We celebrate 30 years of Kronberg Academy with 26 concerts and much more: a festival for Pablo Casals on the 50th anniversary of his death.

Information on the full concert program can be found here.

More than “just” a festival: when great violinists are guests in Kronberg, there is of course also teaching – master training for young talents, enriched by key musical experiences in concert. All this can be experienced at the public violin master classes embedded in the Kronberg Festival.

Music by Pablo Casals, Franz Schubert (Forellenquintett) and other musician-inventor.

Musicians of the HessenClassicPlayers
Christoph Gotthardt, music education and piano

Public rehearsals and a workshop concert with young professionals and young talents.

The musical fairy tale is told by actors and the Pindakaas Saxophone Quartet. Alla Turca” is about the encounter of the famous musician Franz von Stock with the lively genie Flitzmed and, of course, a lot of classical music on the theme of the Orient.

The musical fairy tale is told by actors and the Pindakaas Saxophone Quartet. Alla Turca” is about the encounter of the famous musician Franz von Stock with the lively genie Flitzmed and, of course, a lot of classical music on the theme of the Orient.

The Casals Forum is: a transparent, open concert hall building and a study center “turned in on itself”. What does the interior of a building look like, whose architecture is completely at the service of music and the listening experience in every corner? At the Casals Forum you can see it and discover much more than music.

The tour lasts about 1.5 hours. It can be attended by 20-25 people. Meeting point for all tours: Beethovenplatz 1

The Casals Forum is: a transparent, open concert hall building and a study center “turned in on itself”. What does the interior of a building look like, whose architecture is completely at the service of music and the listening experience in every corner? At the Casals Forum you can see it and discover much more than music.

The tour lasts about 1.5 hours. It can be attended by 20-25 people. Meeting point for all tours: Beethovenplatz 1

The Casals Forum is: a transparent, open concert hall building and a study center “turned in on itself”. What does the interior of a building look like, whose architecture is completely at the service of music and the listening experience in every corner? At the Casals Forum you can see it and discover much more than music.

The tour lasts about 1.5 hours. It can be attended by 20-25 people. Meeting point for all tours: Beethovenplatz 1

The Casals Forum is: a transparent, open concert hall building and a study center “turned in on itself”. What does the interior of a building look like, whose architecture is completely at the service of music and the listening experience in every corner? At the Casals Forum you can see it and discover much more than music.

The tour lasts about 1.5 hours. It can be attended by 20-25 people. Meeting point for all tours: Beethovenplatz 1

Festive cantatas and motets by J. S. Bach and M. Praetorius with the Zürcher Sing-Akademie and the Freiburger Barockorchester

For 20 years, the pianist András Schiff has been accompanying the Kronberg Academy as an artist, a teacher, the initiator of the Sir András Schiff Performance Programme for Young Pianists, an artistic advisor, and as a friend. He has just celebrated his 70th birthday. However, this is just one reason to celebrate this artistic friendship with a concert evening for András Schiff together with our young soloists and with you! According to his wishes. The proceeds will benefit the Sir András Schiff Fund for the promotion of young pianists.

Several times a month, renowned artists come to the Casals Forum to work with our students in “internal masterclasses.” Reinhard Goebel, the legendary founder of Musica Antiqua Köln and Harnoncourt’s successor as professor of historical performance practice at the Salzburg Mozarteum, immerses our students in the world of Baroque music for three days. An orchestra is even formed during this time. We want to hear the results! – and we can, as this concert serves as the culmination.

Just a few days before the first lockdown in New York in 2020, the Kronberg Academy was “on tour” in Carnegie Hall for the first time with its students. Now, it’s finally happening again! Violist and professor Tabea Zimmermann has prepared a program with five of our students and alumni that they will perform together in February. But before the New York audience, our friends in Kronberg will be the first to hear it!

As Orchestra in Residence at the Casals Forum, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe rehearses in the Great Hall before heading out for its concerts. Also in February, with soloist Kirill Gerstein. Then it wants to show our friends how everything fits: a sonorous concert with masters of classical music!

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 – 1791)
Overture from Così fan tutte KV 588

ANTONIO SALIERI (1750 – 1825)
26 Variations on “La folia di Spagna” for orchestra

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770 – 1827)
Piano concerto No. 2 in B flat op. 19

Subject to change.

In May, chamber music again connects the world – when “Seniors” and “Juniors” rehearse, play, and perform together in front of an audience for ten days.

Thus, even exam concerts become a fest(ival) with a lot of excitement on all sides: Our young soloists of the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs present themselves in small concerts at the end of the academic year.

In the fall, the festival in Kronberg blazes again! World-renowned musicians, top young talents and exceptional orchestras and ensembles show how musicians fuel each other and what they can do to make the spark fly over and ignite their audience for them.

For the second time, the international violin making fair VioViva provides an insight into the fascinating world of instrument making. During the Kronberg Festival at the Stadthalle Kronberg.