Our Concerts

28. April 2024

Forest.Music.Change

12:00, Lübeck."Together we are stronger" - Based on this conviction, the musicians of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Lübeck, present a 40-minute lunch concert as part of the GO.GRØØN convention. Listeners can expect beautiful music of the Romantic period followed by a lecture from Loretta Leinen, forest ecologist and forestry scientist, will give us a look at the changing forest and vividly present the Lübeck concept of natural forest management.

13. May 2024

Green-Box-Kammerkonzert: Plastic

Dresden, 7:00 p.m. This evening, with the brass ensemble Kraftblech Mitte and in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, is all about the environmental problem of “plastic”.

15. May 2024

Sustainable Listening #5

Berlin, 8:00 p.m. With the music and discourse format "Sustainable Listening", which is planned for several seasons, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden focuses on this social challenge: a walk-in climate capsule becomes a place for impulses, exchange and participation.

17. May 2024

Back to Nature

Nürnberg, 8:00 p.m. The sixth philharmonic concert of the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg under the direction of Enrique Mazzola with works from Carlo Alberto Pizzini, Kurt Atterberg and Robert Schumann.

22. May 2024

„Bundle up, it’s getting hotter!“

Braunschweig, 8:00 p.m. A climate concert for the second ti,e in the main hall of the Braunschweig State Theater, this year with a double star cast: the well-known meteorologist Sven Plöger will moderate with entertaining expert knowledge, and the Staatsorchester, under the direction of General Music Director Srba Dinić, will play Alexander Glazunov's rarely performed ballet work "The Seasons" and the energetic overture to the ballet "The Creatures of Prometheus" by Ludwig van Beethoven.

01. June 2024

Antarctica: Concert for young people

Mainz, 7:00 p.m. With Ralph Vaughan Williams' film-like music "Sinfonia antartica" we travel to a region full of cold, snow and ice, for which the composer has found exciting sound images. Accompanying us on this musical expedition are real researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute who regularly live and work in the polar regions.

09. June 2024

Musical Treats - Oven Concert

Nuremberg, 3:00 p.m. Smoke-free ovens instead of open fires when cooking – this is what the “Die Ofenmacher” association is committed to in Nepal and other developing countries. Not only does this practice avoid burns and long-term health damage, but also significantly reduces CO2 emissions. In this concert format, members of the “Die Ofenmacher” association will introduce their project and take the audience on a musical and culinary journey through different eras and cultures together with musicians from the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg.

14. April 2024

Pristine - Instruments and their branches

Duisburg, 11:00 a.m. Family Concert. The great old trees in the forest hold an exciting secret. Musical instruments are made from the trunks and branches of maple, spruce and pine - but also from the wood of trees from distant lands. A whole forest of music will be heard in the concert.

25. March 2024

Green-Box-Kammerkonzert: Plants

Dresden, 7:00 p.m. A lecture on the topic “Vegetables from the roof – Vertical Farming in Dresden” accompanied by the music of Eduard Künneke, Hans Gál and Gaetano d'Espinosa, presented by Billy Schmidt, Maria Berge and Eleonora Haidu

03. March 2024

The North Drift- Plastic in the Currents

Braunschweig, 7:30 p.m. What does Smetana's “Moldau” have to do with plastic waste from Germany in the Arctic Ocean? Musicians from the Staatsorchester Braunschweig explore this question in their musical accompaniment to the film “The North Drift – Plastic in the Currents”.

25. February 2024

Nachklanglichkeit - from Beethoven to Joni Mitchell

Koblenz, 11:00 a.m. Under the title NACHLANGLICHKEIT, members of the Rhenische Philharmonie and guests play a varied program with contributions from Beethoven to Joni Mitchell. Admission is free. Donations requested. Before the concert there will be an informational event about the Orchester des Wandels in the studio at 10:15 a.m.

22. January 2024

Green-Box Chamber Concert: City / Nature in Flux

Dresden, 7:00 p.m. Chamber music played by the Ensemble Ampère and literary texts read by environmental activists and poets Elke Cremer, Johann Reißler and Ursula Seeger.

05. December 2023

Water is life!

