Music Projects

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 […]

This year, the City of Music Hannover is not only present throughout the variety of music performed in the city that day, but furthermore, the „UNESCO City of Music Hannover“ has its own stage with bands from Hannover and other international Cities of Music. We are very excited to have on stage from Hannover: Rare […]

The Chortage Hannover (International Choir Festival Hannover) proudly present  the Sense of Sound Singers from Liverpool under the baton of Jennifer John to perform at their Jazz/Pop Evening on 17th June at the world-famous Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen.    In addition to this festival concert, an additional concert in cooperation with the Chortage is planned. […]

In the UNESCO City of Music Hannover from 12th to 21st Mai 2017   The philosophy of the MASALA Weltbeat Festival is “diversity”, just like masālā, the fiery mixture of spices of Indian cuisine. In the main program of the festival’s 22 year-long history, 290 bands from more than 80 different countries have visited us. […]

…is a specialised conference for auditory design and experience. It was established and organised by the state capital of Hannover (Project UNESCO City of Music), Hannover Region (Project “Hörregion Hannover”;“Hannover – the hearing region”) and hannoverimpuls GmbH in cooperation with CeBIT, the global event for digital business and worldwide known computer fair. The first conference […]