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THOMAS HAMPSON & WOLFRAM RIEGER
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
GUSTAV MAHLER AND HIS TIME
Sunday, 16 February 2025 16:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Joined by his longtime piano partner Wolfram Rieger, he takes the audience on a musical journey to Gustav Mahler’s eventful times.
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BOULEZ ENSEMBLE & MICHAEL WENDEBERG
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
BOULEZ 100: PLI SELON PLI & ÉCLAT, WORKS BY RAVEL AND WALLY
Saturday, 22 February 2025 19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
“Fold by fold”—pli selon pli—Pierre Boulez reveals a portrait of the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, arguably the most important literary influence on his music, in his eponymous work for soprano and orchestra. Michael Wendeberg, who worked closely with Boulez as pianist of the Ensemble intercontemporain, conducts excerpts from the composer’s most expansive score, in the piece’s Pierre Boulez Saal premiere. The program also includes the 1965 ensemble work Éclat as well as compositions by Maurice Ravel and Austrian composer Thomas Wally, born in 1981.
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FABIAN MÜLLER
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
from Sunday, 23 February 2025 to Sunday, 1 June 2025
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
When Fabian Müller made his Pierre Boulez Saal debut in January 2022, his memorable performance of Beethoven’s monumental “Hammerklavier” Sonata confirmed his reputation as one of the outstanding pianists of his generation. Now the ARD Competition winner, who was born in 1990 in Beethoven’s hometown of Bonn, takes on the challenge of presenting all the composer’s sonatas as a complete cycle.
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CAROLIN WIDMANN
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
LA LONTANANZA: WORKS FOR SOLO VIOLIN
Tuesday, 25 February 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
“Traveler, there is no road. You make your own path as you walk.” Inscribed on the wall of a Spanish monastery, these words were discovered by Luigi Nono in the 1980s and became a kind of motto for his late works. The search for an unattainable music of the future also infuses his penultimate score La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura, composed in 1988–9. Carolin Widmann and the SWR Experimentalstudio bring the piece to the Pierre Boulez Saal. Widmann complements Nono’s meditation on space and sound with Unsuk Chin’s electro-acoustical Spectres-speculaires and works from the 18th and 21st centuries by Telemann, George Benjamin, and Swiss composer Helena Winkelman.
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JÖRG WIDMANN, ANTOINE TAMESTIT & SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
JÖRG WIDMANN, ANTOINE TAMESTIT & SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF
MÄRCHENBILDER: TRIOS FOR CLARINET, VIOLA, AND PIANO
Friday, 28 February 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The music of Robert Schumann has long been a major influence on Jörg Widmann’s own compositions. Joined by Sir András Schiff and Antoine Tamestit, he now brings three of Schumann’s works to the Pierre Boulez Saal that draw inspiration from poetic and non-musical ideas and reflect the Romantic fascination with the world of fairy tales.
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KAMILYA JUBRAN
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
FEAT. WERNER HASLER, CHARLOTTE TESTU, LEBRAT SOIZIC
Saturday, 1 March 2025 19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Born in Palestine and based in Europe since 2002, composer, singer, and musician Kamilya Jubran is among the leading figures of the experimental Arabic music scene. For her Pierre Boulez Saal debut, she per forms two contrasting sets:
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LA VENEXIANA
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
RUGIADOSE DOLCEZZE: VOCAL MUSIC BY MONTEVERDI, MERULA
Tuesday, 4 March 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
With the “invention” of opera in the early 17th century came a major change in the prevailing musical taste: instead of writing elaborate, polyphonic madrigals, composers increasingly featured the solo voice in the new genre of the monody and began creating dramatic ensemble pieces. Gabriele Palomba and his ensemble La Venexiana shine a spotlight on this turning point in music history, performing late madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi and works by some of his younger contemporaries, including Tarquinio Merula, Alessandro Grandi, and Giovanni Antonio Rigatti.
