Orchestra

Orchestra

Orchestra musicians are invited to participate in a rigorous program with diverse repertoire and 9 public performances, including major orchestral concerts, chamber music, opera orchestra performances, masterclasses, and optional private lessons.

Participants will have the opportunity to perform symphonic programs in world-class venues and some of Europe’s most historic halls. These performances include three orchestral concerts, with music by Wagner, Beethoven and Dvořák, and performances of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Le Nozze di Figaro in the Estates Theatre, the only theater left standing where Mozart himself conducted.

Instrumentalists will have coachings and masterclasses from members of the festival faculty and visiting clinicians including members of professional European and American orchestras. Instrumental musicians may also have the opportunity to take private lessons with guest faculty, for an additional fee.

Orchestral Program Performances 2025

June 21 Full Orchestra at Divadlo Oskar Nedbal, Tábor

June 25 Chamber Music Ensembles (Venue TBC), Tábor

June 28 Full Orchestra (Venue TBC), Prague

July 1 Chamber Music Ensembles at Suk Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague

 

Opera Performances
July 10 & 12 Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart
July 11 & 13 Die Zauberflöte, Mozart

2025 Featured Soloists/Clinicians:

Clinicians and Soloists will be announced Fall 2024

Orchestral Repertoire Highlights Include:

  • Wagner: music from Lohengrin 3’
  • Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna 27′
  • Bernstein: Chichester Psalms 19’
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 55-60′

Program Highlights

  • Perform in the pit for a fully staged Opera
  • Orchestra performances in Tábor and Prague and famous venues
  • Chamber Music coachings and concert
  • Masterclasses with orchestral players from Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic or Czech Philharmonic

2025 Guest Clinicians

 Guest Clinicians to be announced Fall 2024

 

Experience the World of Gustav Mahler

  • Visit Jihlava, Mahler’s childhood home and tour the Mahler family apartment. 
  • Perform at the Mahler Festival in Jihlava with guest conductor James Burton from the Boston Symphony.
  • Perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 at the legendary Rudolfinum in Prague, where Mahler regularly conducted.

 

Chamber Music at Prague Summer Nights

Prague Summer Nights intensive chamber music program will offer coachings with Prague Summer Nights faculty and visiting guest clinicians culminating in a performance in Prague. Students receive one-on-one mentorship from Europe’s top players to elevate their playing.

The program concludes in the acoustically brilliant Suk Hall at the Rudolfinum, where many of the world’s top chamber ensembles frequently perform.

NEW MUSIC

Select students will have the chance to coach with and perform new music by a living composer specially commissioned for Prague Summer Nights through the Classical Movements Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program. 

In 2018 select students premiered the string quartet The Remembered Song by acclaimed composer Greg Sandow.

In 2019 select students performed the string quartet with Trumpet by Czech Composer Sylvie Bodorová.

In 2022 PSN New Music program offers select students to work with and perform a new string quartet commissioned by renowned Czech composer Sylvie Bodorová.

In 2024 the Prague Summer Nights Festival Orchestra premiered a new composition, Go where the wind takes you, written by Ukrainian composer Iryna Aleksiychuk based on the poetry of Ukrainian poet Olena Stepanenko

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