Arts Partnerships & Tours — May Moments
7/5/2025
Violinist and juror on Dutch TV’s‘Maestro’ Isabelle van Keulen plays Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.3 with Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein under the baton of Christoph Koncz, in which gracious refinement, expressive beauty and lively enthusiasm go hand in hand. Mozart will flow seamlessly into the sunny radiance of Mendelssohn’s‘Italian’ Symphony in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw on 4 May.
Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen perform at Rotterdam’s De Doelen on 15 May, with their Artistic Director Paavo Järvi and performed by internationally renowned violin soloist, Janine Jansen. The programme includes Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, and Schubert’s Symphony No.4 and Symphony No.7.
Bamberger Symphoniker, conducted by Chief Conductor Jakub Hrůša, heads to Asia for a nine-concert tour to some of the most prestigious venues in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
The tour begins in Japan on 26 May at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, where violinist Fumiaki Miura joins them for Bruch’s Violin Concerto No.1. Wagner’s Die Feen and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 complete the programme. On 27 May, they head to Utsunomiya Cultural Hall for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade, Brahms’ Symphony No.1, performing by pianist Hayato Sumino for Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2. This programme is repeated at a second concert at Suntory Hall on 28 May.
Heading across the Sea of Japan to South Korea, violinist Bomsori Kim takes the stage for her interpretation of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No.1, alongside Smetana’s Overture from Two Widows and Brahms’ Symphony No.1 for a private concert, in Yongin on 30 May. Journeying north to Seongnam Arts Center, this programme is repeated on 31 May. Ending the South Korean leg of the tour in the capital Seoul, they perform the Wagner, Bruch and Beethoven programme combination at Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall on 1 June.
From Seoul, they head across the East China Sea to Taiwan. The first concert takes place at National Theater & Concert Hall Taipei on 3 June, where the Smetana and Bruch works are joined by Dvořák’s Symphony No.8 and Bomsori Kim. At the same venue on 4 June, pianist Lukáš Vondráček joins the tour to perform Schumann’s Piano Concerto, alongside the Brahms and Wagner works. The final concert of the tour takes place in the south of Taiwan, in Kaohsiung, at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts / WEIWUYING, for Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 performed by Lukáš Vondráček, and works by Beethoven and Coleridge-Taylor.
Gothenburg Symphony tour to Stuttgart, Prague and Dresden with Chief Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
On 21 May, the orchestra perform Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6 and are joined by pianist Jan Lisiecki for Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1 at Stuttgart’s Kultur und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle.
Performing in Prague’s Rudolfinum on 23 May, the orchestra plays Smetana’s Hakon Jarl, Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Jan Lisiecki.
The final concert takes place at Kulturpalast Dresden on 25 May. This time, pianist Seong-Jin Cho plays Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1, and the orchestra concludes the tour with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6.
Camerata Bern and violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja give two mid-May recitals — on 15 May at Konzerthaus Blaibach, pairing Baroque sonatas with contemporary works and on 16 May at Prague’s Rudolfinum as part of the Prague Spring Festival featuring major Romantic repertoire alongside a festival commission.