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TAMARA STEFANOVICH
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
BOULEZ 100: PIANO SONATE NO. 2, SCRJABIN, BUSONI, EISLER
Friday, 7 March 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In celebration of the Pierre Boulez centenary, Tamara Stefanovich performs the composer’s Second Piano Sonata of 1948, one of his defining early works. Known internationally for her interpretations of modernist and contemporary repertoire, the pianist pairs it with a selection of avant-garde experiments on the sonata form from the early 20th century.
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JULIA HAMOS
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
SOLO DEBUT: WORKS BY MOZART, KURTÁG AND SCHUMANN
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Last season, Julia Hamos made a highly successful debut performing Ligeti’s virtuosic Piano Concerto with the Boulez Ensemble. For her first solo recital, the young Hungarian-American pianist, who studied with Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Said Akademie, has chosen rarely heard pieces by Kurtág and Janáček, in a program bookended by Mozart’s A-minor Sonata K. 310 and Schumann’s monumental C-major Fantasy.
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EMA NIKOLOVSKA & SEAN SHIBE
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
ORLANDO: SONGS FOR MEZZO-SOPRANO AND GUITAR
Wednesday, 12 March 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Orlando, the eternal adventurer: in a highly original program for mezzo-soprano and guitar, Ema Nikolovska and Sean Shibe trace the legendary troubadour’s story through space and time.
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JACK QUARTET
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
BOULEZ 100: LIVRE POUR QUATUOR
Thursday, 20 March 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The JACK Quartet, regularly heard at the Pierre Boulez Saal over the last few seasons, performs individual movements from Boulez’s only string quartet, pairing them with recent works by Eva-Maria Houben and Anthony Cheung, among others, and the String Quartet in Four Parts by Boulez’s contemporary John Cage.
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BOULEZ ENSEMBLE & MATTHIAS PINTSCHER
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
BOULEZ 100: SUR INCISES AND WORKS BY DEBUSSY UND PINTSCHER
Sunday, 23 March 2025 16:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
A few days before Pierre Boulez’s 100th birthday, Matthias Pintscher and the Boulez Ensemble celebrate the composer, who passed away in 2016, with a perfor mance of sur Incises, his last major ensemble work.
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CHRISTIANE KARG, MALCOLM MARTINEAU & HELMUT MOOSHAMMER
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
I LONG TO REVEAL MY SOUL TO YOU
Thursday, 3 April 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Mignon, Ophelia, and Mary, Queen of Scots—these three towering figures of literature and history provide the inspiration for an evening of words and music created by Christiane Karg, Malcolm Martineau, and actor Helmut Mooshammer.
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ACADEMY CONCERT
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
ORCHESTRA OF THE BARENBOIM-SAID AKADEMIE & NABIL SHEHATA
Saturday, 5 April 2025 19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In the popular series of Academy Concerts, students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie introduce themselves to their audiences as part of their curriculum. Once again, the series includes a number of performances of the Akademie’s orchestra.
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KINAN AZMEH CITYBAND
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
FEAT. KYLE SANNA, JOSH MYERS, JOHN HADFIELD
Tuesday, 8 April 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Syrian composer and clarinetist Kinan Azmeh brings his New York–based Kinan Azmeh CityBand back to the Pierre Boulez Saal. Crossing boundaries between styles and genres, between composition and improvisa tion, the quartet plays “music that is inspired by a multitude of traditions without being limited by any of them,” as Azmeh describes it.
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DANIEL SEPEC & IL ROSARIO
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
REDISCOVERED: MEALLI, BIBER, SCHMELZER, KAPSBERGER
from Tuesday, 15 April 2025 to Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Daniel Sepec, who has made a specialty of rarely heard Baroque violin repertoire, returns with another veritable discovery: joined by Hille Perl, Lee Santana, and Michael Behringer, Sepec presents violin sonatas by the almost entirely forgotten Italian composer Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli.
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YULIANNA AVDEEVA
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
SHOSTAKOVICH: 24 PRELUDES AND FUGUES
Tuesday, 22 April 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
With his 24 Preludes and Fugues, Dmitri Shostakovich left a towering document of this fascination with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Yulianna Avdeeva, most recently heard at the Pierre Boulez Saal with works by Liszt and Beethoven, performs the monumental twohour cycle in a single evening.
