The trio MANTRA is among the most exciting new discoveries on the German jazz scene. Now the three young musicians are coming to the Gezeitenkonzerte to prove why they are currently regarded as true "summit stormers".

Summit Stormers: MANTRA

Steinhaus Bunderhee

The trio MANTRA is one of the most exciting new discoveries on the German jazz scene. Behind MANTRA are Valentin Seidl (piano), Linus Hutzler (bass) and Dejan Hauch (drums).

Gipfelstürmer: MANTRA

Landschaftsforum Aurich

A documentary that looks behind the scenes of the Tidal Concerts, with concert impressions and interviews with artists, festival team members, sponsors, volunteers and audience members.

Coastal Sounds – The Tidal Concerts of the Ostfriesische Landschaft

Kino Aurich

Festival portrait of the Tidal Concerts of the East Frisian Landscape: a film that goes behind the scenes of the festival, with concert impressions, on-camera comments from artists, the festival team, sponsors and audience members.

Coastal Sounds – The Tidal Concerts of the East Frisian Landscape

Kino Center Leer

Tidal Concerts: Federal Youth Orchestra with soloist Giorgi Gigashvili (piano) under the direction of Aurel Dawidiuk.

Federal Youth Orchestra – Giorgi Gigashvili / Aurel Dawidiuk

Festspielhaus am Wall

Concert recording of the Alexej Gerassimez Percussion Collective, broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur (program "Konzert").

Alexej Gerassimez Percussion Collective

Schüt-Duis

Closing concert of the Gezeitenkonzerte: The quartet UWAGA! meets the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen under the direction of Rasmus Baumann. The great works of opera history are arranged as crossovers: Mozart in Balkan rhythm, Wagner with jazz, Puccini as pop.

UWAGA! goes Opera

Der Polderhof - Friesenpferdegestüt Brümmer

Begegnungen! – Tidal Concerts. Soul, jazz and funky rhythms with Myles Sanko and his band at the Van-Ameren-Bad, Emden (open air).

Myles Sanko Band

Van-Ameren-Bad

A virtuosic "Grand Tour" through three centuries of Baroque literature with Dorothee Oberlinger and Maurice Steger (recorders), Alex Jellici (baroque cello), Gianluca Geremia (lute) and Flóra Fábri (harpsichord).

Dorothee Oberlinger & Maurice Steger: Grand Tour

Nikolaikirche

The young Davidoff Trio makes its debut at the Gezeitenkonzerte with a program of Haydn, Takemitsu and Dvořák. An evening full of contrasts and discoveries.

Summit Stormers – Davidoff Trio

Ditzum Kirche

Elisabeth Leonskaja plays Ludwig van Beethoven's last three piano sonatas (Op. 109, 110, 111). Concert in memory of Oleg Maisenberg. Excursion on site: Following the Traces of Emden's Jews (guided walk, 90 minutes).

Elisabeth Leonskaja

Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek

A second evening of the "Long Nights of the Summit Climbers" with young emerging musicians: chamber music in many facets, solo and in ensemble, with relaxed commentary and a spontaneously shaped finale.

Long Night of the Summit Climbers II

Ostfriesische Landschaft

Promenade concert with changing chamber music ensembles from the Gipfelstürmer, hosted, with an intermission program in the landscape garden and a closing jam session.

Long Night of the Summit Stormers I

Ostfriesische Landschaft Aurich

Clarinet and accordion: a musical journey through time with works by women composers, from Hildegard von Bingen to the present day. The concert was canceled at short notice and has been moved to a later date in late summer/autumn; tickets remain valid.

Gipfelstürmer: Duo Amabile – Feminine Soundscapes

Peter-Paul-Kirche

The annual composer portrait at the Kunsthalle Emden, featuring world premieres by Ettore Prandi, performed by Matthias Kirschnereit, Julia Schröder, Tomás Figueiredo, Lucas Schwengebecher and Lilia-Fruz Bulhakova. Supplemented by a stroll with a guided tour of the exhibition "Bilder, die wir lieben".

Composer Portrait Ettore Prandi

Kunsthalle Emden

Premiere of the Austrian wind ensemble Federspiel with the program “Wir & Jetzt” (“Us & Now”) as part of the 2026 Gezeitenkonzerte (festival motto “Encounters!”). Supplemented by a guided tour of the Blumenhalle and the Gartenpark (Streifzug).

