• 14 March 2024 - Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
• 16 March 2024 - Carnegie Hall – New York City
• 17 March 2024 - Symphony Hall – Boston
• 19 March 2024 - Place des Arts - Montreal

Totalling some 10,000 spectators

The Philharmonie de Paris has cultivated close ties with the foremost American symphony orchestras.
Its 2022/2023 season, for example, opened with the Philadelphia Orchestra and closed with the MET Orchestra. Next season, the Philharmonie will host five of America’s most prestigious orchestras, and it continues to develop innovative collaborations with renowned American partners and conductors, building a network of lasting artistic connections with stakeholders across the Atlantic.

Over the course of its history, as the spearhead of the Philharmonie de Paris, the Orchestre de Paris has formed enduring relationships with cultural institutions around the world, affording it the opportunity to perform in the finest concert halls on the international scene.

From its foundation, the Orchestre de Paris has cultivated an enduring relationship with its American audience, centered around a US tour every two decades.

1968: New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond​Music
Director: Charles Munch​

1982: New York Music
Director: Daniel Barenboim​

2003: New York, Carnegie Hall​Music
Director: Christoph Eschenbach  

Like a 20-year promise kept, the orchestra’s 2024 reunion with this exacting audience will be led by Klaus Mäkelä, the orchestra’s current music director and a global phenomenon in the symphony world.
2024: Ann Arbor, New York, Boston and Montreal

A brilliant young conductor
At just 27 years of age, Klaus Mäkelä is already Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and future Chief Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam.

Soaring from triumph to triumph on both sides of the Atlantic
During the 2022/2023 season, Klaus Mäkelä made conducting debuts with the New York Philharmonic, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Gewandhausorchester of Leipzig and the Wiener Symphoniker, and returned as conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

‘At 26, the conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s star keeps rising and rising’
The New York Times, 2 December 2022

‘Finnish phenom Klaus Mäkelä leads the Cleveland Orchestra and the rest of the classical music to catch this week’
Cleveland Scene, 31 January 2023

The Orchestre de Paris brings to life the fabulous repertoire of Stravinsky’s Russian ballets (premiered in Paris under Serge de Diaghilev), infusing these emblematic scores with a resolutely modern approach that casts the forms of expression in a fresh light while weaving a pas de deux between music and image.

Program A – Ann Arbor, Boston and Montreal
• Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Claude Debussy (12’)
• Piano Concerto No. 2, Sergei Prokofiev (31’)
• The Firebird, Igor Stravinsky (45’)

Piano: Yunchan Lim

Program B – New York
• The Firebird, Igor Stravinsky (45’)
• The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky (33’)​

This program is also a nod to the internationally acclaimed album released in March 2023.

Touring as an ambassador of French music heritage means performing in front of the exacting audiences of the most prestigious concert halls in the symphonic world scene, in order to share a recognised brand image, with global reach.

On recent tours, in France and abroad, the Orchestre de Paris has performed for Asian and European audiences. européens.
October 2022: Japan
March 2023: Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Cologne, Vienna, Munich, Essen, Hamburg
April 2023: Easter Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Lyon and Lugano
June 2023: Musée du Louvre
July 2023: Residency at the Festival of Lyric Art in Aix-en-Provence  

The 2024-2025 tours also look promising.
September 2024: Proms Festival (London) and Lucerne Festival (Switzerland)
February-March 2025: European tour (Vienna, Hamburg, Baden Baden, Essen, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt)
June 2025: Korea and Japan

Providing support for the 2024 tour of the Orchestre de Paris not only makes it possible to reunite the orchestra musicians with their American audience, but also contributes to a powerful socio-cultural initiative that opens the possibility of a career in music for the children in the Orchestre Démos – Orchestre de Paris.

Individuals, join the Cercle de l’Orchestre de Paris, mark your donation for the North American tour and enjoy all the benefits of membership.

Companies, become associated with the Orchestre de Paris, adding resonance to your international presence, and enjoy considerations in France and the United States.