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The "dialogue concerts at the University of Oldenburg are organised by the" are organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Verein für Musiktheaterproduktionen am Fach Musik der University of Oldenburg e. V. and the Kulturbüro der Stadt Oldenburg; apl. Prof. Dr. Kadja Grönke is solely responsible for the scientific conception and implementation.

The series offers content-oriented concept programmes in the field of classical music, which are divided roughly 1:2 into moderation/information and music/concert programme. The no-budget events last around 100 minutes and are suitable for experienced music lovers as well as concert novices of all ages. They take place free of charge (but for a donation) at various venues in Oldenburg and support the links between university teaching and the city's cultural life.

To ensure that the dialogue concerts can continue to be offered free of charge, they are supported by a network of cooperation partners and sponsors. One-off donations in the form of tax-deductible bank transfers are also very welcome and go 100% towards the financing of the next concerts:
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In 2025, the "dialogue concerts at the University of Oldenburg" could look back on ten active years. To mark the occasion, a comprehensive flyerwhich contains general information about the concert series, the programmes from the first 10 years as well as dates and artist bios for the anniversary year.

All programme booklets can be downloaded as full-text PDFs from the "Archive" menu item.

"... thank you very much for sending us the programme booklet for the theme day "Carl von Ossietzky
today" on 30 June 2024, which we are happy to include in the University Archive's collection.
For us as the University Archives, there is no question of collecting the materials relating to the concerts
. As an archivist, but above all as a science and university historian
, I have a good understanding of what constitutes a university. This goes
beyond the fields of research, teaching and administration. I find the exchange relationships between actors from the university and
the surrounding fields of politics, business, society and culture particularly exciting
. From this
perspective, the dialogue concerts are an important element in the history
of our university."
(Dr Gunnar Zimmermann, University Archives of the University of Oldenburg, 22.7.2024)

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By the way: The dialogue concerts also have an Instagram account...

On 22 June 2026, recorder player Luisa Klaus (Bremen) and globetrotter Michael Tsalka (harpsichord) will perform a programme of early Baroque music. The same programme will be performed on 20 June at the Schlosskirche in Varel. Further details to follow.

Fri 12 June 2026, at 7.30 pm, at the PFL: Dona nobis pacem. Music by female composers from Romania.
Laura Tatulescu (Bucharest, soprano), Claudia Codreanu (Bucharest, mezzo-soprano), Angelika Bönisch (Oldenburg, cello) and Ana-Iulia Giurgiu-Bondue (Lille, piano) will perform world premieres by Violeta Dinescu, Ana-Iulia Giurgiu-Bondue and Rucsandra Popescu, as well as music by George Enescu, Tiberiu Brediceanu, Mihail Jora, Paul Constantinescu, Adina Dumitrescu, Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, Myriam Marbe, Carmen Petra-Basacopol and Felicia Donceaneau in varying line-ups.

Saturday, 13 June 2026, at 7.30 pm, in the AGO Auditorium: Violeta Dinescu’s ‘Kaleidoscope of Memories”: A project for ‘Jugend Musiziert’ and the final concert of an improvisation workshop. Irla Syfuß (Altes Gymnasium Oldenburg, flute), Carl Rabbels (Liebfrauenschule Oldenburg, trombone), Clara-Sophie Kleffner (Cäcilienschule Oldenburg, violin), Louisa Marie Kleffner (Liebfrauenschule Oldenburg, violin), Helene Dewald (Cäcilienschule Oldenburg, double bass) and Viktor Min (Altes Gymnasium Oldenburg, piano), as well as participants in the workshop ‘Improvising on pieces by Violeta Dinescu’ held on the same day (registration, even without prior experience, at kadja.groenke@uni-oldenburg.de) will perform works by Violeta Dinescu.

Sun, 14 June 2026, at 5.00 pm at the PFL: De nos oiseaux. An artistic project by Hélène de la Forêt to mark the 130th anniversary of the birth of the Romanian poet Tristan Tzara.
Featuring Laura Tatulescu (Bucharest, soprano), Hélène de la Forêt (Bucharest, piano) and TBC (projections).

Wednesday, 13 May 2026, 8.00 pm in the PFL auditorium:
‘Project Phoenix’. Music and poetry from Romania.
Mircea Lazăr (Bucharest, violin) and Ana-Iulia Giurgiu-Bondue (Lille/Bucharest, piano) perform works by Nicolae Coman, Felicia Donceanu, Tiberiu Olah, Diana Iulia Simon, George Enescu, Cătălin Creţu, Ana-Iulia Giurgiu-Bondue, Violeta Dinescu and Béla Bartók. Ioan Ionescu (Bucharest/Romanian) and Kadja Grönke (Oldenburg/German) will recite poetry by Lucian Blaga, Iulia Hașdeu, Mihai Eminescu, Marin Sorescu, Nina Cassian, Nichita Stănescu and Ion Minulescu.
Encore: Borșa (dance from Maramureș)
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions.
Review by Christoph Keller, NWZ 18 May 2026.

Tue, 17 March 2026, 7.30 pm at Forum St. Peter:
‘Forest and Trees’.
Pianist Faraz Forouzandeh (Oldenburg) performs piano music by Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius and Christoph J. Keller (world premiere); Kadja Grönke (Oldenburg) will read poems on the theme by Heinrich Heine, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Joseph von Eichendorff, Mikhail Lermontov/Rilke, Rudaki/de Finélong, Friedrich Rückert and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Grand piano: Yamaha.
Encore: Chopin: Étude Op. 25 No. 1 with Hermann Hesse: ‘The Birch’.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg and the Forum St. Peter.
Review by Horst Hollmann, NWZ, 20 March 2026.

Mon, 2 March 2026, 7.30 pm in the PFL auditorium:
“In the Protective Circle of Sounds”.
Olga Riazantceva-Schwarz (piano), Aida López-Borrego (violin) and Paula Sagastibelza (cello), all from Bremen, in dialogue with Kadja Grönke and piano trios by Maurice Ravel and Georgi Swiridow. Grand piano: Yamaha.
Encore: Dmitri Shostakovich: Prelude, from: Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano, version for piano trio.
Co-operation between the Institute of Music and the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg.

