Composer

An exclusive evening of chamber music awaits the audience at Paliesius Manor, where the depth of romanticism and the courage of contemporary music will meet. Pianist Donaldas Račys, professor at the VMU Academy of Music, and Israeli violinist Evgenia Epshtein will appear on stage - performers distinguished by mature interpretation, a sensitive sense of musical dialogue, and broad artistic horizons. In the second part of the concert, two prominent personalities of the Lithuanian music scene will join: percussionist Arkadijus Gotesmanas and bassist Eugenijus Kanevičius. This concert is intended for listeners who are looking not only for beauty, but also for meaning, discovery, and a lively musical experience.

"Beyond Boundaries and Beyond Silence: From Grieg to the Modern Premiere"

Paliesius Manor

Thanks to our continuing partnership with Wigmore Hall, every three years we bring a world-class string quartet to Leeds for nine exciting performances.

Quartet in Residence: Opus13

Leeds Conservatoire

Sunday Matinee 05: Dalia Stasevska & Boris Giltburg

Great Festival House

Autymn Williams, violin

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Alexander Malofeev's debut was brilliant! The pianist stepped in for the ill Evgeny Kissin at a concert of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra - and the audience could hardly contain itself. The Frankfurt audience rewarded Malofeev's virtuoso playing with thunderous applause, not so much for its power as for its melody and transparency. It was high time for the 23-year-old to give a recital at the Alte Oper. Malofeev readily admits that he feels most at home alone on stage. He then gives an insight into his world of sound: "It's always my own space, even when hundreds of people are listening. I let them in. I like to create my own space. In the Mozart Hall, Malofeev creates a sound space that spans Scandinavia, France, Vienna and his Russian homeland: Characteristic pieces glowing in intense colours.

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Alexander Malofeev, piano

Alte Oper

Eytan Raviv, cello

Upptäck en ny favoritmusiker och sugs in i Griegs karaktäristiska pianokonsert under en hisnande kväll på Malmö Live Konserthus. 

Danish Nancy Dalberg is still relatively unknown, but once you get to know her refined music, she easily becomes a favorite. Carl Nielsen was her teacher and supporter, conducting the critically acclaimed premiere of Dalberg's Scherzo for string orchestra . 

Grieg's Piano Concerto

Malmo Live Concert Hall

Jungha Kim, violin

Vintage baroque meets pure rock in this spirited double bill. Because when Vilde Frang and Kammerorchester Basel tackle Bach together, you know sparks will fly. The Norwegian string queen chose not only a violin concerto but also a harpsichord concerto, massaged into string music. And then there are Mendelssohn's string symphonies, brimming with youthful exuberance, and the Holberg Suite, in which Grieg proves that the spirit of Bach lingers even in the Far North.

Vintage baroque

Music Center De Bijloke

In the opening chords of his Piano Concerto, Grieg informs the audience that something extraordinary is about to unfold. With the iconic descending chordal motif, the formidable pianist Michelle Cann seizes attention in an instant. But first, conductor Lina González-Granados sets the stage with Grieg’s famous Peer Gynt Suite and the stirring Overture in D Minor by Croatian composer Dora Pejačević.

Grieg, Nordic Sun

Centre Leonardo Da Vinci

Église catholique Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs

Place des Arts

Tempora mutantur — the nickname of Haydn’s Symphony No. 64 — takes its name from the Latin adage, “The times change, and we change with them.” Inspired by this reflection, Finnish conductor and violinist Pekka Kuusisto presents a dynamic program featuring former Mead Composer-in-Residence Anna Clyne’s Sound and Fury alongside folk- and dance-inspired works by Grieg and Rautavaara. Trading baton for bow, Kuusisto dazzles as soloist in Kreisler’s vibrant, Vivaldi-inspired Violin Concerto.

