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What have you always wanted to know about Beethoven?

Together with you, we will focus on a special topic related to the great composer. The focus is primarily on Beethoven the man. We will introduce you to a few selected objects in the museum. In the coffee round afterwards, creative and thought-provoking impulses will stimulate discussion.

The programme is aimed at senior citizens, culture lovers, but also curious people who would like to learn and experience something. As the topics change, the round(e) can be booked as a single or multiple event.

The Avin Trio, winner of multiple awards at the German Music Competition 2024, offers interesting insights into the genre of piano trios in the programme 'Alte (Un)bekannte'.

Supported by the German Music Council's concert funding programme German Music Competition and GVL

The Pablo Held Trio has been shaping the European jazz scene for two decades. The trio is known for its intuitive interaction and fearless joy of playing. Their concerts are full of surprises, always in the field of tension between composition and improvisation. Audiences, the specialised press and jazz greats are equally fascinated. In 2026, the trio will celebrate its 20th anniversary with several tours, inviting special guests to play with them. In our concert, it is the wonderful American saxophonist Chris Potter. With his technical brilliance, harmonic sophistication and relentless pursuit of innovation, Potter has earned a reputation as one of the most influential voices in contemporary jazz. His remarkable career spans decades, and his contributions to the art form inspire musicians and listeners alike.

The Beethoven27 project by Jan Caeyers and Kit Armstrong with the moderated performance of 27 key works by Beethoven in 27 European cities will be continued after the Bonn launch last year with a programme focusing on the 'Eroica'.

Donations to: https://missionsiret.de/

With the kind support of the Hermann J. Abs Foundation

'It was dark, the moon was shining brightly…' With a new programme, we once again haunt the Beethoven House – in the dark, of course, and equipped only with a torch, searching for shadows and sounds from Beethoven's time.

Join us on a musical journey to the Beethoven House. We will explore the museum and play lively songs and famous Beethoven melodies on the ukulele. Of course, the beloved 'Elise' cannot be left out. We will also do crafts, chat and sing.

The versatile violinist Ragnhild Hemsing is deeply connected to the rich folk tradition of her native Norway. She combines elements of Norwegian folk music and classical music in a youthful and fresh way with her Hardanger fiddle.

‘Foreign Masters’: Migrants from all over Europe shaped the incomparably rich music scene of London, the cultural capital of the 18th century. Max Volbers, winner of the 2023 OPUS KLASSIK award for Young Artist of the Year, and Alexander von Heißen, winner of the 2022 Bach Competition, bring a particularly dazzling facet of the music metropolis to life.

Handel from Halle was the most influential English composer, his opera arias were pop on the island. Under Handel's baton, the Italian oboist Sammartini made a name for himself in the orchestra; his compositions were considered original and fiery. Alessandro Scarlatti's ‘Pyrrhus and Demetrius’ was the second most successful opera in the kingdom. Corelli and Alberti, who never set foot on English soil, were made stars by resourceful music publishers in the cosmopolitan city. At the same time, the recorder became fashionable as the ‘gentleman's flute’, the instrument of wealthy amateurs and connoisseurs who performed for guests in private circles. Jacques Paisible/James Pesible, one of the greatest recorder players of the time, also helped his instrument to reach new heights in England.

It was musical migration, then, that gave English music its immensely rich heritage!

Works by George Frideric Handel, Arcangelo Corelli, Giuseppe Sammartini, Giuseppe Alberti, Johann Pepusch and others.

With the kind support of the German Music Council

What have you always wanted to know about Beethoven?

Together with you, we will focus on a special topic related to the great composer. The focus is primarily on Beethoven the man. We will introduce you to a few selected objects in the museum. In the coffee round afterwards, creative and thought-provoking impulses will stimulate discussion.

The programme is aimed at senior citizens, culture lovers, but also curious people who would like to learn and experience something. As the topics change, the round(e) can be booked as a single or multiple event.

The two musicians Richard Siedhoff and Mykyta Sierov elicit the wildest sounds, noises and melodies from their instruments and, in a playful exchange with the (young) audience, make it possible to experience how live music and silent film interact. The almost 100-year-old films captivate with timeless humour: slapstick stars Anita Garvey and Marion Bryon try to buy a delicious ice cream in A PAIR OF TIGHTS, ALICE'S DAY AT SEA features a real girl and a dog as well as the first drawn and animated elements, and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are very musical in YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN'.

In co-operation with the Förderverein Filmkultur Bonn e.V.

To mark the release of their third CD featuring works for oboe and piano, Philippe Tondre, winner of the Beethoven-Ring Prize, and Danae Dörken are once again performing a concert for the Citizens for Beethoven and the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn.