2 December 2025, 7.30 pm, PFL auditorium:
‘Connections. Musical Images’.
Pianist Werner Barho (Weener) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke and Violeta Dinescu, as well as solo piano music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy, Franz Liszt and two world premieres by Oldenburg composers Violeta Dinescu and Christoph Keller. Grand piano: Steinway.
Encore: Alexander Scriabin: Prélude.
Co-operation between the Institute of Music and the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg.
Review by Horst Hollmann, NWZ 6 December 2025

8 November 2025, 7.30 pm, Assembly Hall of the Altes Gymnasium (Theaterwall 11):
‘The Dance Booklets by Friedrich Gottlieb Nagel (1766 & 1767) as a Living Presence’.
Lecture by Birte Hoffmann-Cabenda; concept for the dance performance: Iris-Michaela Schmidtmann. Music by Friedrich Gottlieb Nagel, Arcangelo Corelli, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Violeta Dinescu (world premiere). Featuring the Schlosstanzerey zu Oldenburg (Iris-Michaela Schmidtmann, Birte Hoffmann-Cabenda, Sonja Bayerlein, Sarah Lea Hofmann, Kenichi Ikei, Roy Cabenda) and Ulla Levens (Oldenburg; violin) and Tammo Falkenberg-Wilken (Oldenburg; harpsichord by Dietrich Hein/Oldenburg and Steinway grand piano).
Encore: Nagel: Kontratanz (with the audience)
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg, as well as the Altes Gymnasium Oldenburg.

27 October 2025, 7.30 pm, Forum St. Peter (Peterstraße 22–26):
“Creativity as a Path to Freedom: Didactic Children’s Piano Music from Eastern Europe”.
Featuring piano music by, amongst others, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Elena Gnessina, Dmitri Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian, Mieczysław Weinberg, Josef Achron, György Kurtág and Violeta Dinescu.
Lecture by Associate Professor Dr Kadja Grönke (Oldenburg), live piano music and a concert following the lecture: Paul Mertens (Berlin; Yamaha grand piano).
Encore and concert programme: Mieczysław Weinberg: Kinderheft, Op . 16.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the City of Oldenburg’s Cultural Office and Forum St. Peter.

15 August 2025, 7.30 pm, PFL auditorium:
“Carl Baermann – Father and Son. A musical journey of discovery through the 19th century.”
Clarinettist Emily Worthington (York; replica of an 1875 Baermann-Ottensteiner clarinet) and pianist Daniel Grimwood (Kent; French Érard concert grand piano from 1850) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, featuring music for clarinet and piano by Carl Baermann Sr. and Jr., Franz Schubert/Baermann, Carl Maria von Weber/Baermann and Violeta Dinescu.
Encore: Violet Dinescu: Evening Prayer.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg.

2 July 2025, 7.30 pm, Trinity Church:
‘Like the Birds of the Sky’. French Baroque music and related works by Oldenburg composers.
Luisa Klaus (Bremen), recorders, and Michael Tsalka (Shenzhen), harpsichord, perform works by Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset, François Couperin, Christoph Keller, Roberto Reale, Paul Mertens-Pavlowsky and Violeta Dinescu. (A repeat of the programme from 4 July 2023.)
Encore: Violeta Dinescu: Evening Prayer.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the City of Oldenburg’s Cultural Office and the church music department of the Trinity Church.

1 July 2025, 7.30 pm, Trinity Church:
‘Thinking Outside the Box’.
Diana Weston (Sydney) and Michael Tsalka (Shenzhen), harpsichord; Angelika Bönisch (Oldenburg), baroque cello, and Simone Bielefeld (Oldenburg), voice and frame drum, will perform works by Georg Philipp Telmann, Christoph Keller, Johann Christian Bach, Elena Kats Chernin, Leonardo Coral, Padre José Gallés, Reena Esmail, Diana Blom and Violeta Dinescu.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg and the church music department of the Trinity Church.
Review by Horst Hollmann: NWZ, 4 July 2025

29 June 2025, 11.15 am, Assembly Hall of the Altes Gymnasium:
“A Merry Trio”:
Marcia Hadjimarkos (Cluny), Diana Weston (Sydney) and Michael Tsalka (Shenzhen) perform works for two to six hands on harpsichords, clavichords and toy pianos by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Violeta Dinescu, Padre Rafael Anglés, Padre Antonio Soler, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach and Yann Tiersen.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Musical Theatre Productions and the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg

28 June 2025, 5.00 pm, Assembly Hall of the Altes Gymnasium:
You only hear what you know. The clavichord, harpsichord, toy piano and Baroque cello explained through discussion and music.
A moderated concert-talk with Marcia Hadjimarkos (Cluny), Diana Weston (Sydney), Christiane Abt (Oldenburg), Angelika Bönisch (Oldenburg), Michael Tsalka (Shenzhen) and instrument maker Dietrich Hein (Oldenburg); Presenter: Kadja Grönke (Oldenburg). Featuring music by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Padre Rafael Anglés, Elena Kats-Chernin, Violeta Dinescu, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles Gounod and Markus Hansen.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg.

25 June 2025, 7.30 pm, Assembly Hall of the Altes Gymnasium:
Music for the clavichord – past and present.
Marcia Hadjimarkos (Cluny) performs works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Anton Webern, John Harbison, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Violet Dinescu and Graham Lynch on clavichords by Christoph Friedrich Schmal and Dietrich Hein (Oldenburg), as well as music by Alexander Tansman, Guy Klucevsek, Isida Kazue Rockzaemon, Diana Blom, Sonia Markiewicz, Markus Hansen and Violeta Dinescu on toy pianos from the collection of Christiane Abt (Oldenburg). Guest performer: Christiane Abt (Oldenburg), toy piano.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg.

23 June 2025, 7.30 pm, Assembly Hall of the Altes Gymnasium:
Fantasia, evening music and fairy tales. Works for one and two harpsichords from Johann Sebastian Bach to Christoph Keller.
Harpsichordists Diana Weston (Sydney) and Michael Tsalka (Shenzhen) will perform works for one and two harpsichords by Padre Vicente Rodríguez, Johann Sebastian Bach, Christoph Keller, Violeta Dinescu and Diana Blom on instruments by Dietrich Hein (Oldenburg).
Encore: Violeta Dinescu: Storybook No. 6 (world premiere)
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg.

