old audiences alike into the world of the boy who doesn’t want to grow up and let us take part in the adventures of Peter Pan, his lost girls and boys, Tinkerbell and the children of the Darling family.

Peter Pan

Volksoper Wien

Works from great composers who immigrated to America.

Stravinsky

University of Nevada

Johann Strauss II, the legendary Viennese Waltz King, was born in Vienna 200 years ago in 1825. However, he died a German, namely a citizen of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Out of love for Adele, the Imperial and Royal Court Ball music director renounced his Austrian citizenship and converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism – and this only because the Pope did not annul the Catholic marriage between Strauss and his second wife, Lilli. As an art connoisseur, Duke Ernst II gladly opened the doors to celebrity and was willing to make Strauss "his" citizen. Following naturalization, the Strauss couple were married in the court chapel of Ehrenburg Palace. In gratitude, Strauss dedicated the polka française "Neues Leben" (New Life) to the Duke. The anniversary concert "Straussiana" will feature works by Strauss's contemporaries, admirers, and the master himself. Of course, his non-blood-related namesake, Richard Strauss, who was himself a master of the late Romantic waltz, will also be featured. Star cellist Alexey Stadler will open his residency with "Don Quixote," a tone poem on a theme of chivalric character.

Straussiana

State Theatre Eisenach

Salzburg-London Piano Trio Collaboration

Mozarteum Foundation

California Dreamin’

Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo

Famous for its passionate and tempestuous sound, the Pavel Haas Quartet is primarily dedicated to the rich repertoire of its native Czech lands. In this concert, they bring together three string quartets from the 1930s that not only tell a tragic love story but also demonstrate the diversity of the musical landscape of the time.

Pavel Haas Quartet

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Rebecca Tong conducts an eclectic program featuring Vadym Kholodenko in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4. Korngold’s thrilling Seahawk Overture and Eunike Tanzil’s Origin offer fresh sonic landscapes, while Stravinsky’s neoclassical Symphony in Three Movements provides a rhythmic and dynamic close to a program of music by American immigrants.

Coming to America: Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky & Korngold

Hilbert Circle Theatre

MSM Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mei-Ann Chen featuring Koshiro Takeuchi

Manhattan School of Music

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony represents a tumultuous emotional journey from its ominous start and ending in uncertain victory. NY Phil Concertmaster Frank Huang plays Korngold’s lush Violin Concerto — the composer’s most famous work, with melodies drawn from his film scores. Venezuelan conductor Diego Matheuz opens the concert with a piece by Inocente Carreño, based on traditional melodies of their shared homeland.

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth & Korngold

David Geffen Hall

Paul buries himself in the memories of his deceased wife Marie. He has set up his house as a reliquary. Then he meets Marietta, a dancer. Everything about her reminds him of his great love. But Marietta is full of life and has her own wishes for a relationship with Paul. In a heated phantasmagoria, Paul is torn between his loyalty to his dead wife and the desires of the life-hungry dancer.

The dead city

Staatstheater Mainz

Get swept away in cinematic sound. Khachaturian’s Masquerade Suite opens the program with lush waltzes and high drama. International violin sensation Timothy Chooi takes center stage in Korngold’s Violin Concerto, a dazzling work with all the musical drama of old Hollywood. The night concludes with Borodin’s powerful Symphony No. 2, a heroic and majestic work rooted in Russian legend.

Cinematic Splendor – Opening Night!

The Palace Theatre Greensburg

Vienna, its life, its work. Let us recognize, on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth, that Johann Strauss Jr. alone encapsulates the spirit of the city. His younger brother, Josef, does the same in his own way, whose polka-mazurka, The Dragonfly, confirms what a genius he would have been had he renounced his first profession. After the trumpets and Magyar arches of Von Suppé's very brassy Light Cavalry , Korngold's Violin Concerto conjures up the disenchanted Vienna of Yesterday's World. Two cities, two atmospheres.

Gala Johann Strauss / Dueñas / Honeck

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

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.

Symphonic Metamorphosis

Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center

The Apollo Orchestra with principal Conductor David Chan welcomes Frank Huang, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, as our featured soloist in Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto.

Russian Spectacular

Montgomery College Catherine F. Scott Commons

In this sweeping program centered on the beauty of the natural world, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen lends his “ravishing, otherworldly” (Opera News) voice to an exciting collection of familiar and fresh songs. Nussbaum Cohen enjoys venturing beyond the usual countertenor repertoire, and has carved out a unique path by being the only artist of his voice type to record lieder in the Austro-Germanic tradition by Brahms, Clara and Robert Schumann, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor John Churchwell, piano

University of California, Berkeley

Subscription concert

Kurpark Bad Oeynhausen

Konzerthalle, Bad Salzuflen

Detmold University of Music

Rathaus Gütersloh

Schützenhof city park

Stadtpark Schützenhof Hangül GmbH

The Minden Theater (Stadttheater Minden)

Paderhalle Paderborn

Get ready to “Rach.” Our season kicks off with a trio of rich melodies and vivacious energy. The swashbuckling high seas adventure of Korngold’s The Sea Hawk is filled with cinematic flair. Guest pianist and Maestro Tim’s college BFF, Corey Hamm, shows off the dynamic brilliance of Barber’s Piano Concerto. We finish with Rachmaninov’s powerful and expressive Symphony No. 2 for an unforgettable performance you simply can’t miss.

