Photo: Paul Feuersaenger

Klangschatten - Chinese music for children

Klangschatten presents the Chinese instruments erhu, pipa, sheng, zheng as well as various percussion and flute instruments. The three musicians combine traditional Chinese music with works of the composer Bernhard Gál, improvisations for Chinese instruments and live electronics, framed by a light projection and performing elements. ...more

Dancer: WANG Wei-ming
Photo: YU Hui-hung

Songs of the Wanderers

"... a work about practicing asceticism, the river's mildness, and the quest for quietude." (Lin Hwai-min)

The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan has done much wandering of its own, performing Songs of the Wanderers on stages throughout the world for years. Currently, Lin Hwai-Min and his dancers are rediscovering the piece through the addition of live music. The georgian Rustavi Choir, lauded by UNESCO as a preserver of the oral and immaterial legacy of mankind, performed for the first time with the dance troupe at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele. The choir's powerful polyphonic song was moving both dancers and audience. ...more

Photo: Liu Chen-Hsiang

Water Stains on the Wall

available: May/June/Nov 2012 and May-Aug 2013

A legend about two Masters of brush writing in the Tang Dynasty established “water stains on the wall” as a popular metaphor that represents the highest state in the aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy. Choreographer Lin Hwai-min and Asia’s leading contemporary dance company Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan take off from this metaphor creating an abstract work of beauty and magic that stands sublimely on its own. ...more

Le Sacre du Printemps: Interactive 3D-Performance by Klaus Obermaier and Ars Electronica Futurelab

Le Sacre du Printemps is the latest project of renowned Austrian media artist Klaus Obermaier. It features a breathtaking and innovative interpretation of Stravinsky's classical masterpiece (The Rite of Spring). ...more

Le Sacre du Printemps: Interactive 3D-Performance by Klaus Obermaier and Ars Electronica Futurelab

Le Sacre du Printemps is the latest project of renowned Austrian media artist Klaus Obermaier. It features a breathtaking and innovative interpretation of Stravinsky's classical masterpiece (The Rite of Spring). ...more

Maya Beiser
CR: Lili Almog

Almost Human

Maya Beiser takes the cello to yet another uncharted terrain; exploring ancient vocal traditions. Voices of Medieval madrigal, traditional Cambodian, Chinese and Taiwanese minority singing, indigenous Armenian and Indonesian ritual singing and Jewish Cantorial chanting are some of the sources for inspiration. ...more

Maya Beiser
CR: Mirovuki Ito

World to Come

Evocative, theatrical and spiritual, World To Come is Maya Beiser's new multimedia solo concert, featuring the premiere of a Steve Reich multi-track cello piece as well as new works by Osvaldo Golijov and David Lang, and additional works by Arvo Pärt and Louis Andriessen. This evening will challenge the notion of a solo cello concert and will encompass text, vocals, dramatic lighting and interactive videos. Video design is created by internationally acclaimed artist Irit Batsry, winner of the Whitney Museum 's prestigious Bucksbaum award. ...more

Sir Roger Norrington

Sir Roger Norrington and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will be guest at the Istanbul Festival 2012

In June, 2012, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester will guest at the Istanbul Festival with the ancient principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Roger Norrington. The renowned Istanbul-born pianist and composer, Hüseyin Sermet, will be the tour’s featured soloist. ...more

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
Cover: Naïve

Touring programmes in 2012/13: La Chambre Philharmonique and Emmanuel Krivine

September, October, May 2012/13

Beethoven with Isabelle Faust: 18 - 22 September 2012
Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky: 15 - 27 October 2012
Schumann and Brahms: 20- 27 May 2013 ...more

Renaud Capuçon
Photo: Mat Hennek

Summer 2012 - La Chambre Philharmonique with Schumann and Schubert:

Together with extraordinary violinist Renaud Capuçon, La Chambre Philharmonique and Emmanuel Krivine will follow the tracks of Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert in the festival summer of 2012 - naturally performing on period instruments.
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Jörg Widmann
Photo: Felix Broede

Camerata Bern featuring Jörg Widmann

30 April - 5 May 2014

In Spring 2014 Jörg Widmann will be the Camerata Bern's special guest at Bern featuring a wonderful programme both as composer as well as musician. We are delighted to offer further available dates for guest performances. ...more

Antje Weithaas
Photo: Marco Borggreve

50 years Camerata Bern! Touring programme with Beethoven

dates upon request

Antje Weithaas, violin

In spring of its Jubilee Season 2012 the Camerata Bern will focus on Beethoven's music. Artistic director and exceptional violinist Antje Weithaas will perform the concerto for violin in D major. Furthermore, a commissioned work by Swiss composer Martin Wettstein will be preceded Beethoven's eighth symphony. ...more

Maya Beiser
CR: Lili Almog

Almost Human

Maya Beiser takes the cello to yet another uncharted terrain; exploring ancient vocal traditions. Voices of Medieval madrigal, traditional Cambodian, Chinese and Taiwanese minority singing, indigenous Armenian and Indonesian ritual singing and Jewish Cantorial chanting are some of the sources for inspiration. ...more

Maya Beiser
CR: Mirovuki Ito

World to Come

Evocative, theatrical and spiritual, World To Come is Maya Beiser's new multimedia solo concert, featuring the premiere of a Steve Reich multi-track cello piece as well as new works by Osvaldo Golijov and David Lang, and additional works by Arvo Pärt and Louis Andriessen. This evening will challenge the notion of a solo cello concert and will encompass text, vocals, dramatic lighting and interactive videos. Video design is created by internationally acclaimed artist Irit Batsry, winner of the Whitney Museum 's prestigious Bucksbaum award. ...more

El Cimarrón

Hans Werner Henze/Hans Magnus Enzensberger
In Cuba in the nineteenth century, the word cimarrón meant escaped slave. The cimarrón in Henzes Recital for four musicians is Esteban Montejo. Born in 1860, he was interviewed by the Cuban ethnologist and writer Miguel Barnet at the age of 104. ...more

Luca Lombardi

Storia di Giona

Luca Lombardi
Luca Lombardi has set the well-known story of Jonah from the Old Testament to music for the El Cimarrón Ensemble. Jonah ends up inside the stomach of a whale due to his doubts about God. He survives, however, and lives on to lead the people of Nineveh. ...more

El Cimarrón

Hans Werner Henze/Hans Magnus Enzensberger
In Cuba in the nineteenth century, the word cimarrón meant escaped slave. The cimarrón in Henzes Recital for four musicians is Esteban Montejo. Born in 1860, he was interviewed by the Cuban ethnologist and writer Miguel Barnet at the age of 104. ...more

Luca Lombardi

Storia di Giona

Luca Lombardi
Luca Lombardi has set the well-known story of Jonah from the Old Testament to music for the El Cimarrón Ensemble. Jonah ends up inside the stomach of a whale due to his doubts about God. He survives, however, and lives on to lead the people of Nineveh. ...more