After a universally acclaimed concert in 2024, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe has once again been invited to the Epidaurus Festival this year. Under the baton of Constantinos Carydis, the orchestra will perform works by Liszt, Purcell, and Berlioz, as well as the world premiere of O Lightless Light! – Ode to Oedipus, a new composition by Greek composer Periklis Koukos.
10 July 2025, Epidaurus Festival – Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athen
O LIGHTLESS LIGHT! – ODE TO OEDIPUS
Francesco Piemontesi, piano / Sofia Tamvakopoulou, piano / Tassis Christoyannis, baritone / Constantinos Carydis, conductor
Works by P. Koukos, F. Listz, H. Purcell, H. Berlioz
Author: Andrea Kerner
Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart
Since its founding in 1981 by Helmuth Rilling, the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart has been dedicated to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach through benchmark-setting performances and vibrant educational initiatives. This mission also embraces the music of Bach’s contemporaries, as well as his predecessors and successors. With Bach at its core, the Bachakademie’s repertoire encompasses sacred vocal music, oratorios, and choral symphonic works from the 17th century to the present day.
Since 2013, the institution has been led by conductor Hans-Christoph Rademann, who in 2016 unified the former ensembles Gächinger Kantorei (choir) and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (orchestra) into a newly restructured ensemble consisting of a reformed choir and a newly founded Baroque orchestra under the name Gaechinger Cantorey. In this ensemble, a Baroque orchestra and a carefully selected choir form a finely tuned original-sound ensemble. Under the direction of artistic director Hans-Christoph Rademann, the ensemble has made it its mission to promote an internationally recognized “Stuttgart Bach style.”
The Internationales Bachfest Stuttgart, a two-week festival, brings together young and seasoned artists from around the world who devote themselves to Bach and his era. Additionally, the Bachakademie maintains its own subscription concert series in Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg and is actively engaged in a busy concert schedule both nationally and internationally.
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“What Hans-Christoph Rademann, his Gaechinger Cantorey, and the carefully selected soloists reveal here in terms of vocal-instrumental balance, tonal refinement, and rhetorically informed artistry surely represents the pinnacle of historically informed performance today!”
concerti, 13 november 2023
“To the audience of 2023, it spoke directly from the heart.”
bachtrack, 16 july 2023
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Welcome on board!
We are delighted to have deepened our collaboration with one of Denmark’s finest ensembles, Concerto Copenhagen, as of early June 2025. Moving forward, we will be supporting the orchestra with strategic advice and international tour planning. It is a pleasure and an honor to contribute to the exciting journey of Concerto Copenhagen, and we warmly welcome this wonderfully versatile ensemble!
Concerto Copenhagen (CoCo) combines artistic authenticity and innovation through original and uncompromising interpretations that breathe new life into music, making it relevant for a modern audience. Since 1999, the collaboration between CoCo and Lars Ulrik Mortensen has led to an exciting artistic and musical journey, highly praised by audiences and critics worldwide. With a unique repertoire that blends well-known European music with lesser-known works of Scandinavian origin, as well as new compositions, CoCo celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2021.
NEWLY REDISCOVERED
Alessandro Scarlatti’s oratorio La Santissima Annunziata focuses on the scene of the Annunciation from the Gospel of Luke. His composition left a lasting impression on Handel, who attended a performance in 1708. Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi, who rediscovered the work in 2017, will now present it at this year’s Handel Festival in Halle.
13 June 2025, Händel Festspiele Halle
LA SANTISSIMI ANNUNZIATA
Roberta Invernizzi, Soprano / Andreina Drago, mezzo soprano / Valentina Molinari, soprano / Marina de Liso, mezzo soprano / Jorge Navarro Colorado, tenor / Europa Galante / Fabio Biondi, conductor
A. Scarlatti: La Santissima Annunziata
Our next concerts
With the beginning of summer, the festival season is starting for us once again. We’re looking forward to exciting and inspiring concerts with
- Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
- Phantasm Viol Consort
- Concerto Copenhagen
- Europa Galante
- Sir András Schiff & pianists of Building Bridges
- Chamber Orchestra of Europe
- Vox Luminis
- Orchestra of the 18th Century
- SWR Symphony Orchestra
- Il Giardino Armonico
- Sarah Willis & Havana Lyceum Orchestra
We are delighted to have deepened our collaboration with one of Denmark’s finest ensembles, Concerto Copenhagen, as of early June 2025. Moving forward, we will be supporting the orchestra with strategic advice and international tour planning. It is a pleasure and an honor to contribute to the exciting journey of Concerto Copenhagen, and we warmly welcome this wonderfully versatile ensemble!
