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

The Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra has unveiled a captivating series of events for 2025, blending classical music with innovative themes. From art exhibitions that meld music and visuals, to thrilling performances of beloved operas, and commemorative concerts marking historical milestones, each event promises a unique cultural experience. Esteemed artists from around the globe will come together to offer a rich tapestry of sound and emotion, inviting audiences to explore both the familiar and the avant-garde in the world of symphonic music.

A Symphony of Events: Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra’s 2025 Concert Series

Embark on a captivating journey with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra as they present a series of compelling concerts that blend history, culture, and music. From tribute performances to Nat King Cole's unforgettable tunes, to memorial concerts commemorating the end of World War II, these events celebrate artistic expression in the most profound ways. The orchestral symphonies bring to life works by classical and contemporary composers, offering audiences a chance to experience musical storytelling at its finest. Join us as we explore this season's offerings, each curated to inspire and evoke powerful emotions.

A Symphony of Cultures: Music and Memories with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra

Join the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra on a fascinating journey through history, culture, and emotion. From the evocative sounds of Tchaikovsky's "The Tempest" to the jazzy echoes of Nat King Cole, these events showcase a captivating array of musical talents and themes. Dive into this rich tapestry of performances, where each event tells a story, honors a memory, or celebrates a legacy, inviting audiences to experience the world of music in profound and unexpected ways.

Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra: A Journey Through Time, Memory, and Emotion

Imagine a summer infused with the harmonious blend of classical, jazz, pop, and cultural music, orchestrated by the renowned Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. This season, the orchestra hosts a series of captivating events that promise to enchant audiences. From the classics of Beethoven to the vibrant tunes of Nat King Cole, this musical journey transcends genres and eras. Experience an array of performances by stellar artists and immerse yourself in the rich cultural tapestries, offering something truly unforgettable.

A Symphony of Cultures: Nuremberg's Musical Extravaganza

The Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra is set to enchant audiences with a vibrant series of events through 2025. From Spanish symphonic tunes and emerging musical talents to Turkish cultural nights and classic waltzes, there's something for every music aficionado. This season promises a vivid tapestry of cultural and musical offerings, bringing together seasoned musicians, promising students, and diverse global influences under one harmonious roof. Prepare to embark on a musical journey across continents and genres in a celebration of sound, tradition, and innovation.

A Symphony of Culture: Nuremberg's 2025 Musical Highlights

As the summer of 2025 unfolds in Nuremberg, the city is set to host a series of enchanting musical experiences that promise to captivate audiences and create lasting memories. From the nostalgic echoes of the 1920s in 'Swinging Berlin' to the global allure of 'Magic Musical Moments,' and culminating in the grandeur of 'Klassik Open Air 2025,' these events showcase the talents of world-renowned performers and the illustrious Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. Join us as we explore the vibrant musical tapestry that awaits attendees at these iconic venues.

Nuremberg's Symphony Summer: Unveiling Timeless Musical Celebrations

Things are about to get loud and colorful! Clown Jeanloup arrives at the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra concert and not only annoys the conductor Stephan Hodel, alias Etienne, but also causes considerable disruption within the orchestra. Besides his "musical" performances on all sorts of imaginable objects, Jeanloup is particularly notable for his excessive hunger, which he tries to satisfy at every opportunity with food he has brought with him. Such behavior is obviously uncalled for – Etienne agrees – which is why he summarily throws him out of the concert hall. But a clown wouldn't be a clown if he didn't come back and, ultimately, even find pleasure in making music together.

The Orchestra Clown

Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds

This year, exquisite music from the late Baroque and early Classical periods will conjure up a cozy, festive Advent and Christmas atmosphere in the town hall hall—warm orchestral sounds from the German cosmopolitan Telemann, a Christmas symphony from France, a Christmas concert from Italy, flute concertos from the brilliant Bach son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and from the Venetian "Maestro assoluto" Vivaldi. The virtuoso flute tones come from the young Fabian Egger, a competition prize winner, scholarship holder at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and flautist at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra. The conductor is Torsten Johann, harpsichordist and co-founder of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.

Festive Advent Concerts In The Historic Town Hall

Old Town Hall Nuremberg

Just before the Christmas countdown begins, we cordially invite you to reminisce with us. We've selected some truly memorable cinema classics: From the magical atmosphere of Home Alone to the heartwarming sounds of Love Actually , the enchanting music of Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella , the charming magic of Little Lord Fauntleroy , and the majestic tones of Ben-Hur —that tinsel feeling is guaranteed! A fitting name and every other aspect, Evan-Alexis Christ, born in Los Angeles and internationally celebrated, will be conducting.

CHRISTMAS AT THE MOVIES Tinsel feeling guaranteed!

An absolute highlight of our anniversary season – this concert with music whose orchestral power and splendor of sound, along with its breathtakingly virtuosic violin performance, will give the audience a rollercoaster of emotions and make the Meistersingerhalle vibrate. The Violin Concerto by Benjamin Britten, the greatest British composer of the 20th century, is a great neo-Romantic work. Written in the summer of 1939, on the eve of World War II, it is permeated by dark forebodings and visions of horror, but also filled with those positive creative forces that transform great works of art into a metaphor for overcoming. Gustav Mahler, too, was a visionary and, in the all-encompassing stylistic diversity of his music at the time, a prophet of postmodernism. As in all his symphonies, in his "First" of 1888, he looks in two directions: back, full of nostalgic longing for the lost paradises of a good old time, and visionary ahead into a vague future—sometimes filled with fear by apocalyptic horrors, sometimes intoxicated by a boundlessly optimistic faith in the future.

