The NFM Wrocław Philharmonic will open the season with British cello virtuoso Steven Isserlis and the well-known maestro Jacek Kaspszyk. Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 7, known as “Song of the Night”, will be performed. Later, Thierry Fischer and violinist Benjamin Beilman will perform Johannes Brahms’s Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 2, providing a perfect introduction to the celebrations of Brahms’s 130th death anniversary. We will also be celebrating Radosław Pujanek’s 20th anniversary as concertmaster of the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic. Paul McCreesh will visit the capital of Lower Silesia to mark the occasion, and the orchestra will perform Frederick Delius’s intermezzo, The Walk to the Paradise Garden, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B minor “Pathetique”. We will also hear a new piece by violist Przemysław Pujanek, who will join the orchestra. The last performance of the Wrocław Philharmonic in October will be Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, performed by the award-winning pianist Lukas Geniušas. Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major “Rhein” will also be performed under the baton of Robertas Šervenikas. In November, conductor Jonathan Nott will return to the NFM after a break of ten years. The melancholy autumn mood will be captured not only by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem in D minor conducted by Nott, but also by works by György Kurtág and Arnold Schönberg, performed by the NFM Choir. In 2026, we celebrate the 270th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, so it should come as no surprise that when Lise de la Salle sits at the piano and Samy Rachid conducts the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, the Salzburg genius’ music will resound once again. This time, it will be Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major. We will also hear a piece by Kaija Saariaho and two works by Richard Strauss, including the symphonic poem Tod und Verklärung. Just before Christmas, the fabulous cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and conductor Pascal Rophé will return to the capital of Lower Silesia. The evening’s programme will include Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, as well as music by French composers Henri Dutilleux and Philippe Manoury.

The first subscription concert of 2027 will feature guest conductor Łukasz Borowicz, as well as cello maestro Raphael Wallfisch, who will be visiting with his son, baritone Simon Wallfisch. The artists, along with the orchestra, will perform Jonathan Dove’s composition In Exile, dedicated to Dove’s mother, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch – a Breslau-born musician of Jewish descent who survived Auschwitz. Unforgettable works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Maurice Ravel will also be performed. Works by the Bonn maestro, specifically his Piano Concerto No. 3, will be played in February by pianist Fil Liotis. The NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, conducted by Gergely Madaras, will then celebrate the music of Hungarian artist Ernö Dohnányi and a representative of spectralism, Tristan Murail. A week later, we will hear Felix Mendelssohn’s  famous symphony-cantata, Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, known as “Lobgesang”, and the NFM Choir will join the performance forces. French violinist Renaud Capuçon will appear at the NFM with a true masterpiece: the Violin Concerto in D minor by Jean Sibelius, and Pascal Rophé will conduct Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Die Seejungfrau that same evening. On March 5, under the baton of Wayne Marshall, the NFM Choir and NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, along with soloists, will perform excerpts from Frederick Loewe’s hit musical My Fair Lady. A week later, an exciting event awaits us with a visit from the winner of this year’s International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. The first prize winner will perform a violin concerto by Wieniawski at the NFM, and the evening’s programme will also include excerpts from Karol Szymanowski’s highland-folk-inspired ballet Harnasie and Johannes Brahms’s monumental Symphony No. 4. Jacek Kaspszyk will conduct.

Spring will bring an opportunity to hear American soprano Marisol Montalvo, specialising in contemporary music, who will sing Aribert Reimann’s Finite Infinity, set to lyrics by Emily Dickinson. Shortly afterward, Finnegan Downie Dear, winner of the 2020 Gustav Mahler International Conducting Competition in Bamberg, will conduct. Together with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, he will interpret Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, and Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1, with the young and accomplished Amir Abouzahra performing the solo part in the Prokofiev. The next musical encounter, this time conducted by Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, will unite the legacy of two composers whose important anniversaries we will celebrate in 2027. First, Jean-Paul Gasparian will perform Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1. In the second part of the programme, Ravel’s Spanish Rhapsody will be complemented by Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Catamorphosis, written ninety years after Ravel’s death. In May, the sonic.art Saxophonquartett will perform with the orchestra on the stage of the ORLEN Main Hall. First, we will hear a new work by Japanese artist Dai Fujikura, co-commissioned by the NFM, followed by the stunning Symphonic Dances op. 45 – Sergei Rachmaninoff’s last major composition. Shortly after, Ravel’s work will be heard once again: the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, along with Pascal Rophé and Lucas Debargue, will interpret the French master’s Piano Concerto. We will also present Modest Mussorgsky’s famous Pictures at an Exhibition, followed by a work by contemporary composer Marc-André Dalbavi. The orchestra will conclude the season with Giancarlo Guerrero. During the final concert, Karol Mossakowski will perform first. The organist will play the masterful Fantasia and Fugue on the Theme of Ad nos, ad salutarem undam by Ferenc Liszt. The evening will conclude with the Pines of Rome and the Fountains of Rome –  two parts of Ottorino Respighi’s popular triptych dedicated to the Eternal City.

A Symphonic Subscription not only gives you access to symphonic concerts at discounted prices and your fixed seat in the audience, holding it you can also attend the All Faces of Music series, during which conversations with artists and curators of NFM events provide insights into the musicians’ work and reveal many fascinating stories of lives focused on the arts. Symphonic Subscriptions also give you priority access to tickets for opera galas headlined by world-renowned tenors Piotr Beczała and Roberto Alagna, as well as for the May film music concert. There will also be a Young Musician’s Subscription for students of music schools and universities of music. We hope that the upcoming season will bring you a wealth of  memorable experiences.