Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Season 2025-2026
- Since its founding by Ernest Ansermet in 1918, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande has seen over 700 musicians contribute to its history. Currently led by Music and Artistic Director Jonathan Nott, the OSR is composed of 112 permanent musicians from 22 different nationalities. It performs more than 80 concerts each year, including 20 abroad. In addition to subscription concerts in Geneva and Lausanne, it offers symphonic programs for the City of Geneva, the annual United Nations Day concert, and accompanies opera performances at the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
- One of the OSR’s key missions is to promote symphonic music to young people, who will form the audience of tomorrow, offering them a wide range of activities, including family concerts, workshops to discover instruments, and custom concerts for schools.
Programme
- Waiting list – no offer
- Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla
- Georgijs Osokins
- Wednesday 20.05.2026, 19:30 – Victoria Hall (Geneva)
- Thursday 21.05.2026, 20:15 – Théâtre de Beaulieu (Lausanne)
- Daniel Harding
- Antoine Tamestit
- Swiss premiere
- Wednesday & Thursday 03-04.06.2026, 19:30 – Victoria Hall (Geneva)
Created in 2015 in Paris by our guest Antoine Tamestit, the Viola Concerto by the German composer Jörg Widmann is very demanding since it asks the soloist to be an actor, dancer, conductor, and incidentally, to play the viola! Placed in the middle of the orchestra at the beginning of the piece, he fights against the community represented by the musicians. It’s up to you to discover how his perilous adventure will end…
Reducing fourteen hours of music into just over an hour is another challenge taken up by conductor Lorin Maazel with his arrangement without vocals of Richard Wagner’s Ring. The challenge was to string together the musical excerpts by giving them a sound coherence without juxtaposing a series of pieces. Listening to the Tetralogy like a great symphonic poem, forgetting the singing and the stage without drowning in the Rhine, is the crazy bet taken up this evening by Daniel Harding.
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This program, typical of the OSR’s DNA, begins with Les Quatre Éléments (The Four Elements) composed by Frank Martin in 1963 on the occasion of the 80th birthday of its founder Ernest Ansermet. The evocation of natural phenomena gave the Genevan composer the opportunity to express both his love of nature and his admiration for the indomitable energy of the conductor who had been the creator of a large part of his works at the podium of our orchestra.
Composed in 1830, Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is a musical gem that features enchanting melodies and remarkable piano technique. It is considered one of Chopin’s masterpieces.
Claude Debussy’s La Mer was the first disc recorded by the OSR for the Decca company. It was to be followed by three other versions as sound recording techniques progressed, each time winning great critical success.
The brilliant and wild second suite of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé has long been one’s hobbyhorse of our concerts with its fantastic final bacchanal which always produces a great effect thanks to its incantatory power and its dazzling orchestration.