On Wednesday, June 18, Daniel Barenboim guests with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in Brahms’s First Piano Concerto, a sold-out performance that will transmitted worldwide in the Digital Concert Hall and to European cinemas. Purchase simulcast tickets here. Barenboim recently led the Berliner Philharmoniker in its annual Europakonzert, which this year celebrated the Argentine Israeli pianist and conductor’s 50-year association with the German orchestra. He first appeared with the Berlin Philharmoniker …

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Music Director Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin on the city’s Bebelplatz for their annual “Staatsoper für alle” concert, a spectacular open-air performance that, for the first time, will be streamed live worldwide at the Staatsoper’s website . This year’s program includes performances of Wagner’s “Einzug der Gäste” from Tannhäuser with the Staatsopernchor, Beethoven’s Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major with guest soloist Lisa Batiashvili, and Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps. …

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In the coming weeks, Daniel Barenboim appears onstage as pianist and conductor, beginning May 23 at the Semperoper Dresden as he and the Staatskapelle Berlin continue their tour. The Staatskapelle Berlin Music Director leads a program comprising Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. Last week, Barenboim led the Staatskapelle in the orchestra’s first performance in Armenia. …

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Daniel Barenboim has been honored with the Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor Award for his performances with the Staatskapelle Berlin of Wagner’s Ring cycle at the BBC Proms last summer. The Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards are the highest recognition for live classical music-making in the United Kingdom. Learn more about the awards here.

A new, unique music academy is taking shape in Berlin: Starting in the fall of 2016, gifted young students will embark upon a new course of study. In addition to musical instruction, the Barenboim-Said Akademie will include a core curriculum in music and the history of thought. The pedagogic and musical leadership will be provided by Daniel Barenboim. The renovation of the former stage depot of the Berlin State Opera …

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Today at an event at the Apple Store Berlin, Daniel Barenboim presented his new initiative Peral Music, a digital record label for classical music and the thinking ear. Bruckner’s Symphonies 1 – 3, performed and recorded with the Staatskapelle Berlin, inaugurates Peral Music’s discography. Order it now exclusively from iTunes.   ‘With the experience that I have assembled over 60 years of recording,’ says Daniel Barenboim, ‘I want to try and look at the future. I want …

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At today’s Berlin Staatsoper press conference, General Music Director Daniel Barenboim and Artistic Director Jürgen Flimm introduced the 2014/15 season. Highlights of next season’s program include nine new productions on the big stage as well as six more premieres on the Werkstatt (studio theatre) stage including one world premiere. In addition, the program features 21 operas from the repertoire, more than 80 concerts, the annual FESTTAGE festival at Easter, the …

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On Wednesday, 30 April at 15:00, Daniel Barenboim will introduce his new venture Peral Music, curated by the pianist and conductor himself. He will present his ideas behind this initiative and the record label’s forthcoming projects. The event takes place at the Apple Store Berlin, Kurfürstendamm. Reserve your space here.

On May 1, 2014, Daniel Barenboim will lead the Berliner Philharmoniker in its annual Europakonzert, an event that will be broadcast live in the Digital Concert Hall, on KulturRadio, the ARD television network, and medici.tv at 11:00am CEST. The concert, which takes at the Philharmonie Berlin, opens with Otto Nicolai’s Overture to Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor and also comprises Elgar’s Falstaff Symphonic Study in c minor as well as Tchaikovsky’s Fifth …

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Music Director Daniel Barenboim gives eight performances—ranging from the operatic to concert events—as part of the Staatsoper Berlin’s Festtage 2014 April 11 to 20. This year’s festival opens with Barenboim leading the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Philharmonie in a program of Mozart symphonies. The following day, Barenboim conducts a new production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser, directed and choreographed by Sasha Waltz and starring René Pape, Peter Seiffert, Peter Mattei, Marina Prudenskaya, and …

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