MEET FOR MUSIC

JULY 31 – AUGUST 4, 2025
JERUSALEM

Sounding Jerusalem serves as a meeting point for delicate sounds and a curious audience in the heart of Jerusalem.

The festival is passionately dedicated to discovering atmospheric places and sharing both classical and contemporary chamber music. Crossing boundaries, the outstanding artists of Sounding Jerusalem explore a diverse repertoire featuring works by Bach, Rossi, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn, Rossini, Piazzolla, Glass, as well as exciting new compositions. The Dialogue Academy in the heart of the Old City showcases promising young musicians.

Join our concerts and experience an unforgettable encounter with the spirit of Sounding Jerusalem!

PROGRAM | Tickets

We are happy to present your the SOUNDING JERUSALEM program 2025.

Prices

70 NIS / person / concert
Free admission to the following concert: August 4, Terra Sancta

Order tickets: online reservation is required

Order tickets: Use the button directly at the concert to reserve your seat. You’ll get an automatic reservation email, please bring the reservation confirmation and the ticket fee to the concert. Payment only in cash at the box office on the concert day possible.

The evening box office opens one hour before the beginning. Ticket validity up to 30 min before start!

Seating: Free choice of seats (first come first serve).
In case of a ticket cancellation we kindly ask you to inform us about it.

Thursday, July 31, 8 PM

MUSICAL LANDSCAPES

A wide range of timbres, emotions and virtuosity

Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, 26 Salah Ed-Din Street, Jerusalem

PROGRAM:
Gioachino Rossini: Ouverture from “La Gazza Ladra” for flute, violin and guitar / Joseph Haydn: “Divertissement” nr. 2 for flute, violin and cello / Franz Schubert: Lieder “Ständchen” and “An die Musik“ for cello and guitar
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Grand Trio” for violin, cello and guitar / Astor Piazzolla: “Histoire du Tango” for flute and guitar
Ennio Morricone: Film music from famous movies

ARTISTS:
Markéta Janoušková – violin (Germany/Czech Republic) / Tommaso Benciolini – flute (Italy) / Armin Egger – guitar (Austria)
Erich Oskar Huetter – cello (Austria)

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Friday, August 1, 8 PM

HEAVENLY MUSIC

Music composed for the Heavens

St. Mark Syriac Orthodox Church Old City, Jerusalem

PROGRAM:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite in G major, BWV 1007 for cello solo / Invention in f minor, BWV 780, for spinet solo Chaconne in d minor from Partita Nr. 2, BWV 1004, for violin solo / Sinfonia in f minor, BWV 795, for spinet solo Prelude and Fugue in f minor, BWV 881, for spinet solo / Sonata in g minor, BWV 1020, for flute and spinet Psalms and prayers from the Syriac Orthodox liturgy, sung in Aramaic.

ARTISTS:
Markéta Janoušková – violin (Germany/Czech Republic) / Tommaso Benciolini – flute (Italy)
Erich Oskar Huetter – cello (Austria) / Johannes Maria Bogner – spinet (Austria)
Singers of the Syrian-Orthodox community: Deacon Andraus Bassous (Jerusalem) / Deacon Michel Zanbil (Jerusalem)

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Saturday, August 2, 8 PM

BREATHING SPACE

Touching, peaceful musical moments in turbulent times

Church of the Redeemer Old City, Jerusalem

PROGRAM:
Salomone Rossi: “Sonata sopra La Bergamasca” for flute, violin, cello and organ / Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita, BWV 1013, for flute solo / Prelude in C Major from Bach´s “Well-tempered Clavier” for organ solo / “Ave Maria” for cello and organ
“Arioso“ from Cantata „Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe”, BWV 156, for cello and organ / Ursula Mamlok: “From the garden” for violin solo / Arvo Pärt: “Mirrow in Mirrow” for cello and organ / Vajha Azarashvili: Nokturn for violin, cello and guitar

ARTISTS:
Markéta Janoušková – violin (Germany/Czech Republic) / Tommaso Benciolini – flute (Italy) / Armin Egger – guitar (Austria) Erich Oskar Huetter – cello (Austria) / Johannes Maria Bogner – organ (Austria)

