Liedzentrum Heidelberg

19/10/2023

Wow, we are still overwhelmed by the terrific performance of our new Liedakademie-scholars in the master class with the great Thomas Hampson! ✨

Big shout out to the young talents who are conquering the world of lied as we speak. 🎶

.es.f.a .soprano

25/09/2023

First public master class with the new scholars! ✨️

Join the new scholarship holders of the Liedakademie for their first public master class with renowned baritone and fabulous artistic director of the academy !

💫 Free admission for students! 💫

✨️ October 14, 2 pm
✨️Eugen-Biser-Saal (Haus der Begegnung)

25/09/2023

First public master class with the new scholars! ✨

Join the new scholarship holders of the Liedakademie for their first public master class with renowned baritone and fabulous artistic director of the academy Thomas Hampson!

✨ Free admission for students! ✨

🗓️ October 14, 14:00
📍 Eugen-Biser-Saal (Haus der Begegnung)

https://www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/veranstaltung/liedakademie-oeffentliche-meisterklasse-thomas-hampson-und-stipendiatinnen-der-liedakademie/

19/12/2022

Don't miss out on discovering the Lied-Artists of tomorrow - all dates & tickets to our Wettbewerb "Das Lied" 2023 established by singing legend and Lied expert Thomas Quasthoff are available now online!

March 1 to 5, 2023 | Heidelberg
heidelberger-fruehling.de/wettbewerb-das-lied

+++All competition rounds will be broadcastet live on Facebook and our Website+++

28/11/2022

Finally again on March 12th: five selected Liedduos get to work with Anna Lucia Richter and Ammiel Bushakevitz on the interpretation of art songs. The stunning mezzo-soprano and the brilliante pianist are passing on all their artistic and musicological expertise and vast concert experience to the new Liedgeneration. We are very happy to be partnering with them in this fabulous project.

Apply now! All information about the master class and the application:
https://www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/en/master-class-song-interpretation-with-anna-lucia-richter-and-ammiel-bushakevitz/

Anna Lucia Richter - Mezzosopran

Liedzentrum Master Class Lied Interpretation with Anna Lucia Richter and Ammiel Bushakevitz The internationally acclaimed Liedduo Anna Lucia Richter (mezzo-soprano) and Ammiel Bushakevitz (piano) have developed a sponsorship project together with the German Music Council. On the day after their conc...

22/11/2022

Amazing news: Two former scholars and two current scholars of our Liedakademie were awarded at the International Student LiedDuo Competition in Groningen, Netherlands!🎵 Baritone Giacomo Schmidt and pianist Jong Sun Woo won first prize and soprano Mira Alkhovik and pianist Alla Belova were awarded second! Huge congratulations to the four of you!!!

📷 Annemone Taake

Giacomo Schmidt JongSun Woo Alla Belova Thomas Hampson The Hampsong Foundation Pierre Boulez Saal International Student LiedDuo Competition

21/11/2022

After their first module with artistic director Thomas Hampson, the scholars of the Lied Academy 2022/23 are already looking forward to the Schubert Week in the beginning of 2023. In the meantime you’ll be able to get to know them and their motivations a bit better… stay tuned!

https://www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/liedzentrum/liedakademie/

📷 Annemone Taake

Thomas Hampson The Hampsong Foundation Pierre Boulez Saal

19/11/2022

Benjamin Appl at the Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival 2023!! The star baritone has been close with us for years - as a former scholarship holder of our Liedakademie, as a prize winner of our Liedwettbewerb and as a regular guest in our festival concerts. Last but not least, he is one of the greatest advocats for the gerne of Lied, a passion that we equally share. ❤

We are more than happy to welcome him back to Heidelberg at the 2023 Musikfestival. Together with stunning accordeon player Martynas Levickis he embarks on a musical journey to Vienna, Berlin, Paris and New York - cities where the encounter of ethnicities, religions, milieus and aesthetics has created melting pots for new music.