Britten's Violin Concerto & Mahler's Titan

Meistersinger Hall

Late Romantic, atmospheric, dramatic, beautiful: the Shakespeare tone poem Hamlet and Ophelia by Edward MacDowell, the first US composer to achieve international acclaim. He was still strongly influenced by European tradition: lots of Liszt, a bit of Brahms, a dash of Edvard Grieg - that was the mix. The first true musical Americana emerged with ragtime, jazz, and the popular music influenced by them. George Gershwin was a pioneer in the fusion of these genres with classical music. Master arranger Robert Russell Bennett has combined the hits from his opera Porgy and Bess into a colorful panorama in his Symphonic Picture . The southern part of the continent also sends its greetings with Rhythm of the Americas by US jazz and fusion musician Bob Mintzer. Afro-Caribbean, jazz, and much more combine to create a fiery mix in this concert for saxophone quartet and orchestra. At the helm: the Israeli-American conductor Nimrod David Pfeffer, closely associated with the New York Met and the Lyric Opera Company of Guatemala.

Four Saxophones And Porgy & Bess

Profound poetry, heart-rending stories, and charmingly witty storytelling—all of this is poetry slam. And since the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra is doing something like this, they're naturally inviting one of the very best: Michael Jakob, the uncrowned king of the scene. As the winner of over 100 local poetry slams throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, he's a master of the art. From his many superb successes, he offers us the best of the best. Added to this is Markus Becker, an exceptional pianist who is not only adept in classical music—here together with the Nuremberg Symphony's wind quintet—and in sometimes witty, cheeky, sometimes gripping French music—but also a true master as an improviser and jazz pianist. He invents tunes like a slammer invents words. If that isn't a battle...

POETRY SLAM WITH MICHAEL JAKOB The best of the best-of

The Viennese have the waltz * On the Beautiful Blue Danube* , the Praguers have the tone poem *The Moldau* , and the New Yorkers have the musical *West Side Story* . But we Nurembergers have Richard Wagner's opera * The Mastersingers of Nuremberg * as the "music of our city" – the greatest tribute to the Franconian metropolis ever composed. The prelude to Act 1, relatively short in duration but monumental in its impact, is a veritable symphonic poem that encompasses all of the opera's central plot motifs. Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3, dedicated to Wagner in its original version, is monumental in every respect. Between these two monuments of late Romanticism is a famous masterpiece of early Classical music: Haydn's virtuoso C major concerto featuring the young Japanese rising star of the cello world, Michiaki Ueno. Benjamin Reiners, GMD in Chemnitz and conductor of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic, will be conducting. He has been a guest with us several times since 2012.

Bruckner And The Mastersingers

CONCERT CHOIR LGV NÜRNBERG - Verdi's Requiem

For Richard Wagner, it was the "apotheosis of dance," and some therefore refer to it as "The Choreographic." But Romain Rolland summed it up more succinctly when he called it an "orgy of rhythm" – Beethoven's 7th Symphony, pulsating with a rhythmic drive that ultimately builds to wild ecstasy in the inexorably forward-rushing finale. There's no stopping it – that's the rhythm you simply have to go with! But Maurice Ravel, the composer of Bolero , also celebrates an "orgy of rhythm" with La Valse , in 3/4 time. The piece, subtitled Poème chorégraphique (Choreographic Poem), is a "crazy" homage to the Viennese waltz. Between the two "choreographic" works: the premiere of Roland Kunz's Three Late Songs . The soloist is Turkish mezzo-soprano Seray Pinar, a member of the Académie of the Paris Opéra since 2022. In August 2024, she also sang in the final concert of the Young Singer Project at the Salzburg Festival.

Darlington Conducts Beethoven's Seventh

Chic fashion, great cars, fine food, and excellent wine are what many people immediately associate with the Italian way of life. But Bella Italia naturally has much more to offer, especially when it comes to music: "Italia, Terra di Musica!" - Italy, the land of music! Opera and bel canto are among its trademarks – the "beautiful singing" with which the opera's heroes and heroines express their great emotions. Bel canto highlights – from voluptuous cantabile to igniting bravura arias – are presented by the young British bass-baritone William Thomas, who has already made a name for himself through performances in Milan and London, Vienna, and Paris. Richard Strauss made "Bella Italia" a declaration of love with his composed recollections of his trip to Italy in 1886. The piece is titled "From Italy ," and takes us through the Campagna to Naples.

Belcanto With William Thomas

the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra begins its 80th concert season! With their chief conductor Jonathan Darlington at the helm and the French star pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian at his side, they present music brimming with exuberant vitality and thrilling verve, with virtuoso brilliance and festive splendor, opening their anniversary season. It begins with Mozart's magnificent and fast-paced Haffner Symphony . Its first movement "must be quite fiery," wrote the composer, its finale "as swift as possible." For Robert Schumann, the "Mozart of the 19th century" was Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. His Piano Concerto No. 1 is a work full of youthful vigor, a firework of virtuoso pianistic eloquence. Finally, the crowning glory is an early symphonic masterpiece by the Czech national classic Antonín Dvorák – his "Fifth", both rurally idyllic and dramatically powerful in character.

Opening With Gasparian & Darlington

For your 2025 calendar: The Klassik Open Air 2025 with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra under their chief conductor Jonathan Darlington!

Klassik Open Air 2025

Luitpoldhain

She is not only a star in and from Nuremberg, but is now a sought-after actress on major national and international musical stages: Roberta Valentini. After last summer's tremendous success, all fans of popular musical theater can look forward to the best and most beautiful things from the world of musicals. Together with her stage colleague Jonas Hein, who is currently causing a sensation in the Cologne Musicaldome, she presents unforgettable melodies, gripping stories, scary moments and lasting emotions with arranger and conductor Bernd Steixner and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. Anyone who loves musicals will love this evening!

MAGIC MUSICAL MOMENTS Highlights from around the world

It must have been a wild time in Berlin in the Golden Twenties. This particularly stirring compilation of swinging melodies, lyrical texts, grotesque stories and dreamy events comes from the heyday of a metropolis when Berlin was the third largest community in the world. Charming in tone and style presented by "Chanteuse internationale" Adrienne Haan. "If I could wish for something...", says a song by Friedrich Hollaender, "then Berlin could have stayed like this," one or two might answer. An evening with lasting resonance!

