Rheingau Musik Festival 2012

Rheingau Musik Festival 2012
Press Kit
Rheingau Musik Festival Konzertgesellschaft mbH
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Rheingau Musik Festival 2012
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Rheingau Musik Festival 2012
Data, Facts and Figures
Rheingau Musik Festival 1988 – 2012
Rheingau Musik Festival 2012
25 th Festival Summer Programming Highlights
Main Programming Themes
Festmusiken – Wegbegleiter – Geigenreigen – Orgeldimensionen – Junge Virtuosen
(Festive Music – Companions along the way – Violin Circle – Organ Dimensions – Young Virtuosi)
Composer Portrait 2012
Composer Peter Eötvös at Rheingau Musik Festival
Events celebrating Silver Jubilee
Akademie für junge Festivalmanager – RMF auf Reisen – Festivalcountdown –
Jubiläumsausstellung – Jubiläumsgebäck
(Academy for Young Festival Managers – RMF On Tour – Festival Countdown –
Jubilee Exhibition – Jubilee Cakes and Pastries
LOTTO-Hessen renewing sponsorship until 2014
Fourth LOTTO Sponsorship Award for performing artist
E-Postbrief accompanying „A Summer Full of Music“
Co-Sponsors from the region have been loyal stalwarts of the
Rheingau Musik Festival for more than 20 years
Fürst von Metternich Sektkellerei, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) with
the „Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen“, Adam Opel AG
Premium Project Partners at Rheingau Musik Festival
Accenture, Coface Deutschland AG, Deutsche Leasing Gruppe,
UBS Deutschland AG
„Carmina burana“ at Kloster Eberbach and a Jazz Matinée
hr-Sinfonieorchester and hr-Bigband at the Rheingau Musik Festival
Radio stations „Deutschlandfunk“ and „Deutschlandradio Kultur“
broadcasting Rheingau Musik Festival 2012 concerts.
Press Office Information

Rheingau Musik Festival 2012
Data, Facts and Figures
The 25 th Rheingau Musik Festival will run from June 23 to September 1, 2012.
Apart from the main programming themes „Festmusiken“ (Festive Music), „Wegbegleiter“
(Companions along the way), „Geigenreigen“ (Violin Circle), „Orgeldimensionen“
(Organ Dimensions) and „Junge Virtuosen“ (Young Virtuosi), the composer
portrait with Peter Eötvös will be a special highlight.
157 concerts at 41 venues throughout the Rheingau and its neighbouring regions
have been scheduled. The principal venues are Kloster Eberbach (Eberbach Monastery),
Schloß Johannisberg (Johannisberg Palace) and the „Kurhaus Wiesbaden“
(Assembly Rooms). Numerous castles, churches and wine estates are among the
attractive venues with a specific regional character, such as the Seebühne of
Schloss Vollrads (a stage in a pond) and the Steinberg vineyard below Kloster
Eberbach, or the event ship „MS RheinEnergie“. New venues will be the New
Synagogue in Mainz, the inner court of the Hessian State Chancellery in Wiesbaden,
the „Haus der Begegnung“ (House of Encounters) in Königstein, the
Steinberg Winery, and the „Kurpark“ (Spa Gardens) in Bad Homburg.
123 000 tickets are available for the 157 concerts. Total budget: 7.5 million €. Financing
of the Rheingau Musik Festival is secured by long-term sponsorship
agreements, concert and product sponsoring, contributions and donations from our
patrons, plus a subsidy of 25 000 € from the state government.
LOTTO Hessen and Deutsche Post are this season's main sponsors of the Rheingau
Musik Festival. Co-Sponsor support for the Rheingau Musik Festival comes
from Fürst von Metternich Sektkellerei, Helaba with the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung
Hessen-Thüringen, and Adam Opel AG. Lufthansa is the RMF's official airline,
while its media partners are Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting Corporation)
and Deutschlandradio (Germany's nationwide broadcasting service). The
Rheingau Musik Festival’s Premium Project Partners are Accenture GMBH, Coface
Deutschland AG, Deutsche Leasing Gruppe and UBS Deutschland AG.
This summer's guest artists include such eminent soloists and ensembles as
Christoph Eschenbach and Tzimon Barto, Waltraud Meier, Albrecht Mayer, Håkan
Hardenberger, Cameron Carpenter, Khatia Buniatishvili, Alfredo Perl, Martin Stadtfeld,
Corinna Harfouch, Jutta Speidel, Martin Grubinger, Tine Thing Helseth,
Jacques Loussier, Windsbach Boys Choir, Lautten Compagney Berlin, the Arcanto
Quartet, the Hagen Quartet, the Augsburger Puppenkiste (literally, the Augsburg
Puppet Box – the famous marionette theatre), the City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra with Andris Nelsons, the London Symphony Orchestra with Michael Tilson
Thomas, the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Kirill Karabits, the WDR Sinfonieorchester
Köln (WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne) with Jukka-Pekka Saraste,
the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester
Berlin (German Symphony Orchestra Berlin), the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de

São Paulo (Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra) with Marin Alsop, the hr-
Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) with Paavo Järvi, or the
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra) with Marek
Janowski.
Ticket Office and Program Information:
Rheingau Musik Festival Servicegesellschaft mbH & Co. KG;
Postfach 1125; D-65367 Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
www.rheingau-musik-festival.de
Ticket information phone: +49 (0) 6723 / 60 21 70
Telephone booking opens on March 26, 2012

Rheingau Musik Festival 1988 – 2012
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1988 1997 2007 2011 2012
1 st RMF 10 th RMF 20 th RMF 25 th RMF
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Tickets on sale 12.000 112.000 130.000 122.500 123.000
Attendance 105.000 123.300 111.500
Utilisation 94 % 94.8 % 91 %
Number of concerts 19 144 149 153 157
Venues 5 38 41 43 41
Sponsors and patrons 130 170 175
Budget in Euros 7.8 m DM 6.7 m € 7.0 m € 7.5 m €
Sponsors' contribution 40 % 47 % 49 %
Public funding 1 % 0.4 % 0.36 %
Self-financing ratio 99 % 99.6 % 99.64 %
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Issued: 26-Jan-2012

