Berlin hosts a multitude of music festivals for a wide variety of tastes
Contemporary music:
- Berlin Music Week

- The Festspiele
- The Berlin Music Biennale
- The Berlin Chansonfest
- New Music Berlin
(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)
Music awards and trade fairs
- 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
250 event venues of all sizes (selection)
- 3 opera houses
- 4 musical or revue theaters
- 2 large outdoor stages (Waldbühne, with a capacity of 22,000 spectators, and the Freilichtbühne Wuhlheide, with a capacity of 18,000 patrons)
- New outdoor venue at the site of the former Tempelhof airport.
- Olympic Stadium with 76,000 seats
- Numerous concert halls, such as
- Columbiahalle (capacity of 7,000),
- Arena (capacity of 7,500),
- ICC (capacity of 9,000) and over 250 clubs from the Roter Salon to the jazz cellar Quasimodo - 150 stages and theaters
- Unique locations for special events (such as record release parties), from Bunker to Café Moskau
- O2 World (Anschutz Group) with a capacity of up to 17,000 patrons








