Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival 2023
We will check for seats that still can be taken
We will check for seats that still can be taken
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival 2023
After the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival already announced Simply Red as the first highlight of the upcoming season (July 1 to August 27, 2023), further concert highlights now follow. As of now, concert tickets are available for Mischa Maisky, Hilary Hahn, Ian Bostridge, Anne-Sophie Mutter, "Harry Potter in Concert", Bodo Wartke and many more.
Part of the program of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival 2023 has already been announced.
If you are interested in a full schedule leave a request. As soon as the playbill is announced, we will let you know immediately, and you will be the first to get the tickets.
In each section, you will get the best seats for the same price - centrally located and in front rows.
We provide seats with the best acoustics only.
Even in the world's best concert halls and opera houses, the listening conditions can vary greatly, and some seats are better than others. Sometimes nearby seats have very different viewing and listening conditions.
Usually, these seats are sold out soon and available for early bookers only. We guarantee that you will receive full-view seats only.
Detailed information about the 2023 Festival will be added later. Please read about the previous "Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival 2022":
The 37th Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival can look back on a successful season: around 165,000 tickets were sold for the 203 concerts and events. With a capacity utilization of 84 percent, the festival played 123 venues at 65 locations in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, southern Denmark and northern Lower Saxony. 114 events were sold out.
"We are hugely excited about this incredible success, which we would not have dared to dream of just a few months ago. My great thanks go to our audience, who have shown great confidence in us and celebrated a wonderful festival summer together with us. With our Brahms focus, the artist portrait and fresh musical ideas and formats, we experienced outstanding concert moments. I am grateful for this and look forward to the 2023 season with optimism," says Festival Director Dr. Christian Kuhnt.
Composer retrospective: Johannes Brahms
In more than 85 concerts, the festival presented a comprehensive and diverse look at the work of Johannes Brahms. Among others, his great symphonies, solo concertos, string quartets, the "Hungarian Dances", but also lesser-known works could be experienced. In addition to the original works, the focus was also on modern adaptations of his music: ensembles such as the Jazzrausch Bigband, the SIGNUM saxophone quartet, Musicbanda Franui, Uwaga!, Wildes Holz and the singer Lia Pale, among others, developed a current and exciting approach to the works of Johannes Brahms. Prominent actors and actresses such as Martina Gedeck, Axel Milberg and Christian Brückner also dealt with the composer's life and work in musical readings. The composer retrospective also included a series of concerts entitled "Inside Brahms. In the former Gängeviertel of Hamburg's Neustadt district, where Johannes Brahms grew up, Viennese clarinettist Matthias Schorn curated six concerts that spanned an interesting musical-biographical arc. The program included music by Brahms as well as pieces by Astor Piazzolla, Ray Charles and the Beatles.
Johannes Brahms marks the end of the SHMF series of composer retrospectives, which since 2014 has been devoted to Felix Mendelssohn, Maurice Ravel, Carl Nielsen and Johann Sebastian Bach, among others.
About the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
In Northern Germany, in the cities of Schleswig-Holstein during the last two months of summer, one of the most spectacular music festivals in the world – the Music festival in Schleswig-Holstein. It was founded in 1986 and since then-it is one of the most interesting international events of culture and art. The festival program is attended by both rising stars and world-famous artists.
Instead of traditional performances in Opera and concert halls, events take place in the picturesque old castles, mansions, elegant churches and farmhouses of Schleswig-Holstein. Concerts are also held at very unusual venues, such as boat hangars, yacht clubs, greenhouses and industrial premises. A distinctive feature of the Festival is a relaxed and friendly atmosphere of concerts. The festival provides a unique opportunity to enjoy classical music in the lap of nature, combining a concert with a picnic in the most picturesque corners of Schleswig-Holstein.
From 1996 to 2013, the music and culture of one of the countries of the world was offered as a creative theme of the Festival, and the Festival program was dedicated to them. Over the years, the audience and artists of the Festival made a real trip around the world, traveling from Finland to Japan, from the USA to Russia. With the change of artistic Director in 2014 (Christian kunth), the Festival took a new direction. Now the theme of the Festivals is the life and work of any outstanding composer.
The festival was founded in 1986 by German concert pianist Justus Frantz.
In 2006, the 21st festival was from 15 July through 3 September with the Low German festival motto Dat klinkt lekker (That sounds yummy). The 22nd festival in 2007 focused on Hungary, 2008 on Russia, 2009 on Germany, when the motto was Heimspiel (home game). In 2010 the motto was Poland in Pulse featuring music from Poland. The regional focus was in 2011 Turkey, in 2012 China, and in 2013 Baltic states. Beginning in 2014, the concept changed by highlighting a specific composer for each year. The composer retrospectives were devoted in 2014 to Felix Mendelssohn, in 2015 to Peter Tchaikovsky, in 2016 to Joseph Haydn, in 2017 to Maurice Ravel, in 2018 to Robert Schumann, in 2019 Johann Sebastian Bach, in 2020 Carl Nielsen, and in 2022 Johannes Brahms.
