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Opera productions with Markus Stenz and Äneas Humm awarded with the Premio Abbiati 2026

Antje Weithaas joins EAS Music Management as new general management

February 19, 2026

Annika Treutler & Aris Quartet – Early Sibelius Universe: The Piano Quintet Rediscovered

February 4, 2026

‘Enthusiasm and feelings of happiness – music as a living presence’ – The Le Piano Symphonique 2026 piano festival

January 5, 2026

The countdown is on: ‘Le Piano Symphonique’ 2026 – The Swiss Piano Festival

December 11, 2025

Back on board! Vera-Lotte Boecker

December 10, 2025

Album Release: Moor Mother, Beethoven Orchester Bonn & Wooden Elephant

October 21, 2025

Eric Lu wins first prize at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw

September 26, 2025

LONGING – between exile and a new beginning: New album by baritone Äneas Humm and Renate Rohlfing

September 23, 2025

Titus Engel announced as Conductor in Residence of 2026/27 season at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

September 5, 2025

Amelio Trio: Time in flux… debut album

September 2, 2025

concrete music on 23 October 2025: Eliots am Main – Preview at the Panke

September 2, 2025

concrete music on 10 October 2025: Vanessa Porter – The Message is Dust

‘Triumph of Naturalness*’ – Dvořák Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53, with Antje Weithaas and Camerata Bern

“We have world-class voices here.” | The 6th International Opera Workshop Waiblingen (September 13-20, 2025)

Hans Gál Ensemble Prize 2025 for the Amelio Trio

‘Le Piano Symphonique’ 2026: World premieres, international stars and newcomers as guests at the ‘‘piano festival of the highest order’ * in Lucerne

‘Rock opera’* Press reviews of the premiere of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ in 2025 at the Opera in the Quarry

‘The Flying Dutchman’ – sold-out Wagner debut at the quarry

OPUS KLASSIK 2025 – Instrumentalist of the Year

Premiere of ‘Lash’ with Sarah Maria Sun at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

World premiere recording: The Kuss Quartet champions long overlooked artist (E.G. Klussmann)

Note: Please do not open the “Proposal” e-mail.

A profound faith in the music − Marie Jacquot’s debuts and reunions starting in summer 2025

A priceless discovery: Mélodies by Louis Durey – new album by Holger Falk

Titus Engel has won a Swiss Music Prize

HELIKON – Danae Dörken: Homage to Mikis Theodorakis on his 100th birthday

World premiere “Voice Killer”: Deadly opera psychodrama about the darkest corners of our society

Very probably by Mozart – CD release by Tobias Feldmann with WDR Symphony Orchestra

Amelio Trio is ECHO Rising Star of the 2026/27 season

Sarah Maria Sun sings in the world premiere of ‘Lash’ at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Molyvos International Music Festival 2025: CHAOS – ΧΆΟΣ

CANCELLED: Antje Weithaas & Dénes Várjon: Beethoven cycle at the Boulez Saal Berlin and live on Deutsche Grammophon STAGE+

For the first time Wagner in the Quarry! ‘The Flying Dutchman’ 2025 at the Opera in the St. Margarethen Quarry, Austria

Aris Quartett release ‘Lieder ohne Worte’ as an e-single in the ‘Musical Moments’ series from Deutsche Grammophon

LIBERTAS – the search for inner freedom | New album by Äneas Humm & Doriana Tchakarova

quartetto plus 2025 – String Quartet Festival at Esterházy Palace

New at Schimmer PR: Amelio Trio

Sunwook Kim and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe will present all Beethoven piano concertos in the Haydnsaal at Esterházy Palace on 29 and 30 March 2025

Marzena Diakun becomes the new chief conductor of the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie

February 28, 2025

Anaëlle Tourret’s second album »Perspectives concertantes« – Glière, Dohnányi, Debussy

Sarah Maria Sun Cover Silence is Golden

February 19, 2025

Sarah Maria Sun – Silence is Golden

February 13, 2025

Vinyl Release: Wertmüller “Shlimazl” – with Titus Engel, Basel Sinfonietta & NDR Bigband

February 10, 2025

Film Screening: Anastasia Kobekina – Now or Never on 17 February 2025, 19:00 – 20:30 in Berlin