Rheingau Musik Festival 2012
Programming Highlights of the 25 th Festival Summer
From June 23 to September 1 this year, for the 25 th time, the region extending from
Wiesbaden to Lorch will be turned into one giant concert stage, on which musicians
of national and international renown will appear in frequent succession. Artists of
international renown and artists perhaps well worth checking out, as well as the main
programming themes account for the festival's musical and artistic magic. This
summer, 157 concerts will be performed at 41 venues – concert halls, castles and
palaces, charming old churches, monasteries and basilicas, traditional wine estates
– and even in the open air and on the Rhine. Once again, the Rheingau Musik Festival
will be presenting extraordinary concert events ranging from serious music to
sophisticated entertainment and extending over well-nigh all eras, categories and
genres.
Opening and Closing Concerts
The 25 th Rheingau Musik Festival opens on June 23 and 24, traditionally in the basilica
of Eberbach Monastery, with the „hr-Sinfonieorchester“ (Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Orchestra) performing Carl Orff's „Carmina Burana“ under the leadership of its
chief conductor Paavo Järvi, also featuring the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno and
the „Limburger Domsingknaben“ (Limburg Cathedral Boys' Choir). „hr2-kultur“ radio
station will be broadcasting the concert live on June 23. The TV channel „hrfernsehen“
will be showing a recording of the concert on June 24 at 8:15 pm, and the
tv channel „3sat“ will air it at a later date. The festival ends on September 1 with
Giuseppe Verdi's „Messa da Requiem“, featuring a quartet of soloists, the „Chorgemeinschaft
Neubeuern“ and the „Orchester der KlangVerwaltung München“ under
the leadership of Enoch zu Guttenberg.
Main Programming Themes
„Festmusiken“ (Festive Music), „Wegbegleiter“ (Companions along the way), „Geigenreigen“
(Violin Circle), „Orgeldimensionen“ (Organ Dimensions), and „Junge Virtuosen“
(Young Virtuosi) will be entertaining audiences throughout the summer of
2012. This season's composer portrait is dedicated to the Hungarian conductor and
composer Peter Eötvös.
Orchestral and Soloist Concerts
This summer, a new cycle begins with the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln (WDR Symphony
Orchestra Cologne) and its new chief conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste: „The
Symphonic Works: Sibelius“. This year's concert program features Jean Sibelius’s
Symphony No. 1 and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concert interpreted by Vilde Frang
(08/31). The „Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo“ (Sao Paulo Symphony
Orchestra) comes with its designated chief conductor Marin Alsop. To honour the

Rheingau Musik Festival, the orchestra performs Camargo Guarnieri's „Abertura
Festiva“ and accompanies the Brasilian pianist Nelson Freire in Heitor Villa-Lobos's
„Mômoprécoce“ for piano and orchestra (08/18). The London Symphony Orchestra,
under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas, performs the Academic Festival Ouverture
by Johannes Brahms. Emanuel Ax will be playing Brahms's Piano Concerto No.
1 (08/30). The pianist Khatia Buniatishvili performs Schumann's piano concerto with
the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) led by its chief conductor
Paavo Järvi. This concert also features the premiere of a composition by Peter
Ruzicka, commissioned by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (08/23).
Further top-notch soloists and orchestras are Lars Vogt with the San Francisco
Symphony Youth Orchestra (06/27), Waltraud Meier with the Rundfunk-
Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra) under the direction of
Marek Janowski (07/01), Martin Stadtfeld with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields
under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner (07/19), Daniel Müller-Schott with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra led by the young conductor Kirill Karabits (07/20), the Helsinki
Philharmonic Orchestra with John Storgårds (08/24), or Lisa Batiashvilli (violin),
Truls Mørk (violoncello) with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (German
Symphony Orchestra Berlin) under Tugan Sokhiev. (06/28) Albrecht Mayer comes
with his program „Bonjour Paris“, accompanied by the Münchner Symphoniker (Munich
Symphony Orchestra) and Ari Rasilainen (08/01), the countertenor Bejun Mehta
with the Freiburger Barockorchester led by Petra Müllejans (08/02). The trumpeter
Håkan Hardenberger is accompanied by the Münchener Kammerorchester (Munich
Chamber Orchestra) and Alexander Liebreich (08/03). This year, the young Spanish
mezzosoprano Maite Beaumont returns to the festival in a guest performance, accompanied
by her Iberian colleagues from the Orquestra de Cadaqués under the
leadership of Jaime Martin (08/02). On August 15, the young organist Cameron Carpenter
will be performing at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden (Assembly Rooms). As always,
he does not announce the evening's repertoire in advance, preferring to present it
spontaneously. Two years ago, Tine Thing Helseth and her Ensemble tenThing were
guest performers in the cloister garden of Eberbach Monastery. This summer, she
returns as a soloist of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton
for an interpretation of trumpet concerts by André Jolivet and Henri Tomasi
(08/28).
Choral Works / Early Music
This summer's festival program features again some oratorios. René Jacobs performs
Johann Sebastian Bach's „St. Matthew Passion“ with the RIAS Kammerchor
(RIAS Chamber Choir) and the „Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin“ (Berlin Academy for
Ancient Music / 08/29). Helmuth Rilling comes to the Rheingau with Mendelssohn's
„Paulus“ (08/30). Gustav Mahler's „Resurrection Symphony“ will be performed by the
CBSO Chorus and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by An-

dris Nelsons (08/31). Handel's „Alexander's Feast or The Power of Musick“ is on the
program of the „Kölner Kammerchor“ (Cologne Chamber Choir), with the „Collegium
Cartusianum“ under the direction of Peter Neumann (08/17), Handel's „Dettinger Te
Deum“ will be interpreted by the „Bachchor Siegen“ (Siegen Bach Choir), the „Kölner
Kammerorchester“ (Cologne Chamber Orchestra) and Ulrich Stötzel (08/16). In
homage to the Eberbach monk and composer Joseph Schmitt, Arno Paduch's „Johann
Rosenmüller Ensemble“ will perform his „Missa solemnis“, which can be heard
in the basilica for the first time again since the monastery's dissolution in 1803
(08/10). The „Windsbacher Knabenchor“ (Windsbach Boys Choir) and its new artistic
director, Martin Lehman, will be performing works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Anton
Bruckner, Felix Mendelssohn and Heinrich Schütz to mark the 150 th anniversary of
the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden (07/26). „Eine Nacht voller Seligkeit“ (A Night Full of
Happiness) is the motto of the operetta gala with the „Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz“.
The German actress Jutta Speidel will be the M.C. of the evening (07/21). In
the field of Early Music, the „Lautten Compagney“ will be tracing the footsteps of
Marco Polo. Songs and instrumental pieces of European Baroque composers are
complemented by Chinese Traditional Music from the 17 th century (08/22).
Chamber Music
This year and the next, in a total of five concerts, the renowned Hagen Quartet will
be shedding light on the cosmos of Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartets (08/08
and 09). Erik Schumann, Anna Vinnitskaya and Nicolas Altstaedt will be the reigning
triumvirate at Schloss Johannisberg (Johannisberg Palace) on July 25. Paul Meyer,
François Leleux and Emmanuel Pahud are „Les Vents Français“, bringing fresh
winds from France on August 16.
In the field of Piano Music, the Rheingau Musik Festival offers this season again
some special highlights: An experience of assuredly rare quality: Summit Meeting in
Wiesbaden – Christoph Eschenbach and Tzimon Barto, who have been close friends
and musical partners for a long time, have finally found time again to team up as a
piano duo despite their many other international commitments (08/16). Further piano
recitals include David Fray (06/26), Alfredo Perl (08/25), Paul Lewis (07/07), Bernd
Glemser (07/26) and Christopher Park (08/17). The eighth part of the Bach Cycle
with Konstantin Lifschitz features the „Italian Concerto“ and the „French Overture“ as
program highlights (08/03). Martin Stadtfeld and the young Artevio Quartet will be
interpreting Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat major op. 44.(07/22). The
exceptional cellist Alban Gerhardt returns to the Rheingau with cello sonatas by
Brahms, Britten and Schnittke in his baggage (07/06).
This summer's program features again some Musical-Literary Evenings: Roger
Willemsen invites you to a musical-literary journey around the globe featuring his
own texts and music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Philip Glass and Robert Schumann
(07/13). For the first time, a Rheingau Musik Festival event is hosted at the New Sy-

