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Attending the Annual Gala?
We’re delighted to welcome everyone who cares about the Concertgebouw Orchestra to our annual gala. The evening starts with a reception at 7:30 p.m., followed by a wonderful concert conducted by our future chief conductor Klaus Mäkelä and then an exciting afterparty.
Donors receive 2 tickets
As a donor, you help enable us to make the best music possible, so we’re delighted to help you get more involved with our orchestra and the musicians! Music lovers who participate in our donation programme (from Patron level) will receive two tickets to the Annual Gala. Donors have even more benefits. Take a look at the different ways you can support the orchestra on our donation information page.
Become a donor and receive two free tickets to the Annual Gala
About this concert
The Annual Gala is our yearly festive gala concert. It starts with a welcome reception at 7:30 p.m. and closes with an extravagant afterparty that ends at midnight.
Dress code: black tie
After the reception in the Concertgebouw, decorated especially for the holidays, you’ll enter the Main Hall for a very special concert, conducted by our future chief conductor Klaus Mäkelä. Janine Jansen will be the soloist in Britten’s deeply felt Violin Concerto, the piece with which she made her debut with us twenty years ago. The concert will begin with the royal funeral march by Britten’s predecessor Purcell.
Klaus Mäkelä will also conduct Schumann’s deceptively sunny Symphony No. 2. Like Britten’s music, this symphony is a dialogue with the past.
‘A concert is a journey’, says Klaus Mäkelä. ‘The cathedral-like, almost sacred mood of the Purcell reinforces those aspects in the Schumann and Britten, and puts their music in a new light.’
Afterparty
The smaller-scale programmes after the concert are also great fun, and everyone is welcome to take part in them. In the Recital Hall, Spiegelzaal, the Choir Hall and Dirigentenfoyer, you can eat, drink, relax, chat or dance until midnight, and you can mingle with each other and the musicians.
