Max Richter announces 2026 European tour

Max Richter has announced details of a seven-date European tour for early 2026 – see all the information below.

The acclaimed German-British composer recently brought his celebrated ‘SLEEP’ show to London’s Alexandra Palace and now he has revealed that he will be back on the road in the new year, playing in six different countries.

The tour kicks off in Florence’s Teatro Del Maggio on February 27 and goes on to take in dates in Rome, Lucerne, Katowice, Vienna and Budapest before wrapping on March 10 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Tickets go on a fan pre-sale at 10am local time on Thursday (October 16), with the general sale beginning at the same time on Friday (October 17). You can find your tickets here.

Max Richter will play: 

FEBRUARY 2026 
27 – Florence, Italy, Teatro Del Maggio 

MARCH 2026 
1 – Rome, Italy, Auditorium Parco Della Musica – Sala Santa Cecilia 
3 – Lucerne, Switzerland, KKL 
5 – Katowice, Poland, NOSPR 
7 – Vienna, Austria, Konzerthaus 
9 – Budapest, Hungary, Bela Bartok 
10 – Ljubljana, Slovenia, Cankarjev Dom – Gallus Hall 

The dates are Richter’s first in mainland Europe since his first ever world tour in 2024, which included shows at London’s Royal Festival Hall. These came in support of his 2024 album ‘In A Landscape’.

Elsewhere, Richter has composed the score for the much-anticipated new film Hamnet from director Chloé Zhao. The movie follows the relationship between William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes after the death of their 11-year-old son Hamnet, and Richter’s soundtrack album is released on November 21 via Decca Records – pre-order here.

He also released his brand-new album, ‘Sleep Circle’, in September via Deutsche Grammophon. The record was described as “a hallucinatory 90-minute trip into the hypnagogic state – the time period when the brain transitions between a state of wakefulness and sleep and the state during which the individual dreams”.

The recent ‘SLEEP’ shows in London marked the 10th anniversary of the original album, which was co-conceived with Richter’s creative partner Yulia Mahr and consisted of an eight-and-a-half-hour musical enquiry into how sound and the sleeping mind interact.

Regarded as one of the most ambitious and culturally significant classical music projects of the 21st century, the collection explores the effects of subsonics and repetition to enhance slow-wave sleep (SWS).

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