Florian Schroeder

Florian Christl

His passionate playing and his equally exciting and deeply moving compositional style demonstrate Florian Christl’s all-encompassing love of music. The mix of sometimes soothing, sometimes powerful piano playing in combination with extraordinarily imaginative and moving string arrangements makes the music of the Munich-based composer and pianist unique. His music radically appeals to our innermost emotions, making his concerts an extremely captivating and moving experience.

Florian Christl & Ensemble

Florian Christl, his piano and an ensemble of strings are the ingredients for an intense concert evening of a special kind. The programme consists solely of pieces that the Munich-based pianist and composer has written himself. Some of these have already been released on CD, while others are new to the public. Composing is a personal, almost intimate process for Florian Christl, a process where he is alone with his music. Improvisation plays an important role: there are moments where Christl, as he says himself, escapes reality to feel alive, absorbed in his own thoughts. The result is a mixture of thrilling drama and lyrical contemplation combined with moving strings arrangements.

Florian Heinisch / Klavierabend

With this recital, Hamburg pianist Florian Heinisch returns to the Elbphilharmonie once again after acclaimed concerts in 2019 and 2023. The programme is a tribute to the enormous stylistic diversity that has made the musical city of Hamburg a unique force in the world of classical music to this day. »I may have been born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg« – this statement by John Lennon about his beginnings with the Beatles in the Hanseatic city also fits many biographies and careers in classical music.

Florian Boesch | Malcolm Martineau

Throughout his life, Robert Schumann sought the "poetic", most notably in his song cycle Dichterliebe. Florian Boesch, a leading Lieder singer, embodies this quest. In 1840, Schumann composed numerous songs, including Dichterliebe, uniting words and music. Boesch, with pianist Malcolm Martineau, masterfully explores the Romantic world of these Lieder.

Florian Krumpöck / Piano Recital

Following his successful Chopin and Brahms recital, the exceptional Austrian musician, Sony Exclusive Artist and »marvellous pianist« (Daniel Barenboim) returns to the Recital Hall of the Elbphilharmonie with a piano recital entirely dedicated to Franz Liszt on his own Bösendorfer concert grand piano. Krumpöck, who is also giving solo recitals in New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Salle Cortot Paris, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Musikverein and in Munich and Madrid during the current season, also performs as a conductor in leading concert halls and opera houses and enchants his audiences particularly in his dual role as pianist and conductor. His second solo programme at the Elbphilharmonie is all about captivating virtuosity, orchestral sound and the most intimate, soulful moments.

Peter Sloterdijk & Florian Boesch in Conversation

»Foreign is the foreigner only in a foreign land« – André Heller is using these words from a half-Dadaistic, half-philosophical text by the comedian and author Karl Valentin as the theme for his Reflektor festival. And with the lines »A stranger I arrived here, a stranger I go hence« begins perhaps the best-known song cycle of the romantic period: the »Winterreise« by Franz Schubert. At the start of André Heller’s »Reflektor«, the contemporary philosopher Peter Sloterdijk meets with the baritone Florian Boesch to talk about the sense of alienation emanating from the »Winterreise«. Florian Boesch, whom you can otherwise also experience in major opera and oratorio parts, has a particular passion for lieder. And the »Winterreise« with its lonesome wanderer on a futile journey through darkness and cold particularly attracted him: he has already recorded it twice and interpreted it countless times in concert – even theatrically. »The Winterreise is simply magnificent. The snowy landscape is its soul, its spirituality.« Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most important contemporary German philosophers and is internationally considered as a great thinker. This eloquent prolific writer is a popular voice in all great contemporary debates, from current political issues and climate change to feminism. His »Critique of Cynical Reason« is one of the best-selling philosophical books of the 20th century. Please note: This event takes place in German.

In St. Florian Monastery with Herbert Blomstedt

Plans & Drawers - WDR Big Band feat. Florian Ross

When Florian Ross was awarded the WDR Jazz Prize in 2006, the jury praised him as a "bridge builder between the widely ramified history of jazz and the multi-stylistic avant-garde." Now, five years after the release of the first CD "Front & Center," Ross and the WDR Big Band reunite for "Plans & Drawers." This time, Ross revisits previously unreleased material, plans that had been confined to his drawers. Together with the WDR Big Band, these works are now brought to (new) life at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, where Ross teaches Big Band arrangement.

The Simon & Garfunkel Story

In this affectionate homage, the West End success faithfully brings the unmistakeable sound of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel to the stage. With global hits such as »The Sound of Silence«, »Bridge over Troubled Water« and »Mrs Robinson«, the show takes the audience on a thrilling journey through time, following the careers of the likeable and philosophical folk-rock stars!

Xatar feat. heavytones

Two pop-cultural icons come together here: With their joint live programme »Das Letzte Mahl«, Xatar and heavytones break down genre boundaries and mix trademark soul/funk/jazz sound with hard rap from the street. When explosive brass sections, driving percussion, funky guitars and vintage keyboard pads meet gangster rap with ruthless lyrics, it promises nothing less than a new level of hip hop and energetic live entertainment.