SWINGING BERLIN A tribute to the 1920S

Anyone who has been there once will always come back! Because anyone who has heard the "beautiful voices" in the Serenadenhof knows that the best stage talents in the world come together here for a musical rendezvous. And that is no exaggeration! The careers of the young up-and-coming singers who have performed with us in recent years speak for themselves. Today they can be heard at La Scala in Milan, the New York Met or the Vienna State Opera. So if you want to confidently say "I already know that voice" on your next visit to the opera, then you shouldn't miss this evening!

BEAUTIFUL VOICES The best from the world of opera

And another annual highlight: For many years we have welcomed Bavaria's best jazz band in orchestra formation to the Serenadenhof. A formation in which jazz and swing flow from every pore, as if the young people had eaten it for breakfast. Even if the program remains a surprise in many areas, the fun of jazz and the joy of the crisp sound and swinging style is guaranteed. As always, orchestra leader Harald Rüschenbaum leads the program charmingly. A must for all fans of the smooth big band jazz sound.

THE JOY OF JAZZ Guest concert of the Bavarian State Youth Jazz Orchestra

The absolute highlight of every summer is coming up: cinema for the ears - now a real classic in the Serenadenhof! Once again, he takes the audience on a musical journey through time through the world of film and television music, which is not only an art form in itself, but often influences the audience more than the images themselves. So with the iconic melodies 2025, which gave their films the right drive, it is time again for the really big emotions - played, of course, by the orchestra that is unrivaled for such a presentation: ear cinema at its best!

BATMAN MEETS GAME OF THRONES Cinema for the ears

Does Johann Strauss come to mind when you think of "lively music from Vienna"? Then you're like most of us! Even 200 years after his birth, his melodies are so popular and well-known that an entire dynasty is named after them. We celebrate the real "King of the Waltz" and many of his colleagues who inspired him or were inspired by him with a wonderful serenade full of verve and good humor. One almost wishes that this wonderful time had never ended.

AROUND THE WORLD IN WALTZ STEP Johann Strauss on his 200th birthday

Hos geldiniz sevgili seyirciler! There has long been a plan to present the fascinating diversity of Turkish culture in our Serenadenhof. Now it is finally becoming a reality: Nuremberg's most beautiful open-air venue is being transformed into an oriental oasis to celebrate the diverse culture of Turkey in the open air. In addition to the authentic Turkish sounds, accompanied by lush orchestral sound, there is real folk dancing that reflects the different regions and the long history of Turkish culture. Even the food and drinks offered in the catering come from the country on the Bosporus. In Turkey, people love to celebrate - celebrate with us!

SOUNDS OF TÜRKIYE An evening with Turkish music and culture

If you want to be a master, you have to practice early! As every year, we are delighted to welcome the professionals of tomorrow, the young students at the Nuremberg University of Music who have set out to reach the top. Under the direction of Professor Guido Johannes Rumstadt, they present impressive solo concerts and orchestral works. It is always a reason to be amazed at what these promising talents are capable of. Are you amazed too?!

STARS OF TOMORROW Guest Concert of the Nuremberg University of Music

This year, fans of classical concerts can look forward to a very special French-Spanish touch. The focus of the evening is the guitar and with it the grandiose super hit by the Spaniard Joaquín Rodriguez, his Concierto de Aranjuez . The concert was composed in Paris and embodies the Spanish sound with jazz overtones like no other. It is flanked by two very different works of French literature: Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin , a homage to French music of the 18th century, and Bizet's symphonic debut, which is bursting with summery lightness, inventiveness and exuberance. Don't miss it!

STRING JUMPS WITH GUITAR Symphonic Highlights

Look forward to a nostalgic homage to the successful TV show of the same name that aired on German television in the 1970s. Can you think of stars like Harald Juhnke, Peter Alexander or Udo Jürgens? The golden age of pop music is coming to life again! These and many other names are synonymous with a time when the melodies were catchy, the presentation elegant and the moderation witty and charming - a mixture that is rarely seen today. One person who can do all of this is entertainer Volker Heißmann. At his side is Thilo Wolf. Music is trump!

MUSIC IS TRUMP! Juhnke, Jürgens, Alexander

Nat King Cole is unforgettable, and his songs are just as unforgettable. Hits like Unforgettable, LOVE and Autumn Leaves made him world famous - to this day he is considered one of the best jazz artists of all time. Mariano Castro, pianist, arranger and composer from Argentina, brings these magnificent tunes back to life together with his fellow singer Luiza Zan. An evening to dream and enjoy!

CLASSIC JAZZ The Unforgettable Nat King Cole

An event organized by the Cultural Office of the municipality of Unterföhring in the Unterföhring Community Center.

Visit Unterföhring

Bürgerhaus Unterföhring

We are delighted to be able to be guests at the Herkulessaal in Munich again after 2016.
An event by the Munich Oratorio Choir eV.

Guests In The Munich Herkulessaal

Herkulessaal München

"When we touch each other with music," wrote Leonard Bernstein, "we touch each other's hearts, minds and souls - all at once." Indeed, like no other art, music opens up access to the inner world of people. Also and above all to the souls and hearts of people with dementia. Our afternoon concert offers those affected and their families the opportunity to experience music together and thus continue to be able to participate in social and cultural life. Experience an afternoon of classical evergreens that awaken memories of old times. Because nothing brings the past back and makes it come alive in us like music.

