Beethoven Cycle with the Quatuor Ébène, Part 2
Chamber Music Hall
Klaus Mäkelä conducts Stravinsky’s “The Firebird”
Main Auditorium
Discourse at the Philharmonie
The USA and Germany – a partnership in crisis
Chamber Music Hall Upper Foyer
Chamber Wind Music with Ensemble Wien-Berlin and Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Chamber Music Hall
A Czech evening with Jakub Hrůša
Main Auditorium
Stories
Klaus Mäkelä, the Man Who Knows No Fear
Although Klaus Mäkelä is only 30 years old, he has already arrived at the top of the world. He currently conducts the Orchestre de Paris and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and he is the designated chief conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Following his successful debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker in spring 2023, the orchestra has invited him a third time. A portrait.
Portrait
“Buzzing and ringing day and night”
That it should be a composer, of all people, who loses his hearing is among the great tragedies of music history. For Beethoven, this catastrophe occurred at a time in his life when he was striving to establish himself as an independent artist and to find his own path. The inexorable loss of his hearing became an existential ordeal that left a lasting mark on his thoughts, emotions and composing.
History
“I threw my tailcoat into the audience and said ‘Adieu!’”
There is no one quite like Brett Dean in the history of the Berliner Philharmoniker. He played viola in the orchestra for 14 years – while also improvising in Kreuzberg clubs during that time. He left the Philharmoniker in 1999 and became an internationally sought-after composer. For the 2026/27 season, Brett Dean will be Composer in Residence with his former orchestra.
Interview
The open question
In this section we answer questions that you have always wanted to ask the Berliner Philharmoniker. This time: How does the application process work when a post with the Berliner Philharmoniker needs to be filled?
The open question
Offers
News
New Edition: Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”
To mark the 300th anniversary of Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, the Berliner Barock Solisten, together with Daishin Kashimoto, first concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker, are releasing a new recording of this famous concerto cycle.
Witiko Adler has died
The long-standing owner and managing director of Konzertdirektion Adler shaped Berlin’s musical life from 1948 onward.
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson passes probationary period
Solo flautist Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson has successfully completed his probationary period with the Berliner Philharmoniker and is now an official member of the orchestra. Congratulations!