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Selected Concerts Online!

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First Concert Highlights 2025

The Musikfest Berlin takes place in cooperation with the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation in the Philharmonie Berlin from 30 August to 23 September 2025. Tickets for eight selected concert highlights are already available. These include guest concerts given by world-class symphony orchestras and choirs from the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Italy which are seldom heard in Berlin.

The festival kicks off with Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra with its chief conductor Karina Canellakis will be making their Musikfest Berlin debut, and Daniel Harding returns to the Musikfest Berlin as the new chief conductor of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. What is more, four top-class French orchestras will appear during the initial week of the festival: the Orchestre de Paris with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla on its first visit to the festival alongside two major ensembles for historical performance practice: the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées performing with the Collegium Vocale Gent under the baton of Philippe Herreweghe and the exceptional French orchestra Les Siècles with an amazing two concerts on a single evening directed by two different conductors.

The complete festival programme will be presented in April 2025. 

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Early Booking Offer: 20 % Off

Early Booking Offer

Combine a minimum of five concerts and save 20 % in comparison to individual ticket prices. The offer includes all normal prices and reduced rates in all price categories and closes on 31 January 2025. The minimum of five concerts per package must be combined and booked within the framework of a single payment process.

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Impressions 2024

  • Numerous people stand in the foyer of the Philharmonie Berlin, with a Musikfest Berlin banner in the background.

    Opening of Musikfest Berlin at the Philharmonie Berlin

    © Fabian Schellhorn

  • Preparation for the rehearsal: The technical team lifts a double bass over chairs and music stands.

    The São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

    © Fabian Schellhorn

  • Loggins-Hull stands opposite Welser-Möst with a grateful hand gesture.

    Allison Loggins-Hull, Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra

    © Fabian Schellhorn

  • Close-up of rattles and other small, woven instruments

    Un mar de músicas

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • Singers in colourful dresses in front of an ensemble with different instruments

    Un mar de músicas

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • Aimard plays the grand piano, Prohaska stands in front of it and sings dreamily.

    Anna Prohaska and Pierre-Laurent Aimard

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • Mäkelä spreads his arms wide in celebration

    Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic

    © John-Halvdan Olsen-Halvorsen

  • Lester Lynch sings, hands folded in front of the stomach, and Sir Simon Rattle gives Lynch a sign.

    Lester Lynch, Sir Simon Rattle and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

    © BR/Astrid Ackermann

  • The ensemble on the stage of the chamber music hall, the ceiling lights shining above them

    The Ensemble Musikfabrik and Bas Wiegers

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • Susanna Mälkki raises her baton with a concentrated expression.

    Susanna Mälkki and the Staatskapelle Berlin

    © Peter Adamik

  • Percussionists play their many instruments

    The Ensemble Musikfabrik

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • Shadows move in front of the illuminated windows of the Philharmonie Berlin.

    Philharmonie Berlin

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • Kazuki Yamada stands between the strings, his gaze focussed, his knees bent.

    Kazuki Yamada and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

    © Fabian Schellhorn

  • Jurwoski and Barron look each other in the eye, with the orchestra behind them

    Fleur Barron, Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

    © Peter Meisel

  • The stage is full of orchestra members, the audience cheering all around

    The Berliner Philharmoniker and Jonathan Nott

    © Stephan Rabold

  • The cunductor dressed in Black standing on a podium

    Susanne Blumenthal

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • Close-up of a sheet of music

    Sheet music of Ensemble Modern

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • The ensemble is on stage, León and Balch stand in front and applaud.

    Tania León, Katherine Balch, David Niemann and the Ensemble Modern

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • The yellow wave-like exterior of the Philharmonie Berlin is illuminated at night.

    Philharmonie Berlin

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • The auditorium is completely darkened, behind it the ensemble on the brightly lit stage.

    EXAUDI und James Weeks

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • Perspective of the back row of the audience on the stage of the Philharmonie Berlin

    The Wiener Philharmoniker and Christian Thielemann

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • The ensemble during a concert

    Fola Dada and Tony Lakatos with the BigBand of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Manfred Honetschläger

    © Marcus Lieberenz

  • Rattle at the conductor's podium looks at the ensemble playing their instruments

    The Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

  • Instrumentalists and choir members form rows on the stage

    Der RIAS Kammerchor

    © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Fabian Schellhorn

Musikfest Berlin in the Media Library

You can listen to some of our events this year digitally in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library after the live concerts. In addition, On Demand offers from past years are available.

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About Musikfest Berlin

Musikfest Berlin sees itself as a forum for the innovative creative work carried out by large-scale orchestras and ensembles in the genre of classical and modern music. It presents an ambitious festival programme with alternating focal points.

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