French composer Camille Pépin has found her very own musical language. Impressionistic, exotic, and minimalist elements combine to create an enchanted, mystical soundscape of shimmering timbres. "Les Eaux célestes" is inspired by an ancient Chinese legend, the celestial love story between Orihime, who weaves the clouds, and Hikoboshi, who tends the celestial cows—both have their own melody. The legend tells of the formation of the Milky Way and how the two celestial entities bridged it to find each other.

Heavenly fog

Bochumer Symphoniker

Jack Moeser, horn

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

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

Four French composers draw inspiration from distant lands for a musical voyage with audience-favorite conductor Jun Märkl. Stewart Goodyear's fingers dance across the keyboard with sparkling brilliance in Saint-Saëns’ "Egyptian" Piano Concerto, while Ravel’s hypnotic Boléro makes its famous crescendo.

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Ravel's Bolero, Debussy & Saint-Saëns

The Music Center at Strathmore

Camille Pépin is making waves. A brilliant new voice in contemporary music, her addictive, luxuriant work sits somewhere between the seemingly opposite worlds of French impressionism and American minimalism.

Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances

The Bridgewater Hall

BBC Philharmonic - Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances

Experience two sides of Mozart – his intense and dramatic Piano Concerto No. 24 of which Beethoven said admiringly to his student Czerny, “we will never write anything like that!” and the sunny and energetic Symphony No. 31 "Paris" reflecting the bustling French capital. Each movement of Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite brings theatrical characters to life by mixing baroque melodies with modern harmonies. The ESO premiere of Camille Pépin’s colourful tone poem Un Monde Nouveau, and the Edmonton debut of celebrated British pianist Christian Blackshaw will make this a concert to remember

Mozart & Stravinsky: Tradition to Innovation

Winspear Centre

With some pieces, the myth is almost as compelling as the music – and few masterworks are more shrouded in myth than Mozart’s uncompleted Requiem. But nothing speaks more eloquently than Mozart’s own inspiration, and tonight, on the eve of All Souls, Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Chorus bring heart and soul to his haunting final words.

Mozart's Requiem

Barbican Centre

Ravel’s jazz-fueled Piano Concerto in G Major fits Alice Sara Ott “like a custom suit,” raves The New York Times. Ott presents the glittering score alongside Ravel’s magnificent Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Bizet’s fiery Carmen Suite and Camille Pépin’s shimmering Celestial Waters, led by esteemed conductor Mikko Franck, expand upon the French theme.

Ravel Piano Concertos & Suite from Carmen

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The biggest night in classical music is back! After eight weeks and over 80 concerts, the 2025 BBC Proms celebrates with a Last Night spectacular, packed with musical surprises and star turns. Elim Chan conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in all the traditional favourites – anthems, folk songs and singalongs – with solo performances by ‘captivating’ soprano Louise Alder and ‘sensational’ trumpeter Alison Balsom. There’s a nod to this season’s Bernard Herrmann celebration, a mischevous sorcerer’s apprentice from Dukas, and premieres by Camille Pépin and Rachel Portman.

Last Night of the Proms 2025

Royal Albert Hall

Sunday afternoon’s performance by Yo-Yo Ma is generously supported by Liliana and Hillel Bachrach.

Yo-Yo Ma, Pépin, Saint-Saëns, and Mendelssohn

Tanglewood Music Center

A sunrise in the mountains, a strenuous climb, then the coolness of the forest and the sound of the waterfall. Lush mountain meadows and the ringing of cowbells, finally an approaching thunderstorm, lightning and thunder and a narrow survival at the dangerous height. What, if not a symphony orchestra, could depict this intoxication of colors and sounds? And who, if not Richard Strauss, could paint this sound painting? The Alpine Symphony features over 100 musicians, including wind machines, thunder sheets and cowbells. But Strauss depicts his mountain world with great sensitivity, creating new timbres in very different ensembles. And the hike to the mountain peak is not just to be understood literally - the symphonic poem is also related to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and can be understood as a depiction of an entire life.

