Composer

Solo piano concert featuring works from Viennese classicism to late Romanticism

Jakob Westh

KUMUS

Described as a pianist with “magician's fingers and soul of integrity” (Le Monde), Canadian Bruce Liu returns to Koerner Hall to perform works by Beethoven, Chopin, Albéniz, and Liszt.

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Bruce Liu, piano

The Royal Conservatory of Music

French composer Cécile Chaminade composed more than four hundred works in the shadows of her contemporaries Brahms and Saint-Saëns, yet her music was so popular that “Chaminade Clubs” sprang up in the United States during her lifetime. Debussy’s early trio, also overtly Romantic, is offered as a companion work, with both trios now increasingly heard in concert halls around the world. And to illustrate just how beloved piano trios can be, look no further than Dvořák’s musical farewell to his homeland.

Dvořák, Debussy, and Chaminade

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

French composer Cécile Chaminade composed over four hundred works in the shadows of her contemporaries Brahms and Saint-Saëns, yet her music was so popular that “Chaminade Clubs” sprang up in the United States during her lifetime. Debussy’s early trio, also overtly Romantic, is offered as a companion work, with both trios now increasingly heard in concert halls around the world. 

Grand Rapids, MI 

St. Cecilia Music Center

Cuban-American composer Tania León’s Pasajes (2025) opens the evening, painting a jubilant sonic portrait of her Cuban childhood, composed during her time as Composer-in-Residence at the London Philharmonic Orchestra.   

Claude Debussy wrote his Nocturnes (L. 98) for orchestra between 1897 and 1899. The title reflects decorative light impressions rather than traditional night pieces, inspired in part by the impressionist paintings of James McNeill Whistler.   

Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra

Blackheath Halls

Contrasting colours and textures abound in Alexander Gadjiev’s consummate choice of works. The Slovenian pianist has built an impressive international career including recent recitals at Manchester, Tokyo and Beethoven-Haus Bonn. His latest Wigmore Hall performance sets the ornate melodies of Haydn’s Piano Sonata in A flat together with meditative Takemitsu and Debussy’s exotic L’isle joyeuse, before moving to Liszt’s vivid images of Switzerland and the rich sonorities of Robert Schumann’s First Piano Sonata.

Alexander Gadjiev piano

Wigmore Hall

The American pianist makes her Manchester debut performing selections from her critically acclaimed album Nature.

Tiffany Poon is a pianist whose work centres on interpretation, atmosphere, and emotional precision. She approaches classical music as a living language, shaping sound and silence with intention and clarity, and allowing meaning to emerge through listening rather than explanation.

Tiffany Poon (piano)

Royal Northern College of Music

Under the glow of candlelight, these intimate ariettes and lyrical romances offer tenderness, reflection, and quiet, luminous stillness.

Spotlight: By Candlelight – Ariettes and Romances

RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music)

Goecke / Robbins / Bausch

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Dame Sarah Connolly’s duo partnership with Joseph Middleton, forged over many years, rises from the telepathic understanding that passes between them whenever they make music. The celebrated mezzo-soprano’s ‘rapport with top Lieder pianist Joseph Middleton’, notes BBC Music Magazine, ‘allows for some very special interchanges’. Their recital includes treasures from Brahms’s Op. 57 collection and the hauntingly beautiful Late Romanticism of Webern’s Early Songs.

Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano; Joseph Middleton piano

This recital is a rare opportunity to hear Bryn up close, performing music that means a lot to him – from traditional Welsh folk tunes that echo of home to hits from musical theatre and classical lieder. His extraordinary voice will fill the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, every facet of his extraordinary instrument shining bright.

The Voice of Bryn Terfel

Sydney Opera House

Rêverie returns to the early twentieth century through the perspectives of Black artists at the center of “Le Jazz Hot” and the legendary Harlem Renaissance. 

 

Valerie Coleman, GRAMMY-nominated founding flutist of Imani Winds, is a multi-talented composer, musician, and educator who was named Performance Today’s 2020 Classical Woman of the Year. This sizzling program brings together six powerhouse artists to perform three of Coleman’s compositions and works by Ravel, Debussy and Grant Still.

