Symphonic Concert
Académie de l’Orchestre de Paris - Concert de clôture
Sunday, September 1, 2024 at 5:00 pm
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Symphonic Concert
Sunday, September 1, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Symphonic Concert
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 8:00 pm
This program spans a broad spectrum of spirituality, from the Christian mysticism of Pēteris Vasks with his ethereal melodies, to Beethoven's life force, as well as the work that marked Tchaikovsky's renewed embrace of life.
Symphonic Concert
Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Symphonic Concert
25 & September 26, 2024
Two great symphonic opuses sculpted by Myung-whun Chung's baton: one snatched from the jaws of anguish by sheer force of Beethovenian will-power, the other bequeathed to posterity, like a poetic manifesto, by the genius of Brahms.
Symphonic Concert
2 & October 3, 2024
Lamentation, cry of revolt, reminiscences of happy times, Mahler's Ninth, the last completed symphony – the one that many consider to be his most beautiful symphony – was created in Vienna in 1912 posthumously by Bruno Walter.
Symphonic Concert
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Dominated by Tchaikovsky's dramatic Symphony No. 5, marked by a constant and foreboding sense of fatality, this program lifts the veil on two fairytale princesses: that of the young Tcherepnin, and that of Ravel with his most “Russian” work.
Symphonic Concert
16 & October 17, 2024
The danger of invoking witches, as illustrated by a splendid opus penned by Dvořák, seems to have been averted thanks to Thierry Escaich's lyricism. Powerful and irresistible, Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 plays with propaganda only to thwart it.
Symphonic Concert
30 & October 31, 2024
Khatia Buniatishvili's elegant playing illuminates her interpretation of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No.2, the most famous of all, which is answered by one of the richest and most contrasting works by the young Scriabin.
Vocal Concert
6 & November 7, 2024
A delicate stained-glass light illuminates this program which explores the themes of mysticism and spiritual ascent. There, the musical experience transcends, in all its forms, the fear of finiteness and the "triumph of death".
Symphonic Concert
13 & November 14, 2024
By times supporting the script and by times becoming its own new thing, film music is an art in which Hollywood was – and remains – one of the most fertile laboratories. The curtain rises on a sumptuous program, the perfect opportunity to listen to cinema.
Symphonic Concert
20 & November 21, 2024
The relationship between Europe and the United States is at the heart of this program, where the attachment to the traditions of the “Old World” finds its counterpoint in the most famous of Dvořák's symphonies, a veritable link between the two continents.
Show
from 28 to November 30, 2024
A deeply moving production in which Romeo Castellucci conjures up an excavation simultaneously macabre and contemplative where, as if from a pit – that of the dead, that of the orchestra– Mahler's restless metaphysics, grippingly embodied, emerge.
Symphonic Concert
4 & December 5, 2024
Beethoven's grandeur, simultaneously epic and tragic, sublimated by Mitsuko Uchida's touch on piano, marks this exceptional evening, all the more since preceded by a premiere and followed by Berliozian excess.
Symphonic Concert
18 & December 19, 2024
Embark for the banks of the Danube. The evening starts with the voice of Sabine Devieilhe evoking the balls of imperial Vienna. But love later takes a darker turn with Pelleas und Melisande, one of the most accomplished scores by the young Schönberg.
Symphonic Concert
Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Vocal and orchestral colours are the order of the day in this contrasting program where the shine of the brass contrasts with the impressionist moire, with the added bonus of Poulenc's smiling spirituality and Mussorgsky’s irresistible pictures!
Symphonic Concert
Friday, January 10, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Klaus Mäkelä lets loose on a program of changing colours, from modernism to impressionism. As a bonus, Gustavo Dudamel takes the podium to conduct one of Beethoven's most brilliant pieces!
Symphonic Concert
15 & January 16, 2025
Lisa Batiashvili's expressive elegance is put to full use in one of the gems of the Mozartean repertoire, which precedes the orchestral odyssey of Mahler's Symphony No.5 beset with the themes of torment, struggle and ecstasy.
Symphonic Concert
22 & January 23, 2025
"A trickle of youth": Schumann's phrase about Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream has not aged a day. And then we have the Elgar's Concerto, entrusted to the bow of Frank Peter Zimmermann, where magic is met by mystery…
Symphonic Concert
29 & January 30, 2025
A feast for the ears as Alexandre Desplat in person leads the Orchestre de Paris through a fascinating anthology of his best scores: Desplat's wizardry, which has seduced even Harry Potter, in action!
Symphonic Concert
5 & February 6, 2025
The mischievous charm of Janáček's opera-pantomime, the apparently improvised virtuosity demanded of Tchaikovsky's cello, not forgetting the nobility and grandeur of one of Beethoven's most beautiful pages… a program that’s sure to please!
Symphonic Concert
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 8:00 pm
In an invigorating contrast to Ravel’s miraculously delicate orchestration of Le Tombeau de Couperin and Ma mère l'Oye, the barbed rhythms and sparkling orchestral colours of Petrouchka complete a program conceived as as a true hymn to the orchestra.
Symphonic Concert
19 & March 20, 2025
After the poetry and insight brought by Emanuel Ax to Beethoven's admirable Concerto No.4, Nathalie Stutzmann takes us into the enchanted depths of Wagner's Ring, a “total art work" from which pure orchestral gems emerge.
Show
26 & March 27, 2025
Benjamin Millepied and his company L.A. Dance Project combine the classicism of ballet with contemporary dance to celebrate a “ritual” with the orchestra based on three seminal scores of musical modernity.
Vocal Concert
8 & April 9, 2025
Powerful, syncretic if we take the Credo in its most universal sense, the Mass in B minor is one of the most profound and hermetic monuments in the history of music. As Cioran once cheekily opined, “If anyone owes everything to Bach, it's God!”
Symphonic Concert
23 & April 24, 2025
In response to the Brahmsian drama, marked by mystery and wildness, we have one of Sibelius's most optimistic compositions. And between the two, these last songs, which are not just those of Strauss's, but a “farewell” to Romantic song.