8th Symphony Concert

Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle

King Albert Theater Bad Elster

Under the baton of Agata Zając and presented by Petroc Trelawny, this concert promises an harmonious journey through the essence of summer. Orchestral favourites include the enchanting overture to Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the pastoral beauty of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, Debussy’s languid L’apr’s-midi d’un faune and Gershwin’s sultry Summertime from his folk opera Porgy and Bess. Savour the virtuosic skills of Hallé Leader Roberto Ruisi in Summer, first from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and then from Piazzolla’s interpretation, The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

Summer Classics

James Lowe, conductor Zuill Bailey, cello In our final Masterworks of the season, we embrace vivid stories from around the world. Respighi vividly portrays scenes of Rome, from the serene beauty of pine trees in the Villa Borghese to the triumphant march of the Appian Way, and we welcome back Zuill Bailey in the ...

Masterworks 9: Tales of Hemingway

Martin Woldson Theater

Music right now for people right now: Experience some of the most exciting and not least listening-friendly music from the past ten years. We bring the times into the concert hall – both in the form of the most contemporary music and in the works themselves.

In This Midnight Hour, Anna Clyne takes us on a cinematic, painterly journey. With Camille Pépin we get poetic images of nature in a mythical and mysterious dream universe, inspired by the poetry of nature, and Jörg Widmann plays both with the words and with the role of the orchestra in Zeitensprünge .

Present time

Musikhuset Aarhus

Join the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for an electrifying performance featuring the talents of conductor Daniele Rustioni and violinist Francesca Dego. This remarkable concert will showcase an array of compositions by Camille Pepin, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Igor Stravinsky, including the heart-pounding "The Rite of Spring."

Event Details:
- **Title**: Detroit Symphony Orchestra with Daniele Rustioni and Francesca Dego - Camille Pepin, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky
- **Dates**: Thursday, January 16 to Saturday, January 18, 2025
- **Venue**: Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI
- **Duration**: 2 hours
- **Ticket Information**: Tickets start at a variable price. Please check the Detroit Symphony Orchestra website for the most current pricing and availability.

Program Highlights:
- **Camille Pepin**: "Les Eaux célestes"
- **Dmitri Shostakovich**: Violin Concerto No. 1
- **Igor Stravinsky**: "The Rite of Spring"

Featured Artists:
- **Daniele Rustioni**, conductor: Awarded as Best Conductor of the Year at the International Opera Awards 2022, Rustioni is celebrated for his compelling direction in both opera and symphonic works.
- **Francesca Dego**, violin: Renowned for her exceptional performances as both a recitalist and concerto soloist, Dego is one of the most sought-after violinists on the international scene.

Experience the cosmic sounds of Camille Pepin's "Celestial Waters," the emotional depth of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto with Francesca Dego's virtuosic performance, and the raw, unstoppable energy of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring." This concert promises to be a memorable journey through the power and beauty of classical music.

Don't miss this opportunity to witness the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Daniele Rustioni, with Francesca Dego bringing her verve and passion to the stage. Secure your tickets now for an unforgettable musical experience.

The Rite of Spring

Orchestra Hall

34-årige Camille Pépin, som befinner seg i krysningen mellom impresjonisme og amerikansk minimalisme, løftes frem som en av Frankrikes — om ikke Europas — mest spennende og aktuelle komponister akkurat nå. I verket Chamber Music, en sekstett skrevet for strykere, horn, klarinett, piano og mezzosopran, tas vi med på en symfonisk reise inn i diktene til irske James Joyce. En suggererende musikalsk verden som er like vakker og dypt rørende som den er fascinerende.

Aulaseriene Kammermusikk

Ramme gård og Universitetets aula

Poulenc’s Gloria, with its unexpected blend of secular and sacred sounds, fascinated (and scandalized) audiences from its first performances. “While writing it I had in mind those Crozzoli frescoes with angels sticking out their tongues,” the composer remarked. Lili Boulanger’s impressionistic “Of a Spring Morning” introduces the program with a bright festivity. Jean-Marie Zeitouni, a conductor of “ebullience and infectious enjoyment” (Boulder Weekly), leads this vivacious performance, which invites the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus and soprano Joélle Harvey to the stage for an evening of exultation that will keep music-lovers enraptured to its final whispered “Amen.”

