Young Star

Catch-up date of 6 April 2025

Theresa Pilsl and Toni Ming Geiger began their collaboration in the Lied Academy of the Heidelberger Frühling under Thomas Hampson, where they last performed an ‘immensely moving song recital’ (ZEIT) centred around Viktor Ullmann in 2021. In their recital at the Beethoven-Haus, they embark on a search for those fleeting moments when time seems to stand still. What art form captures these better than the art song, in which intimacy and the illumination of moments are of such central importance? Pilsl and Geiger are dedicated to pausing, being still and becoming still - and to what happens within us in these moments. Love, sadness, anger, loneliness, death and remembrance - all of these are reflected in music from the Baroque to the present day, inviting the audience to immerse themselves in a moment of resounding silence.