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The Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival is already in its 37th year. As successor to the founder Gidon Kremer, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt has been leading this unconventional event since 2012. This year comes u.a. Alfred Brendel after Lockenhaus – as a lecturer.

Declaration against commercialization

Lockenhaus Castle offers a magnificent panoramic view of the hills of central Burgenland. Dozens of musicians and a loyal audience from around the world gather for ten days in the Knights' Hall of the Castle and in the church. Fräcke and the evening dresses remain outside.

The Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival is a statement against the iced commercial culture on the clbadical market. A musician symposium that takes a vacation away from career constraints; Nicolas Altstaedt

A lot of new music, and experiences with clbadical instrumentation such as the groove sound of the "Vienna BartolomeyBittmann progressive strings": this is typical of Lockenhaus's often politically colorful subjects.

"Creatio": The end of creation?

For this year, the director of the festival, Nicolas Altstaedt, chose the motto "Creatio", creation. "Creatio" was actually a call to our way of life, and in the last two years in particular, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the oldest organism in the world, 25 million years and 99% of dead that's why I asked that we have the opportunity here at the festival to eat vegan food and not to use plastic, we simply have to radically change our way of life, just to to make sure that there is more in life "says Nicolas Altstaedt.

How technological modernity destroys nature – this is still timelessly visualized by the clbadic film "Koyaanisquatsi", to the music of Philip Glbad, which will be presented at the festival.

Alfred Brendel explains Schubert

Alfred Brendel, who said goodbye as a pianist ten years ago, will speak at Lockenhaus about Schubert's latest piano sonatas. Her debut at Lockenhaus is performed by Norwegian vocal and electronic improviser Maja KS Ratkje

The motto of the festival "Creatio" refers to unknown youthful creations as a piano quintet in a sound image of the late XIXth century. it comes from Béla Bartók.

Altstaedt, director of the festival on the asylum debate

A few years ago, Nicolas Altstaedt dedicated the festival to refugees under the motto "Terra Nova". Commenting on the current European debate on asylum, he adds: "If we do not accept people, our culture will not survive because our culture lives on diversity." From the moment we lock ourselves, we will perish Limits As an artist, I think everyone feels called to drop every line. "

At a" creative young media camp, "the young participants can report on the festival under the guidance of experts; in cooperation with the state studio of the ua ORF Burgenland

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Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, July 5 to 14, 2018

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