Piano and chamber music is the second focus of the Kissinger Sommer. Pianists of international renown can be heard not only in the symphony concerts, but also in numerous recitals and chamber music programmes. Leif Ove Andsnes, Rudolf Buchbinder, Khatia Buniatishvili, Hélène Grimaud, Martin Helmchen, Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Jan Lisiecki, Nikolay Lugansky, Sir Andras Schiff, Grigory Sokolov, Daniil Trifonov and many others can be heard here regularly, as can the winners of the Kissinger KlavierOlymps, where the stars of tomorrow can often be discovered today.
Whether violin sonatas, string quartets or more unusual instrumentations - the big wide world of chamber music can be explored anew every year at Kissinger Sommer and offers plenty of room for the unknown and surprising alongside the established pillars of the repertoire. And with the best advocates: Clarinettist Sabine Meier is one of the festival's close companions, as is star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinists such as Janine Jansen, Isabelle Faust, Julia Fischer and Frank Peter Zimmermann, cellists such as Alban Gerhard, Steven Isserlis and Daniel Müller-Schott, violists such as Nils Mönkemeyer and mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital are just some of the many others who make themselves heard at Kissinger Sommer.
The Rossini Hall in the Regentenbau provides the perfect setting for chamber music events, some piano recitals also take place in the large Max Littmann Hall, while other chamber concerts attract audiences to external venues such as Aschach Castle, Maria Bildhausen Monastery or Bad Brückenau.