Korean pianist Sunwook Kim is joining forces with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in a series of intercontinental concerts featuring Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 as well as works by contemporary composers Anna Clyne and Helen Grime. Over nearly a month, they will travel together to Belgium, Germany, France, Austria, South Korea and the UK. The concerts in Europe have all been made possible by the generous support of Hyundai Motor.

Salle Philharmonique, Liege, Belgium
Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Halle aux Grains, Toulouse, France
Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria
Daejeon Culture and Arts Centre, Daejeon, South Korea
LG Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
Lotte Hall, Seoul, South Korea
Susung Artpia, Daegu, South Korea
Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, UK

22nd, 24th, 26th, 29th, 30th March, 3-8th, 11th and 12th April 2025

We are delighted to be working with one of our dearest friends, Robin Ticciati, and also one of the world’s finest countertenors, Iestyn Davies. Together, we will start the year travelling to Berlin, Hamburg, the Salzburg Mozartwoche and the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, performing songs by Handel and Mozart.

Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
Kirche Saanen, Gstaad, Switzerland
Mozartwoche - Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria

28th, 29th January, 1st, 2nd February 2025

This November, the COE musicians are delighted to join forces again with one of their dearest friends, Sir Antonio Pappano. Together with French pianist Bertrand Chamayou – who is making his COE debut – they will travel to Italy (Rho, Brescia, Modena, Turin, Udine), Germany (Aschaffenburg) and France (Dijon and Paris), performing 9 concerts between 8th and 18th November. The programme for this intense touring project features works by Milhaud, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Gershwin and Bernstein.

Teatro Grande, Brescia, Italy
Teatro Comunale di Modena, Modena, Italy
Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, Udine, Italy
Stadthalle, Aschaffenburg, Germany
Auditorium, Dijon, France
Philharmonie, Paris, France
Teatro Civico, Rho, Italy
Auditorio Lingotto, Turin, Italy

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18 November 2024

At this year’s Kronberg Academy festival, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, led by the amazing Maria Włoszczowska, will perform a number of concerts with Heinz Holliger, pianists Kirill Gerstein, Martina Consonni and Martin Helmchen, violinists Ilya Gringolts and Stephen Waarts and COE principal flute Clara Andrada on 25th, 28th and 29th September at the Casals Forum.

Casals Forum, Kronberg, Germany

25, 28, 29 September

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe will be performing two concerts in Antwerp and Ghent this September with conductor Valentin Uryupin and cellist Julia Hagen. The concerts will feature works by Bartok, Schumann, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. We look forward to working with both artists for the first time. Our concert on 19th September is planned to be broadcast live on Klara Radio. Please watch this space for further information.

DeSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
Flanders Festival Ghent - St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium

18, 19 September 2024

For this year’s Herbstgold Festival at its residency in Schloss Esterházy (Eisenstadt), the COE will be joined by Martha Argerich, Iddo Bar-Shai, narrator and daughter of Martha Argerich Annie Argerich-Dutoit and Leader/Director Marieke Blankestijn for the Festival’s opening concert on 11th September, featuring works by Haydn as well as Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals. This concert will be broadcast live on medici.tv and also on the Austrian radio station ORF 1 on 22nd October. On 14th September, the Orchestra will perform works by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky with Julian Rachlin, director of the Festival, and pianist Yefim Bronfman. This concert will be broadcast live on medici.tv and also on the Austrian TV channel ORF III at a later date.

Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria

11, 14 September 2024

For its northern-most concert ever, the COE, directed by Lorenza Borrani, is joined by mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland for the opening concert of the Nordland Music Festival on 3rd August at the Stormen Concert Hall in Bodø, Norway. This is in the context of Bodø being European Capital of Culture 2024. The programme includes works by Grieg, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Beethoven, all arranged for string orchestra – plus two clarinets for some pieces.

Stormen Concert Hall, Nordland Music Festival - Bodø, Norway

3rd August 2024

The Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden is welcoming the COE and Yannick Nézet-Séguin for their annual residency, La Capitale d’Eté this July. This year, the Orchestra and Yannick will be joined by mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and pianist Seong-Jin Cho for two orchestral concerts. There will also be a chamber music concert featuring Yannick on the piano, as well as Joyce DiDonato and COE soloists.

Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany

19, 20, 21 July 2024

Sir Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená join us this year again for an absolute musical feast, performing Dvorak’s Scherzo Capriccioso, Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, Bartok’s 5 Hungarian Folk Songs and Schubert’s “Great” C Major Symphony in Eisenstadt, Lugano, Evian, Ravenna and Athens. The special friendship between the COE and Sir Simon has been blossoming since their first project together, at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic back in October 2020, and we are very much looking forward to this tour.

Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria
Lugano LAC, Lugano, Switzerland
Epidaurus Festival - Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens, Greece
La Grange au Lac - Rencontres Musicales, Evian, France
Ravenna Festival - Palazzo Mauro De André, Ravenna, Italy

22, 24, 26, 28, 30 June 2024

We are delighted to be joined by our dear friend, and COE Honorary Member, Sir András Schiff this May for concerts in Eisenstadt, Hamburg, Bergamo and Ferrara, performing works by Brahms and Haydn. The tour will actually start with a chamber music concert in Eisenstadt as part of Sir András’s Building Bridges project, featuring  COE soloists violinist Lorenza Borrani, violist Nimrod Guez and cellist Richard Lester with pianists Martina Consonni and Itai Navon. In the next four concerts, audiences will be able to hear COE soloists oboist Olivier Stankiewicz, bassoonist Rie Koyama, Lorenza Borrani and Richard Lester in Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante.

Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria
Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany
Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Teatro Donizetti - Piano Festival, Bergamo, Italy

22, 26, 28, 30 May and 1 June 2024

Our next tour after Easter is made up of three very contrasting projects – the first concert is a thought-provoking programme based on contrasts and relationships at the Megaron in Athens on 20th April, with Constantinos Carydis and Jan Lisiecki, featuring Greek composers Koukos and Skalkottas, as well as Schnittke, Shostakovich, Ives and Beethoven; this will be followed immediately by a tour to Spain and Germany with Joshua Bell – Murcia on 23rd April, Zaragoza on the 24th and Ludwigsburg on the 26th; and finally on 29th April, the COE will open the Budapest Spring Festival with a concert at Budapest’s Italian Cultural Institute with world-renowned cellist Miklós Perényi and violin/director Ben Gilmore.

Auditorio "Victor Villegas", Murcia, Spain
Auditorio - Palacio de Congresos, Zaragoza, Spain
Forum am Schlosspark, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Megaron, Athens, Greece
Italian Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary

20, 23, 24, 26, 29 April 2024

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe is looking forward to its yearly stint at the Salzburg Mozartwoche, this time with pianist Kirill Gerstein who will be performing and directing piano works by Mozart, Salieri and Beethoven. The orchestral pieces will be led by the amazing Polish violinist Maria Włoszczowska.

Salzburg Mozartwoche, Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria

1st February 2024

As always, the COE is looking forward to its now well-established end-of-year tour with Sir Antonio Pappano, one of the orchestra’s closest friends. This year they are joined by the Italian pianist Beatrice Rana in a program by Elgar, Schumann and Dvorak. Beatrice will perform Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto, which she recorded for Warner Classics with the COE and Yannick Nézet-Séguin last year at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. The CD, which also includes Clara Wieck-Schumann’s Piano Concerto No. 1, was released earlier this year to great international acclaim.

Teatro Romolo Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Teatro Amintore Galli, Rimini, Italy
Teatro Verdi Pordenone, Pordenone, Italy
Philharmonie Essen - Alfried Krupp Saal, Essen, Germany
Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria

25, 26, 27, 28, 30 November 2023, 1, 2 December 2023

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe is thrilled to be working with conductor Andrew Manze and pianist Jan Lisiecki again. We will be performing three different programmes in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin and Eisenstadt, the Orchestra’s residence in Austria, featuring works by Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Chopin.

Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria

22, 23, 24, 29 October 2023

The COE looks forward to performing three concerts at this year’s Kronberg Academy Festival on 21st and 25th September with conductor Robin Ticciati and a number of international soloists. The concerts will take place at the Casals Forum, the Academy’s beautiful concert hall which the COE inaugurated last year. On 22nd and 24th September, they will also perform at Bonn’s BeethovenFest for the first time since 2009.

