Overseas Mission

The tour opens with a mini-residency at Salzburg’s Festpielhaus and includes performances in Nuremberg, Mannheim, Coesfeld and Eindhoven. Compelling tour programmes include the third symphonies of Rachmaninov and Sibelius, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Arabella Steinbacher as soloist, and evergreen works by Richard Strauss.

International touring has played a decisive role in the development of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra over the past decade. Its next journey overseas, to be given in company with Principal Guest Conductor Sir Mark Elder and three outstanding soloists, encompasses visits to Austria, Germany and the Netherlands (5 – 12 March 2025). The tour begins with three concerts at Salzburg’s renowned Festpielhaus. Their Salzburg residency is built around repertoire chosen to reflect the collective artistry and excellence of one of the outstanding symphonic ensembles of our time. It also underlines the strength of the Bergen Philharmonic’s relationship with Sir Mark, who took up his present appointment with the orchestra in September 2022.

The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra opens its Salzburg stay with a programme comprising by Sibelius’ Third Symphony, Richard Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel and Vier letzte Lieder, with Camilla Nylund as soprano soloist (5 & 6 March). It concludes with Sibelius’ Scènes historiques, Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder, and Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony (7 March). Arabella Steinbacher, hailed by The Strad for the ‘warmth and sincerity’ of her musicmaking, will join the party as soloist in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto for concerts at Nuremberg’s Meistersingerhalle (8 March), Mannheim’s Rosengarten (10 March) and Konzerttheater Coesfeld (11 March). The tour ends in Eindhoven on 12 March with Miah Persson as soloist in the Vier letzte Lieder and both the Sibelius and Rachmaninov symphonies in the same programme.

Please see the programme section for more information about the tour concerts.