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Concert For People With Dementia, Relatives And Everyone

Meistersingerhalle

More? Sea! For the brilliant end of the season of our symphonic concerts, we're heading to the water. Debussy's impressionistic mega-masterpiece La Mer takes us to a luminous Mediterranean scenery. This is what summer by the sea sounds like! You want more! Voilà: With Frank Bridges' suite of four sound pictures The Sea, we travel to the coast of the southern English county of Sussex - sometimes in sunlight, sometimes in moonlight or in a storm. The piece has probably never been heard in Nuremberg. A real discovery! "When I heard the piece for the first time, I was thrown off track," admitted Bridges' composition student Benjamin Britten. He gets his due here with his vocal-instrumental serenade. Six poems from five centuries of English poetry form the basis. They conjure up evening and nighttime moods with effective horn playing and haunting tenor singing. The Symphoniker's solo horn player Matthias Nothhelfer and the Glasgow-born tenor Thomas Walker will provide solo brilliance.

Darlington With Debussys La Mer

The Second World War in Europe ended with the capitulation of the German Wehrmacht on the night of May 8-9, 1945. The "liberation from National Socialism" has shaped German culture of remembrance ever since. This concert commemorates this date, which was so significant for German history, exactly 80 years ago. At the invitation of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the New York-based The Orchestra Now , which consists of talented young performers from all over the world, will play under the direction of Leon Botstein, founder of TON and first guest conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Supported by the Chamber Choir of the Nuremberg University of Music and our first concertmaster, Anna Reszniak, music by Mendelssohn Bartholdy, whose music was banned during the Nazi era because of his Jewish origins, will be played in the Congress Hall. Sending a strong signal for peace and tolerance is the common goal of all those involved.

GRANT US PEACE! Memorial concert for the end of the Second World War 80 years ago

Visit To Bad Elster

King Albert Theater

Defeat? Triumph! In 2006 he was our guest for the first time and delivered a non plus ultra interpretation of Tchaikovsky's 3rd Symphony. Unforgettable! In 2008 he came back and conducted Respighi's Fontane di Roma in a congenial manner . Impressive! Now he is coming again: Alan Buribayev, the master of the baton from Kazakhstan, former GMD in Meiningen, former head of the Het Brabants Orkest and now head of the Astana Opera in his homeland. This time he will conduct the overture to the Aeschylus opera L'Oresteia by Tchaikovsky's contemporary Sergei Taneyev and a Mozart concerto alongside the young Dutch violinist Hawijch Elders, who won 1st prize and three special prizes at the Henri Marteau International Violin Competition in 2023. Finally, Tchaikovsky's "Fifth" will be performed. Like the Beethoven symphony with the same number, it is a kind of "symphony of fate" that overwhelmingly presents the "Per Aspera Ad Astra", the dramaturgy of "Through Night to Light". Defeat? Triumph!

From Mozart To Tchaikovsky

Old? New! March 2025 will mark the 150th anniversary of the premiere of Bizet's Carmen . It is still probably the most popular of all operas - a hit album made up of countless immortal hits. And the two concert suites present these hits in interrupted order. Old? New! At the podium: audience favorite Gordon Hamilton, the Australian who has chosen to live in Berlin, who, as always when he comes to us, is also bringing a brand new work of his own to the premiere: A Golden Thread , a golden thread that gradually weaves through the string orchestra. In contrast, the most original cello concerto in music history will be played before the break - that of the piano-playing and composing "enfant terrible" Friedrich Gulda. His concerto for cello and wind orchestra is a unique musical surprise package that explodes when opened, setting off musical sparks. From big band blues to church fair music, everything is included! The fireworks of punchlines are set off by the German star cellist Raphaela Gromes, who enchanted our audience in 2023 with the concert by Frederick Delius.

Bizet's Carmen And Gromes On The Cello

After the great success in April 2023, there will be another edition of famous film music with choir and orchestra.

Philharmonic Choir Nürnberg Sound Of Cinema Vol. 2

The foyer is only there for the break - but why? This time we are daring to do something special: we are transforming the foyer with its cool atmosphere and also the music hall of our orchestra's own venue into a veritable exhibition hall to bring music and art lovers together. Nine large-format originals by the Nuremberg artist Manfred Hürlimann will be exhibited in the foyer of the music hall and the pictures will be in direct contact with the music. For the visitors, the dance-like sounds of the piano trio from the Romantic and Modern periods meet the power of Hürlimann's pictures of the classical muses of antiquity. In his three concert parts, both worlds transform the foyer and the music hall into a space that you have definitely never seen or experienced before.

Nsym In The Music Hall & Foyer

An event of the Peter-Vischer-Schule in cooperation with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.
Advance ticket sales from January 8, 2025 online via the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra webshop.

Vischer's Symphony No. 115 Think Big!

Tickets for this choir concert with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra are only available from the usual advance ticket sales offices or directly from the Hans Sachs Choir.

Hans-sachs-chor Nürnberg

Sitting still becomes difficult, remaining emotionally untouched and not being carried away becomes virtually impossible. Because wherever Uwaga! performs, the quartet captivates the audience within seconds with its ecstatic joy of playing. In their new program, the "classical innovators from the Ruhr area", as the WAZ called them, together with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Rasmus Baumann, cover a wide range of music history. From the Renaissance to the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods and then on to jazz and rock'n'roll, the amazed audience is catapulted to the latest pop hits. Mozart, Haydn, Wagner & Co., Stevie Wonder, the Beatles and Metallica are united under the aegis of Uwaga!. With a unique mixture of humor, passion, audacity and virtuosity, the ensemble makes everything its own, deconstructing the styles, reassembling them and thus ensuring ever-surprising excursions into the various eras. Climb into the time machine for a wild ride through the music from the past to the present!

TIME MACHINE A wild ride through music history with Uwaga!

Question? Answer! They are finally coming together to make music together: our chief conductor Jonathan Darlington and his older brother, the celebrated concert organist and highly respected church musician from Oxford, Stephen Darlington. He has brought a work to Nuremberg that allows him to pull out all the stops of the Meistersingerhalle organ and his own art of organ playing. It is the breathtaking, overwhelming, but rarely heard in this country, organ symphony by the US national classic Aaron Copland, composed in the "Roaring Twenties". The organ symphony is contrasted with a "secret" symphony. Tchaikovsky's 3rd Suite is in fact a veritable symphony in terms of dimension and design, including waltzes and a sequence of variations. In between: the enigmatic orchestral piece "The Unanswered Question" by the pioneer of real American art music, Charles Ives. His question: where does music come from, where does music go? Our answer: Definitely from Tchaikovsky to Copland!

