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Friday 01 September, 2023

Tickets for the 23-24 Season on sale

Tickets for all the 23-24 Season concerts are now on sale through the usual sales channels.

Thursday 31 August, 2023

The Basque National Orchestra joins major Basque artists to record an Erkoreka record

Juanjo Mena, Asier Polo, Alfonso Gómez, and Carlos Mena join the great line-up of artists currently recording three pieces from Bilbao-native composer Gabriel Erkoreka together with the Basque National Orchestra in Miramon. The recording will be made public in a few months.

Wednesday 09 August, 2023

The Basque National Orchestra kicks off the 23/24 Season with its participation at the Musical Fortnight presenting Mahler’s ‘Symphony of a Thousand’

San Sebastian’s classical music festival will grace the Kursaal Auditorium stage on 18 August (20:00) under the direction of Robert Trevino, bringing together the Basque National Orchestra and the Navarre Symphony Orchestra for the instrumental portion, and the Orfeón Donostiarra, Orfeón Pamplonés, Easo Eskolania, and Easo Gazte for the choral passages, in addition to an extensive line-up of soloist voices.

Wednesday 31 May, 2023

23/24 season: Art in the first person

In this new Season, the Basque National Orchestra wishes to focus its attention on the human being who creates and transforms, through art as an inspirational ally. With Mahler and his Symphony No. 3 we will see concepts such as eternity and love; with Bruckner and his Seventh the most spiritual experience; with Dutilleux and Strauss the most mundane life; and with Prokofiev and his Alexander Nevsky the hero's exhilaration. 

To this end this Season will feature great conductors such as Juraj Valcuha, Juanjo Mena, Marie Jacquot and Riccardo Frizza, as well as international artists of the stature of Alban Gerhardt, Sergey Khachatryan, Olesya Petrova and Justina Gringyte. Numerous performers and choirs from our region are part of the solid cast: Elena Sancho Pereg, Clara Mouriz, Alfonso Gómez, the Bilbao Choral Society, the Orfeón Donostiarra and Vocalia Taldea.

Basque creation will be of great importance, especially with the world première of Chillida – Elogios by Antonio Lauzurika, a work commissioned by the orchestra to commemorate the centenary of the sculptor's birth. Oihartzun gorriak by Itziar Viloria and a revision of At the Aegean Shores by Saskia Venegas will also première, and Mugarri by Ramon Lazkano will be performed. In this section of Basque creation, and outside the Season concerts, the recording of works by Gabriel Erkoreka that the orchestra will undertake under the baton of Juanjo Mena is also a standout feature.

For the first time in the Season Concerts, an opera will be performed that, programmed by the Arriaga Theatre and under the stage direction of Calixto Bieito, will be presented in Bilbao: Die Ersten Menschen (The First Humans) by Rudi Stephan.

After its successful tour of Poland, Austria will be the Basque National Orchestra's next international destination in February 2024, with three concerts in Salzburg and one in Linz. 

Friday 31 March, 2023

The Basque National Orchestra seals its relationship with the prestigious Beethoven Festival in Poland

It is the result of a high-paced and artistically demanding tour that the Basque orchestra has managed with great solidity and high standards of quality.

"We have sealed the possibility of returning in the future", says Oriol Roch, general director of the Basque National Orchestra.

Friday 24 March, 2023

The Basque National Orchestra is making its debut in Poland with a great tour made up of four concerts

Invited to lead off the programming of the Beethoven Festival, one of the most important classical music festivals in Poland, the Basque National Orchestra is visiting Warsaw, Wrocław, Krakow, and Katowice –respectively– from March 28 to 31. 

This is the first international tour since before the pandemic for the orchestra and it represents a historic presence in one of the cradles of European classical music.