Ottoman songs in the cathedral, Mozart in the shipyard or a Harry Potter film concert: the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival offers once again a varied festival summer! Tickets for selected concerts and events are now available online and by telephone on +49 431 23 70 70. 

Spotlight on Istanbul

Next year's festival will focus on the fascinating city of Istanbul with its lively and enormously diverse music scene. Istanbul-born bassoonist Burak Özdemir and his ensemble Musica Sequenza will combine the baroque sounds of Jean-Philippe Rameau with dance music from the Sultan's Palace of Tanburi Mustafa Çavus in Ratzeburg and Schleswig. Mehmet C. Yeşilçay brings early Baroque melodies by Claudio Monteverdi and Barbara Strozzi as well as traditional Ottoman music to Plön and Meldorf with his oud, an oriental short-necked lute. And the composer and pianist Fazıl Say - one of Istanbul's most important musicians - invites the audience on a discovery tour through his works in Pronstorf and Kiel. 

Great Orchestra

The international Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra will perform the music to ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ live to the film in Neumünster under the direction of Ludwig Wicki. The young musicians will also perform Symphony No. 7 by Dmitri Shostakovich in Lübeck under the direction of Michael Sanderling, which will mark the 50th anniversary of the composer's death next year. 

In Hamburg, the Flensburger Bach-Chor and the Symphonischer Chor Hamburg will come together under the direction of Matthias Janz for a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's demanding Missa solemnis. Sarah Willis, horn player with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and the Havana Lyceum Orchestra present two rousing evenings of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Cuban mambo in Lübeck and Elmshorn, while the Schleswig-Holstein Proms are celebrated for the third time in the Holstenhalle Neumünster. Special highlights of the evening are the solo performances by violist Nils Mönkemeyer, clarinettist Sabine Meyer and cellist Ella van Poucke. 

Powerful voices

The singer Katherine Mehrling, well-known from the Berlin theatre and musical scene, dedicates herself to songs from The Threepenny Opera and other works by the congenial duo Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht in Altenhof and Hamburg. In Heide and Altenhof, actress Katja Riemann joins violinist Franziska Hölscher and pianist Marianna Shirinyan to bring Camille Saint-Saëns' “Carnival of the Animals” to the stage in a sharp-tongued version by writer Roger Willemsen. And singer and three-time Grammy winner Thomas Quasthoff celebrates his 50th stage anniversary in Stade and Kiel with pianist Simon Oslender, bassist Dieter Ilg and drummer Wolfgang Haffner and his favourite jazz songs. 

Music festivals in the countryside

You can also order tickets now for the music festivals in the countryside: On five weekends in July and August, the most beautiful estates in Schleswig-Holstein will once again open their doors and become an idyllic backdrop for concerts, picnics and walking acts. The estates in Hasselburg, Stocksee, Wotersen, Emkendorf and Pronstorf will be taking part next year.

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