Musikfest Berlin

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Musikfest Berlin will take place from August 30 to September 23, 2025 in cooperation with the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation at the Philharmonie Berlin. Tickets are already available for eight selected concert highlights. These include guest performances by the world's best symphony orchestras and choirs from the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Italy, which are rarely heard in Berlin.

Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will kick off the festival, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and chief conductor Karina Canellakis will 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 week of the festival 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 led by two conductors in one evening.

The complete festival program will be published in April 2025.