Symphonic Concert
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The vibrant classicism of Strauss, the leaping energy of a Bernstein more “Broadway” than ever, the serenity of Saariaho and the most jolly of Shostakovich’s Symphonies... a program with four faces of joy.
Symphonic Concert
7 & May 8, 2025
Grating death, parodied death, omnipotent death, death staved off by art: this program invites us to a veritable musical “thanatography”, in which Ullmann's score, rescued from the Nazi terror, preludes Mozart's timeless masterpiece.
Symphonic Concert
14 & May 15, 2025
For two exceptional evenings, guest composer Thierry Escaich in person performs on the organ. A tribute to Bach, the God of Music, this program also takes us to Shakespeare and the Eternal City.
Symphonic Concert
21 & May 22, 2025
Herbert Blomstedt, a long-standing partner of the Orchestre de Paris, puts his experience at the service of Berwald art, too rarely performed, while delivering his interpretation of Brahms' Symphony No.1, composed in the shadow of the great “Ludwig van”.
Symphonic Concert
4 & June 5, 2025
Yunchan Lim's galvanising virtuosity takes hold of Concerto No.4, the least performed of Rachmaninoff's concertos, but also the richest and most adventurous of the series. And, in response, we have the flamboyant grandeur of Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony.
Symphonic Concert
Monday, September 16, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Both the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Antonio Pappano, who became its Chief Conductor one year ago, are regular on-stage accomplices of pianist Yuja Wang. Here, the three come together for a programme worthy of their prodigious virtuosity.
Vocal Concert
Monday, September 23, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Roberto Alagna and Ludovic Tézier offer a delicious play of baritone and tenor in a sampling of the male roles they have played on the international opera stage. Two charismatic figures in the French lyric scene; two Mediterranean temperaments at the peak of their art.
Concert
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 8:00 pm
The Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne with its artistic director Renaud Capuçon, on violin for Bruch’s Concerto and at the conductor’s podium for Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Symphonic Concert
Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 4:00 pm
A weekend dedicated to Armenian music must of course showcase works by Aram Khatchatourian. The Armenian State Symphony Orchestra performs excerpts from his stage music, ballet and concerto repertoire.
Vocal Concert
Monday, September 30, 2024 at 8:00 pm
The charismatic tenor Juan Diego Flórez performs the greatest bel canto roles yet remains close to his Latin American roots. He shares this programme with youth from the Sinfonía por el Perú, the organization he founded to transform lives through music.
Symphonic Concert
Monday, October 14, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Well known for his major film scores, Tan Dun is one of China’s most prominent composers and conductors, whose work has largely been guided by an interest in marrying Eastern and Western musical traditions.
Symphonic Concert
Friday, October 18, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Young violin prodigy Daniel Lozakovich solos in the Sibelius Concerto, accompanied by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly, its music director since 2016.
Symphonic Concert
Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Alexandre Kantorow shines in Rachmaninov’s formidable Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, the very work in which he made his soloist debut at age 16.
Symphonic Concert
Friday, November 8, 2024 at 8:00 pm
The Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by Elim Cham, in a programme of contrasts: in counterpoint to two Beethoven masterpieces, the seductive orchestral palette of Peter Eötvös.
Symphonic Concert
Monday, November 18, 2024 at 8:00 pm
A 20th-century programme presented by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, with Sir Antonio Pappano conducting. Celebrating the spirit of jazz—from Milhaud’s ballet La Création du monde to Bernstein’s Fancy Free.
Symphonic Concert
Friday, November 22, 2024 at 8:00 pm
The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, led by its music director Rafael Payare, in a programme placing Schumann and Strauss alongside Iman Habibi's work premiered in 1980.
Symphonic Concert
Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 8:00 pm
The Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer in one of their repertoires of predilection, that of Brahms. For this concert featuring some of Hungary’s finest performers, Sir András Schiff joins them in the Piano Concerto No. 1.
Symphonic Concert
Monday, December 2, 2024 at 8:00 pm
L’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the baton of its new music director, Daniel Harding, who succeeds Sir Antonio Pappano at the helm of the prestigious Roman orchestra.
Vocal Concert
Friday, December 13, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Marion Cotillard reprises the lead in Claudel and Honegger’s medieval mystery-inspired oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, a well-honed role for her and which she performs masterfully. With Alain Altinoglu conducting.
Symphonic Concert
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 8:00 pm
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra reunites with Maria João Pires for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 ‘Jeunehomme’, paired with Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony.
Symphonic Concert
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Gustavo Dudamel returns to the podium of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra with which he made his conducting debut in his adolescence, for two consecutive evenings—the first with the women’s and children’s choirs of the Orchestre de Paris.
Symphonic Concert
Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 4:00 pm
For his second concert conducting the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel presents a transatlantic repertoire, with Gabriela Ortiz and Gonzalo Grau in counterpoint to Tchaïkovsky and Ravel.
Symphonic Concert
Monday, January 13, 2025 at 8:00 pm
With Sir Simon Rattle conducting, a programme that nicely balances Brahms’ final symphony with Boulez’s Éclat and a French premiere, the suite from Benjamin’s opera Lessons in Love and Violence.
Symphonic Concert
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The London Symphony Orchestra’s second concert with Sir Simon Rattle features the same winning combination as the previous programme—a repertoire selection (this time, Beethoven), a 20th-century piece, and a new contemporary work.
Symphonic Concert
Monday, March 10, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The new star of British cello Sheku Kanneh-Mason takes on Shostakovich’s formidable Concerto No. 1, before conductor Semyon Bychkov and the venerable Czech Philharmonic tackle the composer’s most famous symphony.
Symphonic Concert
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Who better than Katia and Marielle Labèque—surely the most famous piano duo of our day—to render the spirit of Mozart’s sublime concerto? Mahler’s Fifth Symphony then draws us into a whole other world, with its opulence and taut expression.
Symphonic Concert
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 8:00 pm
With the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, its musical director the Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi, and the music of John Adams—which he sometimes performs alongside the composer—Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is on friendly turf.
Symphonic Concert
Monday, May 26, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Since first revealed in 1996, Hélène Grimaud’s affinity with Brahms has blossomed into a beautiful love story. Joined by her close comrades of Camerata Salzburg, the star pianist from Aix-en-Provence shares her passion for the German composer.