Synagogue in Mainz. Corinna Harfouch traces the life of Alma Rosé, Gustav
Mahler's niece (07/15). In another new venue, the „Haus der Begegnung“ (House of
Encounters) in Königstein, Walter Sittler plays Erich Kästner in a splendidly staged
monologue. (08/17). The following evening, Walter Sittler continues Erich Kästner's
life story in his show „Vom Kleinmaleins des Seins“ (08/18).
Promotion of Young Musical Talents
The Rheingau Musik Festival has always attached high priority to providing a plat-
form for talented young musicians. For many years, the opportunities for young
musicians, „Klassik-Marathon“ (Classical Music Marathon - 08/18) and „Treffpunkt
Jugend“ (Youth Meeting Point 08/19), have been highly successful, but this year
they take on a new format. The soloists will no longer be accompanied by one single
chamber orchestra, but different chamber music ensembles will be performing. Additionally,
six concerts are scheduled for „Young Virtuosos“ with, among others, Quatuor
Modigliani and the pianist Jean Frédéric Neuburger (07/12), the „Hannah Köpf
Band“ (08/04), the „Tim Allhoff Trio“ (08/12), and Hanna Herfurtner (soprano), Benjamin
Appl (baritone) and Jonathan Ware (piano) (08/30).
Children’s Concerts
This season, we have invited the Augsburger Puppenkiste (literally, the Augsburg
Puppet Box – the famous marionette theatre) for our „future audiences“ (06/24). The
„Taschenoper Lübeck“ (Pocket Opera of Lübeck) will be performing the children's
opera „Die Entführung aus dem Serail“ (The Abduction from the Seraglio) (08/26). In
the „Kurhaus Wiesbaden“ (Assembly Rooms) Rufus Beck will be reading from Saint-
Saens’s „The Carnival of the Animals“ to the musical accompaniment of the piano
duo Anthony & Joseph Paratore, and the „Dresdner Kapellsolisten“ conducted by
Helmut Branny (07/08). There will also be a premiere for children and families in this
Jubilee season: A fest for the whole family with music from around the world, „Rund
um den Globus“ (Around the Globe), in the court and garden of Schloss Vollrads
(Vollrads Palace - 08/12).
Jazz and World Music
A couple of years ago, we introduced the Ladies’ Night on the Seebühne (a stage in
a pond) at Schloss Vollrads (Vollrads Palace). This Jubilee season, the Ladies’ Night
with the singers Irma and China Moses will find its contrast in the „Night of the Gentlemen“
featuring Charles Pasi and Ola Onabule (07/17). Paco de Lucía and his
band will come to „Friday Night in J’berg“ (06/29). Till Brönner plays with his band on
June 28 in the Cuvéehof of Johannisberg Palace. Jacques Loussier, known as the
grand seigneur of „Crossover“, will be performing with his trio in the „Kurhaus Wiesbaden“
(Assembly Rooms – 07/25), he will be meeting Katharina Eickhoff in a „Rendezvous“,
too (07/24). Patti Austin will be paying tribute to the legends Ella Fitzgerald
and George Gershwin in the „Kurpark“ (Spa Gardens – 08/04).

Main Programming Themes
Festmusiken (Festive Music)
Opening fanfares are blaring, the court orchestra is intoning a minuet to the slow,
noble, ceremonious and graceful steps of the opening dance, the court harpsichordist
is playing improvisations as accompaniment to the meal, the festivities reach its
climax with the premiere of a magnificently produced opera, and, finally, God is
praised and thanked for the fabulous course and order of the festive events – naturally
by playing a homage specifically composed for the occasion. This could have
been the typical program of court entertainments in the Renaissance. Besides meat
and drink, music has always been the most important ingredient of perfect festivities
– at festivals for the common people, or at festivities of the nobility and clergy. It captures
the attention of assembled guests while, at the same time, livening up the
course and order of the festivities, it allows for joint activities like dancing or singing,
but, above all, it is the best means to communicate the festive character of any special
event – with kettledrums and trumpets, for instance! The Rheingau Musik Festival
makes use of this phenomenon in its Jubilee season, the 25 th Summer Full of
Music, and treats itself to a programming theme of its own »Festive Music« of all
kinds!
Concerts
07/12 Handel: „Feuerwerksmusik“ (Music for the Royal Fireworks) / Zefiro Baroque Orchestra
– Alfredo Bernardini
08/16 Handel: „Dettinger Te Deum“ / Bachchor Siegen (Siegen Bach Choir) – Kölner Kammerorchester
(Cologne Chamber Orchestra) – Ulrich Stötzel conducting
08/17 Handel: „Das Alexander-Fest“ (Alexander's Feast) / Kölner Kammerchor (Cologne
Chamber Choir)– Collegium Cartusianum – Peter Neumann conducting
08/18 Nelson Freire, piano – Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (Sao Paulo
Symphony Orchestra)– Marin Alsop conducting
08/29 Festliche Barockmusik (Festive Baroque Music) / Ramón Ortega Quero, oboe – Luise
Buchberger, violoncello – Peter Kofler, harpsichord
08/30 Emanuel Ax, piano – London Symphony Orchestra – Michael Tilson Thomas

Wegbegleiter (Companions along the way)
Michael Hermann has maintained longstanding relations and collaboration with many
musicians, with some of whom he has developed a close friendship. It is quite natural
that several of his artist friends will make a stop in the Rheingau during this Jubilee
season. Before Michael Herrmann founded the Rheingau Musik Festival e.V. (a
registered association) in 1987, and thus launched the Rheingau Musik Festival, he
had been working on Gran Canaria for a few years where, in the spring of 1973, he
made the acquaintance of Justus Frantz and Christoph Eschenbach. After his return
to Germany he worked for various artists' management companies in Munich. His
first contacts with the piano duo Anthony and Joseph Paratore as well as with the
pianists Gerhard Oppitz, Oleg Maisenberg and Ewa Kupiec date back to that time.
Some time later, Michael Herrmann founded his own agency and started promoting
concerts – amongst others with artists from the then still existing GDR, who had already
been successfully performing in the Federal Republic of Germany. Among
those artists were the trumpeter Ludwig Güttler and the double-bass player Helmut
Branny. With Walter Renneisen, Michael Hermann has the Hessian dialect in common,
and his wonderful friendship with the Baron Enoch zu Guttenberg began after
attending a concert in the Herkulessaal at Munich. A very special honour is due to
Frieder Bernius and his Chamber Choir, for it was Frieder Bernius who performed
the very first concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival on June 23, 1988.
Concerts
06/27 Virtuosi Saxoniae – Ludwig Güttler, trumpet and conductor
07/6 Kammerchor Stuttgart (Stuttgart Chamber Choir) – Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart
(Stuttgart Classical Philharmonic Orchestra) – Frieder Bernius, conducting
07/8 Anthony & Joseph Paratore, piano duo – Dresdner Kapellsolisten – Helmut
Branny conducting
26.7. Windsbacher Knabenchor (Windsbach Boys Choir), Martin Lehmann conducting
07/27 Babette Haag, Percussion & Ensemble Pandora
07/29 Ewa Kupiec, piano
08/7 Gerhard Oppitz, piano
08/9 Denis Matsuev, piano – Philharmonie der Nationen (Philharmonia of Nations)–
Justus Frantz conducting
08/14 „Von der Pampelmuse geküsst“ (literally: „Kissed by the Muse of the Pomelo“, which
is a pun in German) / Walter Renneisen
08/15 „Von der Pampelmuse geküsst“ / Walter Renneisen
08/16 Tzimon Barto & Christoph Eschenbach, piano
08/29 Oleg Maisenberg, piano
08/30 Gächinger Kantorei – Bach-Collegium Stuttgart – Helmuth Rilling conducting
09/1 Chorgemeinschaft Neubeuern – Orchester der KlangVerwaltung München –
Enoch zu Guttenberg conducting