Darlington Meets Darlington

Little Rock? Hollywood! The first part of the evening takes us into the dazzling musical world of the dream factory. Master arranger Robert Russel Bennett titled his symphonically brilliant medley of immortal melodies by "the great George" Gershwin in Hollywood . This is followed by music by the living Hollywood legend Danny Elfman, composer of the soundtracks to The Simpsons, Batman, Spider-Man and countless others. After 2019, Vivi Vassileva, a German star percussionist with Bulgarian roots who electrifies audiences around the world, will be joining us as the soloist in his brand new percussion concert. Little Rock? Not only was Hilary Clinton born in the capital of the US state of Arkansas, but also a great woman in American music history sixty years earlier: Florence Price, the first African-American composer to make her voice heard. Her masterful fourth and final symphony from 1945 was not played for the first time until 2018. It is conducted by Gregor Mayrhofer, who has previously assisted Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic and worked with soloists such as Khatia Buniatishvili and Daniil Trifonov.

Vassileva Plays Elfman's Percussion Concert

Competition? Love! Copland, Barber, Bernstein - a big summit meeting of the most famous and best-known US national classics. Their music conjures up the American way of life in the concert hall. Copland's Outdoor Overture takes you to a rural setting, while Gershwin's Concerto in F captures the bustling city life in a competition between piano and orchestra. Competition? Love! Of course, our hit parade of American Classics includes Bernstein's global musical success, which projects Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet love tragedy onto New York's West Side. Our guests are two young "China stars" who have already enjoyed great success around the world and are now at home in the USA: the pianist Ying Li and the conductor Yue Bao, both graduates of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where Samuel Barber and Leonard Bernstein studied.

West Side Story With Female Power

Anyone who has their eyes open for the beauty of the spiral staircase in the foyer in the Volker Staab building and at the same time their ears open for chamber music from various eras will be enchanted by both. Around 200 years after its premiere, Schubert's most popular chamber music work, his octet for mixed ensemble, is coming to the house. You shouldn't miss what happens when the different movements of the large-scale work are heard in different parts of the house, when space and sound merge together.

Nsym In The New Museum

New Museum - Nuremberg State Museum of Art and Design

Schwarz-Weiß? Farbe! 2015 gewann er den Münchner ARD-Musikwettbewerb, und seine Karriere als Solist, Kammer- und Orchestermusiker nahm ihren steilen Verlauf: Sébastian Jacot, 1987 in Genf geboren, war nach einer Zwischenstation im Leipziger Gewandhausorchester seit 2022 einer der beiden Solo-Flötisten der Berliner Philharmoniker. Bei uns brilliert er mit gleich zwei Konzerten - mit La Notte von Vivaldi, der darin nächtliche Geister weckt, sowie mit dem spielfreudigen Konzert des deutschen Spätromantikers Carl Reinecke. Am Pult: die 1988 in Saarbrücken geborene Dirigentin Ruth Reinhardt, die vor allem in den USA, aber auch in Europa schon große Karriere machte. Ganz nebenbei ist sie seit 2020 auch Saarlandbotschafterin. Brahms und Hindemith zählen zu ihren Favoriten. Und die dirigiert sie auch bei uns. Deshalb erklingt zum Abschluss Hindemiths großartige Mathis-Symphonie, inspiriert von den opulenten Tafelbildern des Isenheimer Altars. Schwarz-Weiß? Farbe!

Vivaldi's Flute Concerto & Mathis The Painter

Film classics brought back to life! Every season, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra celebrates the 100th anniversary of a legendary silent film. In 2025, they will continue the multimedia series for eyes and ears with the live-to-projection performance of a veritable cinematographic icon of the horror genre: The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Rupert Julian, first shown in New York in 1925 and today recognized by the Library of Congress as "particularly valuable in terms of cultural history". At the time, the film was already the second film adaptation of the French novel Le Fantome de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux. The gruesome Phantom has now wreaked havoc on the screen a dozen times. But only Rupert Julian's adaptation became a cinematic classic - not least thanks to Lon Chaney in the title role, the US actor and make-up artist also known as "The Man with a Thousand Faces". In 1996, Carl Davis, who sadly passed away in 2023, composed a new soundtrack, opulently orchestrated with a large apparatus, including an organ. Adrian Prabava, who had already directed the successful productions of Sunrise and Robin Hood for us, returns to the symphony orchestra's podium .

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Silent film with live orchestra

We are delighted to be able to be guests at the VR-Bank in Erlangen again in 2025. This time we will travel musically from the Danube to the Spree, together with the singer Kinga Dobay. She will be accompanied by the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra under the musical direction of Jan Michael Horstmann, who will also charmingly host the evening.

Visit To Erlangen

Heinrich-Lades-Halle

The Conducting Forum is the German Music Council's support program for top young conductors in Germany. The Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra is a regular partner of this program. The final concerts are both the finale of the four-year funding program for scholarship holders in the orchestral conducting category and a possible preliminary stage for the German Conducting Award 2024. Two of the candidates will be sent directly by the jury to the competition, which will be held in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall in autumn in cooperation with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and the Cologne Opera. Experience the podium stars of tomorrow today!

Springboard No. 2

In the run-up to our concert NSYM in the Music Hall & Foyer on March 27, 2025, we are transforming our foyer with its cool atmosphere into a veritable exhibition hall to bring music and art lovers together. Nine large-format originals by the Nuremberg artist Manfred Hürlimann will be exhibited in the foyer of the music hall. The artist will personally welcome you at the vernissage and Marion Grether, director of the Nuremberg Museum of the Future, will introduce Hürlimann's work.