Hannover, 6:00 p.m. Ensuring the availability and sustainable management of clean water will be a major challenge worldwide in the future. Against this background, from a geographical didactic perspective, it is necessary to contribute to raising awareness of a major change towards sustainable development. Musicians from the NDR Radiophilharmonie present selected pieces for the lecture by Prof. Dr. Christiane Meyer, head of the geography didactics department at the Institute for Natural Sciences Didactics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

23. November 2023

Symphonic Summit

Duisburg, 7:30 p.m. Haydn's symphonic climax and Strauss' sublime mountain climb in the Bavarian foothills. Before and after the concert, the musicians of the Duisburger Philharmoniker and Orchester des Wandels invite you to “summit” discussions about the beauty and danger of the mountain worlds.

23. November 2023

A Question of Happiness

10:00 p.m. Kaiserslautern. What is happiness? And where do we find it? The evening will be accompanied musically by Katrin Lerchbacher, Katharina Hirsch and Aymeric Catalano.

22. November 2023

Symphonic Summit

20. November 2023

The Butterfly and the Resurrection

8:00 p.m., Wuppertal. As a cooperation partner of the Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal and Orchester des Wandels e. V. the insect specialists from the Wuppertal Natural Science Association joined the musicians for the 3rd symphony concert. In context of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, titled "Resurrection Symphony", we took a closer look at the world of insects, especially the butterfly as a symbol of the resurrection.

19. November 2023

Death and Awakening

Braunschweig, 5:00 p.m. This concert by the cathedral choir and the Staatsorchester Braunschweig illuminates contrasting perspectives: questions on life and death, creation and transience as well as the destruction of nature by humans. With Lara Secord-Haid, soprano, and choir director Elke Lindemann.

13. November 2023

Green-Box Chamber Concert: Dystopia / Utopia

Dresden, 7:00 p.m. „Vienna meets Berlin“ with Andreas Sauerzapf, Babette Kuschel and the SERENATA SAXONIA.

09. November 2023

"Recycling Concerto"

Frankfurt, 7:00 p.m. Highs and lows, cyclones and El Niño. When ARD meteorologist Sven Plöger presents the Frankfurt Radio Symphony's "Spotlight" discussion concert with TV presenter Jennifer Sieglar, you will be infected by his enthusiasm for the weather and climate cycles and at the same time sensitized to the unusual “Recycling Concerto” by Gregor A. Mayrhofer with the phenomenal young drummer Vivi Vassileva.

01. November 2023

Sustainable Listening #4

23. October 2023

The Forest Maker: Music, Film & Conversation

Dresden, 7:00 p.m. The evening begins with musical selections played by musicians of Staatsoperette Dresden, followed by a viewing of “The Forest Maker” (2021) Documentary by Volker Schlöndorff. After the screening, Anke Hahn will discuss her work with Dresden's OLGA project and Billy Schmidt, musician of Staatsoperette Dresden, will provide insight into the OdW's reforestation project in Madagascar.

10. October 2023

Concert in the Castle for Madagascar

Stuttgart, 6:30 p.m. Musicians of the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker will play an exclusive surprise program at Rosenstein Castle with works by Haydn, Milhaud, Ibert, Hindemith, Zemlinsky and Piazolla.

24. September 2023

Tonal Colors & Finissage of the Exhibition "Artists For Nature"

Kaiserslautern, 11:00 a.m. Art-Talk “GLACIERS AND THEIR FUTURE” with Lothar Lukoschek and Horst Scherschel, German Alpine Club (DAV), regional association RLP and Dr. Annette Reich. Musicians from the Pfalzphilharmonie Kaiserslautern will play the “American” String Quartet No. 12 in F major by Antonín Dvořák

24. September 2023

Braunschweig Apple Day

Braunschweig, 2:00 p.m. Experience the orchard in tango fever! At the Braunschweig Apple Day, the fruit gatherers on bikes are awaited by the cool apple press with fiery tango music. A quartet of musicians from the Braunschweig State Orchestra play music by Astor Piazolla and Mozart, supported by a colleague drumming the appropriate Argentinian rhythms with his cajon.

