Blankenburg, Germany
Kloster Michaelstein is a former Cistercian monastery near Blankenburg in the Harz region, founded in the 12th century. Today it houses a music education centre and a museum of musical instruments, and regularly hosts concerts of early and classical music. The well-preserved medieval buildings and the surrounding park give the venue a distinctive character.
😴 Nothing scheduled here in the near future.
A guided musical tour through three organs from different eras at Michaelstein monastery, spanning Renaissance through Baroque to Romanticism.
A youth jazz orchestra from Germany and Poland led by Stephanie Lottermoser. The programme combines classic big band repertoire with contemporary works and German-Polish compositions.
The closing concert of the International Singer Academy brings together 12 young European opera singers performing arias and songs coached by Prof. Marek Rzepka and Dorothea Röschmann.
The European Union Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Judith Steenbrink, performs works inspired by the Polish and Hanakian folk music that Georg Philipp Telemann encountered during his time in Silesia and Krakow.
A fantasy promenade concert through Kloster Michaelstein in Blankenburg - four mysterious women, a lost melody, and music spanning centuries combine into an immersive theatrical journey.
A concert of overtone singing and improvisation at Kloster Michaelstein - Stephan Michel, Martina Missler, and Peter Missler weave spherical sound fields inspired by the acoustics of the historic sacred space.
Saxony-Anhalt's official youth big band, led by Ralf Hesse, brings jazz to the 900-year-old walls of Kloster Michaelstein in Blankenburg.
Jugendbarockorchester BACHS ERBEN celebrates its 20th anniversary with a performance of the oratorio "Vita Christi", assembled from Bach's works and telling the story of Jesus Christ's life. A monastery concert with an optional artistic introduction.
Students of the Summer Academy for Early Music in Blankenburg present a baroque programme featuring Vivaldi and his contemporaries, performed on period instruments including harp, theorbo and traverso flute.
The third Michaelstein cloister courtyard project within the KlangART Vision festival: contemporary music inspired by Miles Davis, featuring works by Buchholz, Hirschfeld, and Lucas.