6 June 2025, 7.30 pm, Lambertussaal at St Lamberti:
“Cello Solo Through the Ages”.
Cellist Sergei Istomin (Ghent) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, featuring works for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, Julius Klengel, Paul Hindemith and Violeta Dinescu.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the Oldenburg City Cultural Office and the church music department of St Lambert’s Church.

5 June 2025, 7.30 pm, St Lamberti Church:
“The instrument makes the music”.
Pianist Ziad Kreidy (Paris) and cellist Sergei Istomin (Ghent) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, featuring music by Frédéric Chopin, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, Ziad Kreidy (world premiere) and Violeta Dinescu.
Instruments: historic Pleyel concert grand piano (Paris) from 1857, restored by Piano Rosenkranz (Oldenburg); historic cello from Bohemia, circa 1800.
Encore: Claude Debussy: ‘Beau soir’, arranged for cello and piano by Alexander Gretschaninow.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg and the Church Music Department at St Lamberti.
Review by Volkmar Stickan: NWZ, 11 June 2025.

3 June 2025, 7.30 pm, St Lamberti Church:
“Music for a historic Pleyel grand piano”.
Pianist Ziad Kreidy (Paris) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, featuring piano music by Frédéric Chopin, Déodat de Séverac, Edvard Grieg, Modest Mussorgsky, Ziad Kreidy and Violeta Dinescu.
Instrument: historic concert grand piano by Pleyel (Paris) from 1857, restored by Piano Rosenkranz (Oldenburg).
Encore: Erik Satie: Gymnopédie.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg and the Church Music Department at St Lamberti.
Excerpts from the concert can be found on social media.

7 April 2025, 7.30 pm, PFL auditorium:
‘Hungarian Fantasy’.
Pianist Erik Breer, known as Nottebohm (Dresden), performs and discusses piano music based on Hungarian themes by Ernő Dohnányi, Béla Bartók, Amy Beach and Violeta Dinescu.
Encore: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg.
Review by Horst Hollmann: NWZ, 10 April 2025.

16 March 2025, 5.00 pm, St Gertruden Chapel (corner of Nadorster Str. and Alexanderstr.):
“Hildegard von Bingen: Medieval and contemporary sounds for St Gertrude’s Night.”
The musician Gaby Bultmann (Berlin) sings and performs music by Hildegard von Bingen and related new compositions by Andreina Constantini (world premiere), Violeta Dinescu and Mayako Kubo for voice, recorders, fiddle, singing glasses, percussion and loops.
Encore: Violeta Dinescu: Evening Prayer.
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg and the church music department of St Lamberti Church.
All the donations collected in the collection plate went to the fund for the restoration of the medieval frescoes in the Gertrude Chapel.
Feedback from Pastor Tom Oliver Brok: “Dear Ms Grönke [ …]. That was a musically wonderful and emotionally moving evening. […] Thank you very much for securing the [ Mariann Steegmann] Foundation as a sponsor, so that the proceeds [ from the collection] go towards the chapel. […] Warm regards, Tom Brok”.
Feedback from composer Mayako Kubo, with the subject line “It was an unforgettable concert”: “Thank you very much for yesterday’s concert at the Gertrudenkapelle. It will remain one of my most unforgettable concerts.”

2 March 2025, 5.00 pm, Jochen-Klepper-Haus at the Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Bremer Str. 28):
“Georg Philipp Telemann – a musical biography”.
A staged concert for young and old alike with the Duo ChiaroScuro (Berlin).
Johanne Braun and Gaby Bultmann (recorders, transverse flute, baroque oboe, brummtopf, baroque violin, harpsichord, vocals) perform music by Georg Philipp Telemann and bring episodes from his autobiography to life.
Encore: Telemann: ‘Bum, bum, bum, bum faranno i timpni’
Organised by the Institute of Music in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg and the church music department of the Trinity Church.

15 February 2025, PFL auditorium:
“The History of the Harp in Words and Sound”.
A moderated concert-talk with Eva Bäuerle-Gölz (Münster), harp, and Barbara Overbeck (Münster); moderated by Barbara Overbeck, featuring works for solo harp by Guillaume de Machaut, traditional Scottish, traditional Elizabethan, traditional Irish, Turlough O’Carolan, François-Joseph Nadermann, Mikhail Glinka, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Alphonse Hasselmans, Marcel Tournier, Claude Debussy, Carlos Salzedo, Henry Mancini, Susann McDonald/Linda Wood, Gertraud Gorter, Deborah Henson Conant and Violeta Dinescu.
Encore: Ank van Campen: Variations on a Welsh Carol.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg.
Review by Andreas R. Schweiberer: NZWZ, 19 February 2025

30 November 2024, PFL auditorium:
“On Seeking and Finding: A Musical Journey of Discovery into the Life of Liszt’s Pupil Charlotte Blume-Arends.”
Lecture-discussion and book launch with music.
Musicologist Helmut Brenner (Meerbusch) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, accompanied by piano music by Franz Liszt, performed by Erik Breer (Dresden).
Encore: Amy Beach: Waltz.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the Cultural Office of the City of Oldenburg.

4 July 2024, Jochen-Klepper-Haus at the Trinity Church:
“Brückenbogen.”
Pianist Jascha Nemtsov performs and discusses piano music from Poland and Ukraine by Frédéric Chopin, Władysław Szpilman, Yevgenia Yakhina, Matvey Gosenpud and Nikolai Silvansky.
Encores: Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in C-sharp minor and Gustav Lewin: Caprice.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar in co-operation with the Association for Musical Theatre Productions and the Church Music Department of the Holy Trinity Church.
Review by Christoph Keller: NWZ, 5 July 2024.

