Festival Season 2025

The 2025 festival season opened with the Heidelberger Frühling Streichquartettfest from January 23 to 26, which celebrated its 20th birthday. The focus was on the important contemporary composer Helmut Lachenmann, who turns 90 this year. Over four intensive festival days, a total of ten workshops, concerts and talks took place, which Lachenmann actively helped to organize.

Under the motto “Liberated Time”, Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival 2025 invited visitors to take a break from everyday life for three weeks from March 22 to April 13 and experience special moments of deceleration. One focus was on the two composers Franz Schubert and Steve Reich and their works with original time arrangements. A highlight was the only German performance of all five piano concertos by Sergei Prokofiev on three evenings by Igor Levit with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under the direction of Iván Fischer.

At Heidelberger Frühling Liedfestival 2025 from May 24 to June 1, different generations of artists came together and combined the past, present and future of song.