On the programme are works by Gustav Mahler, Maurice Ravel, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein and others.

https://www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/veranstaltung/benjamin-appl-martynas-levickis-wien-paris-berlin-new-york/

📷 Uwe Arens/Sony Classical

Benjamin Appl Martynas Levickis

17/11/2022

What is the significance of song today, where do we want to see it in the future, and how do we build a sustainable song network? We spent two days talking about this with experts, artists, journalists and song lovers. Thank you to all who participated for the great exchange!

Stay tuned to find out more details about our very first Liedkonferenz in Heidelberg!

13/11/2022

Gratulation, liebe Ketty! 🥳😊
Die Sopranistin am Staatstheater Cottbus hat den Max-Grünebaum-Preis erhalten. In der Saison 2020/21 war sie Stipendiatin unserer Liedakademie und hat unter anderem beim Kurzfilmprojekt "Lied me!" mitgewirkt. Habt ihr ihren Film schon gesehen?
➡ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yvxI4NJxsM

Ketty Chuntishvili Thomas Hampson The Hampsong Foundation

LIED ME! | Unpack - Reflect - Vibrate9 short films, presenting new angles of what Lied can mean ►https://www.lied-me.art-------------------------------------...

12/11/2022

"I wish us women the courage to speak out what we think and feel. That's what I want to fight for with this programme: to be daring despite contradictions of what we feel, what we want to be and how we identify ourselves."

Soprano Josefine Göhmann about her programme "Frauenbilder - réBelles! le concert"

Tuesday, November 15, 7.30 pm
Betriebswerk Heidelberg
➡ https://www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/veranstaltung/josefine-goehmann-mario-haering-frauenbilder/

📷 Alice Brendler-Carter

Josefine Göhmann Mario Häring

16/10/2022

We proudly present the NEW SCHOLARS OF THE LIED ACADEMY 2022/23!! 😍

Soprano Mira Alkhovik | Pianist Alla Belova | Baritone Josua Bernbeck | Baritone Gerrit Illenberger | Baritone David Kennedy | Pianist Cole Knutson | Mezzosoprano Lyla Levy-Jordan | Soprano Birita Poulsen | Baritone Jonas Müller | Bass Jakob Schad, | Mezzosoprano Nadine Süssenbach | Pianist Yuriko Watanabe. Pianist Elitsa Desseva, who was scholar last year, accompagnies the new scholars throughout their Academy year.

These 12 amazingly talented young singers and pianists were selected to the year-round program after last week's auditions. The first Academy module started right away: individual coachings with Artistic Director Thomas Hampson, a photo shoot, settling in with their Heidelberg host families and of course getting to know each other. We are more than excited to see (and hear!) a lot more of these talented young artists!

Stay tuned to get to know them and see what their Academy year has in store for them! 🎵

📷 Annemone Taake

Mira Alkhovik Gerrit IlIenberger David Kennedy Lyla Levy-Jordan Birita Poulsen Jonas Müller Yuriko Watanabe Elitsa Desseva Thomas Hampson The Hampsong Foundation Pierre Boulez Saal

02/10/2022

Congratulations to baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber!! Their CD "Schumann - Alle Lieder" is receiving one of the ten prestigious Annual Awards given by the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik.

The 11-part CD box with all of Schumann's songs was already awarded the Diapason d'Or Arte in 2021. And on top Christian Gerhaher won the Opus Klassik for it in the category "Soloistic Recording" this year.

We are more than proud and happy to have been part of this wonderful co-production together with Sony Classical and BR-KLASSIK. 😍

01/10/2022

Are you a student or pupil? Then you get to experience a Lied master class for free!
Star baritone Thomas Hampson will work with the newly selected scholarship holders of the Lied Academy on their skills.

▪ Saturday, October 15, 2 p.m.
▪ Biser-Saal, Heidelberg
▪ Free entry for students and pupils; tickets online available

Universität Heidelberg Pierre Boulez Saal The Hampsong Foundation

25/09/2022

Balm for every Lied-lover’s soul: In a three hour contribution baritone Benjamin Appl raves about the art song – a passion that we equally share! ❤ At WDR Klassik Forum he reveals how the genre masters to depict the whole world and all human emotions in a miniature. And it gets even better: the broad cast is embellished by beautiful lieder sung by the exceptional baritone himself.

