One of our Beethovenfest Talents with a wonderfully varied short concert: Mendelssohn and the German-American composer Ruth Schonthal in dialogue, piano solo and piano trio.
Wed. 9.9.2026
18:00, Beethovenhalle, Studio
After Work Concert: Josefa Schmidt
- Piano, Chamber Music
- € 19
Josefa Schmidt © Beethovenfest Bonn 
Saskia Niehl 
Michael Schmitz © Andrej Grilc
Contributors
- Saskia Niehl violin
- Michael Schmitz cello
- Josefa Schmidt piano
Programme
Ruth Schonthal
From Five Oceanic Preludes: No. 1, »Oceanfront at Sunset«
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Lied ohne Worte in B-flat Major, op. 67/3
Lied ohne Worte in B-flat Major, op. 67/3
Ruth Schonthal
Excerpts from Fragments of a Woman’s Diary
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, op. 66
Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, op. 66
The concert at a glance
What can I expect?
What does it sound like?
After work concert – what does that mean?
Our series on Wednesdays at 18:00 – an hour of entertaining music followed by a get-together with the artists in the Festival Salon over a drink.
Today at the Festival Salon
Opening hours: 17:00–21:00
19:00–21:00 Meet the Artist – With the artists of the after-work concert
Description
Josefa Schmidt opens the Wednesday after-work concert series in the new Studio of the Beethovenhalle. The young pianist, one of this year’s Beethovenfest Talents, will be joined by her colleagues from the Avin Trio to present Mendelssohn’s captivating Piano Trio No. 2. She begins the hour-long concert with solo works by Ruth Schonthal, who fled Nazi Germany as a child and, after a long odyssey with her family, found a new home in the USA.
