- Heidelberger Frühling
Heidelberger Frühling
The festival of curiosity – the Heidelberger Frühling abides by this mantra every year. Extraordinary artists meet each other and the audience in a personal atmosphere and use the space provided by the festival in order to experiment with new perspectives. - Streichquartettfest
Streichquartettfest
It is the microcosm of musical collaboration – and string quartet enthusiasts travel from all over the world to Heidelberg to participate. Every year an ignition of audience and international quartet community happens through dialogue and discussion. Which makes them far more than guardians of the past. - Calendar & Tickets
- Kammermusik Plus
Kammermusik +
Jeden Monat etwas Zeit für »Frühlingsgefühle« – die Reihe »Kammermusik Plus« macht’s möglich. In der exzellenten Akustik der Alten Aula der Universität hören Sie Interpreten auf internationalem Niveau. Ganz, wie Sie es vom Heidelberger Frühling gewohnt sind.
»Das Lied« 2021
The next competition will take place from February 22 to 26, 2021 at Theatre Heidelberg.
Round 1: February, 22 & 23
Round 2: February 24
Final Round: February, 26
Contrary to plan, the advance sale will NOT start on Monday, December 6. Such a dense competition week with 8-hour preliminary rounds throughout and a final lasting several hours in front of an actually present audience would not be justifiable from today’s point of view. However, since 2017 the competition has been offered in a livestream, which has been very well received by a local and international audience of song enthusiasts even in the corona-free past.»
The participants have been chosen! Find more information about the singers here »
The application phase is closed, applications were possible until September 25, 2020. Information on the admission procedure and the competition procedure can be found in the competition rules and FAQ.
Covid-19 Update
As things stand at present, we firmly believe that the competition will take place as planned. Nevertheless, the ever-changing circumstances and regulatory requirements to contain the Covid-19 pandemic make it very difficult to make concrete predictions for February 2021.
- Ticket sales and thus audience participation on site are currently not possible due to the current pandemic development. However, the competition will be offered here and via Facebook and Twitter via livestream.
- If, contrary to expectations, the competition cannot take place at short notice due to official requirements, all applicants who have been admitted to the competition will receive a refund of the participation fee of 100.00 €.
- If participants whose home or place of study is abroad and who are travelling from there are unable to enter Germany due to official travel prohibitions and thus cannot participate in the competition, we will also refund the participation fee of 100.00 € to them. However, this does not apply to obligatory quarantine or testing measures that must be carried out in the course of entering Germany, but only to explicit travel bans.
Jury 2021
- Thomas Quasthoff (chair)
- John Mark Ainsley
- James Baillieu
- Juliane Banse
- John Gilhooly
- Helga Machreich
- Thorsten Schmidt
- Richard Stokes
Even more Lied
Heidelberg’s reputation as the city of the art song is not only due to its history. In addition to the song contest, the “Heidelberger Frühling” music festival organizes a Lied Academy with Thomas Hampson, numerous song recitals with internationally renowned artists as well as rising stars, and even a song festival called “Neuland.Lied”. In order to give the genre of Lied even more visibility, the International Song Centre Heidelberg was founded in 2016.