February 6, 2025

Eliot Quartet releases album with Shostakovich string quartets

January 10, 2025

Eva Zalenga varia • bel

January 8, 2025

Sunwook Kim and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe perform in the UK as part of Tour in Europe and South Korea

November 29, 2024

Death and the Maiden: the new album by Kuss Quartet

October 28, 2024

«Le Piano Symphonique» in Lucerne (13-18 January 2025) – a new beacon in Swiss musical life

October 25, 2024

CD release: Holger Falk sings Georges Auric « Mélodies et Chansons »

October 10, 2024

Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon are honoured with the German Record Critics’ Award 2024

October 9, 2024

The Tchalik Quartet on Arte !

October 8, 2024

How should one play Chopin?

October 6, 2024

Platinum Medal of the Société académique ARTS-SCIENCES-LETTRES for Alexey Botvinov

September 24, 2024

HERBSTGOLD – Festival 2024 achieves high attendance: “Seduction” captivates visitors in the foundation’s anniversary year

September 20, 2024

The Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Michael Sanderling prolong their collaboration by a further three years

September 13, 2024

Digital release: Antje Weithaas plays Pēteris Vasks’ second violin concerto ’In Evening Light’

August 28, 2024

The ‘seduction’ begins: the HERBSTGOLD-Festival 2024 will take place from 11 – 22 September in Eisenstadt, Austria

August 27, 2024

Great success for ‚Aida‘ at the Opera in the Quarry

August 15, 2024

Antje Weithaas with Beethoven cycle again on the best list of the German Record Critics’ Award: Vol. 3 honoured as a reference recording

The Sitkovetsky Trio continues its Beethoven journey with the release of the third album in its cycle with the “Ghost Trio” and its own arrangement

Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida” in the Austrian UNESCO World Heritage Site St. Margarethen Quarry

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe presents Brahms symphonies from Baden-Baden with Yannick Nézet-Séguin on Deutsche Grammophon

Quatuor Tchalik: Avantgarde @ Lobe Space Berlin

Sitkovetsky Trio: Residence at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2024

AIDA in the St. Margarethen quarry – Verdi’s powerful ode to the immortality of love

Beethoven completed!

Classical trumpet meets electronics and musical influences from the Middle East

Bariton Soda: Love Lieder @ Lobe Canteen Berlin

«Le Piano Symphonique» Balance 2024 & Outlook 2025

The Aris Quartet honours Fanny Mendelssohn on International Women’s Day with a release on Deutsche Grammophon

February 29, 2024

Welcome to a Molyvos Musical Moment @ Lobe Canteen in Berlin!

February 26, 2024

Soprano Vera-Lotte Boecker as a guest on the WDR talk show Kölner Treff

January 19, 2024

New Album ‚In Relations‘ with Eva Zalenga & Doriana Tchakarova

January 15, 2024

Off to the pianistic summit! The third edition of the piano festival “Le Piano Symphonique” starts in Lucerne on 16 January 2024

January 12, 2024

Schumann & Grieg piano concertos with Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Michael Sanderling

December 21, 2023

News from the piano festival “Le Piano Symphonique” 2024 in Lucerne

December 12, 2023

Kebyart & Núria Rial: Christmas carol ‘Nit de Vetlla’ (music video)

December 8, 2023

New opera by Detlev Glanert at Semperoper Dresden (world premiere 10.2.24)

December 1, 2023

Harpist Anneleen Lenaerts with her new single “Morgen” by Richard Strauss

November 29, 2023

On December 1, Titus Engel will conduct the WDR Symphony Orchestra with premieres and first performances by Jennifer Walshe and Alex Paxton as well as music by Frank Zappa

November 27, 2023

Vera-Lotte Boecker awarded the German Theatre Prize DER FAUST 2023 as “Performer Musical Theatre”! Congratulations!

