The Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 2025

From 5 July to 31 August 2025, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (SHMF) will focus on the music metropolis of Istanbul and the pianist Fazıl Say. The programme also includes a special anniversary: Germany's largest classical...

Fazıl Say is artist in residence

The pianist and composer Fazıl Say is considered one of Turkey's most important artists - an exceptional musician whose impact transcends the boundaries of classical music. For him, music is a universal medium that builds...

The Leonard Bernstein Award goes to a YouTube star!

Hayato Sumino is a pianist, composer, YouTuber and trained engineer: the 29-year-old Japanese has already become a sensation in his home country, filling concert halls with thousands of seats. He is now playing his way onto...

Istanbul becomes the city focus of the SHMF 2025

Centuries-old bazaars next to modern skyscrapers, prayer chants against the roar of a metropolis of 16-million metropolis, music by Johann Sebastian Bach next to Anatolian folklore: Istanbul is a vibrant place of exciting...