HEINRICH SCHÜTZ MUSIKFEST "because I am alive"

7.-16. october 2022
Dresden | Torgau | Gera | Bad Köstritz | Weißenfels | Zeitz

The Heinrich Schütz Music Festival is held under the festival's annual motto "because I am alive" and pays contemporary and wide-ranging tribute to Schütz, the composer of centuries, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of his death.

Artist in residence will be the Belgian ensemble Vox Luminis. You can also look forward to the Cappella Mariana, the ensemble 'Sing and Sign', the Thomanerchor, the ensemble LauschWerk, the Dresdner Kammerchor and the Akadêmia under Françoise Lasserre as well as other renowned artists and ensembles.

Theme Festival „Of Life – About Leben“

4.-6. november 2022
Dresden | Weißenfels & Zeitz | Bad Köstritz & Gera

11.-12. november 2022
Magdeburg

Around the anniversary of Heinrich Schütz' death on November 6, top-class concerts, lectures, guided tours, church services, exhibitions, conferences, workshops and sound installations span a wide range: The theme festivals "Of Life - About Life", realized in a cooperation with numerous, very different partners at the central, authentic and auratic, Schütz locations in Central Germany, thus create a grand finale for the SCHÜTZ22 festival year - "because I am alive".