Name: Teddy Bear Concert – Winter
Start: 2026-02-07T13:00:00
Location: Odense Concert Hall

The Odense Symphony Orchestra is set to captivate audiences with a diverse lineup of performances in early 2026. From the virtuosic strains of Bruckner's Symphony to the whimsical Teddy Bear Concert, there's something for everyone. Featuring renowned conductors like Junping Qian and Pierre Bleuse, and talented performers such as Denis Kozhukhin and Eugen Tichindeleanu, these events promise to blend classical elegance with innovative programming. Dive into a world where faith, hope, and love intertwine with timeless musical masterpieces, offering solace and inspiration in challenging times.

Odense Symphony Orchestra: A Journey Through Faith, Hope, and Musical Mastery

Odense Symphony Orchestra

In a time marked by crises, conflicts, wars, conspiracies, capitalism, artificial intelligence and climate change, it can feel as if the world is breaking up. We live with a constricting sense of powerlessness and uncertainty – but at the same time new communities are emerging, a cultural awareness, strong values ​​and a longing for something that reaches beyond ourselves. Faith, hope and love – the classic virtues – stand perhaps stronger than ever as landmarks in a troubled time.

Faith, Hope And Love

Odense Concert Hall

From the very first second ofBruckner's 4th Symphonyhe conjures us out of our earthly shell and into a world of mystery, of euphony, of overwhelming currents and enormous constructions. Bruckner's music is 'larger than life', but his 4th symphony is the most welcoming of all his great symphonies and a good place to start if you still have your first Bruckner experience to enjoy. He takes us from outer space to the very deepest place in the heart of the ball when he builds his enormous musical sequences, which switch surprisingly effortlessly from great drama to subtle intimacy. Organ virtuoso that he was, he uses the orchestra as a gigantic luxury organ, which in a split second can switch from the finest little Austrian folk melody to terrifying cascades of sound - produced with an orchestra that is not much larger than in Beethoven's time, but which uses the entire register in new and surprising ways.

Bruckner's 4th Symphony

Take your favorite stuffed animal or teddy bear in hand and come with us to the Teddy Bear Concert.

Teddy Bear Concert – Winter

Pierre Bleuse opens his final season in charge ofOdense Symphony Orchestrawith a purely French program of the finest quality. We cannot reveal everything, but it will be the fine French works that he will bring out – and we know for sure that Ravel's unique piano concerto in G major is on the program.

Bleuse & Ravel

In the midst of a world full of notifications, grade racing and the hunt for the perfect study-relevant job, our youth panel invites you to take a break. With classical music as a guide, we let the calm flow in.

A Meditative Symphony

Sunday Matinee

Konservatoriets Koncertsa ODEON

Schumann and Brahms had an enormous impact on each other's lives and work, and here they appear together in two sumptuous works that exude love for what brought them together: music as music, without explanations.

Bleuse, Brahms & Schumann

A concert that spans five centuries! From the Baroque, we go back to Henry Purcell's musical reinterpretation of fellow countryman Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from 1692. It is a title we usually associate with Felix Mendelssohn, but in the hands of Purcell, the play has become a so-called "semi-opera" under the title The Fairy Queen. From it, we will hear a number of the beautiful and elegant instrumental pieces that both introduced and were part of the performance. From here, we jump all the way to the 21st century, where Anders Koppel gave us the terzetto for viola, clarinet and piano in 2019. He did so after inspiration from none other than WA Mozart's "Keglebane Trio" - but the music is now completely Koppel's own. Here there is both the flirtation with serial music, blues tonality and a finale of ingeniously intertwined dances.

Purcell, Koppel & Brahms

“To be faithful to only one woman is the same as being unfaithful to all the others!” So ​​sings Don Juan. It is, all things considered, a statement that can be munched on, and has been since 1787, when Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte's opera premiered.

Don Juan

Odense Symphony Orchestra commemorates two giants in the Nordic classical music scene when, on the same evening, we play Per Nørgård's mysterious masterpiece with one of the most beautiful titles in music history, as well as Kaija Saariaho's sonorous transformation sphere of musical reflections in a purely Nordic concert that also features Sibelius's last symphony. A work that, in one long movement, transforms the symphony as a genre – into an organic, ever-changing sound universe. In other words, a journey is set to take place both into ourselves and into the most wondrous corners of music, when three of the Nordic greatest composers stand side by side in tonight's program.

NØRGÅRD & SIBELIUS' 7th.

Teddy Bear Concert – Spring

The mysteries and conspiracies are in full swing when it comes to Mozart's last great work, the impressive Requiem, which he left this world without completing – at the age of just 35. According to tradition, the night before he died, he sang the alto part of all the written fragments for his friends in a last desperate attempt to get the music from his physical body onto paper before it was too late. He didn't manage to do so, and the work had to be completed by former students. But even though much of the music in this work was not completed by the master himself, it is iconic music of the finest caliber, conceived, as it is, by the world's most fearsome musical mind. Mozart's Requiem has been a sure hit on concert posters around the world for centuries, and the beauty, the horror, the sorrow and the hope – everything that makes us human – also emanate from the pages of the magnificent score. Odense Symphony Orchestra collaborates regularly with high schools on Funen, and the many hundreds of young voices and the experienced singers from the Funen Philharmonic Choir lift the mood in tonight's concert, confidently led by choral conductor Stephen Moore from the Royal Danish Opera Choir.

Teddy Bear Concert – Winter

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