The School Presents its Season with more than 100 Concerts at the Sony Auditorium

Madrid, September 25, 2025.- The Reina Sofía School, which this year welcomes 142 young musicians from 37 nationalities, will develop an intense artistic activity this season both in the Sony Auditorium of the School and in various venues in Spain and abroad.

With a renewed vision of its cycles, the Reina Sofía School will develop more than one hundred concerts this season in the Sony Auditorium by the best young talent.

Classical music for everyone

• Academics, “a cycle to accompany”: this cycle is the formative heart of the Reina Sofía School. In these free concerts all students share every quarter their artistic evolution, always accompanied by the guidance of their teachers and a highly demanding personalized curriculum.

• 21st Century Soloists, “a cycle to discover”: Closeness and conversation define the Midday Suite days. Each meeting consists of different moments: guided tours of the School, an introductory talk about the program, the 21st Century Soloists concert as the central axis and, to close, a dialogue with the musicians. With two series a year, and live broadcast on Radio Clásica, this cycle celebrates the excellence of the new generations of soloists in a fresh, accessible and inspiring format.
• Masters, “a cycle to move”: In the Sony Auditorium, great international masters of the academic staff and former students of the Reina Sofía School star in a cycle that combines interpretative excellence and the reunion with the public. In this edition, the cycle pays tribute to the 25th anniversary of the Horn Chair, celebrating its trajectory with a special concert that highlights the mark of its teaching, and the performances of important and outstanding former students such as the Dúo del Valle, Enrique Lapaz and Javier Comesaña.

• The Ascending Generation, “a cycle to shine”: on the privileged stage of the Auditorio Nacional, this cycle shows the most outstanding students of the Reina Sofía School, who offer recitals, chamber music and orchestral performances that reveal both their interpretative maturity and their promising future in the musical panorama.

• Da Camera, “a cycle to savor”: The Sony Auditorium presents on a Friday of each month the best young international chamber music groups, guided by the master Günter Pichler at the International Institute of Chamber Music of Madrid. A series that combines virtuosity and freshness, inviting the public to discover the most vibrant pulse of current chamber music. This year nine formations from Europe, America and Asia will participate, awarded in the most prestigious competitions and with intense artistic agendas: Arete Quartet, Ast Quartet, Erinys Quartet, Goldberg Quartet, Hana Quartet, Ineo Quartet, Kandinsky Quartet, Davidoff Trio and Paddington Trio.

• Organ, “a cycle to admire”: Majestic, versatile and full of nuances, the Grenzing organ of the Sony Auditorium becomes the center of this cycle in which to live a unique sound experience. This season, the virtuosity of Ireneusz Wyrwa, in collaboration with the Polish Institute of Culture of Madrid, and the luminous expressiveness of Juan de la Rubia invite you to discover the infinite richness of organ art, being one of the most imposing instruments of the Western tradition.

Worlds of fantasy, with ‘Fun Classics’

An invitation to discover classical music as a family, through shows full of humor, imagination and emotion. This cycle to dream, transforms the great works of the repertoire into unique stage experiences, combining live music with theater, clown, dance or puppets. Each appointment -at Christmas, March and June- proposes a different theme, turning each concert into a new sound and visual adventure.

‘Semblanzas’, a cycle to transform

The Semblanzas cycle invites you to live a renewed musical experience from the perspective of the women who have composed, interpreted and promoted it. Word and music combine in this cycle to contextualize, deepen and approach the music written by female composers from different eras. With a critical and rigorous look, a hand is extended to reflection and discovery with a previous colloquium, the prelude to the concert.

Unpublished appointments

The Reina Sofía School will also carry out a series of concerts in collaboration with artists from other musical genres, carried out thanks to the support of Fundación Banco Santander, and which will be developed without an established calendar, throughout the season.

The School in other national and international scenic spaces

The extensive program designed for this 25/26 season represents an important step for this international benchmark center in the teaching of young musicians who will experience their maximum artistic milestone on November 13 with their debut at Carnegie Hall in New York, in the emblematic Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage.

The School’s Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro Andrés Orozco-Estrada, will feature the participation of violinist Renaud Capuçon as a guest soloist, along with musicians from the Youth Philharmonic of Colombia and Emirati cellist Elham Al Marzooqi, in an event in which works by Albéniz, Barber and Dvořák will be performed.

Likewise, the artistic activity of the Reina Sofía School will be endorsed by other concert cycles throughout the Spanish geography that will bring the music of young talents closer to other stages thanks to the collaboration agreements that are held with entities such as the Teatro Real, the Juan March Foundation, the CNDM, the Real Casino de Madrid, Patrimonio Nacional, the Association of Spanish Performers, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, and a series of professional orchestras among which the Orchestra of Extremadura, the Orchestra of Navarra, the Symphony Orchestra of Castilla y León, the Orchestra of Córdoba, the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, the Euskadiko Orkestra, the Filharmonie Hradec Králové and the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau stand out.