Composer

Whether performing for a classroom of children or for billions of viewers at the 2026 Olympics, pianist Lang Lang’s mission is simple: create shared musical experiences that inspire and unite. It’s that desire to forge deep connections through music that’s made him one of the world’s most beloved pianists.

Lang Lang in Recital

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

When this musician sits down at the organ, it sounds as though a complete symphony orchestra is playing – including sophisticated solos on flutes, trombones and other wind instruments. This is because Shin-Young Lee loves programmes in which she can combine original repertoire with organ transcriptions of famous orchestral works. Alongside Marie-Pierre Langlamet, harpist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the internationally renowned organist presents a spectacular programme at the Musikfest Berlin ranging from Liszt’s virtuoso concert etude Un sospiro  (creating the impression of three hands at the keyboard) to Louis Vierne’s showpiece Carillon de Westminster.

Matinee: Organ & Harp

Berliner Philharmoniker

EPSG:4326

Severance Music Center

LSO kicks off its centennial season with Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Tyler White’s A Fivescore Festival: 100 Measures for 100 Years. To amplify the celebration, LSO is joined for both fanfares by The Pride of All Nebraska: The Cornhusker Marching Band. LSO then pays homage to the program of its very first concert in March of 1927 with Mozart’s Overture to Le nozze di Figaro and Liszt’s Les Préludes. The celebration culminates with 7-time GRAMMY Award-winning piano legend Emanuel Ax who joins the orchestra to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22.

Emanuel AX

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Radu Ratoi is the winner of the 2024 Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. An extraordinary talent, he has been praised for his originality and virtuosity in the instruments, in both classical and contemporary repertoire. Ratoi continues to push the limits of the instrument through inventive transcriptions of Bach, Scarlatti, Rameau, Liszt, and many more, extending the repertoire possibilities for the accordion.

Wander Series: Radu Ratoi, accordion

The Cottonwood Campus

This pianist fits into no mold. Bridget Yee was born in Malaysia in 2004, came to London at age eleven to study, and went on to win the Windsor International Piano Competition, among others. Yet she doesn’t shine only at the keyboard: she also trained as a cellist and double bassist, performing in orchestral concerts under Jac van Steen and Benjamin Zander. That broadened her horizons, she says — and benefits her piano playing, too.

Bridget Yee

Reformierte Lukaskirche

Hailed by Chicago Tribune as "a pianist who commands a comprehensive technical arsenal that allows him to thunder without breaking a sweat," Yekwon Sunwoo is a powerful and virtuosic performer who, in his own words, "strives to reach for the truth and pure beauty in music.”

Yekwon Sunwoo, piano

Tippet Rise Art Center

Our Rising Stars programme invites outstanding up-and-coming performers to The Queen’s Hall stage. They perform alongside their internationally acclaimed mentors, soprano Louise Alder and pianist James Baillieu. The new recruits for 2026 curate and perform the repertoire for the first half of the concert.

Rising Stars of Voice with Louise Alder

The Queen's Hall

Join British pianist Beatrice Nicholas for a night where classical meets swing. BEATRICE jumps effortlessly from Beethoven to boogie, giving Chopin and Liszt a swinging, jazz-infused twist in a celebration of 1930s African American women composers and artists such as Hazel Scott, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Florence Price, and Margaret Bonds.

Beatrice Nicholas

Ronnie Scott's

Program Ten • A Lasting Influence: Mozart’s Legacy

Fisher Center at Bard

High Festival Level

Imperial Baths

American tenor Lawrence Brownlee and Scottish pianist Iain Burnside reunite for a fascinating recital of Italian and American songs.

Lawrence Brownlee & Iain Burnside

Keen-eyed observers will notice a common thread running through this summer’s program. Four composers feature throughout: Haydn, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, and Jon Deak. Together, they paint a broad, if not comprehensive, history of classical music. Josef Haydn (1732 – 1809), widely acknowledged as the inventor of both the symphony and the string quartet, codified much of the classical era. Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) was a true romantic and wore his heart on his sleeve. Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975) typified the complexities and contradictions of the 20th Century, his music touching upon emotions like irony or despair. Finally, Jon Deak (b. 1943), our Composer-in-Residence, has, in his unique and very 21st Century manner, blurred the line between music and theater.