What's your favourite song?😊

🎧 https://bit.ly/3BpsP0B

📷 Uwe Arens/Sony Classical

23/09/2022

We’re over the moon with so many great applications from all over the world for the next round of our Lied Academy! In October, the audition process will determine the scholarship holders – and directly after, on October 15, you can experience the newly admitted artists in an open masterclass with the brilliant Thomas Hampson 🙌

▪️ October 15, 2 pm
▪️ Heidelberg, Eugen-Biser-Saal at Haus der Begegnung
▪️ Tickets: https://www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/heidelberger-fruehling/programm/veranstaltung/?id=51117 | Free admission for pupils and students!

The Hampsong Foundation Pierre Boulez Saal

18/09/2022

Josefine Göhmann breaks boundaries: The versatile soprano connects themes and epochs and asks the big questions of our society. In "FRAUENBILER - réBelles! le concert" together with pianist Mario Häring she illuminates the images of women in 20th century art - from virgin to heroine. Songs are equated with paintings and serve as starting points for the current discourse: Which female roles persist even today? How can women and society free themselves from them?

🎵 FRAUENBILER - réBelles! le concert
📅 November 15th, 7.30 pm, Betriebswerk Heidelberg
🎫 Tickets are available from Monday 10 am
💡 student tickets for 8 € at the box office
➡️ https://bit.ly/3qGFmb9

📷 Alice Brendler-Carter

Josefine Göhmann - Soprano Mario Häring - Pianist Betriebswerk

24/08/2022

One week to go to apply for Das Lied! Don’t miss your chance to participate in the International Song Competition and apply online now 🙌

The 2023 edition will take place from March 1 to 5 and is open to singers born in 1991 or later.

Find all information on das-lied.com/en/competition/registration/

Thomas Quasthoff Juliane Banse Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher

06/08/2022

25 days left to apply for »Das Lied« 2023– join the competition!

The top-class jury from the world of Lied is looking forward to your participation. We’re happy to present to you the »Das Lied« jury:

Thomas Quasthoff (Chair)
James Baillieu
Juliane Banse
Bernarda Fink
John Gilhooly
Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
Richard Stokes
James Taylor
Justus Zeyen

Find detailed information on the jury and competition on https://www.das-lied.com/en/

05/08/2022

One week to go! Apply till next Friday for the Lied Academy 2022/23 and become part of our Heidelberg Lied-Family!😍

🎵 https://www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/en/song-centre/projects/lied-akademie/

Julia Duscher Katrīna Paula Felsberga Isabel Weller - Sopran Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Beatriz Miranda Yuriy Hadzetskyy Giacomo Schmidt Zhuohan Sun Elitsa Desseva Benjamin Appl Teodora Oprisor Rebeka Stojkoska JongSun Woo Theresa Pilsl Daniel Gerzenberg Thomas Hampson Pierre-Boulez-Saal Hampsong Foundation Susan Manoff

26/07/2022

+++ Application deadline for Das Lied in 5 weeks +++

Apply until August 31 and become part of Das Lied 🙌
The 2023 edition of the International Song Competition will take place from March 1 to 5 in Heidelberg. Participants can look forward to a wide range of prizes. Not only is there the opportunity to win one of the three main prizes, but also special prizes such as the audience prize or the pianist’s prize. Other opportunities to look out for are the SWR2 special prize that includes a production of a studio recording with the first prize winner or the prospects of engagements from international partners of the Song Centre.

🔎 Find all details about the application and prizes on https://www.das-lied.com/en/

Thomas Quasthoff

12/07/2022

Call for Applications! As of today, singers and pianists can apply for the Lied Academy 2022/23.