09. September 2023

Klimalautern - 1st Lautrer Climate Day

The musicians of the Pfalzphilharmonie Kaiserslautern invite you to the 1st Lauter Climate Day on Saturday, September 9th, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.! Alongside the musical performances there will be information stands and hands-on activities with other climate and environmental initiatives.

22. July 2023

Concert for the Fields

Überlingen, 11:00 a.m. Just as the soil is the source of our physical staple food, so is music a source of mental and spiritual staple food for us. The musicians of the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg put their music in the service of soil fertility and play Beethoven's 6th symphony, the so-called "Pastorale" in an open air concert at the Rengoldshausen estate in Überlingen under the direction of Roland Böer.

17. July 2023

Alpine Symphony and Climate Change

Kassel, 8:00 p.m. As part of a symphony concert with Strauss' Alpine Symphony, members of the Kassel State Orchestra use the connection to nature to address climate change in the Alps.On display will be images showing what glaciers around the Kasseler Hütte looked like in Strauss' time and how they have been decimated by climate change to this day.

25. June 2023

„In transition #trans:formen“ (Premiere)

8:00 p.m., Memmingen. The 1st climate concert "Im Wandel #trans:formen" by the Augsburg Philharmonic Musicians in cooperation with Orchester des Wandels will have its world premiere in Memmingen. In cooperation with MEILE, this evening is about the inner willingness to change and the moving potential of music. What kind of healing "handprint" can music, text and ideas oppose to the destructive "footprint"?

16. June 2023

The 4 Seasons

Neustadt, 4:30 p.m. The musicians of the Deutsche Staasphilharmonie Rhineland-Pfalz invite you to a special concert: in the middle of a park experience the Antonio Vivaldi's 4 Seasons with violinist Laurent Albrecht Breuninger. Unpack your folding chair or stretch out on your picnic blanket and enjoy the music and nature in the shade of the trees.

12. June 2023

Wandel(n) im Wald - A Stroll through Change

Kassel, 7:30 p.m. Together with forest researcher Friedrich Bohn from the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Leipzig, we walk through the changing forest in this concert, addressing its vulnerability and also its opportunities. We are accompanied by musical flycatchers, crickets and fireflies to music by Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Hindemith, Rossini and others.

04. June 2023

Utopia? Vision! - Day 2

Bremen, from 11:00 a.m. Musicians across Bremen devote a weekend to the topic of climate protection/sustainability and explore it in a creative and colorful way. Concerts and events are planned with the Bremen Philharmonic, the Musikwerkstatt, the Bremen Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Young Theater Bremen, the Helmholtz Climate Initiative and other guests.

03. June 2023

Utopia? Vision! - Day 1

Bremen, from 2:00 p.m. Musicians across Bremen devote a weekend to the topic of climate protection/sustainability and explore it in a creative and colorful way. Concerts and events are planned with the Bremen Philharmonic, the Musikwerkstatt, the Bremen Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Young Theater Bremen, the Helmholtz Climate Initiative and other guests.

26. May 2023

Climate Workshop #3- for sustainable water in Duisburg

Duisburg, 7:00 p.m. What one of the first natural philosophers recognized in 500 B.B as existential for life on Earth continues to play a significant role in times of climate change: our water. It is an increasingly scarce resource - and like hydrogen, it is both a beacon of hope and an energy supplier for the future.

21. May 2023

Concert for the Forest

Nuremberg Opera House, 11:00 a.m In the form of pictures, narration and music, we embark on a journey through the forest ecosystem in this concert by the Co2 initiative of the Staatsphilharmonie.

20. May 2023

"Snow and Rain make the Earth fruitful and fertile“

Otterberg, 8:00 p.m. As early as 1750, Georg Friedrich Handel sent a large package with "flowers of exquisite beauty and enchanting rarity" from England to his friend Georg Philipp Telemann, who owned a large garden with 70 different types of flowers just outside Hamburg. Between the musical selections, Johannes Pardall will illuminate the composers' love of nature through selected texts while introducing "Orchester des Wandels".