Pekka Kuusisto: Time Shifting

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The MZ Duo, made up of Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi and Spanish accordionist Iñigo Mikeleiz- Berrade, presents a programme of creative reimaginings of the classical repertoire, reaching as far back as JS Bach’s whirlwind Flute Sonata in E Minor and Edvard Grieg’s landmark Holberg Suite, to a Dixieland interpretation of Eric Satie’s iconic Gnossienne no. 1, and finishing with a much- loved exploration of Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tango.

MZ Duo

Donnington Priory

Ensley Kim, Violin

The Juilliard School

Clara Kim, violin

He was not yet 15 years old when Mendelssohn Bartholdy was already able to present twelve short so-called string symphonies. They were already far more than compositional finger exercises and caused open-mouthed performances at the distinguished concerts in his parents' garden hall (with professional musicians from the royal court orchestra!). And then Bach: musical demands on the performer? Oh yes! Precision, logical phrasing, teamwork, and a soaring sound. Perfectly suited to Vilde Frang. And his popularity among the audience? Ten!

Idols

Don Bosco Basel

Clarinetist Lauri Sallinen is known for breaking down barriers between the arts. The concert, conducted by Izabele Jankauzkaiten, will feature no fewer than six works, including Lotta Wennäkoski's Ele.

Gestures

Espoo Cultural Centre

Join the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra for a joyful evening celebrating a significant birthday of one of Britain’s most beloved composers and conductors, Sir John Rutter. A cherished friend of the Orchestra, John returns to the podium to lead a programme featuring his celebrated works.

Sir John Rutter Birthday Celebration

University of Oxford

Join us as the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra offers a festive preview of some of the upcoming season's musical highlights. Look forward to a potpourri of exuberant excerpts and movements, presented in an inviting format that whets the appetite for all that awaits.

Preview: Season 26/27

Aarhus Music Hall

Kensington Symphony Orchestra returns to Cadogan Hall to perform Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony (1922), likened by the composer to “the division of dark and light, the battle between evil and good”.

Alternately explosive and calm, the work features a famous battle between the orchestra and a snare drummer, who is instructed to improvise “as though determined at all costs to stop the progress of the orchestra”.

KSO is joined by former BBC Young Musician keyboard finalist Firoze Madon for Grieg’s much-loved Piano Concerto (1868), written when the composer was just 24. A lyrical Andante is bookended by a dramatic Allegro and an energetic Finale, both featuring motifs influenced by Norwegian folk music.

Kensington Symphony Orchestra

Cadogan Hall 

The final concert of the season features renowned pianist Frederick Moyer performing Grieg's Piano Concerto. The program also includes Rossini's lively "Barber of Seville" and Tchaikovsky's majestic Symphony No. 4, promising an unforgettable afternoon of classical music.

Rossini, Grieg and Tchaikovsky

Manchester Essex Regional High School

Start your weekend with our must-see Friday night concert series and social experience, Symphonic Piazza. Prepare to escape, mingle, and be entertained as you enjoy the perfect combination of a shorter format concert with enjoyable and engaging lobby activities to share with family, friends, and our musicians. It’s your new go-to date night! The fun continues in the lobby after the concert, as we’ll have even more memorable things for you to experience.

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Canadian Larysa Kuzmenko composed Fantasy on a Theme by Beethoven in celebration of his birthday. Haydn’s high-spirited and dramatic Cello Concerto No. 1 remained undiscovered for two centuries until its chance 1961 find at the Czech National Library. Fittingly, Grieg’s four charming Symphonic Dances, inspired by Norwegian folk, played a key role in formalizing Norway’s national identity.

Haydn Cello Concerto

Kleinhans Music Hall

ESO’s dementia friendly concerts are integral to our ethos as musicians and performers. Our musicians have many years of experience in this field and are committed to bringing their talents to members of society who are living with dementia and other life debilitating conditions.

Research supports our experience that live music benefits people living with dementia by stimulating memories, reducing agitation and stress and improving communication between residents and staff.