Federspiel – Wir & Jetzt

Gartenpark Wiesmoor

This year's theme for the Gezeitenkonzerte is "Begegnungen!" – world premiere of Sabine Hermann (singer-songwriter, Low German indie pop songs) with the Nordwest Bigband in arrangements by Malte Schiller. Includes a guided walk through historic Emden on site (admission €7.50).

Techtelmechtel

A concert program featuring iconic film scores by Hans Zimmer in arrangements by Lucy Landymore, complemented by works by Lucy Landymore, Johann Sebastian Bach, Gustav Mahler and Philip Glass.

Lucy Landymore & Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin

Forum alte Werft

Tidal concert: BachWerkVokal Salzburg under the direction of Gordon Safari, with dance soloists of the Czech National Ballet. Music and choreography based on Bach cantatas and organ works in the Ludgerikirche Norden.

Bach Dances

Ludgerikirche Norden

Quadro Nuevo presents their current program "Happy Deluxe" at the Park der Gärten as part of the Gezeitenkonzerte festival (motto "Begegnungen!"). A world-music evening blending Argentine tango, Bavarian Zwiefach, oriental mysticism, Brazilian groove, jazz improvisation and Neapolitan melancholy.

Quadro Nuevo – Happy Deluxe

Park der Gärten

A true top-tier orchestra returns to the Gezeitenkonzerte series: the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover performs under the direction of Andrew Manze, its former chief conductor. Matthias Kirschnereit is the soloist in Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3.

Matthias Kirschnereit – NDR Radiophilharmonie – Andrew Manze

St. Magnus Kirche

Final concert of the music education project "Flutlichter – Gipfelstürmer@ School" by the Gezeitenkonzerte with TONALi and Rhapsody in School. Around 100 students from the 5th and 6th grades in East Frisia create a cross-genre concert of classical, crossover, jazz and world music with theatrical elements together with professional musicians.

Flutlichter – Gipfelstürmer@ School: Final Concert

Stadthalle Aurich

Open-air concert with the multinational Celtic folk band CARA on Willy-Brandt-Platz in Leer, part of the Gezeitenkonzerte (Tidal Concerts) series. Presentation of the new album "Our Ship Is Ready." A maritime city walk, "Streifzug vor Ort," is also offered.

CARA

Willy-Brandt-Platz

A program of words and music combining Mozart's "Bäsle Letters" with selected piano works and songs. Part of the festival within a festival "Mozart 360°" at the Gezeitenkonzerte.

Mozart 360° I – Daniel Keberle, Megan Kahts, Florian Krumpöck

Neue Kirche

„All People Will Become Sisters“ – Concert with music by the siblings Mendelssohn, Boulanger and others. As part of the Gezeitenkonzerte in Dangast.

Summit Stormers – Duo Anouchka & Katharina Hack

Altes Kurhaus

Chamber music for cello and harp in St. Mary's Church, Nesse. Baroque, Czech Romanticism, works by Max Bruch, Hasselmans, Arvo Pärt and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

Petr Nouzovský & Kateřina Englichová

Marienkirche

Oboe and piano recital with works by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Poulenc, Chopin and Klemcke, presented as part of the Gezeitenkonzerte series.

Albrecht Mayer & Bernd Glemser

St. Mauritiuskirche Reepsholt

Tidal concert with the Isabelle van Keulen Ensemble and the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein: an encounter between a tango ensemble and a chamber orchestra, with works by Astor Piazzolla and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Variations on Buenos Aires

Große Kirche

Workshop talk with Helmut Zerlett and moderator Eike Ebbel Groenewold, featuring film excerpts and live piano, in collaboration with the Emden-Norderney International Film Festival.

Film Composer Portrait: Helmut Zerlett

Christian Ehring returns to the Gezeitenkonzerte in 2026 with a musical program created especially for the festival, combining satirical songs and cabaret, accompanied by vocals and piano.

Christian Ehring

Gezeitenkonzert with members of the Barenboim-Said Akademie. Program: Mozart Quartet in D major K. 285, Takemitsu Itinerant, Schubert Trio movement in B-flat major D. 471, Schumann Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44. Includes optional Streifzug: guided tour of the Moormuseum Moordorf.