30 June 2024, PFL auditorium:
“Carl von Ossietzky Today and Composing at and for the Institute of Music”. Final seminar presentation.
Students from the seminar of the same name, led by Kadja Grönke and Werner Barho, will premiere nine new works composed for the seminar (by Violeta Dinescu, Krystoffer Dreps, Christoph Keller, Paul Mertens-Pavlowsky, Rucsandra Popescu, Roberto Reale, Olga Riazantceva-Schwarz, Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau, Leon Łukasiewicz); Werner Barho and Christiane Abt will perform piano music by Gustavo-Becerra-Schmidt, Violeta Dinescu and Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann (world premiere).
Concert as part of the university’s anniversary celebrations , ‘50 Years Open to New Paths’.
Organised by the Institute of Music (Grönke/Barho Seminar) in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions.
Review by Horst Hollmann: NWZ, 1 July 2024
Interview with Ralf Eismann and Kadja Grönke about the concert on Oldenburg’s local radio station OEins on 24 June 2024 as part of the ‘KlassikKultur’ series, edited by Ralf Eismann.
Feedback from a member of the audience: “Before we meet again on Thursday at the next concert in Osternburg, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you once more for the wonderful event last Sunday at the PFL. I was very impressed by the whole project you’ve put together with your students. I was able to follow the various compositions easily, found the performances interesting and, above all, was truly impressed by the young people – for whom Ch. Keller’s piece at the end was a perfect fit. This was the first time I’ve seen you present your work with the students, and I can fully understand and appreciate your enthusiasm and dedication.” (M. Möck)

22 June 2024, University of Oldenburg auditorium:
Students from the seminar ‘Carl von Ossietzky Today’ ( Grönke/Barho) present compositions by Paul Mertens-Pavlowsky and Rucsandra Popescu as a pre-premiere ahead of the dialogue concert on 30 June 2024.
Performance as part of the Institute’s concert to mark the university’s anniversary, ‘50 Years Open to New Paths’.
See: https://uol.de/musik/50jahre.

2 March 2024, Jochen Klepper House at the Church of the Holy Trinity:
‘Music in Words: Schubert and Pushkin.’
Paul Mertens (Berlin) performs piano music by Franz Schubert; Kadja Grönke (Oldenburg) recites the first chapter of Alexander Pushkin’s ‘novel in verse’ *Eugene Onegin*, adapted by Ulrich Busch. Grand piano: Kawai.
Encore: Franz Schubert.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar in co-operation with the Association for Musical Theatre Productions and the Church Music Department of the Church of the Holy Trinity.

2 March 2024, Jochen-Klepper-Haus at the Trinity Church:
‘Musical Childhoods: Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei and Johann Joachim Quantz.’
A staged (family) concert for young and old alike, aged between 7 and 99, featuring the Duo ChiaroScuro (Johanne Braun and Gaby Bultmann), Berlin. Harpsichord: Dietrich Hein.
Encore: Thoinot Arbeau: Sword Dance.
Co-operation between the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar and the Association for Music Theatre Productions and Church Music at the Trinity Church.

9 January 2024, PFL auditorium:
‘In West and East: Prince Peter of Oldenburg as a Composer’.
Pianist Daniel Grimwood (Kent) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, featuring piano music by Prince Peter of Oldenburg, Adolph von Henselt and Peter Tchaikovsky/Paul Pabst, performed on a modern Steinway grand piano.
Encores: Conor Linehan: Intermezzo and Franz Liszt: Chasse neige from *Études d’exécution transcendante*.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the Department for Study Affairs/Research-Based Learning at the University of Oldenburg and the Lower Saxony State Archives/Oldenburg Branch.
Review by Andreas Schweiberer, NWZ 12 January 2024
A particularly lovely piece of feedback after the concert: “Hello Prof. Grönke, that was an absolutely brilliant concert last night! My husband was delighted to see me come home looking so radiant.”
And better than any review are attentive ears:“Dear Mr Grimwood, thank you so much for your concert in Oldenburg. I was very happy to be there and I was especially delighted by your first encore, which is called, if I’ve got it right, ‘Intermezzo’ [by Conor Linehan]. [...] Let me describe to you what I saw before my eyes when I heard this music. I am not a musician myself, just someone who enjoys playing the piano, and it always helps me to visualise things, to have some visual ideas to connect with the music I’m hearing. And this is what unfolded in my mind as I listened to the intermezzo: I saw an open winter landscape, bright with patches of water scattered throughout, and the temperature slowly dropping below zero until everything that had previously been moving, shaking or flowing now came to a standstill, gradually freezing into stillness – not in a sombre mood or foreshadowing impending dark events, however, but bathed in glorious, glittering and optimistic sunshine. So thank you again – even if this is entirely subjective – for this new music you presented in Oldenburg! With great respect, Yours, Gudrun Gleba (a happy listener)”

21 November 2023, Forum St. Peter:
“Grete Wehmeyer: musicologist, pianist, powerhouse.” Panel discussion with live music.
Musicologist Anna Schneider (MA, Cologne) and eyewitness Brigitte Schulten (Bad Zwischenahn) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, a musicological lecture by Anna Schneider and piano music by Paul Hindemith, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Béla Bartók and Erik Satie, performed by Werner Barho (Oldenburg). Grand piano: Yamaha.
Encore: Béla Bartók: The Bagpiper.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the Department for Study Affairs at the University of Oldenburg.