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ACADEMY CONCERT
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
CHAMBER MUSIC WITH STUDENTS OF THE BARENBOIM-SAID AKADEMIE
Wednesday, 23 April 2025 16:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In the popular series of Academy Concerts, students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie introduce themselves to their audiences as part of their curriculum, performing repertoire they have been working on during their studies, in preparation for entering the international music scene. These one-hour chamber-music programs, which are particularly suitable for visits with school classes, will be announced at short notice.
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RAFAEL FINGERLOS & JOSEPH MIDDLETON
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
REDISCOVERED: FÜRSTENTHAL AND WORKS BY SCHUBERT, AND BRAHMS
Thursday, 24 April 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In 2016, the composer Robert Fürstenthal died in San Diego, California, at the age of almost 100. After fleeing the Nazis and settling in the United States in 1939, he only returned to composition in the 1970s, writing music that evokes his hometown of Vienna. Rafael Fingerlos is joined by Joseph Middleton to present a selection of these works.
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QUATUOR DIOTIMA
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
TERRA MEMORIA: STRING QUARTETS
Friday, 25 April 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In honor of Kaija Saariaho, the leading Finnish composer of the 20th and 21st centuries who died in June 2023, Quatuor Diotima has chosen her Second String Quartet Terra Memoria as the centerpiece of its program. Written in 2006, the work is dedicated “to those departed” and their memory. The four musicians also perform music by Benjamin Britten and Arnold Schoenberg.
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BERLIN STAATSKAPELLE STRING QUARTET
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
ARCADIANA: QUARTETS BY ADÈS, SCHUBERT, AND BEETHOVEN
Sunday, 27 April 2025 18:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
British composer Thomas Adès’s Arcadiana combines musical and nonmusical influences evoke paradisiacal scenes. In its second concert of the season, the Berlin Staatskapelle String Quartet performs the piece alongside 19thcentury quartets by Schubert and Beethoven.
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LEONIDAS KAVAKOS & ENRICO PACE
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
WORKS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO
Tuesday, 29 April 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Toward the end of their lives, Franz Schubert and Dmitri Shostakovich both composed virtuoso works for famous violinists of their time: Schubert wrote his Cmajor Fantasy for Josef Slavík, while Shostakovich’s only violin sonata was conceived for David Oistrakh. Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace perform both works together with music by Ludwig van Beethoven and contemporary Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon.
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NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
FEAR. OMAGUGU
Thursday, 1 May 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini presents the world premiere of A Return to Essence: Tuning into the Modalities of Humanness. A suite for jazz trio, trumpet, string quartet, and vocals, the piece explores aspects of “returning” to the essence and seeking that which humanity has forgotten.
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FLEUR BARRON & KUNAL LAHIRY
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
HEART OF DARKNESS: SONGS BY MAHLER, WEILL, AND OTHERS
from Saturday, 3 May 2025 to Monday, 5 May 2025
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In a highly personal program, Fleur Barron and Kunal Lahiry explore the echoes of global colonial history in music and poetry. Artists who share dual Asian and Western heritages, they examine diverse perspectives of identity and belonging, repression and freedom, in both familiar and lesserknown works from the past 150 years.
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PERSONAL NOTE
FoyerPierre Boulez Saal
Sunday, 4 May 2025 16:00
FoyerPierre Boulez Saal
Concert Featuring Students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie
Personal Note is a new concert series curated by students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie. The series was conceived by the participants of the Akademie’s Concert Curation course, a program designed to empower young musicians to think beyond performance.
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BAKR KHLEIFI
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
SOLO DEBUT: MUSIC FOR OUD
Wednesday, 7 May 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Berlinbased Palestinian oud virtuoso Bakr Khleifi presents a new solo program of original com positions and improvisation that explores connections between the Arabic maqam tradition and musical forms of the European Baroque.
