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Conducted by Eva Ollikainen, Mahler's Symphony No. 6 echoed in the Victoria Hall last night as a vibrant testament to the collaboration between the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Orchestre de la Haute École de Musique de Genève.

Saxophonist Valentine Michaud joins forces with her brother, percussionist Gabriel Michaud, for a series of concerts featuring John Williams' jazzy Escapades (from the film Catch Me If You Can) and Panic, a dithyramb for alto saxophone, jazz drummer, wind, brass and percussion by Harrison Birtwistle.

A fantastic first collaboration with the Festival Les Créatives.

The Concerto de Aranjuez by J. Rodrigo, performed by Pablo Sainz-Villegas under the direction of Ana María Patiño-Osorio, promised a journey between Iberian classicism and flamenco.

In partnership with the ProVisu Foundation, whose aim is to support scientific research as well as projects and institutions that help the visually impaired, and the Association pour le Bien des Aveugles et Malvoyants (ABA), which was present at the concert on 6 November with a stand to raise awareness of the problem of visual impairment.

Audiences shivered at the Psycho film-concert on 31 October, featuring an all-string ensemble conducted by Ernst Van Tiel.

Faithful soloist of our concerts, Martha Argerich performs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1, conducted by Maestro Nott. A magical moment complemented by Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin and Beethoven's Eighth Symphony.

What a pleasure it is to open our musical season with Tugan Sokhiev and Bertrand Chamayou alongside our Geneva and Lausanne audiences for three sold-out concerts!

As is now customary, our 5th edition of the festival closes on a high note with an evening of jazz. This year, a tribute to Sinatra with Canadian crooner Matt Dusk.

What could be more fitting than Singin' in the Rain in concert at Genève-Plage? With maestro Ernst van Tiel.

Now it's the turn of the youngsters to take centre stage with the Orchestre en classe project!

Fourth edition of the OSR c'est vous! Always with joy and good humour with maestro Philippe Béran.

Rehearsal photos of The Great Dictator with Timothy Brock and the orchestra.

Masterly direction by Myung Whun Chung with soprano Zarina Abaeva, mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk, tenor René Barbera, bass Dmitry Belosselskiy and the Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia.

Great Russian répertoire with Liadov, Prokofiev and Chostakovitch.

Martin Fröst finished his residency at the OSR in style, accompanied by our musicians Linda Bärlund, Claire Dassesse, Catherine Soris Orban and Lionel Cottet.

A Triumph at the Victoria Hall for Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, brilliantly performed by Martin Fröst and conducted by Jonathan Nott.

A powerful evening with Roderick Cox and Alexander Malofeev with a programme based around Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Thunderous applause at the end of Shostakovich's Concerto for piano and trumpet, performed by piano legend Martha Argerich and our principal trumpet Giuliano Sommerhalder, conducted by maestro Jonathan Nott.

The Sibelius Violin Concerto, performed by Janine Jansen and conducted by Charles Dutoit, won the audience in Geneva and Lausanne on 7 and 8 February.

Second concert of the Festival with Jonathan Nott highlighting the repertoire of the last hundred years in all its forms! Bravo to the soloists:
Roman Filipov, Claire Dassesse, Rosnei Tuon violins, Jarita Ng viola, Léonard Frey-Maibach cello, Sarah Rumer flute, Benoît Willmann clarinet, Francisco Cerpa Román bassoon, Arthur Bonzon timpani, Christophe Delannoy, Michel Maillard, Michael Tschamper, Marion Fretigny, Mathis Pellaux percussion.
Followed by an electro evening by ELECTRON with Amatan Oriental Deep, Cora, Garance Einmusika, Hive Audio, Godot Le Ski Club, Laila Ruta 5, Lalla Mira, Olivier Kolly Gravitation, Ramin Club Salaam, Rodosaurus Le Ski Club, Thomas Lavanchy Canal 54.

Opening of the Festival by Martin Fröst, conductor and clarinetist in residence at the OSR with a superb concert with klezmer notes; and congratulations to the soloists Sidonie Bougamont and François Payet-Labonne for their magnificent performance.

A Swiss premiere for Cabot-Caboche! Performed by Annie Dutoit-Argerich, Philippe Béran and the Orchestra, the famous story by Daniel Pennac delighted young and old alike, with a music composed specially for the occasion by Karol Beffa.

A magical and joyous evening marked by the wonderful complicity between the soprano Rosa Feola, the conductor Antonino Fogliani and the orchestra.

A look back at the world premiere of Jonathan Nott's symphonic suite from 'Pelléas et Mélisande', followed by Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, performed with virtuosity by Kit Armstrong.

Our thanks to our partner Fleuriot Fleurs for the magnificent floral arrangement at the Victoria Hall.