Valerie Coleman & Friends

August Wilson African American Cultural Center

In partnership with the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, we are pleased to present RÊVERIE: Dreams of Harlem and Paris, featuring three founding members of Imani Winds.
Rêverie returns to the early twentieth century through the perspectives of Black artists at the center of “Le Jazz Hot” and the legendary Harlem Renaissance. 

The supremely talented Soloists of the Kronberg Academy present Wigmore Hall audiences with the chance to hear the next generation of world-class chamber musicians. Their choice of repertoire includes two movements from the F-A-E Sonata, a collaborative work by Robert Schumann, the young Brahms and Schumann’s pupil Albert Dietrich. The concert is framed by Debussy’s mature, ravishingly beautiful Cello Sonata and his late Violin Sonata, a luminous and harmonically daring work that crowns his final creative period.

Soloists of the Kronberg Academy; Kirill Gerstein piano

Debussy’s La mer crowns a concert that surges with elemental power; whether Britten’s East Anglian seascapes or Shostakovich at his punchiest.

Sakari Oramo conducts Debussy and Shostakovich

Barbican Centre

Elim Chan leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in two enchanting and colorful orchestral favorites. Debussy’s hues in Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun are otherworldly if hazy and in watercolor. The Impressionistic atmosphere Debussy conjures exudes a fragile beauty that set off a revolution, which Pierre Boulez said “breathed new air into the art of music.” By contrast, Stravinsky paints with bold, contrasting blocks of sound. Petrushka’s Picasso-esque approach to musical color and movement sets the stage for the story of a mischievous puppet, packed with Russian folklore and misadventure.

Debussy & Stravinsky with Elim Chan

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Dinis Sousa leads a voyage across the English Channel, celebrating four visionary French masters. In tribute to the wit and beauty of Couperin’s keyboard music, Thomas Adès adds layers of sparkling instrumental texture. Georgian superstar Mariam Batsashvili is the soloist in Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No.2, with its pretty cascading melodies and dramatic twists and turns. Debussy lulls us with washes of impressionistic orchestral colour that conjure the different states of the sea, from calm to storm, and Ravel’s Boléro reminds us of a legendary moment in Olympic figure skating history.

Boléro

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Recipients of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and many other international prizes, pianist Evren Ozel and violinist Joshua Brown perform a program exploring the writer Marcel Proust’s assertion that music alone can access what language leaves unsaid. The works on the program bear a direct literary imprint: Chausson's Poème translates a short story by Turgenev into musical form, while Schumann's Kreisleriana depicts E.T.A. Hoffmann's fictional musician Johannes Kreisler. Debussy’s Preludes for piano include literature references from Baudelaire to Shakespeare and more. The movements from the F.A.E. Sonata and Ysaÿe's Ballade, meanwhile, were inspired by their composers’ close friendships with poets and literary figures of their time. Finally, perhaps the most remarkable connection on this program belongs to Fauré's Violin Sonata and Proust. Through his In Search of Lost Time, Proust immortalizes Fauré as the fictional composer Vinteuil, whose violin sonata becomes a recurring symbol of longing and lost love. That a real piece of music could be so thoroughly absorbed into one of literature's greatest novels speaks to exactly the kind of alchemy this program sets out to explore.

Evren Ozel, piano & Joshua Brown, violin

Kaufman Music Center

Brahms’ First Symphony begins with the beating of a heart in torment and ends with a hymn of triumph. Debussy’s Prélude à I’après-midi d’un faune is very different – as a soft, sultry flute opens the gateway to a dream-world of sensuous sound. Two huge imaginations; two unforgettable musical journeys, brought thrillingly to life by our inspirational guest conductor Ariane Matiakh, tonight making her RPO debut. But in between comes the most wonderful adventure of all, as cellist Zlatomir Fung, a former RPO Artist-in-Residence, gives the world premiere of a magical new work by the innovative British composer Laurence Osborn. We haven’t heard it yet – no one has! But Laurence has taken his inspiration from the world after dark, in all its mystery and wonder. Be there when it comes to life.