Poulenc’s Gloria

Warner Grand Theater

Severed heads, demonic orgies and obsessive love. Jader Bignamini pairs Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique with the equally colourful imaginations of Poulenc and Camile Pépin.

Fantastic Symphony

French violin virtuoso Eva Zavaro joins the Jackson Symphony Orchestra to perform Swiss composer Pierre Wissmer’s Second Violin Concerto – a piece she poignantly played in Ukraine at the beginning of the war. Works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Camille Pepin, and Ravel will also be featured and the program will end with Borodin’s richly textured Symphony No. 2.

Greetings from Switzerland

Jackson College

The Horn takes center stage in Mozart’s Quintet, rising to a glorious fanfare. Smetana’s String Quartet is an autobiography of the composer’s life—from dancing Polkas in his youth to finding true love.

Mozart, Glass & Smetana

New World Center

This programme has all the freshness and brilliance of a morning in early Spring. Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez blazes with Spanish sunlight and passion and has a gorgeously lyrical central movement that has been popularised through diverse arrangements such as Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain album and the 1996 film Brassed Off!

Ulster Orchestra: Sunlight Of Spring

Ulster Hall

Profound statements from the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius frame this concert, from the mixture of anger and stoicism that characterise his cry for independence against Russian occupation, Finlandia, to his final symphony written after Finnish independence and taking stock of a life lived with profundity and poise. In between, Ben Glassberg leads the orchestra in Camille Pépin’s evocative meditation on the rebirth of the planet and what promises to be an unmissable performance of England’s greatest cello concerto from one of England’s greatest cellists, as Guy Johnston channels all the conflicting passions and strained lyricism of Elgar’s iconic work.

Sibelius Seven

University of Oxford

Percussion fans, clear your diaries. Colin Currie’s series marking Steve Reich’s 90th birthday continues, celebrating a younger generation composing powerful, expressive and hugely enjoyable music.

Colin Currie Quartet: Steve Reich & company

Milton Court Concert Hall

Our season finale concert Prokofiev & Dvořák in Hamilton leads in a program of striking contrasts and vivid musical storytelling.

The shimmering textures of Alexander Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia open the concert, paired with the richly atmospheric sound world of Stéphane Pépin’s Un Monde Nouveau, a work that blends lyricism with contemporary energy. 

Prokofiev & Dvořák 

Ellen Fairclough Building

Prolific composer Camille Pépin opens the concert with Les eaux célestes (2019): here she paints fluid, ethereal soundscapes, where the orchestra seems to float between sky and sea. Then comes Rachmaninov and his celebrated Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (1934). Twenty-four variations, including the inevitable eighteenth, where piano and orchestra converse in a romantic whirlwind tinged with irony. A major figure of American minimalism, John Adams draws from his opera Doctor Atomic (2005) a one-movement symphony about the creator of the atomic bomb: a taut piece, poised between anguish and cosmic contemplation. Finally, Ravel and Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé , an absolute masterpiece of ballet and an explosion of orchestral colors. From water to the atom, from ancient dance to modernity: an evening without borders.

Beyond borders

Le Corum

Violinist Arabella Steinbacher lends her radiant tone to Beethoven’s noble Violin Concerto, and Jun Märkl conducts Beethoven’s vivacious Fourth Symphony. The concert opens with Les Eaux célestes, a shimmering recent creation by French composer Camille Pépin.

Camille Pépin

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 7, 2027

Mozart, Glass & Smetana · New World Symphony

Mar 12, 2027

Ulster Orchestra: Sunlight Of Spring · Ulster Hall

Apr 22, 2027

Sibelius Seven · Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

May 9, 2027

Colin Currie Quartet: Steve Reich & company · Barbican Centre

May 15, 2027

Prokofiev & Dvořák · Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra

Past events

14 - 15 May, 2026

Heavenly fog · Bochumer Symphoniker

May 2, 2026

Jack Moeser, horn · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

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