Symphonic Concert
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 8:00 pm
After the captivating command of Sol Gabetta in Shostakovich, Tugan Sokhiev turns to Bruckner’s spellbinding Seventh Symphony, whose unique lyrical charm is in the best of hands with the Dresden Staatskapelle.
Concert
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The Neojiba Orchestra presents a festive programme: after the fireworks of the Labenque sisters in Poulenc’s delightful Concerto for Two Pianos, the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story explode with rhythm and colour.
Symphonic Concert
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain for the past twenty-four years, conducts a flamboyant program, including soloist Alexandre Kantorow performing Saint-Saëns’ most popular concerto.
from 6 to January 12, 2025
The Philharmonie de Paris celebrates a year of anniversaries significant to its history, with a festive programme geared towards young people.
Du 6 janvier au 28 mars 2025
In 2025, the Philharmonie de Paris is celebrating the centenary of Pierre Boulez’s birth with concerts, a symposium, a series of conferences and publications.
Participatory Show
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Zahia Ziouani and her Divertimento Orchestra are joined by large amateur choirs in a concert blending music, sport and dance—a celebration of plurality, choreographed by Mourad Merzouki, creator of the official dance of the 2024 Olympic Games.
Opera
Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 8:00 pm
For several years now, Le Balcon and Maxime Pascal have been immersed in Stockhausen’s ambitious Licht cycle, conceived between 1977 and 2003. Spanning seven operas and 29 hours of music, it is a true feat—which begins with Donnerstag.
Concert
Monday, November 25, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Composer Heiner Goebbels has been working with the Ensemble Modern Orchestra for over 25 years. In 2021, he offered them A House of Call – My Imaginary Notebook, an atypical orchestral cycle and a work of tireless searching.
Show
from 28 to November 30, 2024
A deeply moving production in which Romeo Castellucci conjures up an excavation simultaneously macabre and contemplative where, as if from a pit – that of the dead, that of the orchestra– Mahler's restless metaphysics, grippingly embodied, emerge.
Show
6 & December 7, 2024
Two hundred years after Géricault’s death, the story of The Medusa and its survivors continues to resonate in our consciousness. Here, dance captures this fervent urgency of living, accompanied by exceptional musicians, expressing our modern-day ‘We’.
Show
from 5 to February 9, 2025
South African choreographer Robyn Orlin and French singer Camille, two of the most intrepid and unclassifiable female figures on today’s music scene, here tackle the burning issue of water in a hybrid and unbridled stage creation.
Show
from 8 to February 9, 2025
Plenum / Anima: a show of diptychs—featuring two organists, Olivier Latry and Shin-Young Lee; two choreographers, Idio Chichava and Benjamin Millepied, with their companies; and two composers, Bach and Stravinsky.
Show
26 & March 27, 2025
Benjamin Millepied and his company L.A. Dance Project combine the classicism of ballet with contemporary dance to celebrate a “ritual” with the orchestra based on three seminal scores of musical modernity.
Show
from 16 to April 19, 2025
Performed here for the first time in France, the musical Gypsy—based on the memoirs of Gypsy Lee Rose—is presented in a version created by one of the great masters in musical and opera staging, Laurent Pelly.
Show
from 4 to June 7, 2025
With Carnacion, Spanish dancer and choreographer Rocío Molina, an icon of contemporary flamenco, delivers a fiery variation on desire—the flames fanned as much by the dancing as by the music, led by master singer Niño de Elche.
Show
5 & June 6, 2025
Around Gesualdo’s Répons, a joint show by Paul Agnew with Les Arts Florissants and choreographer Amala Dianor, who with his company deploys a virtuoso dance style blending forms and techniques.
Show
14 & June 15, 2025
With En Masse, its show featuring ten acrobats and three musicians, the innovative Australian company Circa has crafted a stunning stage creation about human relationships, musically structured around pieces by Schubert and Stravinsky.
Show
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 8:00 pm
After their acclaimed collaboration on Lassus’s Lagrime di San Pietro, performed at the Philharmonie de Paris in 2019, Peter Sellars, Grant Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale reunite for Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien.
Show
16 & October 17, 2024
Filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s journey from former East Germany to Moscow, set to music by Sonia Wieder-Atherton.
Film & Music Performance
21 & December 22, 2024
Jacques Demy’s iconic musical drama, starring a rising Catherine Deneuve, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg—Palme d'or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival—dazzles even more thanks to this film-in-concert masterfully interpreted by the Yellow Socks Orchestra.
Family ciné-concert
Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Wildlife documentary master Frédéric Rossif's La Fête sauvage is one of his most flamboyant creations. Screened here with a new score by Lucie Antunes, masterfully delivered by Les Percussions de Strasbourg, this classic in its genre shines anew.
Film & Music Performance
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Finnish director Perttu Saksa’s film exploring the relationship between man and animal is a unique and powerful aesthetic experience. For this film-in-concert, Sylvain Rifflet, Verneri Pohjola and Mika Kallio re-improvise the soundtrack they created.
Family ciné-concert
Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 6:00 pm
With its up-close-and-personal approach to filming insects, Microcosmos was hugely popular with audiences when it came out in 1996. This screening with live musical accompaniment by the Yellow Socks Orchestra the suggestive power of this fascinating gem of wildlife cinema.
Film & Music Performance
3 & May 4, 2025
The Great Dictator was Charlie Chaplin’s first talking picture—a clear-sighted, satirical warning at the outset of the Second World War. Timothy Brock and the Orchestre National d'île-de-France are fascinated with the original score Chaplin composed for the film.
Film & Music Performance
Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 8:00 pm
These two gems of silent cinema mark Ernst Lubitsch’s German debut before he left for the United States in 1922. Martin Matalon’s Foxtrot Delirium and this new piece by Oren Boneh only accentuate the burlesque, satire and theatrical mix-ups.
Film & Music Performance
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Cinema enthusiast and master of French improvisation, organist and composer Thierry Escaich exploits all the facets of his instrument to accompany Rupert Julian’s silent masterpiece. A dialogue interwoven with the images, to be experienced live.