29. April 2023

Planet Blue

Ludwigshafen, 7:00 p.m. Water is everywhere: life-saving and life-threatening, pure spring water and poisoned sewage. We would like to invite you to our Klimaphonie, a journey through the different facets of water with musicians from the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.

23. April 2023

No Calm Before the Storm - Sustainability Weekend

Karlsruhe, from 10:45 a.m. Max Mutzke meets Save the world; the BADISCHE STAATSKAPPELLE plays Strauss Alpensinfonie and enters into a dialogue between art and science with leading climate scientists from KIT: Four organizations join forces to set an example for a climate-friendly life!

22. April 2023

No Calm before the Storm - Sustainability Weekend

Karlsruhe, from 12:00 p.m. Max Mutzke meets Save the world; the BADISCHE STAATSKAPPELLE plays Strauss Alpensinfonie and enters into a dialogue between art and science with leading climate scientists from KIT: Four organizations join forces to set an example for a climate-friendly life!

13. April 2023

Sustainable Listening #3

Apollo Hall Berlin, 8:00 p.m. As part of »Sustainable Listening«, a walk-in climate capsule becomes a place for inspiration, exchange and participation with climate experts, activists and visionaries on various sustainability topics. Music from musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin merges with live electronics from the Gebrüder Teichmann and texts by climate experts to create a unique installation.

02. April 2023

Water, waves and flux

Karlsruhe, 11:30 a.m. What do the Baroque master Händel, his Venetian contemporary Vivaldi, the bel canto opera composer Rossini, the impressionist tone painter Debussy and the US minimal music artist John Adams have in common? They all drew inspiration for individual works from the element of water.

27. March 2023

Green-Box Chamber Music Concert #3

Dresden, 7:00 p.m. With scenic readings from the play "Water" by Kathrin Röggla* by actors from the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and the exhibition "Everything in the river!? Water in Crisis" by Weiter Thinking - Heinrich Böll Foundation Saxony e.V. we will take a look at the water crisis and discuss possible solutions while enjoying musical selections across four centuries.

25. March 2023

Chamber Music for the Climate

Braunschweig, 4:00 p.m. Benefit concert for the "Urwald Project" in Braunschweig-Hondelage in cooperation with the parish of St. Katharinen. Musicians from the Braunschweig State Orchestra enchant the audience with Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor and the Trio Élégiaque by Sergej Rachmaninoff.

25. March 2023

Earth Hour Concert

Koblenz, 7:00 p.m. Before the lights go out on public buildings in many cities at 8.30 p.m. on the occasion of Earth Hour 2023, the members of the Rheinische Philharmonie perform a concert on the subject of climate justice. A variety of chamber music works ranging from composers such as Bach and Haydn to Alfred Schnittke und Manuel Ponce will lighten the evening until it's "lights out".

14. March 2023

The Magic of the Isar

Munich, 8:00 p.m. In an effort to to create connection to the Isar through music, the WWF Germany sponsors this evening concert in cooperation with the Munich Philharmonic, Munich based photographers and the nature filmmaker Jürgen Eichinger. The musicians have selected pieces that personally remind them of the sound of the Isar. The concert will be accompanied by impressive nature recordings of the water habitat Isar and its inhabitants.

04. March 2023

What does transition sound like?

Hamburg, 2:00 PM. "Transformation is a team sport. And an absense of culture is not sustainable either." Lecture by Jacob Sylvester Bilabel, Head of the Action Network Sustainability in Culture and Media. As part of the series "Music and Science", the musicians of the Philharmonic Orchestra present the famous Carnival of the Animals - in Transition.

12. February 2023

#BECHANGE: Thinking

Dresden, 6:00 p.m. Progress? Status quo? Or a step backwards? #bechange: Thinking, the third program in the Stegreif Orchestra's #bechange series, tells of times of departure and deceleration and asks about the value of omnipresent innovation.

16. January 2023

Green-Box Chamber Music Concert #2

Dresden, 7:00 p.m. For the 2nd GREEN BOX CHAMBER CONCERT featuring the Ensemble Ampèreon, the musicians have invited scientific expertise on the subject of sustainability management. Prof. Remmer Sassen and Coco Klußmann from the Technical University of Dresden present an interactive workshop giving joint consideration to how sustainability can be carried into organizations and linked to their goals: How can sustainability strategies be created and then implemented in an enriching and goal-oriented way?