The gentlemen of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande have renewed their wardrobe for the start of the 2023 season. Custom-made by the Swiss company Bongenie, which has already collaborated with the orchestra in the past, the suits have been designed to fit each musician, according to their instrument and musical practice.

Last Saturday marked the 100th performance in the concert series for little ears! On the programme for this festive day was the famous tale of the Three Little Pigs, adapted and revisited by Corinne Baudet, narrated by Antoine Courvoisier and played by Matteo de Luca, Vincent Métrailler, Andrea Bandini - all three on trombone - and Ross Knight, on tuba.

Unique performance on the 11^th of October of Ligeti's Violin Concerto by Patricia Kopatchinskaja followed by the powerful Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 conducted by Hannu Lintu.

Conductor Jonathan Nott and artists in residence Martin Fröst & Michael Jarrell in beautiful collaboration for our season opening concert.

Look back at the workshops, concerts and other activities for young people in the 2022-23 season!

A resounding success for the amateur and OSR musicians taking part in this third edition of L'OSR c'est vous ! on this year's theme: Dance.

Elgar's Cello Concerto performed by Kian Soltani and Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra conducted by Simone Young.

A look back at the concert of 21 April 2023 in the Rosey Concert Hall with the choir of the Zürcher Sing-Akademie, soprano Elizabeth Watts, mezzo-soprano Hanna Hipp, tenor Saimir Pirgu, baritone Daniel Schmutzhard, conducted by Jonathan Nott.

From March 21 to 28, the Orchestra has enabled 5'000 pupils from Western Switzerland to discover the flute through various works of the classical repertoire linked to Mythology

Kent Nagano, Mari Kodama, Momo Kodama and Karin Kei Nagano at the Victoria Hall, playing Mozart's Concerto for Three Pianos - as it was originally intended. Then followed Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos and Strauss' Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

What better way to end this European tour than in one of Europe's greatest concert halls? After Lucerne, Cologne, Bremen, Munich, Antwerp and Lille, the Berliner Philharmonie closes a month-long tour in style with the breathtaking Khatia Buniatishvili.

Thunder of applause for the Orchestra, Jonathan Nott and Khatia Buniatishvili Tuesday at the Auditorium du Nouveau Siècle in Lille for this penultimate tour date!

After a sensational concert in the IsarPhilharmonie in Munich on Sunday, the Orchestra and Jonathan Nott performed with Khatia Buniatishvili in the majestic Koningin Elisabethzaal in Antwerp on Monday, marking the last half of our European tour. What an adventure!

This was a successful challenge for the Festival Antigel, which for the first time in its history programmed a symphonic music concert and even more, a sold out! The musicians of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande reinterpreted the greatest songs of the rock band Led Zeppelin, rearranged by Jaz Coleman, to the delight of an effervescent audience, under the direction of Bastien Stil.

Last performance of Stravinsky's masterful Petrushka on this first part of our European tour, in the elegant Art Deco hall, Die Glocke in Bremen, with the incredible Khatia Buniatishvili.

What a great way to open this European tour with the exceptional Khatia Buniatishvili for the Orchestra and Maestro Jonathan Nott. Thank you Lucerne for the wonderful welcome!

A dazzling evening with Khatia Buniatishvili last night at the Victoria Hall! The audience could not resist the pianist's fiery performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, which was greeted with thunderous applause, followed by Beethoven's monumental Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' conducted by Jonathan Nott.

Excellence personified at the New Year's Concert of the Geneva Association of Friends of the OSR. The illustrious pianist Mikhaïl Pletnev, followed by the prodigy Daniel Lozakovich, played under the direction of Ana María Patiño-Osorio, assistant conductor of the OSR, who promises a great career!

An exceptional evening at the Saint-Pierre Cathedrale for our Christmas Concert. Jonathan Nott conducted the Orchestra in a reduced formation with soprano Regula Mühlemann, mezzo-soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis, tenor Valerio Contaldo, bass Stephan MacLeod and the Chamber Choir of the HEM Geneva.

The most beautiful works of Mozart, Haydn, Ligeti and Pärt were echoed in this intimate setting. Simply divine!

The magic of Christmas was in the air on Wednesday 14 December for a Family Concert conducted by Ana María Patiño-Osorio with the narrator Marion Fontana, based on a text by Corinne Baudet.

Santa Claus even paid us a visit!

Alexandra Conunova performs Mendelssohn's magnificent Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor under the direction of Jonathan Nott, who concludes this programme with the Symphony No. 9 by Mahler.

