Philharmonic Academy

Philharmonic Academy

Two world premieres meet with a good old friend in the 3rd Academy Concert. Things kick off with Stefan Schäfer, principal double bass of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, besides being a passionate chamber musician and composer. His »Reflections on a Good Morrow« is a work commissioned by the orchestra. After something new there is something familiar to follow: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his »Nachtmusique«. A demanding work where Mozart – yet again – exceeded the expectations of his day, composing chamber music with an almost symphonic flair.

Philharmonic Day – RSPO Orchestra Academy

Since 2016, an "orchestra academy" has been affiliated with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. The international RSPO Orchestra Academy is a one-year advanced academic program for young musicians. Under the guidance of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic’s section leaders and the School of Music in Piteå, the musicians receive intensive training in solo performance, chamber music, and orchestral playing.The academy also showcases its musicians through a series of public chamber music concerts. In this performance, they present new works by Angelo Gkamotsos, a composition student in Piteå, and by the American composer and musicologist Flannery Cunningham.Strollers and prams cannot be brought into Konserthuset Stockholm and are best left at home. A designated stroller tent is set up outside the entrance, where prams can be left, subject to space availability.

Free Lunchtime Concert: Netherlands Philharmonic Academy

For many years now, Lunchtime Concerts have been held in the Main Hall and the Recital Hall. The concerts range from public rehearsals by the Concertgebouworkest, to chamber music performances by young up-and-coming artists.For Lunchtime Concerts you will require a free ticket, which you can buy online. Doors to the concert hall open about 30 minutes before the Lunchtime Concert starts.We offer a broad range of music: the majority of concerts include classical music, but you can sometimes hear more modern repertoire. The concert programme is announced one week in advance on our website. The concerts last thirty minutes and are free of charge. Visitors are advised that these concerts are suitable for children from six years old.

Oslo Philharmonic

Two years after his brilliant debut at Musikfest Berlin with the Royal Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam, shooting star Klaus Mäkelä will perform a programme with the Oslo Philharmonic in 2024 that includes the much played and frequently misunderstood Fifth Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich – and a dialogue with birds.

Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra

The Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Christoph Gedschold, presents a profound programme: Haydn’s »Farewell Symphony« and Wagner’s »Prelude« and »Liebestod« from »Tristan und Isolde« reveal a close relationship in terms of content, as death and farewell are fundamentally related. Schumann’s 2nd Symphony is diametrically opposed to this, even though this work was composed during a period of deep crisis in the composer’s life.

20 years of the Orchestra Academy – Gala Concert of the BRSO Academy

Vienna Philharmonic / Lorenzo Viotti

Was it winter when Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his »Capriccio espagnol«? One can certainly vividly imagine the composer well warpped-up and seated before the fireplace as he dreamt his way to warmer regions. But whenever it was written, the work conjures up the flamenco, fiestas and mild nights under a southern sky. With their musical journey beyond the boundaries of space and time, the fantastic Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of young Swiss conductor Lorenzo Viotti once again show that their reputation as one of the world’s best orchestras is well-deserved. Sergei Rachmaninov’s »Toteninsel« (Isle of the Dead): is a strong contrast to Rimsky-Korsakov’s »Capriccio«. Inspired by an Arnold Böcklin painting, the composer depicts life after death in the swelling, rushing sound of infinity. And in his Seventh Symphony of 1884, Antonín Dvořák likewise portrays a different world: with dramatic conflicts and echoes of Bohemian folk songs, the music dreams of the political independence of the Czech Republic, which was still part of the Hapsburg Empire at the time.

Munich Philharmonic / Daniel Harding

Daniel Harding is by no means a stranger to the Munich Philharmonic. The British conductor regularly works with the venerable orchestra, which celebrated its 130th anniversary at the beginning of the season. An eventful time full of musical highlights: there is surely no other orchestra that performs the great repertoire as magnificently and colourfully as the Philharmonic from the Bavarian capital. Take Gustav Mahler’s phenomenal Symphony No. 5, for example. When it was premiered in 1904, the large-scale work, with its five expansive movements, broke through the boundaries of what had previously been considered possible. Surrounded by an infernal orchestral frenzy, the fourth movement alone provides some sense of relaxation. After it was featured in Visconti’s film »Death in Venice«, this enchanting adagietto became Mahler’s most popular creation. With his 1926 symphonic poem »Tapiola«, a musical invocation of the Finnish forest god Tapio, Jean Sibelius composed his last great orchestral work.

Czech Philharmonic / Semyon Bychkov

Who better than Katia and Marielle Labèque—surely the most famous piano duo of our day—to render the spirit of Mozart’s sublime concerto? Mahler’s Fifth Symphony then draws us into a whole other world, with its opulence and taut expression.

Czech Philharmonic / Semyon Bychkov

The new star of British cello Sheku Kanneh-Mason takes on Shostakovich’s formidable Concerto No. 1, before conductor Semyon Bychkov and the venerable Czech Philharmonic tackle the composer’s most famous symphony.