The Happiness of Music

The Beethoven House Chamber Music Festival invites you to join in the celebrations. Artistic director Daniel Hope celebrates his birthday with numerous musician friends. Advance booking has begun.

BTHVN WEEK 2023
HOMM(E)AGE 50: THE HAPPINESS OF MUSIC
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
18-21 May 2023

A 50th birthday is a reason to celebrate - all the more so for Daniel Hope. How does someone celebrate a round birthday who has dedicated himself to music all his life and finds it a great enrichment? With lots of music, of course! So to mark the occasion, the violinist and president of the Beethoven House has invited numerous friends and companions to make music together at this year's BTHVN WEEK. From 18 to 21 May 2023, renowned artists such as Pinchas Zukerman, Amanda Forsyth, Shai Wosner, Simon Crawford-Philips, Marie Hauzel, Josephine Knight, Adrien La Marca and Michael Barenboim will perform at the chamber music festival, for which Hope is responsible as artistic director. The celebration will feature music by Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Joseph Joachim, Daniel Hope's great role model, to whom he would like to dedicate the Beethoven House Chamber Music Festival in a special way. In all concerts, Hope himself can also be experienced as a musician.

The following concerts on 19 and 20 May offer multi-faceted chamber music in smaller and larger ensembles: On 19 May, Daniel Hope will juxtapose Beethoven's rarely heard "Kakadu" Variations with Joseph Joachim's "Hebrew Melodies" in the version for violin and piano, followed by the Violin Sonata in G major op. 78 and the Third Piano Quartet (C minor op. 60) by Joachim's friend Johannes Brahms. Two outstanding pianists of the younger generation will alternate at the piano: the Israeli pianist Shai Wosner and the Briton Simon Crawford-Philips. On the third evening, 20 May, the audience can expect a rare combination of excellent string players: For Tchaikovsky's expressive sextet "Souvenir de Florence", rarely heard in the concert hall, Daniel Hope and Pinchas Zukerman are joined by violists Adrien La Marca and Michael Barenboim and cellists Amanda Forsyth and Josephine Knight. Beethoven's only string quintet op. 29 will also be heard in this top-class line-up in the concert.

The late night concert "East meets West" on 19 May at 9 pm promises to be a special highlight. For the first time, the Junge Theater Bonn will be used as a venue - and for very special sounds: Daniel Hope and Simon Crawford-Philips will perform together with the sitar player Gaurav Mazumdar, a student of Ravi Shankar, and the tabla musician Shabaz Hussein an evening of music by Maurice Ravel, Manuel de Falla, Béla Bartók and Indian music - as a tribute to the two great musical personalities Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin.

Daniel Hope once again proves that he has a heart for children with a family concert on 23 May (11 am), which of course not only children and their companions can look forward to, but also music lovers young at heart. The fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty" by the Brothers Grimm is on the programme, narrated by Daniel Hope with music by Johannes Brahms. Hope will be supported by Josephine Knight, violoncello, and the young pianist Marie Hauzel.

Advance ticket sales for the Chamber Music Festival have just begun. Tickets are available at all eventim ticket agencies throughout Germany, on the internet at https://www.bonnticket.de as well as at numerous well-known ticket agencies in Bonn and the surrounding area and in the Beethoven-Haus shop.

Further information on the programme is available at https://www.beethoven.de/woche. A special brochure on the Chamber Music Festival is available at many locations in Bonn and can be downloaded from the Beethoven-Haus website.

You can download press photos of the artists HERE.

The chamber music festival BTHVN WOCHE of the Beethoven House has taken place annually since 2014. From 2015 to 2020, violist Tabea Zimmermann held the artistic direction as president of the Beethoven-Haus. In spring 2020, violinist Daniel Hope took over the presidency of the association and also the programming of the chamber music festival. Hope is keen to continue the tradition of his great role model Joseph Joachim, the famous violinist of his time and the first president of the still young association, who founded the chamber music festivals of the Beethoven House in 1890 and thus made Bonn a centre of chamber music for a long time.

This year, the BTHVN WEEK takes place with the support of the Hermann J. Abs Foundation and Bechtle AG.

Contact:

Ursula Timmer-Fontani
Head of Corporate Communications
Beethoven-Haus Bonn
timmer-fontani@beethoven.de
Tel. 0228 - 98175-16