Programme
CHRISTMAS CONCERTS KLOSTERS: 12 - 14 December 2025
Saturday, 21 June 2025, 5 pm
At the Hotel Piz Buin, GRIZZLY’S Bar
17th General Assembly (only for members) An invitation will follow.
After the business part: Afternoon Tea Concert for everybody with Anna Juniki and Benedek Horvàth.
This concert is open to the public – please register at office@weihnachtskonzerte-klosters.ch – thank you.
Friday, 12 – Sunday, 14 December 2025
At a hotel in Klosters and in the
Church of St. Jakob
Information will follow.
The whole programme is once again devised and conducted by Stephen Johns.
Friday, 13 – Sunday, 15 December 2024
At the Silvretta Parkhotel in Klosters and in the
Church of St. Jakob
Once again we host an international line-up of musicians for the Klosters Christmas Concerts this year. In a series of three concerts, we will hear music ranging from baroque to contemporary, solo to chamber to large choral works, reflective to exuberant! Our performers include the best of the young talent from the leading conservatoire in the world, the ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC, London.
Our singers this year come from Australia and Scotland. Soprano Georgia Melville, who starred in the RCM production of The Merry Widow this year, has also performed at Glyndebourne and at stages across the globe. Scottish bass-baritone Daniel Barrett, who also starred alongside Georgia Melville in the Lehar operetta (might we have their famous duet at Klosters this year?) is a frequent performer with orchestras and conductors including Thomas Zehetmair and Gianandrea Noseda, the latter at the Verbier Festival.
Our instrumental performers are Samantha Rowe, flute, and Lucia Porcedda, clarinet. Samantha, who comes from Cornwall in England, is not only a wonderful flute player, but also a singer, pianist and composer. Lucia Porcedda, from Italy, has studied in Rome, Paris and now in London. She has played with all the major symphony orchestras in London, and her collaborations have ranged from solo to chamber to projects with musicians and dancers, the the group “Dimensione Danza”.
Once again we welcome a string quartet to our line up – with two return visitors, Emmanuel Webb and Hattie Quick, and two musicians new to Klosters – Deniz Sensoy and Clélia LeBret. This international line-up – UK, Turkey and France – will showcase both their ensemble skills and also their virtuoso performing.
Our special choir friends from Lund, Sweden, and London UK bring their well-known charm and style, and we also welcome back the Swiss star harpist, Elisa Netzer. Our pianists and organists this year will be Hamish Brown, well known to the Klosters audience, and English keyboardist, Eleanor Kornas, featuring for the first time. She followed Stephen Johns (by some years!) as organ scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later went on to study at the RCM. She is soon to be moving to a new post in the Conservatoire in Agen, France.
On Friday evening, music to take us into the Festive Season, both light and serious, and a chance to hear the amazing skills of our young performers.
On Saturday evening we will showcase our choirs and ensemble players. Choral works will include famous numbers from some of the great German oratorios, including Mendelssohn, Brahms and Haydn, along with new arrangements of Swiss songs. The concert will also feature operatic solos and duos, along with some show-stopping virtuoso solos.
Sunday afternoon takes us towards the Christmas season, with both traditional and new music for the season from around the world and featuring our wonderful choirs. The whole programme is once again devised and conducted by Stephen Johns.
Saturday, 22 June 2024, 2.30 pm
16th General Assembly (only for members) An invitation will follow.
After the business part: Afternoon Tea Concert for everybody.
Friday, 15 – Sunday, 17 December 2023
At the Silvretta Parkhotel in Klosters and in the
Church of St. Jakob
You can find detailed information in our brand new brochure.
On Friday evening again a lounge concert with flying dinner at the Silvretta Parkhotel, on Saturday classical in the church of St. Jakob and on Sunday Christmas sounds, also in the church. What Stephen Johns, Artistic Director of the ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC, London, and artistic director of the Christmas concerts, can already announce:
The musicians are booked and they are very much looking forward to coming – some again, others for the first time. Almost all of the young talents study(ed) at the RCM. For the first time, the singer, Maddie Boreham, a wonderful soprano, Christopher Michie, a top flutist, the cellist Marion Portelance (from Canada), Emmanuel Webb, violinist as well as the violist Hattie Quick (both from GB), will honour Klosters. Theodore Uggla, tenor soloist, Méline Le Calvez, clarinettist and Hamish Brown, piano/organ return. Elisa Netzer, a wonderful harpist from Switzerland, will also enchant the audience once again. The LUND SWITZERLAND SINGERS from Sweden and the ladies’ choir THE KLOSTERS LONDON SINGERS from London will add their usual sparkle to the concerts.
Saturday, 24 June 2023, 2.30 pm, at the Steinbock hotel
SAVE THE DATE!
15th General Assembly (only for members)
After the business part: Afternoon Tea Concert for everybody,
with Michal Balas, a polish cellist. (More information here)
Friday, 16 December – Sunday, 18 December 2022
At the Silvretta Parkhotel and in the
Church of St. Jakob
See our brochure 2022
The Friday concert with an Apero Riche at the Silvretta Parkhotel will be, as usual, a more intimate evening with a chance to see all of our artists up close and personal. The programme will feature Christmas carols as well as some shorter classical works.
