Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Season 2026-2027
- 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
- Halloween film concert conducted by Stefan Geiger
- Film: The Addams Familyby Barry Sonnenfeld
- Music by Marc Shaiman
- Location: Victoria Hall, Geneva
- Duration: approx. 2h10 including a 20-minute intermission
- Conducted by Krzysztof Urbański
- Music by Johannes Brahms
- Location: Victoria Hall
- Duration: not stated by the OSR
This special concert brings together the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Berner Symphonieorchester, with Krzysztof Urbański conducting and Francesco Piemontesi as soloist.
The programme is devoted to Johannes Brahms, placing the orchestral tradition of one of the great German Romantic composers at the centre of this meeting between two major Swiss orchestras.
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- Conducted by Krzysztof Urbański
- Music by Johannes Brahms
- Location: Victoria Hall
- Duration: not stated by the OSR
This special concert brings together the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Berner Symphonieorchester, with Krzysztof Urbański conducting and Francesco Piemontesi as soloist.
The programme is devoted to Johannes Brahms, placing the orchestral tradition of one of the great German Romantic composers at the centre of this meeting between two major Swiss orchestras.
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- Conducted by Daniele Gatti
- Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21, Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60, Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
- Locations: Théâtre de Beaulieu, Lausanne; Victoria Hall, Geneva
- Duration: approx. 2h including a 20-minute intermission
The OSR offers a family-friendly exploration of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, one of the most recognisable works in the entire classical repertoire.
From its famous opening four notes to its monumental final chord, the concert decodes the dramatic construction and musical ideas behind the work while introducing young audiences to Beethoven’s extraordinary sense of rhythm, tension and transformation.
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- Concert conducted by Daniele Gatti
- Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
- Location: Victoria Hall
- Duration: approx. 1h without intermission
The OSR offers a family-friendly exploration of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, one of the most recognisable works in the entire classical repertoire.
From its famous opening four notes to its monumental final chord, the concert decodes the dramatic construction and musical ideas behind the work while introducing young audiences to Beethoven’s extraordinary sense of rhythm, tension and transformation.
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- Conducted by Romain Mayor
- Giuseppe Verdi — excerpts from the opera Nabucco
- Location: Victoria Hall
- Duration: approx. 1h without intermission
All aboard the Nabucco Express! In less than an hour, audiences are taken on a musical journey through Verdi’s famous opera.
The OSR leaves the traditional orchestra pit and places the musicians on stage, accompanying powerful choruses and major soprano arias. The result is an accessible introduction to opera centred on the relationship between voice, choir and orchestra.
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- Conducted by Daniele Gatti
- Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36, Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, “Eroica”
- Location: Victoria Hall, Geneva
- Duration: approx. 1h55 including a 20-minute intermission
The second instalment of the Beethoven Cycle moves from the lively Second Symphony to the revolutionary Third, the Eroica.
The programme illustrates Beethoven’s rapidly expanding musical ambition, from the Classical inheritance of the early symphonies to the unprecedented scale, drama and expressive freedom of the Eroica.
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- Conducted by Philippe Béran
- Vladimir Cosma — “Eh bien ! Dansez maintenant”, based on La Fontaine’s fables
- Location: Victoria Hall
- Duration: approx. 1h without intermission
Originally composed for the OSR, Vladimir Cosma’s work transforms some of Jean de La Fontaine’s most famous fables into a sequence of dances for narrator and symphony orchestra.
The OSR shares the stage with the young musicians of the Geneva College Orchestra, while Joan Mompart brings the wit and energy of La Fontaine’s timeless stories to life.
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- Conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado
- Igor Stravinsky — Pulcinella, Suite for Orchestra, Dmitri Shostakovich — Violin Concerto No. 2 in C-sharp minor, Op. 129, Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
- Location: Victoria Hall
- Duration: approx. 2h10 including a 20-minute intermission
Three composers from different generations offer contrasting perspectives on tradition and modernity.
Stravinsky’s Pulcinella looks back to eighteenth-century music with wit and elegance. Shostakovich’s Second Violin Concerto introduces a darker and more introspective world, while Brahms’s Fourth Symphony represents the culmination of the composer’s symphonic writing, with its deep connection to earlier musical traditions.
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- Matt Dusk, singer
- Christmas classics including Baby It’s Cold Outside, Jingle Bells, Let It Snowand White Christmas
- Location: Victoria Hall
- Duration: approx. 2h including a 20-minute intermission
With his warm crooner style, Matt Dusk revisits the great Christmas standards in a festive jazz setting.
Supported by the OSR Jazz Band and six gospel singers, the programme combines lush arrangements, swing and traditional seasonal repertoire in a concert designed for the festive period.
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- Conducted by Karen Kamensek
- Overtures, intermezzos and opera arias
- Location: Théâtre de Beaulieu, Lausanne
- Duration: approx. 2h including a 20-minute intermission
The New Year’s programme combines orchestral overtures and intermezzos with some of the most celebrated arias from the operatic repertoire.
With soprano Juliana Grigoryan and conductor Karen Kamensek, the concert offers a festive journey through the great Italian and European operatic tradition.
