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2026 – Lutosławski Festival Warsaw, Rhinluch Festival, Würzburg, Milwaukee, Sion, Ljubljana
Following the opening concert at the Lutosławski Festival in Warsaw at the end of January 2026—a live broadcast on Polish Radio featuring viola concertos by Frank Martin and Giorgio Federico Ghedini alongside the Polish Radio Orchestra Katowice—the itinerary now includes concerts at the Mozartfest Würzburg with the Berlin Soloists Sextet, to be followed by six more major concerts next season, as well as the 4th Rhinluch Festival in Brandenburg, whose artistic director is Hartmut Rohde. Together with wonderful musicians such as Silke Avenhaus, Lena Neudauer, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Michel Lethiec, and the renowned French composer Kryštof Maratka, masterpieces of great chamber music will be performed. Deutschlandfunk Kultur will record the Grand Chamber Orchestra Concert with the Kammerphilharmonie Metamorphosen Berlin. Hartmut Rohde and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt will be the soloists with the orchestra.
In the summer, Hartmut Rohde will then perform at concerts and appear at major festivals such as the Naantali Chamber Music Festival, the Ljubljana Festival, the Tibor Varga Festival in Sion, and the Mendelssohn Festival in Hamburg, with concerts at the Elbphilharmonie and the Laeiszhalle. The summer will conclude at the end of September with a concert by Spectrum Concert Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonic.
New video Hoffmeister Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
New YouTube video of the opening of the 8th International Changwon Music Festival in South Korea (Nov. 1, 2024). Hartmut Rohde joined the Seoul Virtuosi, playing the Hoffmeister Viola Concerto in D-major in the orchestra version by Franz Beyer. As an encore, he played the Sarabande from by Suite in D-minor by Johann Sebastian Bach BWV 1008…
2024 insights
The year starts con brio in the Berliner Philharmonic Hall with the Gala concert of the Spectrum Concerts Berlin series with Janine Jansen, Boris Brovtsin, Torleif Thedéen, Jens Peter Maintz, Sasha Sitkovetsky, and Gareth Lubbe. Hartmut Rohde will perform viola concertos by Carl Maria von Weber and Cecil Forsyth and Alessandro Rolla further in the year. Tours will take him to Korea, Ireland, Romania, Italy and the USA. He will be conducting the chamber orchestra of the University of the Arts Berlin with works surrounding the Wiener Schule by Arnold Schoenberg. He looks forward to several invitations for masterclasses in festivals such as Ljubljana, Sion, London, and the USA. In October he is artistic director of the international Max Rostal competition in Berlin for violin and viola.
Hartmut Rohde
Hartmut Rohde is one of the leading and most sought-after European violists, renowned for his stylistic versatility and rhetorical perceptiveness. He is especially interested in bringing a historically informed approach to his interpretations of the classical, romantic and contemporary repertories. He holds a professorship at the University of the Arts Berlin, and is founding member of the renowned Mozart Piano Quartet which undertakes extensive worldwide tours.