Vernissage In The Foyer / Music Hall

Small? Big! It used to be Schubert's "Ninth", then it was given number 7, and finally number 8 - confusion due to the long, unclear time of its composition. But its nickname always remained the same: Great C major . Schubert's last symphony is great in every respect - in its "heavenly length" as well as in its epochal significance as the starting point of a specifically Austrian romantic symphony; this is where the difference lies from Schubert's 6th Symphony, the Little C major . We start the afternoon with a really big overture - Beethoven's Leonore 3 , which the English music essayist Donald Francis Tovey called "the most colossal symphonic poem of all time". Then, as a symphonic-concert rarity, a work for the viola, which is rarely encountered as a concert solo instrument. Béla Bartók's Viola Concerto is a late work by the great Hungarian classic of modernism. Music, from the expressive and elegiac to the fiery and folkloristic - touching, moving, impressive.

Schubert's Great C Major Symphony

Polka? Waltz! Happy New Year! With a colorful program of lively and atmospheric music for all ears, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Jonathan Darlington are starting the year 2025 in a great mood. A whole hit parade of strong pieces from the classical-romantic repertoire runs through the evening. At the center, of course: dance pieces from symphonies, opera and ballet. Polka? Waltz! Above all, there is something for reveling and dreaming in three-quarter time. But the virtuoso symphonic concertante is not neglected either: The southern French pianist David Fray, who is one of the top stars of the younger generation, presents a sparkling jewel, the C major concerto KV 467 - the piano concerto with probably the most beautiful, famous, best known and most popular slow concerto movement that Mozart ever composed!

New Year's Concert With The Symphonics

Tickets for this choir concert with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra are available exclusively through the organizing choir or from the usual advance booking offices.

Concert Choir Lgv Nürnberg

He is one of the legitimate successors to the legendary Frank Sinatra, as he too has a voice that melts the audience. Everything swings and revels when "Charming Man" Jon Boydon makes his appearance. The British singer, actor and guitarist is a fabulous musical star and became a star in London's West End, the British equivalent of New York's Broadway, as the protagonist in Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar , in David Bowie's Lazarus , in the jukebox musical Jersey Boys and in many others. Under the motto Swinging Christmas, Jon Boydon presents us with popular American Christmas evergreens such as I'll Be Home For Christmas and Here Comes Santa Claus . Everything festively arranged and conducted by our good old friend David Arnold. Christmas couldn't end more beautifully!

KLASSIK AT 11 - Boydon's Swinging Christmas The Songs of Frank Sinatra

Splendor? Gloria! It couldn't be more festive and magnificent in sound: with concentrated trumpet power, we're getting in the mood for Christmas this year in opulent baroque style. The Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and its trumpeters, together with trumpet superstar Reinhold Friedrich and an ensemble of master students of the sought-after university professor, form an impressive trumpet septet. Big names of composers are on the program, but also those that are mainly familiar to early music fans, such as Heinrich Ignaz, Franz Biber and Johann Samuel Endler. At the podium: the young conductor Valentin Egel, GMD at the Croatian National Theater Rijeka since 2021. A Christmas concert with drums and trumpets, splendor and glory!

Christmas Glory With 7 Trumpets

For the fifth time, an ensemble from the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra will be a guest at the Nuremberg correctional facility during Advent.

Visit To The Nuremberg Jva

Nuremberg Cell Prison

What could be better for the Advent and Christmas season than the festive music of the late Baroque? With our Advent concerts, we invite you to the historic town hall, located directly on the main market, in the heart of Nuremberg's picturesque old town. In addition to famous orchestral works, two of the most popular trumpet concerts are also on the program in 2024 - radiant brass splendor with the American James Vaughen, deputy principal trumpeter of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and winner of the 2023 Aeolus Wind Competition. The former conductor from Munich's Gärtnerplatz, Andreas Puhani, who has long been associated with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, will conduct from the harpsichord.

Festive Advent Concerts In The Historical Town Hall

Nuremberg

Marko Simsa and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra invite us on an exciting and varied journey along the Vltava. With numerous audio examples, they show us, piece by piece, what Bedrich Smetana tells us musically in his composition. From the springs in the Bohemian Forest to the capital Prague, we listen to the sounds of the water, let ourselves be enchanted by fairies, look at proud castles, celebrate rural wedding music and reach our destination after raging rapids.

The Voldau

London? Prague! Unbelievable, but true: When Haydn was conducting in London in 1795, the huge chandelier fell into the hall - but nobody was hurt because the audience had streamed to the front to see Haydn up close. A miracle to which the London Symphony No. 96 owes its nickname The Miracle . London? Prague! Dvorák's most beautiful symphony, next to From the New World, had its premiere there in 1890 - the "Eighth" with the irresistible Bohemian-sounding waltz as the third movement. The vocal concert highlight of the evening was two Mozart hits: the festive coloratura motet Exsultate, jubilate and the melancholy, dreamy aria Vado, ma dove? , in which the music nestles up to the words as if caressingly. Ania Vegry, a London-born soprano who was formerly part of the ensemble of the Hannover State Opera and since 2020 part of the Anhaltinisches Theater Dessau, joins us once again. She is a celebrated guest in concert halls and opera houses everywhere.

Darlington Dirigiert Dvorák

Visit To Rothenburg

Reichsstadthalle

Birmingham - England Tour

The International Convention Centre

Basingstoke - England Tour

The Anvil

Beethoven's stirring and dynamic overture brilliantly sets the scene for Goethe's play about a noble opponent of tyranny in the sixteenth century.

Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra

We would like to thank our two project partners BMW and Rödl & Partner from Nuremberg for their financial support of our England tour.

Nottingham - England Tour

Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall

London - England Tour

Cadogan Hall 

If you want to find out more about the history of the city in Nuremberg, this is without doubt a must-see: the Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds . It conveys the causes, connections and consequences of the Nazi tyranny in a scientifically sound and didactically memorable way. After the redesign - but before the reopening - the interested public can take a look at the transformed rooms and listen to the sounds of music. It is only natural that the new series Culture² - Music in the Museum is now also performing there: the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra are not only immediate neighbors, they also shape music history and the composers from this period have a lot to say.

