... from the Classics to the Contemporary
DSO's chamber concerts are broadening the scope of the of the orchestra's symphony concerts. Lineups vary from duets to string octets, playing music from four centuries, from chamber music classic to contemporary discoveries.

News Spaces for Chamber Music
The concerts of the traditional Chamber Music Series will expand to three new venues in the 2025/2026 season:
Two evenings focusing on the ›Afrodiaspora – Composing While Black‹ will take place in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
At the Neue Synagoge Berlin – Centrum Judaicum, four lecture concerts in the series ›Heroines‹ will tell the stories of extraordinary women and their valiant efforts in the struggle against National Socialism.
Four further concerts will occupy the Hall of Mirrors in Clärchen’s Ballroom.
Museums, Art and Crime
The DSO’s tradition-steeped ›Notturno‹ series has been organized jointly with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 2010. Its 16th season will explore the Pergamon Panorama, the Photography Museum and the Kulturforum in musical presentations preceded by museum tours.
The concert format ›Music and Crime‹ was introduced in 2023 and has quickly become an audience favourite. In collaboration with the popular podcast ›ZEIT Verbrechen‹ and its hosts, it brings turbulent new crime stories to evenings at the Haus des Rundfunks and features Sabine Rückert, publisher of the magazine ZEIT VERBRECHEN and editor of special issues of DIE ZEIT, Andreas Sentker, managing editor of DIE ZEIT and publisher of the magazine ZEIT WISSEN, as well as a chamber music ensemble of the DSO.
As part of the 2025 Berlin Art Week and the ›Hallen 06‹ Festival, DSO chamber music ensembles will perform on the grounds of Wilhelm Studios between 6 and 14 September. The orchestra, which since March 2025 has made its home in the Wilhelm Hallen in Berlin-Reinickendorf, thus greets its new neighbourhood.
And in a chamber concert on 12 June 2026, the members of the DSO’s Ferenc Fricsay Academy will perform alongside DSO colleagues at Villa Elisabeth.