With IMUKO 2025, Koblenz is once again presenting a multifaceted festival between youth, memorial evening, chamber music and a spectacular season finale - between Rhineland history and international sound art.
With the 12th edition of the Koblenz International Music Festival (IMUKO), the city is once again embarking on an artistic journey of sound that stretches from spring to late fall. The festival kicks off with a powerful opening concert on April 27 in the Rhein-Mosel-Halle, in which the young and dynamic conductor Oscar Jockel conducts the Rhineland-Palatinate State Youth Orchestra with Brahms' 2nd Symphony and Shostakovich's 1st Cello Concerto.
A highlight follows on May 6 with a concert commemorating the end of the Second World War: the New York orchestra The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein, plays in Koblenz - a powerful symbol of peace and reconciliation. Further program highlights will take the audience to unique locations: a chamber music evening with works by Bach on 7 September in the Alte Kirche Spay, a final concert on 10 November in the Rhein-Mosel-Halle with Strauss' Don Quixote, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and a scenic production with circus artists from the Noletia Festival in Seville.
Benedict Kloeckner - Violoncello © Ervis Zika
IMUKO 2025 also offers a first-class master class program for young soloists - with lecturers such as Kirill Troussov, Lawrence Power and Christian Altenburger - as well as an innovative finale in the Creative Europe project "Sounds of Change", which spectacularly combines music and circus arts.
April 27 to November 10, 2025
