How can a young Japanese woman carry on the legacy of the old jazz legends? The young Miho Hazama is a big name on the international jazz scene. In the US, she has been recognised as one of the 25 shooting stars who will shape the future of jazz. Now…

The Verbier Festival is an international classical music event that takes place each summer in the mountain town of Verbier, Switzerland. The Festival’s mission is to build a community of exchange between great masters and young artists from all over…

The Verbier Festival is an international classical music event that takes place each summer in the mountain town of Verbier, Switzerland. The Festival’s mission is to build a community of exchange between great masters and young artists from all over…

The Berliner Philharmoniker under Kirill Petrenko and Yuja Wang at the piano. Under the Berlin night sky on what is probably the most beautiful open-air stage in Europe, the Berliner Philharmoniker's end-of-season concert will celebrate an…

Meet conductor and cellist Klaus Mäkelä through the eyes of Bruno Monsaingeon. The legendary director discovered the young maestro's genius for the first time in 2021 at a concert by the Orchestre de Paris, when he was just 25 years old. A wave of…

LIVING BACH is a unique quest for J.S. Bach's universal secret. A journey across six continents to amateur musicians and singers, who have placed Bach at their “heart of matters”. All of them are planning to attend the world’s largest gathering of…

"Chopin. I am not afraid of Darkness" is an unusual documentary film asking whether classical music can heal places affected by war and suffering, taking the viewer on a cinematic journey through unique and sinister sceneries. It weaves the stories…

The first concert of the season features three works, each expressing in its own way the search for peace and reconciliation. The 2022-23 season opens with a programme that, like the rest of the season, has everything: Beethoven’s Ninth, a…

Schumann’s oratorio Paradise and the Peri stands apart from the usual oratorio repertoire because of its secular subject matter that was so typical of the German composer. Its beautiful melodies and loftiness of expression are definitely worthy of…

Copland wrote his ballet score Appalachian Spring for a 13-member chamber ensemble in 1944. Since then, it has had several orchestral arrangements. The one on the programme is by the evening’s conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Balancing it out is…