Numerous classical stars, including baritone Thomas Hampson, conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada and trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov, have agreed to perform at the 25th-anniversary Audi Summer Concerts. The traditional event sites, such as the Festsaal auditorium at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt and Schloss Leitheim, will be joined in 2015 by the Eventhalle am Westpark and, for the first time ever, by an Ingolstadt club location, the Maki Club. The big anniversary concert on the Audi Summer Concerts program will take place on July 19 in an AUDI AG production hall – temporarily converted into a concert hall for this special occasion.
“We are delighted that the Audi Summer Concerts are a perennial attraction for music lovers – commitment to culture in our region is something we care very deeply about. In 2015 we are once again offering a first-class program with international stars and young artists,” said Prof. Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG.
The Audi Summer Concerts are also including Audi’s Neckarsulm site in the festival for this anniversary year: On July 10, the Audi Forum Neckarsulm will be the venue for a concert performance of “The Seasons” by Joseph Haydn.
With his “Vorsprung Festival,” American star conductor Kent Nagano is continuing his collaboration with the Audi Young Persons’ Choral Academy. The youth choir will sing works including Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 under his direction. This time, Nagano is using the “Vorsprung Festival” to examine the relationship between nature and technology. “We are moving between the poles of nature and technology, nature and culture, and nature and intellect. For one of the key prerequisites for culture is and will continue to be technology, and without the prerequisite of intellect, there would be no technology,” he explains.
As part of the children’s concert series “Horch mal!”, audience members young and old help to solve a musical crime in “Kommissarin Flunke und die Schurken” (Inspector Flunke and the Villains). At the concert by the Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra, KIKA presenter Malte Arkona explains the backgrounds of the popular children’s concerts “The Carnival of the Animals” and “Peter and the Wolf.”
The Audi Philharmonic Wind Orchestra will kick off the popular classical open-air festival in Klenzepark on July 24 with highlights from the festival’s 25-year history. The following day, the Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra will put the audience in the mood for dancing with music from Johann Strauss (son). Both concerts end with a large fireworks display.
The festival opens on June 30 with a concert at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt’s Festsaal auditorium featuring Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan and the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra under the direction of Donato Cabrera. They will be playing Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. The Audi Summer Concerts 2015 will draw to a close on July 27 with the traditional guest performance by the Salzburg Festival.
Information on the concerts:
The complete program of the Audi Summer Concerts is available for download at www.sommerkonzerte.de
Tickets:
Advance ticket sales start: February 2, 2015 from 10 a.m.
Prices: between €10 and €85
Discounts: Pupils, students, vocational trainees and disabled persons and their accompanying person receive a discount of 50 percent. These discounts do not apply for the “Horch mal!” series of children’s concerts. Tickets for all children up to age 14 cost €10 for all concerts and seats.
Order online: www.sommerkonzerte.de
By telephone: +49 841 95 91 95 91
Advance ticket offices: Donaukurier ticket offices, tourist information at Ingolstadt’s main train station, ticket service in Westpark, MFP concerts ticketshop Karlskron, and advance ticket offices with a München Ticket connection
Press documents, artist biographies and photos:
www.audi-mediaservices.com/epk/sommerkonzerte