The entire city of Graz will be ringing out! In exotic, urban sound spaces, we unearth valuable musical treasures and invite all residents and guests to enjoy and be amazed.
As in 1985 at the birth of the Styriarte festival, violinist Thomas Zehetmair will delight us with Bach's Partita in d minor and will find his way to Mozart's ‘Jupiter Symphony’ via Flora Geißelbrecht's jubilee work.
Ö1 Klassik-Treffpunkt visits the Styriarte. Helmut Jasbar talks to artistic director Mathis Huber, violinist Thomas Zehetmair and 'Domkapellmeisterin' Melissa Dermastia live from the ORF Styria studio.
If you want to explore the sound of the Styrian capital in the cultural change of space and time, follow the GrazGuides on a listening adventure through Graz
We celebrate 400 years of Schloss Eggenberg in imperial style with Antonio Draghi's Gl'incantesimi disciolti. Who would be better qualified to narrate this enchanting Baroque opera than Ārt House 17 with Michael Hell at the harpsichord?
Theme day at Stübing: Under the direction of Marie-Theres Härtel, we immerse the Stübing Open-Air Museum in all the colours of sound with which Austrian folk music has delighted us then and now.
Evening event in Stübing: Under the direction of Marie-Theres Härtel, we immerse the Stübing Open-Air Museum in all the colours of sound with which Austrian folk music has delighted us then and now.
With music from sunrise to sunset, the world-famous King's Singers celebrate the most brilliant choral works of the English Renaissance from William Byrd to John Taverner.
Following in the footsteps of Graz operetta queen Marie Geistinger, Viennese dudel queen Agnes Palmisano and the Schrammel Orchestra wrap the high art of colouratura yodelling in a contemporary aura.
The ingenious conquest of new sounds for cello, violin and mandola has taken Matthias Bartolomey and Klemens Bittmann to the very edge of the musical universe. For us, they go one step further.
The Styriarte Festival Orchestra under the direction of Melissa Dermastia and a number of brilliant soloists pay tribute to the unrivalled sound and space of the Stefaniensaal, including Beethoven's Ninth.
Once again, it's up and down stairs in the count's palace. This time, the Empress plays hard to get with the Attems siblings. But the musicians of the Palais Attems Hofkapelle provide the enchantment with Vivaldi, Haydn and co
With ‘Wie a Glock'n’, Marianne Mendt gave birth to the much-vaunted Austropop in 1970, for which Eddie Luis and Die Gnadenlosen swing into a futuristic revival.
In the Vorau Canons' Monastery, Michael Hell on the organ with the Palais Attems Hofkapelle, the HIB.art.chor, Anna Manske and Dietrich Henschel ignite a glowing baroque Attems family celebration.
Hopkinson Smith enchants the audience in the Planetensaal with the lute book of the string visionary Pierre Gaultier, dedicated to Johann Anton von Eggenberg, and works by his colleague Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger.
In the wake of Franz Schubert's inexhaustible improptus, Ragna Schirmer seduces us with an intimate keyboard dance for the romantic trio Schubert - Chopin - Liszt.
What's greater when it's shared? Alfredo Bernardini's Zefiro Baroque Orchestra, for example, invites us on a virtuoso carousel ride with Handel, Vivaldi and Telemann.
The interpretation of the excellent Haydn Quartet is as moving as Joseph Haydn's interpretation of the seven last words of the Crucified in music. Where could you dig deeper than at Calvary?
It hits us with all its might: Antoine Brumel's ‘Earthquake Mass’, as the innovative Belgian vocal ensemble Graindelavoix brings the Renaissance work vehemently into the present day.
Styriarte’s “kids’ captain” Christoph Steiner and the Schwundi-Gang invite the youngest audience on an adventurous treasure hunt through the music of everyday life.
In the spiritual centre of the festival, the parish church of Stainz, maestro Michael Hofstetter and the festival orchestra will build a bridge from Haydn's earliest church works to his last mass.
Countertenor Valer Sabadus shines with the most charming Scarlatti arias written for 'Pignattino', Eggenberg's castrato. And then it's time for the picnic.
The Spanish devil violinist Lina Tur Bonet drives us to ecstasy with Biber's Rosary Sonatas, and we celebrate this with a double pack. 15 sonatas in two evenings.
The Spanish devil violinist Lina Tur Bonet drives us to ecstasy with Biber's Rosary Sonatas, and we celebrate this with a double pack. 15 sonatas in two evenings.
Countertenor Terry Wey, bass Ulfried Staber and sound engineer Markus Wallner build a monumental vocal edifice out of Thomas Tallis' forty-part motet 'Spem in alium' in the Mausoleum.
In a cosmic flight of fancy, the Styriarte Youth Orchestra, Mei-Ann Chen and the light art collective OchoReSotto intoxicate us with Holst's Planets Suite and star warriors from Hollywood.
