New York & South America Tour 2026 New York & South America Tour 2026

Behind the music: Luiz Felipe Coelho

Violinist Luiz Felipe Coelho takes us on a tour of his home city, São Paulo. It was here, as a teenager, that he first heard the Berliner Philharmoniker: he and his sister had sneaked into a concert conducted by Claudio Abbado.

A finale to share

Watch the final concert of the tour live and free of charge in the Digital Concert Hall. Join Kirill Petrenko, Víkingur Ólafsson and the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires on 23 October.

Education & Outreach

Education & Outreach are an integral part of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s work on tour. At each stop, we create opportunities for young people and local communities to engage with music and our musicians.

Behind the music: Barbara Kehrig

With bassoonist Barbara Kehrig, we explore Bogotá, Colombia: its old town, its famous Gold Museum and its fruit and vegetable market. Along the way, we talk basson with her.

São Paulo: A City with an Extraordinary Concert Hall

The Sala São Paulo is perhaps the most unusual concert hall on this tour. Housed in a historic railway station built in monumental Neoclassical style, it retains clear traces of its origins.

Behind the music: Vikingur Olafsson

On the Berliner Philharmoniker’s tour, Víkingur Ólafsson is the soloist in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Kirill Petrenko conducting. In this video, filmed at Carnegie Hall, Ólafsson talks about the work’s raw beauty and formidable challenges, and about the importance of spontaneity in performance.

The Americas tour on social media

Of course, we’re also bringing the tour to life across our social media channels. Not on social media? No worries – we’ve rounded up the loveliest posts for you right here.

First Time in Bogotá

For the Berliner Philharmoniker, getting to know a new concert hall is always exciting. On its Colombian debut, the orchestra performed at the Teatro Mayor in the capital, Bogotá. The hall opened in 2010, and its acoustics and stage technology meet the highest modern standards.

Music and Football in Times Square: BerlinPhil Meets BVB

On Saturday, Times Square became an open-air stage for a meeting of football and music. The Times Square Cup took place for the first time as part of Borussia Dortmund’s new international programme, the BVB World Street Series. Hundreds of young players, football figures, content creators, local residents and spectators came together for a day celebrating the game. Among them: musicians from the Berliner Philharmoniker!

Behind the music: Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson

For Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, New York is the city that shaped him most profoundly, both as a person and as a musician. There he served as principal flute of the Metropolitan Opera before moving to the same position with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and, in September 2025, to the Berliner Philharmoniker.

And back to Carnegie Hall, time and again

Whenever the Berliner Philharmoniker cross the Atlantic, concerts at the world-famous Carnegie Hall are an essential part of the journey. Since its debut there in 1955, the orchestra has returned time and again. Following the festive season-opening gala with tenor Jonas Kaufmann, three further concerts took place.

“In the end, I realised: that’s just who I am.”

New York holds particular significance for violinist Helena Madoka Berg. She spent two years studying at the Juilliard School, where the distance from home helped her develop her own musical voice.

A grand season opening in New York

The Berliner Philharmoniker began their three-week tour of North and South America yesterday with a festive gala evening at Carnegie Hall. Impressions from the arrival in New York through to the festive season opening.

Four cities, three time zones, one orchestra

This October, the Berliner Philharmoniker and chief conductor Kirill Petrenko will travel to New York, Bogotá, São Paulo and Buenos Aires. Four stops, four halls, four musical histories all their own. Care to join us?

Two Berliners in South America

Percussionist Raphael Haeger and violist Martin Stegner have a special connection to South America. In this interview, they talk about their experiences there and what they are looking forward to on the upcoming tour.

5 questions for “Also sprach Zarathustra”

On this tour, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko bring with them perhaps the most famous sunrise in music history: Richard Strauss’s “Also sprach Zarathustra”. But there is far more to the work than its celebrated opening. What is the piece actually about? And who was Zarathustra? Here are the answers to five key questions.

In rehearsal: Tchaikovskys Fourth Symphony

Extreme drama and brilliance of sound: Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony offers the Berliner Philharmoniker an impressive opportunity to showcase their qualities on this tour. This video documentary follows the orchestra’s rehearsals with chief conductor Kirill Petrenko. Violinist Christoph Streuli also shares how he approaches this monumental work as an orchestral musician.