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Concerts & projcets

In Kronberg stars of today make music with stars of tomorrow; leading contemporary artists give performances with outstanding next-generation musicians. The concerts, public tuition sessions and public rehearsals all provide opportunities for audiences to become stakeholders in these great musical moments. Get close to music and the artists!

Current event

Year
Month
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Lied im Casals Forum
CHRISTIAN GERHAHER - ABENDRÖTHE
Gerhaher, Huber

Participants

  • Christian Gerhaher Baritone
  • Gerold Huber piano

Programme

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Selected Songs

Manfred Trojahn (*1949)
Abendröthe (Eleven Songs on Texts by Friedrich Schlegel)

 

Subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Jazz@Casals
COHEN & AVISHAI
Avishai, Cohen

Participants

  • Avishai Cohen trumpet
  • Yonathan Avishai piano

Programme

Avishai Cohen is regarded as a defining innovator of contemporary jazz. In duo with his childhood friend Yonathan Avishai, he continually reimagines jazz standards in a style that is intimate, free, and deeply expressive.

 

Subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Concerti Brillanti
Concerti Brillanti: STURM UND GLANZ
Carmeli, European Orchestra Academy, Kahrer

Participants

  • Alexandra Kahrer cello
  • Itamar Carmeli piano
  • European Orchestra Academy

Programme

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Sinfonia in B minor, RV 169 “Al Santo Sepolcro”

Johann S. Bach (1685–1750)
Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756–1791)
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

 

Subject to change

Tickets
30 / 40 / 50 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Bach im Fluss
BACH UND WOHLTEMPERIERTES KLAVIER
Chang, Hewitt

Participants

  • Hana Chang violin
  • Angela Hewitt piano

Programme

PRELUDE

Johann S. Bach (1685–1750)
Preludes and Fugues from “The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I & II”

 

INTERLUDE

Johann S. Bach (1685–1750)
Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001

 

POSTLUDE

Johann S. Bach (1685–1750)
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903

 

Subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Lied im Casals Forum
LEA DESANDRE - IDYLLE
Desandre, Dunford

Participants

  • Lea Desandre mezzo soprano
  • Thomas Dunford Lute

Programme

Selected chansons by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Claude Debussy, Reynaldo Hahn, Jacques Offenbach, Françoise Hardy, Barbara, Sébastien Le Camus, and others.

 

Subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Chor im Casals Forum
ORA SINGERS - SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE
ORA Singers, Suzi Digby

Participants

  • ORA Singers
  • Suzi Digby director

Programme

Selected songs by Jonathan Dove, Bob Chilcott, Richard Allain, Michael Cavendish, Thomas Morley, Orlando Gibbons, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, and others. 

 

Subject to change

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
A guest at the Casals Forum
IDENTIGRATION
Bridges Kammerorchester – The composing orchestra, Dahlhoff

Participants

  • Bridges Kammerorchester – The composing orchestra
  • Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff director

Programme

Atefeh Einali (*1990)
I am from Nowhere

Peter Klohmann (*1986)
Identigration?

Walid Khatba (*1982)
Mosaik am Main

Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff (*1982)
Concertino for Chamber Orchestra

Andrés Rosales (*1988)
Recuentos

 

Further works will be announced at a later date. The works have been composed or arranged by members of the orchestra.

Tickets plus fees available from www.frankfurtticket.de

 

Subject to change

Organizer: Bridges – Musik verbindet gGmbH

Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Kids@Casals
TINY BRIDGES
Bussa, Dalferth, Seck, Vock, Wurmer, Yordanov

Participants

  • Khadim Seck percussion
  • Damian Yordanov Kaval
  • Nicola Vock double bass
  • Sarah Wurmer Zither
  • Lisa Bussa
  • Anselm Dalferth direction

Programme

The musicians of the Bridges Chamber Orchestra learned to make music in very different ways. As an ensemble, they are therefore constantly building bridges between styles and discovering together with their audience what it takes to cross them.

Tiny Bridges brings together beautiful melodies from different corners of the world and gives young audiences the opportunity to experience the music actively — and even to change it themselves from time to time.

For children aged 3–9

A production of the Alte Oper in collaboration with the Bridges Chamber Orchestra

 

Subject to change.

 

Tickets
20 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 Kids@Casals
TINY BRIDGES
Seck, Yordanov, Vock, Wurmer, Dalferth, Bussa

Participants

  • Khadim Seck percussion
  • Damian Yordanov Kaval
  • Nicola Vock double bass
  • Sarah Wurmer Zither
  • Anselm Dalferth direction
  • Lisa Bussa

Programme

The musicians of the Bridges Chamber Orchestra learned to make music in very different ways. As an ensemble, they are therefore constantly building bridges between styles and discovering together with their audience what it takes to cross them.

Tiny Bridges brings together beautiful melodies from different corners of the world and gives young audiences the opportunity to experience the music actively — and even to change it themselves from time to time.

For children aged 3–9

A production of the Alte Oper in collaboration with the Bridges Chamber Orchestra

 

Subject to change.

Tickets
20 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
2026/2027 FSS Gidon Kremer
ALL FOR KREMERATA BALTICA
Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Kronberg Young Soloists

Participants

  • Gidon Kremer violin
  • Kronberg Young Soloists
  • Kremerata Baltica

Programme

Arvo Pärt (*1935)
Passacaglia

Valentin Silvestrov (*1937)
Five Pieces

Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998)
Moz-Art à la Haydn

Victor Kissine (*1953)
Swan Time

Giya Kancheli (1935–2019)
Rag-Gidon-Time

Georgs Pelēcis (*1947)
Blooming Jasmine

Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012)
For Manfred

Andrius Žlabys (*1977)
From “Kaleidoscope”

Luigi Nono (1924–1990)
Hay que caminar

Dmitry Stepanovich (1751–1825)
String Quartet “Gidon Kremer Portrait”

Alexander Bakshi (*1952)
Shostakovich Concerto for Two Violins

Alexander Wustin (1943–2020)
Pour Gidon

Andrei Pushkarev (*1974) & Giya Kancheli (1935–2019)
Yellow Button

 

Subject to change