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Discover the current festival season in exciting articles and interviews.
Directors's Welcome | Rituals
Dear reader, dear music lover
It may seem a little obvious to choose the festival theme ‘Rituals’ in a world of classical music so characterised by rituals and conventions. But ...
Rituals for all senses | The 52st concert season 2025
Have you been coming to Ernen every year for many years? Wonderful! Then a visit to the festival in the Musikdorf has become a summer ritual for you. ‘Rituals’ is the theme of this year's 52nd edition of the festival.
Not only your everyday life, dear concert-goers, is characterised by rituals. The classical concert is also often celebrated as a ritual with firm rules. As experienced music lover...
Chiaroscuro Quartet: Endless enthusiasm for playing
Chamber Music Compact
4–6 July 2025
Seven concerts in three days
Screen time or Haydn time? What a question! Haydn, of course. At least on the first weekend in July 2025, because you'll want more than anything to be unavailable for a few ho...
A bridge builder and his "Stars"
Piano
12–18 July 2025
Personality on the keyboard
The musical firmament is full of stars. Everywhere people are talking about star singers and violin stars, star pianists and stars of the future. But why is that? Isn't it enough t...
Queer Literature in Ernen
Literature
19 und 20 July 2025
Readings by Alain Claude Sulzer, Kristin Höller, and Volker Kitz, presented by Bettina Böttinger (in German)
The readings will be held in German, that's why the following article exists only in German.
Unmittelbar nach der Klavierwoche findet im Musikdorf das literarische Wochenende «Q...
The Miracle of Ernen
Baroque
20–31 July 2025
Euphony of voices and wood
The term 'baroque' was derived from the Portuguese word ‘barocco’. The word originally comes from the jeweller's trade and refers to pearls that were irregularly shaped. These impe...
Much melancholy, much euphoria
Jazz
12, 26 and 27 July, 6 August 2025
Rachel Harnisch, Charl du Plessis and his trio
"It is a tremendous honour for me to be at Rachel Harnisch's side for her very last performance," says South African pianist Charl du Plessis. He will ensure that the sentimentalit...
A personal concert ritual for you
Chamber Music Plus
3–15 August 2025
Masterworks and discoveries
"Chamber Music Plus 2025" means musical festivities, wedding tributes, funeral music, ecstatic dances, harmonious prayers, special composing rituals, hymns and homages, sorcery and...
High-Priestess of playing Bach
Piano Compact
29–31 August 2025
Five recitals with Angela Hewitt
Bach is nourishment for the soul, says pianist Angela Hewitt. She is convinced that Bach builds character and provides deep inner satisfaction when playing and listening. She recei...
Listen to diversity
Newcomers
12–14 September 2025
The next generation
Warm timber surrounds a group of young musicians in the beautiful concert hall of the Bern Conservatory. It is the award ceremony of the Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition in ...
The magical power of Ernen
Extra Concerts
26 April, 21 and 22 June, 18 and 19 October 2025
Music beyond the festival period
György Sebők once said that Ernen was ‘one of the few remaining places in the world where the landscape and way of life help people to hear better, feel more and understand art mor...
"Composers are not Aliens"
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Composer in Residence 2024/25
Cheryl Frances-Hoad replies immediately to the email enquiry asking if we could meet for an interview. "In two hours?" she writes back. It sounds as if she has nothing else to do o...
"Zur frohen Aussicht" | Art Exhibition
29 June – 20 September 2025
Ernen as a village of art
The summer exhibition "Zur frohen Aussicht" in Ernen, curated by Josiane Imhasly, took place for the first time ten years ago. Perhaps the art project has thus become somewhat of a...