Tour to Scandinavia, Portugal and Switzerland

25 Nov 2012

Last applause in Geneva after an intensive, successful and interesting tour through Europe! We’ve made new friends, seen…

25 Nov 2012

Interesting perspectives from our tour photographer Michael Trippel. Thank you Michael for being invisible, inaudible…

25 Nov 2012

Our solo-flutist Andreas Blau gets a well deserved extra applause for his incredible playing in Daphnis and Chloé (8…

25 Nov 2012

Last concert at the beautiful Victoria Hall in Geneva

photos Michael Trippel

25 Nov 2012

Last rehearsal on tour.

Photos: Michael Trippel

25 Nov 2012

24 Nov 2012

Concert at the Gulbenkian Hall

Photos: Michael Trippel

24 Nov 2012

24 Nov 2012

The public loved the Education concert.

Photos: Michael Trippel

24 Nov 2012

Every player had some small role. Sarah Willis for instance applied to be the next MGM lion…

Photos: Michael Trippel

24 Nov 2012

Travelling around the world with our Brass Ensemble, moderated by Klaus Wallendorf (in Portuguese!!!). One of our…

23 Nov 2012

Three of our academists played a chamber concert yesterday evening at the Goethe Institute Lisbon. Thanks for the…

23 Nov 2012

Goalkeeper Wieland Welzel in action. He is our principal timpanist. By the way: Huge Thank You to our sponsor Deutsche…

23 Nov 2012

What to do with a free day? Our Philharmonic football team decided to play a little match against the Gulbenkian…

23 Nov 2012

Good bye Iceland, hello Portugal! Everybody is looking forward to their first really free day (no travelling, no concert…

23 Nov 2012

Harpa, emtpy and with public.

Photos: Michael Trippel

22 Nov 2012

Thanks so much to the Blue Lagoon for opening an hour early to let our orchestra into their amazing hot blue pool on the…

21 Nov 2012

Sir Simon trying to make a Good-bye speech, knowing that nobody would like to say Good bye…

photo Michael Trippel

21 Nov 2012

An Icelandic icon: Bjoerk listened to her musician colleagues from Berlin

photo Michael Trippel

21 Nov 2012

21 Nov 2012

Icelandic way to herd cows…

Photos: Michael Trippel

21 Nov 2012

Exkursion to Gullfoss

Photos: Michael Trippel

21 Nov 2012

Strokkur seen by our photographer Michael Trippel

21 Nov 2012

Today we had time to watch the Geysir Strokkur, who has a tourist-friendly eruption rhythm.

Photos: Alexander von…

21 Nov 2012

There are lots of ways to explore Iceland. Two of the most favourite ones above.

What a fascinating island!

photo Markus…

20 Nov 2012

The absolute Highlight of the tour so far: Northern lights!

Photos: Michael Trippel

20 Nov 2012

Welcome to Iceland! Great weather, great new Harpa hall.

Photos: Michael Trippel

20 Nov 2012

On the way to Iceland some serious work on scores.

Photos: Michael Trippel

19 Nov 2012

Now we know how to reach Wagner! Why hasn’t anybody told us before???

Photos: Michael Trippel

19 Nov 2012

Concert impressions by Michael Trippel

19 Nov 2012

credit Markus Weidmann

19 Nov 2012

A warm welcome by Stefan Forsberg of the Konserthuset and an interesting perspective from our photographer Michael…

19 Nov 2012

Welcome to Stockholm! Our cases arrived in time and had their rooms… We arrived obviously too early and had to wait for…

19 Nov 2012

Helsinki impressions by Markus Weidmann

18 Nov 2012

If you dare to leave Finnland without having been in the woods, at the Helsinki airport you get your chance to at least…

18 Nov 2012

Helsinki Horn Party- horn players from the Helsinki Phil and Finnish Radio prepared a finnish banquet for us after the…

18 Nov 2012

Fantastic hall! Fantastic audience! We will be back!!!

Photos: Michael Trippel

18 Nov 2012

Rehearsal impressions from Helsinki

Photos: Michael Trippel

18 Nov 2012

Concertmaster Daishin Kashimoto and Sir Simon having a fun interview during the flight to Helsinki

Photos: Andreas Knapp

18 Nov 2012

Back home: Principal Double Bass Janne Saksala

Photos: Michael Trippel