The festival programme 2022

The 37th Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival places the composer Johannes Brahms and conductor Omer Meir Wellber at the center of its program from July 2 to August 28, 2022.  Many internationally acclaimed artists could be won for...

This year's artist portrait: Omer Meir Wellber

Artist portrait: Omer Meir Wellber Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber is this year’s portrait artist at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. The 40-year-old is one of the most talented conductors of his generation. Born in...

Leonard Bernstein Award for Sean Shibe

The Leonard Bernstein Award 2022 goes to the Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe, who combines musical genres and epochs in an unusual way and thus gives the classical guitar new popularity. Sean Shibe experienced his enthusiasm for...

Hindemith-Prize 2022 for Hannah Kendall!

The Hindemith Prize, worth 20,000 euros, is awarded to outstanding contemporary composers as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. This year, it will go to a British woman for whom a career in music was initially...

Film portrait about Isata Kanneh-Mason

The young British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason won the Leonard Bernstein Award this year. Since 2002, the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe has donated the Leonard Bernstein Award, worth 10,000 euros, within the programme of the...