February
March 2025
The Mahler Chamber Orchestra is set to present its second edition of Musikwoche Hitzacker, a long established festival in Northern Germany, with the orchestra taking over the Artistic Direction since 2024. The festival titled features a diverse program over ten concert days (28 February through 9 March, 2025), including orchestra and chamber music performances, a children's concert, and multiple outreach and educational activities. Audiences can enjoy open rehearsals and a late night concert, as well as master classes for young musicians.
Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, a long-time close partner and friend of the MCO's, will join the Orchestra for several concerts this spring, focusing on music composed in Paris in the 1920s, when the French capital experienced one of the culturally most exciting times in its history. Ernest Hemingway, who lived in Paris between 1921 and 1926, described this period in his last book, A Moveable Feast ("Bewegte Zeiten" in our rather free translation into German), which served as an inspiration for the programming of this year's Musikwoche.
The small town of Hitzacker provides an intimate and charming setting, offering numerous opportunities for the audience to engage with the MCO musicians both on and off the stage. This close interaction and dialogue is a hallmark of what makes the festival unique. Some of the highlights from this year's Musikwoche will be on the programme when Leif Ove Andsnes and the MCO go on tour to the prestigious concert halls of London, Brussels and Luxembourg later this March.
