Name: Sunday Matinee
Start: 2026-03-01T11:00:00
Location: Konservatoriets Koncertsa ODEON

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

As the cultural calendar flips to 2026, Odense Symphony Orchestra presents a series of captivating musical events that promise to engage audiences with their eclectic mix of classical compositions and operatic mastery. From the evocative strains of Ravel's Piano Concerto to the perennial allure of Mozart's Don Juan, the upcoming performances invite concertgoers to experience the rich tapestry of musical history and contemporary delights in venues across Denmark.

Harmonizing the Arts: Exploring Odense Symphony's Diverse Musical Events

Stinus Christensen

Kateřina Jelínková

Ragnhildur Josefsdóttir

Andreas Hjorth Jessen

Jacob Lidåkra

Odense Symphony Orchestra

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

Odense Concert Hall

“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.

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

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.

Mozarts Requiem

London in 1748, it attracted 12,000 people, and a veritable traffic chaos arose around London Bridge. We expect more civilized conditions around the churches of Funen when the Odense Symphony Orchestra, together with the ultra-concise Magnus Fryklund, tackles Handel's masterpiece in our traditional baroque church concert, which also offers a concert version of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas - an epic story of love and betrayal. We guarantee goosebumps and existential angst in the most beautiful packaging to complement the baroque fireworks.

Music For The Royal Fireworks

Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Faaborg Kirke/ Faaborg Church

Saint Hans Church Odense

The good melodies are in line when the always well-intentioned Simon Gaudenz, who has a special flair for programming, together with the Odense Symphony Orchestra offers a selection of Schubert's best songs together with the Norwegian lyric tenor Petter Moen, who is visiting Odense again. We let the orchestra's many timbres magnify the beautiful songs, which were originally written with piano accompaniment, before we are enchanted after the break by Felix Mendelssohn's last composed and probably most popular symphony, The Scottish Symphony .

Schubert & Mendelssohn

Sunday Matinee

Conservatory Concert Hall

Together with all of Denmark's Sigurd Barrett and a huge children's choir, we dive deep into the soil of Funen and offer a fantastic musical story about our fine Funen - with original songs by Sigurd, inspired by the stories of Funen schoolchildren. Look forward to a re-hearing of all of Sigurd's songs, which he composed for the 10 Funen municipalities in connection with our 75th anniversary in 2021. Here are stories about the many exciting people from Funen, about special regional dishes, traditions, and the great mystery of where the Brunswicker actually comes from.

Sigurd And The History Of Funk

No one above and no one next to Tchaikovsky when the menu is ballet music. It is actually difficult to comprehend exactly how many absolute world hits the self-critical Russian managed to write in the ultimate romantic genre, and when you put them next to each other, as our chief conductor, Pierre Bleuse, has done for this concert, yes, then we are talking about a hit parade of unheard of dimensions - but at the same time with depth, humor and bite; there is a reason why Tchaikovsky is considered the world's undisputed best ballet composer. He embraces all the great emotions, and his sublime melodies are combined with a surprisingly refined use of rhythmic intricacies, which means that the orchestra always has to get to the front of their seats when Tchaikovsky is on the bill.

Swan Lake & Sleeping Rose

The viola figures prominently in tonight's Pro Musica concert. Dvořák's 3rd String Quintet has added an extra viola to the standard string quartet and dates from Dvořák's time in America in the early 1890s, where he went all out to find the American 'primordial music', just as he had done with his own Czech folk music idiom. We can therefore look forward to both tribal rhythms, folk tunes and Dvořák's take on what could be a new, American national anthem.

Dvořák's String Quintet & Viola Power

Films should be seen in the cinema – but their unforgettable music MUST be experienced live in the concert hall. And this time it will be in Odense Concert Hall, where the entire hall will be enveloped in symphonic surround sound that goes directly into your body.

Sunday Matinee

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