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- Conducted by Jonathan Nott
- Richard Dubugnon — Sonnenring, concerto for violin and orchestra, Swiss premiere, Gustav Mahler — Symphony No. 7 in E minor, “Song of the Night”
- Location: Victoria Hall
- Duration: approx. 2h20 including a 20-minute intermission
Richard Dubugnon’s Sonnenring, commissioned by the OSR and the London Symphony Orchestra, takes inspiration from the drawings, colours and symbolic universe of Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli.
The Swiss premiere, performed by Janine Jansen, is followed by Mahler’s rarely performed Seventh Symphony. Its striking contrasts between light and darkness lead audiences into an atmospheric exploration of the night.
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- Conducted by Bertrand de Billy
- Location: Victoria Hall, Geneva; Théâtre de Beaulieu, Lausanne
- Duration: approx. 1h40 including a 20-minute intermission
This programme places the violin at the centre of three different musical worlds. Cécile Chaminade, Camille Saint-Saëns and Josef Suk each bring a distinctive approach to virtuosity, lyricism and late-Romantic colour.
With Alexandra Conunova as soloist, the programme offers a showcase for the expressive and virtuosic possibilities of the violin within the orchestral repertoire.
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- Conducted by Daniele Gatti
- Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Concerto No. 4, Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”
- Location: Victoria Hall, Geneva; L’Heure bleue, La Chaux-de-Fonds; Stadtcasino Basel
- Duration: approx. 1h45 including a 20-minute intermission
The third instalment of the Beethoven Cycle pairs the intimate lyricism of the Fourth Piano Concerto with the expansive natural imagery of the Sixth Symphony.
Mao Fujita joins Daniele Gatti for the concerto, while Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony invites audiences into a musical landscape inspired by the countryside, nature and the human relationship with it.
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- Conducted by Daniel Harding
- Claude Debussy — Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, La Mer, three symphonic sketches, Lili Boulanger — Faust & Hélène, lyrical episode based on Goethe’s Faust
- Location: Victoria Hall
- Duration: approx. 1h40 including a 20-minute intermission
The programme begins with two of Debussy’s defining orchestral works. Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune brings Mallarmé’s poetry into an atmospheric orchestral language, while La Mer transforms waves, mist and wind into three symphonic tableaux.
The second half presents Lili Boulanger’s Faust et Hélène, the work that earned her the Grand Prix de Rome in 1913, making her the first woman to receive the distinction. At only nineteen, Boulanger created a remarkably mature musical drama inspired by Goethe.
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- Tugan Sokhiev, principal conductor and artistic advisor
- Antonín Dvořák — Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Swan Lake, Suite assembled by Tugan Sokhiev
- Locations: Théâtre de Beaulieu, Lausanne; Victoria Hall, Geneva
- Duration: approx. 2h15 including a 20-minute intermission
The programme travels through three great orchestral traditions, beginning with Berlioz’s vibrant Roman Carnival Overture.
Dvořák’s celebrated Cello Concerto provides the central soloistic work, performed by Michiaki Ueno, before Tugan Sokhiev concludes the evening with his own suite from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, bringing the concert into the world of the Russian ballet.
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- Tugan Sokhiev, principal conductor and artistic advisor
- Sergei Rachmaninoff — Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
- Location: Victoria Hall, Geneva
- Duration: approx. 2h10 including a 20-minute intermission
Two monumental works by Rachmaninoff bring together Tugan Sokhiev and pianist Yefim Bronfman.
The Third Piano Concerto combines extraordinary virtuosity with expansive lyricism, while the Second Symphony demonstrates Rachmaninoff’s sumptuous orchestration and inexhaustible melodic imagination.
The programme offers a concentrated portrait of one of the great figures of Russian Romanticism and highlights both the virtuoso and symphonic dimensions of his music.
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- Conducted by Alan Gilbert
- Lili Boulanger — D’un soir triste, for orchestra, Robert Schumann — Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, Claude Debussy — Jeux, danced poem, Maurice Ravel — Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2
- Location: Victoria Hall
- Duration: approx. 1h50 including a 20-minute intermission
This French-centred programme moves from Lili Boulanger’s dark and atmospheric D’un soir triste to Schumann’s lyrical Piano Concerto.
Debussy’s Jeux and Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé then immerse the orchestra in the sensual colours, rhythmic freedom and refined orchestration of French modernism.
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- Conducted by Daniele Gatti
- Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 7
- Locations: Victoria Hall, Geneva; Théâtre de Beaulieu, Lausanne
- Duration: approx. 1h45 including a 20-minute intermission
The final Beethoven Cycle programme of the season pairs Robert Schumann with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.
The Seventh, with its powerful rhythmic momentum and celebrated dance-like energy, brings the cycle to a vigorous conclusion, while Schumann provides a Romantic perspective on the Beethovenian tradition.
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- Conducted by Martyna Szymczak
- Location: Victoria Hall
- Duration: approx. 1h without intermission
This family concert explores the relationship between music, imagination and the animal world.
Anne-Claire Rey-Bellet’s new work is presented alongside music by Camille Saint-Saëns, inviting young audiences to enter a playful musical universe where animals, sound and storytelling become a way of discovering the orchestra.
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This Halloween film concert brings the cult film The Addams Family to the big screen with its soundtrack performed live by the orchestra.
The dark humour, gothic atmosphere and eccentric energy of the Addams family are enhanced by Marc Shaiman’s score. The live symphonic performance highlights the contrasts, colours and comic timing of the music while recreating the spectacular experience of a cinema screening accompanied by a live orchestra.