🌟 Application online from July 12 to August 12
🌟 No duo rating, but audition as an existing duo possible
🌟 Born in 1993 or later
🌟 submitting of 2 video recordings (1 song of choice by Franz Schubert / 1 song by any chosen composer)
🌟 general availability for the audition from 11.-12. October 2022 in Heidelberg and the modules of the Lied Academy 2022/23

All information about the Lied Academy and application ➡️ https://bit.ly/3OQ32E8

Thomas Hampson Pierre Boulez Saal The Hampsong Foundation

11/07/2022

You are part of a Lied duo and looking for a further education opportunity? Maybe the master classes with Anna Lucia Richter - Mezzosopran and pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz might be perfect for you!

Throughout the 2022/23 season, Anna Lucia Richter and Ammiel Bushakevitz offer master classes for selected Lied duos. The classes will take place in different locations in Germany, following the duo's "LICHT!" concerts.

Find all information about the public and free master classes on our website: https://www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/en/song-centre/projects/meisterkurs-lied-interpretation/

SWR2 Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien
Photos: Susanne Lencinas

09/07/2022

Be part of Das Lied and apply now!
Applications are open until August 31 – we’re looking forward to your participation!

Being one of the most important vocal competitions worldwide, Das Lied is held biennially. It was launched by Thomas Quasthoff in 2009 and has been hosted by the International Song Centre Heidelberg for the last seven years. The 2023 edition will take place from March 1st to 5th in Heidelberg: maybe with you?

All info: https://www.das-lied.com/en/competition/registration/

07/07/2022

We'd like to share with you this Facebook group all about Lied: post your favourite songs, discover new ones and talk to other Lied enthusiasts!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/360088495543824

Photo: Konstantin Ingenpaß & Arminio Quartet by studio visuell

05/07/2022

Attention, aspiring pianists and singers: our Lied Academy is starting a new year!!
In the 2022/23 season, young singers and pianists from all over the world will once again have the opportunity to take part in the year-round support program which takes you to Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin in January or to our Liedfestival in June.

In addition to the Masterclasses with Artistic Director Thomas Hampson and other international greats in the field, the Lied Academy offers you to constructively reflect on your own work through a variety of coaching, workshop and discussion formats and to be part of the dense network of our Liedzentrum.

Groundbreaking special projects have developed out of the Lied Academy in recent years, such as the short film project LIED ME! (https://www.lied-me.art/en/), which is nominated for the OPUS Klassik. In addition, many former scholarship holders such as Nadine Sierra, Benjamin Appl or Elsa Dreisig are pursuing successful and impressive career paths.

++++Application for Lied Academy 2022/23 from July 12th to August 12th++++
Find all information on our website ➡️ https://bit.ly/3NIxHlp

The Hampsong Foundation Theresa Pilsl Daniel Gerzenberg Jeeyoung Lim Anna Beatriz Miranda Neto Katrīna Paula Felsberga Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Elitsa Desseva Giacomo Schmidt JongSun Woo Rebeka Stojkoska Teodora Oprisor Yuriy Hadzetskyy Zhuohan Sun Julia Duscher Isabel Weller - Sopran Joha Leu

05/07/2022

01/07/2022

Our short film project LIED ME! is nominated for the OPUS KLASSIK in the category "Music Clip" 💚We are more than happy about the nomination and are looking forward to the big award ceremony on October 9 in the Konzerthaus Berlin!
Big thanks to all involved in the artistic project!

BOOMTOWN MEDIA Mauerfuchs Uwe Dierks Thomas Grube Sounds Like Van Spirit Ketty Chuntishvili Theresa Pilsl F***y Soyer Jerica Steklasa Ema Nikolovska Irena Weber Conrad Daniel Gerzenberg Kunal Lahiry Justine Eckhaut Jeeyoung Lim
✨ Klaus Tschira Stiftung, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg

23/06/2022

One year, twelve talented young singers and pianists, and countless wonderful experiences: that was the 2021/22 Lied Academy!
Under the artistic direction of Thomas Hampson, singers and pianists further developed their skills, explored Lied and grew individually as well as together as a group. From the first classes in Heidelberg in October 2021 over the Schubert Week in the Pierre Boulez Saal in January 2022 to the recent last module in Heidelberg during our festival Neuland.Lied, we are amazed by the talent and dedication to Lied of all the scholarship holders!
We wish you the very best and hope to see you again in Heidelberg! 💙

Pierre Boulez Saal Thomas Hampson Julia Duscher Katrīna Paula Felsberga Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Yuriy Hadzetskyy Zhuohan Sun Elitsa Desseva Teodora Oprisor Rebeka Stojkoska JongSun Woo

20/06/2022

We are still more than overwhelmed by the journey we embarked on exploring Lied in all its facets, formats and actuality! 🎵 Yesterday, after 9 thrilling days with 23 events, the first edition of our new festival Neuland.Lied came to an end.

We would like to say a huge thank you to all our wonderful artists 😍 - for their dedication to song and their creativity!

A special thank you to our audience, who enthusiastically joined in on the journey!!

📸 Susanne Lencinas, Studio visuell photography, Susanne Reichardt

20/06/2022

Yesterday the first edition of our new song festival Neuland.Lied came to an end. 🎵

In 23 events over 9 days and with a total of 96 artists, we have explored Neuland:
Be it with original formats such as the Kunstlied-SLAM, in which the audience decided by applauding which composer set the poems by Heine or Goethe best to music; be it with The Erlkings, who elegantly arranged songs by Schumann and made them playable for their very own special line-up of percussion, cello, tuba, guitar and vocals in English; be it with "Saudade Zweig", in which the life and works of Stefan and Lotte Zweig, their secrets and their tragedy were brought to the stage as song theatre; or with the Schubert Lounge, where the great song composer sounded as a singer-songwriter of the 70s!

We would like to say thank you:
All the wonderful and creative artists who took us on this journey to Neuland.Lied!
Our audience who happily embarked with us!

📸 Susanne Lencinas & Nico Rademacher

Marlis Petersen Matthias Lademann

18/06/2022

Our Neuland.Lied festival is almost over - come and see one of our final concerts tomorrow!😊

🎵 Sun, 19.06., 6.30 p.m., auditorium of the new university
"Innenwelt": Soprano Marlis Petersen and pianist Matthias Lademann invite you on a journey into the interior with songs between late romanticism and early modernity including Brahms, Liszt, Duparc, Fauré and more!

🎵 Sun, 19.06., 7.30 p.m., Department 16
"Sleep cycle of an insomniac": curator and pianist Kunal Lahiry together with the singers F***y Soyer, Hagar Sharvit and Jeeyoung Lim move between tiredness and insomnia. Works and songs by Mahler, Wolf, Crumb, Aperghis and more!

Tickets & Info: https://www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/neulandlied

17/06/2022

🔜 Two fantastic afternoon concerts this weekend with young artists!

💚 Sat, June 18, 4 p.m.
"Meine Liebe ist grün": soprano Katharina Conradi, mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison and pianist Joseph Middleton bridge the gap between German and French song culture around nature idylls.

⛰️ Sun, June 19, 4 p.m.
"Wander(er)-Wege": The four-language concert with baritone Mikhail Timoshenko and pianist Elitsa Desseva is about wandering and life in a faraway place - topics that both of them, as expats themselves, are directly concerned with.

Tickets & info: https://www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/heidelberger-fruehling/programm-tickets/neulandlied-2022/ =2/,,,Neuland.Lied,

✨8 € student tickets available at the box office

15/06/2022

Throwback to yesterday’s concert at Wilson theatre with the fantastic Trio Kronthaler! Thank you for this wonderful concert showing us what forms Lied can take by creatively arranging songs from Monteverdi and Purcell to The Police and Smashing Pumpkins 💙
You’re intrigued by this comfy-looking concert hall? Join us on Friday for the Kunstlied-SLAM and vote for your favorite musical version of famous poems!

