Conductor

EPSG:4326

75th ARD International Music Competition

Munich Residence

The Mouse takes you on a journey through the life of the child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – with captivating music and exciting stories about the Austrian composer.

The Concert with the Mouse

Philharmonic Essen

Philharmonie Berlin

Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr

Cologne Philharmonie

Konzerthaus Dortmund

Das Konzert mit der Maus premieres in Berlin, inviting you to the Philharmonie Berlin to enjoy the thrilling music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and exciting amusing and factual stories inspired by the life of the composer. The legendary mouse will be accompanied by the presenters Jana Forkel and Johannes Büchs and the WDR Sinfonieorchester – together they will investigate the Austrian child prodigy. A concert full of discoveries, learning and experiences.

Das Konzert mit der Maus

Berliner Philharmoniker

Orchestre de Paris / Bar Avni

Philharmonie de Paris

It is bold, well-conceived, and full of dramatic power: Mozart's G minor Symphony, a stroke of genius. Composed at just 17 years old, it is anything but a mere youthful work. It is unique – and unfathomable. "We won't get close to Mozart," the writer and Mozart expert Wolfgang Hildesheimer already suspected. Gustav Mahler is another mystery. His Fourth Symphony is a sonic vision of paradise. Mahler himself spoke of "experience and suffering, truth and poetry in tones." Critics tore the work to pieces, but Mahler remained steadfast, always searching for the great symphonic redemption. Two extraordinary musicians make Mahler's vision of "heavenly life" a reality: Erika Baikoff, one of the most successful young voices of her generation, and Tabita Berglund, a conductor with a clear style and a great sense of musical depth. This will be visionary!

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 | Tabitha Berglund

The Bell, Bremen

Israeli conductor Bar Avni and South Korean cellist Hayoung Choi bring female power to the stage – with a program that showcases everything an orchestra has to offer. Bach opens the evening, but not as we know it: Ottorino Respighi takes the famous Passacaglia to a new level, orchestrating it grandly and majestically, with new colors and nuances. Then comes Witold Lutosławski's Cello Concerto! Not a classical solo concerto, but a dramatic duel, orchestra against soloist, complete with attacks, lyrical moments, and explosive eruptions of sound. A musical exchange in which every note is charged with high tension. And finally: Tchaikovsky's Pathétique. His last work – and arguably his most personal. Nine days after the premiere, he died under mysterious circumstances. The final movement sounds like a requiem: deeply sad, somber, and moving. It couldn't be more dramatic.

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique” | Bar Avni

A lecture followed by a rehearsal visit: Dr. Helge Goessling from the Helmholtz Earth and Environment Center will report on weather phenomena and climate simulations. Afterwards, we'll head to the rehearsal for the 8th Philharmonic Concert.

Is this still weather or already climate?

Tobacco Quarter Hall 1

Laura Bowler is a composer of rare imagination and theatrical flair. Her new work for voice and orchestra is inspired by Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang’s The White Book – a poetic meditation on colour, grief and the human spirit.

London Symphony Orchestra/Barbara Hannigan

Barbican Centre

Composer Laura Bowler’s new work for voice and orchestra is based on Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang’s The White Book – a poetic meditation on colour, grief and the human spirit. A performer and vocalist herself, Bowler’s settings are sure to make the most of soloist Barbara Hannigan’s theatrical stage presence and their shared flair for the dramatic.

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Laura Bowler

In this unique world premiere, we hear Laura Bowler’s composition inspired by The White Book by Nobel Prize-winner Han Kang. The work was commissioned by Principal Guest Conductor Barbara Hannigan, who also sings at this performance. With the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and choir.

The White Book

Göteborgs Symfoniker

Beethoven - Triple concerto in C major

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

The mouse takes you on a journey through the life of the child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – with rousing music and exciting, funny and factual stories about the Austrian composer.

Museum Ludwig

The Liberation of Mozart

Saanen Church

Did you know that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart called his contemporary and colleague Joseph Haydn "Papa"? Undoubtedly, the two were immensely fond of each other. Haydn recognized Mozart's musical genius and championed him wherever he could. Mozart, 24 years his junior, appreciated this and viewed him as a great master and mentor: "No one can do everything—to tease and shock, to provoke laughter and deep emotion—and everything as well as Haydn!"