Vocal Concert
Monday, September 23, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Roberto Alagna and Ludovic Tézier offer a delicious play of baritone and tenor in a sampling of the male roles they have played on the international opera stage. Two charismatic figures in the French lyric scene; two Mediterranean temperaments at the peak of their art.
Vocal Concert
Monday, September 30, 2024 at 8:00 pm
The charismatic tenor Juan Diego Flórez performs the greatest bel canto roles yet remains close to his Latin American roots. He shares this programme with youth from the Sinfonía por el Perú, the organization he founded to transform lives through music.
Vocal Concert
Friday, October 4, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Riccardo Muti is no stranger to Verdi's Requiem, which he has recorded several times and performed on numerous occasions, without ever exaggerating its operatic dimension, but always with unfailing attention to both the text and the orchestra.
Vocal Concert
Sunday, October 6, 2024 at 6:00 pm
The Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, a resident orchestra of the Philharmonie de Paris, reunites with Ensemble Aedes for Haydn’s The Creation. At the podium is Masaaki Suzuki, equally at ease conducting orchestras on modern and period instruments.
Opera
Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 8:00 pm
For several years now, Le Balcon and Maxime Pascal have been immersed in Stockhausen’s ambitious Licht cycle, conceived between 1977 and 2003. Spanning seven operas and 29 hours of music, it is a true feat—which begins with Donnerstag.
Vocal Concert
Friday, November 1, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Since their meeting—which led to the young soprano’s breakthrough—William Christie and Sonya Yoncheva have never missed an opportunity to share the stage. Singing of France in the Age of Enlightenment, this programme brims with vitality and Italian flair.
Vocal Concert
6 & November 7, 2024
A delicate stained-glass light illuminates this program which explores the themes of mysticism and spiritual ascent. There, the musical experience transcends, in all its forms, the fear of finiteness and the "triumph of death".
Concert Opera
Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and Les Musiciens du prince - Monaco, of which she is artistic director, present the Italian version of Gluck’s 1769 Orfeo.
Concert Opera
Friday, November 29, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Bluebeard’s Castle, the sole opera by Bartók, is a powerful work—an existential drama in which romantic love is laid bare in a condensed form, exalted by ever-inventive orchestration.
Symphonic Concert
Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 3:00 pm
Orchestre Pasdeloup performs evocative pieces by Debussy and Ravel and, with guest soloist baritone Daniel Schmutzhard, excerpts from Mozart’s Magic Flute and Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer.
Concert Opera
Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 3:00 pm
Jérémie Rhorer and Le Cercle de l’Harmonie return to Verdi’s La Traviata, after their acclaimed production of the opera in 2018.
Vocal Concert
Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Raphaël Pichon and Ensemble Pygmalion in Brahms’ deeply moving A German Requiem, with their loyal collaborators Sabine Devieilhe and Stéphane Degout as solists.
Vocal Concert
Friday, December 13, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Marion Cotillard reprises the lead in Claudel and Honegger’s medieval mystery-inspired oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, a well-honed role for her and which she performs masterfully. With Alain Altinoglu conducting.
Concert
Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 7:00 pm
To round off his lively birthday celebrations, William Christie surrounds himself with a magnificent sextet of singers.
Symphonic Concert
Friday, January 17, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The Orchestre National de France, François-Xavier Roth and Philippe Manoury here pay tribute to Pierre Boulez the conductor, teacher and mentor—these deeply valued other facets to the composer whose centenary we are celebrating this year.
Recital
Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Barbara Hannigan—one of the most remarkable voices on the scene today, a tireless interpreter of new contemporary works, and a complete artist, who also takes her turn at conducting—returns, accompanied by Bertrand Chamayou.
Vocal Concert
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The pairing of Mozart’s Requiem with his penultimate symphony, No. 40, by one of the foremost Baroque ensembles in the world, Bach Collegium Japan, with its principal conductor Masato Suzuki at the podium.
Recital
Friday, February 14, 2025 at 8:00 pm
From a recital by an Aphrodite on the eve of Valentine’s Day, one might expect a classic ode to romantic love, but singer Aphrodite Patoulidou has something else in mind.
Chamber Music
Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 6:00 pm
The suppleness of Elsa Dreisig's voice, matched by the art of sign singing, works wonders in this program devoted to French melody. Fauré's Amours du Poète rub shoulders with the alchemies of Ravel whose Quartet we can also enjoy.
Vocal Concert
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 8:00 pm
William Christie directs two titans of sacred music: Mozart’s Litaniae Lauretanae, described by Albert Einstein as ‘a marvel of art and youth’, followed by Harmoniemesse, one of Haydn’s most imposing compositions.
Opera
from 13 to March 17, 2025
The Paris Conservatory’s vocal and instrumental students perform under the baton of great opera conductor Paul Daniel, for four performances of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.
Recital
Monday, March 24, 2025 at 8:00 pm
In honour of the 150th anniversary of the death of Bizet—who perished at just 36, never knowing the enormous success that awaited Carmen—Adèle Charvet and Florian Caroubi perform a selection of the composer’s melodies.
Vocal Concert
Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
As usual—yet always exceptional—Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan embodies music through both voice and gesture. Here, she performs with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, with whom she shares strong artistic ties.
Concert Opera
Friday, April 4, 2025 at 6:30 pm
Performed by the musicians of Concerto Köln and the Dresdner Festspielorchester under the direction of Kent Nagano, this Siegfried is the fruit of years of research into what would be a historically informed reading of Wagner’s operas.
Vocal Concert
8 & April 9, 2025
Powerful, syncretic if we take the Credo in its most universal sense, the Mass in B minor is one of the most profound and hermetic monuments in the history of music. As Cioran once cheekily opined, “If anyone owes everything to Bach, it's God!”
Vocal Concert
Monday, April 21, 2025 at 8:00 pm
For Easter Monday, Bach’s Oratorio for the holiday written exactly 300 years ago. Conductor Christophe Rousset leads Les Talens Lyriques in a score they know well.
Concert
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 8:00 pm
For the most English of German-born composers, these intimate arias composed between 1724 and 1726 were an ode to his origins. A concentrate of grace, with Les Arts Florissants and soloists Rowan Pierce and James Way.
