This year we're launching a new festival called KONTRAST, which will explore some of the contradictions we encounter in music. KONTRAST's theme this autumn is Light and Darkness.

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KONTRAST - Opening concert

The Royal Danish Academy of Music

The Danish master conductor Thomas Dausgaard leads in one of Tchaikovsky's absolutely most popular symphonies on an evening where we also get a visit from the pianist Gustav Piekut – one of the great Danish soloist hopes of the young generation.

Dausgaard and Tchaikovsky's 5.

Konservatoriets Koncertsal

The music takes us around the world to this very special concert with both a brand new premiere and with the young pianist star Valdemar Wenzel Most, who is once again a guest of the Esbjerg Ensemble. 

From Eastern Europe, we will listen to a Romanian rhapsody by Enescu, who himself was a legendary composer and virtuoso musician on both violin and piano. 

Russian Shostakovich's work was composed when he was just 16 years old, and compared to his later works, it also sounds very much like the romantic style from the previous century.  

Herman D. Koppel

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 27, 2026

Sunset In The East And West · Esbjerg Ensemble

Past events

Oct 30, 2025

KONTRAST - Opening concert · The Royal Danish Academy of Music

Feb 28, 2025

Dausgaard and Tchaikovsky's 5. · Copenhagen Phil

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