In 2016, the Bochumer Symphoniker and their long-standing Music Director Steven Sloane celebrated a milestone with the opening of their long-awaited new home, the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr.

Ahead of Antje Weithaas' round birthday in 2016, we spoke to her about her multi-faceted career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher, and why she is always looking for something new.

"Music is simply the most beautiful and fulfilling part of my life", Tabea Zimmermann told us in autumn 2016 on why she is celebrating her 50th birthday with a concert.

In 2016, the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo paid homage to Busoni’s visionary spirit.

Toshio Hosokawa about his opera Stilles Meer and the 2011 Fukushima catastrophe.

Vanishing notes: Toshio Hosokawa‘s speech at the MozartLabor

Encounters and Reflection: Jens Joneleit in Russia

A drama of salvation: Toshio Hosokawa’s opera Matsukaze

Feedback for conductors: Steven Sloane and the International Conducting Academy Berlin

Hearing Voices – Samir Odeh-Tamimi in conversation

Remixed: The GrauSchumacher Piano Duo presents compositions in a new sound outfit.

Sarah Wegener performs almost every kind of repertoire, from her own lieder recital ideas to large new orchestral works. Looking back at her career, she is amazed how consistently its stations have emerged.

Above the vineyards by Lake Constance, with stunning views of the ‘Swabian Sea’, lies the Glazier House, summer home of Gertrud and Hans Zender. It is here that we meet to talk about the composer’s new work, which is to be premiered just a stone’s throw away from here.

'Music is a human endeavour' – Michael Jarrell and his new work for the Arditti Quartet

François-Frédéric Guy – 'The Beethoven Project'

Jeroen Berwaerts explains what connects him to the brass band tradition, what yoga taught him about breath, and why singing became an essential part of his trumpet recitals.

The one with knowledge exists through his knowledge. Samir Odeh-Tamimi's Mansūr

The Gringolts Quartet: Friends for Life

The GrauSchumacher Piano Duo and composer Stefan Heucke talk about the arrangement of Liszt’s Concerto pathétique for two pianos and orchestra.

The klezmer clarinettist David Krakauer, portraied by Rachel Kelly

Beauty is a weapon: The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan and Toshio Hosokawa's music

Baroque and modern: Ilya Gringolts

Tagebuch and Orchesterstücke: In 2014, two orchestra pieces by Friedrich Cerha received its world premieres.

Dmitry Liss and the UPO: Setting New Standards in the Urals

The Trio Mediaeval chose to consider the gaps in historic evidence as a chance when they decided to reconstruct a mediaeval Mass.