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The New Year's Concert is broadcast worldwide in over 150 countries via TV and stream and is watched by around 50 million viewers.

Josephine Weinlich (*1848, Dechtitz (heute Dechtice/Slowakei), † 1887 in Lissabon), composer, conductor, pianist, violinist and founder of the first European women orchestra 

Florence Price (*1887 in Little Rock, Arkansas; † 1953 in Chicago, Illinois), composer, pianist, organist and music teacher 

From December 27 on rehearsal and concert photos are available under the following link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V6n7-nALgcTPOn-8MlQ7fzoDHzF0EMvS

Credit:
Dieter Nagl for the Vienna Philharmonic

The New Year's Concert 2027 will be conducted by Tugan Sokhiev

The Vienna Philharmonic has invited for the first time Tugan Sokhiev to conduct the 2027 New Year's Concert. The orchestra's artistic collaboration with Tugan Sokhiev began in 2009 during an Asian tour in Seoul. This was followed by joint appearances at subscription concerts in Vienna and in many other cities around the world. In 2025, in addition to subscription concerts and a European tour, he conducted for the first time the Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert, as well as the gala concert celebrating the 200th anniversary of Johann Strauss, Jr. 

Tugan Sokhiev is also a sought-after opera conductor. From 2014 to 2022 he was Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. He has also appeared at many other of the world's leading opera houses, such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Vienna State Opera, where he conducted, among other compositions, the premiere series of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta. 

The training of young musicians is a particular passion of Tugan Sokhiev. He has been actively involved with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Academy and in 2016 founded his own conducting academy in Toulouse. 

The chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic, Daniel Froschauer, comments on this invitation, "Tugan Sokhiev has been a close musical and personal friend of our orchestra since 2009. Our first performances together quickly fostered a strong sense of mutual musical trust and understanding, which since that time has continuously deepened and developed. We look forward with much anticipation to our future projects and the upcoming New Year's Concert."

Die inoffizielle Eröffnung des Philharmonikerballs erfolgt zum zweiten Mal mit einem Ballkonzert für junges Publikum am Nachmittag. Mit Walzer, Galopp und Polka schaffen die mitwirkenden Mitglieder der Wiener Philharmoniker eine einzigartige Ballatmosphäre, die auch zum Tanz einlädt. 

Die Wiener Philharmoniker ermöglichen dieses unvergessliche Erlebnis vierhundert Schülerinnen und Schülern aus unterschiedlichen Schulen in Wien und den Bundesländern. 

Es spielen Mitglieder der Wiener Philharmoniker, des Bühnenorchesters der Wiener Staatsoper, des Wiener Staatsballetts: Katharina Engelbrecht, Violine / Luka Kusztrich, Violine / Georg Wimmer, Viola / Tamás Varga, Violoncello / Herbert Mayr, Kontrabass / Wolfgang Breinschmid, Flöte / Stefan Neubauer, Klarinette / Benedikt Dinkhauser, Fagott / Josef Reif, Horn / Gleb Shilov, Tänzer

Donnerstag, 22. Jänner 2026, 14.30 Uhr, Musikverein Wien, Großer Saal

Fotos vom Ball der Wiener Philharmoniker 2026
Copyright: Wiener Philharmoniker/Richard Schuster

Password: WPH2026

Frisur: Steinmetz-Bundy Privatsalon// Diadem: Christof Cremer
Copyright: Wolfgang Hirt

Music speaks when words fail

Out of deep sorrow and solidarity, this year’s Summer Night Concert will open with the "Air" by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Following this, we will observe a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the attack in Graz. Our thoughts are with their families, friends, and all those affected by this tragedy.

The program has been changed due to the current situation.

The 22nd Summer Night Concert will take place in the Schönbrunn Palace Park on June 13, 2025, at 8:45 PM.

For the first time this year's concert will be conducted by Maestro Tugan Sokhiev and features as vocal soloist the opera singer Piotr Beczała, who will perform three arias – from Georges Bizet's Carmen, Giacomo Puccini's Turandot and Emmerich Kálmán's operetta Gräfin Mariza. For the first time, the Vienna Boys Choir will participate in the Summer Night Concert. 

According to Vienna Philharmonic Daniel Froschauer, “The concept of presenting classical music to the widest possible audience as a gift to music enthusiasts everywhere has characterized this event since its inception. The focus of this year's program is on well-known melodies from opera and operetta that lead us on a musical journey through various European landscapes und milieus. This year we dedicate Otto Nicolai's Overture to the Opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor" to the 25th anniversary of Vienna's Haus der Musik. There, in the former residence of our orchestra's founder, Otto Nicolai, the Museum of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Historical Archives of the Vienna Philharmonic were relocated in the year 2000. Since that time, we have enjoyed a close and important partnership with the Haus der Musik."

As always, all interested viewers can experience the Summer Night Concert 2025 by way of the television broadcast or internet livestream.

The ORF will broadcast the concert live, time-delayed, beginning at 9:20 PM in ORF 2.

3sat will broadcast a recording of the event on June 14 at 8:15 PM. We kindly request that you check local listings for broadcast information in your home country.

Further information, as well as the program, can be found here.

Vienna, July 28 2025

The Vienna Philharmonic is pleased to invite you to a press conference on Friday, August 8, 2025, at 12:00 noon in the Winter Garden of the Hotel Sacher (Schwarzstrasse 5-7, 5020 Salzburg).

The Vienna Philharmonic Chairman, Daniel Froschauer, and the Managing Director, Michael Bladerer, will present the 2025/2026 season. 

We will discuss the following topics:

• Salzburg Festival Collaboration
• The Mahler Cycle with Andris Nelsons
• Vienna Philharmonic Tours 
• Subscription Concerts 2025/26
• New Year's Concert 2026

Following the presentation, we would like to invite you to join us for finger food and drinks, weather permitting, on the terrace.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Daniel Froschauer - Biography

Michael Bladerer - Biography

Alexander Steinberger - Biography

Bernhard Hedenborg - Biography