School Concerts
Making the first step easy: alongside countless concerts for the general public, the Elbphilharmonie also offers a concert programme for schools that is tailored to a variety of ages.
From the Classroom to the Elbphilharmonie
Off to the Elbphilharmonie! It is not just a concert hall – it is also a gateway to the world of music for school pupils. Specially adapted to the respective age groups, concerts are regularly put on just for school classes. Six imaginative staged productions await primary and senior primary school pupils in the Recital Hall, while older pupils can enjoy a famous French orchestra, a hip techno marching band and a young orchestra whose musicians are only a little older than their audience.
School Years 1-2
School Years 1-2
Le Grand Ballet
Eva Reiter electric viola da gamba
Tom Pauwels electric guitar
Régis Badel dance
Zonzo Compagnie & Ictus Ensemble production
A wild ball where the king in person invites people to dance – to music by Marin Marais, Frédéric Verrières and Eva Reiter, the current Artist in Residence at the Elbphilharmonie.
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 | 09:30 and 11:30
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 | 09:30
Duration: approx. 50 min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall
SOLD OUT
Programme »Le Grand Ballet« (German) (248.6 KB)
School Years 1-2
Chuuut
Quatuor Beat
Gabriel Benlolo percussion
Laurent Fraiche percussion
Jérôme Guicherd percussion
Adrien Pineau percussion
Philharmonie Luxemburg production
Pssst (in French: chuuut), the music's starting! Quatuor Beat invites us into a world of fantasy where instruments, marionettes and everyday objects come to life. With groovy music from Bach to Steve Reich.
Mon, 25 / Tue, 26 Nov 2019 | 09:30 and 11:30
Duration: approx. 50 min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall
SOLD OUT
Programme »Chuuut« (German) (161.7 KB)
School Years 1-2
Quartett! Ein Kartenspiel mit Beethoven
Dudok Quartet
Judith van Driel violin
Marleen Wester violin
Marie-Louise de Jong viola
David Faber violoncello
Oorkaan production
Four musicians play a round of Happy Families – and as they are mixing, collecting and swapping cards, they decipher quite by chance the magic code of Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 132. A concert like a card trick, without any words being used.
Mon, 13 Jan 2020 | 09:30 and 11:30
Duration: approx. 50 min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall
SOLD OUT
School Years 1-2
PAR!S! PAR!S!
Die Schurken
Stefan Dünser trumpet
Martin Deuring double bass
Martin Schelling clarinet
Goran Kovacevic accordion
Annechien Koerselman stage director
Nina Ball props
Three friends go back 100 years in a time machine – back to Paris, where they watch as the first aeroplane climbs into the sky. Exciting music theatre where the audience can join in, with music from Claude Debussy to the present day.
Mon, 20 / Tue, 21 Apr 2020 | 09:30 and 11:30
Duration: approx. 50 min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall
SOLD OUT
School Years 3-6
School Years 3-4
Nächste Ausfahrt: Lunar Plexus
Felix Kubin concept, composition, live electronics
Mark Boombastik beatboxing, live sampling
Ensemble Resonanz
Max Knoth arrangements
Naama Freedman performance
Annette ter Meulen lighting and stage design
Alessandra Leone visuals
Michael Göster stage design
Andreas Kunz stage design
Gloria Brillowska costume design
Elisa Erkelenz concept
Maj-Lene Tylkowski assistant director
Mark Schröppel stage director
Felix Kubin, Mark Boombastik and Ensemble Resonanz are on an intergalactic mission: they are collecting sounds for the Plexifon, a cosmic music machine. Guided by their spaceship's slightly confused computer Tipsy, they fly through the cosmos to planets made of water, parallel worlds and aggressive boulders. Hopefully Tipsy doesn't miss the right exit…
Mon, 16 / Tue, 17 / Wed, 18 Dec 2019 | 09:30 and 11:30
Duration: approx. 50 min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall
SOLD OUT
Teaching Resource »Nächste Ausfahrt: Lunar Plexus« (in German) (741.7 KB)
School Years 3-6
SOMNIA – WHAT DO DREAMS SOUND LIKE?
Ensemble Resonanz
Daniele Contino circus artist
Christian König circus artist
Gregor Dierck musical arrangements
Ricarda Schnoor lights
Anna Kurz stage, costume
Pietro Gaudioso assistant director
Dan Tanson stage director
What is dream, what is reality? In »Somnia« music becomes a gateway to magical worlds. A highly original and imaginative concert with Ensemble Resonanz, featuring circus arts and music by composers from Anton Bruckner to Giacinto Scelsi.
Mon, 8 / Tue, 9 / Thu, 11 / Fri 12 Jun 2020 | 09:30 and 11:30
Duration: approx. 50 min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall
School Years 5-6
Rune Thorsteinsson Patchwork
junge norddeutsche philharmonie
Henriette Groth bratch, clarinet, piano, boomwhackers
Ulrik Brohuus drums, percussion, boomwhackers
Rune Thorsteinsson bodypercussion, piano, aludo, boomwhackers
conductor Duncan Ward
They drum on everything they can get their hands on, even on their own bodies: now the three crazy Danish musicians of the Rune Thorsteinsson Patchwork join forces with a full-scale young symphony orchestra that has just as much energy as they do! Together they present a rousing crossover programme with new compositions.
Please note the change of title and artist.
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 | 09:30 (SOLD OUT) and 12:00
Duration: approx. 60 min. | Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall
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School Years 7-9
School Years 7-9
Meute
This is no common-or-garden brass band: when the eleven members of Hamburg formation MEUTE get going, the brass vibrates and the red and blue uniforms are all a-glitter. As a »techno marching band« they play house and techno music solely on acoustic instruments – and get people on to the dancefloor all over Europe.
Wed, 20 Nov 2019 | 09:30 and 12:00
Duration: approx. 60 min. | Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall
SOLD OUT
Teaching Resource »Meute« (in German) (324.2 KB)Programme »MEUTE« (German) (207.8 KB)
School Years 9-13
School Years 9-13
Les Siècles
Les Siècles
Dirigent François-Xavier Roth
»Dance!«
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (excerpts)
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes Galantes (excerpts)
Léo Delibes: Coppélia (excerpts)
Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
François-Xavier Roth is one of the most sought-after conductors of our time, and founder of the orchestra Les Siècles. The orchestra's young members play music on period instruments, some of them hundreds of years old, that bubbles with energy – especially in this programme, which consists entirely of dance music. The conductor himself hosts the concert.
Fri, 17 Jan 2020 | 10:00 (SOLD OUT) and 12:00
Duration: approx. 60 min. | Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall
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School Years 11-13
Sky Blue
junge norddeutsche philharmonie
Backstage-Jugendclub des Deutschen Schauspielhauses Hamburg
conductor Duncan Ward
Marie-Luise Otto costume
Marie Petzold, Michael Müller concept, direction
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 »Pastoral«
Excerpts from Joseph von Eichendorff's »Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts« (Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing)
The longing to break free of all constraints and set out to explore the world is a central motif of Eichendorff's 1826 novella »Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing« – and it's a longing that we all have inside us. A staged musical journey with a full orchestra and music from Beethoven's »Pastoral« Symphony.
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 | 19:00
Duration: approx. 120 min. | Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall
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