Music Director Gustavo Gimeno will lead the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on a European tour from January 27 to February 9, 2026. Will probably be the ninth European tour for the orchestra, who can be taking Canadian artists and repertoire to eight cities in six nations.
Will probably be Music Director Gustavo Gimeno’s first intercontinental tour with the orchestra.
“The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s 2026 European tour is a proud second for our metropolis, our nation, and our musicians, as we characterize Toronto on the worldwide stage in a few of Europe’s most storied live performance halls,” says TSO Beck Household CEO Mark Williams in a press release.
“Performing a dynamic combine of latest Canadian music and orchestral classics alongside in the present day’s most extraordinary soloists is actually exhilarating. This tour is a testomony to the artistry of Gustavo Gimeno and the musicians of the TSO, permitting us to share Toronto’s symphony orchestra with European audiences. As we proceed a century of creative excellence, we sit up for strengthening our connections, and forging new ones, with music lovers everywhere in the world.”
The Tour
Visitor artists that may accompany the TSO on numerous dates of the tour embrace: Austrian-British soprano Anna Prohaska, (present TSO Highlight Artist,) German soprano Christina Landshamer, Canadian pianist Bruce Liu (upcoming 2025/26 TSO Highlight Artist), and Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
Lots of the areas on the tour have a private connection to Gimeno.
“After I first encountered the unimaginable musicians of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, they had been all so desperate to welcome me, each to their house metropolis and to Roy Thomson Corridor,” says Gustavo Gimeno.
“Now, in the end, it’s my flip to welcome my TSO colleagues to my numerous properties away from Toronto, in lots of necessary European cities and venues, together with our pals Anna, Christina, Bruce, and Patricia. I’m excited to play visitor and host on the similar time. This tour would be the longest the orchestra and I’ve ever travelled collectively, so it supplies us with an prolonged event to develop even nearer, socially, emotionally, and artistically. Once we work along with a typical function and towards a typical purpose, the music-making simply turns into deeper — so there’s no higher time to indicate the world who we’re and what we do.”
Particulars
The primary leg of the tour sees the ensemble carry out in Spain, a primary for the TSO. It’s, after all, Gimeno’s house nation, and on March 20, he’ll formally be appointed as a Commander of the Order of Civil Benefit (Encomienda de la Orden del Mérito Civil), bestowed by His Majesty King Felipe VI. The popularity comes as acknowledgement of each his creative achievements, and his position in spreading Spanish tradition worldwide.
The orchestra kicks off the tour with two totally different packages over two nights on the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid (Jan 27 and 28).
Jan 27, 2026
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Bruce Liu, piano
- Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
- Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Jan 28, 2026
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Anna Prohaska, soprano
- Kelly-Marie Murphy: Curiosity, Genius, and the Seek for Petula Clark (TSO Fee)
- Rufus Wainwright: “A Girl’s Face (Sonnet 20)” from 5 Shakespeare Sonnets
- Haydn: Scena di Berenice, Hob. XXIVa:10
- Mahler: Symphony No. 4
The venue, because it occurs, is situated a couple of kilometres from the Teatro Actual. That’s the place Maestro Gimeno begins his inaugural season as Music Director in 2025/26.
Auditorio—Palacio de Congresos de Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Jan 29)
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Bruce Liu, piano
- Kelly-Marie Murphy: Curiosity, Genius, and the Seek for Petula Clark (TSO Fee)
- Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
- Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Artists equivalent to Zubin Mehta have praised the Auditorio—Palacio de Congresos de Zaragoza’s acoustic high quality.
Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona (Jan 30)
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Bruce Liu, piano
Anna Prohaska, soprano
- Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
- Mahler: Symphony No. 4
The beautiful Palau de la Música Catalana has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Web site.
After a brief relaxation, the TSO heads north for an additional first: Luxembourg, the place the second leg of the tour Begins.
Philharmonie Luxembourg, Luxembourg Metropolis (February 2)
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
- Kelly-Marie Murphy: Curiosity, Genius, and the Seek for Petula Clark (TSO Fee)
- Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1
- Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
The venue is house to the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, an ensemble that Gimeno previously led as Music Director for a ten 12 months tenure.
Then, the Orchestra will make their technique to Amsterdam for a return go to to one of many classical music world’s most hallowed halls.
Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (February 3)
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Christina Landshamer, soprano
- Kelly-Marie Murphy: Curiosity, Genius, and the Seek for Petula Clark (TSO Fee)
- Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1
- Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Enjoyable reality: Gustavo Gimeno started his skilled music profession working as a percussionist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra again in 2001.
Maestro Gimeno and the TSO will then journey to Hamburg, the second-largest metropolis in Germany.
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg (February 5)
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Christina Landshamer, soprano
- Kelly-Marie Murphy: Curiosity, Genius, and the Seek for Petula Clark (TSO Fee)
- Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1
- Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Whereas it’s not the primary time the TSO will carry out in Hamburg, it marks their début on the acclaimed ultramodern Elbphilharmonie.
Subsequent cease sees the orchestra journey to Antwerp, Belgium.
deSingel Arts Centre, Antwerp (February 6)
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
- Kelly-Marie Murphy: Curiosity, Genius, and the Seek for Petula Clark (TSO Fee)
- Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1
- Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Identified for its modernist exterior, the Arts Centre live performance corridor was just lately renovated.
The tour closes (the place else?) in Vienna, Austria on one of many world’s most extremely regarded phases.
Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna (February 9)
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Anna Prohaska, soprano
- Kelly-Marie Murphy: Curiosity, Genius, and the Seek for Petula Clark (TSO Fee)
- Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1
- Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Tour Preview & Kick-Off Live performance
Previous to hitting the highway, and in a present of appreciation to their Toronto viewers and supporters, the TSO will carry out a live performance at Roy Thomson Corridor on January 22 and 23, 2026.
Toronto music lovers could have the prospect to expertise three of the items that can be carried out for Western European audiences on the tour. The live shows are titled Bruce Liu Performs Rachmaninoff 2, and can showcase the award-winning pianist, together with Kelly-Marie Murphy’s Curiosity, Genius, and the Seek for Petula Clark, impressed by Glenn Gould, and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5.
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s very first tour occurred in January 1937, when the orchestra and conductor Igor Stravinsky carried out in Detroit. Since that point, the TSO has accomplished 80 excursions on 4 continents.
- Discover extra particulars in regards to the TSO’s 2025/26 season [HERE].
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