Cellist Friedrich Thiele won both the second prize and the audience prize at the 2019 ARD-Musikwettbewerb, one of the most prestigious classical music competitions. He shows off his talents alongside ...

Against the backdrop of a vast, barren landscape, the opening melody of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto unfolds like a song from the depths of time. In the hands of Hilary Hahn, the musical thread will come...

Ana Torfs made her first and only full-length film, Zyklus von Kleinigkeiten in 1998. It was based on Ludwig Van Beethoven’s so-called ‘conversation notebooks’. These notebooks were an important resou...

Friedrich Rückert is best known as the author of the poems that were set to music by Gustav Mahler to constitute the Kindertotenlieder. In addition to this song cycle, Mahler also set to music five mo...

With 1,500 concerts to his name, Stephen Tharp is one of the world’s most prolific organists. The German newspaper Die Abendzeitung has praised his impressive technique, describing him as a “perfect v...

Romanian pianist Aurelia Visovan was the undisputed winner of the MA Competition in Bruges. At BOZAR, she plays two classics by Beethoven, demonstrating her mastery of both the piano and the fortepian...

BOZAR encourages the Rising Stars to create music together and deliver thrilling concerts. Together they share their passion for the likes of Schulhoff, Barber, Beethoven and Mochizuki.  

On the occasion of her residency, violinist Isabelle Faust will team up with her dearest chamber music partners, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov. For the last 20 years, the three internatio...

In her composition, Laterna Magica the celebrated Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho plays in different tempos, each illuminating different parameters. The fast tempos stress the rhythmic continuity, whi...

The Brussels youth orchestra BOENK! And choral group Brussels Experimental join forces for this double bill! While Dirk van der Harst has arranged Beethoven’s 6th Symphony, Peter Spaepen has composed ...