30 October 2023, PFL auditorium:
“From Oldenburg’s musical history. 19th-century piano music from and for Oldenburg, performed on a historic Érard grand piano dating from 1850”.
Pianist and musicologist Thomas Synofzik (Zwickau) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, featuring piano music by Clara and Robert Schumann, Aloyse Pott, Albert Dietrich, Heinrich von Sahr, Prince Peter of Oldenburg and Johannes Brahms; performed on a historic Érard grand piano from 1850.
Encores: Prince Peter: Notturno and Heinrich von Sahr: Andante tranquillo from Op. 3.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the Lower Saxony State Archives/Oldenburg Department.
Review by Horst Hollmann, NWZ, 1 November 2023, p. 13.
Interview with Ralf Eismann and Kadja Grönke about the concert on Oldenburg’s local radio station OEins on 23 October 2023 as part of the ‘KlassikKultur’ series, edited by Ralf Eismann.
Particularly lovely feedback after the concert:“Good evening, Ms Grönke, thank you once again for the wonderful evening. You have once again unearthed a real gem. It starts with the programme: nothing but fascinating pieces and composers. It struck me in this context that most of the pieces were genuine early works: 24 years old, 29 years old, 26 years old, 21 years old! (Brahms) and so on. That alone was exciting enough to draw one into the emotional world of the composer’s thoughts. All these pieces may not have possessed the virtuosity of a Chopin, but I consider that entirely appropriate when one considers for whom the pieces were written: both performers and listeners. I think that was very well thought out. With Clara Schumann’s *Arabeske* (1868), I was reminded that, at the time of the performance in Oldenburg, she had already been a widow for 12 years – yet she was still able to carry her husband with her between the covers of the score. A somewhat wistful yet enchanting thought.
The Allegretto by Heinrich von Sahr had vaguely reminded me of a composition by my father. That was very emotional for me, but perhaps more on that another time…
Then the performer: Thomas Synofzik had delivered his interpretations wonderfully in keeping with the spirit of the era. Afterwards, I asked him whether the arpeggios were his trademark or whether they were due to 19th-century performance practice. He then told me about the recording cylinders from the century before last (I’d already seen and heard some of these in Bruchsal), on which one can beautifully trace the development of piano performance. Another “shining star” of the evening.
And finally, the Érard grand piano. There’s not much more to say about it. Simply brilliant in tone. And, combined with the performance technique, the differences and characteristics of timbre and dynamics came across particularly clearly.
I experienced this evening intensely on several levels at once. And I’m sure one could add a thing or two more. I hope that for the other members of the audience, too, the evening proved to be such a special experience.
I’m looking forward to the next ‘Dialogkonzert’,
Yours, Carl-Mathias Wilke”

15 August 2023, PFL concert hall:
“Lisztiana”.
Pianist Daniel Grimwood (Kent) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, featuring piano music by Franz Liszt, Adolph von Henselt, Sophie Menter, William Sterndale Bennett and Juliusz Zarebski; performed on a historic Érard grand piano from 1850.
Encores: L. Hardtberg: ‘Eier-Polka’ and Adolph Henselt: ‘Wiegenlied’.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the Adolph Henselt Society e. V., the Tchaikovsky Society e. V. and Piano Rosenkranz.
Review by Volker Stickan, NWZ, 16 August 2023.
Advance notice in several newspapers and on Oldenburg’s local radio station OEins on 14 August 2023 as part of the ‘KlassikKultur’ series, edited by Ralf Eismann.
Recordings of the works by Liszt and Henselt on YouTube.

4 July 2023, Trinity Church:
“Like the Birds of the Sky” (Double programme booklet in conjunction with the Composers’ Colloquium on 2 July 2023).
Recorder player Luisa Klaus (Bremen) and harpsichordist Michael Tsalka (Shenzhen/The Chinese University of Hong Kong) will perform solo and duo works by Jean-Baptiste de Bousset and François Couperin, as well as world premieres by Violeta Dinescu (Oldenburg), Christoph Keller (Oldenburg), Paul Mertens-Pavlowsky (Berlin) and Roberto Reale (Hanover). Harpsichord: Dietrich Hein.
Encore: Bousset/Hotteterre: Rossignol vainqueur.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the church music department of the Trinity Church.
Advance notice of the three concerts on 2 and 4 July 2023 in the NWZ.
Review by Volkmar Stickan, NWZ, 5 July 2023.
Interviews with Ralf Eismann, Christoph Keller and Kadja Grönke on the three events on 2 and 4 July 2024 on Oldenburg’s local radio station OEins on 26 and 29 June 2023 in the ‘KlassikKultur’ series, edited by Ralf Eismann.

2 July 2023, PFL concert hall:
‘Birds over Oldenburg. New music for recorder and harpsichord.’
Composers’ colloquium/post-concert discussion following the dialogue concert ‘Like the Birds of the Sky’ on 4 July 2023.
Recorder player Luisa Klaus (Bremen), harpsichordist Michael Tsalka (Shenzhen/The Chinese University of Hong Kong), along with Violeta Dinescu and Christoph Keller (composition) and Dietrich Hein (instrument maker) in conversation with Kadja Grönke. Grand piano: Steinway.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions.

2 July 2023, PFL auditorium:
“From Nightingale to Nachtigaul”. A children’s and family concert on the theme of ‘Birds’ for young and old alike, aged 4 to 99.
Recorder player Luisa Klaus (Bremen) and harpsichordist Michael Tsalka (Shenzhen/The Chinese University of Hong Kong) performing music by François Couperin, Violeta Dinescu and Paul Mertens-Pavlowsky. Presented by: Johannes Dörr (University of Oldenburg/Grönke Seminar) and Kadja Grönke. Grand piano: Steinway.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions.

21 and 22 January 2023, 7.30 pm and 4.00 pm respectively at the Jochen-Klepper-Haus of the Trinity Church:
“‘My sister spent the whole day at the harpsichord’”. A staged concert for young and old on the childhood and lives of the composers Hildegard von Bingen, Francesca Caccini, Wilhelmine von Bayreuth and Anna Amalie of Prussia. Harpsichord: Dietrich Hein.
The Duo ChiaroScuro (Johanne Braun and Gaby Bultmann, Berlin) are guest performers at the Dialogkonzerte.
The programme was performed on 21 January 2023 as a 90-minute version (suitable for all, including families) and on 22 January 2023 as a 60-minute version (primarily for children).
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the church music department of the Trinity Church.
Review by Horst Hollmann, NWZ 23 January 2023, p. 12

25 October 2022, PFL auditorium:
“Facets of Love”.
Mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor (Glasgow) and pianist Marcia Hadjimarkos (Cluny) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, performing songs by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alma Mahler, Hector Berlioz, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie and Marguerite Monnot. Grand piano: Steinway.
Encore: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Orpheus with his lute.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions.

