Musikfest Berlin 2025

Eight selected concert highlights of the Musikfest Berlin, which takes place between 30 August and 23 September 2025 in cooperation with the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation, are now available for advance bookings.  The selected highlights include guest performances by some of the world’s best symphony orchestras and choirs from the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Italy, all seldom heard in Berlin. Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra kick off the programme, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and chief conductor Karina Canellakis make their Musikfest debut, while Daniel Harding returns to Musikfest Berlin as the new chief conductor of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

The first festival week will also feature four top-class French orchestras: the Orchestre de Paris with Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (for the first time) and two of the most important ensembles of historical performance practice, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées together with the Collegium Vocale Gent under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe, and the exceptional French orchestra Les Siècles, with two concerts under two conductors in one evening. The full festival programme will be published in April 2025.

Tickets are now also available at the Philharmonie Berlin in the Foyer Großer Saal at the box office.

Go to Berlin Musikfest’ website