Bamberger Symphoniker, conducted by Chief Conductor Jakub Hrůša, heads to Asia for a nine-concert tour to some of the most prestigious venues in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

The tour begins in Japan on 26 May at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, where violinist Fumiaki Miura joins them for Bruch’s Violin Concerto No.1. Wagner’s Die Feen and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 complete the programme. On 27 May, they head to Utsunomiya Cultural Hall for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade, Brahms’ Symphony No.1, and joined by pianist Hayato Sumino for Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2. This programme is repeated at a second concert at Suntory Hall on 28 May.

Heading across the Sea of Japan to South Korea, they are joined by violinist Bomsori Kim for her interpretation of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No.1, alongside Smetana’s Overture from Two Widows and Brahms’ Symphony No.1 at Samsung Concert Hall in Yongin on 30 May. Journeying north to Seongnam Arts Center, this programme is repeated on 31 May. Ending the South Korean leg of the tour in the capital Seoul, they perform the Wagner, Bruch and Beethoven programme combination at Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall on 1 June. 

From Seoul, they head across the East China Sea to Taiwan. The first concert takes place at National Theater & Concert Hall Taipei on 3 June, where the Smetana and Bruch works are joined by Dvořák’s Symphony No.8 and Bomsori Kim. At the same venue on 4 June, pianist Lukáš Vondráček joins the tour to perform Schumann’s Piano Concerto, alongside the Brahms and Wagner works. The final concert of the tour takes place in the south of Taiwan, in Kaohsiung, at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts / WEIWUYING, for Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 performed by Lukáš Vondráček, and works by Beethoven and Coleridge-Taylor.