On October 9 and 11, Susanna Mälkki returns to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic and navigate Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra’s shifting character that dances between a charming “game of pairs,” an eerie elegy, and a humorous jab at Shostakovich. Bartók[…]

Susanna Mälkki starts her 2026 season in Montreux, where on September 15, she leads Les Siècles in Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, using the original score, and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with virtuoso violinist Alexandra Conunova. On September 25 she returns[…]

On August 26, Susanna Mälkki will conduct the Sibelius Academy orchestra at Helsinki’s Musiikkitalo. The evening opens with Maurice Ravel’s Ma mère l’Oye, rich in the colourful imagery of French impressionism, followed by Sibelius’ Symphony No. 7; an architectural[…]

Susanna Mälkki travels to Japan this summer to conduct the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra on July 17 and 18 at Suntory Hall. The first piece of the program will be Dukas’ Prelude to Act 3 from “Ariane et Barbe-bleue”, followed by Debussy’ Nuages[…]

Susanna Mälkki will conduct the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln on June 14, 15 and 16 at the Kölner Philharmonie with a program that explores the allure of the forbidden, secrets in relationships, and the question of why people are sometimes drawn to the very things that frighten[…]