Symphonic Concert
23 & April 24, 2025
In response to the Brahmsian drama, marked by mystery and wildness, we have one of Sibelius's most optimistic compositions. And between the two, these last songs, which are not just those of Strauss's, but a “farewell” to Romantic song.
Vocal Concert
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The Easter festivities continue with Handel’s oratorio La resurrezione, performed by Les Arts Florissants, which over the years has interpreted many of the Baroque master’s lyrical and sacred scores.
Symphonic Concert
7 & May 8, 2025
Grating death, parodied death, omnipotent death, death staved off by art: this program invites us to a veritable musical “thanatography”, in which Ullmann's score, rescued from the Nazi terror, preludes Mozart's timeless masterpiece.
Vocal Concert
Monday, May 12, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Jordi Savall conducts one of Schumann’s major works, which was a great success at its premiere in 1843: rarely in the romantic composer’s oeuvre does the voice resound with such tenderness and fervour as in as in Paradise and the Peri.
Symphonic Concert
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 8:00 pm
After Beethoven’s brillant Leonore Overture No. 3, the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France performs two major choral works, Fanny Hensel’s feverish Hiob and Schubert’s Mass No. 5, which it took him three years to write.
Vocal Concert
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The Pygmalion choir and orchestra, and its conductor Raphaël Pichon, like to juxtapose contrasting works while reviving the spirit in which they were created. They are joined here by two faithful accomplices, Sabine Devieilhe and Stéphane Degout.
Vocal Concert
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Les Arts Florissants, with co-director Paul Agnew, presents a programme of cantatas by Bach and his contemporaries, from which the audience will be invited to sing excerpts as an encore.
Recital
Monday, June 23, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The high-flying duo formed by Jonas Kaufmann and Diana Damrau continue their exploration of the Germanic repertoire, accompanied on piano by lieder master Helmut Deutsch.
Chamber Music
Friday, September 27, 2024 at 6:00 pm
David Haroutunian began playing the violin in Yerevan, before coming to Paris to continue his training. With Eva Zaïcik, Xenia Maliarevitch and Astrig Siranossian, who is also of Armenian origin, he presents the musical project Mayrig, meaning ‘mother’.
Chamber Music
Friday, October 4, 2024 at 8:00 pm
This delicate chamber music program takes us on a journey, from Tchaikovsky's beloved banks of the Arno to the vocal invocation of the vast Russian plains and Vaughan Williams's Lark, that quintessential British work.
Chamber Music
Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 11:00 am
From one of Rachmaninoff's earliest works, by turns meditative and passionate, to two exquisite chamber masterpieces by Shostakovich during the war years—a programme of Russian music at its most intensely expressive.
Chamber Music
Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Marking half a century of musical creation, the Arditti Quartet’s jubilee is also an occasion to celebrate the vitality of the contemporary string quartet: new works in the genre by four women composers feature here alongside one by their elder Helmut Lachenmann.
Chamber Music
Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson in different takes on music for two pianists: the elbow-to-elbow intimacy of a Schubert work in this vein, and the face-to-face brilliance of a Rachmaninoff contribution.
Chamber Music
Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott on a musical expedition—from the France of Fauré and Nadia Boulanger, to the Eastern lands of Shostakovich and Dvořák, and on to Arvo Pärt’s Estonia and Sérgio Assad’s Brazil.
Concert on period instruments
Friday, November 22, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Contrary to what Rousseau opined, female composers of the 18th century were just as inspired as their male contemporaries. Sophie de Bardonnèche, Justin Taylor and Lucile Boulanger breathe new life into a musical heritage by women too long in the shadows.
Chamber Music
Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 8:00 pm
In tribute to Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in June 2023, and in honour of their long collaboration with her, the soloists of the Ensemble Intercontemporain celebrate her enormous contributions within the contemporary constellation.
Chamber Music
Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 4:00 pm
The string sextets of Brahms and Korngold—masterpieces of Viennese Romanticism—bring cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand together with the musicians of the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France in a rare chamber configuration.
Chamber Music
Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Spanning almost half a century, the fast friendship and extraordinary artistic complicity between Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky stands as a testament to the remarkable bond between two artists of unique sensitivity and warmth.
Chamber Music
Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Still in its first decade, Trio Pantoum has already established itself as one of today's leading young chamber ensembles. Their programme is a blend of repertoire favourites and rarer gems.
Chamber Music
Friday, January 17, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Star recorder player Lucie Horsch performs a mixed repertoire of works by 20th-century composers from both the classical and jazz worlds.
Chamber Music
Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 4:00 pm
Single or double, the reed is a delicate strip of the plant from which it takes its name, whose vibration also enriches woodwind instruments. A complementary blend of timbres, the subtlety of three-part chamber music: a repertoire to be (re)discovered and savoured!
Chamber Music
Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 4:00 pm
After the piano trio of the previous day, a string trio takes the spotlight with Mozart’s Divertimento K 563, in counterpoint to which the musicians, Isabelle Faust, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras, offer a selection of solo pieces.
Chamber Music
Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Inspired by Clara Schumann’s encounter with several of her female contemporaries, Franco-Belgian soprano Marianne Croux, together with Pierre and Théo Fouchenneret, explores a Romantic Europe torn between passionate fervour and modernist dazzle.
Chamber Music
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Marina Chiche and Sodi Braide’s inquisitive approach to Beethoven brings together four figures from the American and English music worlds, including three women composers whose renown continues to grow year by year.
Chamber Music
Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 6:00 pm
The suppleness of Elsa Dreisig's voice, matched by the art of sign singing, works wonders in this program devoted to French melody. Fauré's Amours du Poète rub shoulders with the alchemies of Ravel whose Quartet we can also enjoy.
Chamber Music
Monday, March 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
French violinist and conductor Renaud Capuçon likes to encourage musical encounters and mix generations. With Paul Zientara, Julia Hagen and Guillaume Bellom, he shares Fauré and two rarely performed gems from post-Romantic repertoire.
Chamber Music
Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 4:00 pm
‘Why take up with Plato when a saxophone can equally let us glimpse another world?’ Cioran once said. The musicians of Keybart reveal to us not one world but four—each on a different instrument.