04. January 2023

Sustainable Listening #2 Forest

12. December 2022

Save the seasons!

Düsseldorf, 8:00 p.m. How are our seasons changing due to climate change? And which of these changes affect nature and humans? The musical program features Haydn's "The Seasons" under the direction of chief conductor Adam Fischer.

11. December 2022

Save the seasons!

Düsseldorf, 11 a.m. How are our seasons changing due to climate change? And which of these changes affect nature and humans? The musical program features Haydn's "The Seasons" under the direction of chief conductor Adam Fischer.

11. December 2022

Nature, Music and Science harmonise

Art Museum Bochum, 11:00 a.m. The sought-after soloist and violin professor Antje Weithaas, together with musicians from the Bochumer Symphoniker, will perform one of the most important and beautiful works of chamber music of the 19th century, Franz Schubert's Octet in F major. In addition, scientist Prof. Astrid Kiendler-Scharr explains the connection between air quality and climate change in an exciting lecture, accompanied by music from melodic themes by Schubert.

09. December 2022

Save the seasons!

Düsseldorf, 8:00 p.m. How are our seasons changing due to climate change? And which of these changes affect nature and humans? Prof. Dr. Astrid Kiendler-Scharr gives scientifically sound answers to these questions in a pre-concert lecture on Friday. The musical program features Haydn's "The Seasons" under the direction of chief conductor Adam Fischer.

30. November 2022

Four Seasons Countdown

Lübeck, 7:00 p.m. How can we counteract the climate catastrophe? The sought-after climate researcher Mojib Latif has been offering clear and understandable research results with efficient solutions for a long time - from knowledge to action. In his lecture, the urgency of preserving our "Blue Marble" is musically reinforced by Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons". Vivaldi's visionary composition will be played by four talented violin soloists and fifteen musicians from the Lübeck Philharmonic.

28. November 2022

Rain Coming

Musik- und Kongresszentrum Lübeck, 7:30 p.m. »My music is like a garden«, the Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu explained in an interview in 1993, »and I am the gardener...« Takemitsu's atmospherically dense composition »Rain Coming« from 1982 describes the peculiar mood when a rain shower »is in the air« , but has not started yet. The piece opens the third symphony concert with which the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck draws attention to climate and environmental protection.

27. November 2022

Rain Coming

21. November 2022

White Vanishing

Oldenburg State Theater, 7:30 p.m. A world premiere by the composer Daniel Michael Kaiser is the inspiration for the Oldenburgishes Staatsorchester to devote itself to this broad climate program in its 2nd symphony concert of the season.

20. November 2022

White Vanishing

Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, 11:15 a.m. A world premiere by the composer Daniel Michael Kaiser is the inspiration for the Oldenburgishes Staatsorchester to devote itself to this broad climate program in its 2nd symphony concert of the season.

13. November 2022

We are Earth

Berlin Philharmonie, 7:00 p.m. Premiere of a secular oratorio by Gregor A. Mayrhofer, inspired by Pope Francis' environmental encyclical "Laudato si'" Additional works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Camille Saint-Saëns. With Gregor Mayrhofer, Tanja Tetzlaff, and the Staatskapelle Berlin.

11. November 2022

New Songs from the Earth

Berlin, October 27 - November 11. 8:00 p.m. Today, Mahler's orchestral song cycle is set in a world in which artists of all countries and languages have to deal with global environmental destruction and war. But instead of saying goodbye to this world, we want to think further about Mahler's work: how can this "song" sound today and who would sing it?

31. October 2022

Ode to the Earth

Braunschweig, 8:00 p.m. The Staatsorchester Braunschweig performs on Reformation Day its first climate concert on the large stage of the State Theater. The juxtaposition of prosperous and beautiful nature in Beethoven's Pastorale and Semtana's Moldau contrasted with live images of the earth from the International Space Station and texts from the ICCP (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is intended to make it clear: nature, as Beethoven and Smetana found it, is being destroyed more and more rapidly.