Geigenreigen (Violin Circle)
At all times, the violin has been fascinating people. With a history of approx. 500
years, it can truly be described as the highest developed instrument of the Occident.
As early as in the 16 th century, it was considered to be the goddess of string instruments
because of its expressive qualities and heavenly high tones. To this day,
names like Stradivari, Paganini or Tartini's »Devil's Trill« still fire the imagination of
audiences. The violin has often been thought of as intensifying our emotions, although
initially it was more associated with the lower ranks in society. At the beginning
of the 17 th century, however, the instrument began gaining prestige because of
its use in operas, for instance in Claudio Monteverdi's »Orfeo«. This trend continued
throughout the Baroque era owing to the works of many well-respected composers,
who were also grand virtuosos on this instrument – among them Arcangelo Corelli,
Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Tartini, Georg Philipp Telemann or Johann Sebastian
Bach. By the middle of the 18 th century, the violin had become the most widely used
solo and orchestral instrument in the music of Europe. This season, the Rheingau
Musik Festival has invited violinists from all over the world, who will bring along the
most interesting solo compositions for violin and orchestra, or for violin and piano,
some of them originating in their native countries.
Concerts
06/28 Lisa Batiashvili, violin – Truls Mørk, violoncello – Deutsches Symphonie-
Orchester Berlin (German Symphony Orchestra Berlin) – Tugan Sokhiev conducting
06/29 Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin – Festival Strings Lucerne – Achim Fiedler conducting
07/18 Mozarts große Nachtmusiken (Mozart's Grand Serenades): Leticia Moreno, violin –
Nils Mönkemeyer, viola Kammerphilharmonie Amadé – Frieder Obstfeld conducting
07/19 Scandinavian Melodies: kammerorchesterbasel (Basel Chamber Orchestra) –
Henning Kraggerud, violin
07/27 Renaud Capuçon, violin – La Chambre Philharmonique – Emmanuel Krivine
08/24 Veronika Eberle, violin – Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra – John Storgårds
08/31 Isabelle Faust, violin – Alexander Melnikov, piano
08/31 Vilde Frang, violin – WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln (WDR Symphony Orchestra
Cologne) – Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Orgeldimensionen (Organ Dimensions)
»The congregation was mightily astonished when the organ suddenly roared during
Gloria, demonstrating with jubilant fingerwork how Christians should be rejoicing at
that day.«
(Translated from Robert Schneider's »Schlafes Bruder« ( Brother of Sleep)
„Solemn, festive, magnificent, thunderous, roaring, divine“ are likely adjectives to
describe the pipe organ. The Rheingau Musik Festival demonstrates with its programming
theme »Orgeldimensionen« (Dimensions of the Organ) that the King of
Instruments is by far no longer limited exclusively to sacred spaces. Three organists
will be presenting their instrument in so different ways that a conventional churchgoer
could hardly believe it: The cantor of the Marktkirche (Market Church), Thomas
J. Frank, will start off the series at his familiar pipe organ with a program full of unusual
soundtrack transcriptions from musicals and films. The young glamour organist
Cameron Carpenter will reveal completely new dimensions with his eccentric virtuoso
playing – from Bach to Carpenter is the title of his program, still leaving a lot of
room for surprises. The finale will be left to the organist of Stuttgart's Stiftskirche,
Kay Johannsen, who will be leading the audience back to the roots of the art of organ
playing.
Concerts
08/9 Thomas J. Frank
08/15 Cameron Carpenter
08/26 Kay Johannsen

Junge Virtuosen (Young Virtuosi)
Tomorrow's stars are today's young virtuosi. This truth has long been known at the
Rheingau Musik Festival: Since 2001, the Young Virtuosi series has been presenting
up-and-coming talents at the beginning of their careers. Their faces are fresh, their
names not yet familiar, but their musicianship is quite exceptional and often breathtaking.
Looking back in the history of the festival, the promotion of young talents has
been playing an important role, almost from the very beginning. The first „Treffpunkt
Jugend“ (Youth Meeting Point), for example, took to the stage in 1991 during the
fourth festival summer – among the guest artists was a piano duo with the sisters
Ferhan and Ferzan Önder! Since then, the Meeting Point has become a fixed date in
the festival calendar. In 1996, the „Klassik-Marathon“ (Classical Music Marathon)
was added, then in cooperation with the "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben“ (German
Foundation Musical Life) and the „ Festspielen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern“ (Festival
of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania), and every year since 2002 the „Junge Meisterpianisten
der russischen Schule“ (Young Russian School Virtuosi) have been drawing
piano music fans to Johannisberg Palace. Reading the complete roster of artists who
presented themselves as „Young Virtuosi“ at the Rheingau Musik Festival proves
that the prophecies have been fulfilled: In 2001 Julia Fischer was our guest, in 2002
Fazil Say, followed by Renaud Capuçon, Baiba Skride, Yundi Li, Anna Vinnitskaya,
the „Quatuor Ebène“ and many others who today, without any doubt, belong to the
who-is-who of the international music scene.
This year, eight concerts can be found on the festival's program under the programming
theme „Junge Virtuosen“. Amongst them the „Hannah Köpf Band“, the „Gismo
Graf Trio“, the „Tim Allhoff Trio“and Jean Frédéric Neuburger, artists who may be
known to some of you from earlier performances at the „Concert & Brunch“ series.
A novelty this year is the presentation of two vocalists who are just beginning to
make a name for themselves in the German opera scene: Hanna Herfurtner and
Benjamin Appl! A special touch of (tone) color in the spectrum of young virtuosi!
Concerts
07/12 Quatuor Modigliani – Jean Frédéric Neuburger, piano
07/15 Junge Meisterpianisten der russischen Schule (Young Russian School Virtuosos)
08/4 Hannah Köpf Band
08/5 Gismo Graf Trio
08/12 Tim Allhoff Trio
08/18 Klassik Marathon (Classical Music Marathon)
08/19 Treffpunkt Jugend (Youth Meeting Point)
08/30 Hanna Herfurtner, soprano – Benjamin Appl, baritone – Jonathan Ware, piano