Piano Recital

St. Paul’s Church

Few can match the dazzling brilliance and zen-like focus that Boris Giltburg brings to every performance. His latest Wigmore Hall recital would command attention for no other reason than its inclusion of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, a titanic monument of Romantic music. Yet the Moscow-born Israeli pianist places Liszt’s single-movement masterwork in company with a succession of musically powerful, technically-demanding compositions, crowned by Gaspard de la nuit, Ravel’s mesmerising suite of character pieces.

Boris Giltburg piano

Wigmore Hall

This rich recital program features works from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, beginning with Bach’s wonderfully moody organ piece Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ—heard here in a gorgeous piano arrangement by Busoni—and continuing on to Gubaidulina’s Sonata, an early composition that reveals the composer’s modern mysticism.

Ran Dank Piano Recital

New Mexico Museum of Art

Renowned for the intense focus of his music making and what the Guardian calls ‘the gentle, unshowy authority of his stage manner’, Konstantin Lifschitz combines the best of the great Russian tradition with tremendous poetic refinement. He begins with the Romantic music of Robert Schumann, before plunging into the headlong drama of Liszt’s First Mephisto Waltz and the striking contrasts of Brahms’s late Fantasien, which recall the fluctuating moods of Schumann’s youthful Kreisleriana.

Konstantin Lifschitz piano

Around 20 kilometers from the Philharmonie Mercatorhalle lies the Folkwang University of the Arts, one of the most renowned musical talent factories in the German university landscape. Henri Sigfridsson, a Finnish musician, has been a professor there since 2011, fostering musical excellence in the next generation. He is also a successful pianist, performing in major concert halls and at international festivals such as the Salzburg Festival. In 1994, he won first prize at the International Franz Liszt Competition in Weimar, and in this concert he will also play excerpts from the composer's "Harmonies poétiques et religieuses," such as the serenely meditative "Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude" and the heroic "Funérailles." In this piano extra, Sigfridsson shares the stage with Vincent Heeren, born in Herne in 2009, who was accepted into his piano class as a junior student at the age of nine. With gripping virtuosity, the provocative images of Nikolaus Lenau's Faust poem are translated into music in "Mephisto Waltz No. 1." The concert opens with "Le tombeau de Couperin," a suite in the spirit of classical French music—and a tribute by Ravel to his friends who died in the war.

Henri Sigfridsson & Vincent Heeren

CityPalais

Verdi & Liszt

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

The season closes with the irresistible fire and passion of music shaped by Romani traditions, which left an indelible mark on European composers. The romance, longing, and sense of freedom in these melodies found their way into some of the most beloved works of the repertoire. Haydn’s Piano Trio No. 39, with its famous “Gypsy” Rondo, dazzles in Hungarian style, while Brahms unleashes unbridled intensity in the torrential finale of his Piano Quartet No. 1. Ravel (Tzigane), Bartók (Romanian Dances), and Liszt (Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2) add their voices to this vibrant tradition. After the performance, join us for a festive reception—complete with a fortune teller to offer a lighthearted glimpse into your future. Our prediction: a brilliant season finale filled with inspired music and extraordinary performers.

Close Encounters With Music: Romance of the Romani!—Ravel, Bartók, Liszt, Haydn, and Brahms Piano Quartet

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

Oliver Zhang, trumpet

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Erin Yu, piano

Sunmin Shin, piano

With a broad repertoire and enormous musical energy, the Austrian Manfred Honeck has distinguished himself among the world's leading conductors. When he now returns to DR Koncerthuset, it is with both Viennese classical elegance and high romantic intensity – two of his specialties.

Honeck & Liszt

DR Koncerthuset

We look forward to immersing ourselves in diverse musical worlds under the direction of Susanna Mälkki – including that of Mozart, for whom play was an important part of his life: He particularly loved billiards and skittles, as well as chess and trick-tock – or he would sit at the card table and gamble with Tarock, Brandeln, Piquet, or Pharaoh. This enthusiasm is also audible in his often playful music. Together with Bertrand Chamayou as soloist, we will perform one of his most popular works: Piano Concerto No. 23 from 1786, which was composed around the same time as his comic opera "Le nozze di Figaro" – a fact that is particularly evident in the surprising scene changes of the finale. Also on the program in Würzburg: A composition by Liszt, who wrote significant symphonic poems. He drew inspiration for his last contribution to this genre, entitled "From the Cradle to the Grave," from a drawing by a Hungarian painter. 

