Martha Argerich Festival

Chamber music, music theatre, jazz and tango in the Laeiszhalle and beyond

Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich © Daniel Dittus

The Symphoniker Hamburg have been presenting the Martha Argerich Festival in the Hanseatic city since 2018. In its seventh edition this year, it returns to its original home in the Laeiszhalle with its multifaceted musical programme. It takes inspiration from last year’s extremely successful edition: In 2025, it will also take a detour and be a guest at the Ernst Deutsch Theater an der Mundsburg and the Fabrik in Altona for a cross-genre music theatre format and a concert evening. In 2024, the festival moved out into the city due to the renovation of the Laeiszhalle and played at various venues from Kampnagel to Kunsthalle and Mojo Club.

This year’s programme once again focuses on the encounter between artists of different generations and genres as well as different artistic genres between jazz, music theatre, traditional Bengali singing, film and classical music, which gives the festival a unique workshop character every year. This year, the pianist of the century Martha Argerih has invited Mischa Maisky, Edgar Moreau, Stephen Kovacevich, Maxim Vengerov, Nelson Goerner, Sara Davis Buechner, Elena Bashkirova, Gidon Kremer, Haggai Cohen-Milo, Ivo Pogorelich as well as friends, students and family members - a festival that is unique in the German festival landscape in its combination of world stars and up-and-coming talents, classical music and other art forms.

Events of the festival