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Discover the current festival season in exciting articles and interviews.
Director's Welcome | Flow
Esteemed Audience
What a wonderful joy it is to present my first season in the Musikdorf Ernen to you as the new director! The theme «Flow» signals that continuity is important ...
Flowing into the future | The 53rd concert season 2026
Jonathan Inniger is the new artistic director responsible for the programme at Musikdorf. With the theme of his first festival edition («Flow»), he shows that he wants to carry on the positive energy of recent years at Musikdorf and build on the many positive developments.
Jonathan Inniger is full of drive, ideas, and optimism. The 31-year-old is the new director of the festival in the Musikdorf. The native of Bern has moved into his apartment in Ern...
Trio Gaspard: Conquering the summit on six stages
Chamber Music Compact | Trio Gaspard
3–5 July 2026
Six concerts in three days
A violin, a cello, and a piano – Jonian Ilias Kadesha, Vashti Hunter, and Nicholas Rimmer need no more equipment to embark on musical high-altitude flights. Following their perform...
Keith Jarrett's «Köln Concert»
Jazz
11, 25 and 26 July, 5 August 2026
Maki Namekawa, Charl du Plessis Trio, Levy Sekgapane and Matthew Hunt
Perhaps the Japanese pianist Maki Namekawa will lean a little deeper over the keys than is usual, just as Keith Jarrett once did when he sent his sequence of notes G-D-C-G-A out in...
«Music has always been a part of my life»
Piano
11–17 July 2026
Personality on the keyboard
The Piano Week 2026 features many new faces. Only Maki Namekawa (Jazz Concert) and Schaghajegh Nosrati have performed multiple times in the Musikdorf. In addition, the new Art...
Flow movements for all senses
Baroque
19–30 July 2026
Five festive concerts with Aernen Barock, Beth Taylor and Nahuel Di Pierro
When you think of Baroque music, you might recall intoxicating soundscapes, surprising contrasts of light and shade, or a continuous, rhythmic flow of movement that, like the blood...
Literature: Queerlesen
25 and 26 July 2026
Readings by Moritz Weber, Angela Steidele and Kristof Magnusson, presented by Bettina Böttinger (in German)
The readings will be held in German, that's why the following article exists only in German.
Angela Steidele: «Ins Dunkel»
Im Zentrum von Angela Steideles neuem Roman «Im Dun...
Concert series with distinctive flair
Kammermusikfest
2–14 August 2026
A celebration of Chamber Music
«Chamber Music Plus»? No longer. From summer 2026, the popular chamber music series will be called «Kammermusikfest». The programme, featuring six «Festkonzerte», one jazz concert,...
Deep sea diver and astronaut
Piano Compact
27–30 August 2026
6 recitals: Sir András Schiff for two and four hands
Johann Sebastian Bach published his six partitas in 1731 under the title Clavierübung (Keyboard Exercise). Keyboard exercise? Not at all! The suites, each with six or seven movemen...
Think outside the box
Newcomers
5 and 10–13 September 2026
Flowing to success
The Austrian cellist and conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt was a crucial figure in the early music movement, enabling entirely new perspectives on the music of the 17th and 18th centu...
Mel Bonis (1858–1937)
Composer to Discover 2026
Touching music, a life straight out of a movie
For a long time, the common opinion was that composing was a man's business, and that serious female composers existed only in exceptional cases at best. However, it has long been ...
«Reality plays a role in my music»
Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber
Composer in Residence 2025/26
Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber (born 1973) is a breathtaking conversationalist. When reflecting on music together, she stimulates thoughts that go beyond music itself. A single question,...
Biography workshop (in German)
11 – 17 July 2025 with Lisbeth Herger
«Auf den Flügeln der Worte unterwegs im Leben»
Leben fasziniert mit seiner Fülle von Geschichten und Erfahrungen. Sie werden in vertraulichen Begegnungen erzählt, manchmal als A...
Benefit from the inspiration
Extra Concerts
28 March, 20 June, 5 September, 18 and 19 October 2026
Music beyond the festival period
Wer meint, das Musikdorf stehe vom Herbst bis Ende Juni still, täuscht sich gewaltig. Schon seit einigen Jahren gib es Konzerte im Rahmen des Projekts «Composer in Residence» – auc...