Berlin hosts Germany's annual New Year's Eve concert broadcast from the Berlin Philharmonie.
The Berlin Philharmonic's New Year's Eve concert is performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Philharmonie concert hall in Berlin. The program typically features orchestral music and is presented as a festive end-of-year event, with broadcasts extending its audience beyond the concert hall.
The Philharmonie is part of the Kulturforum complex near Potsdamer Platz. Its distinctive tent-like concert-hall architecture, designed by Hans Scharoun, opened in 1963 and became a landmark of modern concert-hall design. The Berlin Philharmonic itself is one of Germany's most internationally prominent orchestras.
The concert is a cultural event, not the same thing as Berlin's large outdoor New Year's Eve gathering near the Brandenburg Gate. Those celebrations may also feature music and fireworks, but the Philharmonie concert belongs to the orchestra's formal concert tradition and has a different venue and audience.