Alexandra Dovgan

Forum at the Castle Park

In the second academy concert, old and new are combined, the familiar with the unknown and the fairytale-like, when the forward-moving, youthful freshness of the seventeen-year-old Mozart meets the rather unknown romantic sounds of the Hamburg-born Ferdinand David. The atmosphere continues with Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose music is a sonorous reflection of their origins and homeland, England. Just like Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt" from Norway. A fairytale ending to a concert between Hamburg, Vienna, England and Poland, between classical, romantic and modern.

2nd Academy Concert

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Conductor Bar Avni, winner of the 2024 La Maestra competition and principal conductor of the Bayer Philharmonic, leads a luminous program. Born in 1987, she is establishing herself as one of Europe's most promising conductors. Alongside her, Anaëlle Tourret, principal harpist of the NDR Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, performs Dohnányi's Concertino for Harp and Chamber Orchestra , an elegant late work (1952) that blends virtuosity with pastoral gentleness. The Opéra Junior Choir, prepared by Albert Alcaraz, opens the evening with Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols (1942), written during an Atlantic crossing for women's choir and harp. This is followed by Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring , a pastoral love song set in rural America. Finally, Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra , variations on a theme by Purcell, playfully presents woodwinds, brass, strings, and percussion in turn, before bringing them together in a grand final fugue. A choral and symphonic program, poised between gentleness and brilliance.

Advent Concert

Opéra Comédie

For her debut appearance on Hope Street, Bar Avni presents the enchanting and stately Symphony No.3 by Tchaikovsky alongside two keystones of a true ‘American’ sound. Drawing on Shaker melodies, a frontier spirit, and what Copland called a “high lonesome” mood, Appalachian Spring is the essence of classical Americana. A similar fusion shapes Florence Price’s Piano Concerto, which brings together European Romanticism with African American spirituals, and provides Jeneba Kanneh-Mason with her debut with the Orchestra.

Conductor

Bar Avni

Events

Upcoming events

4 - 5 Dec, 2026

Advent Concert · Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

Mar 4, 2027

Florence Price Piano Concerto · Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Past events

Sep 13, 2026

75th ARD International Music Competition · Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Sep 11, 2026

75th ARD International Music Competition · Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Britten

Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

Conductor in Symphony No. 8 by Dvořák

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Conductor in Symphony No. 4 by Mahler

Bremer Philharmoniker

Conductor in Symphony No. 92 (Oxford) by Haydn

Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Conductor in Piano Concerto by Price

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Conductor in Triple Concerto by Beethoven

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Conductor in Also sprach Zarathustra by Strauss

Barbican Centre

Conductor in Bassoon Concerto by Mozart

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor in Symphony No. 25 by Mozart

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Conductor in Piano Concerto No. 20 by Mozart

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Conductor in Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 by Grieg

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Conductor in Appalachian Spring by Copland

Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

Conductor in Cello Concerto by Lutosławski

Bremer Philharmoniker

Conductor in Suite for Viola and Orchestra by Williams

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Conductor in Lontano by Ligeti

Barbican Centre

Conductor in Symphony No. 3 by Tchaikovsky

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Conductor in Symphony No. 6 by Tchaikovsky

Bremer Philharmoniker

Conductor in Organ Concerto by Poulenc

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor in Subito con forza by Chin

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Conductor in Ceremony of Carols by Britten

Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

Conductor in Thamos, King of Egypt by Mozart

Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Conductor in Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor by Bach

Bremer Philharmoniker

Conductor in Violin Concerto No. 5 by David

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Conductor in The white book by Bowler

Barbican Centre

Conductor in Clocks and Clouds by Ligeti

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Conductor in Three Little Liturgies of the Divine Presence by Messiaen

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Conductor in Grand Concerto In F Major for Bassoon and Orchestra by Hummel

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor in Concertino for Harp and Chamber Orchestra by Dohnányi

Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

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