To mark the 125th anniversary of Ernst Krenek's birth, the MUK Symphony Orchestra presents his concert aria "Monologue of Stella" (1928) – this time in its rarely heard orchestral version. The impressive fusion of lyrical expression and modern sound creates a subtle bridge to Viennese Classicism. The latter takes center stage with Mozart's elegiac Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K. 364, and Beethoven's witty and pointed Symphony No. 8, Op. 93.

Tratto

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Soon the Christmas candles will be shining again, awakening joy in every heart. Advent is just around the corner!

Advent Concertof The Vienna Brass Band Association

The International Competition for Young Composers (ICYC) is initiated and organized jointly by the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing (CCOM), Universal Edition Vienna (UE), and the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The competition takes place every two years, alternating between chamber music and orchestral composition. With the aim of providing a platform for young composers from around the world to showcase their talent, the competition seeks to strengthen academic and cultural exchange and foster community building.

Final Concert Of The International Competition For Young Composers

With Cobra, John Zorn, arguably the most famous representative of the revolutionary American downtown scene of the 80s and 90s, created a true classic of the late 20th century. This "game piece" for improvising musicians and a prompter doesn't use traditional notation, but rather a system of cards and rules. The title is inspired by a strategy game. Groups around the world continue to gather to explore new interpretations of the composition.

Cobra Ff

The Jewish Community of Vienna invites you to one of the musical highlights of the year at the MuTh in Vienna on November 27: the traditional Cantors' Concert. Chief Cantor Shmuel Barzilai, together with guest Cantor Netanel Baram from Beverly Hills, California, and accompanied by conductor Mark Kligman (California) and the Monarchia Chamber Orchestra, will present the high art of Jewish liturgical singing – the Chazanut.

Cantor Concertwith Head Cantor Shmuel Barzilai

“Music may not change the world, but it can inspire people to change it,” said the legendary Austrian jazz musician Joe Zawinul. Flip Philipp, a master of the vibraphone, was fortunate enough to meet him in early 2004 and collaborate with him for three days on a joint project at Vienna City Hall. This experience left a lasting impression on Flip Philipp. It also provided the inspiration for a new approach to the musical creation process and its interpretation. In his tribute, Flip Philipp and his quintet recall this time and draw inspiration from the early Joe Zawinul.

The Early Music Of Joe Zawinul

An afternoon filled with sonic magic. When five brass players unleash their musical magic, a truly special experience unfolds. Magic Brass Vienna captivates with virtuosity, charm, and a touch of enchantment. From classical masterpieces and jazzy grooves to surprising pop arrangements, their repertoire is diverse and entertaining. With wit, spirit, and a keen sense for the audience, every performance becomes a magical moment. Experience brass artistry with that certain something.

The Magic Brass Show

What connects all three compositions? The rebellious spirit, the premonition of new times, their courage!

Pioneer Piano Quintet

The world of music is waiting to be explored! So we invite our youngest discoverers to crawl, babble, laugh, listen, sing, play, and dance! Together with music educator Birgit Reithofer, we'll explore music with all our senses right on stage. Let yourselves be swept away and experience the sounds of violin, piano, guitar, or double bass up close. We look forward to making music and discovering together!

Concerts For The Very Youngest

Classical ballet and modern technique unite to create a unique artistic masterpiece, where exquisite dancers literally light up the stage with dazzling performances and costumes that sparkle in the dark. The timeless fairytale of the cursed princess awakened by the kiss of her true love is brought to life in breathtaking visual splendor, as perfect pirouettes and gravity-defying leaps cast a kaleidoscope of colors across the stage. A magically beautiful production that transcends tradition and takes you on a journey beyond imagination.

Ballet Of Lights

Augarten

Shepherds play a vital role in the Christmas story: It is precisely the "common people" who are the first to hear of Jesus' birth. The shepherds represent us all; everyone can and should identify with them. The Good Shepherd concerts are a tradition at the MuTh: In the Vienna Boys' Choir's Christmas concert, the various campus choirs present themselves with evocative motets and songs, both a cappella and with orchestra.

