Concert Hall

Schloss Elmau has been celebrating, for over a century now, a unique cultural tradition featuring Classical Music and Jazz in unforgettable concerts and festivals with the great artists of or our time.

The Schloss Elmau Kulturförderkreis is a non-profit Trust supporting the cultural program of Schloss Elmau and the engagement of promising young artists. Donations to the trust are tax dedutible. Managing Director Martin T:Son Engstroem is the founder and Director of the famous Verbier Festival in Switzerland.

Mischa Maisky & Pavel Giliov (2005) | Renaud Garcia-Fons, Kiko Ruiz & Negrito Trasante (2005) | Joachim Kühn & Michael Wollny (2008) | Markus Stockhausen, Tara Bouman, Stefano Scodanibbio, Fabrizio Ottaviucci & Mark Nauseef (2008) | Vladyslav Sendecki (2010) | Danilo Rea & Flavio Boltro (2010) | Gwilym Simcock (2010) | Mischa Maisky & Lily Maisky (2011 & 2016) | Dieter Ilg, Rainer Böhm & Patrice Heral (2011) | Gwilym Simcock & Yuri Goloubev (2013) | Vivica Genaux, Simone Kermes & Cappella Gabetta (2014) | Bugge Wesseltoft, Henrik Schwarz, & Dan Berglund (2014) | David Orlowsky Trio (2014 & 2016) | Hisako Kawamura & Clemens Hagen (2014) | William Youn (2015 – 2021) | Nicolas Angelich (2016) | Michael Wollny & Vincent Peirani (2016) | Gautier Capuçon & Frank Braley (2016) | triosence (2016) | Ivo Pogorelich (2016) | Romain Collin (2016) | Konstantin Gropper & Michael Wollny (2016) | Sergei Nakariakov & Maria Meerovitch (2017) | Nicolas Dautricourt, Pascal Schumacher & Knut Erik Sundquist (2017) | Martha Argerich & Sergei Babayan (2017) | Vilde Frang, Erik Schumann, Gabriel Le Magadure, Rosanne Philippens, Lawrence Power, Lily Francis, Nicolas Altstaedt & Jan-Erik Gustavsson (2017) | Till Brönner & Dieter Ilg (2017) | Alexandre Kantorow (2018) | Echoes of Swing (2018) | Ludovico Einaudi (2018) | Shani Diluka, Prabhu Edouard & Sahana Banerjee (2019) | Martin Hofmeir & Andreas Mildner (2019) | Jazzrausch Bigband (2019) | Ksenija Sidorova, Alexander Sitkovetsky & Claudio Constantin (2020) | David Orlowsky & David Bergmüller (2021) | Annika Treutler (2021) | Jean-Guihen Queyras, Raphaël Imbert, Pierre-François Blanchard & Sonny Troupé (2022) | Daniel Hope & Alexey Botvinov (2022).

Also: recordings by Bayerischer Rundfunk, Classic FM, Takt 1, and ARTE.

Artists who have performed at Schloss Elmau include the Amadeus Quartett, Martha Argerich, Avi Avital, Julian Barnes, Lisa Batiashvili, T.C. Boyle, Alfred Brendel, Benjamin Britten, Till Brönner, Yefim Bronfman, Marc Bouchkov, Khatia Buniatishvili, John Burnside, Joseph Calleja, Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon, Christopher Clark, Chick Corea, Dan Diner, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Paolo Fresu, Saul Friedländer, Mao Fujita, Sol Gabetta, Jan Garbarek, Timothy Garton Ash, Christian Gerhaher, Monika Grütters, Friedrich Gulda, Jürgen Habermas, Thomas Hampson, André Heller, Daniel Hope, Janine Jansen, Hans Jonas, Alxandre Kantorov, Leonidas Kavakos, Navid Kermani, Evgeny Kissin, Alexander Kluge, Gidon Kremer, Nils Landgren, Walter Laqueur, Igor Levit, Loriot, Avishai Margalit, Mischa Maisky, Ian McEwan, Brad Mehldau, Yehudi Menuhin, Reinhold Messner, Sabine Meyer, Herfried Münkler, Bill Murray, Gregory Porter, Thomas Quasthoff, Quatuor Ebène, Rachel Salamander, Fazil Say, Sir Andràs Schiff, Brendan Sims, Grigory Sokolov, Esbjörn Svenson, Christian Tetzlaff, Daniil Trifonov, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Maxim Vengerov, Jan Vogler, Arcadi Volodos, Edmund De Waal, Yuja Wang, Stephen Waarts, Michael Wollny, Frank Peter Zimmermann, and many more.