17 October 2022, PFL auditorium:
“An Evening for Violeta Dinescu. Romanian music for soprano and piano”.
Soprano Elisabeta Laura Tătulescu (Bucharest) and pianist Ana Giurgiu Bondue (Lille) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, featuring music by Myriam Marbe, Violeta Dinescu and other composers from Romania. Grand piano: Steinway.
Encore: Violeta Dinescu: Liebeszauber ( world premiere)
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions.
Review by Horst Hollmann, NWZ, 19 October 2022, p. 13.
Poster for the CD release tour: Paris, Oldenburg, Iași, Bucharest.
> The CD produced as part of the project received the Romanian National Cultural Fund Award on 15 May 2023. As one of 43 projects submitted, of which 10 were awarded prizes, the CD won in the ‘International Cultural Cooperation’ category! Here is a photo from the awards ceremony, which was broadcast live on the Romanian cultural TV channel TVR Cultural. From left to right: Ștefan Costache (communications specialist), Monica Isăcescu (project manager) and Laura Tătulescu (soprano).

13 June 2022, PFL auditorium:
“Roots and Wings. Piano music by composer-pianists”.
Pianist Daniel Grimwood (Kent) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, featuring music by Felix Blumenfeld, Frédéric Chopin, John Field, Mikhail Glinka, Adolph von Henselt, Sofie Menter, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Anton Rubinstein and Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Grand piano: Steinway.
Encores: Picforth: *In nomine* (1520) for viola consort; for solo piano by Daniel Grimwood; and Alexander Levine: *Simply Sky * from *Sentimental Values*.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke/Barho Seminar (“History of Russian Piano Music”), in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, Forum St. Peter, the Henselt Society e. V. and the Tchaikovsky Society e. V.
Review by Christoph Keller, NWZ, 15 (online) and 16 (print) June 2022.

8 June 2022, Forum St. Peter:
“Tchaikovsky 2022 – André Parfenov in dialogue with Tchaikovsky’s scores”. Workshop concert.
The Parfenov Duo (Mönchengladbach; Iuliana Münch, violin, and André Parfenov, piano) performs Tchaikovsky arrangements and adaptations by André Parfenov alongside Tchaikovsky’s original works. Grand piano: Yamaha.
Encore: André Parfenov: Tango.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke/Barho Seminar (“History of Russian Piano Music”), in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the Forum St. Peter and the Tchaikovsky Society e. V.

19 May 2022, Forum St. Peter:
‘Children’s Worlds. Eastern European piano music for children from Joseph Achron to Mieczysław Weinberg – and Tchaikovsky is included too’.
Pianist and musicologist Prof. Jascha Nemtsov (Berlin/Weimar) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, featuring music by Elena Gnessina, Joseph Achron, Lazare Saminsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Mieczysław Weinberg and Peter Tchaikovsky. Concept: Kadja Grönke. Grand piano: Yamaha.
Encore: Tchaikovsky: ‘Mama’ from *Children’s Album*, Op . 35.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke–Barho Seminar (‘History of Russian Piano Music’), in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions, the Forum St. Peter and the Tchaikovsky Society e. V.
Review by Horst Hollmann, NZW 21 May 2022.

24 February 2022, St Lamberti Church, Oldenburg:
"Romantic Nature".
Ziad Kreidy (Paris) performs Romantic piano music by Robert Schumann, Hermann Goetz and Stephen Heller on a historically appropriate grand piano made by the French piano manufacturer Pleyel in 1847.
Encore: Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Musical Theatre Productions, the church music department of St Lamberti Church and Piano Rosenkranz.
Reviewby Volker Stickan, NWZ 26 February 2022.
And the musical part in full on YouTube!

11 February 2020, Trinity Church:
“A dieu & mon amour”.
Axel Weidenfeld (baroque lute and theorbo; Oldenburg) and Luisa Klaus (recorders; Bremen) performing French Baroque music by François Couperin, Bénigne de Bacilly, Michel Lambert, Charles Dieupart, Ennemond Gaultier le vieux, Charles Mouton, Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset and Robert de Visée.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Musical Theatre Productions and the church music department of the Trinity Church.

4 February 2020, Forum St. Peter, Oldenburg:
“Melodrama and Related Genres”. Moderated seminar finale concert.
Students from the University of Oldenburg: Christoph Keller (piano; Oldenburg), Paul Mertens (piano; Berlin), Kadja Grönke (concept and moderation), and music by Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert and others. Concept: Kadja Grönke. Grand piano: Yamaha.
Encore: Franz Schubert: Abschied von der Erde.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with Forum St. Peter (as the final presentation of the ‘Melodrama’ seminar at the University of Oldenburg).

28 January 2020, Marble Hall of the Castle:
“On the Magic of the Clavichord: 18th-century keyboard music on three historical instruments”.
Pianist Marcia Hadjimarkos (Cluny, France) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, featuring 18th-century music performed on instruments by Tieffenbrunn (Copenhagen 1796), Schmahl (Regensburg 1794) and Friedrici (replica, Oldenburg 2019).
Encores: Nicholas Joseph Hüllmandel: Sonata and a piece by Michel-Paul-Guy de Chabanon.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions and the instrument maker Dietrich Hein (as the closing concert of the ‘Clavichord’ workshop at the University of Oldenburg).
Review by Hort Hollmann, NWZ 31 January 2020
Preview, NWZ 25 January 2020.

5 November 2019, the Marble Hall of the Castle:
“A dieu & mon amour”.
Axel Weidenfeld (baroque lute and theorbo; Oldenburg) and Luisa Klaus (recorders; Bremen) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke and French Baroque music by François Couperin, Bénigne de Bacilly, Michel Lambert, Charles Dieupart, Ennemond Gaultier le vieux, Charles Mouton, Jean-Baptiste Drouart de Bousset and Robert de Visée.
Encore: Bénigne de Bacilly: Il n’est lé.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions.

1 July 2019, University Library Hall, Oldenburg:
“Jewish Musical Worlds”. Concert with commentary .
The pianist and musicologist Prof. Jascha Nemtsov (Weimar/Berlin) and music by Juliusz Wolfsohn, Joseph Achron, Lazare Saminsky, Alexander Weprik, Joachim Stutschewsky, Jakob Schönberg and Viktor Ullmann. Grand piano: Yamaha.
Encores: Alexander Weprik, from: 3Jewish Folk Dances and Arthur Lourié: Waltz.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Musical Theatre Productions.

