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A unique series of concerts in the Beethoven House Museum brings the historical keyboard instruments from the museum's collection to life. Listeners can experience the sound ideals of Beethoven's time at first hand and learn about the special features of the instruments as the pianists explain them.

The concerts last around 40 minutes and take place in the museum's music room. The room is not air-conditioned.

We want to get creative again during the Easter holidays and invite all visitors to create a silhouette of Beethoven, a museum in a box or another souvenir of their visit. If the weather is nice, this will take place in the museum's courtyard.

We want to get creative again during the Easter holidays and invite all visitors to create a silhouette of Beethoven, a museum in a box or another souvenir of their visit. If the weather is nice, this will take place in the museum's courtyard.

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.

We want to get creative again during the Easter holidays and invite all visitors to create a silhouette of Beethoven, a museum in a box or another souvenir of their visit. If the weather is nice, this will take place in the museum's courtyard.

A unique series of concerts in the Beethoven House Museum brings the historical keyboard instruments from the museum's collection to life. Listeners can experience the sound ideals of Beethoven's time at first hand and learn about the special features of the instruments as the pianists explain them.

The concerts last around 40 minutes and take place in the museum's music room. The room is not air-conditioned.

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 Hamburg Stage Ensemble is made up of young, highly qualified instrumentalists who together pursue the vision of not only playing music, but also communicating it. The joy of playing together takes centre stage. The small ensemble and the conscious decision not to have a conductor means that the audience can participate directly in the concert.

Once again, violinist Arsen Zorayan will be the soloist and artistic director, and once again the audience will be taken on a journey through the four seasons - but this time the composer is not Antonio Vivaldi, but Astor Piazzolla. Multifaceted, exhilarating tangos and ballads by Piazzolla and other Latin American composers will also be heard in the second part of the programme, for which the Hamburg Stage Ensemble has been able to secure the outstanding bandoneonist Michael Dolak as a soloist.

'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 Chen 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.

A unique series of concerts in the Beethoven House Museum brings the historical keyboard instruments from the museum's collection to life. Listeners can experience the sound ideals of Beethoven's time at first hand and learn about the special features of the instruments as the pianists explain them.

The concerts last around 40 minutes and take place in the museum's music room. The room is not air-conditioned.

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

Kissinger Piano Olympus winner Kiryl Keduk (first double winner of both first prize and the audience prize) takes the audience on a musical journey through North and Latin America. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the dance halls of Buenos Aires to the rhythms of Brazil – a piano recital full of virtuoso sound artistry. Critics describe him as a 'virtuoso with a poetic soul' He has performed at the Berlin Philharmonic, the Pierre Boulez Saal, the Mariinsky Theatre and Steinway Hall in New York, and is known for interpretations that combine clarity, imagination and technical brilliance.

Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of piano music and experience an unforgettable evening with the compositions of two musical giants: Ludwig van Beethoven and Frédéric Chopin. Tigran Sargsyan's interpretation combines technical precision with emotional depth and invites the audience to be enchanted by the power and magic of these pieces. A special opportunity for connoisseurs and lovers of classical piano music - and for anyone who wants to be moved by the unique combination of melody and emotion.

A unique series of concerts in the Beethoven House Museum brings the historical keyboard instruments from the museum's collection to life. Listeners can experience the sound ideals of Beethoven's time at first hand and learn about the special features of the instruments as the pianists explain them.

The concerts last around 40 minutes and take place in the museum's music room. The room is not air-conditioned.

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

A unique series of concerts in the Beethoven House Museum brings the historical keyboard instruments from the museum's collection to life. Listeners can experience the sound ideals of Beethoven's time at first hand and learn about the special features of the instruments as the pianists explain them.

The concerts last around 40 minutes and take place in the museum's music room. The room is not air-conditioned.

Vivalis Project presents music from the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, including 'My Neighbour Totoro' ‘Castle in the Sky', 'Spirited Away', 'Princess Mononoke', 'Howl's Moving Castle' and 'Kiki's Delivery Service', The well-known soundtracks are performed in delicate chamber music arrangements for piano, violin, cello and percussion, opening up a world of wonder and fantasy for all generations. Vivalis Project brings together international musicians in carefully curated programmes and sees itself as a 'third place' – a space full of inspiration and emotion that you will want to return to again and again.

Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Duke Ellington, Carlos Gardel, Astor Piazzolla, George Gershwin, Omar Massa and others.

With the kind support of the DHL Group

With the kind support of the Hermann J. Abs Foundation