Chamber concert series "Music in the Old Rectory

Season subscription:
7 concert evenings - with free choice of seats - at the reduced advance booking price of 131 euros.

You can purchase a subscription at in person at the citizens' offices of the town of Beckum, by telephone on 02521 29-3350 or by e-mail at: buergerbuero@beckum.de.

• Beckum Town Hall
  Wheelchair-accessible, stop: Beckum, Town Hall
• Neubeckum Town Hall
  I. Obergeschoss
  Accessible via stairs or narrow lift.
  Haltestelle: Neubeckum, market

Single tickets:

• Advance booking (from 16 September 2024) : 25 euros
• Box office (from 19:30) : 25 Euro

Order your ticket (except subscriptions) for the desired event conveniently online at:
www.beckum.de/kartenvorverkauf (plus service charge).

You can reach the cultural ticket office by telephone on 02521 29-3350.

In the frenzy of dance

Aleksandra Mikulska: piano

Aleksandra Mikulska's playing can be characterised as honest and personal. In concert, the charismatic pianist wants to open up foreign worlds and touch people with complete devotion.

She grew up in Warsaw and was honoured as the best Polish pianist at the 2005 Chopin Competition. Now a professor of piano at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden and President of the Chopin Society in Darmstadt, she performs at major venues such as the Vienna Musikverein and the Zurich Tonhalle and is a guest at international festivals.

In Vellern, Aleksandra Mikulska plays mazurkas, waltzes and preludes by Frédérik Chopin as well as the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 by Franz Liszt.

Due to the illness of the artist, the concert on 7 November 2024 had to be cancelled at short notice. A rescheduled date will be announced shortly. Tickets already purchased remain valid, but can also be refunded.

Thursday, 12 December

Classical Jewish music

Liebmann Trio: piano, violoncello, violin 

There is a great artistic tradition in classical Jewish music. This includes world-famous names such as Mendelssohn, Mahler and Offenbach. There are also wonderful works by lesser-known composers.

Helene Liebmann, the trio's namesake, is a discovery from around 1800, while Ernst Bloch, Erwin Schulhoff and Paul Schönfiel create a new musical language of modernism from Jewish tradition. Works by the young violinist and composer Roman Padlewski as well as the composer Anna Segal and the composer Don Jaffé can be heard in major concert halls today.

The Liebmann Trio with Monica Gutmann, Ramón Jaffé and Gernot Süsmuth will present an exciting concert evening with works by these composers.

Postponed to Thursday, 30 January 2025

The brilliant flute

Shaya Eldar & Risa Kobayashi: flute, piano

Shaya Eldar, born in Israel in 2005, began her musical education at the age of seven. After beginning her studies under Professor Yossi Arnheim, former principal flute of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, at the National High School of the Arts in Tel Aviv, she continued her studies at the University of Music in Münster.

Together with the Japanese pianist Risa Kobayashi, who initially studied in Japan before moving to the Musikhochschule Münster in 1999, Shaya Eldar will perform some of the most brilliant and virtuosic pieces of the flute repertoire.

The programme includes solo pieces for flute and pieces for flute and piano by Georg Philipp Telemann, Bohuslav Martinu, Pierre Sancan, Charles-Marie Widor, André Jolivet and Niccolò Panganini.

Thursday, 20 February 2025

Richly resonant interplay

Alma Trio: piano, saxophone, viola

Alvaro Banon, Mabel Rodriguez and Mar Valor came together at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne as the Alma Trio to explore new musical paths together.

They develop new sound colours, presenting a wide range of new repertoire from different stylistic periods. In addition to original works, they create new arrangements of popular classical compositions in their special constellation.

The first part of the concert is dedicated to the German and American composers Russell Peterson, August Klughardt and Max Bruch. In the second part of the concert, the musical journey continues to South America and Spain with works by Astor Piazzolla and Manuel de Falla.

Thursday, 20 March 2025

Exclusive violin meeting

Albrecht Menzel: Violin

Albrecht Menzel has performed as a soloist under conductors such as Kurt Masur and Joanna Mallwitz with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Radio Orchestra, among others. Invited by AnneSophie Mutter, Menzel has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Salzburg Festival, to name but a few.

Albrecht Menzel presents a dialogue concert in Vellern. He will play virtuoso works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Niccolò Paganini, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Eugène Ysaÿe and Henri Vieuxtemps on the Stradivari Lady Hallè / Ernst. The artist will also play three other violins from three centuries and present the entire programme with entertaining anecdotes from the world of violins.

Thursday, 10 April 2025

Worlds of sound - from baroque magic to tango fever

Terwey's daughters: violin, piano 

The violinist Berenice Terwey and her sister, the pianist Philomela Eva Terwey, are recognised by experts as exceptional young talents.

Following their solid musical training, the two sisters have performed in the most prestigious concert halls. Whether in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam or the Philharmonie Mexico City - the sisters have thrilled audiences everywhere with their poetic musicality and captivating playing.

Berenice and Philomela Eva Terwey play works by Jean-Marie Leclair, Fazil Say, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms and Astor Piazzolla under the motto "Klangwelten - Von Barockzauber und Tangofieber".