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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!

The magnificent voice of Afra Kane brings the rain to a halt for this hommage to Ella Fitzergerald in park La Grange !

Charles Dutoit returns to the OSR for the unmissable concert for the Friends of the OSR. Thank you to Fleuriot Fleurs for the beautiful flowers!

The OSR welcomes Maestro Myung-Whun Chung as both pianist and conductor for the very first time !

Maestro Christoph Eschenbach returns to the OSR for the first time since 1971 with an exceptional programme just for strings.

An unique concert experience : one musician plays for a one-person audience!

Across a series of unique locations in Geneva, one OSR musican plays a surprise 10-minute work without saying a word, to an audience of just one person. The OSR thanks Fleuriot fleurs, Les enfants terribles, SIG Quartier libre, the restaurnt Le Lyrique, 
Rooftop°42, Le Museum et Museum of the Fire Brigade of the City of Geneva.

«C’est une pluie mécanique, un chaos cliquetant... Imaginé par György Ligeti (1923-2006), le Poème symphonique pour cent métronomes tient de la provocation artistique autant que de l’expérience sonore» Thierry Raboud, La Liberté, 21.01.2021.

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A look back at the first subscription concert with soprano Christiane Karg and the musical and artistic director of the OSR, Jonathan Nott for a "100% Mahler" programme. "The OSR and Mahler, a happy marriage: The Geneva concert on Wednesday evening, dedicated to the Austrian composer, with soprano Christiane Karg as soloist, reminds us of the special ties between conductor Jonathan Nott and the great Gustav. Magnificent." Sylvie Bonier, Le Temps