23 June 2019, Assembly Hall of the Altes Gymnasium, Oldenburg:
“Tchaikovsky’s Cellists”.
Concert featuring pianist Michael Tsalka (Valencia) and cellist Sergei Istomin (Ghent), with music by Peter Tchaikovsky, Karl Davydov, Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, Anatoli Brandukov and Carl Eduard Schuberth. Grand piano: Steinway.
Encore: Anton Rubinstein: Melody.
Organised by the Tchaikovsky Society in co-operation with the University/Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar (as part of the 26th Annual Conference of the Tchaikovsky Society e. V.). Concept: Kadja Grönke.

22 June 2019, Assembly Hall of the Altes Gymnasium, Oldenburg:
“An Evening for Tchaikovsky’s Patron, Madame von Meck”. Concert with a reading.
Concert featuring the pianists Michael Tsalka (Valencia) and Paul Mertens (Berlin), the cellist Sergei Istomin (Ghent), the soprano Stephanie Kühne (Oldenburg), as well as recitations by Valérie Guillaume (Hamburg), Ronald de Vet (Netherlands) and Kadja Grönke (Oldenburg), and music by Peter Tchaikovsky, Anton and Nikolai Rubinstein, Claude Debussy, Adolph Henselt, Adele aus der Ohe, Sophie Menter, Władysław Pachulski and Karl Dawydow, as well as verses from *Eugene Onegin* by Alexander Pushkin in various languages. Grand piano: Steinway.
Encore: Pushkin: Eugene Onegin, Chapters I/1–2
Organised by the Tchaikovsky Society in co-operation with the University of Oldenburg/Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar (as part of the 26th Annual Conference of the Tchaikovsky Society e. V.). Concept: Kadja Grönke.

14 May 2019, Library Hall, University of Oldenburg:
“In Dialogue with Bach: Composing in the Camp”.
A concert-talk by pianist and musicologist Prof. Jascha Nemtsov (Weimar/Berlin) featuring music by Vsevolod Saderazki, Viktor Ullmann and Gideon Klein. Grand piano: Steinway.
Encore: Władysław Szpilman: Mazurka.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions (as part of the conference ‘Music in Soviet Prison Camps (GULag)’ on 13 and 14 May 2019 at the University of Oldenburg)

29 January 2019, Forum St. Peter:
“Fugue Games”.
Pianist Daniel Herscovitch (Australia) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, performing Paul Hindemith’s cycle “Ludus tonalis” as well as fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach and Robert Schumann; on a modern Yamaha grand piano.
Encore: Paul Hindemith: Five-Note Piece.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar and Abt Seminar, in co-operation with Forum St. Peter (as the closing concert of the workshop ‘Paul Hindemith’s piano cycle “Ludus tonalis”’ at the University of Oldenburg).

12 November 1918, Assembly Hall of the Altes Gymnasium, Oldenburg:
“On the Road. Between Leipzig and Haifa. Music for mandolin and piano”.
Mandolinist Alon Sariel (Hanover) and pianist Michael Tsalka (Valencia) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, performing music by Ignaz Moscheles, Yehezkel Braun, Paul Ben Haim, Menachem Zur and Marc Lavri; on a modern Steinway grand piano.
Encore: Marc Lavri: ‘Sher’ from 3 Jewish Dances (No. 1).
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions.

7 November 2018, Marble Hall at Oldenburg Castle:
“The Glass Harmonica. Dennis James (USA) presents his instrument”. Concert with commentary.
Glass harmonica player Dennis James (USA) and music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven and others.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions.

6 November 2018, Library Hall, University of Oldenburg:
“Beware of Curiosity! Music for glass harmonica and harpsichord through the ages”.
Harpsichordist Michael Tsalka (Valencia) and glass harmonica player Dennis James (USA) with music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, John Baptist Vanhal, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonardo Coral, Gabriele Toia (world premiere), Ann Carr-Boayd, Apasia Nasopoulou.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke Seminar, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions (in conjunction with the ‘Harpsichord and Glass Harmonica’ workshop at the University of Oldenburg). Concept: Kadja Grönke.

5 November 2018, Library Hall, University of Oldenburg:
‘Women Composers – From the Baroque to the Present Day”.
Pianist Michael Tsalka (Valencia) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, featuring music by Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, Marianne Martinez, Elena Katz-Chernin, Aloise Pott (world premiere), Aspasia Nasopoulou, Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger, Cécile Chaminade and Violeta Dinescu; performed on a modern Steinway grand piano.
Encore: Aloyse Pott: Impromptu.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with the Association for Music Theatre Productions.

15 October 2018, Piano-Rosenkranz concert hall:
“Nachtstücke”.
Pianist Kristian Nyquist (Mannheim/Karlsruhe) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke and Nocturnes by Frédéric Chopin, John Field and Carl Czerny; on two historically appropriate instruments by the French piano-making firm Pleyel: a piano from 1832 and a grand piano from 1857.
Encores: Frédéric Chopin: Funeral March from Piano Sonata No. 2 (upright piano) and Mazurka (grand piano)
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with Piano-Rosenkranz.

27 August 2018, Assembly Hall of the Altes Gymnasium, Oldenburg:
“Jeux à deux. French piano music for four hands”.
The piano duo Ines Bartha and Gianfranco Sannicandro (Salzburg) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, performing music by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Cécile Chaminade, Francis Poulenc and Igor Stravinsky; on a modern Steinway grand piano.
Encore: Ottorino Respighi: Pini della villa Borghese.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with the German Association of Composers.

28 May 2018, Piano-Rosenkranz Concert Hall:
“Claude Debussy, French musician”. Marking the 100th anniversary of the death of the composer Claude Debussy".
Pianist Werner Barho (Bremen/Oldenburg) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, featuring music by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Lili Boulanger, Francis Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen; performed on a historically appropriate Steinway grand piano from 1917.
Encore: Gian Franco Mallipiero: Hommage from the collection *Le tombeau de Claude Debussy*.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with Piano-Rosenkranz (as part of the seminar ‘French Piano Music’ at the University of Oldenburg).