Komponistenporträt 2012 (Composer’s Portrait)
Rheingau Musik Festival presents Peter Eötvös
There are not many contemporary composers
who have successfully established
themselves in the current theatre and concert
scene. Peter Eötvös is one of the few who
have succeeded. His compositions are
performed around the world with great
success, and a total of 7 operas can be
counted among the works of this Hungarian
composer, who was born in Transsylvania in
1944. At the early age of 14, Peter Eötvös
became a student of Zoltán Kodály at the
Music Academy in Budapest, and at the age
of 16 his reputation as a theatre musician
enabled him to finance his studies by
composing music for films and children's
musicals. At the age of 21, he was granted a
scholarship at the „Musikhochschule“
(College of Music) in Cologne, was employed as a sound engineer in the
electronic studio of the WDR (West German Radio) in Cologne, and soon afterwards
began a collaboration with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Constantly searching
for the „ideal mix of music and theater“, Eötvös continued to further develop the
musical language in his works. His opus comprises orchestral works, chamber
music, operas, multi-media performances, incidental music and film sound tracks.
His compositional style has been called „spherical“, „otherwordly“– and yet, at the
same time, „pragmatic“. „Oscillating music for meditation“, yet „to the point“ and
melodic, and without using any serial elements.
Concerts
07/4 Peter Eötvös in conversation:
Ines Reinhardt, soprano – Eva Böcker, violoncello – Norbert Ommer, sound
director – Ensemble Modern – Peter Eötvös conducting – Max Nyffeler,
moderator
07/5 Sebastian Manz and Dirk Altmann, clarinets – GrauSchumacher Piano Duo –
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart (SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra) –
Peter Eötvös conducting

Events to Celebrate the 25 th Anniversary
Academy for young festival managers
This is an opportunity, offered by the „Akademie für junge Festivalmanager“
and the Rheingau Musik Festival to senior-year pupils of secondary schools, to
manage the planning, organisation, financing and marketing for a festival program
concert. The group of trainees was selected from the combined „Leistungskurs
Musik“(intensive or advanced course in music) of the „Rheingauschule“ and
the „St. Ursula Schule“ at Geisenheim under the tutelage of Silke Trzcinski. The
concert planned by the young festival managers will be performed by the Moz-
ART group at Schloss Johannisberg on August 19.
RMF on tour
In its anniversary season, the RMF goes on tour. In cooperation with the travel
agency „Tour mit Schanz“, the Rheingau Musik Festival goes on tour for a first
time, between June and September 2012, permitting to attend concerts in best
festival quality: Be a guest at the „Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern“ (Festival
of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania), or at the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival,
or follow the traces of Chopin across Mallorca.
Festival Countdown
In anticipation of a „Summer full of music“ we have come up with a special service
for our audiences: a 25-part countdown filled with images, stories and music
about the festival. Every Monday you will find a new entry on our web site and on
Facebook as well! As part of this countdown we have launched a creative contest.
Our creative agency Q has discovered some „everyday motives“ behind
which the festival's bunch-of-grapes logo is hidden. What do the members of our
audiences associate with the RMF colors, and with the RMF logo? Perhaps they
have occasionally spotted objects that remind them of the festival's bunch of grapes?
„Then take a picture, draw, paint, paste, or craft them for us, and send them
in by the end of March. The most imaginative and beautiful entries received will
be honored by publication both in our festival magazine „Divertimento“ and as a
postcard series“.
Jubilee Exhibition
We have planned a Jubilee Exhibition for the duration of the festival season at
the main venues. „25 Jahre Rheingau Musik Festival“ (25 Years of Rheingau
Musik Festival).
Anniversary Cakes and Pastries
For a few years now, there has been a cooperation between the RMF and the
Rheingau bakery Dries. For this summer, our creative bakers have conceived
some special cakes and pastries which will be on sale at some of the festival's
concerts and in the local Dries shops during the festival season.
20 th Rheingau Literature Festival
This year, the Rheingau Literature Festival celebrates a Jubilee, too. Between
September 20 and 30, the 20 th „grape-and-literature harvest“ has been scheduled.

Pressemitteilung
26.01.2012
Rheingau Musik Festival 2012
LOTTO Hessen extends its support as main sponsor until 2014
Fourth LOTTO-Sponsorship Award for performing artist
Wiesbaden, 2012/01/26. LOTTO has been a partner since 1996, and a main
sponsor since 2005. This proves again the uninterrupted commitment
of the Lotterie-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH Hessen (LOTTO Hessen),
Wiesbaden, at the start of the Rheingau Musik Festival's coming season.
On the occasion of the festival's opening press conference 2012,
Lotto Hessen has announced to continue its main sponsorship.
LOTTO Hessen will continue as a main sponsor of the Rheingau Musik Festival
until the year 2014. This was announced by the Managing Director of
LOTTO Hessen, Dr. Heinz-Georg Sundermann, at the festival's press conference
at Oestrich-Winkel on January 26.
Both elements of the previous sponsorship will be continued. On the one
hand, LOTTO Hessen's financial support makes it possible again, during the
next two festival seasons, to provide a quota of 5 % of discounted tickets out
of the total number of tickets on sale. Against proof of entitlement, students,
trainees and apprentices, and unemployed persons may benefit from
this arrangement, which was started in 2009, and they can save up to 50 %
off the original ticket price. On the other hand, LOTTO Hessen continues to
fund the LOTTO-Sponsorship Award until 2014. Every season now since
2009, the award has been given to a performer selected from the series
„Junge Virtuosen“ (Young Virtuosos) or „Klassik-Marathon/Treffpunkt Jugend“
(Classical Music Marathon / Youth Meeting Point). The prize money
amounts to 15,000 Euros and, last year, was awarded to the pianist Denis
Kozhukhin.
Promotion is an important task for LOTTO Hessen in addition to its commitment
to the Rheingau Musik Festival. In the past year, LOTTO proceeds
amounting to approximately 220 million Euros were transferred to the State
and to the statutory beneficiaries in sports, social charities, and to organisations
for the preservation of historical monuments. On top of that, LOTTO
Hessen supports its own social, sports related or cultural projects, among
them the Rheingau Musik Festival.
Contact:
Dorothee Hoffmann, LOTTO Hessen, Unternehmenskommunikation,
Phone: +49 (0)611/3612-170, E-Mail: dorothee.hoffmann@lotto-hessen.de
Lotterie-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH
Hessen
Rosenstraße 5-9
D-65189 Wiesbaden
Postal address:
P.O. Box 4007
D-65030 Wiesbaden
Managing Director:
Dr. jur. Heinz-Georg Sundermann
Issued by: Unternehmenskommunikation
LOTTO Hessen
Responsible:
Dorothee Hoffmann
Dorothee.Hoffmann@lotto-hessen.de
Phone: +49 (0) 611 3612 – 170
Fax: +49 (0) 611 3612 – 116
www.lotto-hessen.de

