Concertgebouw Orchestra on Tour

2 November 2022

The Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam is going on a tour of Switzerland from 13 to 16 November, with four concerts in four cities, various masterclasses and a public performance with young local talent.

The orchestra is playing in Lugano, Bern, Zurich and Geneva. The orchestra is travelling by trains of the SBB (Schweizerische Bundesbahn).

On 13 November, Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is played in Lugano. On the following evenings the orchestra plays the Brahms Violin Concerto with Leonidas Kavakos as soloist, followed by Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, Pastorale.

On 15 November a special performance will take place at the Zurich train station. Eight Orchestra musicians will play alongside twelve young talents from Swiss conservatories.

They will play the Holberg suite by Edvard Grieg. Prior to the performance, the Orchestra members are giving several masterclasses, first online and later also during the train journey from Bern to Zurich.

Going on tour to Switzerland is a decades-old tradition of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. The first concerts the Orchestra ever played in Switzerland took place in May 1927.  That was just seven years after the creation of the world´s first Chamber Orchestra in Zurich. Since 1988 the Orchestra has been playing every season in Switzerland.

Source and further information: Het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam