Music Projects

Interconnection: A “Jazz Relay” in Celebration of Life Below Water To celebrate the 2023 International Day of Jazz, the UCCN Cities of Music are working collectively to coordinate a “jazz relay” around the world! On January 28, 2023, Frutillar, Chile (as part of the “Rhythm Between the River and the Lake” Semanas Musicales Music Festival […]

Hannover is a city full of music – and its protagonists have a lot of stories to tell! Hannover is a city full of music – and its protagonists have a lot of stories to tell! We don’t just mean the artists who inspire others with their music on stage we are also talking about […]

An online concert series in solidarity with artists and technicians The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting restrictions for artists audiences and venues are fundamentally changing the music landscape. With the desire to support musicians sound engineers and videographers during this difficult time the idea for this project was born. The participating artists each agree to organize a concert […]

Six artists, 10 months and one challenge: presenting the issues of equality, empowerment and diversity in the UNESCO City of Music Hannover’s music scene in a short film. The result is a short film with a vibrant sound, an exciting story and more than 90 enthusiastic participants – and the overriding aim of inspiring others. […]

hell:wach is a concert experience initiated and organised by a hannover-based orchestra called “Orchester im Treppenhaus” (stair-case orchestra). They have initiated a 29-hour-classical music-marathon with musicians from Hannover and the region. The unique thing in these corona-virus affected times is that they have brought together many musicians from Hannover’s wide classical scene, orchestra musicians from […]

The release of the Love Language EP this week prompted me to look back at our recent collaborative work with Hannover. Since we achieved the UNESCO City of Music designation in December 2015 we have enjoyed a hugely productive relationship with this vibrant and welcoming German city. The UNESCO music office there  is led by the […]

“In 2017 I received an email from Alice Moser, the Coordinator of Hanover’s Culture Bureau, inviting me to play a festival in her city. The idea described to me was that an artist from each European UNESCO City Of Music (a status that Liverpool and Hanover share) would travel to the city, where they would […]

Britten‘s War Requiem was performed by Hannover’s NDR Radiophilharmonie Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in both cities on 3rd November in Hannover’s Kuppelsaal, Germany’s largest concert hall, and on 10th November at Liverpool’s Cathedral This great bilateral project to commemorate the end of the war was an outstanding event inititated by the NDR […]

Cooperation between Tongyeong and Hannover   On 28th September 2017, the Tongyeong Festival Orchestra will perform at Hannover’s prestigious Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen. Following the example of Lucerne, Switzerland, Tongyeong Festival Orchestra (TFO) was created to enhance the musical spectrum of the Tongyeong International Music Festival, and to serve as an artistic ambassador for Tongyeong […]