A monthly streaming event that brings you the personalities, places, and projects happening right now in the Mahler community around the world.
We explore the composer, the thinker, and the humanist Gustav Mahler not only in his life and works but also in how his legacy still informs essential aspects of the human experience and how we can turn that experience into a force for the good in today’s world.
Mahler Hour has become a benchmark for those who wish to expand their knowledge about Gustav Mahler and further explore all details surrounding his life and music.
This project is being hosted and produced by our Vice President, Morten Solvik.
The Mahler Hour – Mahler’s Vienna: 1897
Saturday, November 2nd 2024 Program ● Over the course of one remarkable week in April 1897 Vienna experienced four events that would reshape the political and cultural life of that city.
● On the 3rd of April, the death of Johannes Brahms ...
● On the 3rd of April, the death of Johannes Brahms ...
The Mahler Hour – Mahler’s Life in Song: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Saturday, October 12th 2024 Program ● In October we continue our series “Mahler’s Life in Song”, this time with a look at Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
● These songs form a central element in Mahler’s creative life, spanning roughly twenty years of composition ...
● These songs form a central element in Mahler’s creative life, spanning roughly twenty years of composition ...
The Mahler Hour – The Mahler Foundation Festival Orchestra in China
Saturday, October 14th, 2023 Program The Beijing Music Festival is a major cultural event in China, bringing together the finest musicians in the country to celebrate music in many forms. Foreign musicians are also invited and this year the honor ...
The Mahler Hour – Recreating the Premiere of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
Saturday, September 21, 2024 Guests:
- Jan Simon, Director, Dvořák Prague International Music Festival
- Jakub Hrůša, Chief Conductor, Bamberg Symphony and Principal Guest Conductor, Czech Philharmonic
- Investigating the background to the world premiere in 1908 of Gustav ...
The Mahler Hour – Happy Birthday, Gustav!
July 7, 2024 For 2024 we have dedicated the birthday edition of The Mahler Hour to Gustav and to you, our Mahler community around the world. We asked our Mahlerites worldwide to send us a video congratulating the great composer ...
The Mahler Hour – Henry-Louis de La Grange: Mahler’s Biographer
May 18, 2024
- Vincent Mouret, Vice President, Bibliothèque musicale La Grange – Fleuret
- Marina Mahler, Founder and President Mahler Foundation
- Sybille Werner, Conductor, Musicologist
The Mahler Hour – Mahler and Bruckner
April 20, 2024 Program 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), an Austrian composer whose life and works intersected with Mahler’s in a number of important ways. Bruckner was a late bloomer, a man who, ...
The Mahler Hour – Mahler’s Life in Song: The Early Works
March 16th, 2024 Program On March 2024, we began a special series entitled “Mahler’s Life in Song”, co-
hosted by Thomas Hampson. This series is a chance to explore the great
composer’s output in Lieder but also the ways in which his ...
hosted by Thomas Hampson. This series is a chance to explore the great
composer’s output in Lieder but also the ways in which his ...
The Mahler Hour – Mahler on Historical Instruments
February 17th, 2024 Program When we think of Mahler’s orchestral works, we naturally recall hearing them on recordings and in concert halls, performances that bring us the sounding realization of these scores. But, aside from questions of interpretation such as ...
The Mahler Hour -Family Portraits: Robert(o) Mahler
January 27th, 2024 Program With this program we start yet another series of Mahler Hour programs, this one dedicated to portraits of the Mahler family: looking more closely at some of the relatives of the great composer, many of whom ...
The Bamberg Mahler Competition 2023
September 2, 2023 Program One of the most coveted prizes in the world of conducting is the Bamberg Mahler Competition. This esteemed event has helped launch the rise of conductors like Kahchun Wong, Lahav Shani, and Gustavo Dudamel, who all won ...
Mahler Forum: The Power of Wonder
July 7, 2023
- Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, Co-Founder of Mahler Forum, Professor of Fine Arts, Vienna
- Ingi Kim, Composer
- Sarah Rinderer, Author
- Alja Klemenc, Conductor
Leipzig Celebrates Mahler
May 18th, 2023
- Tobias Niederschlag, Head of Artistic Planning, Gewandhaus
- Tahlia Petrosian, Founder and Director Wunderhorn Festival Leipzig
- Thomas Hampson, Baritone, Co-Curator Leipzig Mahler Festival
The Mahler Hour –The Mahlers in New York:A Conversation with Joseph Horowitz
April 29, 2023
- Joseph Horowitz, Cultural historian, Concert and radio producer, Author
Meine Seele: The Songs of Alma Mahler
March 11, 2023
- Elise Caluwaerts, Soprano
- Marianna Shirinyan, Pianist
Arranging Mahler
February 25, 2023
- John Warner, founder and director of Orchestra for the Earth
- Benjamin Garzia, founder and director of Mahlerian Camerata
Mahler in the Andes
January 21st, 2023
- Alejandra Urrutia - Founder, Artistic Director, and Conductor of the Portillo Academy and Festival
- American String Quartet
- Patricio Sabaté - Baritone
Mahler in Popular Media
November 26, 2022
- Jeremy Barham, Professor of Music at the University of Surrey and expert on Mahler and media https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/jeremy-barham
A Visit to the La Grange Archive in Paris
October 1, 2022
- Gabriela Elgarrista, Documentalist, Research and Cultural Mediation Officer Bibliothèque musicale La Grange - Fleuret
- Vincent Mouret, Vice President - Bibliothèque musicale La Grange - Fleuret
- Anna Stoll-Knecht, Musicologist, Research Associate - Bibliothèque musicale La Grange - Fleuret ...
