21 Aug– 6 Sep
FestivalNow on
Kunstfest Weimar
21 August – 6 September 2026
Late August into early September
Central Germany's largest festival of contemporary arts, closing the city's summer at the turn from August into September.
ConcertEvery year
Weimarer Meisterkurse
Weimar Master Classes
A fortnight of international master classes at the conservatory — and the public gets to sit in on the concerts.
Two weeks from late July into early August, every summer
25 Jul– 8 Aug
The next edition has not been announced yet
About Weimarer Meisterkurse
For a fortnight from the end of July the conservatory fills with musicians who have come to be taught — and the teaching is not the private part: the course concerts, the films and the closing night are all open to anyone who turns up.
Who teaches, and what
Violin with Nora Chastain and Tanja Becker-Bender, cello with Wen-Sinn Yang and Troels Svane, flute with Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren, piano with Lilya Zilberstein and Imre Rohmann, composition with the Rome prize-holders of the Villa Massimo, and an orchestra studio alongside them. The 2026 edition was the sixty-sixth.
The public half
Course concerts run through the fortnight in the conservatory's own halls, music films are shown at the mon ami cinema, and the academy ends with a concert at the Weimarhalle in which the participants judged best play with an orchestra. None of it requires any connection to the school.
Why it is worth going
Hearing a musician at the exact moment they are being pushed past their present level is a particular kind of evening, and quite unlike a finished concert.
Dates
- 25 July – 8 August 2026
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Organiser
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Facts checked against the organiser on 29 August 2026