The Summer Concerts push boundaries
and conventions and explore new potential with music at special venues like the
Museum for Concrete Art (July 18) and the Lechner Museum (July 22), and with
unusual repertoires like a silent film with live improvised accompaniment on
organ (July 24), or unusual instrumentation such as the classical string
quintet with electric trio (July 28).
The Audi Young Persons’ Choral
Academy will celebrate its tenth anniversary during the festival and will be
performing together with the Academy for Ancient Music. Under the direction of
Martin Steidler, the two ensembles will perform Joseph Haydn’s “Schöpfung”
(Creation) (July 19). The Youth Persons’ Choral Academy celebrated its stage
premiere with this oratorio at the Summer Concerts in 2008. Haydn’s work also
forms the thematic reference point for the performance of “Gegenentwürfe”
(Alternative Concepts) (July 22) in the Lechner Museum. In this partnership
between Stadtjugendring Ingolstadt and Audi ArtExperience, young people from
different cultural backgrounds work together creatively under the supervision
of music instructors.
During the music festival, the
Museum of Concrete Art is devoted to the program of violin duo Patricia
Kopatchinskaja and Pekka Kuusisto. The Finnish artist is a focus of this year’s
Audi Summer Concerts and feels at home in the classical canon of concerts as
well as in electronic music, jazz or heavy metal. At the Festival’s open-air
opening concert (July 13), the versatile musician will perform on an electric
violin, among other things. At the side and as conductor of the Mahler Chamber
Orchestra, he presents a program with predominantly Scandinavian literature,
supplemented by Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1.
In the Asamkirche Maria de Victoria
church, the world-renowned cellist Sol Gabetta will perform the Cello Concerto
No. 2 “Presence” by Pēteris Vasks (July 20), together with the Basel Chamber
Orchestra. The Schumann Quartet with clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer (July 21)
can also be experienced here.
For the first time, the Audi Summer
Concerts 2018 will also host a salon concert within the four walls of a
classical music fan.All Ingolstadt residents may apply online at www.sommerkonzerte.de/salon
until May 20 to host the private concert.The
winner can invite up to 15 guests to the performance of a pair of musicians on
July 15; finger food and drinks will be provided.
The international focus of the Audi
Summer Concerts is underscored by the Georgian Chamber Orchestra in the
open-air program “I like to be in America” (July 14). Conducted by the Armenian
Ruben Gazarian, the orchestra will perform together with Turkish pianist and
civil rights activist Fazil Say. The second part of the concert will be
arranged by the Audi Wind Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1962, under
Alejandro Vila with literature by Leonard Bernstein and Cole Porter.
Many other stars of classical music
will be guests: 32-year-old Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali will
perform together with pianist Nikolai Lugansky and the Philharmonia Orchestra
London (July 17). Gambist, conductor and musicologist Jordi Savall will appear
as a guest performer at the Salzburg Festival (July 25) and organist Cameron
Carpenter will present his improvisations for the 1927 silent film “Berlin –
Die Sinfonie einer Großstadt” (Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis).
The Audi Summer Concerts will
conclude with a club night (July 28) in cooperation with the Taktraumfestival.
During this event a string quintet from PODIUM Esslingen will merge with the
French producer-singer-trio dOP and combine electronic music with classical
string sounds.
Program details for all concerts and
tickets are available at www.sommerkonzerte.de.Advance booking starts on March 3 at
10:00 a.m.