When 18-year-old Yunchan Lim won the 2022 Van Cliburn Competition with Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, conductor Marin Alsop had tears in her eyes. The jury was no less moved by what they had just heard. Here was someone who simply played differently: powerful and tender, mature and electrifying at the same time, as juror Stephen Hough put it. His colleague Jean-Efflam Bavouzet admitted in astonishment: “I was simply speechless.” The young Korean’s career took off like a rocket afterward — despite the fact that he avoids all showmanship and lives solely for the music, like a priest for God. He now makes his Lucerne Festival debut with Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, a work that shifts between Basque folk color and Mozartian elegance. It promises to be an event. The Czech Philharmonic will partner with him and bookend his appearance with two signature works from their homeland. Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov will open the evening with the quintessential Czech classic, Bedřich Smetana’s world-famous Vltava. And after intermission comes Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, arguably his most heroic.

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Czech Philharmonic | Semyon Bychkov | Yunchan Lim

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Souvenir of Florence

Wallraf-Richartz Museum

St Giles Orchestra April 2026 Concert

St Andrew's Church

Dvořák is the favorite composer of many classical music fans and orchestras alike. His music plays well – and is pleasant to listen to. It is often lighthearted, comfortable, and full of life. The Czech national classic is represented twice in our concert – with two concert overtures, one of which poetically captures rural moods and views, the other sparklingly immerses itself in a turbulent carnival festivities. Brahms' profound A minor concerto, the so-called "Double Concerto," features two soloists – a work tailor-made for our brotherly soloist duo of Claudio and Oscar Bohórquez. The two also plays a role in Schubert's Symphony in B minor. It consists of two movements, not four like a conventional symphony, which is why it is nicknamed the Unfinished . Nevertheless, it is a complete masterpiece. It moves forward with double the force.

Schubert, Dvorak, Brahms

Meistersinger Hall

Galicia Symphony Orchestra - Claudia Walker Moore - Carolina Rodríguez Canosa - Marta Montes Sanz - Steve Harriswangler - Lucas Macías - Concert in Vilagarcía

Municipal Auditorium Vilagarcía de Arousa

Under the captivating direction of Nicolò Umberto Foron, experience a musical adventure where the shadows of your National Orchestra become accomplices in black magic and bursts of laughter.

Halloween Concert

Opéra Comédie

Michael Collins, one of the world's leading clarinet artists, will bring a world premiere performance by Sally Beamish.

ISAAC

Espoo Cultural Centre

Eschenbach, Melnikov · Dvořák, Rachmaninoff

Wiener Konzerthaus

This free, relaxed open rehearsal gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the DSO as the musicians prepare for the Young People's Family Concert. Join from 1-1:50pm for hands-on activities before the open rehearsal.

When does a piano hop like a kangaroo, a violin bray like a donkey, and a cello swim like a swan? In Carnival of the Animals, of course! Through playful poems and Saint-Saëns’s beloved music, the orchestra brings nature’s most amazing creatures to life! Guaranteed to engage and inspire imaginations of all ages.

Relaxed Open Rehearsal: Carnival of the Animals

Orchestra Hall Minneapolis

4. Chamber music

Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle

Toledo Symphony Principal Bass Jack Henning curates an afternoon of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Miguel del Águila, and Antonín Dvořák. 

Musician's Choice – Bach, del Águila, Dvořák

Toledo Museum of Art

In sunny Carinthia on Lake Wörthersee, Johannes Brahms was in a real creative frenzy: he raved about the snow-white mountains, the delicate green of the trees and wrote his violin concerto. A work that enchanted with its emotional color and clear beauty, without making the violin an end in itself. Antonín Dvořák took the...

Guest Concert

Fruchthalle

Rheingoldhalle Mainz

Oboist Juri Vallentin shows off his skills in two concertos: Tommaso Albinoni's op. 9, No. 11 and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Oboe Concerto from 1943. In Albinoni's work, two elegant outer movements frame the noble, simple lyricism of the middle Adagio; Vaughan Williams' romantic concerto expresses a longing for a more peaceful, better world.

2nd Congress Park Symphony 2024/2025

Congress Park Hanau

Galicia Symphony Orchestra - Giancarlo Guerrero - Concert in Ferrol

Ferrol Auditorium

Konzerthaus Karlsruhe

Vaduzer Saal

Jugendstil-Festhalle

This concert of beautiful duets and trios is a celebration of friendship, community and a shared love of music.  For twelve years, Lorna, Jenny and Rhian have played together in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. This concert will be recorded for CD and all proceeds from the recording will go towards the PSO Musicians’ Care Fund, chaired by Rhian Kenny. The mission of the Fund is to provide musical experiences to all children, regardless of the ability of their family or school district to pay. Additionally, our broader flute community will also be represented as members of Pittsburgh Flute Academy, led by Wendy Kumer, will serenade the audience on arrival. 

Pittsburgh Flute Celebration

Carnegie Mellon University

Study concert with cello students under Toke Møldrup

Study concert with cello students

DKDM

A European journey for all the senses: The Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen invites you to a musical and culinary journey at Zeche Zollverein from Hungary through the Czech Republic and Lithuania to Norway and Great Britain. The celebrated young conductor Izabele Jankauskaite leads you through a panorama of European folk music with dances, evening moods and other sonorous works.

Spirit Of Europe

Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen

Study concert with cello students under Toke Møldrup and Frederik Sjölin

Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra is joined by some of the world’s greatest aerial artists in a one-of-a-kind performance spectacular, just in time for Halloween. Carnevolar: DéComposition is a partnership with Emerald City Trapeze Arts and the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts, featuring a world-class flying trapeze act and other awe-inspiring aerial arts such as silks, contortion, and Chinese pole. The orchestra is expanded in size for this program, conducted by Geoffrey Larson.

Carnevolar: SMCO With Emerald City Trapeze Arts and SANCA

Emerald City Trapeze Arts

Dvořák | Barber | Suk

Imperial Baths

The Philharmonie Hamburg was founded in 2003 by professional freelance musicians from around the globe. Since then, the orchestra has earned and maintained a leading position in the North German music scene. The orchestra sees itself as dynamic, able to expand from smaller chamber ensembles to a large symphony orchestra with choir. However, at its core, the orchestra has always remained a chamber orchestra, which has changed little since its foundation and is highly rehearsed.

Vivaldi – The Four Seasons

Alte Oper

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra will appear in an unusual format – a Concert in the Dark organised for the Czech Radio Foundation’s Světluška project. The audience listens in complete darkness and focuses entirely on sound, colour, and space. The programme opens with Bedřich Smetana’s symphonic poem Vltava, followed by the intimate and lyrical Adagietto from Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.

Concert in the Dark – The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra plays for Světluška

Municipal house

Tchaikovsky’s triumphant Fifth Symphony, a symbol of fate and resilience, follows the mysterious folk story of Dvorak’s The Water Goblin.

Antonín Dvorák

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 8, 2026

Dvořák | Barber | Suk · Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra

Nov 29, 2026

Vivaldi – The Four Seasons · Alte Oper Frankfurt

Feb 2, 2027

Concert in the Dark – The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra plays for Světluška · Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Feb 20, 2027

Ian Passmore: Tchaikovsky 5 · Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Sep 8, 2026

Czech Philharmonic | Semyon Bychkov | Yunchan Lim · Lucerne Festival

Jun 7, 2026

Souvenir of Florence · Gürzenich-Orchester Köln

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