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ACADEMY CONCERT
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
CHAMBER MUSIC WITH STUDENTS OF THE BARENBOIM-SAID AKADEMIE
Friday, 9 May 2025 16:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In the popular series of Academy Concerts, students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie introduce themselves to their audiences as part of their curriculum, performing repertoire they have been working on during their studies, in preparation for entering the international music scene. These one-hour chamber-music programs, which are particularly suitable for visits with school classes, will be announced at short notice.
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HEATH QUARTET
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
WORKS FOR STRING QUARTET BY HAYDN, DVOŘÁK, SUK, AND BRITTEN
Saturday, 10 May 2025 19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Berlinbased Palestinian oud virtuoso Bakr Khleifi presents a new solo program of original com positions and improvisation that explores connections between the Arabic maqam tradition and musical forms of the European Baroque.
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KIRILL GERSTEIN
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
LA VALSE: PIANO WORKS BY RAVEL, SCHUMANN, KURTÁG, AND OTHERS
Tuesday, 13 May 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Many composers in history have found inspiration in the fragile and mysterious world of plants and flowers. For his solo recital, Kirill Gerstein presents a diverse selection of piano works from three centuries by composers ranging from Robert Schumann to Thomas Adès. He also performs Ravel’s La Valse and the Waltzes Toward Civilization by Spanish composer Francisco Coll.
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SOPHIE RENNERT & JOSEPH MIDDLETON
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
SONGS BY SCHUBERT UND MAHLER
Thursday, 15 May 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Sophie Rennert, acclaimed for her performamces of Baroque operas, is joined by Joseph Middleton for a program devoted to her other great passion: the lied repertoire. In addition to a selection of works by Franz Schubert, the duo performs Mahler’s moving Rückert Songs.
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ESPERANZA SPALDING
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
ESPERANZA SPALDING
FEAT. ANTONIOBROWNDANCE
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Bassist, singer, and composer esperanza spalding and her band join forces with the New York–based Antonio Brown Dance company, transforming the Pierre Boulez Saal into a space for an immersive musical and physical performance.
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ACADEMY CONCERT
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
CHAMBER MUSIC WITH STUDENTS OF THE BARENBOIM-SAID AKADEMIE
Thursday, 22 May 2025 16:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In the popular series of Academy Concerts, students of the Barenboim-Said Akademie introduce themselves to their audiences as part of their curriculum, performing repertoire they have been working on during their studies, in preparation for entering the international music scene. These one-hour chamber-music programs, which are particularly suitable for visits with school classes, will be announced at short notice.
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ALINA IBRAGIMOVA, BEN GOLDSCHEIDER & MATTHEW HUNT
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
CONTRASTS: BARTÓK, MOZART, PENDERECKI, AND DOHNÁNYI
Friday, 23 May 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Joined by a group of acclaimed colleagues, violinist Alina Ibragimova, hornist Ben Goldscheider, and clarinetist Matthew Hunt perform a selection of colorful chamber music works featuring different combinations of instruments.
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LA FONTE MUSICA, MICHELE PASOTTI & ENRICO ONOFRI
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
ANCOR CHE COL PARTIRE: MADRIGALS BY RORE, LASSO, GABRIELI
Saturday, 24 May 2025 19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Having explored music of the 13th and 14th centuries in their previous Pierre Boulez Saal appearances, Michele Pasotti and his ensemble La fonte musica dedicate their new program to the art of the 16th-century madrigal.
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HAGEN QUARTETT
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
STRING QUARTETS BY HAYDN AND BRAHMS
Sunday, 25 May 2025 18:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Johannes Brahms struggled for years under the overwhelming influence of Beethoven. His Third String Quartet, however, is audibly indebted to another composer: the light touch and musical wit of Joseph Haydn are present throughout the score. The Hagen Quartett’s program creates an intergenerational dialogue between the two composers.
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KATRĪNA PAULA FELSBERGA, JULIUS DRAKE & BURGHART KLAUSSNER
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
LIED UND LYRIK: HÖLDERLIN SETTINGS
Tuesday, 27 May 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
In this Lied und Lyrik program, Katrīna Paula Felsberga and Julius Drake explore the wideranging afterlife of Friedrich Hölderlin in the music of the 20th century. The poet’s texts will be heard in musical settings and readings.
