2005-09-15
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 2005 - Japan in Focus
From 9 July to 28 August 2005 the 20th Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (SHMF), directed for the 7th year by President Rolf Becker, performed at 41 locations and 70 venues including concert halls, castles, churches and stables. This year's special focus was on Japan under the motto "Islands of Sounds".
SHMF President Rolf Beck says: The rich diversity of Japanese music and the many outstanding interpreters from Japan made this year's special focus something very special. We were pleased about the melodious sounds, the challenges, the enrichment contributed by our guests from abroad and interpretations by star classical musicians from Japan.
Many instrumental soloists of international renown had been engaged for this year's event. They include the violinists, Midori, Nigel Kennedy, Thomas Zehetmair, Frank Peter Zimmermann and Sayaka Shoji, the cellist, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, the clarinettist, Jörg Widmann, and some of the most famous pianists of our times such as Mitsuko Uchida, Ivo Pogorelich, Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Anatol Ugorski, Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Angela Hewitt and the Labèque sisters. Also expected were the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne conducted by Semyon Bychkov, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin conducted by Kent Nagano, the Bamberg Symphoniker conducted by Jonathan Nott, the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and the organist and conductor, Masaaki Suzuki with his world-famous Bach Collegium Japan.
The 158 performances, five music festivals in rural settings and two music festivals for children were visited by approximately 125,600 spectators. 82 % that altogether 153,600 places were occupied.
Details in German, English or Japanese: http://www.shmf.de
Many instrumental soloists of international renown had been engaged for this year's event. They include the violinists, Midori, Nigel Kennedy, Thomas Zehetmair, Frank Peter Zimmermann and Sayaka Shoji, the cellist, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, the clarinettist, Jörg Widmann, and some of the most famous pianists of our times such as Mitsuko Uchida, Ivo Pogorelich, Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Anatol Ugorski, Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Angela Hewitt and the Labèque sisters. Also expected were the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne conducted by Semyon Bychkov, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin conducted by Kent Nagano, the Bamberg Symphoniker conducted by Jonathan Nott, the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and the organist and conductor, Masaaki Suzuki with his world-famous Bach Collegium Japan.
The 158 performances, five music festivals in rural settings and two music festivals for children were visited by approximately 125,600 spectators. 82 % that altogether 153,600 places were occupied.
Details in German, English or Japanese: http://www.shmf.de
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