Dementia Friendly Concert – ESO Wind Quartet

Malvern Theatres

Does climate affect the way music is composed? Come find out for yourself in this unusual program juxtaposing works composed near earth’s 45th and 60th parallels, where temperatures and daylight hours differ dramatically. The Escher Quartet offers its signature performances of Verdi and Sibelius, while the indomitable duo of Alexander Sitkovetsky and Wu Qian provide bracing cold and soothing warmth.

Verdi and Sibelius Quartets

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Concert 4

Schaap Center for the Arts

Grace Koh, violin

Norman Krieger, a native of Los Angeles, is widely recognized as one of the leading pianists of his generation, praised for his technical mastery, expressive depth, and refined artistry. Celebrated by the Los Angeles Times for his precision and musical nuance, Krieger has performed with esteemed conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, and Michael Tilson Thomas, and has appeared with major orchestras including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Chicago Symphony, and the National Symphony. His international engagements span Europe, Asia, and South America, including notable performances at the PyeongChang Music Festival and a Decca recording with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Springing Forward

Perot Theatre

Felix Mendelssohn fell in love with Scotland on holiday and the resulting musical inspiration produced two of his best-known and loved works, the Hebrides Overture and his Third Symphony, nicknamed Scottish. From his depiction of the sea around the coast and even a bit of Hibernian thunder, both evocatively depict the dramatic scenery of Scotland.

On Your Doorstep: Highlands & Fjords

Strule Arts Centre

Guildhall Derry

Hyesong Park, Violin

Emmalena Huning, violin

Curtis Institute of Music

Get going to Scandinavia. With composers from Finland, Norway, and Denmark, Masterworks V is full of Nordic flair. Start with the delicate melancholy of Sibelius’s Valse triste – A melancholic waltz of memories both beautiful and somber. Pianist Winston Choi dives into the icy and emotional depths of Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto. Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable,” finishes the program in fiery, fierce, and dramatic style.

Masterworks V

Paramount Theatre Iowa

5th Plaza

6th Chamber Music Concert in the Vienna State Opera

Vienna State Opera

EXPRESS CONCERT: Andrew Brady and Sang Yoon Kim Play Strauss’s Duet-Concertino

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

St. Paul's United Church of Christ

Legacy of Sound

McAllen Performing Arts Center

Led by Principal Guest Conductor Tabita Berglund, the DSO’s Northern Lights Festival begins in Finland with Rautavaara’s pairing of orchestra with recorded birdsong, and Sibelius’s breathtaking, stormy Violin Concerto performed by renowned soloist Christian Tetzlaff. Continuing to Berglund’s native Norway, Grieg’s incidental music to Ibsen’s Peer Gynt features some of the composer’s most iconic passages.

Northern Lights Festival | Tetzlaff Plays Sibelius

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Superstar pianist Lang Lang joins Andris Nelsons and the BSO for the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s perennially popular Piano Concerto, which combines Romantic-era passion with elements of Norwegian traditional music. Similarly inspired by folk music, Antonín Dvořák was living in the U.S. when he composed the New World Symphony, which bursts with sweeping melodies blending Bohemian soul with the spirit of America and incorporates the sounds and songs of both worlds into the iconic and oft-quoted work we know today.

Grieg Piano Concerto with Lang Lang and Dvořák Symphony No. 9

Boston Symphony Orchestra

How do composers write music? What do they find in their “tool box” to help them compose? Join Maestro Stephen Alltop and the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra for an engaging and interactive program that will allow students to become composers, making decisions about instrumental sounds and colors. Students will enjoy favorite movements from Georges Bizet’s Carmen, Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite and the Sicilienne by Gabriel Fauré.

The 2026 CUSO Youth Concerts are produced in partnership with Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, with funding from the CUSO Youth Music Appreciation Endowment Fund, the Meredith Foundation, Guild of the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, the Robeson Family Benefit Fund, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

School Performance: Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra | The Composer's Tool Box (KCYS)

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Join the MSO for a captivating evening of music inspired by the spirit of the North. Acclaimed pianist Sheng Cai joins the MSO for Grieg’s beloved Piano Concerto—a work of lyrical charm and dramatic intensity. The program concludes with Sibelius’ First Symphony, a sweeping and emotional journey through the rugged landscapes of Finland.

The Nordic Experience

Living Arts Centre

In its 11th season, Seraph Brass was founded by trumpet soloist Mary Elizabeth Bowden with a mission to showcase the excellence of women brass players and highlight musicians from marginalized groups, both in personnel and in programming. Winners of the American Prize in Chamber Music, the group has been praised for its “beautiful sounds" (American Record Guide), "fine playing” (Gramophone), and “staggeringly high caliber of performance” (Textura).

Seraph Brass

Bethel United Methodist Church

Featuring the ethereal “Morning Mood” and the hair-raising “In the Hall of the Mountain King”—both pop-culture staples you’ll recognize instantly—Grieg’s Peer Gynt is one of classical music’s most enduringly popular works. Prepare for a magical theatrical experience bringing the Peer Gynt story to vivid life. Bewitching works by Sibelius and William Grant Still round out a concert steeped in legend and enchantment.

Grieg’s Peer Gynt

Jones Hall

Get ready for the ultimate buddy adventure! Bee-est friends Betty Bee and Billy Bee (no relation) are lost in the bee-autiful Fort Worth Botanic Garden and need your help to get back home. Bring the whole family to the Botanic Garden this spring for an ALL-NEW storybook exploration of nature and sound, with a classical music soundtrack sure to leave you buzzing!

Flight of the Bumblebee

Fort Worth Botanic Garden

Returning to Spivey Hall by popular demand after his astounding debut in 2024, Alexander Malofeev has created a brilliant program of musical geography for us, opening with three Nordic composers and concluding with four Russians. At just 24 years old, Malofeev displays mature interpretations and emotive depth far beyond his years. Known for his precise yet lyrical playing, he effortlessly blends technical mastery with a deep understanding of the emotional essence of the music he performs. With a rapidly growing international career, Malofeev continues to rise as one of the most exciting young pianists of his generation.

Alexander Malofeev

Clayton State University

Fauré Requiem

Hemmens Auditorium

Overview
Get ready to experience music that will transport you to different worlds at the Nations, Narratives, and Cultures concert!

The Desert Community Orchestra will perform Nations, Narratives, and Cultures concert at Burrough High School Parker Performing Arts Center. The concert will present powerful musical voices of Europe and the Americas, highlighting nation-building and cultural identity through iconic orchestral works. Featured is Schubert’s Symphony in B minor, The Unfinished Symphony, Danzón No. 2 by Mexican composer Arturo Márquez, a celebrated symbol of Mexican music and culture. Sibelius’s Finlandia, Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite, and Brahms’s Hungarian Dance No. 5.

Andrew Loveland, from Los Angeles California, will be conducting. He is a Guatemalan-American cellist and conductor from Los Angeles, CA. With over ten years of performing and teaching experience, Mr. Loveland brings a unique experience to his interpretations and performances on the podium.

Nations, Narratives, & Cultures Winter Concert 2026

Burroughs High School

Making his BroadStage debut, Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev is renowned for his remarkable technical precision and profound musical maturity. He first gained international recognition at age 13 when he won the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in 2014. Amadeus praised his “crystal clear sounds and perfect balance,” highlighting his exceptional artistry beyond his years.

The Broad Stage

Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, who launched a stellar career after winning the 2022 OSM Competition and the Leeds International Piano Competition, takes the stage in this intimate concert hosted by Philippe-Audrey Larrue-St-Jacques. Hear him perform Grieg’s Piano Concerto, a piece known for its captivating mix of lyricism and vigour. Then, allow yourself to be swept away by the enchanting beauty of The Firebird, where lush orchestral colours paint a mesmerizing sonic landscape.