Masterworks I

Paramount Theatre Iowa

The University of Iowa School of Music - Voxman Building

Prague - Rudolfinum

The George Enescu International Festival is an event held under the High Patronage of the President of Romania. A cultural project funded by the Government of Romania through the Ministry of Culture. Organizer: ARTEXIM

Bucharest - Grand Palace Hall

The Palace Hall

South African soprano Golda Schultz, the ‘glorious’ star of 2020’s Last Night, returns to the Proms with songs by Bernstein, Gershwin, Weill and others. Bask in the sultry heat of the Deep South in ‘Summertime’ from Porgy and Bess; feel the intensity of first love in ‘Somewhere’ from West Side Story. A programme of contrasting moods and colours also includes Schreker’s sensuous Chamber Symphony – glittering and mercurial – and the bold, folk-infused dances of Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird.

Golda Schultz Sings Gershwin and Bernstein

Royal Albert Hall

Start the season with MSO in a vibrant encounter between our new Chief Conductor, Martyn Brabbins, and star violinist Bomsori – featuring music by Elgar, Korngold, and Bartók.

Season Opening - Bartók & Brabbins

Malmö Concert Hall

Pordenone – Teatro Giuseppe Verdi

Teatro Comunale "Giuseppe Verdi"

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE), founded in 1981 by former members of the European Community Youth Orchestra, has long been one of the world's leading orchestras. Still organized as a project-based independent ensemble, this ensemble has been a regular guest at the Musikfest since 1994, and this year marks its twelfth appearance. With Robin Ticciati, Chief Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and newly appointed Honorary Member of the COE, the program showcases the richness of music from the first half of the 20th century. All of the composers featured in the program were closely connected to a wide variety of musical movements, thus demonstrating a truly pluralistic approach to style, yet never questioning tonality in their works of great expressive density. And when the South African soprano Golda Schultz sings songs and arias by Gershwin, Weill, Korngold and Bernstein at her music festival debut with her wonderfully warm, extremely expressive and technically flawless voice, then happiness is complete!

To new shores

Die Glocke

From "Indiana Jones" to "Harry Potter": Every child knows John Williams' film music. But what does it sound like when Germany's most famous violinist brings his melodies to life? Join Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko as they revel in the Oscar winner's musical cosmos.

Anne-Sophie Mutter & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Haras de Redefin

Is it jazz, musical, or opera? Is it American or European? It’s hard to say for sure when it comes to the American music of the early twentieth century, influenced as it was by exiles. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe present arias with a captivating Broadway flair, as if tailor-made for the brilliant and shimmering voice of South African soprano Golda Schultz, whose career is fast on the rise at the world’s major opera houses. Immigrants Stravinsky, Korngold, and Weill meet second-generation Americans Gershwin and Bernstein – their music reveals both personal dislocation and bold innovation. These works are contrasted with Beethoven’s concise and humorous Symphony No. 8 as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe once again demonstrates its top credentials as a Beethoven orchestra.

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Theater Bonn Opera House

Chiesa di S. Francesco

Stockholm - Berwaldhallen

SR Berwaldhallen

Founded in 1981, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe is one of the world’s most esteemed chamber orchestras. Comprised of top musicians from across Europe, the orchestra collaborates with leading conductors and soloists worldwide. What unites its musicians is a shared artistic vision that transcends borders and nationalities. The orchestra has recorded hundreds of acclaimed albums, many of them for the prestigious classical music label Deutsche Grammophon.

Korngold! Stravinsky! Gershwin! Weill! – Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Musiikkitalo

Hamburg - Elbphilharmonie

The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester is one of the finest orchestras in the world for young musicians, offering a gateway to remarkable careers. A prime example is violinist Renaud Capuçon, who was selected by the orchestra’s founder Claudio Abbado in 1997 and soon rose to prominence as a chamber musician and soloist. For the »Elbphilharmonie Summer« festival, he now reunites with the orchestra and conductor Manfred Honeck, another alumnus who started as Abbado’s assistant and has now been at the helm of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for many years.

Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra / Renaud Capuçon / Manfred Honeck

Anne-Sophie Mutter & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Holstenhallen

Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra · Honeck

Felsenreitschule

Salzburg - Felsenreitschule

Bolzano Bozen - Teatro Comunale / Stadttheater

Stadttheater Bozen

Join the London Symphony Orchestra and their new Chief Conductor, Sir Antonio Pappano, for this celebration of early 20th-century works.

Composer

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Events

Upcoming events

Jun 27, 2025 - Apr 11, 2026

Klangzeit · Elbphilharmonie

Nov 16, 2025 - Mar 25, 2026

Peter Pan · Volksoper Wien

Mar 26, 2026

Chamber Music in the Brahms-Saal · Wiener Philharmoniker

27 - 28 Mar, 2026

Respighi's The Pines of Rome · Utah Symphony

Mar 28, 2026

Cliburn Festival America 250: American Mosaic · The Cliburn

Past events

Mar 22, 2026

March 2026 Concert · Henley Symphony Orchestra

21 - 22 Mar, 2026

Listening for Shakespeare · Newport Symphony Orchestra

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