We would like to congratulate our titular patron Mariss Jansons, who was honoured in this year with the so called «Nobel Prize of Music», the Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis, for his outstanding achievements – especially his work with the new generation of musicians. Jansons impressed the Ernst von Siemens foundation as a «Conductor personality who wholly lives in and from his deep confidence in music».
Mariss Janons succeeds Josef Suk as Titular Patron of the MARTINŮ FESTTAGE. The chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bayerischen Rundfunks is well known for his engagement for Bohuslav Martinů.
Furthermore we are delighted to announce that the former United States Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright has agreed to take over the Titular Patronage as a successor to Václav Havel.
Since 1995, MARTINŮ FESTTAGE taking place in Basel every autumn are organised by pianist Robert Kolinsky and his team. Basel’s oldest classical music festival ranks «among the smallest and finest of its kind» according to the press... more
Bohuslav Martinů, born 1890 in Czechia, is one of the 20th century’s most prolific composers. The autodidact studied shortly with Josef Suk in Prague and later with Albert Roussel in Paris where he lived 1923-1940... more