Throwback at Berlioz's breathtaking 'Romeo and Juliet' performed in its entirety last night! The Orchestra was joined for the first time by the Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris, conducted by Daniel Harding, with the voices of Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Andrew Staples (tenor) and Mikhail Petrenko (bass) moving around the Victoria Hall or between the musicians, accompanied by not one, but four harps!

Jonathan Nott and Viktoria Mullova started their tour of Central Europe on November 8 with a first stop in Udine, then Ljubljana. Gábor Boldoczki then joined the two artists in Budapest. Next, the Orchestra accompanied the Grand Théâtre de Genève playing Katia Kabanovaat to the Janáček Brno Festival with conductor Tomáš Netopil, and finally Viktoria Mullova joined the Orchestra for one last time, still in Brno, under Netopil's direction.

What an adventure!

Viktoria Mullova and Jonathan Nott thrilled the Victoria Hall on Monday 07 of November with Shostakovich's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 followed by Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra, which marked the start of an international tour in Italy, Slovenia, Hungary and Czech Republic.

4,500 students attended the West Side Story Symphonic Dances at the Victoria Hall during the week of October 10. The same programme was performed at the first Family Concert of the season on Saturday 15 October, with Sascha Goetzel conducting and Sarkis Ohanessian presenting, accompanied by the OSR and the HEM Orchestra.

On 5th October 2022, Daniele Gatti led the orchestra in a breathtakingly detailed performance of his symphonic arrangement of Wagner's Götterdämmerung and Richard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben.
 

On 29th september 2022, the Bavarian public was treated to the OSR's first ever concert at the Prinzregententheater, together with 12 soloists from the Ensemble intercontemporain. As part of Bayerische Rundfunk's musica viva series, the performance included the premier of Rebecca Sounders' Wound, and Boost and Glut by Dieter Ammann, recorded earlier in the year for Schweizer Fonogram.

It is a new era in Lausanne for the OSR, which has taken over a completely renovated Théâtre de Beaulieu! Marc Perrenoud, Dmitry Rasul-Kareyev, Lionel Cottet and Elçim Özdemir inaugurated the season in style under the direction of Jonathan Nott.

Jazz meets classical music in this season-opening concert at the Victoria Hall with our artist in residence Marc Perrenoud, Jonathan Nott conducting and the soloists Dmitry Rasul-Kareyev, Lionel Cottet and Elçim Özdemir.

Arthur Bonzon, Michel Maillard, Michael Tschamper (percussions), Wilhem Latchoumia and Deborah Lee (pianos) opened this season of Chamber music with George Crumb and Steve Reich in the magnificent Conservatoire de musique de Genève.

Last concert of the OSR Festival in Genève-Plage, dedicated to the composer Michel Legrand.
Marc Perrenoud and his jazz trio accompany the Orchestra, conducted by Jonathan Nott.

Last night screening of Safety Last! raised a whole lot of laughs for the second day of the Festival OSR at Genève-Plage.
For the occasion, the humorous and enthousiastic Philippe Béran conducted the Orchestra with unusual instruments such as banjo and guitar!

First day of the OSR Festival at Genève-Plage with our artistic and musical director Jonathan Nott and our first tuba soloist Ross Knight.

The Roulotte de l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande has - once again - finished parading through six French-speaking cantons: Geneva, Bern, Valais, Neuchâtel, Fribourg and Vaud. On their mobile stage, the musicians played a various programme for children and elderly, curious to discover a symphony orchestra up close!

On Friday the 24^th of June was a full Victoria Hall during La Fête de la Musique for the 2^nd edition of L'OSR c'est vous! What a pleasure to see amateur and professional musicians on stage in harmony, filling the venue with tunes from films that have now become cult favorites: Mission Impossible, Star Wars, Psycho and many others.

Frank Peter Zimmermann finished his residency with a brilliant performance of Brahm's Concerto in D Major, which was preceeded by Jonathan Nott conducting a captivating Sibelius' 5th symphony.

Last Saturday, the concert version of Elisa Shua Dusapin's story Le Colibri was conducted by composer Christophe Sturzenegger, accompanied by actors Clémentine Le Bas, Mathieu Fernandez-Villacanas and Matteo Prandi, in a production directed by Joan Mompart.

A touching tale about friendship, childhood and mourning, Le Colibri is a concert, a show performed at the Am Stram Gram Theatre and a comic book illustrated by Hélène Becquelin published by La Joie de Lire, giving access to a sound recording of the actors, accompanied musically by the OSR!

A magnificent premiere for the OSR at the Festival de Pâques, with a colourful programme: Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto, played by Renaud Capuçon, followed by The Rite of Spring, famous for the scandal it caused at its premiere, conducted by Jonathan Nott.

Central Europe is under the spotlights!

