14 June 2025 – the next ›Symphonic Mob‹ in Berlin

After the concert is before the concert: The DSO's next 'Symphonic Mob' will take place on 14 June 2025 at the Mall of Berlin. Information and registration from 24 February 2025 on symphonic-mob.de.

Foto: Kathleen Pracht

10 Years of Symphonic Mob on 25 May 2024

Thank you very much much for your participation in the DSO's anniversary ›Symphonic Mob‹!

About 1,000 music enthusiasts aged between 5 and 87 came together on 25 May 2024 to form Berlin's largest spontaneous orchestra and choir on the piazza of the Mall of Berlin.

Together with the professional musicians of the DSO, vocal soloists Maria Kokareva and Johan Krogius and the ensemberlino vocale choir, the orchestra performed works by Boulanger, Handel, Prokofiev and Verdi under the direction of Anna Skryleva. The Jazzrausch Bigband provided the musical entertainment at the birthday party that followed. Well over 2,000 people were enthusiastic about the musical spectacle on Leipziger Platz.

You can find a picture gallery at the bottom of this page.

We are already looking forward to next year with you – the next ›Symphonic Mob‹ will take place on 14 June 2025!

Informationen and registration from 24 Feb 2025 at symphonic-mob.de


Review 2023

02.07.2023 – DSO’s ›Symphonic Mob‹ at Kissinger Sommer Festival

On 1 and 2 July, the DSO was a guest at the Kissinger Sommer for two concerts with its Conductor Laureate Kent Nagano and invited music enthusiasts from Franconia to make music together at the 'Symphonic Mob'. BR24 and the ZDF-Mittagsmagazin reported on it. Click on the thumbnail to open the ZDF media library (the BR report isn’t available any more) and find an image gallery on the ›Symphonic Mob‹ website.

 
 

02.09.2023 – DSO’s ›Symphonic Mob‹ at Beethovenfest Bonn

At the beginning of September, the DSO performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Beethovenfest Bonn. On 2 September, the DSO and the Festival, together with conductor Cornelius Meister, invited the public to make music together at the first 'Symphonic Mob' in Bonn.

Information at
symphonic-mob.de

 
 


Review: Symphonic Mob 2022

Foto: Navina Neuschl

We would like to thank you for participating in the DSO's 'Symphonic Mob' 2022!

Around 1,000 music enthusiasts of all ages have come together to form Berlin's largest spontaneous orchestra with choir on the piazza of the Mall of Berlin. Together with the professional musicians of the DSO, with solo cellist Mischa Meyer and the singers of the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin under the direction of our chief conductor Robin Ticciati, you have played music by Mussorgsky, Fauré and Verdi with bravura. And completely enthralled well over 2,000 people in the audience. With the canon 'Dona nobis pacem', which everyone sang and played at the end, we were able to express together our wish for peace in the world.

A video and a picture gallery will be published on this page in the next few days.

Best wishes
Your 'Symphonic Mob' Team



What's a ›Symphonic Mob‹?

It’s very easy to listen to a symphony orchestra. But what about making music with orchestra professionals? That’s possible too: the ‘Symphonic Mob’ offers everyone who can play an instrument or enjoys singing the opportunity to make music with the musicians of a professional orchestra – no matter whether in everyday life you play in an amateur orchestra or a big band, whether you play a brass instrument or in a string chamber group.

The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin implemented the concept in Berlin for the first time in the summer of 2014, combining professional musicians and passionate amateurs of all ages and any musical training to one large spontaneous orchestra. Whether playing original parts or simplified scores – accordions, saxophones, ukuleles and many other instruments also joined in making music alongside the large orchestra. And it has become a sustained success:

  • For the premiere at the open house day in the Federal Foreign Office in 2014, more than 400 musicians between the ages of eight and 84 gathered to jointly perform music by Beethoven and Bizet.

  • The concept continued in 2015 in the Mall of Berlin with dances by Dvořák and Brahms.

  • In May 2016, Berlin’s ‘Symphonic Mob’ with conductor laureate Kent Nagano and more than 1,000 participants even got great feedback from around the world.

  • The fourth ‘Symphonic Mob’ in September 2017 with the new principal conductor Robin Ticciati succeeded once again in delighting more than 1,000 participants and many hundred listeners in the Mall of Berlin. The programme included ‘Morning Mood’ from the ‘Peer Gynt’ Suite No. 1 by Grieg, two choruses from Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ and ‘Tannhäuser’ and the ‘Torero March’ from Bizet’s first ‘Carmen’ Suite.

  • Under the baton of DSO's music director Robin Ticciati the fifth ›Symphonic Mob‹ took place at the Mall of Berlin in September 2018 – once again in delighting more than 1,300 participants and many hundred listeners with wonderful music. The programme included ›In the Hall of the Mountain King‹ from the ›Peer Gynt‹ suite no. 1 by Edvard Grieg, ›Nimrod‹ from Edward Elgar's ›Enigma variations‹ as well as choirs from ›Il trovatore‹ and ›Macbeth‹ by Giuseppe Verdi.

Not just in Berlin ...

Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and under the overall ‘Symphonic Mob’ brand, a number of partner orchestras came on board in 2016, 2017 amd 2018; they have implemented the concept locally and in cooperation with the DSO in Bremen, Coburg, Cologne, Halle, Frankfurt/Oder, Rostock, Hamburg, Schwerin, Göttingen and Ludwigshafen.

You will find photo galleries, videos and much more information about the ‘Symphonic Mob’ in Berlin and many other cities on the project website ...

www.symphonic-mob.de

The next ›Symphonic Mob‹

10 Years ›Symphonic Mob‹ on 25 May 2024