Good Shepherds

A festive pre-Christmas afternoon: The pupils of the Vienna Boys' Choir's primary school, together with their teachers, invite you to the opening of the 24 windows of their musical Advent calendar, brimming with stories, songs, and performances. "Leave the pre-Christmas hustle and bustle at the door and immerse yourself in the glittering, fragrant, shimmering, contemplative, and dreamy world of pre-Christmas wishes! Let yourself be enchanted by what enchants us children!"

Windows 24.12

Parents who don't want to miss out on attending a classical concert, listen up! The "With Baby to the Concert" series allows parents with babies to enjoy music at the highest level – in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

TAKING BABY TO CONCERT | Divinerinnen

Dive into "divine Viennese music"! Seven female musicians, as the magazine "Bockkeller" reported shortly after the ensemble's founding, played Schrammel music, and "they did it really well. That's what the audience thought, applauding loudly, and that's what the gray eminences of Viennese music, seated in the front row, thought: above all, Roland J. Neuwirth and Ernst Weber. Anyone who receives praise from these gentlemen is doing something right. Anyone who gets a standing ovation from them is doing something very right." Little more needs to be said. Dive in!

DIVIRONERS | Traditional Viennese Music

The renowned actor Lukas Watzl will recite poetry and stories for the Christmas season. The evening will be musically accompanied by the Bulgarian quartet Slawey, who will impress with works from the Orthodox tradition and Bulgarian folklore. Orthodox chants such as "Otche Nash" and Tchaikovsky's "Sviati Boje" will be interwoven with emotional folk songs about love, beauty, and longing. Traditional sounds and powerful voices will transport the audience to an atmospheric, festive world – with a surprise in store!

Cultural Lunch

Feet play a part – not just in film clips of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Even legends need teachers; the tap-dancing icon took her first steps with John Bubbles, while Bill Bojangles Robinson was stylistically influential.

Rag Und Stepp

The Vienna University of Technology Orchestra, conducted by Črt Lasbaher, presents this benefit concert in support of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Aid Vienna, Lower Austria, and Lower Burgenland. The concert is under the patronage of Burgtheater actor Michael Maertens, whose sister Miriam Maertens suffers from cystic fibrosis (CF).

BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE CYSTIC FIBROSIS AID VIENNA, LOWER AUSTRIA and NORTH BURGENLAND

Ballet of Lights

The Candlelight Concerts are a series of music concerts launched by Fever, which aims to democratize access to culture by giving people around the world the opportunity to enjoy live music by candlelight, performed by local musicians in various stunning locations illuminated by thousands of candles.

Candllight Concert

The South Coast Youth Symphony Orchestra enjoys an excellent reputation in California and attracts numerous young musicians from the state.

South Coast Youth Symphony Orchestra

Masterful late works by Mozart and Schubert presented by the Camerata Medica Vienna. For the second year in a row, a surgeon will be featured as soloist – this time Michael Peschka on clarinet. A new concert series in which medical professionals perform for medical professionals – and for everyone who loves great music.

Sounds As A Healing Art | Camerata Medica Vienna

Bach's works are of such grandeur and fascination that the choice of instruments on which they are played quickly becomes irrelevant. This is especially true given that Bach himself wrote many pieces for a variety of instruments. The Finnish accordion virtuoso Janne Rättyä was therefore inspired to create unusual Bach arrangements. He also tackled the wonderful piano Petitesses of Henri Dutilleux, as well as Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances, which perfectly complement the Hungarian-inspired finale in Brahms's masterful String Quintet.

