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

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 Kai Frömbgen, 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

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
La Grange au Lac - Rencontres Musicales, Evian, France

22, 24, 26, 28, 30 June 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

For this year’s Herbstgold Festival at its residency in Schloss Esterhazy (Eisenstadt), the COE will be joined by Martha Argerich, Iddo Bar-Shai, narrator and daughter of Martha Argerich Annie Argerich-Dutoit and COE’s associate Leader Marieke Blankestijn for the Festival’s opening concert on 11th September, featuring works by Haydn as well as Saint-Saens’s Carnival of the Animals. On 14th September, the Orchestra will perform works by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky with Julian Rachlin, director of the Festival, and pianist Yefim Bronfman.

Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria

11, 14 September 2024

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.

DeSingel, Antwerp, Belgium

18, 19 September 2024