The Felipe VI Auditorium Theater will host the traditional Extraordinary New Year’s Concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga.

The New Year’s recital will be conducted by Singaporean maestro Darrell Ang, artistic director and principal conductor of the Sichuan Symphony. It will be held on Sunday, January 4, at 8:00 p.m.

Estepona Town Hall will open the cultural programming of the new year 2026 with the traditional Extraordinary New Year’s Concert, performed by the Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga (OFM), under the musical direction of Singaporean maestro Darrell Ang, artistic and principal conductor of the Sichuan Symphony since December 2016, Grammy-nominated maestro and regular guest with orchestras such as the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Singapore Symphony, “Philharmonia” Orchestra London, London Philharmonic, Munich Radio Orchestra, NHK Symphony, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, or Vienna Chamber Orchestra, among others.

The performance will take place next Sunday, January 4, at 8:00 p.m., in the Felipe VI Theater Auditorium, and will feature a selection of pieces, essential in the programs of New Year’s concerts. The evening will feature overtures, waltzes, polkas and other pieces by great composers such as Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Bedrich Smetana, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Ang himself, ending with Passacaglia – The Secret of the Wind and the Birds, by the Chinese composer Tan Dun, who lives in New York.

Tickets can be purchased at www.teatroestepona.com

New Year’s Concert 2026 Program

Conductor, Darrell Ang

FRANZ VON SUPPÉ

Overture to Cavalleria Slightly

JOHANN STRAUSS II

Vergnügungszug, Op. 281

JOHANN STRAUSS II

Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op. 114

JOHANN STRAUSS II

Éljen a Magyar, Op.332

JOHANN STRAUSS II

The Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314

JOSEF STRAUSS

The Dragonfly, Op. 204

BEDRICH SMETANA

Polka, Furiant and Dance of the Comedians from ‘The Bartered Bride’.

PYOTR ILICH TCHAIKOVSKY

Hopak from “Mazeppa

PYOTR ILICH TCHAIKOVSKY

End of Act 2, no. 15 of “The Nutcracker”.

DARRELL ANG

Kungfu Concerto

TAN DUN

Passacaglia – The Secret of the Wind and the Birds

Darrel Ang, conductor

Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Sichuan Symphony since December 2016, Darrell Ang is a Grammy-nominated conductor and regular guest with orchestras such as the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Singapore Symphony, “Philharmonia” Orchestra London, London Philharmonic, Munich Radio Orchestra, NHK Symphony, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Academic Symphony. Born in Singapore, Darrell studied conducting with Leonid Korchmar in St. Petersburg, at Yale with Shinik Hahm, and did intensive study at the famous Italian school “Scuola di Musica di Fiesole”.

In 2008 he became the youngest associate conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and also served as music director of the National Youth Orchestra of Singapore. Winner of the 9th Antonio Pedrotti International Competition and the 8th Arturo Toscanini International Competition, he went on to covet the three main prizes at the 50th Besançon International Conductors’ Competition (Grand Prix, Audience Prize and Orchestra Prize), which led him to the Music Direction of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne (2012-2015).

Lorin Maazel, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Valery Gergiev were his mentors. He was conferred the Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature) by the French Government in 2015. He has released several critically acclaimed albums on the NAXOS label.

Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga, Malaga City Council / Junta de Andalucia.

The Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga gave its inaugural concert on February 14, 1991. It was born then as the Orquesta Ciudad de Málaga, a consortium between the City Council of Málaga and the Junta de Andalucía, and which responded to the conviction that a city like Málaga should have a great symphony orchestra.

At the head of the Orchestra and its project, six chief conductors have stamped their own personality: Octav Calleya, Odón Alonso, Alexander Rahbari, Aldo Ceccato, Edmon Colomer and Manuel Hernández Silva.

Currently, the principal conductor and artistic director is Maestro José María Moreno.

The Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga has believed it essential not to limit its activity to the subscription program and has deployed enthusiastic parallel proposals. Along with CD recordings of very diverse repertoires, and with different maestros, we must add two Chamber Music Cycles, parallel to its subscription symphonic program, its cycle La Filarmónica Frente al Mar, specially designed for new audiences and young people of special artistic projection.

The Malaga City Council awarded it the “Malaga Prize” for the best musical work in 2001 and Empresa M Capital its Culture Prize, among other distinctions from various entities associated with culture at provincial and national level.

The SGAE awarded the Orchestra a special prize in 2007, in recognition of its work in favor of contemporary Spanish music.

The OFM has been awarded by the Ateneo de Málaga, the Asociación Cultural Zegrí, the Asociación Malagueña de Escritores “Amigos de Málaga” and the Asociación Amigos de la OFM in recognition of its XXV Anniversary.

In 2017, the Diputación de Málaga awarded the OFM the Distinction of Honor of the Province for cultural and social development in the province.

It is Resident Orchestra of the International Piano Competition “Premio Jaén” and of the International Piano Competition Ciuidad de Málaga.

The Junta de Andalucía awarded it the Bandera de Andalucía de las Artes 2021.