Sarah's Music: Contemporary Classical

The Sarah’s Music Horn Challenge has been a regular - and very popular - element of Sarah’s Music. In this episode, Sarah Willis features the best of the Horn Challenges Part 2. Who is YOUR favourite?

Sarah Willis meets Adalberto Álvarez, known as “El Caballero del Son”, in Havana to talk about this much beloved form of Cuban music.

The Berlin Philharmonic Winds share their love of a popular form of chamber music known as Harmoniemusik. This music for wind ensemble and double bass is guaranteed to lift your spirits!

Violinist Pekka Kuusisto and artist Aamu Song bring their extraordinary Reddress Project to the Boulez Saal in Berlin and reserve a pocket of the dress for Sarah Willis. A unique episode about a unique concert!

All people deserve access to a creative and expressive life, says Vijay Gupta, the founder of Street Symphony. Sarah Willis meets and performs with some of the residents of the infamous Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles.

Oscar D´León, known as "El Sonero del Mundo", is a true living salsa legend. He meets Sarah Willis in Los Angeles and during a concert together with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sarah manages to surprise him...

Who knew there were so many horn players in Cuba? Sarah Willis certainly didn´t! It was a treat to meet and perform with these wonderful musicians in Havana. This episode is guaranteed to make you smile!

Cuban trumpet player and jazz legend Arturo Sandoval invites Sarah Willis for a visit at his home in Los Angeles. They talk about music, social media and high notes on the trumpet.

Sarah Willis visits the iconic Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles at the invitation of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and their star conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

The violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja is performing in Bonn at the annual Beethovenfest with the Camerata Bern. She prefers taking risks with her music rather than perfection and Sarah Willis finds out why.

Sarah Willis creates a concert for children about the American composer George Gershwin with the help of pianist Stefano Bollani, conductor Gustavo Gimeno and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. Dance with us!

Trumpet fanfares at the castle, practising horn at the beach, an open air concert in the garden – Sarah Willis meets the young musicians of the Brass Academy Alicante and enjoys their typically Spanish hospitality.

Sarah Willis is in Havana, Cuba to explore “Son”, the traditional Cuban music, and to also improve her dance moves. Let’s dance some Son - Bailando Son!

The Sarah's Music Team knows the program better than anyone else. In this episode, the team, usually behind the camera but today in front of it, tell Sarah Willis which their favorite episodes were so far and why.

Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel dedicates a concert to his mentor, Maestro José Antonio Abreu. To celebrate this inspiring man, musicians from all over the world have gathered in Santiago de Chile for this very special concert.

Berlin, Berlin! Germany's capital is full of music and many episodes of Sarah's Music have been filmed here. Sarah Willis shares some of her favorite Berlin episodes so far.

Sarah Willis revisits some of her favourite soloists she has featured so far – there have been such wonderful stars from the music world on the show!

101 musicians from all over the world, all music lovers, not professionals, perform in the Philharmonie with the conductor Sir Simon Rattle. Sarah Willis follows this very special and inspiring event.

The Danish String Quartet delights the audience and Sarah Willis at the Klassiske Dage Festival in Holstebro, Denmark with their eclectic mixture of music from classical to folk.

A very British episode featuring the Band of the Coldstream Guards, one of Britain's oldest and best known military bands. Sarah gets an exclusive, behind the scenes insight into a day in the life of the Band.

In this episode Sarah Willis presents some highlights of a big fundraising event in Bonn - the 7th German AIDS-Foundation Opera Gala. International opera singers perform, accompanied by the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn.

Sarah spends the day with bagels and Brooklyn Rider, one of New York´s finest and most experimental string quartets. In this episode they play a concert at National Sawdust as part of the New York Philharmonic Biennial.

Sarah Willis meets star singer Thomas Hampson as he coaches young singers in the art of singing Lieder at his Lied Academy in Heidelberg.

A wonderful collection of orchestras - classical, jazz, female, youth, airline and musical! Sarah Willis revisits some of her favourite - and rather unusual - orchestras which she has featured on Sarah's Music so far.

Sarah Willis explores the Barbican Centre´s Sound Unbound Festival and finds exciting music in every corner of the performing arts centre including the London Symphony Orchestra and Sarah´s own Pop-Up Horns event.

Sarah Willis gets an exclusive look behind the scenes at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv during the preparations for a performance of Gounod's "Faust" and meets Israeli musicians Na'ama Goldman and Dan Ettinger.

Sarah Willis visits the New World Symphony in Miami and follows the preparations for a “Wallcast Concert”. She talks to conductor and co-founder Michael Tilson Thomas and explores the Gehry building - even the roof!