Chamber Concerts 2026/27
The Bayerisches Staatsorchester and its members from 24 nations not only perform opera and symphonic music – for several decades now they have also been especially passionate about performing smaller format chamber concerts. The chamber music series, which now finds its home in the Allerheiligen Hofkirche and in each and every season offers six Sunday matinees with different line-ups, has been with us since 1960. As a feature of the Munich Opera Festival, there are also concerts in the Cuvilliés Theatre with enlarged chamber ensembles. With the orchestra’s young, up-and-coming talent, with its programmes the Hermann Levi Academy also makes a significant contribution to the Bayerische Staatsoper’s instrumental profile. Over time the chamber music work and performances have produced an in-house ensemble, which also performs in Munich and far beyond.
Two very different programmes kick off the Staatsorchester chamber concerts in the 2026/27 season – a percussion spectacle featuring marimba and vibraphone, followed by poetic woodwind sounds from the romance and early modern periods. The remaining four chamber concert matinees and the five festival chamber concerts in the Cuvilliés Theatre form a cross-season series: The bicentennial of Ludwig van Beethoven’s death in 2027 is a fitting occasion to perform key works and rarely heard gems from his chamber music oeuvre, including a rich selection of early and late string quartets and famous piano trios on the one hand, and the Sextet Op. 81b and his arrangements of Scottish and Irish folk songs on the other. This Beethoven focus will then continue with the chamber concerts in the next season.