Join the Orchestre de Paris for an extraordinary series of events in 2025, featuring grand orchestral performances, film scores, and family-friendly concerts. With acclaimed conductors and performers like Klaus Mäkelä, Yunchan Lim, and Yuja Wang, experience riveting works by celebrated composers such as Saint-Saëns, Gershwin, and Prokofiev at the Philharmonie de Paris. Delight in the fine music, innovative storytelling, and engaging masterclasses that promise to captivate audiences of all ages.

A Symphony of Events: Orchestre de Paris in 2025

From orchestral masterpieces to enchanting family concerts, the Philharmonie de Paris is set to host a captivating lineup of events organized by the Orchestre de Paris. Spanning multiple dates, these events feature renowned conductors like Klaus Mäkelä, Elim Chan, and Daniel Harding, alongside mesmerizing performances by musicians such as Yuja Wang and Vincent Lucas. With compositions ranging from Gershwin's 'An American in Paris' to Prokofiev's 'Piano Concerto No. 2,' attendees can look forward to an unforgettable artistic journey.

A Symphony of Cultural Highlights at Philharmonie de Paris

February 2026 marks a remarkable month for music aficionados, as the Orchestre de Paris presents a captivating array of concerts and workshops. From the grandeur of Tchaikovsky and Strauss to the intimate charm of chamber music by Bach and Ravel, these events are set to engage audiences at the Philharmonie de Paris and beyond. With performances by distinguished artists like Kirill Gerstein, Paavo Järvi, and Oksana Lyniv, alongside masterclasses for budding musicians, this month's lineup is an unmissable celebration of orchestral and chamber music excellence.

Cultural Symphony: Orchestre de Paris Celebrates Music Through February 2026

Step into a world of musical brilliance with the Orchestre de Paris as it embarks on a series of captivating performances. From the orchestral beauty of Rachmaninoff conducted by Klaus Mäkelä, to chamber music masterpieces like Schumann's Quintet and Schubert's Trout, this season promises an unforgettable exploration of sound. With renowned performers like Yunchan Lim and Esa-Pekka Salonen leading the charge, each event is set against the backdrop of iconic Parisian venues, merging the historical with the contemporary. Join us as we delve into the highlights of this vibrant musical journey.

An Enriching Journey with the Orchestre de Paris: From Rachmaninoff to Schubert

The blend of sacred and profane, spirituality and passion, characterizes the aesthetics of the Baroque New World. Just follow the choral momentum and throw yourself wholeheartedly into the blaze!

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Baroque fire

Cité de la Musique

Just after conducting him in Rachmaninoff, Klaus Mäkelä reunites with Yunchan Lim to plunge, accompanied by soloists from the Orchestre de Paris, into the feverish adventure of Schumann's Quintet.

Schumann

It certainly takes the quick-silver fingers of Yunchan Lim to embark on the adventure of Rachmaninov's Concerto No.2, accompanied this evening by the splendid Symphony No.2 and a fascinating transcription.

Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä

Philharmonie de Paris

Organized as part of the Ukrainian Festival 2026, this exceptional concert combines the lyricism of Sibelius with the grandeur of Dvořák, and includes a world premiere!

Orchestre de Paris / Oksana Lyniv

It's a privilege to hear Paavo Järvi premiere in France the score he himself created for one of his compatriots, before moving on to the most poignant of Bartók's cello works and one of his most popular pages.

Orchestre de Paris / Paavo Järvi

Sky !

Children's Violin Workshop - Heaven!

As immaterial as the air and sky, and just as necessary, music has always had an affinity with the night, the stars and the clouds. A celestial and poetic concert for all the family! 

From piccolo to contrabassoon, the musicians of the Orchestre de Paris offer us an alchemy of registers and timbres in this ‘curious quintet’ which, exploring Bach, Bizet and Ravel, is really a curious quintet!

Curious Quintet

With Tchaikovsky's galvanizing Concerto No.1, one of the most pampered in the repertoire, and Strauss's pictorial Alpine Symphony, this program takes us to the peaks!

Orchestre de Paris / Semyon Bychkov

A late monument by Beethoven, the imposing Missa solemnis is undoubtedly the score that cost the “great deaf man” the most effort: stubborn and passionate work, for a work that, beyond its liturgical significance, is a universal hymn of peace.

Ludwig van Beethoven / Missa solemnis

From Schubertian gloom to Webern's pointillism, via the splendor of Mozartian song, this concert offers a program of contrasts. One common denominator, however, and not the least: a passion for instrumental timbres!

rchestre de Paris / Lorenza Borrani

The Schools of Vienna

Gautier Capuçon

With Joan Tower's new Fanfare as a glorious portico, this program takes us from the tortured shadows of the latest Shostakovich, revealed by Gautier Capuçon's bow, to the irresistible accents of “American” Dvořák.

Orchestre de Paris / Andrés Orozco-Estrada

An exceptional vocal program, featuring arias and choruses from the finest gems of French opera: to be savored in Paris, while we wait for Shanghai!

Orchestre de Paris / Xu Zhong

This French program, including Saint-Saëns' warm Concerto No.1 under the bow of Sheku Kanneth-Mason, offers French listeners the opportunity of a lifetime: to hear a previously unpublished work by Ravel for the first time!

