Come and hear!

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

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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

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Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919–2008)
Suite

Sofia Gubaidulina (*1931)
The Tightrope Walker

Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756–1791)
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Du bist die Ruh, D 776, Op. 59 No. 3

Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996)
Sonata, Op. 69

Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998)
Quintet

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Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Concerto No. 10 in B minor, Op. 3

Alexander Raskatov (*1953)
5 Minutes from the Life of W. A. M.

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Rondo in A major, D 438

Raminta Šerkšnytė (*1975)
This too shall pass

Leonid Desyatnikov (*1955)
The Russian Seasons

Georgs Pelēcis (*1947)
Blooming Jasmine

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Pezzo capriccioso in B minor, Op. 62

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
Serenade after Plato’s “Symposium”

Giya Kancheli (1935–2019)
A Little Daneliade

Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer (*1963) & Johann S. Bach (1685–1750)
Lasset uns den nicht zerteilen

Victor Kissine (*1953) & Johann S. Bach (1685–1750)
Aria from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

The concerts are held on the occasion of Gidon Kremer’s 80th birthday.

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Nils Landgren and Jan Lundgren combine Nordic tradition, impressionistic colours, and American jazz in lyrical miniatures poised between lightness and melancholy. In intimate musical partnership, the duo unfolds the most concentrated form of collaborative music-making.

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Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Piano Sonata No. 3 in E major, D 459

Piano Sonata in B-flat major, Op. posth., D 960

Conclusion of the complete Schubert cycle

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Commemoration of Mstislav Rostropovich on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

“Kronberg is the world capital of the cello,” Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007) once said. He supported the Kronberg Academy from the very beginning. After his death, we maintained an annual “Appointment with Slava” for ten years at the Rostropovich bust in the centre of Kronberg.

Now we will meet him there once again to celebrate his 100th birthday.

The programme will be announced at a later date.

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Age Groups I–IV

The programme will be available online from 6 March 2027 at: piano-competition-kronberg.de

Admission free

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Age Groups V–VI

The programme will be available online from 6 March 2027 at: piano-competition-kronberg.de

Admission free

Subject to change.