Arts Partnerships & Tours — July
4/7/2025
With the start of summer, Camerata RCO embarks on a 5‑concert tour in South Korea. The versatile program includes Mendelssohn’s Konzertstück for strings, clarinet and basset horn, Nino Rota’s Nonetto, and Brahms’ Serenade No.1 in the original nonet version. The 10 musicians travel from the Seoul area on 2 July to Tongyeong, where the tour ends on 6 July.
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg embarks on a nine-date concert tour across China and Taiwan, performing alongside their General Music Director Kent Nagano.
The tour opens on 7 July in Shanghai, where soloist Rafa Blechacz joins the orchestra and continues with concerts in Beijing on 9 and 10 July. Shenzhen hosts two performances on 12 and 13 July, followed by engagements in Taipei on 15 and 16 July where pianist Jan Lisiecki joins the orchestra as soloist. The final concert takes place on 18 July in Kaohsiung.
The repertoire is presented in two alternating programmes. On 9 July in Beijing, 12 July in Shenzhen, 15 July in Taipei, and the final concert on 18 July in Kaohsiung, the artist performs a programme beginning with Mozart and Bach’s Präludium und Fuge, followed by Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3, and concluding with Brahms’ Symphony No.4.
The remaining concerts on 7 July in Shanghai, 10 July in Beijing, 13 July in Shenzhen, and 16 July in Taipei, feature Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.24, alongside Jörg Widmann’s Con brio, and culminate with Beethoven’s Symphony No.7.
In July, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a series of seven concerts in collaboration with composer and conductor Joe Hisaishi, the RPO’s Composer-in-Association. The tour begins with three performances at Tokyo Dome on 16 July, including one concert featuring live filming and streaming in partnership with Nippon TV. The orchestra then performs two concerts at Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul on 21 and 22 July featuring Joe Hisaishi’s Harp Concerto played by Emmanuel Ceysson. The tour concludes with two concerts at Suntory Hall in Tokyo on 24 and 25 July.
Under the baton of Music Director Pierre Bleuse, Ensemble intercontemporain brings a mesmerising evening to the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms on 23 July. With its unmistakable flair for the avant-garde, the ensemble opens with Berio’s Sequenza V, a virtuosic showpiece for solo trombone, played by Lucas Ounissi. Boulez’s Dialogue de l’ombre double follows with Jérôme Comte on clarinet, and IRCAM on electronics. The programme closes with Berio’s Recital I (for Cathy), a tragicomic music-drama sung by Soprano Sarah Aristidou.
