Traditionals like Kopatchinskaja and Kuusisto bring many artists a their traditional roots in their performances and new forms of music. The musicians, whose handling of traditions and change in the course of the centuries illuminated the Beethoven Festival, Caitriona O’Leary, Ragnhild Hemsing Dorothee Oberlinger include and Pekka Kuusisto. Contemporary has commissioned by the Deutsche Welle to campus with the Istanbul University State Conservatory Symphony Orchestra Orchestra this year at the young Turkish composer Zeynep Gedizlio? lu awarded. Together with the Institut Francais Bonn, the Beethoven Festival commissioned new works from Johannes Motschmann and David Chaillou, which was Francois-Frederic Guy in Bonn. For the 40th anniversary of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Beethoven Festival together with the German Federal Art Gallery and in cooperation with the Foundation host a concert with works by Wolfgang Rihm, Gyorgy Kurtag and Friedrich Cerha, all of which have been awarded the “Nobel Prize of music”. Questions of staging the ensemble deals with musikFabrik in Rebecca Saunders ‘Chroma’. At the Beethoven Festival Bonn 2013 is the first German revival of George Benjamins “written on skin” instead.
Bonn Director Bernhard Hamidi has transferred the Director Alexandra Szemeredy and Magdolna Parditka. Hendrik Vestmann conducted the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn. Anniversaries Wagner’s music is arranged on the occasion of his 200th birthday and in the original. With the performance of works by Benjamin Brittens and Witold Lutos? awskis the Beethoven Festival commemorates the 100th birthday of the composer. The Beethoven Festival for his 80th birthday with a performance of his Piano Concerto “Resurrection”, where his longtime friend Rudolf Buchbinder takes the solo part congratulates Krzysztof Penderecki. Penderecki himself conducted the Sinfonia Varsovia.
Facts and figures at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn under the auspices of Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hannelore Kraft 2013 are 51,000 Tickets for 67 events in the main program in 29 venues in Bonn and the surrounding area in the sale. New venues are the Abbey Church of Hennef, the bread factory and the art!Lawn. This is made possible by the donation of the federal city of Bonn and the Rhein-Sieg district, and the project-related promotion of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Federal Foreign Office. These make up 34.8 percent of the total budget of the Beethoven Festival Bonn 2013 EUR 5.1 million. The remaining funds are acquired by the company of the international Beethoven festivals Bonn gGmbH from sponsors and foundations, as well as through donations, the sale of tickets and media exploitation. The main sponsors encourage the Beethovenfest Bonn Deutsche Post DHL, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Welle, Sparkasse KolnBonn and a large number of event sponsors and foundations. In addition, the Festival maintains media partnerships with the Bonner General-Anzeiger, the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Germany radio / Germany radio culture and Deutsche Welle. The Beethoven Festival in Bonn is cultural partner of WDR 3. About the Deutsche Welle are concerts worldwide on the radio and listen to podcast.