Brahms 1

Cadogan Hall

Rhapsodies, lazy afternoons – and a wild night of dreams.
This spectacular programme is bookended by two revolutionary works. Debussy’s Prelude sounds gorgeously melodic and completely uncontroversial today, but caused quite the stir at the 1899 premiere, with its sensual evocation of an afternoon in the sun. His later Rhapsodie was originally scored for saxophone, but here celebrates the distinctive, melancholy sound of the English horn, performed by renowned soloist François Leleux (who also conducts). Gipps’ lush and lyrical Sinfonietta is a further tribute to the beauty of the wind section. Berlioz’ Symphonie was composed decades before any of these, but is one of the most outrageous, genre-busting works in the repertoire. Expect to have a simply fantastique time.

Symphonie Fantastique

Symphony Hall in Birmingham

Memory’s power to free the imagination stands behind countless works of art, with recollections of the four seasons occupying a special status among the most potent of creative catalysts. Louise Alder, acclaimed by The Times as ‘a terrific talent, combining a big lustrous voice with flawless intonation and a keen intelligence’, and Joseph Middleton take a voyage around the cosmos of songs inspired by ever-changing seasonal landscapes, moods and states of mind.

Louise Alder soprano; Joseph Middleton piano

Batiashvili, Capuçon & Thibaudet in Recital

Severance Music Center

Impressions… on Ravel and Debussy

Teatro alla Scala

The LSO launches its 60th Anniversary Season with music of passion, brilliance, and celebration. Debussy’s radiant Fêtes, Philip Glass’s hypnotic concerto featuring Mexican pianists, Jorge Viladoms and Mauro Lo Conte, and Berlioz’s revolutionary Symphonie Fantastique combine for an unforgettable evening of musical storytelling.

Masterworks No.1: Paris, Passion & Celebration

Skyline High School

Enjoy a varied programme of chamber music from Royal College of Music musicians at this lunchtime concert at St Mary Abbots Church in Kensington.

RCM at St Mary Abbots Church

St Mary Abbots Church

That which Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir or Odilon Redon meant for painting, Claude Debussy meant for music. His compositions, teeming with imagination, manifold colours and fleeting atmospheres, straddle two epochs – Romanticism and Modernism – actually co-forming the borderline itself. At the turn of the 20th century, the arts, music included, underwent ground-breaking changes, with opera being no exception. Pioneers of modern music – such as Debussy and Igor Stravinsky – assumed a rather standoffish attitude to the genre, hesitant as to how to approach the “obsolete form”. Debussy attempted to write several operas, yet only succeeded in a single case. The one and only opera he completed is the today iconic adaptation of the Belgian Symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Pélleas et Mélisande. Debussy’s setting is devoid of conventional grand operatic gesture and effect, giving preference instead to an intimate music drama, with everything decisive happening “between the lines” – in allusions, silence and delicate, symbolic details.

Pelléas et Mélisande

National Theatre Prague

What’s better than one magnificently talented artist? How about three. Experience the thrilling trifecta of violinist Lisa Batiashvili, cellist Gautier Capuçon, and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet as they join forces in piano trios by Shostakovich, Debussy, and Dvořák.

Batiashvili/Capuçon/Thibaudet Trio

Davies Symphony Hall

The French composer Paul Dukas opens the programme with a fanfare for a fallen angel in search of immortality.

Debussy: La Mer

Malmo Live Concert AB

For Debussy and Ravel, the soul of French music lay in a more elegant age, and they sprinkled sonic stardust over a dream of the baroque. Each of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, meanwhile, is a miniature world of fantasy, colour and deep emotion - and according to one critic, Llŷr Williams plays them “much as the composer is thought to have played them”.

Llŷr Williams: Baroque Connections 1

Bute Park

“Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s piano, Lisa Batiashvili’s violin and Gautier Capuçon’s cello [stitch] their individual strands of sound into a sumptuous fabric” (The Arts Desk) during a night of Russian, French, and Czech music.

