Thank You For The Music: ABBA Symphonic

Thank You For The Music: ABBA Symphonic + Livestream

From 'Mamma Mia' to 'Dancing Queen,' the captivating hits of the Swedish pop icons get hearts dancing. The WDR Funkhausorchester revives the brilliance of the ABBA era, letting the band's greatest successes shine anew in symphonic light.

XBerg & Du: the festival for you and Kreuzberg

A festival organised by young people and young adults from Kreuzberg, entirely inspired by their ideas: That is “Xberg & Du”. The Berliner Philharmoniker initiated the “Xberg & Du” project together with local cooperation partners. The event planning and content programme for the festival is in the hands of young people. The result is a colourful festival programme with music, breakdancing, poetry slam, photo box, photo exhibition, a wheel of fortune and much more. Delicious catering is also provided. Admission is free and there is one free drink per person.

XBerg & Du: the festival for you and Kreuzberg

A festival organised by young people and young adults from Kreuzberg, entirely inspired by their ideas: That is “Xberg & Du”. The Berliner Philharmoniker initiated the “Xberg & Du” project together with local cooperation partners. The event planning and content programme for the festival is in the hands of young people. The result is a colourful festival programme with music, breakdancing, poetry slam, photo box, photo exhibition, a wheel of fortune and much more. Delicious catering is also provided. Admission is free and there is one free drink per person.

NOSPR symphonic concert for schools / In the glow of the South

Ultraschall – Festival for new Music

Vladimir Jurowski sees himself as a politically aware artist who intervenes and takes a stand on current events. The RSB’s concert at Ultraschall Berlin is therefore particularly characterised by current affairs.Olga Rayeva: On the seaMany of her compositions deal with the theme of the sea. This is no coincidence: her early childhood is deeply connected with two cities: Moscow, where there is no sea, and Mariupol, where her mother’s parents lived at the time. She was always very happy in Mariupol and dreamed her whole life of being back there one day, near the somewhat murky, green Sea of Azov. She would then walk along an alleyway in this southern city to the small theatre…Now neither the theatre nor the town itself exists.This is a personal tragedy for Olga. The events of the last few years have destroyed her to a large extent internally. And the only way for a composer to deal with trauma is to write music.Elnaz Seyedi: a mark of our breathElnaz Seyedi’s compositions are influenced by literature, architecture and the visual arts as well as her studies in computer science. The sounds often oscillate between rigour and delicacy. Her work “a mark of our breath” was premiered as part of the concert series ‘Miniatures of Time’ – a series of twelve short orchestral pieces commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk from various composers. They all deal with issues of our time, such as sustainability or the coronavirus crisis. Elnaz Seyedi himself writes about a mark of our breath:“The composition was created in 2021 during a stay in Wendland. Inspired by the expansive view with three quarters of the sky, which is different in every weather and every time of day, but actually always spectacular, and a landscape with a rich spectrum of green and later in autumn of yellow. The piece begins in this peaceful landscape, which gradually breaks up from within. The human voices – played and sung simultaneously in the brass instruments – are on the one hand part of this landscape, enriching it with their very special colour. On the other hand, their flipside is the destruction of the seemingly original.”Farzia Fallah “Traces of a Burning Mass” for orchestraLike Seyedi, Farzia Fallah was also born in Iran. Her orchestral work, for which she received the Heidelberg Women Artists’ Prize, was written during the protests against the violent death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in autumn 2022: musical traces of a burning, angry, freedom-loving mass. The concert can be heard on the radio on the following dates:Deutschlandfunk Kultur: 18 January 2024, 8:03 pm rbbKultur: 12 March 2024, 11:03 pm About the festival:The “Ultraschall – Festival for New Music” presents recently created works in a music-historical context that goes back to the beginnings of the post-war avant-garde, a period that now spans more than 70 years.In recent years, more and more premieres and first performances have been presented at the festival, and some of the works are also commissioned by the festival, but the approach remains the same: to give space to current trends in contemporary music and at the same time to categorise these current productions in terms of music history.

Ultraschall – Festival for New Music

Late Night Music for the movie “All the beauty and the bloodshed”

Amidst an exhibition of works by the famous American photographer Nan Goldin, you can hear the music for the film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras), which focuses on Goldin’s fight against the USA’s opioid crisis.How to find us, address and more

Guest performance Music makes you happy — and saves the world. Musical cabaret

Music makes people happy and saves the world.

Discoveries for the Winds

Discoveries for the Winds