The Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra's 2025 season promises a captivating lineup, with performances that span across a century of artistic expression. From classic silent films with live orchestral accompaniment to contemporary percussion concerts, the schedule is a testament to the Orchestra's commitment to diverse and dynamic programming. Highlights include the haunting 'Phantom of the Opera,' Vivaldi's evocative flute concertos, and a journey through music history with the innovative Uwaga! ensemble. With a blend of visual artistry and musical excellence, each event offers a unique cultural experience.

A Symphony of Sensations: Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra's 2025 Lineup

The Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra is set to captivate audiences with a series of thrilling performances from March to May 2025. Featuring a diverse range of events, the orchestra will host distinguished conductors, virtuosic soloists, and renowned ensembles in venues that echo with historical significance. From a brotherly musical collaboration to a memorial concert marking 80 years since World War II's end, this season promises a rich tapestry of musical exploration and cultural reflection, blending classical staples with contemporary innovations.

A Symphony of Artistry: Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra's March to May Musical Odyssey

March and April 2025 promise a musical extravaganza in Nuremberg as the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra presents a series of captivating concerts. Featuring a diverse array of performances spanning different genres and eras, these events showcase the brilliance of classical music's past and present. From the collaborative genius of the Darlington brothers to the innovative reinterpretations by Uwaga!, these events are set to keep audiences enthralled. Join us as we explore these unique concerts, spotlighting the talents of renowned conductors, virtuoso performers, and creative musical works.

Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra: A Harmonious Journey Through Time and Sound

The Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra is all set to dazzle audiences with a series of captivating events from March to May 2025. From classical symphonies and art exhibitions to memorial concerts with powerful messages, the orchestra is bringing an array of performances that promise to touch hearts and inspire minds. Highlights include collaborations with renowned conductors, mesmerizing performances by accomplished soloists, and creative works that span a variety of genres. Get ready to explore the magic of music and art in Nuremberg this spring.

A Symphony of Events: Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra's March to May 2025 Highlights

Gordon Hamilton

Martin Sturm

Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra

. He is an internationally celebrated grand seigneur of the conductor's baton, a universally respected veteran conductor: Thomas Sanderling, born in 1942 in Novosibirsk. In 2017, he became head of the city's symphony orchestra, but resigned in 2022 in protest against Putin's invasion of Ukraine. In our Russian program, he conducts the overture to Borodin's national opera Prince Igor , the rarely heard Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 – with the Chinese-Canadian star pianist Sheng Cai as soloist – and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9, with whom Sanderling was friends. The work is a bold, even cheeky surprise package. After the victorious end of the Great Patriotic War in 1945, the officials in the USSR, especially Stalin, were expecting a monumental socialist "Super-Ninth"—with soloists, choir, and large orchestra modeled on Beethoven's "Ninth." But instead, Shostakovich composed a witty, sparkling neoclassical symphony, imbued with the spirit of Haydn and simply declaring: "Hurrah, the war is over!"

Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich

Meistersinger Hall

It was perhaps the first oratorio concert and also the first classical open-air concert in post-war Germany. Almost a year before their official founding, on July 29, 1945, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, under the name Konzertgesellschaft, performed Haydn's oratorio The Creation with the Nuremberg Teachers' Choir (LGV) in the ruins of St. Sebaldus Church, which was missing its roof and spires. The vocal soloists came from the opera house, and the conductor was Karl Demmer, then head of the LGV. It was like a dawn from darkness into light. In commemoration of this legendary event, The Creation is on the program of our double concert in March 2026. Also performing: a top-class solo ensemble and the Nuremberg Concert Choirs. Chief Conductor Jonathan Darlington will be conducting.

80 Years Of Nsym: Haydn's Creation

A musical journey full of memories: The overture from The Magic Flute opens festively and energetically, followed by the passionate first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor – with Chiaya Kakutani at the piano. The famous Adagio from Mozart's C major Concerto touches with its timeless beauty and inner peace. The Nutcracker Suite evokes childhood and Christmas, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel bridges the gap to the world of fairy tales, before the rousing potpourri from the musical Im weißen Rössl (The White Horse Inn) sets a cheerful mood. Susanne Hoch, with Leonhard Kreutzmann conducting the program with heart and sensitivity.

Concert For People With Dementia, Relatives And Everyone

Small Meistersinger Hall

Hans Sachs Choir Nuremberg

Finnish world music, fiery Finnish tangos, light-footed swing sounds, spirited jenkkas, and much more—that's Uusikuu. They serve up a vibrant mix of musical delights under the Northern Lights and, together with the symphony orchestra, celebrate a feast of rousing rhythms, deep emotions, romance, and drama. Far from the genre's melancholic roots, their Vintage Sounds of Finland pays tribute to the country's dance music from the 1930s to the 1960s, with occasional nods to the 70s and 80s. And as die-hard Eurovision fans, they can't resist weaving in humorous references to the legendary competition! Come join Uusikuu's musical picnic, where happiness is served in bite-sized melodies, and everyone is invited to sing along!

UUSIKUU Vintage Sounds of Finland

Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds

Guest In The Meistersingerhalle Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets

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

John Williams's score for Star Wars is universally known, especially the main title. However, not many are aware that this soundtrack has a model, indeed, that it would be almost unthinkable without it. John Williams drew heavily on it. It is Gustav Holst's suite " The Planets ," the most colossal space music of all time, which we supplement with original space images from NASA and ETA. In our program, it is evocatively paired with a symphony by the German-British contemporary of Haydn, William Herschel, who, in addition to being a hobby composer, was one of the most important astronomers of his time: in 1781, he discovered the planet Uranus , and in 1789, he constructed a telescope of previously unknown dimensions. The concert highlight between the symphonic planetariums: the sparkling percussion concerto by the American composer and multi-percussionist Andy Akiho. The soloist is Jacob Nissly, principal timpanist and percussionist of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. At the podium is fellow American Tito Munoz, chief conductor of the Phoenix Symphony.

Holsts Planets And Drum Concert

Do you love Brahms? Ever since the film of the same name starring Ingrid Bergmann, Yves Montand, and Anthony Perkins first flickered across screens in the 1960s, the world melts away when the Poco Allegretto from Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 3 sounds. It is music of truly agonizing beauty and intensity—made of pure love and longing, melancholy and renunciation. José Carreras sang the words " Close to me" to it , and in a semi-symphonic, light music arrangement, it became the Symphony of Love . For Clara Schumann, the wife of Robert Schumann—Brahms's great mentor and friend, but also their rival in the struggle for Clara's love—this music was like "a gray pearl, surrounded by a tear of melancholy." Schumann's profound, only violin concerto dates from this difficult, final period in his life. It's rarely heard, and few have it in their repertoire. Our soloist does: Baiba Skride, Latvian star violinist, who has toured the world with the elite conductors and orchestras for years and first appeared with us in 2004.

Schumann And Brahms

An event of the Peter Vischer School in cooperation with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.

Vischer's Symphony No. 116 Very British

Philharmonic Choir Nuremberg

We look forward to welcoming you to this unforgettable evening and celebrating the power of music with you! Because this concert is more than just a musical experience: it is a musical dialogue between past and present, between pain and hope, between memory and new beginnings. It demonstrates how art can provide light even in the darkest times and build bridges between different cultures. Experience the music of Jewish composers who have given the world unforgettable melodies and magnificent masterpieces: Mendelssohn and Mahler, Korngold and Bernstein, John Williams and Leonard Cohen.

THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS Serious and light music by Jewish composers

An event of the Peter-Vischer-Schule in cooperation with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.
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Vischer's Symphony No. 115 Think Big!

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