Casals Forum, Kronberg, Germany
Beethovenfest - Opera Bonn, Bonn, Germany
BeethovenFest - Kreuzkirche, Bonn, Germany

21st, 24th, 25th September 2023

The COE is looking forward to performing again at the Schloss Esterhazy in Eisenstadt, where it has been orchestra-in-residence since 2022. This year’s festival’s opening concert on 13th September features the COE and Julian Rachlin, Artistic Director of Herbstgold, in works by Prokofiev, Glinka and Tchaikovsky. For its second concert on the 16th, as Sir John Eliot Gardiner had to cancel the rest of his concerts this year due to health reasons, the COE is joined by the amazing young conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and soprano Lucy Crowe in a programme by Haydn, Weber and Schubert. Both concerts will be broadcast on Medici TV.

Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria

13, 16 September 2023

The COE is thrilled to be working with Daniel Harding again. This time, they will travel to Pollença, Santander, San Sebastian and Torroella Festivals in Spain where they will perform Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, Sibelius’s Symphony No. 4 and Pelleas and Melisande Suite and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4.

Santander Festival - Sala Argenta, Santander, Spain
Quincena Musical de San Sebastian - Kursaal, San Sebastian, Spain
Pollença Festival - Convento Santo Domingo, Pollença, Spain
Torroella Festival - Espai Ter Concert Hall, Torroella, Spain

5, 7, 8, 9 August 2023

The COE is thrilled to be resident again at the Capitale d’Eté in Baden-Baden, a series of concert featuring conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. This year, we will conclude the Brahms Symphony Cycle started in July 2022 with Brahms’s Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4, as well as a chamber concert featuring COE principal clarinet Romain Guyot, followed by a third performance with works by Brahms and Louise Farrenc.

Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany

7, 8, 9 July 2023

The COE is delighted to have been invited to the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian in 2023 by its new director Renaud Capuçon, long-standing artistic partner and friend of the COE. The Orchestra will be joined by conductor Robin Ticciati and bass-baritone Bryn Terfel in works by Beethoven, Verdi, Mozart, Rossini and Dvorak.

Rencontres Musicales d'Evian - La Grange au Lac, Evian, France

29th June 2023

The COE performs Berwald’s Symphony No. 4 and Mendelssohn “Scottish” Symphony No. 3 with conductor Herbert Blomstedt in Cologne, Dortmund and Luxemburg. In Dresden, violinist María Dueñas will join them in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto which will replace Berwald’s Symphony.

Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany
Konzerthaus, Dortmund, Germany
Philharmonie Luxembourg, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Kulturpalast, Dresden, Germany

24th, 25th, 26th and 28th May 2023

The COE, conductor Robin Ticciati and violinist Lisa Batiashvili travel to Bordeaux, Hamburg, Berlin, Eisenstadt and Bregenz for performances of works by Beethoven, Widmann and Berlioz.

Auditorium, Bordeaux, France
Elbphilharmonie - Grosser Saal, Hamburg, Germany
Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria
Festspielhaus Bregenz , Bregenz, Austria

17th, 19th, 20th, 22nd and 24th April 2023

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe is joined by conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada and pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Seong-Jin Cho for a series of concerts at the Canary Islands Festival and at the Salzburg Mozartwoche. The programme features works by Mozart and Beethoven.

Festival de Canarias - Auditorio Alfredo Kraus, Gran Canaria, Spain
Festival de Canarias - Auditorio de Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain
Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria

30th, 31st January, 2nd February 2023

Conductor Sir Antonio Pappano and world-class violinist Janine Jansen join the Orchestra for their last tour of the year, with an extensive series of concerts in Oviedo, Athens, Ferrara, Milan, Munich, Antwerp and Cologne. The programme features works by Ravel, Prokofiev, Dvorak and Kodaly.

Auditorio Principe Felipe, Oviedo, Spain
Megaron, Athens, Greece
Elisabethzaal, Antwerp, Belgium
Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany
Teatro Comunale, Ferrara, Italy
Isarphilharmonie, Gasteig HP8, Munich, Germany

24, 26, 28, 29, 30 November, 3, 4 December 2022

The COE is joined by Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits and Korean pianist Sunwook Kim for a series of concerts in Seoul, Daegu and Incheon, performing works by Schubert, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. We are very grateful to Hyundai for making this tour possible.

Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
Daegu Concert House, Daegu, South Korea
Arts Center, Incheon, South Korea

5, 8, 10 and 11 November 2022

The COE is joined by pianist Dénes Várjon and violinist Veronika Eberle for concerts in Berlin, Eisenstadt and Budapest, performing works by Haydn, Hummel, Janacek and Mendelssohn. The concert in Budapest will feature a slightly different programme with Dénes Várjon and soloists from the COE in a Mozart Piano Quintet, Janáček’s Concertino, a Schubert Piano Trio and a Dvořák Piano Quintet.

Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Schloss Esterhazy, Haydnsaal, Eisenstadt, Austria
Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary

27, 28 and 29 October 2022

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe has been invited with François Leleux and Lisa Batiashvili to perform a concert which was initially part of the Salzburg Mozartwoche in January, cancelled this year due to the spread of the Omicron variant. This concert will be part of the Mozart+Fest, a three-day festival in celebration of the inauguration of the Mozarteum’s new foyer and the completion of the first stage of the renovation of the Großer Saal.

Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria

22 October 2022

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe performs a series of private and public concerts in celebration of the opening of the Kronberg Academy’s brand new concert hall, the Casals Forum, where the COE is orchestra-in-residence. These concerts will feature Kronberg Academy students and alumni as well as world-class artists violinist Vadim Gluzman, cellist Steven Isserlis, violinist Janine Jansen, pianist/conductor Sir András Schiff and violist Antoine Tamestit.

Casals Forum - Exclusively for the Friends of the Kronberg Academy, Kronberg, Germany
Casals Forum, Kronberg, Germany

24, 25 September 2022

The COE opens the Herbstgold Festival at Schloss Esterhazy in Eisenstadt with two concerts featuring violinist Julian Rachlin and pianist/conductor Sir András Schiff in works by Brahms, Haydn, Beethoven and Bartok on 15th and 18th September.

Herbstgold - Schloss Esterhazy, Haydnsaal, Eisenstadt, Austria

15, 18 September 2022

Conductor Robin Ticciati and pianist Francesco Piemontesi join the COE for a week of concerts at the Settimane Musicali di Ascona, the Südtirol Festival in Merano and the Musikfest in Bremen. Together, they will perform works by Weber, Schumann and Brahms.

Settimane Musicali Ascona - Church San Francesco, Locarno, Switzerland
Kursaal, Merano, Italy
Musikfest, Die Glocke, Bremen, Germany

6, 8 and 9 September 2022

Residency with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Beatrice Rana and Seong-Jin Cho at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, performing and recording Brahms Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 and Piano Concerto No. 1 for Deustche Grammophon. The COE will also perform works by Clara Wieck-Schumann and Robert Schumann and Louise Farrenc.

Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany

8th, 10th, 15th, 16th and 17th July 2022

In June and July 2022, the COE and pianist Jan Lisiecki perform all of the Beethoven Piano Concertos at the Klavier Festival Ruhr and the Rheingau Musik Festival in Germany. These concerts were due to happen in 2020 but were postponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Klavier-Festival Ruhr - Historische Stadthalle, Wuppertal, Germany
Klavier-Festival Ruhr - Konzerthaus, Dortmund, Germany
Rheingau Musik Festival - Kurhaus, Wiesbaden, Germany

22, 23 June 2022 and 28, 29 July 2022

Tour to Germany, Luxemburg and Austria with Sir Simon Rattle and singers Magdalena Kožená and Andrew Staples, performing Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss and Das Lied von der Erde by Mahler.

Dresdner Musikfestspiele - Kulturpalast, Dresden, Germany
Philharmonie Luxembourg, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
Musikverein, Vienna, Austria

31 May, 1, 3, 5, 7 June 2022

The COE and François Leleux – its former principal oboe – will perform two concerts at this year’s Mozartfest in Würzburg and Augsburg on 26th and 27th May. The programme features Haydn’s Symphony No. 22, Arias from Mozart operas arranged for oboe and orchestra, Cimarosa’s Concerto for Oboe and Strings and Mozart’s Symphony No. 28. In Würzburg, COE cellist Kate Gould will perform Le Corps des Cordes for solo cello by Isabel Mundry and in Augsburg, a COE chamber ensemble will perform Widmann’s Aria for Violin, Viola and 11 strings. Both concerts will be directed by COE Leader for this project, Jose Maria Blumenschein.

