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The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and his Music Director Manfred Honeck are returning to Europe from 23 August to 12 September 2011. They will be appearing at 12 concerts in 9 cities including Rheingau Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Grafenegg Festival, Musikfest Berlin, Beethovenfest Bonn, Lucerne Festival, Paris and Vilnius, Lithuania. Additional performances in the UK will be announced at a later date.

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Hélène Grimaud will be joining the orchestra on tour. Programme highlights will include Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto and Rihm’s Violin Concerto.

Touring Europe with our wonderful musicians is always a special experience for me,” says Music Director Honeck. “It is fantastic to create music with our world-class orchestra in some of the finest music halls in the world.”

“I am excited to return to the music capitals in Europe with the Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, who both received tremendous accolades on their previous tour”, says Lawrence Tamburri, President and CEO of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. “Honeck is a master of the core Austro-German repertoire, which historically is part of the PSO heritage.”

The PSO will also continue its partnership with the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance as an ambassador for the Pittsburgh region in Europe. In 2006, the PSO and the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance formed a partnership to leverage the world-class reputation of the orchestra to market the Pittsburgh region to potential investors. This first-in-the-nation model has resulted in positive business investment activity for the region: The management consulting and IT company SYCOR chose to locate their North American headquarters in Pittsburgh, Delta Airlines decided to begin direct flights from Pittsburgh to Paris and several other projects have emerged from the partnership.

26 August
Rheingau Musik Festival, Wiesbaden

27 August
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Hamburg

29 August
Vilnius

1/2 September 
Grafenegg Festival

3 September
Lucerne Festival

7 September 
Paris

9/10 September 
Beethovenfest Bonn

11 September
Musikfest Berlin