The Ramadan Festival 2010: Well-known musicians and ensembles such as the jazz formation of İlhan Erşahin, a Turk living in New York, and the Algerian superstar Khaled illustrate the diversity of oriental culture from Turkey to the Arab region.

Art meets music: Roy Lichtenstein and the Bad Plus on Thursday 30 September 2010.

Young quartet formations often rack their brains to find a suitable name. If they come from down under, everything is a bit more relaxed, because the country's most renowned string quartet is the Australian String Quartet, purely and simply.

A variety of concerts, activities behind the scenes, interesting and entertaining attractions all over. Spend an exciting day in the Kölner Philharmonie!

Benefit Concert in support of the publication of the Diabelli Variations facsimile edition by the Beethoven-Haus Bonn: Mitsuko Uchida performing Beethoven and Schumann.

Renowned for Beethoven interpretations the Artemis Quartet will perform all the string quartets of the composer in the season 2010/11. The first concert focuses on the middle period of creativity and late maturation of the composer.