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The Bad Kissingen concert hall "Regentenbau", one of the sites of the "Kissinger Sommer"

The Kissinger Sommer is a classical music festival held every year in the summer in the city of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Southern Germany.

History

The festival was founded in 1986. At the beginning the focus of the festival was on the improvement of the cultural relations between eastern and western Europe.[1] Every year an east-european country was partner of the festival, beginning with Hungary in 1986. Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union followed. So the festival became a place where one could see artists from east and west, especially of the partner-countries and of East-Germany.[2] Among the artists of the first years were Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Boris Pergamenschikow and Svjatoslav Richter. After the fall of the iron curtain the festival turned to a world-wide view with partner-countries in whole Europe, North America and China.[3] Every summer around 50 concerts are attracting about 30 000 visitors.[4] The occurring interpreters are a mixture of well-known international stars like Cecilia Bartoli, Arcadi Volodos, Fazil Say or Grigory Sokolov, and newcomers, who often later have made a great career too,[5] like Lang Lang, Diana Damrau [6] or David Garrett.[7]

Director of the "Kissinger Sommer" from 1986 until 2016 was Kari Kahl-Wolfsjäger.[8] Her successor, beginning in 2017, is Tilman Schlömp,[9] formerly artistic director at the festival Beethovenfest in Bonn. He changed the concept of the festival. Instead of partner countries, there are now main topics, starting in 2017 with the motto "1830 – Romantic Revolution"[10][11] and followed in 2018 by "1918 – emergence of the modern age".[12]

In 2020 the festival was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[13]

Contemporary Music

From the beginning the festival is also a place for contemporary composers like Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Edison Denisov, Aribert Reimann or Wolfgang Rihm.[14] There have been world premieres of composers like Jean Françaix (Dixtuor, in 1987[15]), Krzysztof Penderecki (Sinfonietta No. 2 for clarinet and string orchestra, in 1994)[16] and Fazil Say (Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 42, in 2012).[17] Since 2006 composers present themselves and premieres of their music in the workshop Bad Kissinger Liederwerkstatt.[18] Up to 2018, around 80 world premieres have already been produced as part of the Liederwerkstatt.[19] However, there are also world premieres outside the Liederwerkstatt, such as the Concerto No. 1 for violin and orchestra by Gediminas Gelgotas in 2018[20] and in 2019 a new version of the opera "Orfeo ed Euridice" by Damian Scholl.[21]

Artists-in-residence

Artists-in-residence have been in the last years:

Luitpold Prize

Every year since 1999 the Luitpoldpreis (Luitpold Prize) is awarded to a young interpreter of the festival. The prize is named after Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, who let build the great Bad Kissingen concert hall Regentenbau, where many of the concerts of the festival take place. The winners are:

Kissinger Klavierolymp

The festival is connected to the Kissinger Klavierolymp (Kissinger Piano Olympics), a competition of young pianists in autumn in Bad Kissingen. The prize for the winners is a performance at the Kissinger Sommer. Among them are Martin Helmchen, Nikolai Tokarev, Kirill Gerstein, Igor Levit, Alice Sara Ott and Kit Armstrong.[33] Among the last winners are Elisabeth Brauß (2016),[34][35] Emre Yavuz (2017)[36][37] and Juan Pérez Floristán (2018).[38]

Recipients

No. Year 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Audience Prize
1. 2003 Martin Helmchen
Nikolai Tokarev		 Stewart Goodyear Kirill Gerstein Mihaela Ursuleasa
2. 2004 Alexei Zuev Igor Levit Alice Sara Ott Andrei Banciu
3. 2005 Herbert Schuch Lukas Vondrávcek Anna Winnizkaja
Peter Ovtcharov		 Joseph Moog
Miroslav Kultyshev
4. 2006 Christian Ihle Hadland
Kit Armstrong		 not awarded Alexej Gorlach Mona Asuka Ott
5. 2007 Vestards Šimkus Michail Lifits David Kadouch Zhang Hai'ou
6. 2008 Yeol Eum Son Olga Scheps Benjamin Kim Claire Huangci
7. 2009 Kiryl Keduk Boris Kusnezow Kateryna Titova Kiryl Keduk
8. 2010 Behzod Abduraimov Nareh Arghamanyan Avan Yu Alexei Grigorjew
9. 2011 Konstantin Shamray Adan Laloum Pawel Kolesnikow Pawel Kolesnikow
10. 2012 Magdalena Müllerperth
Da Sol Kim		 not awarded Beatrice Magnani Magdalena Müllerperth
11. 2013 Chi-Ho Han Georgy Tchaidze Aurelia Shimkus Chi Ho Han
12. 2014 Julian Jia Niu Niu Boyang Shi Julian Jia
13. 2015 Jorge González Buajasán Maxim Lando Clayton Stephenson Jorge González
14. 2016 Elisabeth Brauß Julian Trevelyan
Thomas Schuch		 not awarded Nikolay Khozyainov
15. 2017 Emre Yavuz Sergei Redkin Viktor Soos Luisa Imorde
16. 2018 Juan Pérez Floristán Martin James Bartlett Łukasz Krupiński Martin James Bartlett
17. 2019 Tomoki Sakata Tiffany Poon Robert Neumann Tomoki Sakata[39]
18. 2020 Sergey Tanin Yoav Levanon Ziyu Liu Sergey Tanin[40]

