Berlin, Germany – The highly anticipated Musikfest Berlin 2025 is set to open on August 30th with a performance by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor Klaus Mäkelä. The festival, organized by the Berliner Festspiele in cooperation with the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation, will run until September 23rd and feature over 30 concerts in the Philharmonie Berlin, the Chamber Music Hall, and Konzerthaus Berlin.
This year’s festival will showcase renowned ensembles from Paris, Rome, London, Ghent, the Netherlands, Sweden, South Korea, and Ukraine. Some of the world’s most acclaimed composers, including Helmut Lachenmann, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Robin de Raaff, and Lisa Streich, will also be in attendance. With a program featuring more than 120 works by 70 composers, Musikfest Berlin 2025 will present a diverse range of music, spanning from the Italian Renaissance to modern compositions of our time.
The festival will also celebrate the 100th birthdays of Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio, with five concerts dedicated to Lachenmann’s 90th birthday. Younghi Pagh-Paan and Arvo Pärt will also be honored with concerts by the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra and the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, respectively.
The opening weekend will feature performances by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, and five ensembles from Paris, including the Orchestre de Paris with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, and Les Siècles with Isabelle Faust and Sarah Aristidou. The Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia will also present works by Berio, accompanied by Daniel Harding and Magdalena Kožená.
Chamber music concerts with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Senza Sforzando ensemble from Odessa, as well as the world premiere of Marc Blitzstein’s Bauhaus opera “Parabola and Circula,” will add to the festival’s diverse program.
The festival will also be recorded by rbb and Deutschlandfunk Kultur, with four concerts being broadcasted live. For more information and updates, please contact press@berlinerfestspiele.de or call +49 30 25489223.
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