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Wednesday 16 October, 2024

Music Room presents its most inclusive and comprehensive Season to date

The Basque National Orchestra’s educational and social cycle kicks off this Season 24/25 with more activities than ever before: over 70. And, most importantly, it is more inclusive than ever with many of these activities adopting its most transversal and necessary approach to date: making the orchestra an active instrument for various forms of social inclusion and a mainstay for the country using song. 

The cycle premieres four of its own productions: ‘Ilargiari kantari’, ‘Musika tantak, ‘Logelan logale’ and ‘Misterioa’, a show that starts this week with 3,300 schoolchildren. This first production will also feature a Family Concert this Saturday 19th October at 12:00, in Miramon, with tickets now on sale.

Thursday 12 September, 2024

The San Sebastian Festival, the Basque National Orchestra and the SGAE Foundation organise the ‘Concert & Screening’ at the Velodrome on the afternoon of Saturday 21st

The Basque National Orchestra, the SGAE Foundation and the San Sebastian Festival present the concert of music from films given by the Basque National Orchestra as part of the Festival. On the first Saturday of the Festival, the Velodrome opens to music lovers, movie buffs and the general public for a show combining a symphony performance of soundtracks with a collage of scenes from the movies to which they belong.

The event will offer 75 minutes of audiovisual pleasure on Saturday, 21 September, and for the first time in the afternoon at 18:00. Entry is free.  

Tuesday 10 September, 2024

International stars Zukerman, Forsyth and Sietzen will feature in the new cycle of the Miramon Matinées

Tickets and season tickets are now on sale for the Basque National Orchestra’s chamber music cycle, which commences on 5 October with 16 new musical events.

The violinist Pinchas Zukerman, the cellist Amanda Forsyth and the percussionist Christoph Sietzen will present chamber concerts after the orchestra's Symphonic Season, and many groups of members of the Basque National Orchestra will make up the rest of the programme.

Friday 30 August, 2024

Tickets for the 24/25 Season on sale from 1 September on

Tickets for all the 24/25 Season concerts will be on sale through the usual sales channels.

Monday 05 August, 2024

The Basque National Orchestra kicks off the 24/25 Season by participating in the opera 'Carmen' at the Musical Fortnight

The orchestra has been rehearsing for a few days now for this famous work by Georges Bizet, which will be performed at the Kursaal on the 8th and 10th of August. The Basque National Orchestra will also give a concert on the 14th in Senpere as part of the Walking Fortnight cycle, as well as a symphonic-choral concert with the Orfeón Donostiarra on the 23rd August in Kursaal.

In addition to its fruitful participation in the San Sebastian festival, over the next month the Basque National Orchestra will perform concerts in Lekeitio and Bergara, and will record works by Richard Strauss in Miramon for a new album on the Ondine label.

Monday 10 June, 2024

The Basque National Orchestra to surround itself with great Basque artists in a new Gabriel Erkoreka album

Juanjo Mena, Asier Polo, Alfonso Gómez and Carlos Mena are on the lineup of artists who, along with the Basque National Orchestra, have recorded three pieces made by Bilbao born composer Gabriel Erkoreka. 


Prestigious Finnish producer Ondine has been in charge of the worldwide release of the album, already available in CD format and on numerous digital platforms.