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Experience Sigurd Barrett, the Sønderjysk Girl Choir and the Boys' Choir, a huge children's choir from the schools in Southern and Southern Jutland as well as Southern Schleswig, when they sing Christmas into a festive repertoire of Christmas carols and Christmas jokes. There is a guarantee of both Christmas spirit, laughter and lots of singing joy!

Singer and songwriter Helene Blum, together with violinist and composer Harald Haugaard, have distinguished themselves as some of the finest interpreters and innovators of the rich and vibrant Nordic cultural heritage. Since 2007, they have let the music, traditions and stories of Christmas unfold in an annual Nordic Christmas tour, where their own songs and compositions meet original interpretations of old shows, hymns and dance music in a timeless universe that at once sounds recognizable and but very refreshing. For these concerts, the Nordic Christmas concert unfolds in a large format, when Sønderjylland's Symphony Orchestra meets the two folk musicians under the direction of Phillip Faber.

Ruth Reinhardt was educated in both the violin and in the children's choir at the opera in Saarbrücken, and conducted other young people in an opera she had composed herself when she was only 17. She has conducted many orchestras in the United States and Europe; orchestras that know the broad repertoire, but also manage to create the slender sound we now associate with baroque music. It is mastered by Ruth Reinhardt, who has been praised for, among other things, that

Are you ready to start the new year in style? You are hereby invited to our fantastic New Year's Gala, where we put traditions first and dance into the coming year with the sumptuous sound of beautiful Viennese music! Get ready to be enchanted by the beautiful tones and lively atmosphere that characterize Viennese music – everything from Strauss' An der schönen, the blue Danube to Lumbye Champagne gallop. We also have an exceptional soprano for the concert, the American-Russian soprano Anastasiya Roytman.

Shostakovich composed his two cello concertos for his friend, the cellist and conductor Rostropovich. The virtuoso 1st and the introverted 2nd Rostropovitch had an international career, and great influence also on a violinist like Anne-Sophie Mutter. And here a connection was made: There is a direct line from Shostakovich to the cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, even though he was born the year after his death. Because through Anne-Sophie Mutter, Müller-Schott became a pupil of Rostropovitch. Not so that he could trudge to a classroom and play, no, he said when he was in Copenhagen a few years ago: Müller-Schott traveled after Rostropovich, because the master could think of calling late in the evening - and that was it to strike. You can imagine it, the young German and the old Russian in a hotel room in Germany somewhere... At the age of 15, Müller-Schott won the fine Tchaikovsky competition for young musicians in Moscow, and with his talent and good teachers, there was no long before he played with great orchestras and fine musicians; the list is long. Müller-Schott has also taken an interest in premiering new works for cello, and working with other art forms, in what seems like an eternal curiosity.

Present and mature in his playing, a critic wrote after a concert at a German festival about Guido Sant'Anna, born in 2005 in Säo Paulo in Brazil. Sant'Anna won a chamber music prize at the Menuhin Competition at the age of 12, where he was the first Brazilian ever to enter. The youngster said in a small homemade video that he was looking forward to meeting violinists from all over the world, making friends and having fun. In 2022, at the age of 17, he won 1st prize in the Fritz Kreisler Competition – both competitions founded on the shoulders of great violin virtuosos who were aware of young violinists and the opportunities they should be given.

Violinist Alena Baeva was born in Kyrgyzstan in what was then the Soviet Union. When she was 5 years old, the family had to flee due to civil war. They came to Kazakhstan and later to Moscow when Alena Baeva started studying violin at the conservatory there. Many exams and concerts were part of the teaching, and she liked it - being on stage and sharing the music with others. Today, Alena Baeva lives in Luxembourg with her husband and children, well located near airports and concert halls. Travel is part of a musician's life and you can be completely blown away by her calendar of concerts from Hong Kong to numerous halls in Europe and the USA. Alena Baeva plays both the big concerts and chamber music; chamber music i.a. with Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko. As far as concerts are concerned, she has both the known and the unknown in her repertoire. Among other things, Prokofiev's 2nd violin concerto, which, in order to remain cosmopolitan, was first performed by a French violinist in Madrid in 1935, and was composed in several places while Prokofiev was on his tours as a pianist. After the not-so-frequently played concert, it is Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony with its natural scenes that can be experienced: the trickling of the brook, village festival, thunderstorm, and peaceful shepherd's song after the storm.

Where will you be in ten years? Stephanie Childress answers in an interview on meettheartist.online: She thinks that she works with music together with good colleagues, and plays an active role in changing the education in art and music. Because, she says, the earlier you encounter art, the better. It is not a question of educating more musicians, but that everyone should have the opportunity to experience, for example, the classical music – and that is what she wants, to bring classical music and art to as many people as possible. French-British Stephanie Childress herself played the violin as a child. She is not from a musical family, but from a home where all kinds of activities were supported and Tina Turner and David Bowie were listened to. She didn't really want to be a musician, but then she started going to rehearsals for operas instead of classes at school, Britten and Strauss heard, and then she was sold. She continued with the violin, and it provided a foundation for her to begin conducting studies. Today, she has already achieved part of her dream, i.a. conducted at the Glyndebourne opera in England – which is praised as one of the best Mozart interpreters – and was assistant conductor at St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in the USA, as well as 1st guest conductor at the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra from season 24/25. And touring all over the world until then.

If you were at the first performance of Beethoven's Eroica in 1805, one was at a revolutionary, musical historical event. The symphony broke the boundaries. It is the beginning of Beethoven's heroic period, where the music is characterized by the idea of man's, the hero's, struggle for freedom. From the 1st movement bursting with thoughtfulness in the 2nd movement's mourning march and the energy of the 3rd movement, to the finale, which is not tritely triumphant, but subtle and surprising. Even today, when the symphony has been heard countless times, it can blow one away, and stands as one of the greatest symphonies ever. Kuhlau knew Beethoven and conducted his works in Copenhagen. In addition, he traveled twice to Vienna, where he visited him. The music for the play William Shakespeare and to Elverhøj was composed after that – by a German-born Danish composer, inspired by a revolutionary composer.

Rossini knew his means of action, and although there is a long way from the action overture to the opera Wilhelm Tell to his ecclesiastical work Stabat Mater, the works have in common that Rossini knew what he was doing; was it dramatic, heartfelt, cheerful - he could play on all keys. The Stabat Mater is a psalm text from the Middle Ages that tells of Mary's pain as she witnesses her son's crucifixion, and many have set it to music. Rossini is not the only composer to have brought the operatic style into the church, and Rossini's few church musical works are profoundly religious in the language he mastered. Emotional and virtuosic music to the words Grundtvig translated: "Only the tender mother's heart can hold a mother's pain" - the essence of the Stabat Mater.