Deutsche Deutsche Post Post DHL
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The Mail & Logistics Group
Pressemitteilung
E-Postbrief is the companion of a „Summer Full of Music“
– Deutsche Post is a cooperation partner of the Rheingau Musik
Festival
– Order your tickets conveniently using an E-Postbrief
Bonn, 2012/01/26: After its successful debut last year, the Deutsche Post (German
Mail/Post Office) is again a partner and one of the main sponsors of the Rheingau Musik
Festival in 2012. A major role will be played by an electronic letter service called
the E-Postbrief: All fans of the cultural events can use it to order their concert tickets
conveniently and securely. What’s more, there are some rather attractive discounts and
special conditions on offer – so there should be no more obstacles in the way to special
musical treats.
In 2012, the Rheingau Musik Festival celebrates its 25 th anniversary: Still more events
have been planned for the season between June 23 and September 1, 2012 – 157 con-
certs will turn the region between Wiesbaden and Lorch into one giant concert stage.
Something for every taste can be found on the program of a „summer full of music“ –
from classical music to jazz. Musical-culinary wine tastings and varied „smaller scale
performing arts events“ round off an interesting cultural offer.
„The Rheingau Musik Festival is one of Germany’s top-ranking cultural events“, says
Harald Lemke, Special Advisor for e-government at the German Post Office. „Therefore,
we are delighted to be a sponsor this year again and to help the fans with our E-
Postbrief in obtaining tickets in a most convenient way." All orders that are received by
E-POSTBRIEF (karten@rheingau-musik-festival.epost.de), will be given preferential
treatment.
With the E-Postbrief, private individuals, companies and government agencies can
communicate with each other securely and reliably in the electronic world as well. E-
Postbriefs are automatically encrypted and cannot be viewed or altered by unauthorised
Hausadresse
Charles-de-Gaulle-Str. 20
53113 Bonn
Telefon +49 (0)228 182-99 44
Telefax +49 (0)228 182-98 80
E-Mail pressestelle@deutschepost.de
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third parties. Users can choose with a mouse click whether their letter will be directly
delivered electronically to another E-Postbrief account or automatically printed out by the
German Post Office, put in an envelope, and delivered in the traditional way by a post-
man. All users have to identify themselves once at a post office using a “postident” pro-
cedure with their ID card or passport. Only then will your E-Postbrief account be en-
abled. This means that anonymous messages are not possible, and spam and viruses
are prevented.
Over a million people have already secured a personal E-Postbrief address at
www.epost.de, and the number is still rising. Thousands of companies and institutions
and the civil service are making use of this option for secure electronic communication.
Contact for journalists’ questions:
Deutsche Post DHL
Media Relations
Alexander Edenhofer
Tel.: +49 (0)228 182-9944
E-Mail: pressestelle@deutschepost.de
E-Postbrief: pressestelle.konzern@dpdhl.epost.de
Internet: www.dp-dhl.de/presse
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Germany’s letter and parcel market, and one of the major players in international mail
traffic. With its strong “Deutsche Post” brand, the company is further enhancing its status
as “The Postal Service for Germany”. Its portfolio ranges from standardised products to
customized solutions for private and business clients in the fields of letter communication,
dialogue marketing and parcel transport. The German Post Office is determined to advance
the combination of physical and electronic communication, and thus upgrade its
position as an allround service provider for secure, simple and reliable communication.
The German Post Office is part of the Deutsche Post DHL group. In 2010, the group achieved
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Johanna Lomp-Knetsch
Adam Opel AG
65423 Rüsselsheim
Tel: 06142 / 778325
Fax: 06142 / 778409
johanna.lompknetsch@de.opel.com
Margit Hartmann
Helaba
Bonifaciusstr. 16
99084 Erfurt
Tel: 0361 / 21 77-308
Fax: 0361 / 21 77-167
Margit.Hartmann@helaba.de
Jan Rock
Fürst von Metternich
Sektkellerei GmbH
Biebricher Allee 142
65187 Wiesbaden
Tel: 0611 / 63-205
Fax: 0611 / 63-71205
Jan.Rock@Henkell-
Sektkellerei.de
Press Information
Co-Sponsors from the region have been faithfully
supporting the Rheingau Musik Festival for more
than twenty years
Fürst von Metternich Sektkellerei, Helaba Bank (Landesbank Hessen-
Thüringen) in association with the foundation „Sparkassen-
Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen“, and the Adam Opel AG are supporting
the Rheingau Musik Festival as co-sponsors.
Oestrich-Winkel, 2012-01-26 – The combination of musical highlights performed
by international virtuosos and the incomparable charm of the Rheingau create
the distinctive profile of the Rheingau Musik Festival, which meanwhile ranks
among Europe’s biggest classical music festivals. Organising 157 top-notch events
at 41 venues would be inconceivable without the active support of the
sponsors. This year, too, companies from the region are commited to sponsoring
the cultural highlight of the year.
Since the festival's inception in 1987, the sparkling wine producer Sektkellerei
Fürst von Metternich from Johannisberg in the Rheingau has maintained close
ties with the Rheingau Musik Festival. Both share primarily a fondness for sophisticated
pleasures and the finer things in life. Can you imagine anything better
than inspiring music and an exhilarating glass of Riesling Sekt – enjoyed against
the backdrop of the Rheingau, the cradle of the finest wines and, since 1816, the
residence of the Princes of Metternich.The „Sektkellerei Fürst von Metternich“ is
glad to have been hosting for the past 25 years one of Europe's best-known and
most prestigious music festivals, and to take an active part, once again, in helping
to enable high-level cultural events in the Rheingau. Almost a third of the
concerts will be performed at Schloss Johannisberg, the former residence of the
long-serving Head of the Board of Trustees and co-founder of the festival, Tatiana
Princess of Metternich-Winneburg, who died in 2006. Once again this year,

