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Scene from a concert: Three oboists from the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra in concert dress play their instrument.
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Timpani mallets of different sizes lie ready on a shelf.

Beethoven: 4th Symphony

Next event: 24.6.25
11:00 h
Alter Saal
2nd Young Concert

Stadthalle, here we come!

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1st Castle Concert: Young voices

Next event: 3.7.25
20:30 h
Schlosshof

2nd Castle Concert: »Ne me quitte pas«

Theatre•Lovers
Next event: 12.7.25
20:30 h
Schlosshof

Melodies à la carte: Serenade with Mozart

Next event: 18.7.25
19:30 h
Schlosshof

Mozarts »Gran Partita«

Next event: 20.7.25
11:00 h
Johannes-Brahms-Saal

3rd Castle Concert: Aconcagua

Next event: 31.7.25
20:30 h
Schlosshof

The Big Orchestra Quiz Show

Next event: 21.9.25
11:00 h
Alter Saal
1st Family Concert
Philharmonic Concerts 2024/25

Lontano

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Sheherazade

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Rhapsody

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Fantasy

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De profundis

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Appassionato

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Amazonia

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Sinfonietta

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Bachchor Concerts 2024/25

Biblical Songs

Photo: Florian Merdes

Christmas Oratorio

Dona Nobis Pacem

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Elijah

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Concerts for young audiences 2024/25

The Little Prince

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The tuba is looking for the melody

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The Moldau

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Of Court Jesters and Birthday Cakes

Christmas Oratorio for Children

Colour, Light and Dance

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Maximum fun!

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The Sorcerer's Apprentice

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Beethoven: 4th Symphony

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Beethoven Concert series 2024/25

BE

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BEE

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BEEE

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Close-up of a concert: Two violins are being played - only the instruments and the hands of the musicians are visible.

BEEEE

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Chamber Concerts 2024/25

Phantasy Quintet

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Kreutzersonate

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Allegro con brio

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Close-up of a concert: a clarinet is being played, the instrument and the hands of a musician are visible in profile, in the background are open sheet music.

Animato

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Capriccio

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Close-up: Two hands on the keys of a black piano
Special concerts 2024/25

31th concert with scholarship holders of the Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung

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Waltzes everywhere!

Photo: Samuel Solazzo and Jannis Uffrecht
Group photo of the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra. The instrumentalists, who number around 60, are wearing festive concert dress, many of them holding their instruments in their hands. They stand in three rows, one behind the other on platforms of different heights, in front of an outer wall of the Heidelberg Congress Center, which is recognisable by the characteristic colour and texture of the coloured sandstone.

Waltzes everywhere!

Photo: Susanne Reichardt

From trumpet to trombone

Photo: Annemone Taake

Mozarts »Gran Partita«

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Scene from a concert: Three oboists from the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra in concert dress play their instrument.
Castle Concerts 2025

1st Castle Concert: Young voices

2nd Castle Concert: »Ne me quitte pas«

Melodies à la carte: Serenade with Mozart

3rd Castle Concert: Aconcagua

Philharmonic Concerts 2025/26

Mythes

Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Scene from a concert: visible is the row of woodwind players up to the horns, sharp, in the centre, the solo flautist and the solo oboist. All the musicians are playing their instruments, all wearing festive black concert dress.

Elegy

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Scene from a concert, visible is the row of violins playing, all wearing festive concert dress.

Don Quixote

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Scene from a concert: a timpanist in dark concert dress is visible in half-profile, looking intently at his open sheet music and moving a mallet in each hand above his instrument.

Slightly Animated

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Scene from a concert: Around 10 musicians from different string groups are visible, all in festive concert attire, in the centre of the picture a young cellist playing with concentration.

Ciel d’hiver

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Scene from a concert: view of the trumpet section, a trumpeter leans forward, looks at the sheet music and will start to play.

Winterreise

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Scene from a concert: In the centre of the picture is a young violist playing her instrument with concentration. Other musicians and string instruments can be recognised around her.

Lontano doloroso

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Scene from a concert. View of the string section, in the centre a cellist in festive concert dress, playing his instrument with an expansive gesture.

Finale

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Scene from a concert: A percussionist in festive concert attire holds two cymbals high in the air.
Bachchor Concerts 2025/26

Hiob

Photo: Florian Merdes

Gloria in excelsis

Photo: Florian Merdes
Image from inside Peterskirche (St Peter's Church) in Heidelberg. The arches of the cross vault and, between the columns, parts of the organ are visible.

St John Passion

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Photo from inside St Peter's Church in Heidelberg: View through the nave into the rear part of the church with the small organ in the gallery.

Blessed

Photo: Florian Merdes
Shot from inside St Peter's Church. Across the rows of chairs, the focus of the picture is on a side chapel with the large organ.
Concerts for young audiences 2025/26

The Big Orchestra Quiz Show

Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Timpani mallets of different sizes lie ready on a shelf.