Bach Re-experienced

“Here is magic. Into the realm of enchantment / the common word seems elevated… / and yet is truly like the call of the deaf, / calling for the invisible dove.” Thus ends Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “Magic.” Rilke, a poet still deeply revered today, understood like few others how to capture feelings in words. The twin brothers Alexander and Konstantin Wladigeroff delve into his poetic universe and dedicate a musical homage to him with piano, clarinet, trumpet, flugelhorn, and vocals, in their own compositions and arrangements. Gerti Drassl, known from film and television, enchants the audience with a reading of selected poems.

MAGIE

In 2026, the United States of America will be 250 years old.Vienna Boys' ChoirVienna Boys' ChoirVienna Boys' ChoirThe Vienna Boys' Choir will congratulate the world with a program of American and Austrian music, including Beethoven's Ode to Joy in the "Joyful" version, Michael Jackson's "We Are the World," Johann Strauss's waltz "One Thousand and One Nights," and the Archduke Johann Yodel.

The Concert In The New Year

Everyday gestures, everyday sounds – condensed into a composition! Six hands make music, the instrument is a table: this is how Terry de Wey's "Musique du Table" comes to be. On the table, a bottle and a glass now play: with these props, the vocally and theatrically experienced harpist Veronica Klavzar and the percussionist Hannes Schöggl perform "Retrouvailles" by George Aperghis. "Intersections," by Hannes Schöggl and Veronica Klavzar, combines contemporary music and movement in an interdisciplinary concert performance with three performers. Not only the instrument, but also the body now participates – resonating. An experimental music and movement composition that not only shatters traditional notions of harp playing, but also opens up new perspectives on the question of what dance and what music are, what separates the two, and how much they have in common. Everyday human emotions such as tenderness, loneliness, dependence, fascination, enthusiasm, jealousy, envy, community, unity, and equality emerge in the individual scenes of the work. Hannes Schöggl has composed Christian Morgenstern's "Fish's Night Song" for three mouths: exquisite mouth percussion as an interactive animation – the audience is encouraged to click, smack, make lip and kissing sounds, and perform tongue gymnastics!

Table Music And Body Sound

TheNew Vienna Court ChapelIt was founded by Reinmar Wolf to present the music of the Strauss dynasty as it was customary in the 19th century – in varying ensembles: sometimes for dancing, sometimes as stylish background music for social gatherings. The program is a "Best of New Year's Concert" – not in elaborate arrangements, but faithfully reproduced in small chamber music ensembles, with and without vocals. It feels like stepping back into imperial times – it was wonderful, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

This evening, the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich, under the direction of Daniel Grossmann, blends Klezmer, Wagner, and contemporary sounds. Joining them are the charismatic actor Stefan Merki and the captivating singer Ethel Merhaut. 
A poor Jewish musician, barely scraping by with wedding performances, fulfills a dream: with his hard-earned savings, he treats himself to a visit to the Imperial Court Theatre in Vienna. By chance, he hears – without any prior knowledge – Wagner's Lohengrin. The opera transforms his life: back in his shtetl, he insists on playing only Wagner's melodies at Jewish celebrations, no longer the traditional tunes – which naturally leads to conflict.

Mendele Lohengrin

Ursula Strauss's great acting skill lies in the sensitive intelligence with which she embodies her characters. Her expressive performances reveal a profound understanding of human contradictions, passions, and anxieties. She imbues all her characters with authenticity, dignity, and humor. It is with the diverse fates of women that the actress has first conquered the stage, then the silver screen, and since 2010, television audiences. For her portrayal of the life-loving wife in the Oscar-nominated film "Revanche," she received the Diagonale Special Prize; her chaotic, intuitive detective Angelika Schnell won a Romy Award; and for her portrayal of the courageous farmer in "Maybe in Another Life," she received the Austrian Film Award.

Letter From An Unknown Person

This is how they are known and loved all over the world: 24 boys in sailor suits and their conductor demonstrate that music is the international language of emotions.

