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Welcome to Ars Augusta Music Projects

Music projects of the highest quality

Ars Augusta eV is a non-profit society that specializes in the production of music and theater projects. Whether baroque music, song recitals, master classes, international competitions or operas in special locations - we offer music productions of the highest standard. Important goals of the association: research into regional cultural heritage and international understanding.

Aktuelle Projekte
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Recitals 2025

Simonas Poška
Jan-Henryk Witkowski

We support particularly talented young musicians at the beginning of their careers. Lithuanian pianist Simonas Poška will perform Chopin and Liszt on May 21 and 23. The prize-winning duo (Audience Award in the Lied Competition), Jan Henryk Witkowski and Doriana Tchakarova, will give a recital of songs and arias from the Romantic and bel canto periods.

Erscheint demnächst

2025 Hammerschmidt Festjahr

Rediscovering Hammerschmidt

Ars Augusta has been selected by the European Union as a residency host to rehearse the madrigals of Zittau's Orpheus, Andreas Hammerschmidt, with an ensemble as part of the "Culture Moves Europe" program. Funded by the European Union, the Goethe Institute, Central German Baroque Music Association, and the Sparkasse Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien.

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2022, 2024, 2026

International Lied Competition "Bolko von Hochberg"

The third edition of the International Lied (Art Song) Competition "Bolko von Hochberg" will take place again in 2026. The project is a Polish-German collaboration. The first round will take place from May 30 to June 1, 2026, at the Gerhart Hauptmann Theater in Görlitz, while the semifinals and final will take place on June 3-4, 2026, at the City Theater in Jawor, Poland. The theme is "Sacred Song and Folk Song." Registration deadline: February 28, 2026.

20 & 21 Dezember 2024

"Wanderer" in Greifswald

The ballet "Wanderer" is being performed in Greifswald to mark the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich's birth.

Venue: STRAZE, Stalsunder Strasse 10, 17489 Greifswald

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2018-2025

Compagnia Sassone

Eleni Ioannidou, the association's director, is passionate about researching the region's Baroque musical heritage, particularly that of Augustus III, the Saxon King of Poland. We have already premiered several operas from the Royal Archives in Dresden, including some from the shared heritage of Wrocław and Bohemia. The young singers were selected for the "Bolko von Hochberg" song competition, and the Polish-German "Lusatian Baroque Ensemble" performs historically informed works.

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Accademia / Workshops

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Young Europe Sings

The Erasmus+ Academy for Lied Singing, which we organized together with the Slovenian cultural association Zavod Per Artem and the French association Ateliers Misuk, is co-funded by the European Union.

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Upcoming Events

Video Kanal

Antonio Bioni "Issipile" Drama per musica in tre atti | Lausitzer Barockensemble
02:29:13
Händel | Sonate F-Dur für Blockflöte Op. 1 Nr. 11 | Susan Joseph & Lausitzer Barockensemble
08:43
Ilse Weber | Wiegala | Anna Graf & Han-Lin Yun
03:16
Klaudyna Żołnierek spielt Kapsberger und de Visée (solo Theorbe) | Alte Ofenfabrik 8.9.2023
05:59
Vivaldi | "Il Gardelino" Flute concert D-Dur RV 428 | Susan Joseph | Das Lausitzer Barockensemble
10:47
Hans Pfitzner | Vier Eichendorff-Lieder | Vincent Kusters & Charlie Bo Meijering
10:24
Claude Debussy | Three preludes (2.livre) | Álvaro Baltanás
12:53
Reinhard Keiser | Ouvertüre aus "Der lächerliche Prinz Jodelet" (Das Lausitzer Barockensemble)
05:41

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