some highlights for season ´25 - ´26
Bas Wiegers starts his fourth season as Associated Conductor with the Munich Chamber Orchestra with a wide range of repertoire including Haydn, Weill, Milhaud, Takemitsu and Vivier.
He will be returning to the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with Stravinsky and Ades, to the Slovenian Philharmonic with Poulenc's Stabat Mater and to Klangforum Wien on their trip to New York City. Debuts include Hongkong Sinfonietta with Stravinsky's Firebird, and Orchestre National de Metz with Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
agenda
10 January 2026
AskoISchönberg
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Louis Andriessen - De Materie
15 January 2026
Münchener Kammerorchester
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Prinzregententheater, München
Darius Milhaud - La Création du Monde
Marton Illes - Violinkonzert Vont-tér
Kurt Weill - Symfonie no 2
17 January 2026
AskoISchönberg
De Doelen, Rotterdam
Louis Andriessen - De Materie
23 January 2026
Münchener Kammerorchester
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Ravensburg
Darius Milhaud - La Création du Monde
Marton Illes - Violinkonzert Vont-tér
Kurt Weill - Symfonie no 2
2-3-4 February 2026
Teaching the conducting class @ Amsterdam Conservatory
Igor Stravinsky - Dumbarton Oaks
7 February 2026
MusikFabrik
Radio France, Paris
Georges Aperghis - Intermezzi
13 February 2026
Norwegian Radio Orchestra Oslo
Interpuls Festival
Kristine Tjøgersen - Bioluminisense
Steve Reich - Triple Quartet
Philip Glass - Dance from Akhnaten
Giovanni Gabrieli - Sonata Pian’ e Forte
Jon Øivind Ness - 4 Bowie-instrumentations
11 March 2026
Münchener Kammerorchester
Aspekte Festival, Salzburg
Claude Vivier – Zipangu
Sara Gloijnaric – Everything, Always
Johannes M Staud – Stachel
Alexandra Karastoyanova - Auftrag
26 March 2026
Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian Radio
Slovenian Philharmonic Choir
Croatian Radio and Television Choir
Sophia Burgos - soprano
Arvo Pärt - Fratres
Maurice Ravel - Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Francis Poulenc - Stabat Mater
3 April 2026
Slovenian Philharmonic
Slovenian Philharmonic Choir
Croatian Radio and Television Choir
Sophia Burgos - soprano
Arvo Pärt - Fratres
Maurice Ravel - Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Francis Poulenc - Stabat Mater
25 April 2026
Münchener Kammerorchester
Lisa Ferschtman, violin
Pinakothek der Moderne, München
Toru Takemitsu -
Nostalghia
Requiem for strings
Three Film Scores
Corona for strings
2 May 2026
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Isabelle Faust, violin
WDR Funkhaus, Köln
Hans Werner Henze - Los Caprichos
Vito Zuraj - Violin Concerto (new work)
Bara Gisladottir - nieuw werk
Hans Werner Henze - Symphony no 3
9, 10, 11 May 2026
Münchener Kammerorchester
Münchener Biennale, München
Hans Werner Henze - VOICES (Selection)
Piyawat Louilarpprasert - R3SIST4NC3 B0D1EZ (new work)
Besetzung: MKO & Sänger:innen der Theaterakademie August Everding
23 May 2026 Musis Sacrum, Arnhem
25 May 2026 Odeon, Zwolle
26 May 2026 Amare, Den Haag
28 May 2026 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Phion Orchestra
Francis van Broekhuizen, narrator
a.o.:
Igor Stravinsky - Firebird (1945)
20 June 2026
Musikfabrik
Funkhaus, Köln
Hans Werner Henze: Kammersonate, Tristan-Präludien, Paraphrasen über Dostojewski, Tristan-Präludium
22 June 2026
Musikfabrik
Philharmonie, Köln
Hans Werner Henze - „Apollo et Hyazinthus“
Olga Neuwirth - quasare/pulsare
Hans Werner Henze - Sonate für sechs Spieler
Gerd Kühr - Ohne Antwort
Hans Werner Henze - El Rey de Harlem
4 July 2026
Münchener Kammerorchester
Christoph Walder - Horn
Anders Nyqvist - Trumpet
Krassimir Sterev - Accordeon
Pinakothek der Moderne, München
Nina Senk -
Chant
Flux
New Work
11 July 2026
Münchener Kammerorchester
Chamber Music Festival
With my friends of the MKO, I will be playing the violin again!
Johannes Van Bree - Allegro for four string quartets
Selection from Kurtag’s Kafka Fragments with Sarah Maria Sun