November 16, 2023

“DSCH & beyond” – Shostakovich-Cycle with the Eliot Quartet in Holzhausenschlösschen | Start 8th February 2024

November 7, 2023

The middle three… Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon release volume II of the Beethoven sonatas on the label CAvi

October 25, 2023

An adventure for talented singers: The 4th International Opera Workshop Waiblingen

October 6, 2023

Kebyart releases new album “Traum der Jugend”

September 15, 2023

New album release by the Schumann Quartet: Music from 1923 – a year of crisis and new beginnings

September 9, 2023

Time of “longing”: curtains up for the HERBSTGOLD Festival in Eisenstadt/Austria from September 9 to 24, 2023

August 25, 2023

“Apollo & Dionysus” – Intimate piano psychograms from Olympus

The acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio takes on Beethoven’s Archduke Trio

“Glowing Ice Queen” – Vera-Lotte Boecker sings and performs “sensational LULU debut” at the Wiener Festwochen at the Musiktheater an der Wien

Lucerne’s piano festival «Le Piano Symphonique» from 2024 with Martha Argerich as «Pianiste Associée»

Diving into the dark with the trumpet: new album release by Simon Höfele

G.A.P. Ensemble releases works of Johann Wilhelm Wilms on Brilliant Classics on period instruments for the first time

New album release: Linos Piano Trio plays Ravel on historic instruments

Inspiring musicality – Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon with the first of a total of three albums of the complete recording of all Beethoven sonatas on the CAvi label

«Lucerne is now the capital of the piano» – Retrospective of the piano festival «Le piano symphonique» 2023

February 28, 2023

Markus Stenz will be appointed Professor of Conducting at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin

February 21, 2023

Vera-Lotte Boecker: Role and house debut as DAPHNE at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin

February 6, 2023

Armida Quartet releases box set with its complete Mozart recording of all 23 string quartets

February 3, 2023

Debut Album: Trio E.T.A. plays Haydn, Smetana and Pawollek

February 3, 2023

Beatrice Rana, partnered by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performs the piano concertos of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck-Schumann

January 30, 2023

Kirill Petrenko forced to cancel concerts in February 2023 – The premiere of the commissioned work by Miroslav Srnka now postponed

January 25, 2023

Julian Rachlin appointed new Music Director of Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

November 9, 2022

“Krise/Crisis” – Kuss Quartet releases new album

November 8, 2022

Holger Falk sings Darius Milhaud – Mélodies & Chansons Vol. 1

September 23, 2022

“Eliots am Main” – Festival premier in Frankfurt

August 23, 2022

HERBSTGOLD festival 2022 in Eisenstadt, Austria

Jonathan Leibovitz wins the Arthur Waser Prize

CD release: bayerische kammerphilharmonie is dedicating an album to Paul Ben-Haim on his 125th birthday

“Le temps retrouvé” – The Eliot Quartet plays chamber music by César Franck

Pablo Barragán and Danae Dörken play Schumann Fantasy at ZDF MoMa

Album Release SDLW on bastille musique

Armida Quartet releases Vol. 5 of the complete Mozart string quartets recording

Johannes Moser releases his first album with Platoon in Dolby ATMOS

Premiere of William Kentridge’s “Oh to Believe in Another World” 15th June

Danae Dörken with new album “Odyssee”

New solo album by Martin Helmchen with works of Clara and Robert Schumann

Yoga-Inspired Programme for Basset Clarinet and Orchestra: Annelien Van Wauwe presents her album “Flow”

February 4, 2022

Gershwin is sweet, Jazz is salty: New album “Salted Caramel” by Simon Höfele

February 4, 2022

Connecting musical universes: Pablo Barragán and Sophie Pacini with their new album “Boundless”

January 31, 2022

The Schumann Quartett is welcoming a new member as violist: Veit Hertenstein

January 28, 2022

Chamber Orchestra of Europe releases Sibelius symphony cycle with Paavo Berglund from Helsinki Festival 1998

January 21, 2022

Sound Speeches of a Mysterious Soul

January 5, 2022

New team pictures by Simon Höfele

December 9, 2021

Titus Engel appointed new Principal Conductor of the Basel Sinfonietta from the2023/24 season

December 3, 2021

Wherever the divining rod resonates

November 19, 2021

New album “Heritage” by Fedor Rudin on Orchid Classics

November 12, 2021

Perspectives for the harp: Anaëlle Tourret’s debut CD „perspectives“ on the Hamburg label ES DUR

October 29, 2021

On 5 November, Shiyeon Sung makes her debut with the Concertgebouworkest, conducting the world premiere of a work by Tan Dun as well as compositions by Bartók, Verbey, and Yun.