year, crowds of visitors will be enjoying the Sommerfest (Summer Party), one of
the festival's highlights, set against the picturesque backdrop of the palace. Let
us all look forward to the 2012 festival season.
Nurturing arts and culture has a long tradition at the Helaba Bank (Landesbank
Hessen-Thüringen), which it has been cultivating for more than 20 years by
supporting the Rheingau Musik Festival as a co-sponsor. 25 years of Rheingau
Musik Festival offer a good reason in 2012 to be proud of this tradition and of
having helped to increase the cultural offer, and therefore the attraction of the
Rhein-Main-Area for both citizens and commerce.
A good reason, too, to be grateful to Michael Herrmann, the inventer, Artistic and
Managing Director of the Rheingau Musik Festival, for having developed his musical
dream, for having pursued his goal inspite of obstacles, and, finally, for having
realized it so successfully.
Every year, the Rheingau becomes the meeting point of artists from the region
and from all over the world. Artists who were companions of the festival from its
beginnings, and helped molding it, will be honored by this season's programming
theme Wegbegleiter (Companions). In the past years, Ludwig Güttler, Ewa Kupiec
and Justus Frantz, for instance, have enraptured many of the bank's guests
with their musical mastery. In the current season, the Helaba Bank sponsors the
Wegbegleiter concert with Ewa Kupiec on July 29 at Schloss Johannisberg,
which is one oft the musical highlights of this festival with interpretations of works
by Schubert, Liszt, Mendelssohn and Chopin. The same is true for the second
concert sponsored by the Helaba Bank on August 24 in the Kurhaus Wiesbaden
(Assembly Hall) with the violinist Veronika Eberle and the Helsinki Philharmonic
Orchestra under the direction of John Storgårds.
Whether at Schloss Johannisberg, in the Kurhaus Wiesbaden or at Eberbach
Monastery, to name but a few of the many festival venues, the performances of
world class artists will make them the focus of discerning international audiences.
The architecture, the nature and variety of the musical and culinary enjoyments
of the Rhein-Main-Area will be communicated by these audiences well beyond
the borders of our country. Getting the world to come to the Rheingau and opening
the Rheingau to the world – for 25 years this has been the highly successful
work of Michael Herrman based on his never ending ideas, his courage and his
skill. We wish him and his team a splendid Jubilee Summer with music, appropriate
weather and enthusiastic audiences. The Helaba Bank will be glad to be among
them.
This year, once again, the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen (a
foundation of the savings bank of Hesse and Thuringia) is one of the Rheingau
Musik Festival's partners. In the spirit of its founders – the savings banks (Sparkassen)
of Hesse and Thuringia – the foundation aims to support regional activi-

ties of outstanding quality and make them accessible to a broad public, while
helping to provide cultural enhancement for the Rhine-Main area.
This year again, the Adam Opel AG is reaffirming its partnership with the Rheingau
Musik Festival. As in previous years, Opel is the festival's official vehicle
sponsor. Cultural involvement has a long tradition at Opel – not least in the surrounding
region. Adam Opel founded his company in Rüsselsheim in 1862. This
year marks the 150 th anniversary of the Adam Opel AG.
Opel is one of the biggest European automobile manufacturer and was founded
in Rüsselsheim, Germany, in 1862. The company, with its headquarters in Rüsselsheim,
and its British sister brand Vauxhall are selling and exporting cars to
more than 40 countries. The company owns plants and R&D centers in seven
European countries and currently employs 40,000 people (as of December
2011). In 2011, Opel sold more than 1.2 million cars and light-duty commercial
vehicles, achieving a market share of 6.1 percent. When launching the electric
vehicle Ampera, Opel introduced a new segment into the European car market
and underlined its role as a leading trend setter for forward-looking mobility solutions.
We would like to wish the Rheingau Musik Festival a highly successful
2012 season.

UBS Deutschland AG
Susanne Grupp
Corporate Communications
OpernTurm,
Bockenheimer Landstr. 2-4
60306 Frankfurt
Tel. +49-69-2179 21 45
Fax +49-69-2179 86 20
susanne.grupp@ubs.com
Press Information
Accenture GmbH
Jens Derksen
Media Relations
Campus Kronberg 1
61476 Kronberg i. Ts.
Tel. +49-6173 94 61393
Fax +49-6173 94 41393
jens.derksen@accenture.com
Deutsche Leasing AG
Kati Eggert
Pressesprecherin
Frölingstr. 15-31
61352 Bad Homburg
Tel. +49 6172 88-1170
Fax +49 6172 88-1178
presse@
deutsche-leasing.com
Premium Project Partners at the
Rheingau Musik Festival
Coface Deutschland AG
Unternehmenskommunikation
Dr. Annette Peitz
Isaac-Fulda-Allee 1
55124 Mainz
Tel.: +49 6131 / 323 - 542
Fax: +49 6131 / 323 – 70675
annette.peitz@coface.de
Accenture, Coface Deutschland AG, Deutsche Leasing
Gruppe, and UBS Deutschland AG support the Rheingau
Musik Festival as Premium Project Partners during the Jubilee
year.
All companies are long-standing sponsors of the festival’s programme, and
have now decided to extend their contractual ties with the festival for several
more years, with the same level of financial support.
„UBS Deutschland AG“ supports the Rheingau Musik Festival in
2012 for the second time as Premium Project Partner
„I can answer the question what makes the Rheingau-Musik Festival so
unique for us in one single sentence: The outstanding artistic quality combined
with the picturesque backdrop of the venues make performances and
concerts an unforgettable experience“, is the enthusiastic answer from Axel
Hörger, Chairman of the Board and CEO Wealth Management of UBS
Deutschland AG. „Therefore, we are very glad, indeed, to support the „cult
brand“ Rheingau-Musik-Festival as a Premium Partner for the second year
running along the lines of our long-term partnership, and ,as always, we
can't wait to hear about this year’s festival programme.“
www.ubs.com
Accenture has been supporting the Rheingau Musik Festival
since 1997 – this year for the second time as Premium Project
Partner
„The festival is a cultural institution that enthralls people far beyond the region's
boundaries, and for 15 years it has been a fixed part of Accenture's
commitment in the Rhein-Main area. We would like to give something back
to the region and help maintaining the quality of life for both individuals and
companies. I personally look forward this year to some more magic moments
in classical music“, says Frank Riemensperger, Managing Director
Germany at Accenture.
www.accenture.de

Deutsche Leasing Gruppe affirms cultural partnership with a
„Summer Full of Music“ in its 50 th year of existence
For many years, the Deutsche Leasing and its subsidiary, DAL Deutsche
Anlagen-Leasing in Wiesbaden, have belonged to the regular sponsors of
exclusive concerts of the Rheingau Musik Festival. Thus, the Bad Homburg
based company manifests its social responsibility by supporting cultural
novelties in the region. „By sponsoring the Rheingau Music Festival we do
not only give our clients and business partners an understanding of culture
and of the region, but we are giving something back to this region, too“,
explains Kai Ostermann, Chairman of the Board, Deutsche Leasing.
www.deutsche-leasing.com
Long-standing partnership: Coface Deutschland AG supports
again the Rheingau Musik Festival
„With the Rheingau Musik Festival, our region has top-class cultural events
on offer in addition to the premium wines“, emphasizes Franz. J. Michel,
Chairman of the Board, Coface Deutschland AG. The internationally positioned
credit insurance provider, with its main office at Mainz, shows its
close ties with the region in its long-term commitment: „As a company located
in this region, we are willing to assume social responsibility. As the
sponsor of the soccer temple at Mainz, the Coface Arena, this Premium
Partnership proves that not only sports is very important to us, but that the
promotion of cultural events in the Rheingau and in Rheinhessen is just as
important.“
www.coface.de

