Events

• Berlin Music Week
  
• The Festwochen
  
• The Berlin Music Biennale
  
• The Berlin Chansonfest
  
• The Neue Musik Berlin

Music from past centuries:

• The Berlin Festival of Ancient Music
  
• The Berlin Mozart Festival
  
• The young.euro.classic festival
  
• Classic Open Air on Gendarmenmarkt
  
• The State Opera Festival at the Philharmonie
  
• Open Air Classic Summer, Kulturbrauerei

Interdisciplinary forms of music:

• The Intentions festival
  
• House of World Cultures
  
• Academy of arts

Entertainment music festivals:

• Christopher Street Day
  
• The Carnival of the Cultures
  
• The JazzFest Berlin
  
• The Heimatklaenge festival of world music
  
• The Fete de la Musique
  
• The Berlin Military Music Festival

Multimedia festivals:

• The transmediale at the House of World Cultures
  
• Music and Machine
  
• popdeurope
  
• Berlin Festival (since 2009)

• The Music Clip Awards, Germany's first music video prizes, have been presented since 2000
  
• The first Echo Awards for entertainment music were presented in Berlin in 2001

• 3 opera houses
  
• 4 musical and cabaret theatres
  
• 2 large open-air stages
  (the Waldbuehne has 22,000 seats)
  (the Freilichtbuehne Wuhlheide has 18,000 seats)
  
• The Olympic Stadium (76,000 seats)
  
• Numerous concert halls including
  - the Columbiahalle (7,000 seats),
  - Arena (7,500 seats),
  - ICC (9,000 seats) and more than 250 clubs from the Rote Salon to the Quasimodo basement club.
  
• Unusual venues for special events (e.g. record release parties), ranging from the Bunker to the Café Moskau.
  
• O2 World. Seating capacity: 20,000