
Berliner Philharmoniker
Introduction
Askonas Holt’s relationship with the legendary Berliner Philharmoniker has spanned decades. We have managed many concert tours for the orchestra in Europe and Asia, including numerous visits to London with Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Claudio Abbado and Herbert von Karajan among others conductors.
Under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, Askonas Holt arranged concerts in cities as diverse as London, Rome, Moscow, Beijing, Taipei and Tokyo. In 2015 the Berliner Philharmoniker celebrated Sir Simon Rattle’s 60th birthday in style with a week-long London residency both at the Barbican Hall and at the Royal Festival Hall. In May 2018 the orchestra performed their final concerts in London with Sir Simon as Music Director at the Royal Festival Hall.
Berliner Philharmoniker returned to London with their new Music Director Kirill just a few months later to perform together for the first time at the BBC Proms in September 2018.
November 2018 and 2019 saw the orchestra touring in Asia under the batons of Gustavo Dudamel and Zubin Mehta.
In November 2023 Berliner Philharmoniker returned to Asia for their first tour conducted by Kirill Petrenko, including two concerts in Seoul and ten concerts throughout Japan.
Tours
- Jul 2025 - Jul 2025Japan
Gustavo Dudamel Christina Landshamer (soprano for Egmont) Masumitsu Miyamoto (speaker for Egmont) Programme (Osaka & Nagoya): Beethoven Incidental Music to Goethe's Egmont, Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 Programme (Kawaguchiko): "Waldbühne" programme Festival Hall, Osaka (as part of the Osaka Expo) | Aichi Prefectural Art Theater Concert Hall, Nagoya | Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater, Kawaguchiko
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News
Askonas Holt tours Berliner Philharmoniker and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Asia

This month brings simultaneous tours across Asia for two of our world-renowned orchestral partners.
Continuing a relationship that spans decades, our Tours and Projects team takes the Berliner Philharmoniker to South Korea and Japan for a twelve-date tour – the orchestra’s first in the region with Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko, and their first in Asia since the pandemic.
Following two performances in Seoul - one with pianist Seong-Jin Cho - the orchestra heads to Takamatsu, Himeji, Osaka, Nagoya and Kawasaki, before finishing with a residency at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. Programmes on the tour include Mozart’s Symphony No.29, Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra and Brahm’s Symphony No.4, alongside Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4, R. Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben and Max Reger’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart.
The five-concert residency at Suntory Hall sees launch of the BePhil Orchestra - a community project which brings together nearly 100 amateur musicians from across Japan with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker for a series of rehearsals and a public performance.
November also sees our Tours and Projects department bring the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to South Korea. The orchestra joins forces with conductor Fabio Luisi and pianist Yefim Bronfman for Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.2 alongside Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5 and Weber’s Overture from Oberon. A second performance includes Dvořák’s Symphony No.9, 'From the New World' paired with Bizet’s Symphony in C.
The tour marks our third in Asia with the RCO, following concerts in 2017 in Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing and Seoul, as well as a week-long residency in 2015 which showcased the complete Beethoven symphonies at the Seoul Arts Center under Iván Fischer.
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