October 20, 2021

We are moving office!

October 19, 2021

A Game Of Three Dimensional Chess – The story of the COE’s reimagined summer by Simon Mundy

October 15, 2021

CD Release: Kuss Quartet with creative “Berlin Freizeit”

Cover Quatuor Tchalik

September 24, 2021

A homage – Quatuor Tchalik and the art of the string quartet

September 8, 2021

Welcome to the 2021/2022 season // new at Schimmer PR

Holger Falk releases new album with Mélodies and Chansons of Arthur Honegger on MDG Records

2021/2022 – The Dresden Philharmonic presents their new concert season

Theo Plath releases new album “Lost Times”

Mikhail Pochekin plays works of the heart

Sounding time-bridge: Vadim Gluzman connects Beethoven and Schnittke

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe will be Orchestra in Residence of the Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt from 2022

Simon Höfele takes aim at our listening comforts: New album “New Standards”

BBC Music Magazine “Concerto” Award 2021 goes to Antje Weithaas

Sicilian Mosaic: Album debut by Alessio Pianelli on the label Rubicon Classics.

One year of Corona – The Dresden Philharmonic looks back on 2020

A feeling of raging liberation: Fabian Müller is releasing his third studio album

February 15, 2021

“Conversations” – new podcast-series with Johannes Moser

February 11, 2021

Dresden Philharmonic/Marek Janowski: commemorative concert on Feb 13th – broadcast live on TV, radio, online

February 5, 2021

CD release: Quatuor Modigliani plays Haydn, Bartók and Mozart

January 12, 2021

Longlist 1/2021 of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik published

December 11, 2020

CD Release: Stavanger Symphony Orchester and Markus Stenz recorded Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7

December 9, 2020

Neues Streamingkonzert mit Harmonie Universelle

December 4, 2020

Ariadne Daskalakis completes the two-part recording of Franz Schubert’s complete violin works

November 20, 2020

CD release: “Il tabarro” with Dresden Philharmonic

November 17, 2020

ICMA-Nominations for 2021 Awards

November 13, 2020

Original Collage à trois: The Trio Imàge enlarges its unusual discography

November 10, 2020

Concerts with Harmonie Universelle

November 6, 2020

“Expressivity in its noblest form” – first releases of all Schubert symphonies with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Nikolaus Harnoncourt from 1988

November 6, 2020

“20th Century Foxtrots” – Premier recordings and new discoveries by Gottlieb Wallisch

October 16, 2020

Ivo Hentschel to become Musical Director and Chief Conductor at the Theater Hof from the 2021/2022 season

October 16, 2020

CD release: Niklas Liepe plays “GoldbergReflections”

October 13, 2020

Donaueschinger Musiktage 2020 cancelled // Opening concert on air

October 2, 2020

Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies – SEL and Christoph König release 5 CD Box

September 29, 2020

Titus Engel receives title “Conductor of the Year 2020” by Opernwelt

September 25, 2020

Ildikó Szabó with new album “Heritage” – family tradition, musical heritage and modernity

September 18, 2020

Herber Schuch releases new CD “Reflecting Beethoven”

September 2, 2020

The winners of the OPUS KLASSIK award 2020

August 28, 2020

Pianist Simon Trpčeski leads a virtuose ensemble in joyous new arrangements by Macedonian composer Pande Shahov

August 14, 2020

The Schumann Quartet dedicates itself to Franz Schubert with the new album “Fragment”

“Synchronicity” – Molyvos International Music Festival 2020 takes place as a binational event

Ticket sale for International Music Festival Koblenz starts today

CD release: Kiveli Dörken plays works by Josef Suk on her debut CD

CD release: Linos Piano Trio first recorded the complete Trios by C.P.E. Bach

Cappella Aquileia releases second Beethoven album with the “Literary Beethoven”

