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When you explore the world as much as we do, you always encounter incredible people with fascinating stories to tell. Between the Bars with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra takes you behind the scenes and beyond the music through conversations with the artists and people that we meet on our journey exploring the world.

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Dec 7, 2020

What will the future look like? Sound like? Be like?

Delve into the multidisciplinary mind of MCO Artistic Partner Pekka Kuusisto, as together we probe the limits of the possible and imagine the impossible in the latest episode of Between the Bars.

With host Yannick Dondelinger we discuss climate change, holograms, the...


May 25, 2020

It was the night before Brexit, and the MCO was in the heart of London performing Mozart with Mitsuko Uchida to a sold-out Royal Festival Hall.

What would this well-travelled and wordly composer have made of Britain's departure from the European Union?

Join us as we revisit his travels as a young artist, talk British...


Jan 17, 2020

Meet the musician who takes being a high-flying success more literally than most.

Daniel Harding was only 22 when he began working with the MCO in 1997. Now he's not only one of the most-sought after conductors in the world, but also a qualified commercial airline pilot.

So with the seatbelt sign switched on and little...


Jan 17, 2020

Sunscreen in winter? Sleeping with one eye shut?

Violinist Kirsty Hilton and Trombone player Mark Hampson go Between the Bars with Yannick Dondelinger to share stories about growing up in one part of the world and making classical music in another, experiencing new cultures, the things they learned along the way and...


Jan 17, 2020

Somewhere between being artists and explorers, the MCO have discovered a secret sweet spot backstage, where the worldly life of being a touring musician gives way to unexpected encounters and life-changing experiences.

As we travel the world, collecting stories and making memories, we invite you to share in our nomadic...