KD SCHMID

08/10/2025

We are hiring! 📢

KD SCHMID is looking for a (Senior) Artist Coordinator to join our London office. If you’re organised, detail-oriented, and enjoy working behind the scenes in classical music, this could be the right fit.

Apply by 9 November 2025. More information on our website!

08/10/2025

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and their Music Director Thomas Søndergård embark on a European tour this week.

The concerts feature a variety of piano concertos by Brahms, Beethoven and Ravel. The orchestra is joined by pianists Magdalene Ho, Jan Lisiecki for select dates, and Francesco Piemontesi for a small residency in Salzburg.

Tour dates:
10.10. – Heilbronn
11.10. – Eindhoven
12.10. – Boulogne-Billancourt
14.10. – Ljubljana
15.–17.10. – Salzburg
18.10. – Zagreb

📸Sally Jubb, Kaupo Kikkas, Ksawery Zamoyski (3), Camille Blake (3), Martin Bubandt

03/10/2025

The London Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Sir Antonio Pappano continue their European Tour with three dates in Germany, planned by KD SCHMID.

The concerts will feature soloists Seong-Jin Cho and Janine Jansen for dates in Essen and Hamburg and will feature programmes with works by Rossini, Shostakovich, Beethoven, Britten and more.

📸Mark Allan, Musacchio and Ianniello, Stephan Rabold, Christoph Koestlin, Marko Borggreve

02/10/2025

02/10/2025

Kazuki Yamada makes his debut this week with the Wiener Symphoniker in a Russian-French romantic programme.

He is joined for the two concerts by pianist Lukas Sternath for Rachmaninow’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with additional works by Lili Boulanger and Tschaikowski completing the programme.

📸Zuzanna Specjal

01/10/2025

Cornelius Meister steps in to conduct the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra this week for two concerts, following the cancellation of Santtu-Matias Rouvali due to illness.

The all-Wagner programme features the "Wesendonck Lieder" with soprano Cornelia Beskow, alongside "Der Ring ohne Worte" (arr. Lorin Maazel).

📸Matthias Baus

29/09/2025

Fazıl Say is in Berlin this week for a sold out recital at the Berliner Philharmonie.

After his interpretation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, the evening will continue with a curated “à la carte” selection of Say's own works.

📸Marco Borggreve

26/09/2025

TwoSet Violin kick off their tour in North America tomorrow in Vancouver, Canada, sharing the stage with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

The tour will take them to cities including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, Orlando, and Toronto, among others, blending classical music with the signature TwoSet charm audiences love.

For selected concerts, they'll be joined by pianist Sophie Druml.

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24/09/2025

Thomas Hampson is in Tokyo this week for two concerts with the NHK Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Bancroft.

They will perform a selection of songs from Mahler's "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" with the programme also featuring Sibelius' "Four Legends"

📸Marshall Lights Studio

23/09/2025

Conductor Izabele Jankauskaite is in Finland this week for her debut with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.

She will conduct a family concerts that will take concert-goers young and old on an adventure through the concert hall.

Later this season, Izabele Jankauskaite will debut with two other Finnish Orchestras: the Tapiola Sinfonietta and the Lapland Chamber Orchestra.

📸Theresa Pewal

22/09/2025

📢We're hiring! Join our Team in Berlin!

KD SCHMID is looking for a visionary Director of Operations to join our leadership team in Berlin.

For this job we are looking for fluent German-speaking professionals.

Application Deadline: 6 October 2025

Read more in the full job description on our website. Link in bio.

Application Deadline: 6 October 2025

22/09/2025

After a successful open-air concert to close out August, Lucas & Arthur Jussen now begin the concert hall chapter of their residency with the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony) this week.

They kick things off on 24 September with Saint-Saëns’ "Carnival of the Animals", conducted by Alain Altinoglu and featuring Friederike Kempter as narrator.

Just two days later, they return to the stage with Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat major, K. 365/316a as part of a programme that also includes Ravel’s "Ma mère l’oye" and "L’enfant et les sortilèges".

More highlights of their residency are scheduled for December and February 2026.

📸Jesaja Hizkia