Arts Partnerships & Tours end and start the year with engagements across Europe & Asia
29/11/2023
Seeing in the year as we have ended it, Arts Partnerships & Tours continue to travel across the globe with our touring clients and artists
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Artistic Director Paavo Järvi finish the year in Dublin on 7 December at Dublin’s National Concert Hall.
Regarded as the ‘Father of the Symphony’, Haydn wrote 106 symphonies. This concert features two of his ‘London’ Symphonies, No.97 and No.102. The concert also features Beethoven’s iconic Piano Concerto No.1 with prize-winning pianist Fabian Müller, who has a special affinity with Beethoven’s music coming from the city of Beethoven’s birth, Bonn in Germany.
Philharmonia Orchestra welcomes the New Year in China by going on a seven-concert tour alongside conductor Lan Shui and soloist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
The tour takes them to Shenzhen Concert Hall (29 December), Guangzhou Opera House (31 December and 1 January), Shanghai AIA Grand Theatre (3 January), National Centre for the Performing Arts Beijing (5 and 7 January) and the new Beijing Performing Arts Centre (6 January). The programme across the tour includes works by Elgar, Mendelssohn and Dvořák, with Jean-Efflam performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.17 and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5.
Paavo Järvi begins the new year touring with Estonian Festival Orchestra. The tour sees the orchestra and their founder travel to Estonia at the Pärnu concert hall (16 January), Estonia concert hall (17 January), Konzerthaus Dortmund (19 January), Kultur und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle (20 January), Grosse Tonhalle (21 January), Wiener Konzerthaus (24 January) and finishing in Isarphilharmonie (25 January).
Cellist Sol Gabetta joins the orchestra in Stuttgart, Vienna and Munich, performing Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, with Maximilian Hornung performing in Zurich. The programme across the tour includes works by Silvestrov, Pärt, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.
Concertgebouw Amsterdam is the destination for Lahti Symphony Orchestra on 28 January, led by Dalia Stasevska. Violinist Leila Josefowicz makes her violin sing and growl in Stravinsky’s neoclassical Violin Concerto, one of his most popular and accessible pieces. The programme ends with Sibelius’ Symphony No.5.
Klaus Mäkelä and Oslo Philharmonic travel to Hamburg at the start of 2024 to perform two concerts on 31 January and 1 February. Performing in Hamburg’s famous Elbphilharmonie, the Wednesday concert includes Larcher’s Symphony No.2 and Mahler’s Symphony No.4, performed by frequent collaborator Johanna Wallroth. Then, the Thursday concert includes Rimski-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Tchaikovsky’s The Storm and Dutilleux’s Cello Concerto, performed by Truls Mørk.