Herbert Blomstedt, who will celebrate his 90. birthday in July 2017, is currently guest in Norway and Finland.

On 6 and 7 April he will conduct St. John Passion by Bach at Konserthus Oslo. The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra will play the oratorio.

On 12 and 13 April Herbert Blomstedt will conduct the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Sibelius’ Symphony No.4 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 will be performed in Musiikkitalo in Helsinki.

Find more information on both concerts in Oslo and Helsinki by clicking on the city names.

Together with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus they will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 from 1 – 3 February and on 5 February.

Find more information here.

Watch here a first video impression of these concerts an interview with Herbert Blomstedt.

From 9 – 12 February he will again stand at the rostrum of the orchestra and will perform Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 and Beethoven’s Piano Concert No. 4 with pianist Yefim Bronfman.

Find here more information on the concerts.

Bartok’s Piano Concert No. 3 together with András Schiff and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 will be on the program.

The concert on 21 January will be live streamed in the Digital Concert Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. Find the link to the live broadcast here.

On mutual trips and at biographically important places, Herbert Blomstedt talks about his musical and human convictions.

The book will be published in German language on 13 March 2017 at Henschel publishing house.

The concert can be streamed here until 11 February 2017.

Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig are nominated for the ICMA Award 2017 for the DVD production of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Accentus).