Lisa Batiashvili Gautier Capuçon Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Piece from the Pièces du Vent series, a dance and puppetry show built around plastic bags animated by fans, set to music by Debussy. Ages 4 and up, for families.

L'après-midi d'un foehn

Le Triangle

Think of this as a musical stroll through Paris. No passport required. Led by Chelsea Gallo, the program moves from the elegance of the concert hall to the glow of café lights and the drama of the stage. You’ll hear the dreamy beauty of Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune, the fiery intensity of the “Roxanne Tango” from Moulin Rouge, and the lush, cinematic sweep of Alan Menken’s Beauty and the Beast Suite. Along the way, TFO’s James Riggs takes center stage in Jean Françaix’s The Flower Clock — a charming, colorful showcase for the oboe. Romantic, playful and full of atmosphere, it’s Paris brought to life in sound.

Once Upon a Time in Paris

Ruth Eckerd Hall

Hailed as ‘a wonderful musician with a compelling sense of storytelling’ (Le Soir, 2022), Petar Pejčić is one of the most promising talents on the classical scene. Selected at the 2025 YCAT International Auditions at Wigmore Hall, Petar was named an ECHO Rising Star for 2026-27, which will see him perform on some of Europe’s biggest stages, such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

Petar Pejčić cello; Nour Ayadi piano

Soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais, a rising star of the opera stage, joins the Orchester de l'Agora and Nicolas Ellis for a program inspired by visual arts and poetry, enriched by projections of visual art.

The Recital of Angels

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Stewart Goodyear – E. Lee Ronnel Artist of Distinction

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Stella Boyle Smith Music Center

Tenor Ben Bliss and pianist Christopher Allen launch our season with a program of irresistible breadth and warmth, drawing on the very finest of German and French song. The first half of the evening moves through the Romantic landscape with an assured and generous hand, offering Lieder by Schumann, Liszt, and Strauss — music that encompasses the intimacy of the salon, the grand sweep of Romantic longing, and the opulent, golden-voiced lyricism for which Strauss’s songs in particular have made tenors rejoice for well over a century. Bliss brings to this repertoire a voice of exceptional beauty — bright, focused, and capable of extraordinary refinement — along with a musician’s instinct for text and phrase that elevates every song he touches.

Ben Bliss & Christopher Allen

Live! At 10th & G

A performance by trombone faculty member Scott Hartman.

Scott Hartman, trombone

Yale University

An evening celebrating the beauty, elegance, and versatility of the harp and orchestra.

Led by Dr. Jane K. Brown, the concert features renowned harp soloist Marina Roznitovsky Oster and the world premieres of the completed orchestral versions of the Paraguayan harp works Iguazú and Una Luz en el Mar by Alfredo Rolando Ortiz, orchestrated by Tyler Emerson.

The program will also include Handel’s Concerto in B-flat Major for Harp and Orchestra, Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane, Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 1 in C Major, and more.

EFFERVESCENCE! Harp & Strings

Castro Valley Center for the Arts

This dazzling sonic journey explores powerful natural phenomena through music. Dalia Stasevska, admired for “unbridled, animated conducting” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) makes her SLSO debut with Debussy’s La Mer, a breathtaking evocation of a day on the ever-moving, wondrous sea. Multi-talented artist Aphrodite Patoulidou performs Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs and introduces Sibelius’ Luonnotar with an improvisation on the nyckelharpa, a traditional Swedish keyed fiddle.

Debussy’s La Mer

Powell Hall

Get under the skin of Mozart’s last symphony, as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra retells the story of a masterwork.

In 1788, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his last symphony.

We’re still not quite sure how he did it: creating a masterpiece so perfect that for more than two centuries, it has shared a name with the king of the gods. But why is it considered to be a masterpiece? Here to answer that question (and more) are presenter Leah Broad, Vasily Petrenko (conducting the RPO for the first time at Cadogan Hall) and the full Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with an entertaining guide to what makes Mozart tick. They’ll take the Symphony apart and show you how it works. And then they’ll put it back together, concluding the evening with a full performance.