29. October 2022

CLIMATE Change, Climate PROTECTION

Kassel, 6:00 p.m. Exhibition Opening with Cornissimo Cassel and the German Alpine Association. Based on a summary of scientifically based findings and forecasts about the current situation globally and in the Alpine region, numerous examples will be used to show what this means for Alpine infrastructure, Alpine ecosystems, tourism, mobility and mountain sports.

27. October 2022

Masoala-Ensemble Castle Concert

Stuttgart, 8:00 p.m. In the middle of the Rosenstein Park, the columned hall of Rosenstein Castle will transform into a concert hall on October 27 with members of the Stuttgart Philharmonic performing a diverse program of chamber music. The Masoala Ensemble, made of up members of the Philharmonic, takes you on a journey through different musical worlds. From the baroque opulence of Luigi Boccherini to Mozart's outlaw ease, we will travel through Bulgarian folklore to film music by Philip Glass.

17. October 2022

Green-Box Chamber Music Concert

Staatsoperette Dresden, 7:30 p.m. The Green Box chamber concert of golden October is all about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More precisely, it is about how the SDGs can be made attainable for each of us in everyday life.

11. September 2022

A Musical Stroll in the Forest

Hessenschanze Kassel, 6:00 p.m. A two-hour walk in the Hessenschanze with Uwe Zindel, head of the forestry office in Wolfhagen. At various stations along the way, Cornissimo Cassel will play a variety of well-known works that invoke the sounds of the forest, nature and birds, while inviting you to get involved with the protection of it and its creatures.

11. September 2022

Culture Track: a case for monument protection

Botanical Garden KIT, Karlsruhe, 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. On the occasion of the Open Monument Day, the association "Friends and Sponsors of the Botanical Garden of the KIT e.V." invites you to visit the garden together with musicians of the Badische Staatskapelle.

04. September 2022

Forest. Music. Change. - Nature und Music in the Kotten Forest

Kotten Forest Bonn, 3:00 p.m. A musical walk through the forest and a picnic concert. In cooperation with the House of Nature, the musicians of the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn highlight the many connections between nature and music.

Open-Air Children's Concert - Festival of the Senses

Klima Arena Sinsheim, 3:00 p.m. With the children's concert "Listen, who's singing", the Berlin director Sophie Louise Busch and New York composer Alexander Liebermann have prepared a special kind of musical program together with musicians from our member orchestras.

30. July 2022

Open-Air Concert "Awakening"- Festival of the Senses

Sinsheim, 6:30 p.m. Festival of the Senses - see, hear & experience nature, in the summer open air! We would like to take you on a visually stunning and musical journey through our homeland nature and its diversity.

30. July 2022

Open-Air Children's Concert - Festival of the Senses

24. July 2022

Sounds of the Forest 2022: A scenic musical hike

Trechtingshausen, 11:00 a.m. Together we set off on an extraordinary adventure hike. Spanning four varied kilometers along the World Heritage Trail, musical selections performed by musicians of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Mainz from the times of Rhine Romanticism, Eastern Europe and present day awaits you, all sourcing the forest as inspiration.

24. July 2022

Summer Music in Zukunftsdorf22

Plenumsdom Kassel, 4:00 p.m. As part of the "documenta fifteen" art exhibition, musicians from the Kassel State Orchestra will introduce "Orchester des Wandels" and present their projects alongside a varied musical program.

10. July 2022

KlimArt - Concerts and Climate Mile

Magnikirche Braunschweig, 12 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Forests are dying, rivers and soils are drying up, and biodiversity is declining. It's time to act! With the KlimArt summer festival, the Climate Mile and 3 concerts, the Staatsorchester Braunschweig is drawing attention to the problems caused by climate change in the region and beyond.

09. July 2022

"This is my creation!"

St. Magni Church Braunschweig, 5:00 p.m. In this climate concert with musicians from the Staatsorchester Braunschweig, Beethoven’s Septet (“Creation”) is the programmatic focus and is framed by a serenade for bassoon and string quintet by Jean Françaix and a jazzy piece for clarinet and cello by Svante Henryson.