Guest at the Mozart Festival Würzburg

St. Kilian's Cathedral

Isaiah Adams, piano

Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori

Hans Pfitzner composed large-scale, sophisticated operas, as well as opulent orchestral works. In addition to concertos for violin and cello, he also wrote a four-movement piano concerto in 1922, continuing the late Romantic tradition of Brahms and Max Reger. A noticeably innovative spirit, even a musical visionary, was Franz Liszt, who opened a new chapter in European music history with his symphonic poems around the middle of the 19th century. Three of these compositions for a large, richly timbred orchestra, very different in their content and their manifestations, demonstrate the diversity of creative approaches that Liszt applied to this newly developed, soon to be very prominent, musical genre.

Symphony Concert VII

Bebelplatz

A piano sensation since his arrival on the international scene in the 1980s, Evgeny Kissin returns with a spectacular, eras-spanning recital. Beethoven’s revolutionary Piano Sonata No. 7 pairs perfectly with Chopin’s varied mazurkas before a second half devoted to Schumann’s deeply personal Kreisleriana and Liszt’s dazzling Hungarian Rhapsody.

Evgeny Kissin

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Guest performance in Dortmund

Konzerthaus Dortmund

His Fifth Symphony depicts "the development of personality," explained Dmitri Shostakovich. But the highly emotional music from 1937 also documents his threatening situation during the Stalin era. At times pleading, at times hectically overexcited, the music culminates in an overwhelming finale. Franz Liszt's First Piano Concerto is similarly captivating. It is a welcome challenge for the up-and-coming Israeli pianist Yoav Levanon, making his debut with the WDR Symphony Orchestra. The conductor is the Greek Constantinos Carydis. He opens the evening with a work by his fellow countryman Periklis Koukos: a sonorous prologue to Homer's "Odyssey."

Between the Lines - Shostakovich's Fifth

Museum Ludwig

Subscription Concert 1

Realschule Steinhagen

Schützenhof city park

Minden City Theater

Issay Niki, piano

Anya Liu, piano

Stephen Joven-Lee, piano

Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Vadym Kholodenko, praised for his “precipitous muscularity and high spirits” (New York Classical Review), graces to Washington Performing Arts with electrifying artistry and a program of epic scope at Sixth & I. The evening opens with Beethoven’s monumental “Hammerklavier” Sonata, followed by the dark lyricism of Ukrainian composer Borys Lyatoshinsky’s Three Preludes, Op. 38. Kholodenko concludes with a virtuosic flourish: Liszt’s original Six Paganini Études, a breathtaking showcase of pianistic brilliance that has long been a hallmark of Kholodenko’s playing.

Vadym Kholodenko, piano

Sixth & I

Each season ticket purchase will provide you with one ticket to each of the upcoming six concerts of the season. If there is a concert you cannot attend, we can either donate your ticket to a student/veteran or provide you with extra tickets to a different concert date.

Beethoven's Thrilling 5th Symphony

La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church

The works on this program are the quintessence of Romantic-era expression, with a focus on themes of individualism and emotionalism, and a lush, hyper-dramatic musical vocabulary. The performance begins with the Prelude from Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde and depicts the passions and frustration of the doomed lovers.

Radiant Romance

Florida State University

Arim Fremont, born in St. Louis, Missouri, began taking piano lessons at the age of six. She is currently a senior at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is majoring in Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology on the cognitive neuroscience track and minoring in music.

Arim Fremont, Senior Minor Recital, piano

560 Music Center

Music has long been one of the most powerful vehicles for storytelling. The composers in Songs About Story draw from text, memory, and tradition to craft musical narratives that communicate across time.

Songs About Story

Pasadena Conservatory of Music

This season, PCM presents three Musical Interludes concerts: Songs About Place, Love, and Story.

Vienna Academy Orchestra

Musikverein Wien

When Franz Liszt first heard some of Schubert's songs, he was deeply moved. As a master of transcribing music for the piano – whether originally written for other instruments or voice – he went on to create exquisitely sensitive arrangements of many of Schubert's lieder.

