Classic in Advent

Natalia Anchutina is considered one of the world's leading domristas. She won the most important international Domra Grand Prix in 2004. She performs worldwide with various orchestras and her permanent piano accompanist Lothar Freud, including at Carnegie Hall (New York).

The domra has a bulbous, round wooden body and is strung with three steel strings that are plucked or struck with a plectrum. In Russia , the domra is one of the classical concert instruments today.

At the start of Classic in Advent 2024, the concert will include works by Tchaikovsky, Borodin and Katshaturian.

The brilliant saxophonist Edgar Unterkirchner turns silence into music and music into silence. Together with Erwin Berger, who recites a selection of profound texts by Hölderlin, Rilke, Brecht and Lavant, and the mixed vocal trio “Voice-X”, he creates this musically meditative evening.

Gerhard Kaufmann, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, presents Richard Strauss' masterpiece with musical examples in a fireside chat.

Peter Dorfmayr, principal horn of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and Manfred Schiebel on the piano will put us in the mood for the Christmas season with works from the classical and romantic periods.

The Belgian-Swiss pianist Marie-Astrid Wybou and the German-Austrian pianist Bernhard Jan form the well-known “Duo Delirium”. They specialize in piano compositions for 4 hands and perform highlights from this genre.

Program details will follow soon!

A special kind of song cycle. With this romantic and exciting love story, the poet Ludwig Tieck created a perfect combination of prose and poetry, the poems of which were set to highly emotional music by Johannes Brahms. 

You will be accompanied through this evening by Max Müller (tenor), Florian Reiners (reading) and Manfred Schiebel on the piano. 

At this opera evening, Prof. Manfred Schiebel presents young singers who are rising stars at the beginning of their careers. The program includes well-known arias from the world's great operas.

This evening's rising stars are Maximilian Müller (tenor) and Ejnar Colak (baritone). They are already looking forward to enchanting you with their musical skills at this evening.

Five young professional musicians - engaged in various European orchestras - came together years ago to form the brass quintet “Blechreiz”. Since then, they have been thrilling audiences with rousing concerts featuring original works, their own arrangements and original compositions. Their performances are a pleasure for the ear, eye and heart, as they follow a very special choreography. You can look forward to a firework display of brass sounds as well as contemplative harmonies at Christmas time.

The Carinthian "Stubensinger" and the Berger family choir organize this reflective evening with Carinthian and Alpine melodies and texts.