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12/06/2026

This autumn tour marks an important milestone for Utopia. Alongside the European performances, the orchestra will travel to Asia for the first time.

Led by conductor Teodor Currentzis and joined by soloist Daniel Lozakovich, Utopia will perform Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

The tour schedule is available in the gallery and on Utopia’s website https://utopia-orchestra.org/concerts/.
Follow for updates, as more cities and countries will be announced soon.

10/06/2026

A clip from Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Utopia, Teodor Currentzis and Alexandre Kantorow.

The full video is available on medici.tv.

08/06/2026

POV: you’re one of the utopians and reading comments like these during the tour🖤

This is only a small part of what comes back to us after the concerts. We wanted to share a few of these messages — to show the tour as you saw it.

Thank you for being part of it!

03/06/2026

The tour is coming to a close with two final concerts — in Rome and Bologna. Ahead of these last performances, we asked utopians what tells them that a concert has gone well.

02/06/2026

The final part of Utopia’s tour begins tomorrow in Italy.

Ahead of the Rome and Bologna concerts, Teodor Currentzis gave an interview to Robinson di Repubblica, the newspaper’s cultural supplement. We are sharing a few fragments of the conversation in the gallery.

Remaining tickets are available via the links:
3 June – Santa Cecilia, Rome https://bit.ly/4poXEcR
4 June – Auditorium Teatro Manzoni, Bologna https://bit.ly/41mtNYP

Italy, see you very soon!

01/06/2026

The preparation for a tour begins long before the first concert — for an assistant conductor, sometimes up to a year in advance. On the current tour, Giuseppe Mengoli, Utopia’s Second Conductor, works alongside Teodor Currentzis as his assistant.

Giuseppe’s working score looks like a map: full of colour, handwritten notes, folded corners, stickers and markings. 'Simply playing what is written is not enough,' he says, explaining why a conductor’s score needs so many markings.

'Composers like Gustav Mahler, who were conductors themselves, often composed for what they wanted to correct in the musicians. They predicted the issues of the instruments, or the habits of the musicians, and wrote extra notations or different dynamics to make it sound as they imagined. So you need to know where he is trying to compensate, and where he is writing something almost impossible, dreaming of it. As a conductor, you have to interpret the many layers of the composer’s will.'

Swipe the gallery to see Giuseppe’s system of markings and a few insights from his working score for Mahler’s Symphony No. 1.

31/05/2026

Sharing a few clips of Teodor Currentzis exploring Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 — one of the central works on the Utopia Orchestra’s current tour.

In this video guide, recorded as part of Currentzis Lab, he walks through the score together with conductor Ilya Gaisin.
The full video is available via the link https://bit.ly/4x1sCfQ.

30/05/2026

Utopia made its debut at the stunning Tonhalle Zurich, opening the Swiss part of the tour!

If you were there, we would love to read your impressions.

Ph. by Q**m Vilar

28/05/2026

One single musical idea — the perfect fourth — unfolds across Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 like a prism catching different light at every turn. From radiant purity to heroic pathos, it shifts its meaning depending on context, rhythm, and orchestral colour, constantly changing its character while remaining itself at the core.
Follow the journey of a simple interval as it lives multiple lives throughout Mahler’s monumental symphonic debut — in the gallery.

MAHLER-BERG TOUR

• Mahler’s Symphony No. 1
• Berg’s Violin Concerto

29 May – Tonhalle, Zurich https://bit.ly/40fAkUu
31 May – Victoria Hall, Geneva https://bit.ly/3MeTMh6
1 June – Casino Bern, Bern https://bit.ly/4rI5AYJ
3 June – Santa Cecilia, Rome https://bit.ly/4poXEcR
4 June – Auditorium Teatro Manzoni, Bologna https://bit.ly/41mtNYP

13/05/2026

Take a look at a few images from last night’s Elbphilharmonie concert with the exceptional Vilde Frang.

Thank you, Hamburg, for the generous applause, and all the warm words and impressions you have been sharing with us!

Ph: Daniel Dittus

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