Chamber Music
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Gautier Capuçon, a leading figure in the cello world, joins forces with six former laureates of his Classe d’ Excellence, many of whom have become sought-after soloists, together forming a unique ensemble of cellists: the Capucellis.
Chamber Music
Friday, April 11, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Rising trumpet star Matilda Lloyd presents a delightful panorama of works and transcriptions—featuring Debussy, Fauré and Ibert alongside the likes of Bozza, one of the most prolific composers for of music for wind instruments.
Chamber Music
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 3:00 pm
Carlos Ferreira, age 31 and Principal Clarinet of the Orchestre National de France, has achieved enviable repute in his young career. His programme features some of the finest scores ever written for his instrument, by Debussy, Poulenc and Schumann.
Chamber Music
Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Quatuor Agate drew its name from Brahms’ Sextet No. 2, dedicated to the composer’s second love, Agathe von Siebold. For this programme, it pairs Ligeti’s quite Bartókian Quartet No. 1 and Dvořák’s Quartet No. 13, a triumph among his chamber music.
Chamber Music
Monday, April 28, 2025 at 8:00 pm
A long-awaited collaboration between celebrated French violinist Renaud Capuçon and the always-ambitious piano virtuoso Igor Levit. Together, they tackle Brahms’s three Sonatas for Violin and Piano—a concentration of poetry, brilliance and heroism.
Chamber Music
Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Quatuor Hermès, one of the foremost quartets of its generation, joined by Mathilde Caldérini on flute and Constance Luzzati on harp, pay tribute to three women composers born in the 19th century and too long overlooked.
Chamber Music
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Seven women of all ages come together in this free spirited programme embracing all inspirations and origins, open to the whims and temptations of ‘wilding’ as well as to the strictest constraints. A virtuoso and colourful concert.
Chamber Music
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 8:00 pm
It is a feature of masterpieces that they inspire—without being diminished by—various forms of reappropriation. Nevermind, a quartet of Baroque music adepts, inventively reimagines the illustrious Goldbergs, offering an eloquent variation on variations.
Concert
Monday, June 2, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Piano star Khatia Buniatishvili, a virtuoso with a brilliant career and a remarkable aura, surrounds herself with some of her closest friends for a celebration of music featuring some of the composers she holds most dear.
Chamber Music
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Seven cellos, alone on stage, playing all the roles: as chamber ensembles go, it is rare enough to be fascinating in form alone, but the calibre of this multigenerational assembly of performers, and the little-known repertoire, make this event all the more exceptional.
Promenade Concert in the Museum
Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 2:30 pm
Concert on period instruments
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 8:00 pm
The duo formed by Marc Coppey and François Dumont continue their collaboration with the recreation of a ‘Fauré salon’, with François Dumont playing an 1891 Érard piano from the collection of the Musée de la musique.
Concert on period instruments
Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 8:00 pm
For this intimate, salon-like performance, Quatuor Cambini-Paris—dedicated to the classical and Romantic repertoires on period instruments—joins forces with pianist David Lively for transcriptions of Chopin and two of his French contemporaries.
Concert on period instruments
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Mathilde Vialle, Thibaut Roussel and Ronan Khalil bring to life instruments from the collections of the Musée de la musique, in an English Salon where they are joined by tenor Zachary Wilder.
Piano Recital
Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 6:00 pm
Deeply inspired by Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Debussy, French pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian also has a special relationship with Armenian music, a rich family and cultural heritage from with he drew for his second album (naïve).
Recital
Monday, September 30, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Jean-Guihen Queyras leads listeners on a journey through Bach’s Six Suites for Solo Cello, the Everest of cellists and a work that holds a special place in Queyras’ repertoire.
Piano Recital
Sunday, October 13, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Pierre-Laurent Aimard in a spatialized concert that interrogates the recital form, paying tribute to what he calls ‘the masters of the intimate’, from Mozart and Schubert to Kurtág.
Piano Recital
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Charismatic pianist Ivo Pogorelich draws from a vast colour palette in his orchestral playing. Here, he puts his powerful stamp on each piece, as if reinventing it—particularly those of Chopin, the composer who brought him fame.
Piano Recital
Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Pianist Vanessa Wagner has long demonstrated her predilection for minimalist music. This recital offers a piano-scale tribute to the vibrance, creativity and breadth of a movement that—from its beginning in America in the 1960s—has never stopped renewing itself.
Concert
Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Although Eastern spirituality is a major influence in his life and work, Philip Glass has also composed for an emblem of Western liturgical music, the organ—as in this piece played by James McVinnie, in counterpoint to Maki Namekawa at the piano.
Piano Recital
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Alexandre Tharaud alternates between the French repertoire—the focus of his concert in May 2024—and the music of Bach in transcriptions of his own.
Piano Recital
Monday, December 16, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Since his revelation at the Geneva Competition in 1990, Argentine pianist Nelson Goerner has proven one most captivating performers of his generation. In particular with Chopin, Debussy and Schumann, whose works he never tires of reexploring at the piano.
Organ recital
Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 4:00 pm
The flamboyant Cameron Carpenter—the organ world’s enfant terrible—takes on two musical monuments daringly arranged by himself: Mussorgsky’s phantasmagorias and Bach’s Goldberg Variations, the alpha and omega of his oeuvre.
Piano Recital
Monday, February 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
With a nod to the prelude and variation forms—a fondness for which Beethoven and Chopin share with Fauré—fellow pianist and composer Lucas Debargue gathers this trio of keyboard geniuses in a programme boasting two major sonatas as its main act.
Piano Recital
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Rising to prominence on the New York scene in the 1990s, Brad Mehldau is one of the most lyrical and intimate voices in contemporary jazz. With After Fauré, he confirms his affinity with the classical repertoire.
Piano Recital
Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The fiery pianist Khatia Buniatishvili possesses not only talent but also the rare gift of charisma. At ease in the spotlight, her exuberance, showmanship and communication skills have won her a wide audience.
