In the 2025/2026 season, Fazıl Say is the Artist in Residence at both the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. During these residencies, he performs with longtime partner orchestras—including the Camerata Salzburg, the hr-Sinfonieorchester, and the NDR Radiophilharmonie—and witnesses premieres of his own newly commissioned works presented by both festivals. 

He embarks on a major tour of China with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and returns to the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic, and the Münchener Kammerorchester, with an acclaimed Mozart cycle. In addition, Say performs his latest piano concerto, “Mother Earth”, in a series of high-profile country premieres including the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the RAI Torino, and the Orchestre National de Belgique, among others. 

In recital, Fazıl Say performs this season at major venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Southbank Centre in London, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Cologne Philharmonie, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and Muziekgebouw Amsterdam. He also appears in several cities across Europe, including Paris, Toulouse, Rome, Milan, Cremona, Bologna, Utrecht, and Martigny. 

In addition, he returns to the Klavier-Festival Ruhr and gives duo recitals with soprano Fatma Said at the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Konzerthaus Dortmund. As a composer, Fazıl Say will see the premiere of his Mandolin Concerto - commissioned by Avi Avital - at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in the 2025/2026 season. Additional premieres include a string quartet commissioned by the Goldmund Quartet and a concerto for ancient lyre, commissioned by the Thessaloniki State Orchestra, which will be premiered at Vienna’s Musikverein. 

Fazıl Say has built an extensive discography of over 50 recordings, released on labels such as Teldec Classics, naïve, and Warner Classics. His work has earned numerous accolades, including four ECHO Klassik Awards and a Gramophone Classical Music Award. Notable recordings include his critically acclaimed complete Beethoven piano sonatas and Bach’s Goldberg Variations, both released by Warner Classics in January 2020. 

In the 2025/2026 season, the release of Fazıl Say’s major new work “Mozart and Mevlana” marks a powerful musical dialogue between East and West, premiered alongside Mozart’s Requiem and inspired by the poetry of Rumi. He also continues to release his own compositions on his own label, ACM. 

Say’s latest album, Oiseaux Tristes, released in September 2024 on Warner Classics, was awarded the 2025 OPUS KLASSIK Award in the Solo Instrumental category.

SEASON 2025 / 2026