The Berlin Philharmonic's New Year's Eve Concert Live in Theaters: A Humorous Way to End the Year with Principal Conductor Kirill Petrenko and Alexander Malofeev
Get comfortable in your movie theater seat: Experience the Berlin Philharmonic live on the big screen!
A Year-End Celebration with Kirill Petrenko and Alexander Malofeev
Can “serious music” be humorous? Absolutely! The Berlin Philharmonic and Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko will demonstrate this in the 2026 New Year’s Eve Concert: In his lively *Symphonie classique*, Sergei Prokofiev parodies the music of Haydn and Mozart. Dmitri Shostakovich also had the Viennese Classical period in mind when he wrote his witty Double Concerto for Piano and Trumpet. Alongside principal trumpeter David Guerrier, pianist Alexander Malofeev—born in 2001—makes his debut here. Kirill Petrenko also ignites a fireworks display of mischief with Richard Strauss’s *Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks*. Experience this lively New Year’s celebration live in the theater!
Berlin Philharmonic
Kirill Petrenko, conductor
Alexander Malofeev, piano
David Guerrier, trumpet
Otto Nicolai
The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture
Dmitri Shostakovich
Concerto for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra in C minor, Op. 35
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, “Classical Symphony”
Richard Strauss
The Merry Pranks of Till Eulenspiegel, Op. 28
Johann Strauss II
The Gypsy Baron: Overture
