NEW YEAR'S CONCERT

Conductor: Beomseok Yi

Zither: Hans Berger

Orchestra of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl

In good Austrian tradition, music by Johann Strauss will be performed at the New Year, which - as in the last New Year's Concert of the Festival - will be combined with other tasty pieces to create a stimulating program at the beginning of the year. The Festival's chief conductor, Asher Fisch, will once again conduct.

Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 4, 6, 7

Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
Mephisto Waltz

Break

Richard Heuberger
Overture of the operetta TheOpera Ball

Johann Strauss Son
Stories from the Vienna Woods op.325
One night in Venice Overture

Johann and Josef Strauss
Pizzicato Polka

Johann Strauss Son
March in from The Gypsy Baron op.327
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

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Team

Beomseok Yi Conductor

Beomseok Yi comes from Seoul. He studied conducting and accompaniment in Graz and worked as an accompanist and stage music conductor at the Graz Opera during his training. He has also attended numerous masterclasses. He has worked at the Tyrolean Festival since 2016 and has been head of the music department as Kapellmeister since 2017. He has conducted numerous performances of concertante and staged projects. At the opening of the 2017 Summer Festival, he conducted the world premiere of his composition Lux aeterna. At the 2018/19 Winter Festival, he conducted the New Year's Eve concert and highlighted the music theater composed together with Stefano Teani Maximilian from the baptism. in 2025, he made his debut at the Frankfurt Opera with Adolpe Adams Le Postillon de Lonjumeaua production that he had previously conducted in Erl. Since 2022, he has been the conductor of the Symphonic Wind Orchestra and a lecturer in conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

Hans Berger Zither

Hans Berger comes from Seebach in the district of Rosenheim, discovered his love of music at a young age and learned to play the zither. He studied folk music and church music at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. He has worked as an organist at the St. Josef mountain church in Wall since 1965 and has been a full-time church musician in Oberaudorf since 1976. From 1994 to 1999 he was the folk music minister of the Rosenheim district and music minister of the Inntal deanery. As a zither virtuoso and composer, he is primarily dedicated to folk music and church music. in 1985, he founded the Hans Berger Ensemble, with which he has given numerous concerts at home and abroad and has earned an outstanding reputation as a musician, composer and keeper of regional musical culture. in 2006, he founded the Montini Choir, a Bavarian-Tyrolean choral group known for its unmistakable sound and its roots in the Alpine musical tradition.

Orchestra of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl

The music springs from the enthusiasm of a motivated and exceptionally well-prepared ensemble that has grown together over the years. The Tyrolean Festival Erl Orchestra was first formed in the summer of 1999—and today, musicians from 20 nations play together. Already in its first year, the ensemble achieved unprecedented success, which would go on to bring international recognition to the Tyrolean Festival Erl. Top young talents, musicians from major international orchestras, chamber music specialists, and lecturers come together annually in summer and winter—and since 2017, also in fall and spring—as part of the Tyrolean Festival Erl. Under the direction of festival founder Gustav Kuhn, the orchestra garnered rave reviews from international critics and cemented its reputation as one of the world’s finest Wagner orchestras. With the start of Jonas Kaufmann’s tenure as artistic director in September 2024, Asher Fisch—a conductor in high demand internationally in both opera and concert settings—has taken over the helm of the orchestra.

In addition to Richard Wagner’s ten major music dramas and operas by Strauss, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, and Rossini, the orchestra’s repertoire includes Beethoven’s symphonies and many other key works from the concert repertoire spanning the Baroque and Romantic periods, as well as contemporary works and world premieres.