Together with OSESP music director Thierry Fischer is looking forward to its 2025 season:

OSESP’s anniversary season lies behind us and it was an important moment for us to not only look back on the 70 year history of the orchestra but also to lay the foundations for the future – which begins with the new season 2025.

Our season will be built around two musical axes: One axis being a new Tchaikovsky cycle of Tchaikovsky’s entire symphonic oeuvre. The other axis are the musical cosms of five French composers: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Berlioz and Lily Boulanger. Tchaikovsky and the aforementioned French composers all lived during the same period of time – with a little exception of Lily Boulanger was born the year Tchaikovsky passed away – but the musical languages they used could not have been more different. I wanted to highlight the contrast and the inspiration of the worlds each of these composers represents.

After our Beethoven, Sibelius and (still ongoing) Mahler cycles, Tchaikovsky was a logical step to pursue the permanent growth for the orchestra. Building on the the previous cycles, Tchaikovsky is the opportunity to use the full musical strength of the orchestra. And to be immersed in the six Tchaikovsky Symphonies is a wonderful journey for the orchestra and the audience – a journey I can’t wait to share with all of you.

2025 marks a year where we find approach closure: We are continuing our Mahler cycle which will end in 2027. We also finish our cycle of all Beethoven Piano Concertos. And we embark on a journey of all Tchaikovsky symphonies and find comfort and liberation in this musical journey.

We will also color our season with artistic diversity and curiosity with a total of six commissions for new pieces by diverse and forceful contemporary composers Andrew Norman, Esteban Benzekry, Felipe Lara, Unsuk Chin and Michaël Jarrell.

Or course we will also put a strong focus on the richness of Brazilian music: Villa-Lobos, Elodie Bouny, Francisco Braga, Fosca Gomes, Amargo Guarnieri, Dias de Oliveira and Marisa Veredas Rezende will represent the core of our new season and represent the musical brilliance radiating from this country into the world.

The body of work we present in 2025 will be completed by core repertoire that we can all find comfort in: Classical music by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven; the works of Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Smetana, Wagner, Bruch but also post-romantics like Carl Nielsen, Britten, Grieg, Scriabin, Martinu, Rimsky-Korsakov and Hartmann. But the repertoire we present would not be complete without the incredible works by female composers; from Clara Schumann to Grażyna Bacewicz, from Dobrinka Tabakova to Emilie Mayer and the aforementioned contemporary composers Unsuk Chin, Marisa Verde’s Rezende and Elodie Bouny.

I am particularly proud of the crucial role the Coro da Osesp will play in the new season: We will hear them in a total of seven concerts, including the season opening with Lotti’s Crucifixus but also stirring works like the Mozart Requiem, Holst’s Planets, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria among others.

We can also be proud to attract the talents of internationally rising artists that we will welcome at Sala Sao Paulo: Guest conductors like Pierre Bleuse, Joseph Bastian, Suzuki, Vasily Petrenko, Ruth Reinhardt, Delia Lazarova, Roberto Minczuk, Emilia Hoving and Guido Sant’Anna. And established artists as well as new aspiring artists like Augustin Hadelich, Bertrand Chamayou, Martin Frost, Colin Currie, Marc-André Hamelin and Sonia Rubinsky.

I am very much looking forward to conducting an opera in concert again: Alban Berg’s haunting, expressionistic masterpiece „Wozzeck“. Performing opera teaches us to listen to and interact with each other in a very different way and makes our music making richer and even more collaborative. We can’t wait to welcome an incredible cast for this operatic endeavor.

I personally am excited to start this new season with genuine joy, pride and most of all belonging to a positive, supportive organization that is OSESP. Our priority and paramount aim for excellence is to serve the community that we belong to here in Sao Paulo. And I am proud to present a season which combines modernity with history, individual creativity with collective togetherness, to put cultures into relation with each other and bring understanding in times where it is very much needed to find a positive perception of the future.