Nsym In The Documentation Center

König? Kaiser! Für die Engländer und Amerikaner ist Beethovens 5. Klavierkonzert nicht einfach königlich. Es ist kaiserlich! Emperor Concerto (Kaiser-Konzert) nennen sie es - wegen seines heroischen und majestätisch-großartigen Charakters, aber auch wegen seiner Würde und Erhabenheit. Dem Solisten gibt es Gelegenheit zum ganz großen Auftritt, als "Tasten-Löwe" wie als "Klavier-Poet". Bei uns hat diesen Auftritt der junge italienische Pianist Federico Colli aus Brescia, Sieger beim Leeds International Piano Competition 2012 und seither weltweit als gefragter Solist unterwegs. Beethovens letztes Klavierkonzert kombiniert unser Chefdirigent Jonathan Darlington mit der letzten Symphonie von Johannes Brahms - mit der tragisch-großen "Vierten" in e-Moll: Musik voller Zorn und Zärtlichkeit, stiller Melancholie und wilder Ausgelassenheit, herber Strenge und bergender Wärme. Damit laufen sich die Symphoniker warm für die Gastspielreise nach England, wo sich das Orchester und sein Chefdirigent am 14. November auch in London präsentieren werden.

Beethoven Und Brahms

Udo Wachtveitl, actor, speaker, director, screenwriter is a true great on the screen and his filmography is endless. For decades he has played the Munich detective duo Batic - Leitmayr with his colleague Miroslav Nemec in the legendary ARD crime series Tatort . Since 2010 the actor has also lent his sonorous, characterful voice to BR-Klassik audio biographies, searching for clues through the eras and lives of great composers. Udo Wachtveitl can tell stories like no other. Even stories about the night, because the night is not just for sleeping! The appropriate music - from early German romanticism to French postmodernism - is provided by two soloists from the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra: deputy principal flutist Franziska Both and principal cellist Ariel Barnes. Guest: Aris Alexander Blettenberg, young German-Greek pianist who is also active as a conductor, composer and arranger - a versatile musician, at home in opera, concert hall, theater and cabaret.

WACHTVEITLS NACHTSCHWÄRMEREI Udo Wachtveitl reads texts about the night

Piano Romance With Martin Stadtfeld

Luck? Success! September 4, 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner's birthday. The Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra is celebrating the great Austrian late romantic with a performance of his monumental 8th Symphony, the last one he was able to complete. At the same time, the work is the most extensive and most heavily cast of all Bruckner's symphonies - a tremendous solitaire. The concert will be opened with "something quite curious", as Schumann called his concert piece for four horns and orchestra. The highly virtuosic work is, in a sense, the musical calling card of the horn quartet german hornsound , consisting of four excellent musicians who, in addition to their joint solo performances, play in renowned orchestras. Everything they set out to do on their instruments - even the most delicate and difficult - they succeed at. Luck? Someone might ask cheekily with a wink. No, absolute technical mastery is the father of success here! Ari Rasilainen, top conductor from Finland, is at the podium and is our guest for the fourth time.

Horn Quartet And Bruckner's Eighth

Conducting students at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK enjoy the unique, globally successful Conductors Studio ZHdK study model. This cultivates a learning culture that promotes intensive exchange for a wide variety of student personalities - including a striking number of women - through curricular activities and wide-ranging, in-depth learning formats. Practical conducting experience with the institute's own ensembles as well as with professional orchestras plays a key role.

Springboard No. 1

Clock? Rhythm! This is where you tick: The Andante of Haydn's Symphony No. 101 is permeated by a regularly swinging accompanying figure - a notorious "tick-tock" that became a trademark of the work and gave the symphony its nickname once and for all: The Clock . Clock? Rhythm! We begin the afternoon with dance rhythms: Le Tombeau de Couperin , Ravel's homage to the baroque French clavecinists, is a suite of old French dances in its orchestral version, nobly styled by the composer and brought to a perfect compositional finish. Music at its finest! Then we are joined by Igor Stravinsky, the greatest rhythmist of the 20th century. He can be experienced with us with his neoclassical, fresh Violin Concerto in D from 1931. The soloist is the young star violinist Alexandra Conunova, who thrilled tens of thousands of people at the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra's Classic Open Air in August 2023 in the Luitpoldhain.

Stravinsky Concert And Haydn Symphony

Intermezzo? Symphonie! Gleich mit einem Highlight starten wir in die neue Konzertsaison: Erstmals bei uns zu Gast ist der franko-kanadische Star-Pianist Marc-André Hamelin - eine absolute Ausnahme-Erscheinung am Klavier-Himmel, die phänomenal höchste technische Virtuosität mit größter musikalischer Ausdruckskraft zu verbinden weiß. An der Seite unseres Chefdirigenten Jonathan Darlington spielt Marc-André Hamelin das so spritzige und musikalisch überschäumende wie nostalgisch verträumte G-Dur-Konzert des Bolero-Komponisten Maurice Ravel. Los geht der Abend mit den bunten Zwischenspielen aus der Strauss-Oper Intermezzo, die ironisch-augenzwinkernd Einblicke in das Private des Komponisten gibt - "Szenen einer Ehe" à la Richard Strauss. Intermezzo? Symphonie! Den krönenden Abschluss macht die "Fünfte" des großen britischen Nationalkomponisten Ralph Vaughan Williams - lyrisch abgeklärte und feierlich hymnische Musik, erfüllt von einer ruhig-gelassenen Noblesse.

