Deutsche Welle presents the Beethovenfest to the world

As the main media partner at the Beethovenfest Bonn, Deutsche Welle will report on its outstanding concerts and projects while supporting the event with DW's expertise in international cultural and media affairs.

"The significance of music in our programming is also evident in our role at the Beethovenfest: As one of its partners, we provide access to the festival to people around the world - with TV reports, dedicated pages online, concert recordings and podcasts," says DW Director General Peter Limbourg. Audiences can expect coverage that includes reports from the festival and portraits of musicians in many of DW's 30 languages. Additionally, DW will distribute recordings of the concerts to rebroadcasting partners, including stations in the US, Russia, Turkey and South America.

Orchestra Campus "Beethoven ile bulusma - Encounter with Beethoven"As part of the Orchestra Campus project led by DW and the Beethovenfest, the Bilkent Symphony Youth Orchestra (BGSO) under Isin Metin will be in residency in Bonn. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has assumed the patronage for this year's Orchestra Campus. "Beethoven ile bulusma – Encounters with Beethoven," the motto for the three-year German-Turkish cultural project, will round out in 2014. At www.dw.de/turkish, Turkish-speaking users can take in the quality of the Orchestra Campus project.

Premiere of "Tableaux Vivants d'une Resistance"The young musicians from Ankara are aged 18 to 25. On September 23, they will perform a work commissioned by Deutsche Welle from Turkish composer Tolga Yayalar. His piece "Tableaux Vivants d'une Resistance" developed out of the Gezi park protests in Istanbul in 2013, the 41-year-old says. He adds that it's neither program music nor a work that describes what transpired. Instead, he says he conceived the work as a purely acoustic and kinesthetic experience – about what it's like for thousands of people to be on the streets, singing, shouting and fleeing from the police.

Concert introduction with Tolga Yayalar

Isin Metin will conduct the premiere of the work on September 23 in Bonn, followed by a performance on September 25 in Berlin. Ahead of the concert in Bonn, Yayalar will speak beginning at 7:30 p.m. with Adelheid Feilcke (DW) about his work, artistic freedom in Turkey and the significance of music and culture in Turkish society. Ludwig van Beethoven's ninth symphony is on the program. The choral parts will be sung by Turkish and German soloists as well as a Bonn choir. DW will follow the premiere with thorough reporting, including a TV portrait of the composer. The concert will also be broadcast by media partners in Turkey as well as in Latin America, Russia and the US.

Public viewing in Bonn

In Bonn, DW will take part in the festival's public viewing at the central market square. On September 7, DW moderator Meike Krüger will present a three-hour stage program with speakers including horn player Sarah Willis and pianist Sebastian Knauer. Afterwards, the guests can witness a live transmission of the concert featuring the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under conductor Andris Nelsons with Ludwig van Beethoven's First and Third Symphonies.