Concert calendar

The season opener is dedicated to natural phenomena: as fascinating as they are unpredictable, they affect our world and its inhabitants. In collaboration with the Bern Music Festival, whose theme this year is "Lightning," the concert program will be performed as a guest concert in Bern on September 2nd. Two electrifying works will take center stage. One is James Dillon's "Lightning Strike" from the 1990s, a concerto for flute and orchestra. Following "Crossing" and "Bright Night," it is the concluding work of his "German Triptych"—in which the Scottish composer set to music the idea of ​​enlightenment emerging from darkness.

The work by Slovenian composer Nina Šenk unfolds less abruptly. "Changing" begins with a single note, to which new material is slowly and steadily "attached." Created after the COVID pandemic, the composition explores instability and change. The underlying, monotonous idea remains recognizable throughout, yet never identical. Moving quietly forward, the piece rises and falls like breaths – the orchestra, with its diverse percussive elements, becomes, in effect, an organic breathing tract.

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