Whether concert introduction or night session, expedition concert or subscription concert, Mahler or Mozart, Bach or Lera Auerbach - Joana Mallwitz's second season with the Konzerthausorchester has seen you flock to our Great Hall just as numerous and enthusiastic as the first. We - the orchestra members and the entire Konzerthaus team - are very happy about this. We have compiled some of the best photos from concerts with our chief conductor in the 2024/25 season here.

With the young British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, we once again had a versatile and enormously likeable artist in residence who we were reluctant to say goodbye to after one season. We kicked off the season with Dvořák's cello concerto, and in “Aus den Fugen” he played “Bach & Beyond” with pianist Harry Baker.  Our cello group will certainly not forget the joint ensemble concert with Sheku, nor will the audience in the sold-out small hall.

Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 was on the program with the KHO and Joana Mallwitz as well as Bloch's “Schelomo” under the direction of Michael Sanderling in the final concert of the season. In between, Sheku came over with sister Isata Kanneh-Mason for a duo recital, for conversation and music in “Sheku Kanneh-Mason's Universe” - and of course he rode the elevator with us!

For two weeks, the “Aus den Fugen” festival at the Konzerthaus brings together visionary works that have unjustly not yet found a permanent place on concert stages, artists responding to a world out of kilter, and formats that upset the normal concert hall routine.

The audience danced exuberantly to Jazzrausch and the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, there were ovations for Patricia Kopatchinskaja's plea for peace, an enthusiastic community at the voguing evening ‘Our People’, dignified commemoration of 70 years of Yad Vashem with Lera Auerbach's 6th symphony ‘Vessels of Light’, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under Joana Mallwitz and guests as well as many other concerts.

There was a lot going on again at the “Junges Konzerthaus” last season: family concerts, children's programs such as KlangKüken, plus fun on Children's Day in March with the Konzerthaus Orchester as well as smaller concerts for different age groups from babies upwards. On Open House Day in July, the fun continued with Schlagwerk Voermans, instruments to try out and digital music discoveries.

Last season saw the premiere of “Alles hat seine Zeit”, a musical search for lost sounds for children from the age of 5. As part of “Aus den Fugen”, “NEXT STOP: BLN” focused on the question of what Berlin means to young workshop participants from Marzahn and what the city sounds like to them. The Youth Advisory Board put together another chamber concert. In the interactive “Orgelspiel”, our Jehmlich-Orgel took centre stage.

Tours are one of the highlights of an orchestra's everyday life. And a successful orchestra tour does not have to go halfway around the world.

With chief conductor Joana Mallwitz, cello soloist Kian Soltani and piano soloist Giorgi Gigashvili, Schubert's Great C Major Symphony, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 we gave sold-out concerts in Essen, Regensburg, Erlangen, Antwerp and the Tonhalle Zurich. Then, we played the opening concert of the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestivall and finally a concert in the Herrieden Basilica for the Franconian Summer Festival - more here on our tour blog:

We are always delighted with many great photos that photographers take to capture special moments on stage, backstage and in the halls. Here are a few from last season, showing guests and members of our Konzerthausorchester. What they all have in common is the joy of making music together for you. We wish you a wonderful summer - see you in September!