03. July 2022

A musical picnic

Open-air, from classical to contemporary and with exceptional instrumentation, a diverse musical program will take place on July 3rd, 2022 on the site of the emerging ecovillage on Kronsberg — accompanied by exchange on the topics of sustainability, environmentally conscious living and resource-saving living together.

03. July 2022

Reverberations

11:00 a.m., Koblenz. Chamber music with members of the Rheinische Philharmonie State Orchestra. Admission is free. Donations for the Madagascar project are requested.

17. June 2022

Magic of the Forest - Soundscapes and Habitats

Mercatorhalle Duisburg, 7:30 pm. The forest has always fascinated and attracted people. The atmospheric program aims to encourage people to open their eyes and ears to the endangered beauty of the forests.

28. May 2022

Climate Workshop #2: For a blooming Duisburg

Theater Duisburg, Opera Foyer, 7:30 pm. In selected musical works performed by our musician ensembles, we trace the connection between art and nature; in short speeches, Duisburg climate activists present their valuable initiatives; and last but not least, we discuss the question of how future life in harmony with nature can be possible. Works by Erwin Schulhoff, Bedřich Smetana, Daniel Schnyder and others.

28. May 2022

Three Seasons and Tabula rasa

Staatstheater Braunschweig, Main Hall, 1:00 pm. Concertmaster Felix Gutgesell interprets three seasons by Antonio Vivaldi with musicians of the orchestra. Instead of “winter”, the movement “Silentio” from Arvo Pärt's “Tabula Rasa” will be performed, creating a special atmosphere with contemplative sounds of silence, simplicity and the ringing of bells.

24. May 2022

Glacier Worlds in the Power Plant

Kraftwerk Berlin, 7:00 p.m. For their tenth climate concert, the musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin perform in a place tied to Berlin’s industrial history.

19. May 2022

»endlich.« Augsburg Climate Festival

Gaswerk and martini-Park Augsburg, 19. - 22. Mai. In the 2021/22 season, the Augsburg State Theater is devoting a variety of events, productions and discussion forums to the foreseeable consequences, necessary countermeasures and potential solutions to the climate crisis. The »endlich.« (English: »finally.«) climate festival is an accumulation of the results of the season, gathering local and national players in the cultural sustainability debate in one place and conveying to the people of Augsburg how much creative potential there is in the local sustainability movement.

08. May 2022

Heat - Storms - Floods

Ludwigshafen, LUcation Hallenbad Nord, 11:00 a.m. The Musicians of the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz invite you to a benefit concert to protect nature and forests, which have for centures inspired great composers to create their masterpieces. The concert features music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe and Maurice Ravel, as well as readings that reflect our relationship to our planet.

01. May 2022

Nature Fantasy in Pictures

Lübeck Music and Congress Center, 11:00 Uhr. In conjunction with the convention »GO.GRØØN«. The Lübeck Philharmonic continues to experiment with concert formats. This time not only acoustically and informatively, but also visually and humorously: Before the eyes of the audience, comic artist Joshua Held will actively sketch on a white screen during the concert. Music and opera director of the Theater Lübeck, Stefan Vladar, conducts the orchestra in a program with well-known works that directly address the topic of nature. In addition, the scientist Dr. Nadine Mengis takes a look into the future with short scientific lectures to set our imaginations in motion.

27. April 2022

Opening of the 11th Hack Museum Garden Season

Ludwigshafen, 5:00 p.m. Curated by Theresia Kiefer with an appearance mayor Prof. Dr. Cornelia Reifenberg, the opening will be musically framed with a colorful spring program featuring musicians of the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.

24. April 2022

Change in the Forests

Stadthalle Kassel, 7:30 p.m. In cooperation with Hessen Forst and the ensemble Cornissimo Cassel: a chamber music evening with short lectures on the effects of climate change on the Hessian forests woven between the musical selections.

26. March 2022

The Beethoven Expedition

Übersee-Museum Bremen, 7:00 p.m. Experience Beethoven paired with the research of prominent climate experts in the unique ambience of the Übersee-Museum Bremen.

