Schloss Elmau has celebrated a unique musical tradition for over a century now. Today, as many as 200 Classical Music & Jazz Concerts take place each year, as well as several festivals, and many CD recordings, all featuring the great artists of our time. The artists not only perform at Schloss Elmau, but relax here with their families & friends just like their audience. Kids are welcome to listen if they can sit still for one hour. For many guests, the concerts and encounters are unforgettable highlights of their vacation.
The Schloss Elmau Cultural Trust is a non-profit trust supporting the unique cultural tradition of Schloss Elmau since 1972. The trust is particularly engaged in supporting young promising artists with tax deductible donations. The trust is run by Martin T:Son Engstroem, 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 or will be performing at Schloss Elmau include the Amadeus Quartet, Martha Argerich, Avi Avital, Julian Barnes, Lisa Batiashvili, T.C. Boyle, Alfred Brendel, Benjamin Britten, Till Brönner, Yefim Bronfman, Khatia Buniatishvili, John Burnside, Joseph Calleja, Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon, Christopher Clark, Chick Corea, Dan Diner, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Paolo Fresu, Saul Friedländer, 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, Leonidas Kavakos, Navid Kermani, Alexander Kluge, Gidon Kremer, Nils Landgren, Walter Laqueur, Igor Levit, Loriot, Avishai Margalit, Ian Mcewan, Mischa Maisky, Brad Mehldau, Yehudi Menuhin, Reinhold Messner, Sabine Meyer, Herfried Münkler, Bill Murray, Gregory Porter, Thomas Quasthoff, Quatuor Ebène, Christoph Ransmayr, Rachel Salamander, Fazil Say, Brendan Sims, Grigory Sokolov, Esbjörn Svenson, Daniil Trifonov, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Maxim Vengerov, Jan Vogler, Arcadi Volodos, Edmund De Waal, Yuja Wang, Michael Wollny, Frank Peter Zimmermann, and many more.