🔹 Friday, June 17, 7.30 p.m.
🔹 Wilson-Theater, Heidelberg-Rohrbach
🔹 tickets & info: https://www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/heidelberger-fruehling/programm/veranstaltung/?id=48626
🔸 8 € student tickets available at the box office!

Photos: Susanne Lencinas

14/06/2022

Check out today's SWR2 lunchtime concert at 1.05 pm with the replay of Johannes Boris Borowski's song cycle "Nobody", which was premiered in the Heidelberger Frühling music festival. 🎧

➡️ https://www.swr.de/swr2/musik-klassik/internationales-musikfestival-heidelberger-fruehling-2022-swr2-mittagskonzert-2022-06-14-100.html

Lisa Florentine Schmalz (Sopran)Boglárka Pecze (Klarinette)Mariana Popova (Klavier)George Crumb:Three early songs"The night in silence" aus ApparitionFranz Lachner:Lyrisches Intermezzo und Frauenliebe und -leben op. 82Alban Berg:4 Stücke op. 5 für Klarinette und KlavierLouis Spohr:6 deu...

13/06/2022

The Lied Academy under the artistic direction of Thomas Hampson has established itself as an annual meeting place for classically trained young singers and pianists. As part of the new liedfestival Neuland.Lied the talented scholarship holders of the current year can be experienced in the public masterclass. Watch the musicians work with Thomas Hampson on musical techniques and Lied interpretation and see them evolve artistically!

12/06/2022

The Lied Academy under the artistic direction of Thomas Hampson has established itself as an annual meeting place for classically trained young singers and pianists. As part of the new liedfestival Neuland.Lied the talented scholarship holders of the current year can be experienced in the public masterclass. Watch the musicians work with Thomas Hampson on musical techniques and Lied interpretation and see them evolve artistically!

11/06/2022

Franz Schubert as a singer-songwriter from the 70s? You can experience that tomorrow at the SCHUBERT LOUNGE at our festival Neuland.Lied! Eivind Buene, the Norwegian composer, improviser & writer, together with mezzo-soprano Tora Augestad, baritone Halvor Festervoll Melien and the Oslo Sinfonietta, will perform Schubert's songs in a completely new guise - art song classics very up-to-date and close to everyday life!

🎸 Sunday, June 12, 2022, 6:30 p.m.
📍 Aula of Neue Universität
🎟 Tickets available in the webshop and at the box office
✨ 8 € tickets for students and pupils available at the box office

Photo: Julia Naglestad

11/06/2022

Anna Lucia Richter - Mezzosopran made a guest appearance on BR-KLASSIK to talk about her program " Licht!", which she will perform together with Ammiel Bushakevitz at the first edition of our new festival Neuland.Lied today at 4 pm! Get in the mood for the concert! Remaining tickets are available at the box office.

https://www.br-klassik.de/audio/anna-lucia-richter-ueber-neulandlied-100.html

Schon seit 2016 gab es einen Kunstlied-Schwerpunkt beim Heidelberger Frühling - und weil das so gut ankam, ist daraus jetzt ein eigenständiges Festival geworden. Es heißt "Neuland.Lied" und macht sich zur Aufgabe, das Lied mit aktuellen Themen der Gegenwart zu verbinden und die Darstellungsformen...

10/06/2022

The music of a whole night: that's what you can experience at our concert „Schlafzyklus eines Schlaflosen“ ("Sleep Cycle of an Insomniac") on June 19 at Dezernat 16! Curator and pianist Kunal Lahiry - Pianist, together with singers F***y Soyer and Hagar Sharvit, treads the consciousness trail between fatigue and insomnia, between restless dreams and sudden awakenings. A stimulating exploration of the phases of darkness and the memories that arise in the process!

✨ Saturday, June 19, 7:30 p.m.
✨ Dezernat 16
✨ 8€ Tickets available for students
Info and tickets: https://www.heidelberger-fruehling.de/en/heidelberger-fruehling/programm/veranstaltung/?id=48724