Friday Afternoon

Soul, pop, classical – pianist Maria Radutu loves pushing boundaries. The song "Noches de insomnio" by singer and violinist Phoebe Violet sparked this collaborative program. Joining her is LYLIT, the singer and composer with the powerful soul voice, who engages in a dialogue on two pianos with Maria Radutu, while also singing herself. This creates an intense interplay of emotions, profound, through light and shadow, which they share with the audience. The songs of LYLIT and Phoebe Violet merge seamlessly with the classical pieces selected by Maria Radutu to form a captivating overall experience.

Maria Radutu & Lylit feat. Phoebe Violet

Together with the Viennese drummer and composer Fritz Rainer, the actor Philipp Hochmair presents an evening of Friedrich Schiller's ballads and poems imbued with the spirit of revolution. These works reflect Schiller's enthusiastic confidence in the individual's capacity to shape the course of history. In an experimental setting, the ballads encounter Fritz Rainer's soundscape, confronting Schiller's breathless Sturm und Drang with contemporary acoustic experiences.

Schiller Ballads

Music from the 60s by Elvis, the Beatles, Louis Prima, Dean Martin, and Paul Anka – reimagined! Their own translations, faithful to the originals, bring the songs to life and make their meanings relatable. "It's Now or Never" becomes "Jetzt oder nie" (Now or Never), Louis Prima's "Gigolo" transforms into "A wüda Bua" (A Wild Boy), instead of "Jackson," we travel to "Sankt Pölten" (St. Pölten) with Johnny Cash, and "La vie en rose" celebrates the good life. These eccentric characters from the Oktoberfest also bring Viennese music: from Bronner's "Gschupftem Ferdl" (Snappy Ferdl) and Hodina's "Kirschen" (Cherries) to Danzer and Heller's "Zigeina" (Gypsy) – charming, quirky, and with a twinkle in their eyes.

The pianist Beatrice Berrut, together with her collaborators Benjamin Herzl, Benedict Mitterbauer, and Matthias Bartolomey, traces the footsteps of Johannes Brahms and his lifelong friend Clara Schumann. "This is yet another who seems to have been sent by God himself!" she noted in her diary when she and her husband Robert first met the young Brahms. The following year, he wrote his first piano trio, which he significantly revised in 1889. His Piano Quartet in G minor, premiered in 1861 with Clara Schumann at the piano, was an immediate success.

Brahms Pur

At the time this concert was being planned, the deranged American president was turning the USA upside down. As an observer, one is torn, since he was given this opportunity through a democratic process. On the other hand, one feels great empathy for all those who now have to worry about their livelihoods.

The Good Ones

The fairy queen Titania, spirits of the night, a singing poet, the peasant couple Mopsa and Corydon, journeymen craftsmen, and many more characters find themselves in the woods on a balmy summer night – chaos is inevitable. But what role does the cunning goblin Puck play in all this?

The Fairy Queen

Ode to Nature(Concept: Timotej Kosovinc) is more than a concert – it's a sensory journey and a deeply moving experience. At its heart is nature, our greatest source of inspiration. Yet modern life increasingly alienates us from it, especially in cities where genuine contact has become rare. But when nature becomes tangible again, we realize: it is our origin, full of beauty, power, and diversity. This concert celebrates nature with music and visuals – impressive, moving, and unforgettable.

“I am a Frenchman from the East, a humanist, a rationalist with religion, a Catholic with a Jewish brain, a true revolutionary.” This is how Joseph Roth, the celebrated writer born in 1894 in Eastern Galicia, now Ukraine, characterized himself. Erwin Steinhauer and the Ukrainian accordionist Andrej Serkov conjure up Roth’s literary worlds together. First, with “The Model Pupil,” about an ambitious man who seems to succeed at everything, while laughter and love remain out of his reach. Then with the novella “The Emperor’s Bust,” in which Roth sends Count Morstin into exile through the crumbling monarchy, a situation into which he himself was forced in 1933.

