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Kirill Petrenko stands in front of the orchestra and raises both arms upwards in a grand gesture. He is wearing a black suit. Musicians can be seen from behind in the foreground. — Kirill Petrenko with the Berliner Philharmoniker | Picture: Monika Rittershaus

The 2026/27 season opens with Kirill Petrenko conducting Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony as part of the Musikfest Berlin, which this year celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele. The festival once again brings international orchestras, soloists and conductors to the Philharmonie Berlin and other venues across the city.

The season features concerts with guest conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding, Iván Fischer and Zubin Mehta, as well as debut appearances and reunions with other major artists. We also look forward to the concerts with our Composer in Residence Brett Dean, who launches his residency by conducting a programme centred on his own music.

Opening the season with Kirill Petrenko

Kirill Petrenko stands in front of the orchestra and raises both arms upwards in a grand gesture. He is wearing a black suit. Musicians can be seen from behind in the foreground. — Kirill Petrenko with the Berliner Philharmoniker | Picture: Monika Rittershaus

Season opening concert with Kirill Petrenko

Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony.

Daniil Trifonov in a beige turtleneck sweater stands with arms crossed between two shelves filled with green and blue file folders in a library or archive. — Daniil Trifonov | Picture: Dario Acosta

Kirill Petrenko and Daniil Trifonov with Brahms and Strauss

Johannes Brahms’s First Piano Concerto and Richard Strauss’s tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra.

Kirill Petrenko in a black suit passionately conducts the orchestra. He holds a baton in his hand against a dark background. In front of him is a music stand with sheet music. — Kirill Petrenko | Picture: Monika Rittershaus

Through Rome with Kirill Petrenko and Ottorino Respighi

Giuseppe Martucci’s Notturno and Ottorino Respighi’s Fontane di Roma, Pini di Roma and Feste romane.

Musikfest Berlin 2026

24 days of international music culture

28.08. – 23.09.2026

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Guest conductors

Simon Rattle | Picture: Oliver Helbig

Sir Simon Rattle conducts de Falla, Janáček and a world premiere

Manuel de Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat, Cathy Milliken’s why feather yellow and Leoš Janáček’s orchestral rhapsody Taras Bulba

Daniel Harding in a navy jacket and jeans stands against a vertical wooden red wall, looking at the camera with his hands in his pockets. The lighting is soft and the mood is calm and contemplative. — Daniel Harding | Picture: Julian Hargreaves

Daniel Harding conducts Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony

Mahler imagined listeners being “struck down by clubs, only to be lifted on angels’ wings to the highest heights.”

Iván Fischer with a receding hairline sits smiling in a black suit against a dark, softly blurred background, with his arms resting casually on his knee. — Iván Fischer | Picture: Marco Borggreve

Iván Fischer conducts Mahler’s Fifth Symphony

Also on the programme: Joseph Haydn’s Sinfonia concertante, featuring members of the Berliner Philharmoniker as the four soloists.

Zubin Mehta — Zubin Mehta | Picture: Alberto Conti, Opera di Firenze

Zubin Mehta and Pinchas Zukerman with Bruch’s First Violin Concerto

Also on the programme: Mozart’s overture to the opera Le nozze di Figaro and Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony.

Maxim Emelyanychev | Picture: Andrej Grilc

Maxim Emelyanychev conducts Mendelssohn, Mozart and Haydn

With Mozart’s Fourth Horn Concerto, Yun Zeng, principal horn of the Berliner Philharmoniker, appears for the first time as soloist with his orchestra.

Introducing our Composer in Residence

Brett Dean with a beard sits alone in the middle of many empty wooden auditorium seats, looking forward with his arms resting on the seat in front of him. The hall is empty and well-lit.

Brett Dean conducts Brett Dean

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Soloists in the spotlight

Shin Young Lee with short brown hair wearing a black blazer stands by a river, with an ornate bridge in the background, looking over her shoulder and smiling slightly at the camera. — Shin Young Lee | Picture: Son Sungjoo

Shin-Young Lee and Marie-Pierre Langlamet

Arrangements of Borodin, Liszt, Handel, Saint-Saëns and Mahler for organ and harp.

Yunchan Lim with medium-length dark hair, wearing a light gray cardigan over a beige shirt and white t-shirt, sits in front of a plain light background, looking calmly at the camera. — Yunchan Lim | Picture: Shin-Joong Kim

Piano recital with Yunchan Lim

Yunchan Lim presents early sonatas and other piano works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

A smiling Pinchas Zukerman with gray hair, wearing a black shirt, holds a violin. The background is dark, making him and the violin stand out. — Pinchas Zukerman | Picture: Cheryl Mazak

Pinchas Zukerman with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker

Chamber music by Strauss, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

Chamber music, literature, world music and more

White musical notation and text sfz _ with an oversized bass clef symbol on a solid magenta background. The design combines music notation elements with modern typography. — Picture: Marianne Richert

“Satzwechsel” with Han Kang

Books and music have always shaped one another. Our new series Satzwechsel explores what happens when they meet.

Modern building with golden, angular architecture lit up at sunset, with dramatic clouds overhead. A sign on the façade reads Zusammen einzigartig. Trees and bikes are in front of the building. — The Philharmonie in the evening light | Picture: Stephan Rabold

Late Night Berliner Philharmoniker

The programme features Cathy Milliken’s In Play (world premiere), Brett Dean’s Imaginary Ballet and Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-flat major.

Chamber music hall interior view | Picture: Heribert Schindler

Berliner Philharmoniker Ensembles

Musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker perform works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn.

A group of ten people, including a seated elderly man with a cane and a pregnant woman, pose together outside near colorful crates, bottles, basins, and a blue gas cylinder. — Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino | Picture: Francesco Torricelli

World

In the World Series, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino can be heard performing traditional music from southern Italy.

Four musicians pose with string instruments in front of a dark background. They wear black evening dress and hold a cello, two violins and a viola in their hands. They stand close together and look at the camera with a relaxed expression on their faces. — Quatuor Ébène | Picture: Julien Mignot

Quatuor Ébène

The Quatuor Ébène performs three string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven – including the “Harp” Quartet and the “Rasumovsky” Quartet No. 3.

Group photo of the scholarship holders of the Karajan-Akademie in black concert attire. — Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker | Picture: Peter Adamik

Karajan Akademie

The programme includes works by Schoenberg and Mozart, as well as a new piece by the winner of the Claudio Abbado Composition Prize.

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