Piano Solo –Zee Zee

Konserthuset Stockholm

Russian pianist Ilya Yakushev, with prestigious awards and honors to his credit, continues to mesmerize audiences in major venues on three continents with his fiery technique and magnetic stage presence. He can be hard to pin down to one style or sound, and the press and audiences praise his artistry and versatility. American Record Guide wrote "Yakushev is one of the very best young pianists before the public today, and it doesn't seem to matter what repertoire he plays – it is all of the highest caliber". He has appeared with leading orchestras across the U.S. and internationally, bringing his captivating energy and virtuosic brilliance to every performance.

Ilya Yakushev

Sunset Center

Superstar pianist Khatia Buniatishvili plays expressively and boldly, with immediate command of the stage. Influenced by Georgian folk music, she calls the piano a “symbol of musical solitude.” Buniatishvili signed to the Sony Classical label in her early twenties, after receiving several competition prizes and establishing a top-level international career.

NSO Presents: Khatia Buniatishvili

Kennedy Center

Still in his early 20s and only two years out of Juilliard, Canadian pianist Tony Siqi Yun is already making waves as a soloist and recitalist. Praised for his refinement, muscular sound, and intimate expressivity, Yun has “an emergent big personality” (Philadelphia Inquirer) that makes him a pianist you’ll want to experience firsthand.

Tony Siqi Yun, piano

Groton Hill Music Center

A global sensation, Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili brings her signature intensity and poetic power to Amelia Island for a rare, unforgettable recital.

Khatia Buniatishvili, piano

The Amelia River Club

Perhaps one day you'll proudly tell your children: "Back then, in the spring of 2026, I heard him with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra! He was still very young, just at the beginning of his career!" Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, born in 1999, is a Canadian pianist with European roots—to some, he's the new Lang Lang. In recent years, he's collected first prizes in piano competitions like other people collect postage stamps, most recently at the prestigious Leeds International Competition. He's celebrated everywhere—for his outstanding technique, for his charisma, for the depth of his interpretations. Simply incredible! Here, he'll play Liszt's strikingly virtuosic First Piano Concerto, flanked by Tchaikovsky's Pathétique and the Silk Road Fantasy by contemporary Chinese composer Jiping Zhao, famous for his many film scores. Guoyong Zhang, Music Director of the Shanghai Opera and Chief Conductor of the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, conducts.

Liszt Piano Concerto And The Pathétique

Meistersinger Hall

Don't miss the "Fire-breathing virtuoso with a poetic charm" (Gramophone) in his Atlanta debut. Winner of the 2024 Gilmore Artist Awards, Alexandre Kantorow stunned the Tchaikovsky Competition with his coveted Gold medal and Grand Prix wins. Fanfare magazine calls him "Liszt reincarnated." Experience the unrivaled artistry of this dazzling young player in a program of Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven, and more.

Alexandre Kantorow in Recital

The Woodruff Arts Center

April 2026 Concert

Downey Theatre

Feiyi Liao, piano

Acclaimed French pianist Alexandre Kantorow makes his debut with The Friends in a program that blends profound Romanticism with visionary modernism. Hailed as a “fire-breathing virtuoso with a poetic charm,” Kantorow offers a fascinating journey through some of the piano repertoire’s most expressive works. The recital opens with Liszt’s majestic Variations on a Motive by Bach, followed by Medtner’s expansive early Sonata Op. 5. The journey continues through the lyricism of Chopin and the mysticism of Scriabin, culminating in the autumnal transcendence of Beethoven’s Op. 111.

Art of the Piano: Alexandre Kantorow

Folly Theater

A concert of Symphonic Preludes, including "Les Preludes" by Liszt, "Norfolk Rhapsody" by Vaughn-Williams, and Gershwin's "American in Paris".

American in Paris

Performing Arts Center of Rapid City

This program’s four stars of Hungarian music, from the ultra-Romantic Franz Liszt to the ground-breaking György Ligeti, reveal the breadth, color, and infectious energy of their country’s music and folk culture. Closing the performance is Ernő Dohnányi’s first published work, composed around age 17, of which Brahms said that he “could not have done it better” himself.

