Season 2025-26: World-class programming for young and old
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What to expect for this season?
Klaus Mäkelä, Great Maestros and world famous soloists
Klaus Mäkelä will conduct Bach’s St Matthew Passion, taking part in the orchestra’s long Passiontide tradition for the first time. He will also conduct Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Bruckner’s Eighth, several works by Richard Strauss, Berio’s Rendering and recent compositions by Norman and Thorvaldsdóttir.
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Honorary guest conductor Iván Fischer will lead the Ammodo Masterclass for young conductors as well as two exciting programmes including music by Mendelssohn, Smetana and The Beatles. Conductor emeritus Riccardo Chailly will highlight Prokofiev, and Jaap van Zweden will conduct the festive Annual Gala. Andris Nelsons is returning to conduct Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. The young and talented conductor Aurel Dawidiuk will crown his two seasons as Bernard Haitink Associate Conductor with two concerts in April. Alena Hron, Rafael Payare, Raphaël Pichon and Nathalie Stutzmann are all making their conducting debuts with the Concertgebouw Orchestra as well.
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We welcome many outstanding soloists in 2025/2026, including cellist Sol Gabetta, pianists Evgeny Kissin, Yuja Wang and Yunchan Lim and violinists Augustin Hadelich, Leonidas Kavakos and Frank Peter Zimmermann.
America 250
The United States celebrate 250 years of independence. To show our support for the ideas of individual freedom, democracy and diversity for which the Declaration of Independence laid the foundation, next season’s programming features ample music composed in the States and by American composers such as Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and Leonard Bernstein, culminating in June with a programme of works by Wynton Marsalis, William L. Dawson and others.
Music of today
All of the orchestra’s subscription series and tour programmes give room to contemporary music. Thomas Adés will conduct a concert featuring his commissioned work Inferno. Lotta Wennäkoski is writing a recorder concerto for Lucie Horsch, and Rob Zuidam’s new comissioned work Orewoet is based on a medieval poem by Hadewijch. Other substantial recent works on the programme are Andrew Norman’s Play, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir’s Archora, Guy Braunstein’s Abbey Road Concerto and two full-length trumpet concertos: one by Wynton Marsalis with solo trumpeter Miro Petkov and Jörg Widmann’s Towards Paradise with Håkan Hardenberger. Barbara Hannigan will both conduct and sing I am not a tale to be told by Iranian composer Golfam Khayam.
Young audiences
For many years we have been introducing new audiences to symphonic masterworks with our Essentials series, which has resulted in growing numbers of younger music fans. We even perform for the very youngest listeners, with an extensive and attractive educational programme guiding children of all ages through the world of classical music. Children aged 2 to four are welcome at our Children’s Music Day (Kindermuziekdag) twice a year, and for children 6 and older we organise two imaginative Children’s Concert programmes, one of which is also performed in the Main Hall for school children. From about age 12, children can enjoy the Family series, three appealing concerts with an entertaining and informative introduction.
Developing talent
For the fifth time, some 80 talented young people will come together from all over Europe for Concertgebouw Orchestra Young, an intensive summer programme followed by concerts as a youth orchestra, this time conducted by Elim Chan. The concerts take place in The Concertgebouw and in the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and Young will also open SAIL 2025 with a spectacular open-air concert featuring well-known singers. The Academy of the Concertgebouw Orchestra has helped to guide young people into orchestral careers for years; the orchestra itself employs no fewer than nineteen former Academy students as of next season; fourteen new members are starting their training.
Chamber music
For those who would like to hear the musicians of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in smaller formations, we perform many chamber concerts. In the Close-up series, our musicians play chamber music in The Concertgebouw’s Recital Hall; in the adventurous Bijlmer Klassiek series, Concertgebouw Orchestra members join forces with musicians with a variety of styles and backgrounds in the Bijlmer Parktheater. The Concertgebouw Orchestra has also started a collaboration with the Meervaart Theater in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, where the Children’s Concert Don Quixote will also be performed.