Classical Music

When you perform with the world's greatest orchestras, when the Stradivaris you play have names, or when your own name appears in the title of a documentary, you are big. And when all these things happen at once, your name is Janine Jansen.

At Bellevue Palace, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Berliner Philharmoniker orchestra invited guests to a concert for Ukraine on Sunday. Germany's President…

Now that culture is back, the Russian pianist Anna Vinnitskaya will be performing in Berlin twice within the next two months. Those who want to experience her…

None other than Robin Ticciati is scheduled to hit the stage in the Chamber Music Hall at Philharmonie Berlin in early March. With the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the British conductor will present compositions by three German composers.

Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig and other cities have the opportunity to witness none other than Vladimir Mogilevsky interpret Frédéric Chopin. Critics agree that…

According to Edvard Grieg, Clara Schumann was "one of the most soulful and famous pianists of the day". As a composer, she was admired as well. In the past five…

The Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel will return to Berlin in 2020. Under his guidance, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra will play Beethoven, Ravel and other stunning sounds during an open air concert in spring.

Ludwig van Beethoven's 250th birthday is coming up in 2020. The German composer will be honored with hundreds of events in his birth city of Bonn and other…

Berlin, Hamburg and Dresden are in for impressive performances of Mozart's 'Requiem', the last piece he ever wrote. A famous orchestra, a choir and the…

Sachiko Furuhata-Kersting was born in Yokohama in 1975. At the age of three she got her first piano lessons. Once she had won the national "New Pianist" competition in Japan, she moved over to Germany, in order to study at the Music Academy of Detmold and the Robert Schumann Academy in Düsseldorf.