Beethovenfest Bonn 2013

Nike Wagner new artistic director

The board of Beethovenfest Bonn has agreed to the proposal of the City Of Bonn on May 17 that Nike Wagner will become intendant of the Beethovenfest Bonn from January 1st, 2014 on. Nike Wagner will succeed Ilona Schmiel who will be intendant of the Tonhalle Gesellschaft in Zurich from 2014 on.

read the press release of City of Bonn

Buchbinder congratulates Penderecki

Rudolf Buchbinder is the soloist in Krzysztof Penderecki’s piano concerto ‘Resurrection’. In this way, the pianist is congratulating his old friend on his 80th birthday. Penderecki himself is conducting. Also on the programme of the concert with the Sinfonia Varsovia are Beethoven’s overture to ‘The Creatures of Prometheus’ and Dvořák’s Symphony no. 7.

details of the concert with Sinfonia Varsovia

Students are organizing concert with Carpenter

Cameron Carpenter's debut at the Beethovenfest is being organized by nine student managers, who began their eight-month stint at the Young Beethovenfest in February. On a digital organ, Carpenter is playing arrangements, compositions of his own, and improvisations on themes by Beethoven in the Telekom Forum on September 14.

Listen to Cameron Carpenter at the Beethovenfest!

Beethoven Orchester with Christian Lindberg

The Beethoven Orchester Bonn conducted by Christian Lindberg is playing Wagner's Prelude to ‘Die Meistersinger’ and Sibelius’s Symphony no. 2 and ‘Höstkväll’ from the Five Songs op. 38. Dagmar Pecková will be singing Kundry’s aria ‘Ich sah das Kind’ from ‘Parsifal’. In his composition ‘Kundraan’, in which he also plays the virtuoso solo trombone part, Lindberg creates attractive and stimulating acoustic effects.

tickets for the concert of Beethoven Orchester Bonn at the Beethovenfest