Das Hermes-Quartett, benannt in Anlehnung an den berühmten Boten aus der griechischen Mythologie, schöpft seine musikalische Kraft aus seiner Rolle als Vermittler zwischen dem Text des Komponisten und der Sensibilität des Publikums. Besonderen Verdienst hat sich das Quartett mit der Wiederentdeckung der Werke der französischen Komponistin Charlotte Sohy erworben.

The duo concert by artist in residence Aaron Pilsan with cellist Alexey Stadler on the occasion of the anniversary of Beethoven's death is not only a meeting of two instruments, but also a lively dialogue between two voices that carry Beethoven's spirit forward.

Conversation concert in collaboration with the Bürger für Beethoven.

The duo concert by artist in residence Aaron Pilsan with cellist Alexey Stadler to mark the anniversary of Beethoven's death is not just an encounter between two instruments, but also a lively dialogue between two voices that carry Beethoven's spirit forward.

Conversation concert in collaboration with the Bürger für Beethoven

What have you always wanted to know about Beethoven?

Together with you, we will focus on a special topic related to the great composer. The focus is primarily on Beethoven the man. We will introduce you to a few selected objects in the museum. In the coffee round afterwards, creative and thought-provoking impulses will stimulate discussion.

The programme is aimed at senior citizens, culture lovers, but also curious people who would like to learn and experience something. As the topics change, the round(e) can be booked as a single or multiple event.

Two exceptional musicians of their generation come together in a programme of rare expressive intensity. Giuseppe Gibboni, winner of the 56th Premio Paganini in Genoa, impresses with his stupendous technique, emotional depth and interpretative maturity that far exceeds his age. Arsenii Moon, winner of the 64th Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and recipient of the Benedetti-Michelangeli Prize, is considered a 'sound magician' who ‘conveys genuine empathy and a unique sense of poetry in music' (Dallas Magazine). Together, they devote themselves to a finely balanced programme ranging from Alexey Shor's lyrical Violin Sonata No. 1 to the F.A.E. Sonata, composed jointly by Dietrich, Brahms and Schumann, to Rachmaninoff's dreamy Vocalise, culminating in a dramatic finale with Prokofiev's First Violin Sonata.

An evening of virtuosity and intimacy, precision and passion – between sound and poetry.

'Fairy Tales and Legends' - Artist in Residence Aaron Pilsan opens up a new world of sound with intimate colours and unexpected perspectives in the interplay of piano with oboe and viola and, in the spirit of Beethoven, shows himself to be curious about chamber music, experimental, honest and deeply human.

'Fairy Tales and Legends' - Artist in Residence Aaron Pilsan opens up a new world of sound with intimate colours and unexpected perspectives in the interplay of piano with oboe and viola and, in the spirit of Beethoven, shows himself to be curious about chamber music, experimental, honest and deeply human.

At the age of eight, Kevin Chan won first place in the Canadian music competition and was subsequently named one of the '100 Remarkable Canadians'. Since then, his career has blossomed internationally and he has been widely recognised as a prizewinner at major competitions. In the Chamber Music Hall, he will play on the Steinway grand piano that led him to victory at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv in 2023.

Some projects are the subject of lengthy artistic deliberations that lead to highly harmonised works. For example, the CD 'Surprise!' which brought French trumpeter Airelle Besson together with two outstanding figures from the young jazz scene on the other side of the Rhine, pianist Sebastian Sternal and drummer Jonas Burgwinkel, was the official birth of a trio that was as unexpected as it was seductive. The special alchemy between the three musicians is masterfully brought out on this first CD. Airelle on trumpet in her own personal style, precise, economical, pure, constantly focussed on the purity of the vocals; Sebastian on piano and Fender Rhodes, putting his fluid movements and the discreet virtuosity of his playing at the service of the overall sound, with a sense of architecture and spatialisation of remarkable clarity and precision; and Jonas on drums, breathing both sustain and breath into the trio, with his art of groove and dotting of rare delicacy.

The South Tyrolean baritone André Schuen is at home on the world's great opera and concert stages. His recordings of the great Schubert song cycles together with Daniel Heide for Deutsche Grammophon have been highly acclaimed internationally. With the song programme 'Träume-Alpträume' he presents himself to the Bonn audience for the first time.

With the kind support of the Hermann J. Abs Foundation

What have you always wanted to know about Beethoven?

Together with you, we will focus on a special topic related to the great composer. The focus is primarily on Beethoven the man. We will introduce you to a few selected objects in the museum. In the coffee round afterwards, creative and thought-provoking impulses will stimulate discussion.

The programme is aimed at senior citizens, culture lovers, but also curious people who would like to learn and experience something. As the topics change, the round(e) can be booked as a single or multiple event.

