All ready to go!
Never before have as many tickets been sold in advance as this year.
The 6th edition of Klosters Music (27 July to 4 August 2024) with ten concerts promises to be a complete success. The varied festival programme also includes a family concert, a talk about Giovanni Segantini, a painter from the Canton of Graubünden (accompanied by Mahler songs) and an evening of film music.
All ready to go, with high expectations – the whole region of the Upper Prättigau is looking forward to this international music festival, which is once again to host leading personalities and important orchestras. The violinist Alina Ibragimova, the pianist Jan Lisiecki, the baritone Thomas Hampson, the conductors Maxim Emelyanychev and Christoph Koncz and the young British horn player Ben Goldscheider will be coming to Klosters for the first time.
CROSSING CONTINENTS
Saturday, 27 July 2024, 7 pm, Concert Hall, Arena Klosters
Violinist Alina Ibragimova and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev have a wealth of experience in historical performance practice. Both of them are known for their great passion for making music and their refreshing approach to familiar masterpieces. Their interpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major is therefore eagerly awaited by everybody. After the interval, the opening concert will feature great symphonic music with Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, which has been nicknamed the “New World Symphony”, because it was composed in America and sets out to capture the country in music. The vastness of the prairie is particularly evident in the second movement.
Only a few tickets are still available for this concert.
More information about the concert and ticket sales can be found here.
NATIONS & EMPIRES
Sunday, 28 July 2024, 5 pm, Concert Hall, Arena Klosters
“Begegnungen. People and Places” is the theme of Klosters Music 2024. This concert brings the theme to life in a special way, transporting the audience to a Russian ball with the Polonaise from “Eugene Onegin”, to the Finnish lake region with Jean Sibelius’ “Karelia” Suite, to royal England with Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Cirumstances” March No. 4 and to Tribschen on Lake Lucerne with Richard Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll”. Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor is influenced by Norwegian folk music. Jan Lisiecki, a Canadian rising star among pianists, is the ideal performer to interpret this romantic piano concerto, displaying not only virtuosity but also a great deal of poetry and delicately-shaded musical tones.
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CON PASSIONE!
Monday, 29 July 2024, 7 pm, St. Jacob’s Church, Klosters
When the internationally-acclaimed recorder player Maurice Steger from Prättigau meets the Spanish soprano Nuria Rial, they combine intensity with great expressiveness in a very special way. The musical journey begins in Rome and returns to the Eternal City via Venice and Naples. Virtuoso instrumental pieces, in which Maurice Steger shines with La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, and works with Nuria Rial’s vocals to balance each other perfectly. The programme also includes very quiet, touching compositions such as Claudio Monteverdi’s “Lamento della Ninfa”, The Nymph’s Lament, and the aria “Tu del ciel ministro eletto”, from George Friedrich Händel’s oratorio “Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno”.
Only a few tickets are still available for this concert.
More information about the concert and ticket sales can be found here.
TINO FLAUTINO AND THE TOMCAT LEO
Tuesday, 30 July 2024, 5 pm, Concert Hall, Arena Klosters
Our family concert with flute virtuoso Maurice Steger, an instrumental ensemble from La Cetra Barockorchester Basel and narrator Nikolaus Schmid, who brought the “Carnival of the Animals” to life at last year’s festival, is aimed at children and adolescents. In this story of the flute-playing King Tino Flautino, written by the well-known storyteller Jolanda Steiner, a lot of music can be heard, including pieces by Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Friedrich Händel and Johann Sebastian Bach. A lost page of sheet music must be found. This makes for adventure and new listening experiences. The young audience is very close to the action. And just like last year, there’s a free ice cream after this music event. All the children have to bring along is plenty of imagination.
Tickets: CHF 15, free entry for children and adolescents with a Kids Card
(booking through the Klosters and Davos tourist office of at info@klosters-music.ch)
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VOM PANORAMA ZUM TRIPTYCHON
Wednesday, 31 July 2024, 7 pm, Atelier Bolt, Klosters
Exhibition open until 23 August
The talk by Gioconda Leykauf-Segantini about her grandfather, the painter Giovanni Segantini, with a musical accompaniment of songs by Gustav Mahler, is already sold out. But a visit to Atelier Bolt (Doggilochstr. 121) is still worthwhile, as the accompanying exhibition of works by Giovanni Segantini as well as bronze sculptures and paintings by local artist Christian Bolt will be on display from 1 to 23 August 2024, monday to friday between 8 and 12 am and between 1 and 5 pm.
The Segantini art prints and the exhibited artworks by Christian Bolt on display can be purchased and reordered on request. Sale and re-ordering through Atelier Bolt* (to be collected at Atelier Bolt).
In addition, the documentary film “On Human Beauty” by Roland Steffen, about Christian Bolt’s creative world, will be shown on 2 August at 10.30 am and on the 3, 9, 16 and 23 August at 5 pm. Free entry. Please book in advance*.
*Dominique Bolt +41 79 715 43 32 (2 –4 pm) / dominique@bolt.ch
The concert is sold out.
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