Sascha Goetzel

Thank you Ulsan 🫶

Excellent concert with and pianists (Brahms 1st concerto) last night ✨
Brahms • Concerto for piano no1
R.Strauss • Till Eulenspiegel
Respoghi • Pini di Roma

Seoul next 🎶
April 23 • 7:30 pm 예술의전당 콘서트홀

We are taught to speak.
We are hardly taught how to listen.

Before the word — there is the gesture.
Before the gesture — there is the intention.
Before the intention — there is an always the listening.

Every great conductor I have ever witnessed knew this.🎼
Every great human being I have met - knew this. 🌿

Everything that matters in a room,
everything that creates trust, chemistry, transformation -
arrives through the ones who are completely there.

Immersed in the space, the flow of time, the moment here and now.

Not speaking.
Not thinking about speaking.
Just being present — receiving,giving, sharing 🤍

That is what these years have taught me.

Not how to lead.
How to be present.

I never asked why I do this.

Becoming a musician isn’t a career decision.

It’s a calling.
You immerse yourself.
You love the music.
You feel its infinite possibilities.
You become one with it.

Celebrated? Legendary? Eternal?

Look at Mozart. Beethoven. Schubert.
Mostly forgotten by the majority of people walking past their statues today.

Most of Earth’ citizens won’t even get the statue.

And yet — every morning the score is on the table.

Every city a new stage.
Every note a reason.

You don’t give your life to music.
Music gives life back to you 🎼

Nobody can give you a calling.
Nobody can take it away.

Stop doubting. Start doing. It’s real.

My father was a professional musician.

I grew up in concert halls before I grew up anywhere else.

And every single time —
I only had eyes for one person.

‘The one in the middle.’

I didn’t know their title.
I didn’t understand what they were doing.
I just felt it-
the centerpoint of all energies in the hall.

A force that held every string attached.

We never stop becoming our dreams,
Only -
when we choose the wrong ones.

I like to remain 3 years inside.

🇰🇷✨ Returning to Korea soon with 울산시립교향악단 and a spectacular program

Can’t wait ♥️🌸

예술의전당 음악당
・・・
 #20
2026 Sejong Center for the Performing Arts Symphony Festival

Ulsan Philharmonic Orchestra
April 23, 2026 (Thu) 7:30 PM
Conductor | Sascha Goetzel
Piano | Jongdo An

Orchestra | Ulsan Philharmonic Orchestra
For the first time since 2019, the Ulsan Philharmonic Orchestra returns to the Symphony Festival stage. Under the baton of conductor Sascha Goetzel, they will perform Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 with pianist Jongdo An, showcasing profound musical depth. This is followed by Richard Strauss’s witty and lively narrative in Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, and concludes with Ottorino Respighi’s Pines of Rome, painting a grand sonic landscape with its massive orchestration and brilliant colors.

Program
■ J. Brahms | Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
■ R. Strauss | Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28
■ O. Respighi | Pines of Rome (Pini di Roma), P. 141

2026 Sejong Center for the Performing Arts Symphony Festival

Connecting The Notes
Piano_JongdoAn

✨Exciting Night 🚀
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