»Europe in Transition – Tradition Meets the Future«

eResponse: Future Gardens

Students from Gymnasium Köln-Pesch and Georg-Simon-Ohm-Berufskolleg present a musical journey through flora and fauna. Their compositions, soundscapes, and visuals, guided by musicians Mathis Stier and Rie Watanabe, explore nature's mysteries and modern world challenges, inviting the audience to imagine the gardens of the future.

Vocal Heroes’ Annual Concert “Voices of the Future”

Together with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Vokalhelden invite you to their annual concert 2025. What does our world look like today? What kind of world do we want to live in tomorrow? These are the questions the young singers will be addressing. They tell us about their wishes and hopes and call on us to protect our planet and work towards a future worth living.The Vokalhelden were founded by the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2013 and have been a non-profit organisation since 2021. Vokalhelden offers children and young people aged six to eighteen in various Berlin neighbourhoods the opportunity to discover the world of music. In addition to regular rehearsals and concerts, the programme includes workshops and sing-along concerts that bring singing into the city’s classrooms and schools.

Westbam meets Wagner

Elektronische Musik trifft auf die Meisterwerke Richard Wagners

Brazil meets Mozart

The SummerConcerts powered by VriendenLoterij present two months of wonderful concerts, from classical to jazz and from pop music to film scores. Top musicians from the Netherlands and around the world bring you all your favourite classical pieces, as well as tributes to Leonard Cohen and The Beatles, and all your favourite film music.We also present a host of young talent in our summer concerts, including youth orchestras from South Africa and Turkey, and top young classical soloists. After many of the concerts, we offer a meet-and-greet with the artists in an informal setting, or an afterparty with DJ in the Entrance Hall. In one of the world’s finest concert halls, there’s something for everyone this summer at The Concertgebouw!

Tango meets Jazz

Vivaldi meets Piazzolla

Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" enjoys immense popularity, portraying nature's events and moods through vivid musical language. Composed 300 years ago, the context has shifted, particularly with climate change. Astor Piazzolla's "Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas" focuses on human life in Buenos Aires. The Hamburg Stage Ensemble, a group of young musicians, aims to connect with audiences through intimate performances without a conductor.

Future X – When Is Tomorrow?

Making music together, dancing, singing, acting or creating choreography sequences: this is possible in the community project »Future X – When Is Tomorrow?«. Anyone who is curious and also aged 16 and over is invited to come along and get creative in the rehearsals and workshops being held from October 2024 onwards. Participants can choose from workshops focused on music and songwriting, movement and dance, creative writing and sound design using modular synthesizers. Parctipants more interested in being part of a large group can opt for the big rehearsals where the results from all workshop groups are put together. The result will be a collaborative performance created from nothing that is completely dedicated to ideas related to »the future«. The final performances form part of the Hamburg International Music Festival – featuring a full programme with the overarching theme of »Future«.

Iestyn Davies, Robin Ticciati and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Anyone who delves into George Frideric Handel’s vocal and instrumental music will find a wealth of treasures. Elegance, virtuosity, delicacy – all this can be discovered in an endlessly inventive world of musical expression. In a programme with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conductor Robin Ticciati, you can experience some of Handel’s most beautiful arias and orchestral pieces from operas and other works. Iestyn Davies, one of the leading countertenors of our time, is the soloist. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a great admirer of Handel. His festive and exuberant “Haffner Symphony” concludes the programme.

Guest performance Future Now: Central Asia

This concert features six trios interpreting elements of nature musically. Each trio will bring newly arranged works from their home countries, which will be interwoven and fused into a musical synthesis.

MUSIC FOR A FUTURE WITHOUT GUARANTEES

How to deal with the uncertainty of the future? Together with the audience, singer Zola Mennenöh and composer Max Andrzejewski set out in search of musical answers. Inspired by the artist and researcher Lisa Nyberg, they use poetic song lyrics and chamber music with influences from new music and jazz to encourage openness, curiosity and hope in dealing with uncertainty. ‘Our times demand that we learn new skills,’ write Mennenöh and Andrzejewski - including ’actions that involve our body and our feelings and thus awaken self-efficacy and creative power.’ In contact with the audience, the result is a concert evening with chamber music, improvisation and spoken word that transcends formats and genres. The event will be held in English.