The festival for the music of the 21st century starts with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Alan Gilbert and two world premieres. Alex Paxton presents the work commissioned for the Claussen Simon Composition Prize, B. R. Deutsch sets Goethe to music.
In this concert as part of the Festival of 21st Century Music, the orchestra undergoes a transformation in sound. With a »Tour de Trance«, the audience then enters post-apocalyptic spheres.
There are many legends about John Henry. While building a railway in the USA, he is said to have competed against a steam engine using his muscles before dying in the race. The Bang on a Can All-Stars present the hypnotic version by Julia Wolfe.
The Dominican composer and pianist Michel Camilo, who has already been honoured with Grammy and Emmy awards, moves between jazz, classical, pop and world music. With the Symphoniker Hamburg, he presents his energetic piano concerto.
Helmut Lachenmann needs eight horns and a large orchestra for his work »My Melodies«. Trumpets and trombones play the leading role in the second work of the concert as part of the Festival for 21st Century Music.
Derya Yıldırım grew up in Hamburg's Veddel neighbourhood and was exposed to many different styles of music in her youth. She celebrates her successes with a mix of Anatolian folk music, psychedelia, pop and jazz – also on the new EP »Yarın Yoksa«.
Iveta Apkalna, titular organist of the Elbphilharmonie, and pianist Herbert Schuch have put together fascinating, rare works for organ and piano that unite the sound worlds of both instruments. In addition, there are two solo heavyweights.
Samara Joy turns everyone’s head with her incredible voice and has already won several Grammys for her laid-back jazz. With her latest album »Portrait«, she returns to the Elbphilharmonie after an acclaimed debut.
This splendid festival celebrating new music is entering its second round. Over the course of seven concerts, festival initiator Alan Gilbert and the outstanding radio orchestras perform 21st century music spanning the entire stylistic spectrum.
Sophie Hunger enchants the Elbphilharmonie with musical companions for an entire weekend. At her »Reflektor« festival, Dino Brandão, Soap&Skin, Erik Truffaz, the Metropole Orkest and, of course, herself will be performing.
»Future« is the motto of the Hamburg International Music Festival 2025, with Hamburg’s orchestras and top-class international guests once again putting together a varied programme for the glittering season finale.
The line-up and programme could not be a better match: Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock’s Balthasar Neumann Ensembles, soloists such as Julian Prégardien and Regula Mühlemann and Beethoven’s monumental »Missa solemnis« – a concert of superlatives!
Max Bruch sets Schiller's poem of the same name to music in his large-scale oratorio »Das Lied von der Glocke«. With a powerful sound, it is about nothing less than the course of life and its traditions. On stage: the large Hamburg Oratorio Choir.
He co-founded the Velvet Underground and shaped punk, post-punk and art rock for half a century. His latest album ‘POPtical Illusion’ also shows John Cale as a wild, socially critical rocker – despite the playful title.
Für diesen feinen Kammermusikabend treffen die vier Musiker des Bennewitz Quartets auf Veronika Hagen, Bratschistin des legendären Hagen Quartetts. Mit zwei Quintetten von Brahms und Dvořák schwelgen sie in sattem Streicherklang.
From 0 to 99: there is something for everyone at our workshops and entertaining concerts aimed at different age groups – not only at the Elbphilharmonie, but also in Hamburg’s city districts.
Just a few hours to go until the concert of the year, but then suddenly it all goes wrong. Become a member of the Elbphilharmonie team and save the concert – complete with tricky puzzles and exciting backstage tours.
Trumpet, bongo, synthesizer: in the workshops, the Elbphilharmonie's huge fund of instruments can be explored. Children and adults welcome! New to the programme: the keyboard instruments workshop.
Biscuit tins, rain jackets, paper boxes – there's music everywhere. With imagination and great joy, the musicians from Hamburg's Ensemble Resonanz invite us on a musical expedition. A concert stream for children from the age of 6.