The Enchanting Firebird by Stravinsky

Camille Thomas’ rich, yet elegant, sound and effortless virtuosity make her an audience favorite around the world—and bring her back for her second Cliburn Concerts appearance. The Franco-Belgian artist was the first cellist in more than 40 years (and first-ever female cellist) signed to Deutsche Grammophon; was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 – Europe Art & Culture; and was the European Broadcasting Union’s “New Talent of the Year 2014.” Her 2023 release The Chopin Project has been streamed more that 10 million times. In her return to the Kimbell stage, she collaborates with French pianist Julien Brocal, BBC Music Magazine’s 2018 Revelation of the Year.

Camille Thomas, cello + Julien Brocal, piano

Kimbell Art Museum

A festively decorated hall, round tables with excellent views of the orchestra and singers, freshly brewed coffee, and delicious cake: the Pavilion Concerts invite you to a special musical experience again this season. Look forward to lively waltzes, Nordic melodies, springtime tunes, and the magic of operetta – charming, entertaining, and always atmospheric. A musical afternoon for connoisseurs!

3rd Pavilion Concert

Steintor-Varieté

Dive into the charming world of Grace Williams' "Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes," a delightful tapestry of British folk melodies, be mesmerized by 2024 MASNO Concerto Winner Zhu Wang's electrifying performance of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor, and be captivated by the intrigue and sheer beauty of Elgar's Enigma Variations.

The Enigma Variations

Orpheum Theater

With its mixture of German Romanticism and Norwegian folklore, Grieg's piano concerto not only delighted audiences at the time. Franz Liszt was also fascinated by the Nordic dance-like tone and the lush melodic arcs: a musical excursion into the Scandinavian expanse and atmospheric natural landscapes. Afterwards, another Romantic masterpiece will be heard when the audience is transported to the "New World" of America with Dvořák's 9th Symphony, where the Czech composer found inspiration for his composition.

Dvořák's "From the New World" & Grieg's Piano Concerto

Mozarteum Foundation

Congress Center Villach

Make way for the under-30 generation! Every season, highly talented young musicians from Northern Germany have the opportunity to perform with the Hamburg Camerata in the exquisite Recital Hall of the Elbphilharmonie. Youthful energy, fresh motivation, and a healthy dose of positive excitement make these concerts a truly special and intense musical experience. This season, the program features 15-year-old horn player Paul Scheffler and 24-year-old cellist Oskar Meier, both scholarship recipients of the German Foundation for Musical Life, as well as 25-year-old violinist and conductor Doğa Çetin.

Boys & Girls : Hamburg's Young Virtuoso In The Elbphilharmonie

Elbphilharmonie

Chamber Concert 2026

Newark United Methodist Church

Dmitri Kabalevsky’s quirky, lighthearted The Comedians was originally incidental music for a children’s play. It has become one of his best-loved works, and it is the springboard for the creativity of our puppeteering friends at Huntsville M.E.T. in this year’s FREE Family Concert, open to the entire community. Also on the program are two well-known short pieces by Edvard Grieg, and a reprise of Bizet’s Children’s Games from earlier in the concert season. It’s a fantastically fun way to introduce families and youngsters to the symphony orchestra! The performance is preceded by musical games and activities in the concert hall lobby. All ages are welcome.

The Comedians

Von Braun Center

Theatre artists have a real problem with Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt . This dramatic poem, with its episodic structure and use of fantastical elements, posed a challenge for the stage designers, but it turns out to be ideal material for a ballet performance. In 2015, the choreography for Peer Gynt was created by the Slovenian dancer of Romanian origin, Edward Clug. The premiere in Maribor was a huge success, and the ballet later traveled to Zurich, Vienna, Dortmund, Hanover, and Leipzig. What accounts for the production's popularity? Above all, it doesn't shy away from the original's fragmented narrative, leaving the significance of the protagonist's individual adventures unsaid, and above all, it employs a remarkably contemporary visual language, avoiding treating Ibsen's drama as a dusty old fairy tale inspired by folklore.

