In March 2025, the DSO found a new home in the Wilhelm Hallen in Berlin-Reinickendorf. The grounds of the former iron foundry are more than 120 years old and house not only the orchestra’s rehearsal and office spaces but also numerous cultural and creative enterprises on more than 20,000 square metres: design firms, architecture offices, agencies, ateliers, photo and sound studios – as well as high-quality conference and art events.
As part of Berlin Art Week and the ›Hallen 07‹ festival, DSO ensembles can be heard on the grounds already for the second time on 13 September 2026; in the coming year, the new DSO quarter will host a three-day festival: FERRO:TON is being held from 28 to 30 May 2027 in cooperation with the Wilhelm Studios.
It centres on two concert evenings in the impressive industrial ambience of the listed Hall C: The first addresses in unusual ways the performative forms of expression of queer communities. The second brings to the stage – for the first time in Berlin – the genre-crossing concert project ›Club Symphony: Technophonic‹ of the pianist, composer and crossover musician Francesco Tristano, in which orchestral sounds come together with electronic club music.
On the afternoons, the grounds are open to all: a programme of circus music, a children’s concert with Prokofiev’s ›Peter and the Wolf‹, numerous chamber concerts all over the grounds and an open stage for local musical talents who can register in advance create an open coexistence of the arts and cultural forms turns the Wilhelm Hallen into a place where people of all ages can meet and participate.
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