Südtirol Filarmonica concert Series 2025: The Power of Connectedness

South Tyrol Filarmonica - World Premiere of Ortler's Work What drives us to seek the unknown? For the composer Gerd Hermann Ortler from Glorenza and Viennese by choice, it is the common dream of paradise. His new composition "Expedition to Paradise", a double concerto for clarinet, trumpet and orchestra, is dedicated to this quest – with two extraordinary soloists: Andrea Götsch from Merano (Vienna Philharmonic) and Bertold Stecher from Mals (Berlin Philharmonic) With the world premiere of this work, written especially for her, the Südtirol Filarmonica will perform for the first time together with two soloists – an evening full of concentrated South Tyrolean virtuosity.Present and past meet on this evening through Gustav Mahler's unfinished 10th Symphony. The first movement – written in Dobbiaco, where Mahler spent his last summers between 1908 and 1910 – is another focus of the programme.
Under the direction of Michael Pichler, the Südtirol Filarmonica embarks on a musical journey that evokes memories, broadens horizons and creates new connections – across generations, countries and times.