The Showpient & The Empire's Bust

MUK/tanzt/juniors presents the students of the new Pre-College Dance program and the preparatory dance course at the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna with a diverse program. The choreographies are rehearsed in the classes of Classical Dance and Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, House Dance, Historical Dance, Character Dance, Acrobatics, and Rhythmics, and offer insight into the artistic diversity of the preparatory dance classes at MUK.

MUK/dances/juniors

This year's graduates of the Contemporary and Classical Dance program will present an evening of current, contemporary choreographies at the end of their dance studies at MUK.

Articulation

Only the original instrumentation – and not one of many arrangements. That was the strict requirement of the three musical adventurers, Daniel Ottensamer, Stephan Koncz, and Christoph Traxler. The result is a complete anthology for clarinet trio, from which three pieces were chosen for an exciting journey. It begins with the healing power of bel canto sounds. For after a breakdown in Italy, Vincenzo Bellini enthusiast Mikhail Glinka essentially healed himself with the composition of his Trio pathétique. John Ireland then takes us to Britain's coast, complete with a sea shanty, before we reach the summit with the trio titan Beethoven.

Theclarinet Trio Anthology

TheMartin ListabarthTrio presents inMuThhis new album “In Her FootstepsThe program was inspired by the Viennese world traveler Ida Pfeiffer, who circumnavigated the globe twice solo in the 19th century. Her captivating travelogues form the starting point for a musical exploration brimming with curiosity and a thirst for adventure. The music blends narrative jazz with influences from classical and pop. In sensitive, powerful, and sometimes even tongue-in-cheek compositions, Listabarth tells of early dreams, forbidden love, caravans through the desert, encounters with foreign cultures, and an unquenchable inner drive to discover the world. It's about more than just historical anecdotes: Ida Pfeiffer's life touches on universal themes such as departure, curiosity, disappointment, courage, and overcoming boundaries. Martin Listabarth transforms Ida Pfeiffer's life into a soundtrack for the here and now.

Martin Listabarthtrio

Childhood is a special topic in Japan: how children celebrate and play, what rights and, even more importantly, responsibilities they have, how their daily routine is structured, what rules apply at school, how instruments are taught, what rituals are observed in music lessons, and how music is notated – we explore all of this between the musical pieces. Japanese music cherishes the marimba: Keiko Abe composed "Reflections on Japanese Children's Songs II" for marimba duo. The marimba, as a modern instrument of the 20th century, blends beautifully in a duo with the bamboo flute, the shakuhachi. Marimba and shakuhachi perform a composition by their master, Hosan Yamamoto. Dieter Strehly spent a year in Japan studying the shakuhachi – a bamboo flute – while Gaby Zechmeister mastered the koto, a curved zither. The sound of the koto and shakuhachi together is enchanting, and we demonstrate how it is notated. In Japan, the koto is reverently called O-Koto, and the performance begins with a bow. The Austrian premiere of a duo by Japanese composer Dai Fujikura, "Kodama"—a hymn to tree spirits and ghosts—will be performed!

Tamagotchi And Animé

Operetta melodies by Johann Strauss, Emmerich Kálmán, and Franz Lehár are part of the New Favoriten Mandolin Orchestra's regular repertoire. This concert, steeped in tradition, celebrates the orchestra's 75th anniversary and is committed to offering a special program. This includes compositions dedicated to the orchestra over its long history, such as "Mein Favoriten" by Ernst Mifka. You can also look forward to vocal performances by our guests Katharina Jing An Gebauer and Alexander Mutafchiyski, a surprise, and the witty commentary by Victor Kautsch. Eduard Papazoff will conduct the concert.

The New Favorite Mandoline Orchestra Is 75

The sea creatures are preparing for the exciting talent show "Frutti di Mare." Colorful parrotfish, the funny pufferfish Elsi, and many other sea animals are rehearsing intensively. Who can dance and sing the best? Suddenly, "Flapo" appears. She has something important to say. Can her message help save the reef?

