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festival: Hamburg International Music Festival

  • ️Thu May 01 2025

Thu, 1 May 2025 – Thu, 5 Jun 2025

Programme highlights to close the season: in this edition of the five-week festival, the great Hamburg orchestras and star guests explore the theme of »Future«

What is classical music today in the present age? And where is it heading? As early as 1992, the American avant-garde composer John Cage spoke of a river delta where the river called music history had reached. What he meant by this was that everyone is now doing their own thing. Schools and pigeonholes have become obsolete. Music no longer knows any boundaries. Nevertheless, these questions remain exciting. And so this season, the Hamburg International Music Festival takes a look into the future – and at trendsetting works that were far ahead of their time. After all, Mozart, Beethoven & co. not only wrote new compositions non-stop, they also revolutionised music, exploded forms and harmonies and created something new and unprecedented.

Events of the festival

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Kent Nagano

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  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Kent Nagano

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Gaëlle Arquez

  • Sun, 4 May 202517:00 / 20:00

    Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    »Love est. 2023«

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Nils Mönkemeyer & William Youn

  • Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal

    Camilly Nylund

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Daniel Darding

  • Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal

    Tamara Stefanovich

    Stefanovich & SDLW

    Shostakovich: Piano Sonata No. 1 / Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 2 / Stefanovich-Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard: New Work – NDR das neue werk

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Alan Gilbert

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Leif Ove Andsnes

  • Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal

    Elodie Sicard & Bertrand Chamayou

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    John Luther Adams

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Leif Ove Andsnes

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Janine Jansen
  • Théotime Langlois de Swarte

  • Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal

    Ensemble NIGHT

    Ensemble NIGHT

    »Musical Journey Through the Himalayas« – World Classical Music

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    The Philip Glass Ensemble

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Seong-Jin Cho

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Roscoe Mitchell & Famoudou Don Moye

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    George Petrou

    Handel: Solomon

    NDR Vokalensemble / FestspielOrchester Göttingen / George Petrou

  • Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal

    Zubin Kanga

    Zubin Kanga

    ePhil / Hamburg International Music Festival

  • Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal

    Brigitta Muntendorf

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Jaap van Zweden

  • Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal

    Decoder Ensemble

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Jaap van Zweden

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Dresdner Kreuzchor

    Mozart: Requiem

    Dresden Philharmonic / Dresdner Kreuzchor / Soloists / Martin Lehmann

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Sir András Schiff
  • The Rise

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Sol Gabetta

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Guido Sant’Anna
  • The Rise

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Alan Gilbert

    Alban Berg: Wozzeck

    NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / NDR Vokalensemble / Alan Gilbert – Hamburg International Music Festival

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Igor Levit

  • Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal

    Tin Men and the Telephone

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Matthias Goerne

    Alban Berg: Wozzeck

    NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / NDR Vokalensemble / Alan Gilbert – Hamburg International Music Festival

  • Daniil Trifonov »My American Story – North«

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Christian Tetzlaff

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Christiane Karg

  • Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal

    Lukas Geniušas

    Lukas Geniušas / Piano Recital

    Russian Futurism: Works by Scriabin, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and others – Hamburg International Music Festival

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Mitsuko Uchida

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Antoine Tamestit

  • Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal

    Pierre Boulez

    Boulez: Le marteau sans maître

    Cycle for alto voice and instrumentalists – with Ema Nikolovska, Sean Shibe and others / Hamburg International Music Festival

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Antoine Tamestit

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Maria Bengtsson

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Sir Simon Rattle

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Bertrand de Billy

  • Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal

    Serialist der ersten Stunde: Stockhausen probt »Gruppen«

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Iveta Apkalna

    Iveta Apkalna, organ

    Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre / Bach: Chaconne & works by Petr Eben and César Franck

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Sir Antonio Pappano

  • Bunker Feldstraße resonanzraum St. Pauli

    Karlheinz Stockhausen

  • Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal

    Lisa Batiashvili

Supporting Programme

  • Elbphilharmonie Kaistudio 1

    Zubin Kanga

    Der Cyborg-Pianist

    Talk with Zubin Kanga – Hamburg International Music Festival / Elbphilharmonie PLUS

  • Elbphilharmonie Kaistudio 1

    KI in der Musik

    Panel discussion – Hamburg International Music Festival / Elbphilharmonie PLUS

  • Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal

    Joachim Mischke at the »Quartett der Kritiker«

    Quartett der Kritiker

    Discussion about Alban Berg’s opera »Wozzeck« – Hamburg International Music Festival / Elbphilharmonie PLUS