Season concert ›DSO Schulmusiken‹

NEW: Academy Concert

Violinist and conductor Bernhard Forck is a specialist for early music and conducts the DSO concert on January 8 with soprano Anna Prohaska. Together with the members of the DSO's Ferenc Fricsay Academy, he conducted a two-day workshop on historical performance practice in January. The result can be experienced on January 22 at the Alte Pfarrkirche Pankow.

›Schöne Töne Live‹

Composer Sven Helbig presents everything he encounters, notices, receives, and likes on his musical travels to the audience of his ›Schöne Töne‹ (Beautiful Sounds) weekly programme on the radioeins radio station. Here, electronica, ambient, new or ancient music meet classical orchestral music in an original and effortless way; here, you can experience an adventure trip through music from all over the world and from all times. For the second season, Helbig will perform his ›Schöne Töne‹ programme live twice, together with the DSO, at the Haus des Rundfunks broadcasting centre in Berlin. He moderates the evening himself in an entertaining and enjoyable way, welcomes exciting musical guests who can be experienced together with the orchestra, and shares anecdotes from his almost infinite treasure trove of musical stories.

Hallervorden & Yellow Cello

Symphonic Mob – Berlins größtes Spontanorchester

How about making music together with orchestra professionals? How about experiencing the euphoria that flows through you when hundreds of people get together to make music for everyone as a joint endeavour? Anyone who’d like to can become part of the ›Symphonic Mob‹. Anyone who plays an instrument or likes to sing can participate in Berlin’s largest spontaneous orchestra – no matter whether in everyday life you play in an amateur orchestra or a big band, in a brass band, or you sing in a choir or just at home. So that as many people as possible can take part, there will be – as in the past – simplified parts you can download, in addition to the original sheet music; joint rehearsals with DSO musicians ensure optimum preparation for the big day. The conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguire will head up the eleventh ›Symphonic Mob‹. The German Youth Choir will also join in for the very first time.

DSO im Zoo

New Year’s Shows with Circus Roncalli

Celebrating New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day with the DSO and Circus Roncalli has been considered the absolute highlight at the turn of the year since 2003. The shows are sold out in no time at all. Bernhard Paul, Paul Daniel and the orchestra’s Managing Director Thomas Schmidt-Ott light a sensational firework with the DSO and an international circus ensemble. Breathtaking artistry, the funniest clowns and the most virtuoso clarinets the Tempodrom has ever seen enter into a symbiosis of symphonic beauty, glittering elegance, and pure thrills.

New Year’s Shows with Circus Roncalli

Celebrating New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day with the DSO and Circus Roncalli has been considered the absolute highlight at the turn of the year since 2003. The shows are sold out in no time at all. Bernhard Paul, Paul Daniel and the orchestra’s Managing Director Thomas Schmidt-Ott light a sensational firework with the DSO and an international circus ensemble. Breathtaking artistry, the funniest clowns and the most virtuoso clarinets the Tempodrom has ever seen enter into a symbiosis of symphonic beauty, glittering elegance, and pure thrills.

New Year’s Shows with Circus Roncalli

Celebrating New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day with the DSO and Circus Roncalli has been considered the absolute highlight at the turn of the year since 2003. The shows are sold out in no time at all. Bernhard Paul, Paul Daniel and the orchestra’s Managing Director Thomas Schmidt-Ott light a sensational firework with the DSO and an international circus ensemble. Breathtaking artistry, the funniest clowns and the most virtuoso clarinets the Tempodrom has ever seen enter into a symbiosis of symphonic beauty, glittering elegance, and pure thrills.

›Schöne Töne Live‹

Composer Sven Helbig presents everything he encounters, notices, receives, and likes on his musical travels to the audience of his ›Schöne Töne‹ (Beautiful Sounds) weekly programme on the radioeins radio station. Here, electronica, ambient, new or ancient music meet classical orchestral music in an original and effortless way; here, you can experience an adventure trip through music from all over the world and from all times. For the second season, Helbig will perform his ›Schöne Töne‹ programme live twice, together with the DSO, at the Haus des Rundfunks broadcasting centre in Berlin. He moderates the evening himself in an entertaining and enjoyable way, welcomes exciting musical guests who can be experienced together with the orchestra, and shares anecdotes from his almost infinite treasure trove of musical stories.

Closing Concert in the 2024/2025 Season

Krzysztof Urbański, photo: Marco Borggreve Ludwig van Beethoven was regarded as a revolutionary (but also an eccentric) in his time, while for subsequent generations he became the epitome of the Classical (and, for many, of what was finest in music). The turbulent reception history of his monumental Symphony No. 9 in D minor proves that the significance of a work is never defined once and for all. It has fascinated not only musicians and listeners with different tastes, but also representatives of different political options and adherents of extreme ideologies. Along the way, it has encountered both nationalism and hope-giving universalism. Today, one of the themes of the Symphony’s finale, considered by some of Beethoven’s contemporaries to be a sign of extravagance, is one of the most recognisable melodies in Western musical culture and is known as the anthem of the European Union.