Press Release
January 26, 2012
009hr
„Carmina Burana“ at Eberbach Monastery and a Jazz Matinée
hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) and hr Big Band at
the Rheingau Musik Festival
The Hessian Broadcasting Service's (hr) two orchestras, the hr-
Sinfonieorchester and the hr Big Band, will be performing four concerts during
the 25 th Rheingau Musik Festival. The program of the two opening concerts,
performed by the hr-Sinfonieorchester under its chief conductor Paavo Järvi,
promises to become a special musical treat: Carl Orff's „Carmina Burana“
will be performed in the medieval atmosphere of Eberbach Monastery
with, among others, the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno and the
“Limburger Domsingknaben” (Limburg Cathedral Boys' Choir). Paavo Järvi
will be conducting the orchestra in another concert in the Kurhaus
Wiesbaden (Assembly Rooms) in August. The young Georgian pianist,
Khatia Buniatishvili, will be playing Robert Schumann's piano concerto. The
program also features a new composition by Peter Ruzicka and Gustav
Mahler's Symphony No. 1. The hr Big Band and vocalist Jane Monheit will be
inviting to a Jazz Matinée in July.
„Carmina Burana“ is perhaps the most popular choral work of the 20 th century
and has held audiences spellbound all over the world since it premiered
in Frankfurt in 1937. Orff's work appears to us both modern and archaic all at
once, especially in the aura of the monastery's sound-space.
For the hr Big Band, its performances at the Rheingau Musik Festival count
among its own seasonal highlights. The band was able to engage the charismatic
vocalist Jane Monheit for its Jazz Matinée in the Cuvéehof of Schloss
Johannisberg on July 1. Her song interpretations have made this exceptionally
gifted jazz vocalist a celebrity in both the jazz and cabaret worlds. Her first album,
„Never Never Land“, was voted top debut recording by the Jazz Journalist’s Association
and stayed on the Billboard Jazz chart for over a year. For her performance
with the hr Big Band, the artist from Long Island, who was twice nominated
for a Grammy, brings along a selection of songs from the „Great American Song
Book“ and presents some of her own songs.
The Hessian Broadcasting Service (hr) has been a companion of the Rheingau
Musik Festival since its beginnings 25 years ago. It is the festival's senior media partner
and has had a major share in the success of the festival due to its many radio
and tv transmissions and orchestra performances. The tv station „hr-fernsehen“ will
be broadcasting the opening concert live, and the radio station „hr2-kultur“
transmits live broadcasts and recordings of concerts on a regular basis. In addition,
the concerts can be heard world-wide through the service of the European
Broadcasting Union (EBU).
Hessischer Rundfunk
Anstalt des öffentlichen
Rechts
Pressestelle
Postfach
60222 Frankfurt am Main
Bertramstraße 8
60320 Frankfurt am Main
Telefon (069) 1 55-4549
Fax (069) 1 55-30 05
pressestelle@hr-online.de
www.presse.hr-online.de
Das hr-Sinfonieorchester
eröffnet das Rheingau
Musik Festival im Kloster
Eberbach
Foto: hr/ Ansgar Klostermann
honorarfrei

Press Release
Concert overview:
Opening Concerts:
Saturday, June 23, and Sunday, June 24, 8:00 pm, Basilica of Eberbach Monastery
hr-Sinfonieorchester; Paavo Järvi conducting; soloists, Czech Philharmonic Choir
Brno, “Limburger Domsingknaben” (Limburg Cathedral Boys' Choir)
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Sunday, July 1, 11:00 am, Schloss Johannisberg, Cuvéehof
hr Big Band with jazz vocalist Jane Monheit
Thursday, August 23, 8:00 pm, Kurhaus Wiesbaden (Assembly Rooms)
hr-Sinfonieorchester; Paavo Järvi conducting; Khatia Buniatishvili, piano
Peter Ruzicka: Premiere of a new composition (commissioned by the hr)
Robert Schumann: piano concerto
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Tickets: +49 (0) 6723 / 60 21 70
Hessischer Rundfunk
Press Office

Press Release
Successful media partnership
continued this festival season
Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur broadcast
concerts from the Rheingau Musik Festival 2012
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The national broadcasting service with its two channels „Deutschlandfunk“
and „Deutschlandradio Kultur“ is again media partner of the Rheingau Musik
Festival for the concert season 2012. As in previous years, concert recordings
are scheduled for nationwide broadcast on both channels. On
Thursdays, from 21:05 to 22:50 h, Deutschlandfunk will document a selection
of concerts in its series „Festspielpanorama“ (a panorama of festivals), complemented
by informative background reports on composers and performers.
Some additional concerts will be broadcast on „Deutschlandradio Kultur“ in
its concert series at 20:03 h.
Around the clock, „Deutschlandfunk“ and „Deutschlandradio Kultur“ offer a
multitude of programs of classical music covering all genres of music and
periods ranging from Early Music to contemporary music. Fixed program
items are the daily „Konzert“ on „Deutschlandradio Kultur“, the „Konzertdokument
der Woche“ (This Week's Concert Document) on „Deutschlandfunk“,
as well as the series „Festspielpanorama“ with current recordings of great
orchestras and soloists, as well as operas, choral and chamber music.
Detailed information at www.dradio.de
Kommunikation
presse@dradio.de
deutschlandradio.de
Deutschlandfunk
Raderberggürtel 40
50968 Köln
Tel 0221.345-2160
Fax 0221.345-4803
Deutschlandradio Kultur
Hans-Rosenthal-Platz
10825 Berlin
Tel 030.8503-6161
Fax 030.8503-6168

Press information
– In 2012, the Rheingau Musik Festival Konzertgesellschaft mbH provides again
accreditation to all media representatives commissioned by their editors to review
festival performances. Please send your written requests as early as possible to
the festival's Press Office.
– The Press Office will make every effort to meet your ticket requests and to provide
tickets in the upper price categories. However, please bear in mind that there
is only a limited quota of tickets available for the press and that we cannot
always provide two tickets per event for the accredited press representative.
– Please name the wine estate of your choice on your ticket order for press seats
at the two events „Fahrende Musiker in Weingütern“ (Travelling Musicians in
Wineries).
– The order form for press tickets is attached. Please return the form to the Press
Office until April 15, 2012.
– The press photographer passes do not entitle to a seat.
– Please send a copy of your review to the Press Office of the Rheingau Musik
Festival.
For further information please contact:
Sabine Siemon M.A.
Head of Press Office and Public Relations
Phone: +49 (0) 6723 / 91 77 – 15
Fax: +49 (0) 6723 / 91 77 – 19
E-Mail: siemon@rheingau-musik-festival.de
Sandy Kappey M.A.
Assistant Press Office and Public Relations / Dramaturgy
Phone: +49 (0) 6723 / 91 77 – 21
Fax: +49 (0) 6723 / 91 77 – 19
E-Mail: kappey@rheingau-musik-festival.de

RHEINGAU MUSIK FESTIVAL
Konzertgesellschaft mbH
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Sabine Siemon
Rheinallee 1
65375 Oestrich-Winkel
Newspaper / Magazine / Radio : ______________________
Adress: __________________________________________
Order form for press tickets
We herewith delegate Mrs. / Mr.
_____________________________________________
to review performances at the Rheingau Musik Festival 2012 and we request
accreditation for the concerts listed below:
Date Title of Concert Date Title of Concert
.......................................................................................................................
Place, Date Stamp / Signature
Please make your own copies of this form for further use!