A sign of solidarity: "Hope for Peace" summer of music

Music festival Odessa Classics presents itself with seven benefit concerts from 5 July to 23 August 2022 at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn

On the occasion of the war in Ukraine, the Beethoven House launched the emergency aid programme "Hope for Peace" in March in order to collect donations and proceeds from benefit concerts and to support musicians and musicologists who are in need due to the war in Ukraine. In addition, the Beethoven House provides housing for refugees and enables them to continue their artistic or academic work at the Beethoven House and to realise projects that build cultural bridges. 

One of the artists moving into flats at the Beethoven-Haus is Alexey Botvinov, one of the most renowned Ukrainian pianists and artistic director of the music festival "Odessa Classics". Botvinov has curated a series of seven benefit concerts that will take place under the title "Music Summer 2022: Hope for Peace - Odessa Classics@Beethoven-Haus Bonn" from 5 July to 23 August on Tuesdays at 7 pm in the Chamber Music Hall. The proceeds from the concerts and the donations they raise will go to the "Hope for Peace" relief fund, which will be used to support further projects. The patron of the concert series is Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture. 

For the summer concerts in Bonn, Alexey Botvinov has invited musicians who are personally connected to him or who wanted to make music with him in Odessa this year. These include the violinist and president of the Beethoven House, Daniel Hope, other internationally renowned musical personalities such as Pinchas Zukerman and Thomas Hampson, as well as well-known and as yet unknown young Ukrainian artists. 

"Like many Ukrainian musicians, I was forced to leave my homeland due to the terrible Russian aggression against my country, and I try to do as much as I can as an artist and use every concert opportunity to raise public awareness about the injustice that is currently happening to Ukraine. I believe that this concert series is not only a great symbol of solidarity with Ukraine, but also a highly exciting and multi-faceted cultural project," says Alexey Botvinov.

"For several years I have played at the wonderful music festival Odessa Classics, a place that symbolises the connection between Europe and Asia," Daniel Hope explains. "It is an important sign of hope that Odessa Classics will find a temporary home in the Beethoven Haus this year."

The concerts are kindly supported by Bechtle GmbH & Co. KG, Bonn, and the Beisheim Foundation, Munich.

Waldemar Zgrzebski, Managing Director of Bechtle GmbH: "I am pleased to be able to contribute to the fact that artists who have no performance opportunities in their home countries due to the war can give concerts in Bonn and thus continue to live not only their profession, but also their vocation."

"Due to the war in Ukraine, many cultural workers have not only lost their homes, but also their livelihoods. With the support of "Hope for Peace", the Beisheim Foundation wants to help open up new professional perspectives for musicians who have fled and make it easier for them to arrive in Germany," says Annette Heuser, Managing Director of the Beisheim Foundation.

An overview of the music summer concerts can be found at www.beethoven.de/hopeforpeace.

Tickets at 45 euros | 23 euros (reduced) for the opening concert on 5 July and at 20 euros |10 euros (reduced) for all other concerts of the Music Summer are now available in the Beethoven-Haus shop (shop@beethoven.de) and at BonnTicket.de.

Anyone wishing to make a donation can use the following bank details:

Stiftung Beethoven-Haus
Keyword "Hope for Peace
IBAN: DE 79 3705 0198 1900 8390 26
BIC: COLSDE33XXX
A donation receipt will be issued upon request.

The Sparkasse KölnBonn donation portal at www.hiermitherz.de also offers a convenient way to donate. Here you can also find the "Hope for Peace" campaign of the Beethoven House and with one click you can pay in your donation, which will fully benefit the relief fund.

You can find artist photos under the following links:

_Alexey Botvinov
https://botvinov.com.ua/de/photos/
_Daniel Hope
https://danielhope.com/about/
_Pinchas Zukerman
https://www.kirshbaumassociates.com/artist.php?id=pinchaszukerman&aview=dpk
_Thomas Hampson - https://thomashampson.com/galleries/kristin-hoebermann/

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