CD-release: Vadim Gluzman with “Distant Light” and a world premiere recording

Conductor Alejo Pérez has a new website

CD release: Quatuor Modigliani plays Schubert

Heidenheim Opera Festival 2020 cancelled

COE April concerts in Luxembourg and Paris are cancelled

CD release: “Cavalleria rusticana” with Dresden Philharmonic and Marek Janowski

Il Gondoliere Veneziano – A musical voyage trough Venice

The Kuss Quartet releases all Beethoven string quartets – recorded live on four legendary Stradivari instruments

Chamber Music between the Centuries: Diogenes Quartet releases works by Max Reger

Kuss Quartet to perform Beethoven for everyone – LIVE online

Molyvos International Music Festival takes part in Creative Europe Programme

January 31, 2020

Simon Höfele releases CD “Standards”

January 30, 2020

IMG Artists GmbH welcomes conductor Marcus Bosch to its Roster for General Management

January 28, 2020

Heidenheim celebrates the power of music

January 10, 2020

Completely impassioned by the young Verdi: CD-Release by the Heidenheim Opera Festival

January 10, 2020

Mirijam Contzen – world premiere for the opening of Sony Classical’s „Beethoven’s World“ series

December 12, 2019

Back to the future with Beethoven: The Beethoven Orchester Bonn , is getting the anniversary year of its namesake off to a highly innovative and individual start

November 27, 2019

Vadim Gluzman becomes an official Thomastik-Infeld artist

November 15, 2019

Holger Falk releases last part of the Eisler songs

November 5, 2019

Longlist 4/2019 of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik published

October 28, 2019

Antje Weithaas releases CD with works by Khachaturian

October 4, 2019

Tchaikovsky & Babajanian: New Trio Album with Vadim Gluzman, Johannes Moser and Yevgeny Sudbin

September 19, 2019

“Fin de Partie” chosen as “world premiere of the year”

September 16, 2019

CD release: Antje Weithaas plays works by Schumann and Brahms

September 9, 2019

Pianist Claire Huangci has been awarded “The Jury Prize” of the “Paris Play-Direct Academy”

September 5, 2019

A new chapter begins at Opera Vlaanderen with Alejo Pérez

Danae Dörken and Benedict Kloeckner release new recordings

Marc Bouchkov – 2nd prize and silver medal at The XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition

A picture gallery of music: The Schumann Quartet releases the new album “Chiaroscuro”

Fin de Partie_Scala_Ruth Walz

“Fin de Partie” wins International Opera Award 2019

Trio Catch: New album “As if” released on label bastille musique

The Dresden Philharmonic introduces their new Concert Season 2019/2020 with Marek Janowski as Chief Conductor

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra auf Deutschland-Tournee im April 2019

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Dramatic highlight of German classicism: Beethoven Orchester Bonn releases Beethoven’s incidental music for „Egmont“ op. 84

January 17, 2019

CD Release: Verdi‘s I Lombardi Live-Recording of the Heidenheim Opera Festival

January 11, 2019

CD release: Quatuor Modigliani plays musical miniatures

December 20, 2018

Vadim Gluzman’s new festival celebrates its premier

read more December 7, 2018

Roland Kluttig to become principal conductor of the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra and Graz Opera from 2020/21

November 30, 2018

CD release: Stephen Waarts plays Schumann and Bartók

November 23, 2018

ICMA Nominations 2019

Fin de Partie_Scala_Ruth Walz

November 20, 2018

Successful world premiere of Kurtág’s opera “Fin de Partie” with Markus Stenz in Milan

October 26, 2018

Heartfelt musicality: Fabian Müller releases piano works by Brahms on Berlin Classics

September 27, 2018

Markus Stenz conducts world première of Kurtág’s first opera “Fin de Partie” in Milan

September 10, 2018

Rehearsals for Kurtág’s opera “Fin de partie” with conductor Markus Stenz started

August 24, 2018

4th Molyvos International Music Festival – A Greek traditional village in the rhythms of classical music

The right moment for Schumann – Schumann Quartet releases new album “Intermezzo”

August 31, 2017

Simon Höfele becomes BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist

Antje Weithaas live at BBC Radio 3 In Tune

January 7, 2015

new management for the Schumann Quartet: Impressariat Simmenauer in Berlin

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Markus Stenz receives two nominations for major German recording prize

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