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 and Performance Practice
Saturday, February 17th, 2024 at 16:00 CET 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 ...
The Mahler Hour -Family Portraits: Robert(o) Mahler
Saturday, January 27th, 2024 | 16:00 CET 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 ...
The Mahler Hour- Mahler and Beethoven
Saturday, December 16, 2023 Program On this program we marked Ludwig van Beethoven’s birthday on the 16 th of December with a show dedicated to Mahler and the great composer from Bonn who made his home and career in his ...
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 Bamberg Mahler Competition 2023
Saturday, September 2, 2023 | 16:00 CEST 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 ...
Mahler Forum: The Power of Wonder
Friday, July 7, 2023 Guests
- 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
Thursday, 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
Meine Seele: The Songs of Alma Mahler
Saturday, March 11, 2023
- Elise Caluwaerts, Soprano
- Marianna Shirinyan, Pianist
Arranging Mahler
Saturday, 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
Saturday, 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
Saturday, 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
Saturday, 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
- Benjamin Garzia, Research ...
Mahler’s Endings
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
- Lew Smoley, President, The Gustav Mahler Society New York
- Lawrence F. Bernstein, Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Pennsylvania
Resurrection
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
- Alejandra Urrutia, Conductor and Violinist
- Marina Mahler, Founder and President, Mahler Foundation
Oksana Lyniv and Ukraine
Saturday, 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
Saturday, March 26, 2022
- Sybille Werner
- Stephen Hefling
- Beate Thalberg
Four Perspectives on Mahler’s Second
Saturday, 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
Saturday, 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
Saturday, 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
Saturday, October 16th, 2021
- Renate Stark-Voit
- Thomas Hampson
Meet the Mahler Foundation
Saturday, September 4, 2021
- Mahler's Foundation Board
Live from Steinbach!
July 7th, 2021
- Steinbach am Attersee
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.
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 Long Yu, Chairman ...
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 Součková
- Eveline Nikkels
- Bruce Tseng
- Bruno Megevand
- Kenneth Woods ...