Passion. Bamberg Symphony’s 2017/2018 concert season

The theme of the Bamberg Symphony’s 2017/2018 concert season is Passion. At a press conference today, Chief Executive Marcus Rudolf Axt and Chief Conductor Jakub Hrůša presented the forthcoming season’s programme: featuring works from four centuries, it offers the opportunity to discover anew or afresh composers who were passionate in transmuting their ideas into music – from Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion to the world premiere of a work by Jörg Widmann, Das heiße Herz.

As well as 54 concerts in Bamberg, schedule highlights include several joint tours: in November 2017, Jakub Hrůša leads the Orchestra on a concert tour of Spain, followed in June 2018 by the Orchestra’s fifteenth trip to Japan. The Orchestra will also perform at leading festivals including Bonn’s Beethovenfest, and will make its debut in Hamburg’s…