References

  1. ^ Rundfunk, Bayerischer (24 June 2019). "Medienpartner BR-KLASSIK: Kissinger Sommer | BR-Klassik". www.br-klassik.de.
  2. ^ authors, various (1989) "Travel and Exchange", GDR Bulletin, Vol. 15: Iss. 2. http://newprairiepress.org/gdr/vol15/iss2/3/
  3. ^ News, Deseret (19 August 1990). "KISSINGEN SUMMER FEST SCORES IN TRADITIONALLY FRIENDLY FASHION". Deseret News. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ "Klassik-Reihe "Kissinger Sommer" lockt Stars und Gäste zum 30. Mal". Schwäbische.
  5. ^ "Farewell to Kissinger Sommer after 30 glorious years". Farewell to Kissinger Sommer after 30 glorious years.
  6. ^ Rundfunk, Bayerischer (7 July 2017). "30 Jahre Kissinger Sommer: Mittler zwischen Ost und West | BR-Klassik". www.br-klassik.de.
  7. ^ "Bayerische Staatszeitung". www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de.
  8. ^ "'Kissinger Sommer" director Kari Kahl-Wolfsjäger: "I had it easier than most" | DW | 29.07.2016". DW.COM.
  9. ^ "klassik.com : Dr. Tilman Schlömp macht(e) Karriere bei Kissinger Sommer". professionals.klassik.com.
  10. ^ "Kissinger Sommer nach 30 Jahren mit neuem Intendanten". 13 June 2017 – via www.welt.de.
  11. ^ Zeitung, Süddeutsche. "Kissinger Sommer nach 30 Jahren mit neuem Intendanten". Süddeutsche.de.
  12. ^ Zeitung, Süddeutsche. "Klassikfestival Kissinger Sommer handelt vom Jahr 1918". Süddeutsche.de.
  13. ^ Kissinger Sommer 2020: Jetzt ist das ganze Festival abgesagt, Main Post, 20 May 2020
  14. ^ "Weltstars und junge Elite – Ein Festival vom Feinsten". inFranken.de.
  15. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. ^ "Sinfonietta no. 2". Schott Musik (in German). Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  17. ^ "Sonata". Schott Music. 25 April 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  18. ^ Hemmerich, Malte. "Kissinger Sommer: Die wunderbare Sanglichkeit von Goethes Versen" – via www.faz.net.
  19. ^ Jesper Klein: Fräulein Else sucht nach Musik, Frankfurter Allgemeine, 4 July 2018, p. 11
  20. ^ "Als hätte der Komponist die Natur belauscht". mainpost.de. 9 July 2018.
  21. ^ "Bad Kissingen: Wie eine neue Oper Trauerarbeit leisten kann". inFranken.de.
  22. ^ Das klingende Treiben beginnt, Main Post, 12 June 2014
  23. ^ 30. Jubiläumssommer 2015, program
  24. ^ Kissinger Sommer feiert 30-jähriges Jubiläum mit Staraufgebot, Deutsche Welle (dw.com), 24 June 2016
  25. ^ »Palastrevolution« beim Kissinger Sommer, Main Post, 3 November 2016
  26. ^ Sol Gabetta wird Artist in Residence beim Kissinger Sommer, Main Post, 3 November 2017
  27. ^ Julia Lezhneva, die Sopranistin im Wunderland, Main Post, 18. Juni 2019
  28. ^ Thomas Ahnert: Beliebte Regularien; Saale-Zeitung, 20 July 2015, Seite 6
  29. ^ "Medaillen zum Abschied". inFranken.de.
  30. ^ "Der Gewinner heißt Julian Trevelyan". inFranken.de.
  31. ^ "Würdigung für Sheva Tehoval beim Kissinger Sommer". inFranken.de.
  32. ^ "Ausgezeichnet". mainpost.de. 14 July 2019.
  33. ^ Kissingen, Bayerisches Staatsbad Bad Kissingen, Stadt Bad. "Kissinger Sommer – Internationales Musikfestival , Kissinger Piano Olympics". Bad Kissingen.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  34. ^ Rundfunk, Bayerischer (10 October 2016). "KlavierOlymp in Bad Kissingen: Auch Teilnehmer aus Oberbayern unter den Preisträgern | BR-Klassik". www.br-klassik.de.
  35. ^ "Elisabeth Brauß gewinnt Kissinger KlavierOlymp". MUSIK HEUTE. 10 October 2016.
  36. ^ "Fotofinish". inFranken.de.
  37. ^ "Kissinger Klavier-Olymp: Emre Yavuz gewinnt als "komplettester" Künstler | Unterfranken | Nachrichten | BR.de". web.archive.org. 10 October 2017.
  38. ^ Juan Pérez Floristán gewinnt Kissinger KlavierOlymp, Main-Post 9 October 2018
  39. ^ Japaner gewinnt Kissinger KlavierOlymp, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR 24), 7 October 2019
  40. ^ Sergey Tanin gewinnt Kissinger KlavierOlymp, Musik heute, 5 October 2020

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