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.
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.
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.
The Quatuor Akilone and the Pacific Quartet Vienna meet in the string counterpart of visionary Gerd Kühr, before coming together in Mendelssohn's Octet.
‘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.
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!
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.
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.
Mei-Ann Chen and the Recreation Orchestra remind us of the most famous love story of all time. Prokofiev and Bernstein breathe new life into Romeo and Juliet with immortal melodies and irrepressible rhythm.
To mark the 200th birthday of the Waltz King, actress Ursula Strauss and Wolfgang Redik as a violinist cum conductor invite you to a rousing Strauss celebration in 3/4 time.
US star violinist Melissa White takes us on a journey into the touching romance of the "Butterfly Lovers". Mei-Ann Chen crowns the animal evening with mystical love stories from the Parisian "Belle Époque".
Off to Napoli in the 18th century! From Scarlatti to Paisiello, Michael Hell and baritone Adrian Eröd embark on a wonderful-sounding journey to the south.
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.
The virtuoso rendezvous of the Styrian duo Desustu not only combines baroque with pop, jazz with Bach or Piazzolla with Jackson, but also Thaïs-Bernarda Bauer's delicate piano sound with Alexander Christof's powerful accordion playing.
Rafael Catalá and Ensemble Música Ibérica take us back to the Iberian Peninsula with beautiful 500-year-old music performed by three specialists in guitar, oriental percussion and Swedish nyckelharpa