Peer Gynt

Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

BrassUnit is a Swedish brass quintet that distinguishes itself through strong musicality, innovative programs and a warm stage expression. They create concerts where music from different times and genres meet in unexpected ways – with the goal of surprising, inspiring and touching.

BrassUnit

Vara Concert Hall

Elevate your musical experience with our Sound of Innovation performances. This distinctive series, where innovation meets classical virtuosity, immerses you into a mix of traditional and contemporary compositions. Your experience includes dinner and a drink ticket

The Sound of Innovation

The Club Room at The Clyde

Michelle Cann, lauded as “exquisite” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, joins the PSO for Edvard Grieg’s majestic piano concerto. Jessie Montgomery’s Records from a Vanishing City is based on her recollections of the music that surrounded her as she grew up on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1980s and 1990s. Ludwig van Beethoven’s second symphony, one of his lesser-known works, brims with positivity.

Beethoven & Grieg

Princeton University

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

When Edvard Grieg set music to Henrik Ibsen's play, Peer Gynt , in 1875, he also set music to the folk soul of his own nation. The catchy movements about the blissful morning mood, Dovregubben , Solveig , Anitra and all the others are among Norway's most beloved tunes. Thomas Dausgaard has himself composed a suite of nine movements from the complete play's music.

Dausgaard and Peer Gynt

The Conservatory Concert Hall

We open our 2026 season united in music by American composers John Corigliano, David Amram, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson as well as Eduard Grieg's jaunty “Holberg Suite”.

Idealism

Calvary Baptist Church

Grieg’s beloved and unabashedly Romantic Piano Concerto, performed by Yeol Eum Son, dances and dazzles and reflects a time of personal happiness in the composer’s life. A combination of beguiling melodies and bravura fire, it found inspiration in the rhythmic patterns of Norwegian folk dances. Maestro Danzmayr also leads Stenhammar’s Second Symphony, a Romantic Swedish jewel not heard nearly often enough. Plus, Sibelius’ stirring The Swan of Tuonela joins this Nordic musical banquet, inspired by scenes from Finnish mythology.

Sibelius & Grieg

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Willamette University

Mihaela Martin, guest violin; Chih-Yi Chen, piano

Auer Hall

Anyone who wins the junior section of the legendary International Tchaikovsky Competition at the age of 13 is under special scrutiny. Even ten years later, Alexander Malofeev continues to fulfill the associated expectations with flying colors. Since then, the Russian, dubbed a "world revolution on the piano" by the Wiener Standard, has collected numerous other prizes and performed with the world's greatest orchestras. In 2022, he stood in for Yevgeny Kissin with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. "The audience went wild with enthusiasm," wrote the Frankfurter Rundschau. At the Elbphilharmonie, the still only 23-year-old now devotes himself to both the grand masters of Russian piano music and darkly shimmering works from Northern Europe.

Alexander Malofeev, Piano

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Give Me Your Stars explores the profound and diverse beauty of music inspired by the heavens, human connection, and the places we call home. At its heart is Lucy Walker’s eponymous new work, written for VOCES8, which captures the delicate balance between celestial wonder and the deep, personal connections that make us human.

The programme spans centuries of choral music, from the luminous polyphony of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Regina caeli to timeless jazz standards. Along the way, we encounter the reflective sentiments of Eric Whitacre’s All Seems Beautiful to Me and Ola Gjeilo’s Ubi caritas, folk traditions in Danny Boy and Michael McGlynn’s Dúlamán, and evocative tales of cities and starlight in April in Paris and New York, New York.

Voces8

You can go your own way – the message is clear in the tale of the rebel Peer Gynt. And Edvard Grieg's music contains everything a tale should have. The Youth Symphony of Västra Götaland gives you the whole story with actor actor Mattias Nordkvist as Peer.

