CAMERATA Salzburg is looking forward to the 2024/25 concert season, which will probably be CAMERATA Salzburg's most diverse and varied season ever under the title SPEKTREN.

In the 2024/25 season, CAMERATA will explore all the colours of the chamber orchestral sound spectrum. Like Igor Stravinsky during his work on the ballet Apollon Musagète, the audience can look forward to a "polyphonic melodious sound": from Lully, Vivaldi and Handel to Mozart, Mendelssohn and Brahms to Stravinsky, Poulenc, Widmann and Cage. The top artists of today, such as the unique violinist Christian Tetzlaff and the baroque master Dorothee Oberlinger, as well as the stars of tomorrow, including the exceptional young pianist Mao Fujita and the young conductor and winner of the Herbert von Karajan Prize Oscar Jockel, are invited to CAMERATA's seasonal concert series. The two artistic partners Hélène Grimaud and Janine Jansen will also be returning to Salzburg. The sound spectrum will be expanded by the organ in the Great Hall, played by Christian Schmitt for the first time in a CAMERATA concert, and on New Year's Eve/New Year's Day by the French jazz accordion grandmaster Richard Galliano.

The usual programme of five season concerts will be expanded in the coming 24/25 season to include a special concert: an additional season concert with artistic partner Hélène Grimaud in the Großes Festspielhaus. On Sunday, 4 May 2025 at 5.00 pm, CAMERATA and Grimaud will dedicate themselves to the oeuvre of Johannes Brahms with his 1st Piano Concerto and 1st Serenade under the direction of concertmaster Giovanni Guzzo. This concert is part of a major European tour (see more below), in which CAMERATA and Hélène Grimaud will continue on their path of creating transparency through a chamber music approach to great Romantic repertoire. The direction of Giovanni Guzzo from the concertmaster's podium allows CAMERATA's great strength to unfold its unmistakable sound in ensemble with the piano soloist in this repertoire too. The season finale with artistic partner Janine Jansen and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor and his great fifth symphony "Reformation" under the direction of concertmaster Gregory Ahss emphasises this approach.

Many voices can therefore produce a harmonious sound together. As in music, this also applies to our society. Such a society functions particularly well when the exchange of diverse opinions is practised. The values of mutual respect, mutual listening, the balance between contribution and restraint, which are necessary for this, but are currently often in danger, are CAMERATA's daily bread in making music together, especially as an ensemble that works primarily without a conductor. The season's title SPEKTREN was therefore chosen not only because of its musical range, but also to show in musical language that diversity is not a weakness, but a strength, and even more so a necessity.