On Saturday evening at the Church of St. Jakob, the artists and soloists will have their chance to shine. RCM vocal stars Charlotte Bowden (soprano) and Dafydd Jones (tenor) will share the stage with instrumental soloists such as the Swiss harpist Elisa Netzer, the French clarinettist, Méline Le Calvez and British trumpeter, Ruby Orlowska. The string quartet are Swiss violinist David Nebel, Turkish violinist Elif Ece Cansever, Japanese violist Otoha Tabata, and British‘ cellist Max Calver. Hamish Brown will return as our pianist.
The highlight of Saturday evening will be the world premiere of Swiss composer Tobias Krebs‘ commissioned work for Organ, String Quartet and Choir inspired by the SOUNDS OF KLOSTERS.
Speaking of Choirs, on Sunday’s Christmas Concert at the Church of St. Jakob Klosters’ favorite ensemble, THE LUND SWITZERLAND SINGERS, as well as the KLOSTERS LONDON SINGERS will close the weekend with an evening of Christmas spirit and joy. As per tradition, the prgoramme will include Christmas carols where the audience can sing along, as well as a selection of joyful and sacred repertoire that is appropriate for the season. The choirs will also perform on Friday and Saturday.
Saturday, 25 June 2022, 14.30 pm
SAVE THE DATE!
General Assembly (only for members) at the Hotel Chesa Grischuna
After the business part: Afternoon Tea Concert with Elisa Netzer (Harp) and Tommaso Maria Maggiolini (Flute), a duo from Ticino.
More information – click here.
December 10 – 12, 2021
Friday, 10.12.2021,
new: 7 pm
Lounge Concert
at the Casa Antica
Saturday, 11.12.2021,
7.30 pm
Classical Concert
at the Church St. Jakob
Sunday, 12.12.2021, 5 pm
Christmas Concert
at the Church St. Jakob
Please download the detailed programme as well as our Christmas brochure 2021 here.
The lounge concert on Friday evening had to be rescheduled at short notice for current reasons. It will be a joyful music evening gathering with atmospheric songs and classical pieces performed by choirs and soloists from all over the world, starting at 7 pm in the Casa Antica. Afterwards we will take shuttles to a dinner at the Alpenrösli. Somewhat less formal than the church concerts, but with a rich repertoire full of wonderful music.
Saturday evening’s concert will feature an evening of classical music masterpieces in the beautiful church of St. Jakob in Klosters. Performers include the highly popular LUND SWITZERLAND SINGERS, the KLOSTERS FESTIVAL SINGERS, a string quartet and four young soloists accompanied by the piano and / or organ. Many of the young international and Swiss musicians are Royal College of Music students or alumni. Music of Handel, Mozart, Rota, Schubert and much more, including popular choir music from Sweden will be performed.
The CHRISTMAS CONCERTS KLOSTERS Sunday Concert is another highlight of the weekend and one of the most popular. The concert will include a lot of Christmas repertoire, including opportunities for the public to sing along. We will additionally hear the music of Debussy, Fauré, Martin, Britten and much more played by our international young soloists, string quartet and choirs – a perfect way to kick-off the Christmas season in Klosters.
26 June 2021,
13.30 Uhr
Invitation to our General Assembly at the Hotel Piz Buin
Our members have received the invitation to the General Assembly by mail. Should this not be the case: please write an email.
Even as a non member you are cordially invited to a foretaste of the concerts in December with a performance over an Apéro starting at 3.30 pm at the Hotel Vereina – don’t miss our soloists from the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra!
Our programme.
December 11th – 13th, 2020
According to the decision of the Federal Council, events with more than 50 participants can no longer take place.
Therefore, the KLOSTERS CHRISTMAS CONCERTS 2020 will unfortunately have to be postponed. Further information will follow here.
Saturday, June 27th 2020, 2.30 pm
Invitation to our General Assembly at the Hotel Chesa Grischuna
Julieth Lozano, graduate of the Royal College of Music London and soloist of the KLOSTERS CHRISTMAS CONCERTS for the last two years, will honour us again this summer and enchant us with her beautiful voice and artistic skills. She will be joined by the young Swiss violinist Laia Braun, who was also at the RCM and is now studying at the Basel Music Academy with the world-famous violinist Rainer Schmidt. Together with Marco Scilironi (piano) they will offer an afternoon concert for members and friends of KLOSTERS MUSIC FESTIVAL. We look forward to seeing you – please send your registration to Linda.Oswald@KlostersMusicFestival.ch
December 13th – 15th, 2019 Christmas Concerts at St. Jakob’s church and Grizzly’s Bar, Hotel Piz Buin. Read More
Brochure Christmas Concerts 2019 (please click on it) Our collaboration with Stephen Johns, the ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC CHAMBER ENSEMBLE, Dr. Felix Bagge, the LUND SWITZERLAND SINGERS, the KLOSTERS FESTIVAL SINGERS and a select group of young soloists, is guaranteed to warm your hearts this pre-Christmas season. Here you get the programme – have a look at it! Tickets will be available by 15th November. Click here for more information on ticket sales.
June 29th, 2019 KLOSTERS ALPINE CONCERTS, General Assembly
Hotel Vereina Klosters 4:00 pm General Assembly 5:00 pm Cocktail with Canapes Featuring a concert in partnership with KALAIDOS-UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH Anastasia Vorotnaya – Piano Leo Esselson – Violin