VÄGUS Peer Gynt

Göteborgs Symfoniker

The Västra Götaland Youth Symphony Orchestra interprets music from Grieg's Peer Gynt - a colorful adventure with orchestra, acting and classic hits.

ROAD

Longing

Tobacco Quarter Hall 1

This program shines a light on Romantic voices both familiar and rediscovered. Farrenc's spirited Overture No. 2 reclaims its rightful place in the repertoire, while Juneau's beloved visiting pianist, Alexander Tutunov, brings brilliance to Grieg's iconic concerts. Brahms' First Symphony crowns the evening with intenstiy, dignity, and perseverence.

Resurgence & Rediscovery

Juneau-Douglas High School

This Scandinavian programme opens with Esa-Pekka Salonen’s enigmatic Helix, described by the composer as a spiralling ‘nine-minute accelerando’. While the pulse of the piece increases gradually throughout, the note values get proportionately longer, creating a fascinating experience, where the work seems to simultaneously speed up and slow down.

Grieg’s Piano Concerto

The Bridgewater Hall

2025’s astounding winner of the Terence Judd-Hallé Award, Julius Asal, joins forces with returning Hallé conductor Lionel Bringuier to perform Grieg’s exceptional Piano Concerto.

The Hallé – Grieg’s Piano Concerto

In 1926, Düsseldorf opened what was then the world's largest planetarium. Exactly 100 years later, we celebrate this with music that reaches as far into the heavens as it does into the depths of human emotion. The spectacular opening is Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1, which impressively demonstrates the unimaginable range of musical languages ​​that can span between nostalgic retrospection and passionate anticipation of the future. Edvard Grieg's popular Peer Gynt Suites then take you on an "elegiac expedition" where you witness a sunrise that, since its composition, has confidently been considered the most magnificent example since the birth of mankind. And because Peer Gynt never completely leaves his Norwegian homeland, original sounds from the north resound with Ragnhild Hemsing's Hardanger fiddle. Gordon Hamilton – Green Monday audience favorite – composed a rousing concerto for her, the premiere of which perfectly rounds off the concert.

Peer Gynt Suites

Tonhalle Düsseldorf

Chamber II:  Tuba soloist Tyler Benedict, plus Grieg & Vaughan Williams

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA)

Trinity United Methodist Church, Sequim

The evening begins with Swedish Wilhelm Stenhammar's orchestral work Excelsior! The music is magnificent, dramatic and moving. Stenhammar uses the full potential of the orchestra to create a sense of upward movement and triumph.

The Nordic composers

Aalborg Central Waterfront

A cold and glassy opener, Saariaho’s Winter Sky emanates the clarity, sense of mystery and ethereal beauty of a clear sky on a winter’s day. Next, to Lili Boulanger’s d’un matin de printemps which effortlessly captures the fresh energy of a spring morning. Representing summer, Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream captures the frivolous nature of the mischievous Puck, causing havoc during a hot summer night. Finally, Grieg’s In Autumn conjures a sweeping storm with bold brass breaking through the clouds.

Composer

Edvard Grieg

Events

Upcoming events

Jun 22, 2026

Close Encounters: Beyond the Lark · English Chamber Orchestra

Jun 24 - Aug 16, 2026

The best of Tchaikovsky, Dvořák & Grieg · Prague Music Orchestra

Jul 5, 2026

The 30th Shibuya Afternoon Concert · Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

5 - 6 Jul, 2026

The La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra at the Colmar Festival · La Monnaie / De Munt

Jul 15 - Aug 29, 2026

The Great Classical Music · Prague Music Orchestra

Past events

Jun 20, 2026

"Beyond Boundaries and Beyond Silence: From Grieg to the Modern Premiere" · Paliesius Manor

Jun 16, 2026

Quartet in Residence: Opus13 · Leeds Conservatoire

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