23rd International Summer Serenades and Twelfth Piano Night

The 23rd International Sindelfingen Summer Serenades comprise four concert evenings at the Odeon of the Sindelfingen Music School - each combining piano music with lyrical recitation. The series was founded in 2003 by Christoph Ewers and Dieter E. Hülle.

Evening 1 - 23 August: Pianist Letizia Michielon performs works by Mozart and Schumann. Sabine Duffner of TheaterEnsemble Sindelfingen provides the recitation.

Evening 2: Pianists Martina Giordani and Ilaria Costantino from Monza, Italy, present works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Darius Milhaud, Cécile Chaminade, and Germaine Tailleferre. Karl Göbel, who performs with various theatre ensembles in the region, takes the role of reciter.

Evening 3: Christoph Ewers himself takes to the piano, with a programme of works by Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and Frédéric Chopin. Sabine Duffner recites.

Evening 4 - Twelfth Piano Night, Sunday, 13 September: The piano duo Yeult Jost and Domingos Costa plays four-hand works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Pierre-Laurent Boucharlat presents works by Ludwig van Beethoven.