Tickets go on sale today for many September concerts in the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle. Highlights include the season opening with Yo-Yo Ma and the »Harbour Front Sounds« festival. Discover all concerts and book tickets here.
According to the Guardian, Tigran Hamasyan is »the hottest pianist in jazz«. At Elbphilharmonie Summer, he and his trio will be blending folk music from Armenia with elegiac harmonies, minimal sounds, and DJ and rap influences.
It’s almost time! The Harbour Front Literature Festival is starting on 9 September. From Simone Buchholz to Joachim Meyerhoff, from Heinz Strunk to Carolin Emcke: for six weeks, it’s all about great literature in the Port of Hamburg.
Europe and America are connected by so many things – not least music! In the season opening, Alan Gilbert and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra demonstrate those links between the Old and the New World. Star guest for the evening: master cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
The press calls it »pure magic« when Teodor Currentzis and the SWR Symphony Orchestra take to the stage. The classical music star and his orchestra now put on an evening of Prokofiev in Hamburg. Also featuring the award-winning pianist Yulianna Avdeeva.
In his new work »A House of Call«, Heiner Goebbels processes voices that he heard on his travels or at different encounters, and collected in his imaginary notebook. The piece is played by the Ensemble Modern, with which he has a close relationship.
The whole Elbphilharmonie is his playground: together with his partner Yulia Mahr, composer Max Richter curates a weekend of video and music, his own works and fantastic guests like Nina Hoss and Ensemble Resonanz.
Great voices in an intimate setting: opera star Asmik Grigorian performs Russian songs, Sabine Devieilhe seduces with French love songs, and the baritones Florian Boesch and Matthias Goerne focus on fascinating 20th-century pieces.
Tickets are available now for the popular NDR family concerts for children aged 6+: Winnie-the-Pooh experiences wild adventures with his friends. And there’s lots of fun and laughter in »Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo«: with tongue twisters and popular earworms.
Our popular Twinkle Concerts for children, and our »Distant Sounds« series for people with dementia and their families, can be experienced in a number of Hamburg districts, in addition to the Elbphilharmonie.
Top-quality acts and fine grooves in the Grand Hall – singer-songwriters like Gaye Su Akyol and folk, rock and pop artists like Rhiannon Giddens and Dave Longstreth from the Dirty Projectors gather in the Hanseatic city for »Elbphilharmonie Summer«.
»Turkish rock music’s biggest hope« is what the New York Times called Gaye Su Akyol, whose cosmopolitan sound is a blend of Middle Eastern folk music, post-punk, grunge and psychedelic surf-rock. She now comes to the Elbphilharmonie with her band.
This is already the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra’s third guest performance at Elbphilharmonie Summer: together with the star baritone Matthias Goerne, the young musicians will be giving the closing concert this year under conductor Manfred Honeck.
Mahler and black music, indie-pop and Bach: Dave Longstreth, composer and front man of the Dirty Projectors, blends music styles in new and unexpected ways. Together with the stargaze ensemble, this time he’s looking at the big picture – the earth.
A pianist loses both hands in an accident and is given the hands of an executed murderer by transplant: a gripping silent film, with spectacular music by Johannes Kalitzke performed by Hamburg’s Ensemble Resonanz.
A ride on Europe’s longest escalator takes two and a half minutes – more than enough time to ask a few soul-searching questions.
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»I know that mankind can –and must – change things! The lead singer of Dirty Projectors talks about his first orchestral work and our responsibility towards nature.
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