Things Are Wild In The Reef

A song full of depth, passion, and poetry: works by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, and Francesco Paolo Tosti span a range from heartfelt Romanticism to Mediterranean melancholy. The program is complemented by tangos from Astor Piazzolla and Pablo Ziegler – a glimpse into modern soundscapes. Between German song tradition and Argentinian longing, an evening of moving intensity unfolds, carried by voice, piano, and accordion – entirely in keeping with the great festival tradition.

Mica Levi moves effortlessly between worlds: from avant-garde band projects to experimental chamber music and her unique sound language created specifically for film. Her acclaimed soundtracks for Under the Skin, Jackie, and Zola have redefined the boundaries of cinematic storytelling—with sound as a protagonist in its own right.

LIGHT

The future prince of song gazed upon the chromaticism of Mozart's "Dissonance Quartet"—and in March 1813, at the age of 16, penned an early stroke of genius in just five days, carefree and bold in its harmony. The 22-year-old Antonín Dvořák composed 18 songs driven by heartbreak—and 22 years later arranged 12 of them for string quartet. Johannes Brahms, too, struggled for a long time before finally achieving his first string quartet, one that he considered truly valid. He had abandoned everything before it. With its selection, the Minetti Quartet offers a fascinating lesson in the quest for chamber music excellence.

Minetti Quartet

Television made him famous, but Stefan Jürgens has long since won over his enthusiastic audiences on the stage and as a singer-songwriter. Now, the Nestroy Prize winner celebrates poetry: in his first volume of poems, "Loveletters – Willful Love Effusions," and in his reading performance, "Call It Love."

Call It Love

Everything you wouldn't expect from a brass band: young musicians, a teenage composer, film scores from Harry Potter and the fantasy realm of Lord of the Rings.

Magic Film Music

Besides frequent visits to coffee shops, the trio SMS is passionately dedicated to pushing musical boundaries. Whether world music, classical, contemporary, or improvisation – anything goes as long as it sounds good and has quality. In the unusual lineup of saxophone, violin, and percussion, original arrangements and original compositions emerge in the "SMS Sound Lab" – an honest rehearsal space. Look forward to an energetic and varied program at the cultural lunchtime – guaranteed to be more stimulating than a double espresso!

In his melancholically beautiful piece "Youkali," Kurt Weill yearned for the unattainable land of our dreams. Yet Weill had long since fled the decadent Berlin of the "Golden Twenties" for Paris, the city of light that never slept, a meeting place for exiles and artists. The spirit of the era was captured by the North American F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel "The Great Gatsby," while in Buenos Aires, Carlos Gardell rose to international tango stardom. Pain and hedonism, longing and hope pass by whenSona MacDonald,Sophie HeinrichandMiloš Todorovskion their musical and literary journey, they evoke the "Roaring Twenties".

Listening To The Heart

Look forward to a lively afternoon full of swinging rhythms and unforgettable melodies!Trumpets in ConcertLeonhard Leeb and his band will transport you to the golden age of swing – with classics from the 1930s and 40s, as well as cleverly arranged pieces brimming with nostalgic charm. Virtuosic, passionate, and brimming with enthusiasm, the musicians conjure a captivating soundscape on stage. Whether with a gentle groove or a brilliant trumpet solo, this concert is bursting with energy and good cheer. A musical treat that's guaranteed to get you moving!

Immerse yourself in captivating reinterpretations of pop and rock songs, masterfully presented by the world-renowned girls' choir under the direction of the Kolacny brothers.

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5 - 9 Dec, 2025

Good Shepherds

11 - 12 Dec, 2025

Windows 24.12

Dec 15, 2025

TAKING BABY TO CONCERT | Divinerinnen

Dec 15, 2025

DIVIRONERS | Traditional Viennese Music

Dec 16, 2025

Cultural Lunch

Dec 4, 2025

Tratto

Dec 2, 2025

Advent Concertof The Vienna Brass Band Association

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