The New Year’s Concert live from Vienna is one of the world’s most famous and spectacular classical music events. It will be broadcast on TV and radio and reaches over 90 countries around the world with more than 50 million viewers. The annual New Year's Day Concert in Vienna has been a major event for more than eight decades, since 1939. The prestigious concert will be conducted by Daniel Barenboim for the third time.
The artistic collaboration with Maestro Barenboim as conductor began in 1989, although he first appeared with the orchestra as pianist in 1965. Since then he has conducted many joint concerts, including two New Year's Concerts (2009 and 2014), one Summer Night Concert (2009), Philharmonic subscription concerts, guest appearances and tours.
Daniel Froschauer, Chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic says: "Daniel Barenboim occupies an extraordinary place in the history of the Vienna Philharmonic. We have not only enjoyed a long and fruitful artistic partnership with him, but also a great friendship. We are grateful to Maestro Barenboim for conducting the first Vienna Philharmonic concert after the Corona Lockdown in June 2020 at the Musikverein. Next year, he will also celebrate his 80th birthday. As a sign of this deep artistic bond, we will ask him to take the podium of the New Year's Concert for the third time on January 1, 2022."
The Vienna Philharmonic, as musical ambassadors of Austria, send people all over the world a New Year's greeting in the spirit of hope, friendship and peace with the lively and light-hearted and at the same time nostalgic and profound music from the vast repertoire of the family of Johann Strauss and its contemporaries.
