Lang Lang, Renée Fleming, Tan Dun, Anne-Sophie Mutter among HKPhil 2025-26 season’s stars

Chinese pianist and American soprano lead a stellar line-up of performers for Hong Kong Philharmonic’s coming season of concerts

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Chinese pianist Lang Lang, whose last appearance in Hong Kong was for a performance at Disneyland, is among the stars of classical music performing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic in its 2025/26 season. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

Published: 3:16pm, 20 May 2025

A star-studded line-up awaits Hong Kong Philharmonic concertgoers in its 2025-26 season, including pianist Lang Lang, soprano Renée Fleming, composer Tan Dun and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.

Tarmo Peltokoski, who will become the orchestra’s music director in the second half of 26, will conduct three programmes during the season, while the 25-year-old’s fellow Finn Esa-Pekka Salonen will be composer-in-residence.

This season’s artistic partner, Italian Daniele Gatti, returns to conduct the Phil, as do British conductor Daniel Harding, music director of Youth Music Culture The Greater Bay Area, Singaporean Kahchun Wong, principal conductor of Britain’s Hallé Ochestra, and German Anja Bihlmaier.

Lang Lang will play Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor with the orchestra on December 11 and 13, when he will share the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall stage with Peltokoski for the first time.

Soprano Renée Fleming, who will perform music from her award-winning album Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene with the Hong Kong Philharmonic in October 2025. Photo: Andrew Eccles, courtesy of Decca

American soprano Renée Fleming will perform music by Handel, Fauré, Listz and contemporary composers from her award-winning album Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene on October 24-25. Her performances will be accompanied by a film commissioned from the National Geographic Society for the album.