KD SCHMID

21/11/2025

The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra () and Jukka-Pekka Saraste set off tomorrow for their tour through Germany and Austria.

Their programme features Outi Tarkiainen's "Songs of the Ice", Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1 and Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto in D with Pekka Kuusisto joining as soloist for three performances. In Frankfurt, Guido Sant’Anna will join the orchestra with Sibelius' Violin Concerto.

22. November, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
23. November, Alte Oper, Frankfurt
24. November, Brucknerhaus Linz
25. November, Wiener Konzerthaus

20/11/2025

Lucas & Arthur Jussen join the Münchner Philharmoniker and Tugan Sokhiev for three concerts in Munich before embarking on a joint tour.

At the Isarphilharmonie, they will perform Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Two Pianos.
The following week, they take Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor on tour, with performances in Toulouse, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Dortmund.

📸Jesaja Hizkia

19/11/2025

Augustin Hadelich and Dima Slobodeniouk join forces this week for three concerts with the New York Philharmonic.

Augustin Hadelich takes the stage in the first half with Barber’s Violin Concerto, while the orchestra presents the New York premiere of Sebastian Fagerlund’s "Stonework". The evening concludes with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 in the second half.

📸Suxiao Yang & Marco Borggreve

19/11/2025

Seong-Jin Cho gives the world premiere of Donghoon Shin’s Piano Concerto, written especially for him, tomorrow with the London Symphony Orchestra. The performance at the Barbican is part of his Artist Portrait series.

Under the baton of Maxime Pascal, the programme also includes world premieres by Omri Kochavi and Sasha Scott, both developed through the LSO Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Composers’ Scheme, alongside Pierre Boulez’s "Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna".

📸Stephan Rabold

18/11/2025

This week, Guido Sant'Anna takes the stage with two Nordic orchestras, performing Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D minor.

He kicks off with his Iceland debut in Reykjavik, joining the Iceland Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Tomáš Hanus.

Next, he appears with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, for the Frankfurt stop on their short tour through Austria and Germany.

This tour is planned and produced by KD SCHMID

📸Clara Evens

18/11/2025

This week, Tianyi Lu makes her debut leading the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck in two concerts.

Mezzo-soprano Bella Adamova joins her to present Alma Mahler's "Seven Songs" for medium voice and orchestra. The rest of the programme features Gustav Mahler's "Adagietto" from Symphony No. 5 and R. Strauss's tone poem, "Death and Transfiguration".

📸Marco Borggreve

17/11/2025

Christian Tetzlaff joins Marie Jacquot and the Wiener Symphoniker for two concerts at the Wiener Musikverein this week.

Together they will perform Sibelius’ Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in d minor, alongside Kristine Tjøgersen’s "Between Trees" and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8.

📸Giorgia Bertazzi

14/11/2025

Huge congratulations to Alain Altinoglu for being named Conductor of the Year at the International Opera Awards 2025!
The award recognizes his “visionary leadership and exceptional artistry.”

Alain’s next operatic engagement will be a new production of Hector Berlioz’ Benvenuto Cellini at La Monnaie.

📸Marco Borggreve

14/11/2025

13/11/2025

Dima Slobodeniouk returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra for three concerts.

The programme celebrates two Caribbean composers with the world premiere of Tania León’s Time to Time and Roberto Sierra’s Saxophone Concerto, featuring James Carter on saxophones. The second half concludes with Brahms’ Symphony No. 2.

📸Marco Borggreve

12/11/2025

Tonight, Cornelius Meister conducts the viola final of the 79th Concours de Genève.

Together with the competition’s finalists Brian Isaacs, Sarah Strohm and Ayaka Taniguchi, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, he will perform works by Albisetti, Bartók, Hindemith and Penderecki.

The concert will be livestreamed on the Concours de Genève YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com//

📸Matthias Baus

10/11/2025

Andris Nelsons begins his season-long residency as Artist in Focus at the Musikverein Wien with two concerts featuring the Gewandhausorchester and soloists Seong-Jin Cho and Augustin Hadelich.

Further performances during his residency at the Viennese concert hall will follow in February and May 2026, featuring the Gewandhausorchester and the Wiener Philharmoniker, presenting works by Mozart, Dvořák, Mahler, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and Richard Wagner.

📸Marco Borggreve