Orchestre de Paris / Alain Altinoglu

All you have to do is close your eyes and listen to the Christmas carols to rediscover your childhood spirit intact. A delicate, magical flight, with Dickens' Scrooge as a cantankerous but ultimately generous guide!

Christmas Flight

From the eventful French premiere of Body Cosmic to the relaxed classicism of César Franck, this concert opens up the palette of styles, with the diabolical Brahms' Concerto as pièce de résistance, magnified by Janine Jansen's infallible bow.

How can we fail to be moved by the privilege of hearing, in one of the most beautiful concertos in the repertoire, a great Mozartian like Mitsuko Uchida? Bizet's first symphonic steps and a new work by Anders Hillborg accompany this moment of grace.

Two figures stand side by side on this poster: the sovereign figure of Bach, with the galvanizing energy of the Brandenburg Concertos, and the kaleidoscopic figure of Schubert, whose precious material is seized upon by Berio's imagination. 

Orchestre de Paris / Masato Suzuki

The musicians of the Orchestre de Paris put their talent at the service of an ad hoc quartet, which takes on the most seductive ‘miniatures’ by Bartók and Prokofiev. 

Miniatures

At once rooted in the purest liturgical tradition and a laboratory for avant-garde music intent on seduction, Ligeti's Requiem is a landmark work of the 20th century, succeeded by the mystical medievalism of the Fourth Symphony that Bruckner himself called “Romantic”.

Orchestre de Paris / Esa-Pekka Salonen

Between the most mysteriously sensual pages of Wagner and Scriabin, Yuja Wang takes to the keyboard to perform Prokofiev's awesome Concerto No.2 with his usual brio.

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Children's Violin Workshop - Pierre, the Wolf and the Bird

An original text brings this concert to life, where the confidences of a bird prelude the eternal enchantment of Peter and the Wolf. It's a cross-border journey for all the family! 

Peter, the Wolf and the Bird

By turns mysterious, terrifying, soothing and warm, Dracula's score is one of Wojcieck Kilar's finest achievements. Audiences are warned: it's the music, even more than the vampire, that will capture their souls!

Dracula / Francis Ford Coppola

Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Barenboim

This concert unfolds the enchantment and variety of true "musical landscapes”: prismatic morning sunshine with Mussorgsky, immense desolate lands with Sibelius, powerful, allegorical nature with Wagner.

Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Harding

aris Orchestra / Elim Chan

Two young superstars lead the way when the Orchestre de Paris makes a return to Celebrity Series for the first time since 1993/94 with three important pieces that all premiered in the City of Light.  

Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä, conductor

Symphony Hall

This program of Stravinsky ballets features the Carnegie Hall debut of a rising-star conductor: Klaus Mäkelä, recently named the next music director of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. The Firebird is a colorful showpiece that catapulted Stravinsky to international fame, and Mäkelä’s reading of it has been praised as “organic … each scene flowing seamlessly into the next” (Chicago Classical Review). The Rite of Spring is a revolutionary work, a true milestone that continues to seize and thrill audiences more than a century after its famously riotous Parisian debut.

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Carnegie Hall

At 27, the young Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä already has an impressive resume: chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic, music director of the Orchestre de Paris, and artistic partner of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, a role that will turn into chief conductor when his other music directorships expire in 2027.

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The Flying Hat

John of the Moon

Having displayed all his conducting finesse in Debussy's luminous hedonism, Esa-Pekka Salonen transforms himself into a composer for an exceptional premiere, before celebrating Finland's eternal bard in Sibelius.

Arvo Pärt / Passion

Framed by the near-pictural precision of Strauss and the exhilarating breath of Sibelius, Bartók's diabolical Concerto No.2 crackles under the bow of Renaud Capuçon!

Orchestre de Paris / Esa-Pekka Salone

From a touching, bucolic melody, of which Francis Blanche proposed a charming parody, Schubert produced a large-scale score that has become a cornerstone of the chamber repertoire.

The Trout

Irresistible for its popular accents and powerful lyricism, Grieg's virtuoso Concerto is a prelude to the literary journey, strewn with references and ironies, that Mahler's restless soul composes.

Orchestre de Paris / Bar Avni

A delightful musical tale and a masterful symphonic page that defies all superlatives: two contrasting works with one thing in common: a true declaration of love for the orchestra!

The last of Joan Tower's Fanfares, which have marked the entire season of the Orchestre de Paris, resounds as a prelude to Dvořák's virtuoso Concerto, before Tchaikovsky, with his Symphony No.5, entrusts the orchestra with the secret book of an idealistic, anguished soul.

Orchestre de Paris / Han-na Chang

Elmer's Story

Between the fatum that attaches itself to Shakespeare's tragic lovers and the Taste of Metal, presented for the first time to French listeners, Schumann's Concerto slips its worried murmur into both light and shadow.

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Mar 29, 2026

The Flying Hat

Mar 29, 2026

John of the Moon

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Apr 6, 2026

Arvo Pärt / Passion

8 - 9 Apr, 2026

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Baroque fire

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Schumann

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