Michael Barenboim, Renboim-Said-Akademie

Kirche Zum guten Hirten

Tide Concert: Works by Brahms, Janáček, Dvořák and Brahms (violin and piano).

Christian Tetzlaff & Matthias Kirschnereit

Georgskirche

Word-and-music program with texts by Franz Kafka (recitation Heikko Deutschmann) and music by Leoš Janáček, Josef Suk and Bohuslav Martinů (violin Ulf Schneider, piano Stephan Imorde). Supplemented by a tour of the Gnadenkirche Tidofeld as a stroll.

Kafka: Stories

Kirche Bargebur

Gezeitenkonzert with young prize-winning talents, scholarship holders of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, presenting a chamber music program; includes a guided tour (Streifzug) of the Landhausgarten Knospe.

Kira Koch, Charlotte Melkonian, Oscar Hollmer & Linda Yuan

Pollmann & Renken

A farewell music-comedy concert by the trio Bidla Buh, featuring around 30 instruments, parodic musical pieces, and a historical tour with a tea ceremony as a ramble through the local area.

Bidla Buh – Farewell Tour

Open-air concert at Steinhaus Bunderhee with singer Maya Fadeeva and her band, premiering at the Gezeitenkonzerte. Presents the album "Edge of Eden" (March 2025).

Maya Fadeeva Band

A concert with works by Paul Ben-Haim and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at Gut Horn Gristede, followed by a guided tour of the Rhodo-Garten Dringenburg (Streifzug).

Liv Migdal, Ofer Canetti & Lilit Grigoryan

Gut Horn

A performance by the Quintessence Saxophone Quintet at the Gezeitenkonzerte, presenting the program "a cinematic suite," which showcases masterpieces of film music in the Quintessence style.

Quintessence Saxophone Quintet – a cinematic suite

Ökowerk Emden

Nils Mönkemeyer (Viola & Musical Direction) with the viola class of the Hanns Eisler Berlin University of Music. Fourth format in the "...issimo" series at the Gezeitenkonzerte, festival theme "Begegnungen!"

Bratschissimo

St. Martinskirche Remels

Concert of the Gezeitenkonzerte series: Maximilian Hornung (cello) and the Camerata Bohemica Prague under Gudni Emilsson, with works by Mozart, Haydn, Dvořák and Suk.

Maximilian Hornung & Camerata Bohemica Prague

Martin-Luther-Kirche

Let's form a chanson band! Four voices and a piano perform songs by Jewish and persecuted composers from the 1920s – from Friedrich Hollaender to the Comedian Harmonists to Kurt Weill. With Streifzug: a small culinary harbor cruise aboard the MB "Falderndelft."

Die Damen und Herren Daffke

Fährhaus am Borkumterminal

Chamber music evening with works by Mozart, Brahms, Cassadó and Beethoven, part of the Gezeitenkonzerte (Tide Concerts) at the Hinte church.

Danjulo Ishizaka & Markus Schirmer

Kirche Hinte

Alexej Gerassimez Percussion Collective – program "Elements of Drum" with Suite of Elements, works by Philip Glass, Eric Whitacre, John Adams and Mátyás Wettl; part of the Gezeitenkonzerte, with a work introduction as an on-site exploratory walk.

Elements of Drum

Schüt-Duis Produktionshalle

This tidal concert promises musical “encounters!” of a special kind, as the Mongolian-Persian ensemble Sedaa blends the archaic sounds of traditional Mongolian music with Oriental harmonies and rhythms into a fascinating journey along the Silk Road.

Sedaa

In the year's final concert, "Malte Viefs Kammer" presents its program "Winter" – a musical invitation to pause and reflect. Old tunes in new arrangements, original compositions (including the small suite "Winterreise") and tributes to the Renaissance and Baroque.

Gezeitenkonzerte in Ostfriesland

Nov 18, 2026

Sedaa

Dec 5, 2026

Malte Viefs Kammer – Winter

Oct 7, 2026

Summit Stormers: MANTRA

Oct 6, 2026

Gipfelstürmer: MANTRA

Gezeitenkonzerte in Ostfriesland