In 2024, the Czech Philharmonic will traditionally take part in the music festivals Dvořák's Prague, Prague Spring, Smetana's Litomyšl and Karlovy Vary Variations. The highlight of the Year of Czech Music will be five concerts with a purely Czech programme at one of the world's most famous venues - New York's Carnegie Hall. In the spring of 2025, the orchestra will go on its traditional tour of the most famous concert halls of the old continent.
As the summer comes to an end, the Czech Philharmonic heads on a festivals tour. This year’s highlights are two performances at the BBC Proms in London. The Orchestra will also be heard in Hamburg, Lucerne and Wiesbaden. Principal Guest Conductor Jakub Hrůša takes to the podium and is joined by Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Anastasia Kobekina and Mao Fujita.
Concerts by the Czech Philharmonic at the Dvořák Prague Festival are already a tradition. On this occasion, the first Czech orchestra tries to bring original dramaturgy and unusual artists to its home Rudolfinum. This year's three concerts will include works that pay tribute to the past and the classics, as well as to the present and technology.
The Czech Philharmonic will go to Bratislava right after the opening concerts of its 129th season. The audience at Reduta concert hall will hear a reprise of the festive programme conceived by the orchestra’s chief conductor Semyon Bychkov. The concert begins with the Russian virtuoso Daniil Trifonov in Dvořák’s Piano Concerto.
The Czech Philharmonic's participation in a joint project with the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has taken several forms in recent years. This year the orchestra will visit the spa town with a purely Czech programme consisting of works by Dvořák, Smetana and Janáček. All this under the baton of the chief conductor Semyon Bychkov.
The culmination of the 2024 Year of Czech Music is five concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall, one of the world’s most famous stages, from 3-7 December. Returning to Carnegie Hall for the first time since 2018, the Czech Philharmonic and its Chief Conductor and Music Director, Semyon Bychkov, will perform three programmes of Czech music.
To Canada straight from New York. Two concerts await us at Toronto's Koerner Hall, with a dramaturgy consisting mainly of Czech composers - Dvořák, Smetana - but the highlight will be the performance of Mahler's Fifth. Concertmaster Jan Mráček and 129th Season Artist-in-Residence Daniil Trifonov will take the solo parts.
The Czech Philharmonic’s spring tour of Europe is marked by residencies. That will be the case at the Musikverein in Vienna, London’s Barbican, and the Philharmonie de Paris. Besides those three stellar venues, the orchestra will also visit the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the hall with the same name in Bruges.
To Germany we are taking Smetana's Má vlast. In March 2024, the Czech Philharmonic togheter with Pentatone released a recording of this extraordinary composition. The new setting of one of the most important works of Czech cultural history is receiving praise from critics all over the world. Will it be a the same in Hannover and Baden-Baden?
Bad Kissingen has been one of the regular destinations of the Czech Philharmonic in recent years. Together with its chief conductor Semyon Bychkov, the orchestra will visit here again in July 2025 and perform two concerts.