21. March 2022

Climate Change in the Alps

Stadthalle Kassel, 8:00 p.m. Richard Strauss's Alpine Symphony, contains everything that fascinates mountaineers: waterfalls, pastures with cows, dangerous glaciers, marmots, thunderstorms and of course: the glorious arrival on the summit. Join the musicians of the Staatsorchester Kassel for an evening of alpine music and discussion about the impact of climate change on the mountains.

11. January 2022

Philharmonic Rock

Theater Duisburg, Jan. 11th & 12th at 19.30 p.m. Special fundraising concert by the Duisburger Philharmoniker with rock legend Peter Bursch and his All-Star Band in the Duisburg Theater.

28. November 2021

Science meets Tanja Tetzlaff

Sendesaal Bremen Tanja Tetzlaff and the Alfred Wegener Institute collaborate for an intimate evening fundraising for climate and environmental protection. Musical performances with Tanja and members of the Bremer Philharmoniker are woven around short lectures from leading scientists in the field.

22. November 2021

Green-Box Chamber Music Concert #1

Staatsoperette Dresden, 8:00 p.m. At the first concert in this new series pairing music with climate protection, the Ensemble Ampère (string quintet, harp, clarinet, flute) will play works by Maurice Ravel, Gordon Jacob, Jacques Ibert and Astor Piazzolla. Speaking at the event will be Prof. Dr. Stefan Scherbaum from the TU Dresden and members of the TU environmental initiative tuuwi.

14. November 2021

Family Concert - The Lorax

Musikforum Bochum, 11:00 a.m.. Little Lorax is determined to prevent the pollution of nature and the deforestation of the beautiful truffle trees. What happens to the singing schwipps and the buzzing fish when the trees become less and less...?

08. November 2021

Endangered Idyll

Theater Duisburg, November 5, 6, & 8. Originally conceived for Earth Day in 2020 and postponed due to the pandemic, this concert program now serves as an occasion for the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker to introduce themselves as members of “Orchester des Wandels” in the third symphony concert of the season.

26. September 2021

„Erwachen“- Final Concert of Hamburg Climate Week 2021

Hamburg, St. Katharinen Church, 8:00 p.m. A climate concert to conclude the Hamburg Climate Week 2021: the climate monodrama “Awakening” by the young Berlin composer Alexander Liebermann, who lives in New York, for soprano and chamber ensemble.

12. September 2021

Forest. Music. Change.

Kottenforst Nature Reserve Bonn, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. The musicians of the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn show the diverse connections between nature and music. There are four music stations with ensembles from the orchestra, information stands from instrument makers, many information stations and a small quiz for children.

12. September 2021

Appearance versus Reality in the plant kingdom

Botanical Garden of KIT, Karlsruhe, 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 3:00pm. On the occasion of the Open Monument Day, the Association of Friends and Patrons of the Botanical Garden of KIT, together with members of the Badische Staatskapelle, invites you to visit the gardens.

20. August 2021

Sounds of Nature

Domhof Lübeck, 6:00 p.m. Also on August 21st at 7:00 p.m. and August 22nd at 5:00 p.m. In cooperation with the Lübeck Museum for Nature and Environment, a special concert program with chamber music works from different epochs of music history, in which the musical imitation of natural sounds culminates in a strong emotional experience.

26. July 2021

"When music falls on fertile ground..."

Staatstheater Nürnberg, 7:30 p.m. Kick-off event for the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg's new CO2 initiative in cooperation with the Soil Fertility Fund (Bodenfruchtbarkeitfonds Bio-Stiftung Schweiz)

20. March 2021

Auction for Climate Protection

Bremen. Beginning February 21st, the Bremer Philharmoniker are offering four weeks of concerts and interactive events that can be purchased in two auctions.

26. September 2020

Climate Workshop #1- For a blooming Duisburg

Theater Duisburg, 4.30 pm & 7.30 pm. Enjoy beautiful music with a glass of wine and let's talk about sustainability: How important is it to us that we conserve our “Four Seasons” as we know them? Or that the bumblebee continues to fly outside of the concert hall?

26. September 2020

Symphonic Change

St. Katharine Church, Hamburg, 7:00 p.m. A unique climate concert with musicians from our member orchestras and the artist Juri de Marco.