Kongress am Park, Augsburg, Germany
Residenz, Kaisersaal, Würzburg, Germany

26, 27 May

The COE is looking forward to making its debut with Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa, performing concerts in Pistoia and Bologna in Italy this spring. They will be joined by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja with whom the COE last worked in May 2016. The programme of these concerts includes Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Schumann’s Symphony No. 2.

Teatro Manzoni, Pistoia, Italy
Teatro Manzoni, Bologna, Italy

4, 5 May 2022

On 11th March, the COE will be kick-starting its three-year long residency at the Schloss Esterházy in Eisenstadt with a fundraising concert for Ukraine with pianist Fazıl Say. They will then perform at the Isarphilharmonie, a brand new concert hall which opened in Munich on 8th October 2021. The programme features Haydn’s Symphony No. 96 “The Miracle”, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, Fazıl Say’s own composition “Yürüyen Köşk” (The Moving Mansion) for Piano and String Orchestra and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6.

Haydn Saal, Esterhazy Palace, Eisenstadt, Austria
Isarphilharmonie, Munich, Germany

11, 12 March 2022

Concert in Berlin with conductor Robin Ticciati and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras. The programme includes Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, Schumann’s Cello concerto and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6.

Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
CANCELLED - BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany

3 March 2022

The COE, conductor Rafael Payare and violinist Vilde Frang perform works by Mozart, Schumann and Beethoven in Bergen, Oslo and Aalborg.

Oslo Opera House, Oslo, Norway
Grieg Hall, Bergen, Norway
Musikkens Hus, Aalborg, Denmark

17, 19 and 20 February 2022

Conductor François Leleux, former Principal Oboe of the COE, and violinist Lisa Batiashvili perform Mozart’s Symphony No. 28, Violin Concerto No. 5 and Symphony No. 40 with the COE at the Salzburg Mozarteum on 29th January 2022.

CANCELLED - Salzburg Mozartwoche, Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria

29 January 2022

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe will be joined by its Honorary Member Sir András Schiff for concerts in Berlin and Friedrichshafen on 26 and 28 November, performing works by JS Bach and Mozart.

Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Graf-Zeppelin-Haus, Friedrichshafen, Germany

26, 28 November 2021

On 21st October, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe led by Jose Maria Blumenschein and featuring pianist Piotr Anderszewski will perform one concert at the Auditorium de Bordeaux, France. The programme includes works by Stravinsky, Mozart and Haydn.

Auditorium, Bordeaux, France

21 October 2021

The COE performs works by R. Strauss, Haydn and Mozart at the Berlin Philharmonie and at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg with violinist Veronika Eberle and violist Amihai Grosz. All concert are directed by the COE Leader, Lorenza Borrani.

Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany

26, 27 August 2021

Series of six concerts directed by the COE Leader, presenting 14 young soloists from the Kronberg Academy at Rheingau Summer Festival’s Summit of Strings 2021.

Kurhaus Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

24th July - 2nd August 2021

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe performs and records all of the Beethoven Symphonies once again, this time with Honorary Member Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus. All four concerts will be attended by a small audience and also streamed online worldwide.

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany

29th June - 11th July 2021

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe returns to Salzburg’s Mozartwoche with conductor Robin Ticciati and soprano Regula Mühlemann. The programme features Mozart’s Mauerische Trauermusik, Exsultate Jubilate and Symphony No. 39.

CANCELLED - Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria

20 - 24 January 2021

Two concerts at the Berlin Philharmonie with Sir Simon Rattle and violinist Vilde Frang, celebrating Germany’s reunification and the return of the COE to the platform after months of silence due to thw COVID-19 pandemic. This is also Sir Simon Rattle’s first concert at the Philharmonie since he left in 2018.

Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany

5 October 2020

CANCELLED – In celebration of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary in 2020, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe performs and records all of the Symphonies once again, this time with Honorary Member Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

CANCELLED - Philharmonie de Paris, Paris, France
CANCELLED - Philharmonie Luxembourg, Luxemburg, Luxemburg

11-27 April 2020

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Matthias Pintscher and pianist Emanuel Ax travel to Belgium and Italy performing works by Fauré, Mozart, Chopin and Stravinsky. They are joined by soprano Kate Royal, tenor Benoît Rameau and bass Otto Katzameier in Stravinsky’s one-act ballet Pulcinella.

Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
Teatro Romolo Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Teatro Comunale, Ferrara, Italy

17-24 February 2020

At the start of February, the COE, led by Lorenza Borrani, travels to Hungary, Belgium and the Netherlands with pianists Dénes Varjon and Izabella Simon. Together they will perform works by Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.

Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary
DeSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
De Oosterpoort, Groningen, The Netherlands

1st-8th February 2020

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe returns to Salzburg’s Mozartwoche with conductor Andrew Manze and former Principal Oboe of the COE François Leleux. The programme includes Mozart’s Symphonies Nos. 31 and 41, Mozart’s Oboe Concerto and a series of Divertimenti.

Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria

20-26 January 2020

The COE collaborates for the first time with conductor Daniel Harding, touring to France, Switzerland and Italy. Together, they perform Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances op. 72 and Brahms’s Symphony No. 2. In particular, the second concert of this tour will take place at the brand new Concert Hall in Andermatt which only opened in June this year.

Auditorium, Bordeaux, France
Andermatt Concert Hall, Andermatt, Switzerland
Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine, Udine, Italy
Teatro Sociale, Mantova, Italy
Teatro Luciano Pavarotti, Modena, Italy

21-31 October 2019

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Sir András Schiff take part in the Kronberg Academy Festival 2019 with Academy soloists on 30th September, performing works by Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart. The COE and Sir András then travel to Berlin, Milan and Verona.

Stadthalle, Kronberg, Germany
Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Sala Verdi del Conservatorio di Milano, Milan, Italy
Teatro Filarmonico, Verona, Italy

28 September - 9 October 2019

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe performs for the first time with Joshua Weilerstein and they are joined by Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi for two concerts in Ascona and at the Herbstgold-Festival in Eisenstadt, featuring works by Haydn, Liszt, Brahms, Bartok, Kodaly and Golijov.

Settimane musicali Ascona, Church San Francesco, Locarno, Switzerland
„Herbstgold“-Festival, Haydnsaal, Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria

15-21 September 2019

The COE and pianist Rudolf Buchbinder appear at two international music festivals: MusikFest Bremen and Grafenegg Festival on 30th August and 1st September, starting Beethoven’s 250th anniversary season with Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 5.

Musikfest Bremen - Stadttheater Bremerhaven, Bremen, Germany
Grafenegg Festival, Auditorium, Grafenegg, Austria

28 August - 1 September 2019

On 20th August 2019, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Bernard Haitink will perform Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with soprano Anna-Lucia Richter.

Lucerne Summer Festival, KKL, Lucerne, Switzerland

18-21 August 2019

This spring, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Sir Antonio Pappano and violinist Janine Jansen perform five concerts in the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. The programme includes Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances op. 72.

Teatro Municipale Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Teatro Manzoni, Bologna, Italy
Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
Graf-Zeppelin-Haus, Friedrichshafen, Germany

26 May - 3 June 2019

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Leonidas Kavakos perform four concerts in France, Italy and Switzerland, featuring works by Mozart and Beethoven in Bordeaux and Turin and also by the Swiss composer Schoeck in Geneva and Zurich in the context of the Migros-Kulturprozent-Classics concert series.

Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, Switzerland
Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland
Auditorium de l'Opéra de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Teatro del Lingotto, Turin, Italy

31 March - 10 April 2019

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe performs for the first time at the Klarafestival with concerts in Brussels, Antwerp and Bruges joined by conductor David Afkham, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Vilde Frang, Lawrence Power and singers Sophie Harmsen, Werner Güra, Johannes Weisser, Tareq Nazmi and Collegium Vocale Gent.

Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges, Belgium
de Singel, Antwerp, Belgium
Bozar, Brussels, Belgium

12-17 March 2019

Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins the COE for concerts in Berlin, Cologne and Paris with one of his signature projects pairing Mozart Piano Concertos with contemporary music by Elliott Carter.

Kammermusiksaal der Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany
Philharmonie (Cité de la musique), Paris, France

5-12 March 2019

Celebrating Bernard Haitink 90^th birthday with special concerts featuring Gautier Capuçon, Anna Lucia Richter and Hanno Müller-Brachmann.

Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany
Philharmonie Luxembourg, Luxemburg, Luxemburg

5-11 February 2019

This tour with Robin Ticciati sees the COE perform with Louise Alder at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg and with Magdalena Kožená for our much-awaited return to the Kammermusiksaal in Berlin, followed by further concerts in Cologne and Hamburg.

Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany
Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany
Kammermuziksaal der Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria

21-30 January 2019

Italian tour with conductor and violinist Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.

Teatro Comunale "Claudio Abbado", Ferrara, Italy
Teatro Municipale Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Teatro Comunale, Vicenza, Italy
Teatro Comunale, Treviso, Italy

9-12 November 2018

Kurhaus, Wiesbaden, Germany

22 October 2018

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

15 September 2018

KKL, Lucerne, Switzerland

20 August 2018

KKL, Lucerne, Switzerland

15-24 August 2018

With the Magic Flute, we continue our concert performances of Mozart’s late operas for Deutsche Grammophon at the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and tenor Rolando Villazon. The cast for also includes Regula Mühlemann, Franz-Josef Selig, Albina Shagimuratova, Christiane Karg, Paul Schweinester, Tareq Nazmi, and the RIAS Kammerchor.

Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany

2-15 July 2018

Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns at the heart of the COE for concerts with Lisa Batiashvili in Spain and France and with Veronika Eberle in Germany.

Halle aux Grains, Toulouse, France
Konzerthaus, Dortmund, Germany
Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany
Auditorio Principe Felipe, Oviedo, Spain

10-18 June 2018

Concert with conductor David Robertson, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and violist Tabea Zimmermann as part of Bayerische Rundfunk’s musica viva festival.

Prinzregententheater, Munich, Germany

5-10 June 2018

Concerts with violinist Leonidas Kavakos both performing and conducting in Paris and Amsterdam, following our debut concert tour in Seoul in March 2018.

Salle des Concerts (Cité de la musique), Paris, France
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

29 May - 3 June 2018

Seven-concert tour of Italy, France and Switzerland with conductor Sir Antonio Pappano. He is joined by violinists Lisa Batiashvili and Veronika Eberle.

Auditorio Lingotto, Turin, Italy
Teatro Fraschini, Pavia, Italy
Auditorium de l'Opéra, Bordeaux, France
Salle des Concerts (Cité de la musique), Paris, France
Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, Switzerland
Teatro Comunale, Treviso, Italy
Teatro Comunale, Ferrara, Italy

13-24 May 2018

Two play-direct concerts with violinist Leonidas Kavakos at Lotte Hall in Seoul

Lotte Concert Hall, Seoul, South Korea

21-29 March 2018

Three concerts at the Musika-Musica Festival in Bilbao, featuring conductor Matthias Pintscher and COE principal flute Clara Andrada de la Calle.

Palacio Euskalduna Jauregia, Bilbao, Spain

28 February - 5 March 2018

Eight-concert tour to Spain and Italy with pianist Yuja Wang and COE Leader Lorenza Borrani.

To watch the video of the Facebook Live event organised by the newspaper La Vanguardia in Barcelona on 20 January, please click here.

Teatro Comunale, Ferrara, Italy
Teatro Grande, Brescia, Italy
Teatro Romolo Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Auditorio Kursaal, San Sebastian, Spain
Sociedad Filarmonica de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Baluarte, Pamplona, Spain
Auditorio de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
L'Auditori, Barcelona, Spain

8-21 January 2018

Concerts with conductor Nicholas Collon and violinist Renaud Capuçon in Antwerp, Paris and Toulouse.

deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
Philharmonie - Grande Salle Pierre Boulez, Paris, France
Halle aux Grains, Toulouse, France

27 November - 3 December 2017

Concerts at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and at the Philharmonie Luxembourg with Bernard Haitink, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Anna Lucia Richter and Eva-Maria Westbroek.

Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Philharmonie Luxembourg, Luxemburg, Luxemburg

12-22 November 2017

The COE performs for the first time at Dubai Opera, with conductor Robin Ticciati and violinist Christian Tetzlaff.

Dubai Opera, Dubai, UAE

28 October - 4 November 2017