Shaping the future II
The Kronos Quartet, together with award-winning Icelandic author and filmmaker Andri Snær Magnason, opens Strange Attractors on the stage of Nalen — one of Stockholm’s most historic and culturally significant venues for artistic, social, and sporting events. Strange Attractors brings together artists from all genres and scientists from diverse disciplines to explore new ideas, envision pathways toward a better future, and demonstrate how profound change is possible. On this occasion, the quartet will present their new project, A Farewell to Glaciers.
11 May 2025, Nalen, Stockholm
Andri Snær Magnason, author & filmmaker / Kronos Quartet
Works by diverse composers
Shaping the future I
Classical:NEXT has grown into one of the most important gatherings of the international classical music community. From May 12 to 15, 2025, more than 220 speakers, mentors, presenters, promoters, agencies, and artists from over 40 countries will come together in Berlin to explore the future of classical music. As in the previous year, the conference and trade fair will take place at the Colosseum, with evening events held at Säälchen and Kater Blau on the Holzmarkt.
The official Opening on Monday evening at Kühlhaus Berlin creates a shared artistic experience—an invitation to reflect, connect, and participate.
The conference program offers a wide variety of inspiring topics: new concert formats and audience development, digitalization and AI, change management, sustainability, and much more. Showcases present a broad range of outstanding artists and productions from all areas of classical music—from early to contemporary, traditional to experimental—from around the world.
Since 2024, Andreas Richter has joined the organizing company as a partner and, together with the ARCC team, is responsible for the conference segment of the event.
12 – 15 May 2025, Colosseum / Kühlhaus Berlin / Holzmarkt 25 Classical:NEXT – The Global Gathering For All Art Music Professionals Conference Sessions, Showcases, Meet Ups, Presentations, Exhibition, Mentoring and more
Our next concerts
In the coming weeks, the diverse programs of several of our ensembles will take us to some of Europe’s most exciting musical hubs: with Stanley Dodds’ Ensemble Zemu!, we’ll take a multimedia look into the future in Antwerp; with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, we’ll celebrate the rich musical traditions of Lombardy. The ever-youthful Kronos Quartet will open a new concert series in Stockholm, while two Building Bridges pianists make their debuts in stunning venues in Vienna and Neumarkt. The circle closes in Antwerp with Concerto Copenhagen and its special tribute to a prominent anniversary celebrant.
And of course, we hope to see you at the next edition of Classical:NEXT in Berlin!
SWR Symphonieorchester
The SWR Symphonieorchester has its artistic home in the Liederhalle Stuttgart and the Konzerthaus Freiburg. Formed in September 2016 from the merger of the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart and the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, its artistic profile includes interpretative approaches from historically informed performance practice, the classical-romantic core repertoire and contemporary music in equal measure. In September 2025, François-Xavier Roth will take over the position of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the SWR Symphonyorchester, succeeding Teodor Currentzis, who was at the helm of the orchestra from 2018 to 2024.
Internationally sought-after conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Peter Eötvös, Pablo Heras-Casado, Jakub Hrůša, Eliahu Inbal and Giedrė Šlekytė and many others have worked with the SWR Symphonieorchester. Among the high-calibre soloists are Leif Ove Andsnes, Yulianna Avdeeva, Vilde Frang and Christian Tetzlaff. Since September 2024, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has been the SWR Symphony Orchestra’s Artistic Partner for two seasons.
Since 2024, the SWR Symphonieorchester has been an official partner of ‘La Maestra’, the most important international competition for young female conductors.
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“An outstanding performance by the SWR Symphonieorchester.”
Online Merker, 15 November 2024
“The orchestra gave these delicate, highly differentiated sounds of the soloist an equally colourful resonance chamber of partly calm, partly explosive passages.”
bachtrack, 16 September 2023
