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The Louis Lewandowski Festival is a tribute to the rich musical culture that characterizes Europe. In our multifaceted city, we find the ideal setting to discover together the musical treasures that unite us.

The Minister President of Brandenburg, Dr. Dietmar Woidke: "In this spirit, I wish you a wonderful festival with moving concerts and wonderful times together, wherever you are following the Louis Lewandowski Festival.

Instead, I must take this opportunity to express my anger and sadness at the criminal and insidious terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7 of this year.

Dinner with our dear friends in one of Berlin's famous Chinese restaurants ...

As always, the highlight of the festival, the magnificent final concert of all choirs and musicians in the most beautiful German synagogue Rykestraße in Berlin on April 3, 2022 Copyright: Louis Lewandowski Festival | Benjamin Hauf

Impressions of the afternoon concert from the hospital church in the Wuhlgarten and the evening performance in the legendary Reinbeckhallen on Saturday, April 2, 2022. Special thanks to Naomi Faran and the Moran Singers Ensemble from Israel Copyright: Louis Lewandowski Festival | Benjamin Hauf

Enjoy these impressions from the Kabbalat Shabbat service at the Rykestraße Synagogue on Friday, April 1, 2022. We thank all guests and especially the Governing Mayor of Berlin - Franziska Giffey - as well as the musicians. Copyright: Louis Lewandowski Festival | Benjamin Hauf

Enjoy this impressions of the opening on Thursday 31 March 2022 in the Nikolaikirche in Potsdam. We thank all guests and musicians for coming. Copyright: Louis Lewandowski Festival | Benjamin Hauf

Die Grußworte von Dr. Gideon Joffe – Vorsitzender der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin, Michael Müller, dem Regierenden Bürgermeister von Berlin und Dr. Dietmar Woidke – Ministerpräsident des Landes Brandenburg. Allen dreien möchte das Louis Lewandowski Festival ganz besonderes für die Unterstützung in…

Shacharit - Dawn (2018). Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff on her work Shacharit - Oratorio for soprano and baritone solo, mixed choir and chamber orchestra, whose German premiere will take place on December 17, 2020 at the Nikolaikirche in Potsdam.

Wir stellen Ihnen hier die Künstler vor, die das 10. Louis Lewandowski Festival im Coronajahr 2020 prägen, darunter Streicher, Sänger, Komponisten und Organisten

Festivaldirektor Nils Busch-Petersen spricht mit dem Festivalmagazin über die besonderen Herausforderungen des diesjährigen "Limited Edition" Festival, über das Programm, über Pläne und Aussichten und was ihn persönlich besonders beeindruckt hat.

Ein Beitrag von Regina Yantian, der künstlerischen Leiterin des Festivals: Wir möchten unserem Publikum, online oder vor Ort, in unseren Konzerten, Synagogalmusik aus vielen verschiedenen jüdischen Zentren und aus unterschiedlichen Epochen präsentieren.

Watch the complete recording of the opening and the concert here. Among others, "Balak and Bilam" was performed with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and festival choirs under the conductor Emily Freemann Brown. Speakers were Festival Director Nils Busch-Petersen, Prime Minister Dr. Dietmar Woidke and…

Impressions of the 2019 festival, which means impressions of six concerts in Berlin and Potsdam. Four choirs with more than one hundred singers, an orchestra, four soloists and a few thousand visitors.

When it comes to southern Germany, most of us probably think of beer, dirndls and lederhosen rather than Jews and synagogal music. And yet both beer* and traditional costumes** have a Jewish component and the roots of modern synagogal and choral music lie in southern Germany.

After completing his military service in the First World War, my father, Hugo Adler - composer of Balak and Bilam, studied at the University of Cologne and at the Musikhochschule in Munich. By Sam Adler

Here we present four soloists of the festival. The conductor Emily Freeman Brown, the pianist Jürgen Geiger. Also Michael Cayton as organist and the pianist and musicologist Jascha Nemtsov.

Since the very beginning, musicologist Regina Yantian has been the artistic director of the Louis Lewandowski Festival, which is taking place in Berlin for the thirteenth time this year.

In portraits we introduce the composers of the festival. These are Israel Meyer Japhet, Max Georg Löwenstamm, Emanuel Kirschner, Heinrich Schalit, Hugo Adler and Jakob Schönberg.

The composer Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984) was born as Paul Frankenburger in Munich, the capital of Bavaria. There he was quite successful after the First World War as a composer until the Nazis came to power. Michael Wolpe reflected on his early work.