16 January 2018, Piano-Rosenkranz concert hall:
“Autour d’Erik Satie – all about Erik Satie”.
Pianist Marcia Hadjimarcos (France/USA) in conversation with Kadja Grönke on piano music by Erik Satie, Philip Glass, John Cage, Chick Corea, Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky and Claude Debussy; performed on a 1917 Steinway grand piano.
Encore: Erik Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with Piano-Rosenkranz.

15 January 2018, Piano-Rosenkranz concert hall:
“Schumann Scenes”.
Marcia Hadjimarkos (France/USA) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, featuring music by Robert Schumann and Hélène de Montgeroult; performed on a historically appropriate grand piano by the French piano manufacturer Pleyel, dating from 1857.
Encore: Hélène de Montgeroult: Étude No. 8.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with Piano-Rosenkranz.

20 November 2017, Piano-Rosenkranz concert hall:
“Seville, Granada, Aragon: Spanish music for mandolin and piano”.
Pianist Michael Tsalka (Valencia) and mandolinist Alon Sariel (Hanover) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, performing music by Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Francisco Tárrega, Manuel de Falla and Paul Ben Haim; on a historic grand piano by the French piano-making firm Érard, dating from 1850.
Encore: Carmen Fantasy.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with Piano-Rosenkranz.

23 October 2017, Piano-Rosenkranz concert hall:
“New Piano Music for Children”.
Werner Barho (Bremen/Oldenburg) and students from the University of Oldenburg in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, featuring piano music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Béla Bartók, György Kurtág, Violeta Dinescu and others, on a 1917 Steinway grand piano. Concept: Kadja Grönke, Werner Barho.
Encore: Dmitri Kabalevsky: Novellette Op . 27/5
Organised by the Institute of Music/Grönke&Barho Seminar, in co-operation with Piano-Rosenkranz (final presentation of the seminar ‘New Piano Music for Children’ at the University of Oldenburg).

4 July 2017, Piano-Rosenkranz concert hall:
“Piano music and letters by (and featuring) Claude Debussy”.
Pianist Bernd Goetzke (Hanover) reads from his translation of Debussy’s letters and performs piano music by Claude Debussy with Jung Eun Séverine Kim (Hanover) on a historically appropriate Steinway grand piano from 1917.
Encore: Debussy: *Pour évoquer Pan*, from *Epigraphes antiques*.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with Piano-Rosenkranz.
Review by Andreas Schweiberer, NWZ, 7 July 2017.

27 February 2017, Library Hall, University of Oldenburg.
“Rarities: Music for baritone and piano trio”.
Composers Paul Mertens-Pavlowsky (Berlin) and Christoph Keller (Oldenburg) in conversation with Kadja Grönke and the Panta rhei piano trio (Cologne), baritone Volker Mertens (Niederkrüchten) and music by Paul Mertens-Pavlowsky (world premiere), Christoph Keller (world premiere) and Dmitri Shostakovich. Concept: Kadja Grönke.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with the German Association of Composers.
Review by Horst Hollmann, NWZ, 1 March 2017.

28 November 2016, Piano-Rosenkranz concert hall:
“Friends – Colleagues – Rivals”.
Pianist Michael Tsalka (Israel/Spain) in dialogue with Kadja Grönke, featuring music by Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Ferdinand Ries, Clara Wieck-Schumann and Pauline Viardot-Garcia; on a historically appropriate grand piano by the French firm Érard, dating from 1850.
Encore: Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Sonata (together with mandolinist Alon Sariel).
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with Piano-Rosenkranz.

17 October 2016, Piano-Rosenkranz concert hall:
“Tchaikovsky – Reflections à la russe”.
Pianist Erik Breer (Neuss) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, featuring music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Sergei Rachmaninoff and György Ligeti; performed on a 1917 Steinway grand piano. Concept: Kadja Grönke.
Encore: J. S. Bach: Fugue in F-sharp minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with Piano-Rosenkranz and the Tchaikovsky Society e. V.

4 July 2016, Library Hall, University of Oldenburg:
“Homage to Franz Schubert”.
Pianist Julia Vaisberg (Cologne), baritone Volker Mertens (Niederkrüchten) and pianist and composer Paul Mertens-Pavlowsky (Berlin) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, featuring music by Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Peter Tchaikovsky, Gabriel Fauré, Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms and Paul Mertens-Pavlowsky (world premiere); performed on a modern Steinway grand piano. Concept: Kadja Grönke.
Encore: Schubert/Rellstab: Die Taubenpost.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium.

1 March 2016, Piano-Rosenkranz concert hall:
“Fantasy Pieces”.
Pianist Dana Ciocarlie (Paris) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, featuring piano music by Robert Schumann and Jörg Widmann; performed on a 1917 Steinway grand piano.
Encores: Robert Schumann: Novellette No . 2 and George Enescu: Carillon nocturne.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with Piano-Rosenkranz.

21 January 2016, auditorium of the Altes Gymnasium, Oldenburg.
“On the Threshold of Modernity. Marking the 100th anniversary of the death of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin.”
Pianists Christoph Keller (Oldenburg) and Werner Barho (Bremen/Oldenburg) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, featuring piano music by Alexander Scriabin; performed on a modern Steinway grand piano. Concept: Kadja Grönke.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with the German Association of Composers.

23 November 2015, Piano-Rosenkranz concert hall:
“Fire”.
Pianist Werner Barho (Bremen/Oldenburg) in conversation with Kadja Grönke, featuring piano music by Alexander Scriabin, Luciano Berio, Arthur Lourié and Claude Debussy; performed on a historically appropriate Steinway grand piano from 1917.
Encore: Leoš Janáček: ‘They chattered like the Swabians’, from *Auf verwachsenem Pfad*.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium, in co-operation with Piano-Rosenkranz.

9 November 2015, Piano-Rosenkranz concert hall:
“Sonatas”.
Pianist Raluca Stirbat (Vienna) in conversation with Kadja Grönke on the piano music of George Enescu; performed on a historically appropriate Steinway grand piano from 1917.
Encore: Costantin Silvestri: Bacchanale, from Suite No . 3, Op. 6.
Organised by the Institute of Music/Composers’ Colloquium (as a gala concert to mark the 20th anniversary of the Composers’ Colloquium at the University of Oldenburg).