In 'his' castle and cathedral in Graz, we enjoy a music festival for Emperor Friedrich III, organised by the ensembles Oni Wytars, Cinquecento and Capella Helvetica.
Elves, fairies, goblins, witches – a dream, a ghostly haunting, set to music by a child prodigy. The 16-year-old Felix Mendelssohn’s stroke of genius can be heard together with Fanny’s String Quartet in E flat and three short Kühr quartets.
‘The Show Must Go On’ for Elisabeth Fuchs, the Styriarte Festival Orchestra, the HIB.art.chor as well as Monika Ballwein and Philipp Büttner, this time in Freddie Mercury stereo sound.
In the magnificent sound space of the Helmut List Hall, the exceptional pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard explores the body of his piano with Mark Andre's profound work '... selig ist ...'.
The South African Kristian Bezuidenhout refreshes us on the fortepiano in a liaison with the Consone Quartet. Including Mozart's Piano Quintet K 452 and his Piano Concerto K 415.
At the first Palais Attems Vocal Academy, Grande Dame Emma Kirkby introduces the next generation of singers to the techniques of early vocal music with the magnificent 'Cantiones Sacrae' by Heinrich Schütz.
The battle of the young enters the next round in the competition between a cappella vocal ensembles for the crown. The audience and the expert jury will choose the winners of the Styriarte Sessions #4!
Choir professor Erwin Ortner gets the Arnold Schoenberg Choir and us all in the mood for German folk songs as performed by Brahms, Schubert and others.
Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI will devote themselves to the Elizabethan consort songs of William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and others, with six gambas and two voices.
Organ expert Peter Waldner takes us on a voyage of discovery through the sound of the baroque Styrian organ and unearths many a musical treasure from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI and their multinational guests from both sides of the Atlantic will take you on an exhilarating journey around the world in the footsteps of Creole music.
Clara and Robert Schumann were a unique couple. In the heart of German Romanticism, US pianist Claire Huangci delights with virtuoso quotes from their creative love affair in black and white.
Ingmar Beck and Moldovan violinist Alexandra Tirsu pile up the most exciting string sounds of Dvořák and Tchaikovsky to create a grandiose season finale in the sound of Romanticism.
What a virtuoso hit to start the season with Mozart's Oboe Concerto in the hands of the first oboist of the Vienna Volksoper, Katharina Kratochwil. Conductor Tobias Wögerer also brings a breath of fresh air with Johann Christian Bach's exciting Symphony in G minor.
Who could be better suited to the dense mountain of sound of the Bach clan than Bach Prize winner Ursina Braun? In the dark dress of the baroque cello, she performs the daring ride from Johann Sebastian's third Brandenburg Concerto to his first two sons.
In the most poignant corners of France, Mei-Ann Chen presents George Bizet's fiery Carmen, his moving L'Arlesienne Suite No.1 and the unflappable Louise Farrenc's Third Symphony.
Michael Hell will flood the Minoritensaal with the most beautiful pastoral songs from Telemann to Händel in a radiant and masterly performance on the recorder, the harpsichord and the organ, and will crown the evening with Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto.
Together with the Camerata Styria, excellent singers under the baton of Maestro Michael Hofstetter, we will be intoxicated with fantastic highlights from Handel's absolute masterpiece Messiah.
The young star conductor Nil Veditti impresses us with Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and the fast-paced Sports Show Suite by Shostakovich's favourite student Galina Ustvolskaya.
Master pianist Bernd Glemser lures us into the beauties of Weber's Concerto in F minor for Piano and Orchestra, while principal conductor Mei-Ann Chen brings out the best in Weber's Freischütz Overture and Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.
Devil violinist Lina Tur Bonet is back to fill the magnificent Minoritensaal with a baroque masterpiece somewhere between Bach in Leipzig and Vivaldi in Venice.
Haydn's magnificent sound paintings of nature, the Symphony No. 6 ‘Le Matin’ and the Symphony No. 59 are conducted by Wolfgang Redik on the violin. In between, Giovanni Bottesini's sinfully heavy second double bass concerto sparkles from the virtuoso hands of Dominik Wagner.
Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon created 'Dance Card' as a tribute to the lyricism and passion of music, and Principal Conductor Mei-Ann Chen immerses us in Rachmaninov's breathtaking 'Symphonic Dances'.
We revel in the beautiful sounds of the Baroque with the oboe magician Alfredo Bernardini from Rome and another European journey in splendour, this time to Bach, Telemann, Fux and Fasch.
Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer envelops us from the podium in Edvard Grieg's famous Peer Gynt Suites. This incomparable work of romantic magic culminates in a profound dance with one's own shadow by clarinet genius David Orlowsky.
Conductor Ingmar Beck surprises us at the end of the season with baroque visions of fire, water, earth and air. Violinist Alexandra Tirsu counters with Oscar winner Rachel Portman's touching dream journey through the elements.
