Eckelshausen Music Days
The Eckelshausen Music Days are an international chamber music festival that takes place annually in May and June in Eckelshausen , Marburg-Biedenkopf district . First organized in 1987 by the founder Annemarie Gottfried-Frost , the artistic direction of the 10-day event is now with the renowned cellist Julius Berger .
Artist
National and international artists and groups, such as the Philharmonia Schrammeln of the Vienna Philharmonic , the Vienna Boys' Choir , the Potsdam Chamber Academy , Christian Altenburger , Gunther Rost , the Korean Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra , the Duo Tal Groethuysen , Ib Hausmann , Norman Shetler , Puppet Players , Gilead Mishory , Alina Pogostkina , Martin Stadtfeld , Vogler-Quartett and the Ensemble for Early Music Augsburg appear at the festival.
Venues
In addition to the Schartenhof, the festival venues are the glass pavilion of the Velte company and the church in Eckelshausen, the atrium of the Roth-Werke in Buchenau , Wittgenstein Castle in Bad Laasphe , the old auditorium in the town hall in Biedenkopf , the collegiate church in Wetter , the monastery church in Caldern and the Martinskirche in Dautphe .
motto
Every year a different motto determines the festival theme:
- 1998 50 years of Israel
- 1999 masters and their master students
- 2000 Connected through music
- 2001 time and eternity
- 2002 fairy tales in music
- 2003 inspiration Italy
- 2004 nature and music
- 2005 Europe
- 2006 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 2007 Schubertiade
- 2008 Alpha and Omega
- 2009 folk tunes
- 2010 romance
- 2011 Vienna
- 2012 royal music
- 2013 dialogue
- 2014 gemstones
- 2015 second way
- 2016 humanity
- 2017 Midsummer Night's Dream
literature
- Katharina and Heinz Zürcher: Eckelshausener Musiktage. Friends of the Eckelshausener Musiktage e. V., Biedenkopf 1996