Home: Long Concert Night

18:50–19:20 & 19:40–20:10, Foyers

Alarm Will Sound
Alan Pierson conductor

John Luther Adams
Ten Thousand Birds for Chamber Orchestra

Great Hall, 18:00–18:40

The Trinity Sinfonia
Nils Mönkemeyer viola
Fabian Müller piano & conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, KV 550

and other works for viola and orchestra

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Great Hall, 19:20–20:00

Aris Quartett
Fabian Müller piano

Robert Schumann
Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, op. 44

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Great Hall, 20:20–21:00

Nils Mönkemeyer viola
Fabian Müller piano

Dmitri Shostakovich
Sonata for Viola and Piano op. 147

Seth Schultheis piano

20:00–20:40, Seminar room D

Frederic Rzewski
North-American Ballad No. 3, »Down by the Riverside«

Ludwig van Beethoven
11 Bagatelles op. 119

Robert Schumann
Kinderszenen op. 15

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21:30–22:10, Great Hall

Meredith Monk
Ellis Island

Sergei Rachmaninow
No. 5, 4, 10, 12 from 13 Préludes op. 32

Dai Fujikura
Shadow Memory

Frédéric Chopin
Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, op. 52

19:10–20:10, Studio

Alma Sadé soprano 
Eleonora Pertz piano
Byol Kang violin
Jone Bolibar Nuñez clarinet & bass clarinet 
Arnulf Ballhorn double bass
Wassim Mukdad oud 

Elena Kats-Chernin
Susanna Sultana. Song Cycle on Texts by Susanne Felicitas Wolf (premiere)

20:30–21:10, Studio

Johnny Gandelsman violin

Akshaya Tucker
Pallavi, a Meditation on Care

Gonzalo Grau
Flamenco Suite

Rhiannon Giddens
New To the Session

21:40–22:40, Studio

Frederick Ballentine tenor
Kunal Lahiry piano
Five actors

»OUR PEOPLE«. A concert celebrating Black and queer voices, featuring singing, voguing and queer art

19:10–19:50 & 20:50–21:30, Seminar room C

SANFTE ARBEIT

Elsa Artmann artistic director, choregraphy, voice & dance
Diana Treder choreography, voice & dance
Anne-Lene Nöldner choreography, voice & dance
Annie Bloch keyboard, guitar, voice, improvisation & composition

Johanna Klein electronics
and others

Life after Love. Dance performance

Goran Stevanovich accordion

20:00–20:40, Seminar room C

Ludwig van Beethoven
Excerpts from Six Bagatelles op. 126, arr. for accordion by Goran Stevanovich

Goran Stevanovich
Variations on »Am Brunnen vor dem Tore«

Ellis Ludwig Leone
A Breathing House. Suite for Solo Accordion

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21:00–21:30, Small Foyer

Béla Bartók
Romanian Folk Dances, arr. for accordion by Goran Stevanovich

Goran Stevanovich
Verse I from Sevdah Verses: Bartok reframed

Bryce Dessner
Aheym, arr. for accordion by Goran Stevanovich

19:10–19:50 & 20:50–21:30, Seminar room D

Hanni Liang piano
Winnie Huang violin

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»Where we become – From Roots to Routes«. Musical-performative reflection in three acts

Arvo Pärt
Spiegel im Spiegel

Du Yun
When a Tiger Meets a Rosa Rugosa

Georges Aperghis
Récitation No. 8

Theresa Wong 
She dances naked under palm trees

Arvo Pärt
Spiegel im Spiegel

Chamber Music Hall/Lecture Hall
Beethoven & Bonn – Exile: Chamber music

Beethovenfest Talents 2026

Matteo Cimatti violin
Katrīna Paula Felsberga soprano
Jonathan Leibovitz clarinet
Josefa Schmidt piano
Aaron Schröer cello

Johnny Gandelsman violin
Nils Mönkemeyer viola

19:10–20:00, Chamber Music Hall/Lecture Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven
»Up! Quit the bower« from 12 Scottish Songs WoO 156/3
I. Allegro con brio from String Trio in E-flat Major, op. 3

Georgs Pelēcis
Fragments from Ne gudrība, ne dusmas prātā (»Neither Wisdom nor Anger in Mind«)

Robert Schumann
I. »Lebhaft nicht zu schnell« & III. »Ruhiges Tempo mit zartem Ausdruck« from Märchenerzählungen op. 132

Johannes Brahms
»Gestillte Sehnsucht« from Zwei Gesänge op. 91/1

Ludwig van Beethoven
»Glencoe« from 12 Scottish Songs WoO 156/10

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20:10–21:00, Chamber Music Hall/Lecture Hall

Gustav Holst
I. »Jesu Sweet« from 4 Songs for Voice and Violin

Olivier Messiaen
Quatuor pour la fin du temps for Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano

Ilse Weber
Wiegala for Soprano

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21:10–21:50, Chamber Music Hall/Lecture Hall

Personal piece/fragment/melody

Singing improvisation with audience

Traditional, Klezmer

George Gershwin
Excerpts from 3 Preludes for Violin and Piano

George David Weiss & Bon Thiele
What a wonderful world

19:10–20:50, Small foyer

Simina German, Sven Gey, Stefan Ben Heidelberg, Georgios Markou, Nastassja Pielartzik, Alexandra von Schwerin actors
Kane Kampmann artistic director & stage design
Brian Michaels artistic director

The project »Café Atara. Encounters in Exile« is not a play, but an interactive re-enactment of a café scene: the Jewish émigrés Sammy Gronemann, Else Lasker-Schüler, Erich Mendelsohn, Gabriele Tergit, and Arnold and Beatrice Zweig used to meet at Café Atara in Jerusalem in the 1930s. Six actors and actresses portray these figures at their most important meeting place and temporary home. They engage in conversation with visitors at the tables, talk about ›their‹ lives, read from texts, answer questions and discuss.

A five-hour simultaneous performance throughout the rooms of the entire Beethovenhalle – a celebration of diversity in the city’s musical living room.

Please note: There will be no supporting events taking place in the Festival Salon during the Long Concert Night.

Opening hours: 17:00–23:00