School Concerts

The Elbphilharmonie is keen to delight and inspire – especially so guests who may be attending a concert for the first time. As a gateway to the world of music, the Elbphilharmonie welcomes school pupils in particular. There are regular concerts for school classes, and these are tailored to the respective age group. Primary schoolchildren can enjoy their first concert experience with imaginative staged productions. Concerts in a club atmosphere, with current topics as themes and featuring virtuosic ensembles like Quatuor Beat are on the specially tailored programme for older pupils.

Supported by the Stiftung Elbphilharmonie

Lin Chen percussion
Lini Gong vocals
Heike Klockmeier puppeteer
Stephan von Löwis of Menar idea, concept

»Geschöpft« takes the audience away to the wonderful sound world of China. There, legend has it, a woman with a snake tail – Nü Wua – created animals and people, and fought fires and floods, in the distant past. The story is brought to life with Lin’s instruments, Lini’s wonderful voice and Heike’s puppetry.

Fri, 8 & Mon, 11 Mar 2024 | 9:30 & 11:00
Duration: approx. 45 min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall

A production by KinderKinder e.V.
With the support of GALENpharma

Advance booking starts 7 November 2023

Quatuor Beat
Gabriel Benlolo percussion
Hervé Trovel percussion
Jérôme Guicherd percussion
Laurent Fraiche percussion

Four strange travellers appear. Who are they? And what is it about those mysterious glasses they’re fighting about? In »Click’n Drums« with the virtuosic French percussion ensemble Quatuor Beat, it’s all about the rhythm. The four musicians drum, run, dance and clap – and perform music by a composer you wouldn’t normally associate with percussion: Johann Sebastian Bach.

Fri, 8 & Mon, 11 September 2023 | 9:30 & 11:30
Duration: approx. 60 min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall

Advance booking starts 13 June 2023

Ensemble Resonanz
Antje Pfundtner concept, choreography, stage direction
Yvonne Marcour stage, costume
Michael Lentner lighting design
Anne Kersting script

What happens when people make music together? Do their instruments have a soul? The dancer and choreographer Antje Pfundtner exposes the mysterious rituals of a concert together with seven musicians from Ensemble Resonanz – with movement, music and plenty of humour.

Fri, 5 Apr, Mon–Thu, 8–11 Apr 2024 | 9:30 & 11:30
Duration: approx. 60min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall

In cooperation with Ensemble Resonanz

Advance booking starts 7 November 2023

Alina Loewenich recorder, performance, music
Tobias Gubesch clarinet, performance, music
Leonhard Spies guitar, performance, music
Silas Eifler double bass
Tina Jücker acting

»SPLASH!« is all about water. Water is the source of life – and it can be an elemental power or an enormous amount of fun. But water is also a valuable and limited resource. In this music theatre performance, the musicians create a variety of sound spaces, and invite you to playfully engage with the theme of water.

Fri, 19 & Mon, 22 Apr 2024 | 9:30 & 11:30
Duration: approx. 60 min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall

A production by Theater Marabu

Advance booking starts 7 November 2023

Rachel Koblyakov violin
Jack Adler-McKean tuba
Noè Rodrigo Gisbert percussion
Youn-Jin Seo costume design
Jahman Davine stage direction

Violins and tubas don’t seem to have much in common at first glance: one is made of wood, the other of brass; one plays high notes, the other low. But in »Tubalirum«, the two instruments get to know each other, establish a rapport, and show – with support from various percussion instruments – how great they are together. With music by Arcangelo Corelli and Astor Piazzolla.

Fri, 6 & Mon, 9 Oct 2023 | 9:30 & 11:30
Duration: approx. 50 min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall

Advance booking starts 13 June 2023

Ensemble Resonanz
David-Maria Gramse remix, live elktronic
Katrin Bethge visuals
Maj-Lene Tylkowski visuals assistent
Elisa Erkelenz idea, concept
Anne-Marie Herckes costume design
Dan Tanson stage direction, concept

When you move to another country, you’re jumping into cold water. So many new things to see and hear can be exciting and fascinating, but one has to get one’s bearings first – and deal with inevitable homesickness. In this thrilling production young listeners set off on a grand journey for America, the New World.

Fri, 15, Mon, 18 & Tue, 19 December 2023 | 9:30 & 11:30 Uhr
Duration: approx. 60 min | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall

In cooperation with Ensemble Resonanz

Advance booking starts 5 September 2023

Balkan Paradise Orchestra

As one of the few all-female brass bands, the Balkan Paradise Orchestra from Barcelona gets concert halls and festival stages around the world buzzing. Trumpet, tuba, trombone, percussion: when the eleven musicians unleash the music, the audience can’t help but dance. Their music is inspired by the traditional Balkan sound, Latin and electronic, and they perform it on stage in a captivating choreography.

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 | 9:30 & 12:00
Duration: approx. 60 Min. | Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall

Advance booking starts 5 September 2023

Stegreif Orchestra

The Stegreif Orchestra is famous for their unconventional concerts, and the young musicians now bring the pressing issues of our time into the concert hall: climate change, poverty and hunger, flight and migration. Under the title »Symphony of Change«, they have developed a symphony that engages with the UN’s 17 goals for sustainable development. They drew their inspiration from works by four famous women composers: Wilhelmine von Bayreuth, Hildegard von Bingen, Clara Schumann and Emilie Mayer.

Fri, 3 Nov 2023 | 9:30 & 12:00
Duration: approx. 60 Min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall

Advance booking starts 5 September 2023

In »How to Concert«, school-children take charge of the programme: in several workshops, they learn the methods of designing concerts and get to know the various departments of a concert hall. They present genres, artists and possible concert themes to each other, and gradually curate their own concerts – by teenagers for teenagers.

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 | 9:30 & 12:00
Duration: approx. 60 min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall

Advance booking starts 6 February 2024

ensemble reflektor

A number of orchestras have discovered the genre of video game music and are basing concerts around it. And among gamers, live events where you watch legends in action are very popular. »Let’s Play« now combines these two formats. In a »live gaming concert«, various computer games are streamed on the big screen in the Grand Hall, and played in interaction with orchestral music and the sounds of a Foley artist.

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 | 18:00
Tue, 13 Feb 2024 | 12:00
Duration: approx. 75 min. | Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall

Advance booking starts 7 November 2023

Members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra

A steaming plate of curry, the snow-capped Alps, grandma’s wrinkles – “home” means something different to each one of us. The world-famous Mahler Chamber Orchestra, whose members come from more than 20 countries, explores the subject by heading on a musical journey. Their programme was inspired by conversations with young people: Béla Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances, the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in C Minor, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Overture to »Don Giovanni«.

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 | 9:30 & 12:00
Duration: approx. 60 Min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall

Advance booking starts 13 June 2023