The project funded by the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature, 'Beethoven's Workshop. Genetic Text Criticism and Digital Music Edition', funded by the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature, has produced a digital sketchbook edition for the first time. This reconstruction and edition of the so-called 'Notirungsbuch K', the main part of which is in the possession of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, contains sketches for the Ninth Symphony and the Diabelli Variations.

The basic research project, which has been based at the Beethoven-Haus and the Detmold/Paderborn Musicology Seminar since 2014, has developed specific digital tools and visualisation techniques to make Beethoven's compositional working methods accessible. The current 4th research module shows in a fascinating way how Beethoven prepared his works through extensive sketching work in order to finally realise them in scores. The Bonn-Detmold research team will present its conceptual considerations and the results of its work, which are not only intended for the specialist faculty, but also provide insights into creative processes that bring us a little closer to the composer.

Following the presentation, the research team will answer project-related questions from the audience.

With her Bach interpretations, which radiate from within and are always natural and never artificial, Angela Hewitt delights critics and listeners alike. Her recordings have set standards in the history of interpretation. In 2020, Angela Hewitt was the first woman to be awarded the Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig. However, her range extends far beyond this, as she will demonstrate with her varied recital programme.

With the kind support of the Hermann J. Abs Foundation

Zum Kammermusikfest erscheint ein gesonderter Flyer.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Hermann J. Abs Stiftung

Zum Kammermusikfest erscheint ein gesonderter Flyer.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Hermann J. Abs Stiftung

Zum Kammermusikfest erscheint ein gesonderter Flyer.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Hermann J. Abs Stiftung

The heart of classical music, Mozart and Beethoven: the most classical of all chamber concert programmes of the season presents weightless music from imperial Vienna during the gallant era. Night-time music par excellence, giving us a glimpse of how high society was pampered by musicians who still seem to us today to be the greatest... But light music is not only found in the 18th century: even in the Romantic period and the turmoil of the early 20th century, there are works that remind us of southern evenings and gatherings among friends. We accompany the works of Mozart and Beethoven with two little string quartet gems with a Mediterranean flair. This is light-hearted and profound entertainment at its best!

The four musicians from Berlin regularly receive the highest praise for their lively, fiery and unusual performances. The string quartets by Mozart, Shostakovich and Grieg are performed in a new way, as the quartet plays from memory and attaches great importance to an unconventional stage presentation.

The BEETHOVEN RING 2025 from BÜRGER FÜR BEETHOVEN (Citizens for Beethoven) will be awarded to German cellist Anouchka Hack, born in Antwerp in 1996, announced chairman Stephan Eisel:

"Anouchka Hack impresses her listeners with her narrative diversity of sound and musical expressiveness. At the recent Beethovenfest, she gave a convincing performance of Beethoven's Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 102/1, which she performed together with her sister, pianist Katharina Hack. Both have also underlined their connection to Ludwig van Beethoven with their latest CD, 'Alle Menschen werden Schwestern' (All People Become Sisters)."

The Beethoven Ring was awarded in a vote by the 1,700 members of BÜRGER FÜR BEETHOVEN (Citizens for Beethoven) to one of the three youngest soloists at the Beethovenfest who performed a work by Beethoven.

The special prize in the form of a concert engagement, which is awarded by the Beethoven-Haus in memory of the great violinist and honorary president as part of the renowned Joseph Joachim Competition in Hanover, went this time to the young British violinist Louisa Staples.

The youngest participant in the Telekom Beethoven Competition 2025, 19-year-old Hungarian pianist Ildikó Rozsonits, won the prize by an overwhelming majority in the audience vote during the semi-final and expressed her gratitude with a solo recital in the Chamber Music Hall.

Ildikó Rozsonits was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 2006 and began studying piano at the age of five. At the age of ten, she was accepted into the school for exceptionally talented young musicians at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Her professors are Dr Gábor Farkas and Attila Némethy. Since 2020, she has been regularly attending masterclasses with Professor Philippe Raskin in Vienna. She has won 17 first prizes at international piano competitions in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Czechia, Russia, Belgium, France, Spain, Romania and Hungary. She is the 2020 winner of the TV classical talent show Virtuosos V4+, received third prize at the renowned international Concertino Praga competition in Czechia in 2021, and won third prize at the International Franz Liszt Competition in Weimar, Germany, in 2023. She won 1st prize  at competitions such as the 15th International EPTA Belgium Competition in Brussels, the 2nd International Carl Maria von Weber Competition in Dresden and the International Geneve Musicale Competition in Switzerland.

The programme will be announced at a later date.

In cooperation with the Telekom Beethoven Competition