STYRIARTE FESTIVAL 2012

Styriarte 2012
June 22 July 22

The styriarte Festival was founded in 1985. Johann Sebastian Bach was in the centre of the first Festival programme, later years focused on Monteverdi, Haydn, Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Since 1992 the styriarte Festival has explored themes like "Summer Night Dream", "Sites and Sounds", "Fractures and Links", "Traces of the Mythical" or "Simply Classical!". In 1998/99, the styriarte Festival launched a new series of themes with "Paradise Lost?" and "Tell me, Love" which culminated in "The power of music" in 2003. In 2004 ("From time to time"), in 2005 ("Sensual") and in 2006 ("Finally happy") the styriarte festival started to question models of world explanation. The following years saw themes dedicated to water (2008), to the dignity of mankind (2009) and now, in 2010, it deals with the “homeland”, focussing, in particular, on the Austrian homeland. In 2011 styriarte took a closer look on “The Difficult Easy” in music. This year the Festival tells a story of “Family People”.

Here's the programme of the events in which a Fazioli piano will be on stage:

July 1^st Helmut-List-Halle, Graz: "Geliebte Clara"
Martina Janková , soprano
Thomas E. Bauer, baritone
Eszter Haffner, violin
Julian Steckel, violoncello
Alexander Schimpf, piano
Mavie Hörbiger, as Clara Schumann
Michael Maertens, as Robert Schumann
The Programme

July 4^th Helmut-List-Halle, Graz: "Mein göttlicher Richard"
Elisabeth Kulman, mezzo-soprano
Bernd Glemser, piano
Solisten des Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Senta Berger, as Cosima Wagner
The Programme

July 5^th Stefaniensaal, Graz: "Mozart und Sohn"
Isabelle van Keulen, violin
Nils Mönkemeyer, viola
Danjulo Ishizaka, violoncello
Markus Schirmer, piano
The Programme

July 8^th Helmut-List-Halle, Graz: "Immer der Felix"
Bibiana Nwobilo, soprano
Christopher Hinterhuber, piano
Solisten des Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Christine Neubauer, as Fanny Mendelssohn
The Programme

July 13^th Helmut-List-Halle, Graz: "Brahms, einsam"
Isabelle Faust, violine
Alexander Melnikov, piano
Teunis van der Zwart, natural horn
The Programme

July 20^th Helmut-List-Halle, Graz: "Tzigane"
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Emilia Kopatchinskaja, Violine
Viktor Kopatchinsky, Cymbal
Mihaela Ursuleasa, piano
Martin Gjakonovski, contrabass
The Programme

For the complete programme of the Festival, click here.