Wiesbaden

Young Talents and Professionals Together on the Big Stage Nurturing young talent? Both we at the Rheingau Music Festival and the hr Symphony Orchestra consider this very important. And that’s why this year we’re inviting you to a “Side-by-Side” concert at the beautiful Kurhaus in Wiesbaden. As part of the celebrations marking 80 years of Hesse, the hr Symphony Orchestra will share the stage in this format with the Hesse State Youth Symphony Orchestra—which is regarded as a renowned talent incubator in the field of classical music. Working together as a single orchestra provides tremendous motivation for the young musicians’ artistic development and offers lasting support for the next generation of professional musicians. This concert project now opens a new chapter in their collaboration: While the Hesse State Youth Symphony Orchestra opens the evening with Beethoven’s “Coriolan Overture,” the hr Symphony Orchestra, together with violinist Clara-Jumi Kang, will perform Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. The second half will ultimately be performed jointly: Working side by side at their music stands, the young orchestra musicians have been rehearsing Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony with the professionals in the run-up to the concert and will bring the result to life in the magnificent Friedrich-von-Thiersch Hall that evening.