Liszt and Bartók

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Wilson Gao, Senior Minor Recital, piano

Delvan Lin, piano

Curtis Institute of Music

Evgeny Kissin is one of the world’s most sought-after pianists – among his many awards, Echo Klassik’s Soloist of the Year. The Washington Post wonders if ‘anyone else has the virtuosity to step this far outside the box with such honesty, and dignity, and power’.

Evgeny Kissin in Recital

Barbican Centre

“There is no doubting Beisembayev’s stature” declared one critic when Alim Beisembayev swept the board at the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition – and there aren’t really words to describe the artistry of this phenomenal young Kazakh pianist. So come and hear him for yourself: in an intensely romantic recital crowned by Liszt’s monumental Sonata in B minor. Pure passion…

Steinway International Piano Series: Alim Beisembayev

Bute Park

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

The renowned Latvian conductor Krista Audere returns to the DR Vocal Ensemble with a bouquet of wonderfully varied choral music for the Easter season – from the early Renaissance all the way up to our own time.

Easter concert with the DR Vocal Ensemble

Trinity Church Copenhagen

Church of Our Lady Copenhagen

Evgeny Kissin in concert

Teatro La Fenice

Since winning First Prize at the 2010 Warsaw Chopin Competition, pianist Yulianna Avdeeva has captivated audiences worldwide with the sensitivity and conviction of her interpretations. Her spectacular concert hall program culminates in Frédéric Chopin's iconic cycle of 24 Preludes—a piano feast!

Piano recital Yulianna Avdeeva

Blaibach Concert Hall

"A passionate musician, whose touches have a certain muscularity and conscious work with weight, he plays with great colour, soulfulness, poetry and verve." (New York Classical Review) The repertoire of the Prague recital is also soulful: Liszt, Beethoven and Borys Lyatoshynskyi – a key figure in Ukrainian music.

Vadym Kholodenko – Piano recital

Rudolfinum

An encounter with the great Romantic spirit: Under the baton of 21-year-old Maximilian Haberstock, founder of the Young Philharmonic Orchestra of Munich, outstanding young musicians from more than twenty-five nations come together – a new generation of excellence. Together with the exceptional American pianist Maxim Lando, they perform Wagner’s Prelude to „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 – three milestones of Romantic passion and symphonic power. Youthful energy, precision, and remarkable artistic maturity combine in a concert that vividly reveals what the future of orchestral music-making can sound like.

Munich Young Philharmonic Orchestra

Alte Oper

Liszt’s piano concertos challenge even the most virtuosic pianists, and his passionate Second is no exception, traversing the keyboard with knuckle-cramping, breakneck passages that render the player’s hands a blur. Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin, a “marvelous, moving” artist (The New York Times) whose “technical finesse borders on the supernatural” (The Seattle Times), is more than equal to the challenge. Buckle up for a wild ride in this virtuoso display! 

Liszt’s Piano Fireworks

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Kevin John Edusei returns to conduct a program celebrating the flamboyance and wit of two great Hungarian composers, Liszt and Kodály, beginning with Liszt’s symphonic poem, Les Préludes. Liszt wrote this dramatic piece based on poems depicting the heavens, stormy winds and pastoral scenes. Guest soloist Haochen Zhang performs Liszt’s high-spirited First Piano Concerto, which was criticized by his contemporaries for pushing the bounds of taste, but was later embraced by composers like Béla Bartók. Kodály’s Suite from the opera Háry János draws on his deep knowledge of Hungarian folk melodies to depict the tall tales of an imaginative veteran. The orchestra also presents Richard Strauss’ tone poem, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, and breathes life into the roguish German folk hero for which it's named.

Liszt & Kodály

Benaroya Hall

Franz Welser-Möst & Julian Prégardien

Munich Residence

A powerful and intense pianist, Lise de la Salle has boldly maintained a youthful fire in the course of a fast-paced 20-year career. This seemingly boundless energy and drive are burnished with maturity and focus that make her a compelling interpreter worth hearing again and again. “For much of the concert, the audience had to remember to breathe…the exhilaration didn’t let up for a second until her hands came off the keyboard” (Washington Post).