The OSR, in collaboration with the Ensemble Contrechamps and the HEM Orchestra, the Hungarian pianist János Balázs and the Hungarian cymbalist Miklós Lukács performed three swiss premiere pieces as part of the Archipel Festival: Peter Eötvös' Fermata, Slovenian composer Nina Šenk's Changing and Eötvös' Cziffra Psodia, celebrating the 100^th birthday of Hungarian piano virtuoso György Cziffra.

What a night!

What a blast last night with The Rite of Spring, conducted by Jonathan Nott! Then came the magic of Maurice Ravel's Shéhérazade cycle, perfect for calming the spirits with its exotic touch, sung by soprano Christiane Karg. Varèse's Arcana ends the evening in style with the largest orchestra the Victoria Hall can accommodate.

Last night, the spotlights were on the young prodigies: conductor Aziz Shokhakimov and pianist Behzod Abduraimov. Keeping with the Uzbek theme, the concert began with the Swiss premiere of Suleiman Yudakov's Khorezm Festival Procession, followed by Rachmaninoff's magnificent Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 and ended with Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7.

Throwback on our spanish tour last week.
From the 21st to the 26th of February, the Orchestre, Jonathan Nott and the swiss flutist Emmanuel Pahud played in Spain's most famous concert halls:  the Auditorio Principe Felipe in Oviedo, the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, the Auditorio y Palacio de congresos in Zaragoza, the renown Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona and lastly the Auditorio de la Dupitacion de Alicante in Alicante.

What a week!

A light-hearted opening with Ibert's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, played by our talented principal flute Loïc Schneider under the direction of Jonathan Nott.
Followed by Mahler's long-awaited Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor - a real struggle between life and death in music - powerfully conducted by our Musical & Artistic Director.

A perfect opening to the evening with the mysticism of La Péri by Dukas, followed by Neharot - tears in Hebrew - by Matthias Pintscher.
A Swiss premiere, this contemporary composition - commissioned by the Suntory Foundation for the Arts, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Staatsoper Dresden, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France - finds its inspiration in the complicated and troubled times we live since 2020.

For this concert honouring German composers, our artist in residence Frank Peter Zimmermann played the wonderful Concerto for violin and orchestra in D minor by Schumann, followed by Brahm's Symphony N^o 2 in D major op. 73 played by the orchestra and conducted by our music and artistic director Jonathan Nott.

After months of anticipation, the Orchestra welcomed Martha Argerich and Maria João Pires onstage at the Victoira Hall for an unprecedented performance of Mozart's Concerto for two pianos and Mahler's 1st Symphony with conductor in residence, Daniel Harding. Many thanks to Fleuriot Fleurs for the decoration!

A look back on the first edition of "l'OSR, c'est vous !" 

After months of preparation, our special orchestra made up of amateur & professional musicians finally presented an exciting programme of works by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Shostakovich, Bizet, and favourites from the film music repertoire.

Congratulations to the participants for their first immersion in a professional orchestra, and thank you to our musicians for their coaching!

What a delight to welcome Hannu Lintu and Leila Josefowicz to experience the powerful music of two important scandinavian composers, Sibelius and Nielsen, contrasted by the tragedy of Albern Berg's violin concerto 'À la mémoire d’un ange'.

With three iconic composers for the United States - Barber, Copland and Dvořák - the OSR honours the victims of the 11 September 2001 attacks, led by conductor Oksana Lyniv and featuring clarinettist Paul Meyer.

An unforgetable evening of romanticism was the theme of the OSR's concert in support of the 20th anniversary of the Réseau cancer du sein. Conducted by Fabio Luisi, Lise de la Salle played Rachmaninoff's 4th piano concerto with the impalpable fluidity of a virtuoso pianist. And the entertainment did not stop at the encore as the audience was treated toVipers Drag by Fats Waller, from her album When do we dance ?

Hailed for his generous musicality and radiance our artist-in-residence Frank Peter Zimmermann played Bartók's Rhapsody No. 2 and Martinů's Suite Concertante with brio, followed by Dvořák's Symphony No. 8, conducted by Jonathan Nott

Festival OSR at Genève-Plage finishes in style with the irresistible energy of Benjamin Levy, Alexeï Birioukov and the Sirba Octet ! A foot-stomping, hand-clapping evening filled with gypsy airs and klezmer tunes.

Chaplin's silent film, The Kid, is set to music peformed by the OSR 100 years after it's creation in the unique setting of Genève-Plage for the second evening of our festival. A cult film, conducted by a regular at our family concerts, the highly enthousiastic Philippe Béran !

With the sun setting behind the Jura, an unforgettable first evening of the Festival Genève-Plage took place on 26.08.2021 ; an audience enraptured by Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" performed by the fantastic pianist Yoav Levanon, conducted by Jonathan Nott!