Sebastian Bohren

Highlights of Sebastian Bohren’s 2025/26 season include the opening of the Brugg Festival with Barber’s Violin Concerto and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano under Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, a tour with Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto and the Munich Chamber Orchestra conducted by Enrico Onofri, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and Christoph Eschenbach, as well as his Milan debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano performing Henri Dutilleux’s L’arbre des songes under Jac van Steen. In addition, he will make his debut with the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin in the Great Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie, performing Schumann’s Cello Concerto in the composer’s own version for violin, and will give his first performances of György Ligeti’s Violin Concerto with the Bodensee Philharmonie under Samuel Lee.

In 2023, Sebastian Bohren founded the Brugg Festival in Switzerland, which each autumn invites international musicians to a week of concerts. He plays a violin built in Parma in 1761 by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, the “Ex-Wanamaker-Hart.”