Programme addition for the New Year’s Eve concert 2024

The concerts on 29, 30 and 31 December under the direction of Kirill Petrenko will be supplemented by the prelude to Act 1 from Richard Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg”.

Geigerin Vilde Frang
Vilde Frang | Picture: Marco Borggreve

Cast change USA tour 2024

Hilary Hahn has had to cancel tour concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko in the USA due to ill health. Vilde Frang and Benjamin Beilman to step in.

Deutsche Bank and the Berliner Philharmoniker extend partnership until 2030

Together they will pursue the shared goal of inspiring people worldwide through music, enabling cultural participation, and advancing innovative ideas.

Alessandro Cappone | Picture: Stefan Höderath

“This is surely one of the best jobs in the world”

Violinist of the Berliner Philharmoniker Alessandro Cappone retires

Seiji Ozawa and the Berliner Philharmoniker

New edition by Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings

Man with viola
Amihai Grosz | Picture: Peter Adamik

Digital album with Amihai Grosz

Our first principal violist plays Works for viola and orchestra by William Walton and Bohuslav Martinů – exclusive with Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings

Stop cultural cutbacks – #BerlinIstKultur

Berlin’s opera houses and concert halls, orchestras and choirs as well as the Staatsballett call on Berlin politicians not to implement the planned budget cutbacks in the cultural sector.

Jonathan Ramsay | Picture: Stefan Höderath

New in the orchestra: David Guerrier and Jonathon Ramsay

Two soloist positions have been filled with the Berliner Philharmoniker

Man with violin in hand
Noah Bendix-Balgley | Picture: Stefan Höderath

New album series with soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker

The series kicks off with an album by first concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley featuring three works under the direction of Kirill Petrenko.

Roxana Wisniewska | Picture: Stefan Höderath

Probationary period passed

Eva Rabchevska, Roxana Wisniewska and Harry Ward are new members of the Berliner Philharmoniker.

State building with sculpture behind fence
Chancellery Berlin | Picture: Wolfgang Claussen / Pixabay

75 years of the German Constitution

The Berliner Philharmoniker will perform at the state ceremony on May 23 under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Daniel Harding
Daniel Harding | Picture: Julian Hargreaves

Change of line-up for the concerts on 26. and 27. April as well as for the Europakonzert 2024

Daniel Barenboim forced to cancel for health reasons – Daniel Harding to take over

Maurizio Pollini and Claudio Abbado on their way to the stage at the Waldbühne Berlin
Maurizio Pollini and Claudio Abbado | Picture: Monika Rittershaus

Maurizio Pollini (1942-2024)

The Berliner Philharmoniker is saddened to hear of the death of Maurizio Pollini.

Peter Eötvös in front of the orchestra, black and white photo
Peter Eötvös | Picture: Martin Walz

Peter Eötvös (1944-2024)

The Berliner Philharmoniker are saddened to hear of the death of Peter Eötvös on 24 March 2024.