Recital programmes for 2024 –

More details to follow –

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/84473620 – Liszt

https://vimeo.com/344746816 – Debussy

American star soprano Lisette Oropesa returned to the Gstaad New Year Music Festival where she made her European recital debut four years ago, this time performing with baritone Ludovic Tezier and pianist Alessandro Pratico at Rougemont Church on Tuesday 2 January 2024. A dramatic and wonderful concert.

https://lisetteoropesa.com

Over 14 days from Wednesday 27 December 2023 to Tuesday 9 January 2024 the 18th edition of the Gstaad New Year Music Festival founded by Princess Caroline Murat (pianist Caroline Haffner) celebrated an eclectic range of musicians and music – tenor Roberto Alagna returned to the festival

to celebrate Puccini while under the festival “Young Talents” banner violinist Brieuc Vorch returned to play a duet with Anaelle Touret on the harp in the St Niklaus chapel on the Gstaad promenade to demonstrate his sublime musical and technical talent.

Photos by the festival photographer Patricia Dietzi are on the official website where you will also find the full program: http://www.gstaadnewyearmusicfestival.com/2023/photos_2023-2024.html

Caroline Haffner, the artist’s name of Princess Caroline Murat, (cvs on this site) continues to play recitals in New York and Europe – this year under the banner of a series “Chopin Encore 2024” – details to follow –

Caroline playing Clair de Lune by Debussy: https://vimeo.com/344746816

The 17th edition of the Gstaad New Year Music Festival began on 26 December 2022 and runs through to Monday 9 January 2023. As Artistic Director and Founder of the festival Caroline brings international stars and young talents to the mountains to present new musical programmes.

Caroline Haffner is continuing her musical programme around Europe – next piano recital in Zagreb, Croatia on Friday 29 October 2021.

As artistic director of the Gstaad New Year Music Festival, Caroline has also completed her program bringing together artists for the 14-day event starting at Rougemont Church on Monday 27 December 2021 with Met star Angel Blue.

The 15th/16th Gstaad New Year Music Festival
A not-for-profit Altezze e Musica festival:
Sous le Haut Patronage de SAS le Prince Souverain Albert II de Monaco
Revised dates: Monday 27 December 2021 – Sunday 9 January 2022
Artistic Director Princess Caroline Murat
https://gstaadnewyearmusicfestival.ch/

The annual festival in the Swiss mountains has been postponed until Spring as a result of the Covid restrictions on cultural events.

The same musicians who hoped to come for the new year are on their way for the spring.

Caroline continues to organize the festival as its artistic director, and to practise her piano. News of concerts and live streaming to follow –

While not quite as planned, Caroline is celebrating the United Nations World Environment Day, as one of the many artists from all over the world making a statement for climate protection in the spirit of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, the “Pastoral”.

As the pandemic made physical performances, discussions and events impossible, organisers decided to make the Beethoven Pastoral Project an online event from Beethoven’s birthplace, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn.

To retain the spirit of the project and of  Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, or “Recollections of Country Life” Caroline is marking the day by looking to the future – with invitations for concerts in Venice, Italy and then to Gstaad where the 15th edition of her New Year Music Festival will take place between Saturday 26 December 2020 and Sunday 3 January 2021.

In the first week of French progress towards renewed movement, Caroline has memories of Beethoven’s own notes for the first movement of the Pastoral when he wrote: “Awakening of cheerful feelings upon arriving in the country,” and that the the whole will be recognised as a matter “more of feeling than of painting in sounds.”

Caroline is on Twitter @gstaadnymf and Facebook and most recently has a page on Patreon

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After 11 events over 11 days in Gstaad for the New Year Music Festival, Caroline Haffner is preparing a year of recitals and cultural events. More news in the coming weeks.

Patting the Steinway as it made its way home, by helicopter, from the Gstaad Yacht Club, Princess Caroline also took to the air –

Tickets are on sale from this week at Gstaad Tourism, in Rougemont and online from the festival office (E: gstaadnymf@gmail.com). This is the Gstaad NY programme:

We are delighted to be part of the City of Bonn’s Beethoven 2020 celebrations and will be marking the great date with the composer’s music in a variety of forms – Beethoven in Havana, the Eroica and his wonderful Fifth Symphony – all in special transcriptions.

The opening night is Friday 27 December 2019 with Joachim Horsley and we continue until Monday 6 January 2020 with a closing concert by the Menuhin Academy in Lauenen. In between, the star soprano making a name for herself in New York, Lisette Oropesa, sings in Rougemont Church on 2 January 2020, and the day after, the 12-year-old pianist who made a sensation in Paris, Alexandra Dovgan plays in St Niklauskapelle on the Gstaad Promenade.

This video is from last year – https://vimeo.com/320611397

And this is a pdf of the printed programme from last year :  GSTAADPROGRAMME 2018

Information and concert tickets from the festival office –

Association Altezze e Musica
Spittelweg 12
CH-3782 Lauenen

E: gstaadnymf@gmail.com

Tel: +44 75 319 57584

Twitter: @gstaadnymf

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gstaad.nymf

and find us on Bachtrack: https://bachtrack.com/search-events/freetext=Gstaad%20Music%20festival

Gala – Reve Imperial
Jeudi 6 juin 2019 -19h

avec le concours et en presence de SAI Le Prince Joachim Murat
SAR La Princesse Noal d’Egypte
SA La Princesse Isabella Orsini de Ligne La Tremoille

An exceptional evening in Paris to benefit http://www.irme.org