October 30th - November 6th, 2025.
The Seoul International Music Festival, bringing the most special classical music all around the world to the metropolitan city of Seoul.
The Seoul International Music Festival will be presenting unique collaborations, world premieres, new interpretations on classic works, and pieces that have been praised by critics, with musicians with strong character and blooming career.
The Seoul International Music Festival will be an experience of togetherness and immense joy that you will not want to miss.
'Dance with Me' 2025 Programs
This October, join us as SIMF raises its curtain in grand style under the theme “Dance with Me.”
Celebrate one of music’s most essential elements ‘dance’ through timeless classics. From passionate tangos and elegant waltzes to enchanting ballets and dance suites, immerse yourself in the melodies that have shaped music history.
Opening Concert'SIMF Orchestra with Radek Baborák'
7:30PM 30th OCT (THU)
LOTTE Concert hall
Artist:Radek Baborák(Conduct, Horn), Hongpark Kim(Horn), SIMF Orchestra
Program:
W.A. Mozart - Divertimento No. 7 for 2 Horns, Bassoon and Strings in D major, K.205
Joseph Haydn/Antonio Rosetti- Concerto for 2 Horns in E-Flat Major, Hob.VIId:6/M.C56Q
Corrado Maria Saglietti - Suite for French Horn and String Quartet (Arr. for Orchestra by Hong Geol Kim)
Ástor Piazzolla - Histoire du Tango (Arr. Radek Baborák, Hong Geol Kim)
SIMF Chamber concert‘German Dance’
7:30PM 31st OCT (FRI)
Seoul Arts Center IBK Industial Bank Of Korea Chamber hall
Program:
L.v. Beethoven - Sextet in E-Flat Major, Op.71
Felix Mendelssohn - String Octet in E-Flat Major, Op.20, MWV R.20 (composed in 1825)
Franz Schubert - String Quintet in C Major, Op.163, D.956
SIMF Chamber concert'Slavic Dance'
7:30PM 1st Nov (SAT)
Sejong Art Center Chamber hall
Program:
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka - Septet in E-Flat Major
Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre Du Printemps (Arr. Giuseppe Andaloro)
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky - Souvenir de Florence Op.70
SIMF String Orchestra'The Waltz'
5PM 2nd NOV (SUN)
Seoul Arts Center Concert hall
Artist:SIMF String Orchestra, Juyeon Shin(Soprano)
Program:
Johann Strauss II - Frühlingsstimmen, Op.410 (*Arranged for String Orchestra)
Antonín Dvořák - Serenade for Strings, in E Major, Op.22, B.52
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings, in C Major, Op.48
Closing Concert'SIMF Orchestra with Kirill Karabits'(60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Korea and Japan)
7:30PM 6th NOV (THU)
Seoul Arts Center Concert hall
Program:
Tōru Takemitsu - Viola Concerto "A String Around Autumn"
Max Bruch - Concerto for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E minor, Op.88
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances, Op.45