Tutti pro: Brass!

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Close-up of a concert: music stands with open sheet music can be seen in a row, with brass instruments on the floor in front of them.

Pictures at an Exhibition

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Close-up of a concert: A horn lies on the knees of a musician dressed in black.

Searching for the Stars

Photo: Annemone Taake
Details shot of a Cello

Ludwig van Beethoven: 6th Symphony

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Close-up of a concert: a music stand can be seen in the centre of the picture, a hand can be seen from the left, opening the sheet music. Instruments and musicians can be recognised in the background.

Ludwig van Beethoven: 7th Symphony

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Close-up of a concert: a music stand with open sheet music fills the frame and is shot from the front. An arm holding a violin protrudes into the picture from the right-hand side - they are out of focus, the focus is on the sheet music.

Dive in

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Bertha Benz drives an automobile

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Szene aus einem Konzert. Im Vordergrund sind zwei kleine Becken sichtbar; im Hintergrund sieht man unscharf einige Instrumentalisten und Pulte.
Beethoven Cyclus 2025/26

BEEEEE

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Close-up from a concert: A trombonist, visible in half-profile, plays his instrument, in the background you can see open sheet music on the music stands.

BEEEEEE

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Close-up from a concert: The head and upper arm of a violinist are visible in half-profile, the focus is on the instrument and the bow.

BEEEEEEE

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Close-up from a concert: a bassoonist playing his instrument is visible in profile, two bassoonists can be seen in the background.

BEEEEEEEE

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Close-up of a concert: the head and upper body of a violinist are visible, she is playing her instrument and looking attentively towards the conductor's podium. Other instrumentalists can be seen in the background.
Chamber Concerts 2025/26

Arioso

Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up of a concert: a clarinet is being played, the instrument and the hands of a musician are visible in profile, in the background are open sheet music.

Caprice

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Close-up of a concert: Two violins are being played - only the instruments and the hands of the musicians are visible.

Vivace

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Close-up of a concert: The hands of a drummer playing a triangle are visible. Other percussion instruments can be seen in the background.

Energico

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Close-up: Two hands on the keys of a black piano

Moderato

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Andantino

Photo: Annemone Taake
Details shot of a Cello
Special concerts 2025/26

32nd concert with scholarship holders of the Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung

Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Close-up of a concert: a music stand with open sheet music fills the frame and is shot from the front. An arm holding a violin protrudes into the picture from the right-hand side - they are out of focus, the focus is on the sheet music.

In the firestream from the vines

Photo: Samuel Solazzo and Jannis Uffrecht
Group photo of the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra. The instrumentalists, who number around 60, are wearing festive concert dress, many of them holding their instruments in their hands. They stand in three rows, one behind the other on platforms of different heights, in front of an outer wall of the Heidelberg Congress Center, which is recognisable by the characteristic colour and texture of the coloured sandstone.

In the firestream from the vines

Photo: Susanne Reichardt
Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg

Heidelberg’s philharmonic orchestra, Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg, has been part of the city’s theatre since 2005. It forms its own category, staging numerous concerts and accompanying opera productions.

The orchestra shapes the city’s musical life with its stylistic flexibility stretching from Baroque to Modernity as well as a broad variety of concert formats. It has twice been honoured with the award for »best concert programme« by the association of German music producers, Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband, and places a strong emphasis on educational programme. Since 2006, Heidelberg’s philharmonic orchestra has been engaging with historic staging methods as part of the festival Winter in Schwetzingen. As part of Heidelberg’s women artists’ award, the Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis, and its concert programmes, the orchestra regularly reflects on the works of women composers.

The Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg was founded on 8th April 1889 as »Städtisches Orchester«.
 

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City of Heidelberg Music Prize for female composers

The Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis is one of the state's most important cultural prizes and the only award in the world to be given exclusively to female composers.

The Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2017. It was initiated by Roswitha Sperber in 1987, and since 2007 the prize has been awarded as a municipal music prize by the City of Heidelberg and celebrated by the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, which performs one orchestral work by each prize winner as part of one of their Philharmonic Concerts. Deutschlandfunk, the long-time media partner, records the Preisträgerinnen-Konzert and transmits it throughout Germany at different times together with a feature on the prized composer. 

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tutti pro - Die Orchesterpatenschaft

Bringing youth orchestras and professional orchestras together – that‘s the idea behind the joint initiative of »Jeunesses Musicales« and »Deutsche Orchestervereinigung« together with »Verband deutscher Musikschulen«.

The initiative takes young people's skills seriously and motivates them to play in the orchestra. Conversely, the enthusiasm and dedication of the young musicians is always an impulse for the professional musicians.

Throughout Germany, youth orchestras and professional orchestras have joined forces and signed a sponsorship agreement. The cooperation between the »Junges Sinfonieorchester Heidelberg der Musik und Singeschule« and the Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg was sealed in 2022/23 as the 57th tutti-pro orchestra sponsorship.

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