Conductor Maxime Pascal has been announced as one of four Artists in Focus at the Musikverein Wien in the 2026 – 27 season, alongside Franz Welser-Möst, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yuja Wang. In a series of five concerts, Pascal will appear with several leading Viennese ensembles as well as Le Balcon, the collective he founded in 2008, in programmes centred on twentieth‑century and late Romantic repertoire. The residency commences with Pascal’s debut with the Wiener Symphoniker and the Wiener Singverein in Berlioz’s monumental Grande Messe des Morts. In November he brings his ensemble, Le Balcon, to the Musikverein for the first time with Jonathan Harvey’s Bhakti for chamber forces and quadraphonic tape, presented with Wien Modern. Pascal later reunites with the ORF RSO Wien for a programme built around Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s genre‑defying Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu, combining orchestra with jazz ensemble. Bringing the residency to a close is Schönberg’s chamber version of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with musicians of the Wiener Philharmoniker.

Read more here: https://​musikvere​in​.at/​e​n​/2026 – 27/schwerpunkte/kuenstlerinnen-im-fokus/maxime-pascal/