Piano Recital
Friday, March 7, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Bertrand Chamayou’s early fondness for Ravel continues to mature and blossom with time, giving us his 2016 recording of the composer’s complete works for piano in 2016, and reflected in his co-direction of the Saint-Jean-de-Luz Ravel Festival since 2020.
Piano Recital
Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Lang Lang makes a bold return, with a programme demanding nothing less than his full powers—from the grace of Fauré, to the moody visions of Schumann, to the alternately delicate and vigorous sensibility of Chopin.
Piano Recital
Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
At just 20 years of age, and already winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim embodies the new generation of pianists, and creates subtle resonances between repertoires, movements and composers.
Recital
Monday, April 7, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The duo formed by Janine Jansen and Denis Kozhukhin in a programme juxtaposing Brahms—a composer particularly close to their hearts—with a selection of 20th-century French chamber music.
Piano Recital
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 8:00 pm
András Schiff is a master of the Germanic repertoire, especially the works of Bach, which he has performed tirelessly for half a century. He now tackles The Art of Fugue, a score as monumental as it is enigmatic.
Piano Recital
Monday, May 19, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Pianist Arcadi Volodos, soloist par excellence and a magician of sound with an infinite palette, explores the more intimate facets of his favourite composers, in disarming closeness with his instrument.
Piano Recital
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Showing his ever-avid appetite for the heights of the repertoire, the foremost pianist of his generation bookends his programme with two emblematic sonatas, and interweaves Tchaikovsky and Chopin in a delicate bouquet of waltzes.
Ball
Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Ireland, its instruments and its vibrant dance music are the theme of this ball led by Philharmonie de Paris amateurs and professional musicians.
Concert
Friday, September 20, 2024 at 8:00 pm
A broad and shimmering assembly of instrumentalists from Mali—the kora ensemble led by Ballaké Sissoko—Guinea and Ghana join Malian actor Habib Dembélé to celebrate the legendary expressive power of the griot.
Family Concert
Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Accompanied by Ballaké Sissoko and his kora ensemble, actor Habib Dembélé in the role of the griot-narrator brings to life initiation tales from the Mandé region, distilling spellbinding and highly imaged poetry imbued with philosophy.
Concert
Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 7:00 pm
A committed voice for change and leading ambassador for the African continent, singer Fatoumata Diawara delivers an inspired concert supporting her 2022 album Maliba—a flamboyant musical fresco dedicated to her homeland, Mali.
Concert
Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 8:00 pm
An evening of discovery juxtaposing two complementary trends in traditional Armenian music: first, a foray into sensitive classicism with Ensemble Vostan, and then a more modern vein with the Nagash Ensemble of Armenia.
Concert
Friday, September 27, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan, an eminent explorer of contemporary jazz with an approach steeped in traditional Armenian music, takes flight with A Bird of a Thousand Voices, an ambitious new work based on a tale of spiritual awakening.
Concert
Saturday, November 30, 2024 at 8:00 pm
A major ambassador for Palestinian culture, the vibrant Trio Joubran—made up of three brothers, all remarkable oud players—celebrates 20 years of impassioned existence with a special guest concert.
Concert avec images
Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 8:00 pm
An expert in the art of reinterpreting popular Middle Eastern music, the cross-border group Love and Revenge revisits Umm Kulthum’s repertoire with fervent originality, incorporating contemporary sounds and adding video media.
Show
Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The legendary ensemble from the Luxor region, Les Musiciens du Nil, offer a sumptuous concert-show that recreates the ambiance of an evening in a village of Upper Egypt, like that where Umm Kulthum was born.
Family Concert
Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 11:00 am
Orchestrated by Les Musiciens du Nil, an illustrious Egyptian ensemble with a dazzling repertoire, this concert immerses us in the atmosphere of evening celebrations in a village in the Luxor region, far from the touristic spread of sameness.
Concert
Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 4:00 pm
Accompanied here by a choir and several female soloists, the prestigious National Arab Music Ensemble of the Cairo Opera performs an anthology of Umm Kulthum’s greatest songs, bringing out their nuance in stunning resplendence.
Concert
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The great Malian musician and kora virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko and the talented Anglo-Italian singer-songwriter Piers Faccini share the stage for a concert supporting the release of the album they have created together.
Concert
17 & May 18, 2025
A captivating new figure on the contemporary jazz scene, Sélène Saint-Aimé explores the traditional repertoire of Louisiana, the West Indies and Reunion Island in this concert dedicated to creoleness.
Concert avec images
Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 4:00 pm
Célimène Daudet brings her album Haïti mon amour—an ode to her mother’s homeland—to the stage with a unique concert, blending musical pieces with poetry and weaving resonance with photographs by Corentin Fohlen.
Concert
Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The group, founded in 1979 by Jacob Desvarieux, Georges and Pierre-Edouard Décimus, has become legendary, putting Guadeloupe and Martinique on the musical map of the world.
Concert
Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Accordionist Félicien Brut with four musician friends of his generation form an apt quintet for this tribute to nuevo tango, a style sparked by Piazzolla in the 1960s.
Concert
Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 8:00 pm
With singer Ralph Thamar, among other musicians, percussionist David Donatien orchestrates a concert in homage to Martinican pianist and composer Marius Cultier, a legendary star of Caribbean jazz.
Concert
Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The name Begley alone embodies the musical vibrance of West Kerry. The multi-generational trio at the heart of this concert-festival has assembled an impressive list of guests, reflecting the creative richness of Irish music today.
Concert
Sunday, May 25, 2025 at 4:00 pm
Icons Andy Irvine and Dónal Lunny, who ignited the 1970s Irish music scene with their legendary group Planxty, demonstrate their peerless blend of bouzouki and mandolin, flanked by the finest of the new folk generation.
Show
from 4 to June 7, 2025
With Carnacion, Spanish dancer and choreographer Rocío Molina, an icon of contemporary flamenco, delivers a fiery variation on desire—the flames fanned as much by the dancing as by the music, led by master singer Niño de Elche.
Concert
Friday, September 27, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan, an eminent explorer of contemporary jazz with an approach steeped in traditional Armenian music, takes flight with A Bird of a Thousand Voices, an ambitious new work based on a tale of spiritual awakening.