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ANTJE WEITHAAS & DÉNES VÁRJON
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
from Thursday, 29 May 2025 to Saturday, 31 May 2025
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Antje Weithaas’s recently finished complete recording of Beethoven’s violin sonatas, for which she was joined by pianist Dénes Várjon, has been lauded as a new benchmark. At the Pierre Boulez Saal, the two artists present these ten groundbreaking works on consecutive evenings.
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LEONKORO QUARTET
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
WIDMANN IN FOCUS: STRING QUARTET NO. 9
Thursday, 5 June 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The two-season concert cycle of Jörg Widmann’s String Quartets Nos. 6–10, which are titled “Studies on Beethoven,” concludes with the young Leonkoro Quartet performing the Ninth String Quartet, which was written in 2022 as the last of the group.
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DANISH STRING QUARTET
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
MUSIC FOR STRING QUARTET
Tuesday, 10 June 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Audiences of the Danish String Quartet know that the ensemble likes to blur the boundaries between folk music and classical music. In this concert, the four Scandinavians combine traditional melodies by 18th-century Irish harper Turlough O’Carolan with works from different eras to create a sound world that transcends styles and genres.
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YULIA DEYNEKA & DENIS KOZHUKHIN
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
WORKS FOR VIOLA AND PIANO
Thursday, 12 June 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Yulia Deyneka, principal violist of the Staatskapelle Berlin, has long been part of the Pierre Boulez Saal’s artistic family as a member of the Boulez Ensemble and professor at the Barenboim-Said Akademie. Denis Kozhukhin, himself a regular guest, joins her to perform a duo recital of works by Russian composers.
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WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ENSEMBLE
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
BOULEZ 100: WORKS BY BOULEZ/MANOURY, MOZART, AND SCHUBERT
Friday, 13 June 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
The genesis of Pierre Boulez’s only string quartet Livre pour quatuor—begun by the composer in the late 1940s and left unfinished at the time of his death—resembles a veritable neverending story. In 2018, Philippe Manoury completed the fragment of the fourth movement based on the extant sketches. The West-Eastern Divan Ensemble performs Manoury’s version together with works by Mozart and Schubert.
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NINA
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
A TRIBUTE TO NINA SIMONE
Sunday, 15 June 2025 18:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Eunice Kathleen Waymon—better known as Nina Simone—was a singer, pianist, composer, and Black civil rights activist whose work had a lasting impact beyond the world of 20thcentury music. Soprano Claron McFadden presents a tribute to this extraordinary artist, who died in 2003, in an interdisciplinary performance of words and music.
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BOULEZ ENSEMBLE & GEORGE BENJAMIN
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
BOULEZ 100: EXPLOSANTE-FIXE, WORKS BY KNUSSEN UND BENJAMIN
Friday, 20 June 2025 19:30
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
One of the foremost musicians of our time, George Benjamin closes the Pierre Boulez Saal season, appearing in multiple artistic capacities. Leading the Boulez Ensemble, he conducts Boulez’s …explosante-fixe… of 1993 in addition to his own Three Inventions and Oliver Knussen’s Two Organa, written in 1995.
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PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD & GEORGE BENJAMIN
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
BOULEZ 100: PIANO SONATA NO. 1
Saturday, 21 June 2025 19:00
Concert hallPierre Boulez Saal
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, long considered one of the most erudite performers of Boulez’s music, presents his first Piano Sonata of 1946. He also performs George Benjamin’s Shadowlines and a new piece for piano duet, for which he is joined by the composer.
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WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA
Waldbühne
DANIEL BARENBOIM & LANG LANG
Sunday, 10 August 2025 19:00
Waldbühne
For the 2025 Waldbühne Concert, Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra welcome back celebrated pianist Lang Lang, who was last heard with the orchestra in 2022. Secure your tickets now for what promises to be another unforgettable performance.
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