OPUS 10
The anniversary edition!
10th mensch.musik.festival on 16 and 17 November 2024
The mensch.musik.festival at Münster University of Music will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2024 with 10 concerts! On 16 and 17 November, as usual from Saturday lunchtime to Sunday evening, the festival themes of the first 9 years of the festival will be echoed once again, with a children's concert rounding off the programme on Sunday lunchtime. A permanent fixture on the programme on Saturday is the legendary MS Pop evening, this time with five acts.
Let's take a look back: do you remember the premiere of the mensch.musik.festival in 2015? Music in film was the motto, followed by Music builds bridges (2016), Schubert reloaded (2017), peace pieces (2018) and 100 years of music in the 100th anniversary year of the Münster University of Music in 2019. 2020 All you need is ... Beethoven! had to take place purely digitally due to the pandemic, 2021 #inter still with numerous restrictions. In 2022, we were able to bring reflection back on stage without restrictions and in 2023 we presented a brilliant Best of! on various musical themes.
This year, all of these themes will be heard for a second time - in a colourful sequence. More than 100 students and teachers are preparing to play and act in the festival concerts, across all instrumental and vocal classes, elementary music and the pop department at Münster University of Music. - All for you! - So make a note of your personal highlights now. The programme booklet is available in advance as a PDF, in printed form for the festival. Here is a brief chronological overview of the festival programme:
The mensch.musik.festival begins on Saturday at 12 noon with the motto ‘100 years of music’ and works relating to the year 1924, followed at 1.30 pm by ‘Music in film’, entertainingly presented by Trio Tonkunst with three of our professors, Elisabeth Fürniss (violoncello), Koh Gabriel Kameda (violin) and Peter von Wienhardt (piano). At 3 pm, current members and alumni of the Münster Youth Academy will build ‘musical bridges’ between generations and styles together with Bachelor's and Master's students from the University of Music. At 4.30 pm, festival concert no. 4 on the theme of ‘reflection’ will be followed by a project by the singing classes, but not ‘frauen.liebe.leben’ as previously announced, but a new one: ‘Opernreflexionen’. The singers will get to the bottom of the ‘soul of the aria’ and perform the most beautiful opera arias from Strauss to Verdi and Smetana to Puccini and Gounod.
On Saturday evening at 8pm, the students from the pop department will take over the stage and present a ‘Best of!’ of their joint work for three and a half hours: the voices of the three singers from VELVET MOON merge to create atmospherically moving music. TAILY gives space to the lightness of life in her pop songs. LUNAR COLLECTIVE follows with handmade music and the soulful, energetic voice of singer Lilly. MOCEAN creates a striking, cinematic sound with its pop-orchestral sounds and electronic beats. Finally, the art pop musician HYMEN presents zeitgeist topics as well as personal concerns and fears in German and English lyrics and with fat, groovy, strange and dramatic sounds. - The individual acts each last 30 minutes, and during the short breaks the MHS student representatives provide the audience with cold drinks at a low price.
On Sunday at 12 noon, ‘Das Dings?!’ invites children aged five and over and their families to an exciting and wonderful encounter with the unknown. At 2 pm, Prof. Erichson's chamber music class proves once again with two sonatas for cello and (forte) piano: ‘All you need is ... Beethoven!’ A ‘reload’ of Schubert works in various special solo and duo formations follows at 3.30 pm. At 5.00 pm, ‘inter ’national MHS students will play works from their home countries Armenia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Estonia, Israel, Korea, Portugal and Russia. This year's mensch.musik.festival ends at 6.30 pm with the closing concert ‘peace pieces’. The brass players from Galaxy Brass as well as a string ensemble and percussionists from the University of Music will present a contrasting mix of peaceful sounds from Johann Sebastian Bach to Samuel Barber and Maurizio Kagel's satirical ‘Marches to Miss Victory’.
Free admission tickets are available at the Musikhochschule while stocks last, from 10.00 a.m. for the concerts of the day. Ticket and seat reservations are not possible.
Watch live at home! All festival concerts will also be streamed live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/musikhochschulemünster/videos
Admission on site and access to the live stream are free of charge, we ask for a donation.
We would like to thank the Sibylle-Hahne-Stiftung for their generous support once again! It enables us to organise the festival and gives our guests free admission.