The George Enescu Philharmonic has unveiled the program of its 2026-2027 season, with artists such as Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev, Vasily Petrenko, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and Christian Tetzlaff among the headliners. They will be joined by Andrea Marcon, Michał Nesterowicz, Ariane Matiakh, Julian Rachlin, Javier Perianes, Maxime Pascal, Alexandre Bloch, Axel Kober, Alena Hron, Julia Hagen, Frank Dupree, and David Fray, among others. Symphonic season opening The symphonic season opens on October 1 and 2 with two concerts conducted by Mikhail Pletnev, featuring legendary pianist Martha Argerich, who will make her first appearance in the Philharmonic's symphonic season.
The program includes George Enescu's symphonic poem Isis, restored by Pascal Bentoiu in an expanded version featuring the Philharmonic Women's Choir. Argerich will perform Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 26, one of the signature works in her repertoire.
The second part of the evening features Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Suite, presented in an arrangement by Mikhail Pletnev. Chamber music season opening Martha Argerich will also inaugurate the chamber music season on September 29 alongside mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and pianist Iddo Bar-Shai. The first half of the program presents works by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, while the second focuses on Romantic repertoire by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.
The 2026-2027 season will be held under the banner of the Beethoven Year, marking the 200th anniversary of the composer's death. Throughout 2027, the Philharmonic will place Beethoven's music at the center of its programming, performing the complete symphonies and concertos across the second half of the 2026-2027 season and the first half of the 2027-2028 season. The upcoming season will see Robert Treviño start his mandate as principal conductor of the Philharmonic.
He will conduct the orchestra on March 25 and March 26, 2027, in a program featuring Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with Alexander Gavrylyuk as soloist, and Richard Strauss's poem Ein Heldenleben. The performance of Strauss's work will be recorded for the label Ondine Records.
Before the season begins, Treviño will lead the orchestra at the 74th edition of the Ravello Festival in Italy, for an open-air concert on August 26, 2026, featuring works by En…
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