The program includes classics of music history as well as musical delicacies and new discoveries. Among others, pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Francis Poulenc, Karol Szymanowski, Ian Clarke and Paul Taffanel will be performed.

This afternoon will focus on duos from the state competition "Jugend musiziert" and the instruments violin/piano, flute/piano, but cello solo and piano duo will also be heard.

The young talents come from all over Germany and are looking forward to their performance in the Fürstensaal at Salder Castle.

The audience can look forward to an extraordinary concert.

Professor Martin Brauß will also be giving a short lecture on the importance of promoting gifted students and the educational tasks of music schools.

Information about the young talents:

All of the musicians were awarded first prizes at "Jugend musiziert" competitions and some were awarded special prizes:

• Mina Selina and Marie Elisa Himpel won a first prize ex aequo in their age group as a duo at the Carl Bechstein Competition in Berlin in 2023.
• Tamaki Steinert is a scholarship holder of the Albert Eckstein Foundation and the Sparkassenstiftung Gifhorn-Wolfsburg and a member of the German National Youth Orchestra.
• Finja Hähndel is a member of the Lower Saxony Youth Orchestra.
• Charlotte Melkonian won first prize in her age group at the first International Grunewald Competition in Berlin in 2024 and also first prize at the International Klaipeda David Geringas Cello Competition in Lithuania in 2023.
• Elisabeth Eidel was awarded the NDR Kultur Förderpreis in 2023.
  Babett Lehnert won first prize in her age group at the International Bitburg Piano Competition with the highest score.
• Babett Lehnert, Finja Hähndel, Mina Himpel and Tamaki Steinert are early students at the Institut zur Früh-Förderung musikalisch Hochbegabter (IFF) at the Hanover University of Music.

Charlotte Melkonian is a pupil in the IFF's preliminary class (VIFF), and Elisabeth Eidel completed her early studies last year and is now studying piano at the Hanover University of Music.

The youngest is Charlotte at the age of ten and the oldest is Elisabeth at 20.