Resurrection
July 7th, 2022
- Alejandra Urrutia, Conductor and Violinist
- Marina Mahler, Founder and President, Mahler Foundation
Mahler’s Endings
May 18, 2022
- Lew Smoley, President, The Gustav Mahler Society New York
- Lawrence F. Bernstein, Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Pennsylvania
Oksana Lyniv and Ukraine
April 23, 2022
- Oksana Lyniv, Conductor, General Music Director, Teatro Comunale di Bologna
- Alexandra Saitseva, Director, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
- Dmytro Cherepov, Violinist, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
- Marina Mahler, Founder and President, Mahler Foundation
Natalie Bauer-Lechner: Mahler’s Confidante
March 26, 2022
- Sybille Werner
- Stephen Hefling
- Beate Thalberg
Four Perspectives on Mahler’s Second
February 12th, 2022
- Aaron Cohen, producer of Embrace Everything.
- Marilyn McCoy, musical and historical advisor.
- Jason Starr, producer and director of Mahler’s symphonies films.
- Alexander Vivero, pianist.
- Lawrence F. Bernstein.
Alma and Gustav’s Letters
January 22nd, 2022
- Stephen McClatchie - Musicologist, Professor, Huron University College
- Brian McMillan - Director, Music Library, University of Western Ontario
- Francisco Bricio – Vice Chairman, Mahler Foundation
An Around-the-World Performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony
November 6th, 2021
- Mark Strachan, founder of the Choir of the Earth
- John Warner, Founder and Conductor of Orchestra for the Earth
- Brenda Pruitt, Chorister
- Ellie Blamires, Flutist
- Arturo Gómez Poulat, Executive Director of Sociedad Mahler
Exploring the World of Wunderhorn
October 16th, 2021
- Renate Stark-Voit
- Thomas Hampson
Meet the Mahler Foundation
September 4, 2021
- Mahler's Foundation Board
Live from Steinbach!
July 7th, 2021
- Steinbach am Attersee
Friends, Festivals, and the Future
May 18th, 2021
- Simon Reinink, Director of Het Concertgebouw and the Amsterdam Gustav Mahler Festival;
- Monique Veaute, Director of the Spoleto Festival and her plans for a program in the spirit of The Song of the Earth;
- Maestro ...
I Remember Alma
April 10th, 2021
- Marina Mahler, Alma’s granddaughter
- Nuria Nono Schoenberg, daughter of Arnold Schoenberg
- Paul Lester, Alma’s godson
- Walter Arlen, composer and music journalist, another member of the Austrian ex-patriate community in California.
Mahler in Spoleto
March 6th, 2021
- Guy Robertson - Curator and Co-Director
- Rachael Allen - Poet
- James Cave - Composer
- Brian O. Kepher - Conductor and Composer
What do we know about Mahler?
February 6, 2021
- Srimal Weerasinghe and Vidhurinda Samareweera - Gustav Mahler Society of Colombo
- Anna Stoll Knecht - Musicologist and author
- Stephen Hefling - Co-Editor New Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Gustav Mahler
- Stephen McClatchie - Editor The Mahler Family Letters.
Mahler in the Public Eye
January 9, 2021
- Albrecht Schultze - Gustav Mahler Vereinigung in Hamburg
- Alexander Meraviglia-Crivelli - Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
- Dame Eveline Nikkels
Iberoamerica
December 5th, 2020
- Enrique Diemecke - Honorary President of the Sociedad Mahler
- Francisco Bricio - Executive President of the Sociedad Mahler
- Samuel Romo - Vice President of the Sociedad Mahler
- Alejandra Urrutia - Conductor in Chile for the Gran Concierto por la Hermandad
The Song of the Earth Project
November 7, 2020
- Marina Mahler - President Mahler Foundation
- Rachel Chanoff - Founding Director of The Office
- John Warner - Founder, Director and, Conductor of Orchestra for the Earth
From New York to Beijing
October 3, 2020
- Shuang Zou - Artistic Director of the 23rd annual Beijing Music Festival
- Lew Smoley - President of The New York Gustav Mahler Society
- Kenneth Woods - Conductor of the English Symphony Orchestra
The First
September 1, 2020 The First Mahler Hour This time we celebrate “The First"
- 1st Prize winner: A talk with Finnegan Downie Dear, winner of the 2020 Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg.
- 1st Mahler Society in the World: International Gustav ...
Mahler turns 160!
July 7th, 2020
- Marina Mahler - President and Founder of the Mahler Foundation
- Jiří Štilec - President of the Czech Mahler Society
- Aaron Cohen - Musicologist and Podcaster
- Eveline Nikkels - President of the Gustav Mahler Stichting Netherlands
Mahler Around the World
May 18, 2020
- Marian van der Meer
- Sybille Werner
- Peter Revers
- Thomas Hampson
- Kahchun Wong
- Francisco Bricio
- Enrique Diemecke
- Chan Boon Tan
- Lewis M. Smoley
- Ingeborg Steifensand
- Jiří Štilec
- Jana ...