Press releases

In the Mozarteum Great Hall on Wednesday evening, the Philharmonie Salzburg under chief conductor Elisabeth Fuchs performed two highly emotional orchestral works in a late Romantic setting: Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" and Alexander von Zemlinsky's orchestral fantasy "The Mermaid".

What does it sound like when mice and pirates play Astor Piazzolla, Camille Saint-Saëns and W.A. Mozart? If they have rehearsed as diligently as the dedicated young talents of the Salzburg Children's & Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, really well!

The city senate and municipal council have decided to purchase the prospective rehearsal building for the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Salzburg's Nonntal.

Acclaimed premiere of an unconventional musical encounter: the Herbert Pixner Project, together with the large choir and orchestra of the Salzburg Philharmonic under Elisabeth Fuchs, celebrated a cross-genre music festival in front of the Grosses Festspielhaus, which was sold out four times.

Together with solo guitarist Cecilio Perera and the popular ensemble Trio Negro, the Philharmonie Salzburg under chief conductor Elisabeth Fuchs performed two acclaimed Christmas concerts with Latin American temperament in the twice sold-out Great University Hall Salzburg.

Radovan Vlatković is one of the world's best wind soloists. On the evening of December 6, he showed why this is the case by playing with the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Elisabeth Fuchs in the Great Hall of the Salzburg Mozarteum.

Together with one of the world's most sought-after wind soloists, Radovan Vlatković, the Philharmonie Salzburg under chief conductor Elisabeth Fuchs performed two concerts for members of the association at the Center for Visions, Salzburg's newest event and concert hall.

Together with top cellist Giovanni Gnocchi, the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Elisabeth Fuchs played an evening of Viennese classical music in the Great University Hall as a thank-you for the professional group for elementary education.

Daring and curiosity were rewarded with the successful launch of the new concert series MITTEN IM ORCHESTER: The Philharmonie Salzburg under chief conductor Elisabeth Fuchs performed two concerts for members of the association together with "Spallenmann" and violin virtuoso Sergey Malov in Salzburg's newest concert hall, the Center for Visions in Puch-Urstein.

In the Mozarteum Great Hall, string soloist and "Spallenmann" Sergey Malov delighted the audience with his performance of the rediscovered violoncello da spalla and a passionate Tchaikovsky violin concerto together with the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra under Elisabeth Fuchs.

The Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra celebrated its 25th anniversary yesterday, October 12, with a ceremony in the Salzburg Kulisse and a brilliant anniversary concert in the Grosses Festspielhaus. Founder and chief conductor Elisabeth Fuchs and her orchestra were awarded the provincial coat of arms by Governor Wilfried Haslauer and the city seal in gold by local councillor Florian Kreibich.

Extraordinary premiere to kick off the anniversary days of the Philharmonie Salzburg: The anniversary days of the Philharmonie Salzburg (October 5-19) were opened yesterday evening in the atmospheric cellar vault of the Müllner GAIA with an exciting thriller-music-dance reading.

Over the past two weeks, the orchestra musicians of the Philharmonie Salzburg have held 350 workshops for school classes and kindergarten groups on Sergei Prokofiev's musical fairy tale "Peter and the Wolf" in Zell am See and the provincial capital, opening the door to the world of classical music for many children. 8,500 children were able to pick up an orchestral instrument for the first time and try it out under professional guidance.

Over the past six weeks, almost eighty children and young people between the ages of seven and 18 have put their heart and soul into rehearsing a colorful potpourri of classical orchestral pieces as well as pop and film music with seven professional musicians from the Philharmonie Salzburg and Elisabeth Fuchs.

More than 4,000 schoolchildren and apprentices attended the Philharmonie Salzburg concerts in the Grosses Festspielhaus today. The apprentice and school concerts are specially designed for young people who have had little or no previous contact with classical music. The program was led by Elisabeth Fuchs, conductor and director of the Philharmonie Salzburg.

The four musicians of the ECHO KLASSIK award-winning quartet Salut Salon, together with the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Elisabeth Fuchs, ignited a literal firework display on the stage of the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg last Friday.

Under the direction of Elisabeth Fuchs, the choir and orchestra of the Philharmonie Salzburg performed what is probably the world's most famous requiem mass with great success in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum, which was completely sold out twice. Maria Bernius, Katrin Auzinger, Paul Schweinester and Johannes Wimmer shone and harmonized as the vocal soloists.

Last weekend, the Philharmonie Salzburg under conductor Elisabeth Fuchs celebrated the start of spring in the Great University Hall with the sparkling lightness of Mendelssohn's "Italian". Mendelssohn is said to have felt "euphoric and intoxicated" when he set off on his Italian travels in 1830.

25 years of the Philharmonie Salzburg - It has been around for a quarter of a century now - the Philharmonie Salzburg, which has been shaking up the cultural landscape of the city of Mozart since 1998 and has long been an integral part of Salzburg's arts scene. Founded in 1998 by the then 22-year-old Elisabeth Fuchs as the "Junge Philharmonie Salzburg" (until 2011), the orchestra initially only played two concerts a year.

Music education is known to be a special concern of conductor Elisabeth Fuchs. On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Children's Festival 2022, another music education project of the Salzburg Philharmonic & Children's Festival was therefore launched last year at her instigation: the Salzburg Children's and Youth Philharmonic.

Jean Sibelius' Violin Concerto, whose strikingly virtuoso final movement is one of the most famous in the violin literature, continues to exert a strong fascination on musicians and listeners alike. In concert with the Philharmonie Salzburg and Elisabeth Fuchs, the celebrated German solo violinist Alina Pogostkina demonstrated in a bravura and subtle manner why she is considered one of the world's best Sibelius interpreters.

The Austrian premiere of "Oraculum", a concerto for percussion and orchestra by contemporary Spanish composer Oriol Cruixent, was a real sensation at the weekend. The exceptional percussionist Vivi Vassileva, who has just received the Leonard Bernstein Award, brought thirty instruments to life.