Konzerthaus Berlin

Co-operation Partner of Young Euro Classic

"As the General Director of Berlin’s Konzerthaus, it is with the greatest pleasure that, each and every year, I am reminded of the fact that the Young Euro Classic Festival has made the Konzerthaus its musical home. In its own unique way, the festival brings our concert hall to life during the summer months and transforms the Gendarmenmarkt square into the musical heart of Berlin. We are both committed to doing all we can to inspire people – young and old – to enjoy and appreciate all that classical music has to offer. Young Euro Classic achieves this goal both by promoting the emerging generation of young musicians and by appealing to a new classical music audience. Both are possible because of the remarkable authenticity and passion with which the young musicians take to the stage. The very visible pleasure that the members of the youth orchestras take in their music making enables them to present new and challenging sounds to their audiences, and to capture their hearts for classical music. Hardly anybody personifies the ideals that the festival stands for more thoroughly than Iván Fischer, who is both the composer of the  festival anthem of 2011 and 2012 and the new Principal Conductor of the Konzerthaus Orchestra. I congratulate Young Euro Classic most heartily on its excellent work."

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Nordmann
Intendant Konzerthaus Berlin