Concert
28 & September 29, 2024
Sharing the stage with the Orchestre Lamoureux, a host of guest singers symphonically revisits the monumental repertoire of the most Armenian of French chanson greats, Charles Aznavour, in honour of the centenary of his birth.
Concert
Sunday, October 13, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Concert
19 & October 20, 2024
A sparkling voice in the current jazz landscape, South Korean singer Youn Sun Nah joins forces with two French pianist-keyboardists—Éric Legnini and Tony Paeleman—in a programme largely dedicated to her new album, Elles.
Concert
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains—a truly singular French band, with its unique brand of shimmering and richly nuanced pop—celebrates the 10th anniversary of its landmark album Piano Ombre with a special concert at the Philharmonie de Paris.
Concert
Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Supporting her highly anticipated third album Poèmes pulvérisés, rising French music star Léonie Pernet pulverizes her own heart and that of her audience, accompanied by a made-to-measure choir, the Chœur pulverisé.
Concert
Sunday, December 1, 2024 at 8:00 pm
A herald of contemporary French chanson, Dominique A joins forces with the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève for a brilliant revisiting of his repertoire, from classics to rarities, infusing it with intriguing new sounds.
Concert
Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Founded in 2018, the creative Paris-based label 99Ginger has grown a global community with its approach breaking down boundaries between genres and arts.
Concert
Friday, January 24, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Featuring Joe Lovano (saxophone), Julian Lage (guitar), Santi Debriano (double bass), and Will Cahoun (drums), the new Paramount Quartet—formed in early 2024—has burst onto the scene with a distillation of jazz as adventurous as it is vigorous.
Concert
Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Clarinettist Yom, violinist Théo Ceccaldi and cellist Valentin Ceccaldi—three illustrious explorers of contemporary French jazz—bring their new trio project to the stage, setting off into the horizon of innovative trance.
Piano Recital
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Rising to prominence on the New York scene in the 1990s, Brad Mehldau is one of the most lyrical and intimate voices in contemporary jazz. With After Fauré, he confirms his affinity with the classical repertoire.
Concert
Friday, February 21, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Disco legend Cerrone’s sense of rhythm and skilful arrangements have set dancefloors on fire around the world. With this collaborative concert, he transforms his iconic tracks in a symphonic odyssey with the Scoring Orchestra.
Show
Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 3:00 pm
The spectacular and unabashedly extravagant form of choreographic expression known as waacking—a cousin of voguing—is here on full display, in all its facets, with a prolonged intensive disco-funk battle interspersed with shows and jam sessions.
Concert
Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 8:00 pm
A central figure of the new French Touch, Paris DJ and producer Dabeull delivers an electro-disco-funk cocktail as shimmering as it is energizing. A seasoned hedonist, performing here at the head of a large entourage of musicians, he sets the Philharmonie concert hall alight.
Show
Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 6:00 pm
From Ravel’s Bolero and its heady rhythms, choreographer Olivier Dubois fashions a spellbinding electro reading of the piece, interpreted by amateur dancers.
Concert
Friday, March 14, 2025 at 8:00 pm
On a fini par trouver une date (‘Showtime at last’) is a post-pandemic project celebrating Maxime Le Forestier’s return to recording and performing: one of France’s most enduring and popular singer’s revisits his finest songs.
Concert
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The great Malian musician and kora virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko and the talented Anglo-Italian singer-songwriter Piers Faccini share the stage for a concert supporting the release of the album they have created together.
Concert
Monday, April 7, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Since its emergence in the mid-2000s, the ever-evolving Portico Quartet has established itself at the forefront of London’s new jazz scene. Here the group presents an ‘augmented’ live version of its stunning minimalist, ambient-oriented album Terrain.
Concert
25 & April 26, 2025
A virtuoso on the oud, Tunisian composer Anouar Brahem is a major force in reinventing the instrument, bringing into synergy with various Western music, particularly jazz, and collaborating with the greatest improvisers of our time.
Concert
Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 4:00 pm
Drummer and composer Sebastian Rochford—a creative fixture in the contemporary British jazz scene—brings to the stage A Short Diary, a superb album of mourning and tribute recorded for ECM with pianist Kit Downes.
Concert
Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 8:00 pm
This concert brings together two remarkable Israeli musicians, both based in New York, each cultivating jazz in perfect pitch with the ECM label: trumpeter Avishai Cohen, at the head of his quartet, and pianist Shai Maestro, with his trio.
Concert
Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 8:00 pm
With singer Ralph Thamar, among other musicians, percussionist David Donatien orchestrates a concert in homage to Martinican pianist and composer Marius Cultier, a legendary star of Caribbean jazz.
Concert
17 & May 18, 2025
A captivating new figure on the contemporary jazz scene, Sélène Saint-Aimé explores the traditional repertoire of Louisiana, the West Indies and Reunion Island in this concert dedicated to creoleness.
Concert
Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The group, founded in 1979 by Jacob Desvarieux, Georges and Pierre-Edouard Décimus, has become legendary, putting Guadeloupe and Martinique on the musical map of the world.
Concert
Friday, May 23, 2025 at 8:00 pm
The eminently creative Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and playwright Conor O'Brien feels he belongs to no tradition, drawing inspiration as he does from a multitude of sources. Unique in the folk scene, he is an endearing and singular artist.
Children and families
Numerous concerts and shows throughout the year and during school holidays.
OpenTuesday to Sunday
An area dedicated to children aged 4 to 10: to play, explore, listen, live and feel the music.
Exhibition
From December 3, 2024 to June 15, 2025
Exhibition
From December 3, 2024 to June 15, 2025
Exhibition
From February 14 to August 17, 2025
Exhibition
From February 14 to August 17, 2025
Festival
From June 24 to June 28, 2024
Days Off is back at the Philharmonie de Paris for a new edition combining historical headliners with exciting newcomers.
Festival
From August 29 to September 8, 2024
Whatever the weather, the festival co-produced by La Villette and the Philharmonie de Paris is a radiant Indian summer of jazz. Programme and booking from May.
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The Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris offers a variety of activities for music lovers of all kinds – from the simply curious to confirmed aficionados : pre-concert sessions, musical culture cycles, conferences, meetings, and roundtables