•  2012 International Kestenberg Congress in Tel Aviv

more information will follow.

• 9. Juni 2010: Leo Kestenberg Evening, Goethe-Institut Jerusalem

  lecturer: Ann-Kathrin Seidel

• June, 20, 2009, 5-8 p.m., inaugural meeting of the International Leo Kestenberg Society.

Rathaus Schöneberg (town hall Schöneberg), Berlin, room 1108.

•  Mai 18, 2009, 8 p.m.

Freiburg University, Hs 1015: 

The Studium Generale of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Society for Christian-Jewish Collaboration Freiburg together with the Rombach edition house:

Presentation of the first volume of Leo Kestenberg´s collected writings

with a lecture by the editor, Prof. emer. Dr. Wilfried Gruhn:

"Kulturpolitik und Kunst. Leo Kestenbergs Wirken in Berlin und Tel Aviv"

• April 23, 2009, 18.00 Uhr 

UdK Berlin , Kammersaal , Fasanenstr. 1 B , Berlin-Charlottenburg

Presentation of the book: "Leo Kestenberg. Musikpädagoge und Musikpolitiker in Berlin, Prag und Tel Aviv"

Presentation of the volume with the contributions of the Kestenberg Symposium 2005, ed. by Susanne Fontaine, Ulrich Mahlert, Dietmar Schenk und Theda Weber-Lucks, with musical framing by Thomas Menrath (piano) 

• October 24, 2008, 2 p.m.: first public concert of the "German-Israeli Strings" as part of the German-Israeli exchange week
• October 25, 2008, 7 p.m.: second public concert of the "German-Israeli Strings" as part of the German-Israeli exchange week

Venue: Rathaus Friedenau, Schlesiensaal, Breslauer Platz, 12159 Berlin.

• October 20-27, 2008

First German-Israeli Exchange Week for young orchestra pupils in Berlin

During the third week in October, the string ensemble of the Givatayim Conservatory, Tel Aviv visited the Leo Kestenberg Music School in Berlin. Both institutions share a strong relation to the ideas and work of Leo Kestenberg. The Leo Kestenberg Music School in Berlin was named for him in 2000, to pay tribute to the man who actually created the model for today's music schools. The Givatayim Conservatory owes its existence to Kestenberg's inspiring influence. Its founders were pupils at the Music Teachers' Seminar in Tel Aviv, which Kestenberg founded and directed.

In rehearsals lasting several hours each day, teachers and orchestra pupils from both music schools worked on a concert program that they presented only a brief 5 to 6 days later - twice! The young "German-Israeli Strings", whose members range from 12 to 20 years old, were conducted by Alexander Ramm (Berlin) and Barak Tal (Givatayim/Tel Aviv).

• 2008, 25.4.-8.6. For the first time the Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Galery) in Berlin showed the portrait  "Leo Kestenberg" (1926/27) by Oskar Kokoschka. The oil painting was purchased by the museum development association Freunde der Nationalgalerie for the collection of the Nationalgalerie.

• 2008  Seminar: Maria Leo, bedeutende Musikpädagogin der Kestenberg-Ära, und die Aktualität der Tonika-Do-Methode. Invited lecturers: Christine Rhode-Jüchtern, Christhard Zimpel and Martin Losert. .

• 2006 June 17th, memorial event: A Stumbling Block for Maria Leo

• 2005 December 19th. "Leo Kestenberg" An Evening of Music: a broadcast by Volker Michael. Deutschlandradio Kultur. With recorded excerpts from the concert "Hommage à Busoni" (Dec. 2, 2005) and the panel discussion with contemporary eyewitnesses (Dec. 4, 2005). Both took place under the auspices of the Berlin Kestenberg Symposium 2005.

• 2005 December 4th, Panel discussion with contemporary eyewitnesses

• 2005 December 2nd, "Hommage à Busoni" concert

• 2005 December 1st, opening of the Leo Kestenberg exhibition "Leo Kestenberg (1882-1962). The Unity of Artistic and Social Responsibility - a Vision?"

• 2005 December 1st-4th, Leo Kestenberg Symposium

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