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Sunday, August 3, 8 PM

TRES CULTURAS

Music from Andalusia and South America from three religions

Abraham´s House, 39 Panorama Street, Ras-El-Amud, Jerusalem

Enrique Granados: Andaluza, Oriental / Francisco Tárrega: Capricho Árabe / Max Bruch: Kol Nidrei Marwan Abado: Insirab / Ernest Bloch: Prayer / Francisco Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra Joaquín Rodrigo: Adagio from “Concierto de Aranjuez” / Radamés Gnattali: Sonata for cello and guitar

ARTISTS:
Armin Egger – guitar (Austria) / Erich Oskar Huetter – cello (Austria)

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Monday, August 4, 8 PM | Free admission

GRAND FINALE WITH YOUNG TALENTS

Finale concert of the “Dialogue-Academy 2025”

Terra Sancta, Curia Hall, Old City, Jerusalem

Chamber music from different eras / Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata in d minor “La Follia”, op. 1, nr.12, RV 63

ARTISTS:
Young students from the Magnificat Institute of Music perform together with the international tutors of the Dialogue-Academy 2025.

Markéta Janoušková – violin (Germany/Czech Republic) / Tommaso Benciolini – flute (Italy) / Armin Egger – guitar (Austria) Erich Oskar Huetter – cello (Austria) / Johannes Maria Bogner – organ (Austria)

RESERVATION

About

Sounding Jerusalem is an European Chamber Music project produced at the top artistic quality, which surrounding the Austrian EU Council Presidency, was realized for the first time in the summer of 2006 in Jerusalem. Since then, the festival brought song through the Old City of Jerusalem several times already.

Impulse music festival

Founded, developed and led by Austrian cellist Erich Oskar Huetter, Sounding Jerusalem is a music festival for all people living in Jerusalem and the region around, irrespective of their ethnic, social and religious aìliation.

Intercultural dialogue

The aim of this concert series is to promote electrifying classical as well as innovative chamber music in inspiring surroundings as well as fostering intercultural dialogue that contributes towards the meeting, interaction and respectful communication between people from Europe and the Middle East.

Exchange and discussions

Accompanied by internationally renowned European and local artists, extraordinary venues mainly in the Old City of Jerusalem are brought to life as concert halls which contribute towards a respectful, stimulating and communicative atmosphere being inevitable.

Workshops

Workshops and seminars for young musicians are organized in cooperation with local institutions fostering high level artistic impulses and intercultural stimulation. Furthermore, young students of local music schools are actively incorporated into artistic activities, working and performing together with the festival’s international artists.

Artists

Erich Oskar Huetter

Christian Jungwirth

Armin Egger

Tommaso Benciolini

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Markéta Janoušková

Johannes Maria Bogner

Erich Oskar Huetter

director

The Austrian cellist Erich Oskar Huetter has established a successful worldwide career as a soloist and chamber music performer. He is a member of prestigious chamber music ensembles.

As founder of the social-cultural initiative A.MUS.E – Austrian Music Encounter he creates and directs projects such as “haus.kultur – Die Steirischen Nachbarschaftskonzerte” (contemporary neighbourhood concerts in the Austrian province of Styria) as well as a music project in South Africa. Erich Oskar Huetter is founder of the festival “Sounding Jerusalem” in the Old City of Jerusalem. “Sounding Jerusalem” presents an European chamber music festival as well as an intercultural platform for young musicians from the Middle East and Europe. Numerous appearances on radio and television as well as CD recordings made him known to a wider public.

Tanja Schmid

organization

Born in Graz, Austria, Tanja Schmid received her first dance lessons at the age of 5. Classically trained under the direction of Diana Ungureanu, Tanja graduated from the academy of the renowned Graz Opera. During those years she appeared in numerous productions and performances. Tanja is not only an active dancer, but also a teacher. She recently set out as a pedagogue for free improvisation, dance theatre and classical ballet. Currently Tanja Schmid performed in Italy, South Africa, Angola, Zimbabwe and Kosovo.

Astrid Schütz

organization

Astrid Schuetz, born in Graz, Austria, writes texts for print, web and social media. She studied media in Graz and is at home in the world of communication for almost 25 years. Apart from words, she captures the festival with photos. Small, fine details are her passion. Astrid’s pictures have already been shown in calendars and exhibitions.