Whether you’re a hardcore Mozart fan or a total newbie, it’s an experience that never fails to inspire.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Since winning the Salzburg International Mozart Competition in 2016, Saskia Giorgini has secured prominence among the top flight of today’s artists with the heartfelt lyricism and musical intelligence of her pianism. She recalls the beauty and refinement of Belle Époque Paris in a programme that includes exquisite miniatures by Mel Bonis and Lili Boulanger and closes with L’isle joyeuse, Debussy’s seductive evocation of Aegean warmth and colour.

Saskia Giorgini piano

Cape Ann Symphony 75th Fantastique! — a breathtaking French masterworks program that launches our historic season in spectacular style. Experience Lili Boulanger's shimmering D'un matin de printemps (Of a Spring Morning), a luminous impressionistic gem by one of the first women to win the prestigious Prix de Rome. Debussy's evocative three-movement seascape La Mer follows, painting the ocean from dawn to noon, the play of waves, and the dialogue of wind and sea in glorious orchestral color. The program culminates with Berlioz's monumental Symphonie Fantastique — a revolutionary five-movement journey through an artist's obsessive passion, complete with a haunting recurring melody (the idée fixe), a dramatic "March to the Scaffold," and the wild, supernatural "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath." It's one of the most dramatic and imaginative works in the orchestral repertoire and an unforgettable way to celebrate 75 years of musical excellence.

75th Fantastique!

Manchester Essex Regional High School

This lustrous evening brings together exquisite sound paintings for piano, strings and horn, showcasing the range and reach of our resident Ensemble 360.

Debussy | La Mer

Crucible Theatre

The Atlantic is on fine form in Bax’s Tintagel, shimmering in the sunlight, or crashing against the Cornish cliffs. Debussy draws on paintings of the sea in his luminous evocation of La mer. In Restless Oceans, Composer in Residence Anna Clyne channels Audre Lord’s inspiration poem: she speaks of the turbulence of the cosmos, and the power and resilience embodied by Black womanhood. In between the waves, Grieg’s gloriously romantic Piano Concerto surges and soars in the expert hands of the dazzling Alice Sara Ott, our 2026-27 Collaborative Artist.

Kazuki conducts Grieg's Piano Concerto

Start your season with an evening that truly feels like an occasion. JoAnn Falletta welcomes Lang Lang for Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, pairing regal scale with brilliant virtuosity and a singing, generous spirit. Dukas opens with a radiant fanfare, and Debussy’s La Mer fills the hall with shifting color and atmosphere. It is a program designed to lift you out of the everyday and into a shared moment, where the first downbeat settles the room and the season begins in full glow.

Opening Night with Lang Lang

Kleinhans Music Hall

Symphonie fantastique is one of the most revolutionary works in the history of music. With this, Hector Berlioz broke the framework for orchestral music in 1830. The symphony is a passionate self-portrait that depicts the artist, who – driven by infatuation and obsession – experiences the ecstasy of love turning into ruin. The beloved is portrayed through the first complete leitmotif in the history of music, the so-called Idée Fixe, which gradually changes character. From dreams and ball scenes to nightmares, executions, witches' dances and grotesque triumphs in the black night.

The night also forms the backdrop in the first half of the concert. The orchestral suite Nocturnes by Claude Debussy is a twilight tone painting that moves between light, clouds, celebration and sea. The sensual night universe is also found in Hilda Sehested's Nocturne for small orchestra from 1919. A rare encounter with a significant, but rarely performed, Danish composer. The music is elegiac, late romantic and rich in tonal sensitivity.

Dausgaard og Symphonie Fantastique

Konservatoriets Koncertsal

What a career! Brett Dean spent 14 years as a violist with the Berliner Philharmoniker before leaving to concentrate full-time on his highly successful career as a composer. He now returns to his former orchestra as Composer in Residence. To launch his residency, Brett Dean himself takes the podium for a programme of richly imaginative sound worlds: In Conversations with Schumann, he explores the composer’s intricate inner life. And once I played Ophelia is a moving portrait of Hamlet’s beloved, while Beggars and Angels draws its musical tension from the contrast between earthly and celestial beings. An arrangement of Debussy completes the programme.

