Young Euro Classic 2019 will be held in Berlin

Young Euro Classic is the world's most important platform for international orchestral young talent for the European classical music tradition and its developments. Every summer, orchestras from all over the world play in the Berlin Konzerthaus on the Gendarmenmarkt for two and a half weeks.

Young Euro Classic is youth culture. Year after year, the "Bayreuth of the Young Generation" (Berliner Morgenpost) turns out to be a lighthouse event in the German cultural landscape and shows that Berlin, the capital of Berlin, can not be reduced to the Berghain and the independent scene as an attractive venue for youth culture. Berlin is the music capital of the world - through Young Euro Classic also for classical music talents.

The programmatic centerpiece of the jubilee season is probably the most important, eternally young symphonist in the history of music: Ludwig van Beethoven. True to the motto "This is where the future plays!", Young Euro Classic 2019 celebrates its 2020 250th birthday without hesitation. All nine symphonies and even more of his works are performed by eleven youth orchestras from all directions during the festival, an impressive undertaking that impressively demonstrates their ambition, self-confidence and cultural-social responsibility. The European Union Youth Orchestra will be making a full European weekend and will make a top-class contribution to the Beethoven project with the Ninth Symphony. In contrast to the classic Beethoven, there will be a large number of premieres and premieres. In addition there are great symphonies by Mahler, Prokofiev, or Shostakovich, and as a classical rediscovery of less well known from the countries of the participating orchestras. Their festival debut will be performed by ensembles from Chile, the Dominican Republic and Tatarstan. The Israeli-Palestinian Galilee Chamber Orchestra is also present for the first time.

The National Youth Orchestra of the USA, conducted by Antonio Pappano and accompanied by the mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly, premieres and crowns the festival.