Lise de la Salle (Piano/Herbst)

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Austrian conductor Christoph Koncz invites us to a festival of orchestral images. We begin with the overture to Wagner's Meistersinger , which foreshadows all the opera's themes. With its romantic flair and majesty, it celebrates the artist's freedom from established rules. Wagner's father-in-law, Liszt, and his First Concerto allow American pianist Michelle Cann—a Grammy winner in February 2025—to dazzle us with a dazzling display of virtuosity. The score's evocative and emotional richness also gives a universal dimension to this pillar of the piano repertoire.

Stravinsky's The Firebird

Grand Théâtre de Québec

Staatskapelle on tour

Elbphilharmonie

Opera recital (Francesco Meli, Luca Salsi e Nelson Calzi)

Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms belonged to two very different musical worlds. Liszt, the cosmopolitan keyboard virtuoso, saw himself as a composer of programme music, drawing inspiration from literature and the visual arts. His Tre Sonetti del Petrarca are poetic meditations on love, while the Fantasia quasi Sonata offers a musical descent into Dante’s Inferno.

Piano recital Liszt vs. Brahms with Kirill Gerstein

Berliner Philharmonie

Pianist Zee Zee (Zhang Zuo) gives a recital inspired by myths, fairy tales, and Romantic literature. On the first half is Ravel’s grim and virtuosic tryptic Gaspard de la nuit, as well as Ma mère l’Oye, a suite as simple and precious as a book of nursery rhymes. On the second half, Zee Zee plays selections from Liszt’s musical travelogues Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage), featured on her recent Decca Classics album.

Zee Zee

Stanford University

Brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen bring refreshing modernity to the piano duo genre, with their relaxed presence and the close synchronicity of their playing. They make their debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker with a work which brought another sibling duo great success: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his brilliant Concerto for Two Pianos for himself and his sister Nannerl. Additionally, Michael Sanderling conducts Johannes Brahms’ First Piano Quartet in Arnold Schönberg’s lush arrangement. Discover why the Hungarian folk music references of the final movement caused such a stir when the quartet was first performed.

Michael Sanderling meets Lucas and Arthur Jussen

The programme starts from highly complex works through more sparse, but not less quizzical music, and ends with Bach's Fugues.

Tamara Stefanovich in Recital

Milton Court Concert Hall

Rockwood Piano Competition

Longmire Alumni Building

In her solo career she has performed regularly across the UK and internationally. In addition to her solo career, Ruifan is a passionate collaborative pianist. Since 2022, she has held an official position at Royal Holloway, University of London, working closely with students in performance.

Ruifan Xuan

Leeds Conservatoire

Immerse yourself in this eclectic and captivating program, led by Sora Elisabeth Lee, a Korean conductor who trained in Berlin and Vienna and worked under the direction of Christian Thielemann and Neeme Järvi.

Romance under the stars

Opéra Comédie

Whether Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, or Romeo and Juliet – many of the most beautiful and well-known melodies were written for ballet. The grace and elegance of the dancers inspired the composers to achieve peak creative achievements – time to devote a detailed attention to the resulting music. This evening, it's not just the bows that dance on the strings; some animals are also said to be doing a few pirouettes...

Pirouettes and pliés

Prinzregententheater

The young Chinese Canadian pianist Bruce Liu has caught the attention of listeners worldwide, praised for “playing of breathtaking beauty” (BBC Music Magazine) and an “effortless virtuosity [that] consistently oozes charisma” (Classics Today). Ever since taking first prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2021, Liu’s star has been on the rise, with warmly received recitals on many of the world’s most prestigious concert stages.

Composer

Franz Liszt

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 24, 2026

Zee Zee piano · Wigmore Hall

24 - 26 Sep, 2026

Brahms’s Second Symphony · The Cleveland Orchestra

Sep 25, 2026

Free Friday Lunchtime Concert · London Symphony Orchestra

Sep 26, 2026

Opening Night: Rachmaninoff’s Second · Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Sep 26, 2026

Mariam Batsashvili: Bach & Liszt · Southbank Centre

Past events

Sep 15, 2026

Lang Lang in Recital · Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Sep 13, 2026

Matinee: Organ & Harp · Berliner Philharmoniker

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