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Advance ticket sales have begun: Konz Music Festival 2024

Advance ticket sales have begun: Konz Music Festival 2024

The Konz Music Festival is entering the next round. The city of Konz and the “Vogel als Prophet” association will once again present varied sounds in special locations from August 29th to September 8th, 2024. Celebrate 30 years of the Master Academy in Konz with us!

Advance sales for the ten concerts have begun. Tickets are available at: www.ticket-regional.de/konz-musik-festival or at the usual advance booking offices and at the box office (depending on availability).

OPENING CONCERT OF THE KONZ MUSIC FESTIVAL in the town church St. Nikolaus, Konz

Thursday, August 29, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

Experience the academy's professors Isabelle Trüb (piano), Elisabeth Perry (violin), Richard Wolfe (viola) and the director of the academy Niall Brown (cello).


ROMANTIC SONGS - JOSEPH MOOG & LUCY FARRIMOND in the town church St. Nikolaus, Konz

Sunday, September 1, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

As former artistic director of the Konz Music Festival, Joseph Moog is still very connected to the Konz Music Festival and the concert on Sunday with soprano Lucy Farrimond promises to be a musical highlight that you should not miss.


CLASSIC VS. MODERN - IRIDA TRIO in Haus Beda, Bitburg

Sunday, September 1, 2024, 7:00 p.m.

Concert as part of the local music festival: Johanna Hempen (violin), Oliver Léonard (violoncello) and Alexander Baier (piano) are keen to combine contemporary repertoire with traditional works and thus renew the view of the old through the experience of the present.


MASTER CONCERT - BARBICAN QUARTET in the city church St. Nikolaus, Konz

Tuesday, September 3, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

The winners of the 2022 ARD Music Competition will be performing in Konz at the Konz Music Festival!
Four international musicians, four unique personalities, a string quartet.


SPOTLIGHT YOUNG MUSICIANS - BIGBAND OF THE GYMNASIUM KONZ in the Margarethenhof winery, Ayl

Wednesday, September 4, 2024, 7:00 p.m.

A conscious blend of classical and popular music. The very best chamber music from the string players of the Master Academy is contrasted by the talented musicians of the Konz Gymnasium big band under the direction of Till Krüger.


VIBRATING STRINGS - STRING QUARTETS OF THE ACADEMY at the Cantzheim Winery in Kanzem

Thursday, September 5, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

The academy's excellent young talents show the results of their work in the unique ambience of the award-winning Cantzheim winery. Taste excellent wine and enjoy a wonderful evening of chamber music in the vaulted cellar of the Cantzheim winery.


CLASSICAL MUSIC IN TAWERN - CHAMBER MUSIC WITH GRAND PIANO in the parish church of St. Peter & Paul in Tawern

Friday, September 6, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

The excellent young master academics show the results of their intensive work in a chamber music evening with a program "from Mozart to Donovan".


ACADEMY CONCERT - PIANO AND STRINGS in the Galerie Contemporanea, Oberbillig

Saturday, September 7, 2024, 7:30 p.m.

At a lofty height, in the middle of the sculpture park and with the best view of Luxembourg and the mouth of the Sauer into the Moselle, the Academy's musicians demonstrate their outstanding musical qualities with a program ranging from the Second Viennese School to the present day.


ORGAN CONCERT - STEFAN BUTTERBACH & PROF. KARL LUDWIG KREUTZ in the town church of St. Nikolaus, Konz

Sunday, September 8, 2024, 5:00 p.m.

Concert as part of the International Organ Concerts Konz : Under the motto “Tradition and Modernity”, this guest performance by Stefan Butterbach - trumpet and Prof. Karl Ludwig Kreutz - organ will contrast unheard-of sound events.


SPANISH FANTASY - FINAL CONCERT PIANO & STRINGS in the Rochus Chapel, Nittel

Sunday, September 8, 2024, 11:00 a.m.

To conclude the festival in a very special place: In the beautifully situated Rochus Chapel above Nittel, the academy's professors Elisabeth Perry, Isabelle Trüb, Richard Wolfe and Niall Brown will inspire your imagination this morning.


We would like to thank all patrons, supporters and sponsors for the idealistic and financial help, without which the realization of the festival would not be possible:

Cultural Summer Rhineland-Palatinate, Trier-Saarburg district, Konz collective municipality, Sparkasse Trier cultural foundation, Volksbank Trier e.G., Westenergie, Rotary Club Saarburg, Wi Energy, Berens & Cie, Sparkasse Trier, Pianohaus Hübner, Fritz Hahn GmbH Trier, Herbert & Veronika Reh Foundation, SWR Kultur and Autohaus Werner. Special thanks also go to our venues and cooperation partners: Contemporaneum Oberbillig, Cantzheim winery, Konz parish community, Margarethenhof winery, Saar-Mosel St. Jakobus parish, Haus Beda in Bitburg and Lebenskunst Photography.