Saison-auftakt Mit Hamelin Und Darlington

Springboard No. 3

He is the absolute superstar of the oboe, cor anglais, and oboe d'amore: Albrecht Mayer from Bamberg, principal oboe of the Berlin Philharmonic since 1992 and also a celebrated soloist and conductor, touring the world. He will be returning to us during Advent 2025. He will be bringing with him two beloved classics that are inextricably linked to Christmas: Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and music from Humperdinck's fairytale opera Hansel and Gretel . But it only becomes truly cozy and intimate when Albrecht Mayer plays his Bach arrangements—sometimes with choir participation: Christmas concerts couldn't be more beautiful, atmospheric, or festive!

Christmas With Albrecht Mayer

Titles like Oh Little Town of Bethlehem | Mary through a thorn forest went | La Virgen Se Esta Peinando | A rose has sprung up | Entre le Boeuf et l'Ane Gris and many other Christmas carols from around the world

CLASSICS AT 11 Christmas with Quadro Nuevo

CONCERT CHOIR LGV NUREMBERG Bernstein & Gershwin

New Year's Concert With The Symphonics In Ansbach

Tagungszentrum Onoldia

The New Year is entering in high spirits and in the best of spirits – a very special one for the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra: June 1, 2026, marks the 80th anniversary of their founding. Over the decades, they have opened up the entire cosmos of great music to their audiences. The New Year's Concert offers something for everyone: the folkloric, the exhilarating, the romantic, the virtuosic. In the overture to his successful operetta The Merry Widow, Franz Lehár ignites a sparkling firework display of immortal hits. Keywords: Da geh' ich ins Maxim, Vilja-Lied, Ja, das Studium der Weiber (Yes, the Study of Women)… A top-class symphonic concertante piece is also on the program: the dazzling and joyful A minor Cello Concerto by the all-round genius Camille Saint-Saëns. Also appearing with us for the first time is the versatile and virtuoso cellist Bryan Cheng from Canada, a recipient of top competition awards. He's also the soloist in a romantic mood piece by Tchaikovsky. But don't worry: it won't stay too quiet! Happy New Year!

Dvořák is the favorite composer of many classical music fans and orchestras alike. His music plays well – and is pleasant to listen to. It is often lighthearted, comfortable, and full of life. The Czech national classic is represented twice in our concert – with two concert overtures, one of which poetically captures rural moods and views, the other sparklingly immerses itself in a turbulent carnival festivities. Brahms' profound A minor concerto, the so-called "Double Concerto," features two soloists – a work tailor-made for our brotherly soloist duo of Claudio and Oscar Bohórquez. The two also plays a role in Schubert's Symphony in B minor. It consists of two movements, not four like a conventional symphony, which is why it is nicknamed the Unfinished . Nevertheless, it is a complete masterpiece. It moves forward with double the force.

Schubert, Dvorak, Brahms

She was a fellow student of Debussy, admired by Saint-Saëns, and encouraged by the publisher Alphonse Leduc to create ever new works: Mélanie Bonis, a French composer who fell into obscurity after her death in 1937. Her impressionistic atmospheric picture Le Songe de Cléopâtre (The Dream of Cleopatra) from 1909 is beguilingly beautiful in its sophisticated orchestration and intoxicatingly sensual in its sound. A real discovery! The organ concerto by the contemporary Swiss composer Valentin Villard, written exactly one hundred years later, is also sonicly fascinating: it begins shimmering and undulating and ends with a rushing apotheosis. All of this is exactly the right thing for the dazzling star organist Anna Lapwood, who, to top it all off, also presents a French classic: the monumental organ symphony by Saint-Saëns. At her side: David Reiland from Belgium, head of the Orchestre National de Lorraine and the Sinfonietta Lausanne.

Organ Symphony With Anna Lapwood

The Black Pirate (USA 1926) – eight decades before Captain Jack Sparrow sailed through southern climes, Douglas Fairbanks portrayed an adventurous and daring privateer in The Black Pirate (German: Der Seeräuber ) – already familiar to some from the Robin Hood film, which the Symphony Orchestra presented in January 2022. This time, Fairbanks invites you to a true gem of early cinema – with buried treasure, exploding sailing ships, a romance with a beautiful girl, extraordinary stunts, and the capture of greedy treasure robbers! What more could you want? The Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the centenary of The Black Pirate with the European premiere of both the restored film version (Museum of Modern Art, 2023) and the new film score by Robert Israel (2023), who wrote a melodic swashbuckler score à la Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and John Williams especially for this film, which is in no way inferior to Fairbanks' artistic triumph on screen.

THE BLACK PIRATE Silent film with live orchestra

Music to dream of faraway places! Our program takes you into the vibrant, richly colored, and unfathomable world of the Orient, as great composers of the past have timelessly captured it musically – as a magical, exotic realm full of beauty and irresistible temptations. Right in the overture to his opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, Mozart trumps it with a blaring "Alla Turca." Abduction? Seduction! Rimsky-Korsakov's Symphonic Suite Scheherazade , named after the beautiful princess and seductive narrator of the oriental tales from One Thousand and One Nights , is enchantingly magical . And the Orient also resonates in Rachmaninoff's hit Piano Concerto in C minor – in a theme that evidently fascinated Miklos Rózsa while he was working on his film score for Ben-Hur . The soloist is Russian pianist Dmitry Masleev, who thrilled the symphony audience in October 2023. Eduard Topchyan, conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, will conduct.

Rachmaninov And Scheherazade

No Rhythm, No Music, No Fun! is a truly cool show lasting roughly an hour! On various percussion instruments—marimba, vibraphone, drum set, pipe drum, cajon, cowbells, surdo, castanets, and many more—the Drum Twins play well-known melodies from classical, pop, and film. They explain the importance of rhythm in music, how to recognize time signatures, the role of tempo and instrument choice in composers, and how to clap along properly! And the audience gets involved, introducing the individual pieces, learning simple rhythms as body percussion, and (hopefully) laughing along a lot. The Drum Twins are both professional orchestral percussionists and regularly perform on the world's major stages. With this concert, they want to share their enthusiasm for music and, above all, for rhythm.

No Rhythm, No Music, No Fun!

. 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

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.

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

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.

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