"Emotions - Thoughts - Music" with pianists Sebastian Knauer and Joja Wendt and the "Pictures in Music" program, a tribute to Antonín Dvořák, will be two cultural highlights in Aachen in March 2026. Advance sales have now started for both events in the Altes Kurhaus, just in time for many culture lovers to find tickets under the Christmas tree.

"Emotions - thoughts - music!" Sebastian Knauer meets... Joja Wendt. Two pianists - one concert!

The second concert in the new series with pianist and Echo Klassik prizewinner Sebastian Knauer on March 1, 2026 in the ballroom of the Altes Kurhaus Aachen.

It is a new encounter in words and music of a very special kind. Two celebrated pianists talk about what connects them, namely music!

There is no fear of contact between different genres here - on the contrary, it is exciting to experience how close these two musicians are, even though they come from two completely different directions.

It's about emotions, the exchange of personal thoughts, memories, private matters, people and, of course, music, which both will present with great virtuosity on two grand pianos.

Experience Sebastian Knauer in unique new arrangements together with Joja Wendt, one of the most successful German entertainers ever on the piano, who feels equally at home in jazz, boogie woogie and classical music and performs to sold-out houses all over Germany.

Event details
Date: Sunday, March 1, 2026
Start: 4 p.m.
Venue: Ballsaal im Alten Kurhaus, Komphausbadstraße 19, 52064 Aachen
Advance tickets €49.00 / €45.00 (reduced) at www.reservix.de
Information: www.altes-kurhaus-aachen.de

"Pictures in music" - Homage to Antonín Dvořák

The program "Pictures in Music" includes letters by and to Antonín Dvořák, interviews with him and memories of contemporary witnesses - in a multi-layered and exciting collage of words and music, the actor Devid Striesow, the violinist Mayumi Kanagawa and the pianist Hideyo Harada illuminate this fascinating personality in many facets.

The program includes excerpts from Antonín Dvořák's works for violin and piano, the Slavonic Dances, the song cycles "The Cypresses" and "Sounds from Moravia", the opera "Rusalka" and the 9th Symphony "From the New World".

Antonín Dvořák is no musical prodigy. His career as a musician and composer gathered pace rather slowly over the years - until he met Johannes Brahms, who ultimately helped him make his breakthrough: Brahms' publisher Fritz Simrock first published Dvořák's duets "Sounds from Moravia" in 1877/78 and then his "Slavonic Dances", which immediately became very popular. In a very short space of time, he not only became a kind of national composer for his home country with his exuberant Bohemian-Moravian melodies, but also quickly turned American classical music on its head.

Devid Striesow completed his acting training at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. He is a two-time winner of the German Film Award and the recipient of numerous other honors. Striesow starred as General Friedrich in the Netflix production "Im Westen nichts Neues", which was released in fall 2022. The film entered the 2023 race as a German Oscar candidate and, in addition to nine nominations, also received four awards.

Event details
Date: Saturday, March 28, 2026
Start: 7 p.m.
Venue: Ballsaal im Alten Kurhaus, Komphausbadstraße 19, 52064 Aachen
Advance tickets €30 / €25 (reduced) at www.reservix.de
Information: www.altes-kurhaus-aachen.de