Brett Dean conducts Brett Dean

Berliner Philharmoniker

The Titans' Concert: There is stardust on the stage and gold in the flute when Emmanuel Pahud visits Aarhus with a world premiere – and the brilliance of the world star is matched by Mahler's mighty First Symphony.

Mahler 1

Aarhus Music Hall

Philippe Jordan, “the low-key maestro who’s taking French [music] to new heights” (The Guardian) brings a rejuvenating je ne sais quoi to a night of masterworks by three of the most popular composers from France.

Ravel, Debussy & Saint-Saëns

Hollywood Bowl

Principal Flute Melanie Lançon has put together a delicious programme of works that show the virtuosity of the flute alongside the richness of strings. One of the highlights will be Debussy’s dreamlike Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp, played together with friends from the orchestra.

Flute & Strings

Glen Eden Playhouse Theatre

Somervell Presbyterian Church

St Peter’s Anglican Church

Literature, like music, reflects the world and our lives. With our new series, Satzwechsel, we place the two in dialogue. Three times each season, in collaboration with the internationales literaturfestival berlin, we invite renowned authors to the Kammermusiksaal. They read from their latest works and discuss their writing. Music runs alongside: members of the Berliner Philharmoniker perform chamber works that echo and extend the themes of the texts.

Satzwechsel Literature & MusicSatzwechsel Literature

Berliner Philharmonie

One of Britain’s most respected pianists, Danny Driver is recognized internationally for his sophistication, insight, and musical depth, with a holistic approach inspired by studies at Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music. His concert programs and recordings reflect his breadth of repertoire and musical curiosity, exploring mainstream and neglected music from the Baroque period to the present day.

Danny Driver, piano

Tippet Rise Art Center

The program opened with an unexpected Vivaldi: his Concerto for Two Cellos RV 531 , reimagined for cello (Cyrille Tricoire De Haro) and bassoon (Rodolphe Bernard). A rare dialogue between two instruments, between Baroque virtuosity and the complicity of the soloists. Mendelssohn then unfolded the legend of La Belle Mélusine , a fairy-tale overture with melodious waves. Ravel, with his Menuet antique , revived the grace of a bygone era, while Debussy, in Nuages ​​(from the Nocturnes ), suspended the sky in its luminous grays. As a grand finale, Mozart's "Haffner" Symphony burst forth in vibrant fanfares and majestic dances. A night of stars, breaths, and strings.

Under the stars

Agora Theatre

Szymanowski, Chopin, Debussy

Chiaramonte Steri Palace

Experience an inspired selection of songs from the French Belle Époque and beyond, sung by one of today’s most vibrant sopranos.

Julie Roset & Susan Manoff

The Queen's Hall

Montreal Symphony Orchestravisits Aarhus for the very first time with a sound that has thrilled audiences in some of the world's largest concert halls. Under the leadership of the charismatic Venezuelan conductorRafael PayareAn evening awaits where musical intensity, precision and grandeur meet in the Symphony Hall.

Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Celebrate the season with a symphonic feast of rhythm, color, and energy. The dynamic pulse of Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances lead to vivid, sun-drenched landscapes and shimmering Spanish textures in Claude Debussy’s Iberia. LAMF’s season finale then culminates in Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka, a kaleidoscopic ballet score that animates a mischievous puppet, a dazzling Russian fairground, and an irresistible surge of rhythmic brilliance.

Dances of Passion

Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts

Take a trip to France with The Cleveland Orchestra and conductor Antonello Manacorda in this evening of music by Ravel and Debussy. Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G sparkles in a performance by Argentine pianist Nelson Goerner, complemented by the utterly charming Mother Goose Suite. Meanwhile, Debussy’s mystical melodies and harmonies are put on full display in his pathbreaking Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and the three dreamy Nocturnes.

Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G

Blossom Music Center

Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, Pärt

Orto Botanico di Palermo

Song treasures in the Palace Chapel. Kathleen O'Mara (soprano) and Olesya Tutova (piano) in a chamber music concert in the Palace Chapel, Royal Palace, Oslo.

Kathleen O'Mara at the Palace

Royal Palace

We are back at Frogner hovedgård, and with French composers as the common thread, we dedicate the afternoon to chamber music from the late Romantic era and Impressionism. This is a concert where lyrical melodies and tonal colors are given free rein, and it is perfect for you if you have a heart for the harp.

French Focus

Frogner hovedgård

Five voices, one sound of timeless beauty: the Leipzig vocal ensemble amarcord devotes its new programme "Immortal Beauty" to the immortality of beauty, in music, nature and human experience.

13 AMARCORD: "IMMORTAL BEAUTY"

St. Magnus Kirche

Dreams of Childhood: The Musical Reflections of a New Father

Lincoln City Cultural Center

High Festival Level

Imperial Baths

NUSO - Norsk Ungdomssymfoniorkester performs a program of sea-themed program music, a journey through music history conducted by Berit Cardas.

Voices from the Sea

Stavanger Konserthus

Four miniature concerts in which the next generation meets established voices. Four half-hour concerts in Håkonshallen, with young musicians performing alongside established names.

Festival Evening: Tomorrow's Stars

Håkonshallen

Piano recital: Couperin, Debussy, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, with encores by Schubert and Bach

Piano Recital by Su Yeon Kim

Parc de Florans

Piano recital by David Kadouch at the Parc de Florans, La Roque d'Anthéron. Program: Debussy, Bonis, Fauré, Boulanger, Ravel.

6 PM Recital: David Kadouch, Piano

The poetic piano of the unclassifiable Debargue and the virtuosic cello of Victor Julien-Laferrière in a program steeped in lyricism. Both artists focus on French music at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Chamber Music: Lucas Debargue, Piano; Victor Julien-Laferrière, Cello

Festival favourite Paul Lewis returns with a programme framed by two of Mozart’s most appealing piano sonatas – one known for its charm and grace, the other for its intensity and restlessness. In between comes music from France – Debussy’s sensual and ecstatic vision of an island ruled by love L’isle joyeuse, and a selection of Poulenc’s more down-to-earth Improvisations – the witty, lyrical vignettes the composer wrote over a period of 27 years, each dedicated to a colleague or friend.

Paul Lewis

University of Oxford

Austrian composer Ignace Pleyel, who studied with Haydn, found lasting fame as a pioneer of piano building. His Paris-based company continued producing fine instruments after his death in 1831, influencing the development of piano works by, among others, Chopin and Debussy. Finghin Collins, inspired to pay homage to Pleyel after playing on a rebuilt Pleyel 280 concert grand piano dating from 1937, includes beautiful miniatures by the Franco-Irish composer Joseph O’Kelly and Georges Pfeiffer, both partners in the Pleyel firm.

Finghin Collins piano

The Perelada Festival welcomes the return of Bryn Terfel, one of the great voices of our time, in a recital that is presented as a living synthesis of his artistic journey. With a career that extends over almost four decades, the Welsh bass-baritone has built an interpretative universe that embraces from Mozart to Wagner, from the Romantic Lied to the traditional song, always with the same expressive conviction and deep respect for the musical material.

Bryn Terfel

Església del Carme

Piano duo recital by the brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen, with a program of Mozart, Schumann, Ravel, Debussy and Rachmaninoff.

Composer

Claude Debussy

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 11 - Nov 15, 2026

Members of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra · Teatro alla Scala

Oct 15 - Nov 19, 2026

Pelléas et Mélisande · Národní divadlo

Oct 27 - Nov 8, 2026

Goecke / Robbins / Bausch · Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Oct 29, 2026 - Apr 22, 2027

Grand Rapids, MI · Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Nov 4, 2026

Rossall International Piano Academy · Leeds Conservatoire

Past events

Nov 1, 2026

Jakob Westh · Fuglsang Musikforening

Oct 30, 2026

Bruce Liu, piano · The Royal Conservatory of Music

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