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Family Symphony Concert: Greetings from the New World

"Simon Höfele's tone sounds like that of an oboe. No, it sounds like a human voice. Or maybe a trumpet? Disturbingly beautiful," said the SWR (South German Broadcasting Corporation) of this brilliant trumpeter. But it's not just his tone that makes him an exceptional musician. He plays a repertoire of impressive range with the highest quality. This makes him one of the best and most renowned trumpeters of his generation. As a soloist, he has appeared worldwide with leading orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. He performs at the Elbphilharmonie, as well as at Wigmore Hall, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. ​​In the 2024/25 season, Simon Höfele was "Artist in Residence" at the Jena Philharmonie, and in 2021/22 he was with us.

7th Philharmonic Concert

Kleist Forum

The "Organ Symphony" is one of France's most important symphonies. The work's name, incidentally, does not originate from the composer – Saint-Saëns preferred to call it a "symphony with organ." The organ is "merely" one timbre among others – it is sparse, but its impact is all the more powerful. A piano duo is also part of the orchestra. While the "Organ Symphony" is not a religious composition, the melody of the "Dies Irae" nevertheless runs through the entire work. The two gigantic sections – approximately 20 and 15 minutes long respectively – contain the usual four symphony movements. Saint-Saëns considered this (his last) symphony to be his magnum opus.

Polyphonic

Bochumer Symphoniker

"In the orchestra – that is where the essence lies, that is the text beneath the text, that is the universal subconscious that connects the Wagnerian characters to one another and links them to the proto-ego of the legend" – this is how conductor Lorin Maazel quotes director Wieland Wagner, with whom he had a long-standing collaboration and whose theory of the Wagner orchestra as the "source" of his musical theater ultimately inspired him to his adaptation of the mighty "Ring," a compilation of the most important instrumental passages from the four operas of the Ring Cycle.

Richard Wagner - The Ring without Words

Viennese Classical meets American Classical. We present the latter with one of the most established violinists in the USA. Philippe Quint has been nominated for several Grammy Awards. The New York Times and the British Daily Telegraph rave about the poetry of his playing, his "consummate musicality, richness of sound, and passion." He has demonstrated how apt this assessment of the critics is in his collaborations with some of the world's finest orchestras.

1. Classical on Sunday

Exhibition Hall 4

“Nixon in China” was the first opera in the spirit of minimal music in 1987. Its composer John Adams, however, prefers to call himself a “maximalist” because he combines “minimalist” stylistic devices with many other things. He also used elements from his opera for the orchestral foxtrot “The Chairman Dances”. In the composer’s imagination, the Great Chairman Mao Zedong emerges from a picture portrait and dances several foxtrots with his wife – back to their shared past. Hollywood nostalgia is charmingly combined with insistent motor skills and a large percussion apparatus.

Virtuos

Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr

In order to make the music of Janáček's opera "Jenůfa" (1904) known in the concert hall, various orchestral suites have been compiled over the years. The latest and perhaps most successful attempt is that of the conductor Manfred Horneck and the composer Tomás Ille. With largely authentic instrumentation, the "Symphonic Suite" unfolds the contrast between the sad world of the village girl Jenůfa and the cheerful dances of the village.

Shostakovich_Janáček_Puccini

Steven Sloane was General Musician of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra from 1994 to 2021. He was a member of the board of directors for "RUHR 2010 – European Capital of Culture" and performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, in Sydney, and Tokyo, among others. He conducted major orchestras in Israel and was Music Director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

Steven Sloane

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May 8, 2026

8th Philharmonic Concert · Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

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Apr 18, 2026

7th Symphony Concert · Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Apr 18, 2026

Family Symphony Concert: Greetings from the New World · Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Requiem by Fauré

Bochumer Symphoniker

Conductor in Trumpet Concerto by Marsalis

Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Conductor in Symphony No. 3 by Beethoven

Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Conductor in Symphony No. 9 by Dvořák

Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Conductor in The Ring Without Words by Wagner

Bochumer Symphoniker

Conductor in Symphony No. 9 by Mahler

Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Conductor in Symphony No. 3 by Saint-Saëns

Bochumer Symphoniker

Conductor in Violin Concerto by Barber

Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Conductor in Piano Concerto by Ravel

Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Conductor in Symphony No. 6 in B Minor by Shostakovich

Bochumer Symphoniker

Conductor in Symphonic Suite from the opera “Jenůfa” by Janáček

Bochumer Symphoniker

Conductor in Excerpts from “La Bohème” by Puccini

Bochumer Symphoniker

Conductor in Symphony No. 6 by Haydn

Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

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