Concerts

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.

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.

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 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 Andrè 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.

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

Music by Nadia and Lili Boulanger

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.

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!

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 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.

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 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.

Few works enjoy such popularity as Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons'. The artistic skills that the soloist can demonstrate, in harmony with Vivaldi's pictorial musical language, reflect the natural events, weather phenomena and moods of the individual seasons throughout the year. Composed around 300 years ago, much has certainly changed - not least as a result of climate change. Astor Piazzolla, founder of the ‘Tango nuevo’ and one of South America's most important composers, focuses on people's lives in his version of the seasons, the ‘Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas’ (the ‘Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’).

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.

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.

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 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.

Ein Konzert des Vivalis Project, gewidmet der Musik herausragender zeitgenössischer Komponisten.

Das Publikum erlebt Werke von Ludovico Einaudi, Hans Zimmer, Ólafur Arnalds, Max Richter, Philip Glass, Yann Tiersen und Nils Frahm – Komponisten, die zu Symbolen der Neo-Klassik geworden sind und deren Musik in Filmen, Serien und auf bedeutenden Bühnen weltweit erklingt. Klavier, Violine und Violoncello eröffnen eine eigene Welt der Melodien, in der sich Minimalismus mit großer emotionaler Kraft verbindet.

Vivalis Project präsentiert Konzerte mit internationalen Musikerinnen und Musikern und versteht sich als "dritter Ort" – ein Raum voller Inspiration und Emotionen, an den man immer wieder gerne zurückkehrt.

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.

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.

Horn player Hanxuan Liang is one of the most prominent horn players of his generation. His international concert career has already taken him to major venues such as the BBC Proms and the Lucerne Festival. His recent successes include a sold-out recital at the renowned Shanghai Concert Hall and the release of his award-winning debut CD, 'DEBUT'. His recital in Fort Collins, Colorado, marked his brilliant US debut. Hanxuan Liang has worked with leading conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Mark Elder.

He is accompanied by Japanese-born pianist Ryo Yamanishi. The winner of numerous national and international competitions – including first prize at the 6th International Lake Constance Music Competition – now works as an academic assistant for accompaniment at the Freiburg University of Music.

Together, the two musicians take their audience on a fascinating journey through the ages – an evening that combines tradition and modernity: virtuosic, poetic and surprising.

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

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.

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.