Highlights Klosters Music Summer Festival

31 July – 9 August 2026

The twelve concerts over ten days are themed around “Icons”. This refers not only to iconic works such as Beethoven’s 5th Symphony or Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto, but also to artists who have become true role models in their field, such as singer Sir Bryn Terfel, pianist Sir András Schiff and recorder player Maurice Steger.

• The Camerata Salzburg, conducted by Antonello Manacorda, will perform the opening concert on 31 July. The young Viennese pianist Lukas Sternath will play Mozart’s emotionally charged Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466. Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, one of the most iconic orchestral works ever written, will be performed after the interval.
• The City Light Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kevin Griffiths, will not only be performing as usual at the film concert “Amadeus” (directed by Miloš Forman) on 2 August, but the Zurich Sing-Akademie will also be making the live soundtrack even more sensual.
• Sir Bryn Terfel, a true singing icon, will be making a guest appearance. On 3 August, the Welsh baritone will present a wide-ranging concert programme of opera, musical theatre and folk songs. With piano (Annabel Thwaite), harp (Hannah Stone) and the Zurich Singing Academy, there will also be plenty of variety in terms of sound.
• Sir András Schiff will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” for the first time in Klosters in the Church St. Jakob on 6 August. He will then join Chloe JiyeongMun in a performance of works for piano four-hands by Franz Schubert.
• Handel’s heroines take centre stage in the baroque evening with Maurice Steger (flute and conductor) and the La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel on 7 August in the Concert Hall of the Arena Klosters. The young Swiss singer Chelsea Zurflüh promises true soprano bliss in the sometimes virtuoso, sometimes expressive arias.
• The two closing concerts with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under the baton of Edward Gardner present a German-Russian programme featuring Tchaikovsky’s legendary First Piano Concerto (soloist: Boris Giltburg), Schumann’s “Overture, Scherzo and Finale” and Alexander Glazunov’s Fourth Symphony (8 August). For the festival finale and farewell to David Whelton on 9 August, Wagner’s overture to “Die Meistersinger” will be performed alongside Mozart’s “Sinfonia concertante” with Veronika Eberle (violin) and Timothy Ridout (viola) and Edward Elgar’s mysterious “Enigma Variations”

Pre-sale Summer 2026

Written ticket reservations can be made from 5 December onwards. Tickets will be available to buy online at klosters-music.ch and from the Klosters and Davos tourist offices from 1 March 2026.

Tickets for the church concerts taking place in winter 2026 are now on sale.

As per November 2025