Summer-Festival: Debut Jonas Müller

The jury was unanimous: the 2025 Music Prize of the German Economy goes to the young baritone Jonas Müller! Born in Lower Bavaria in 1999, Müller could celebrate not only the € 15,000 award but also his debut concert at Lucerne Festival. He impressed with an intelligent program that, as the jury noted, was “marked by authenticity and seriousness.” He follows the same principle in his Lucerne recital. Under the theme “Somewhere in the World,” he sings of longing for faraway places and for home, of dreams of love and of solitude — with settings by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler and Hanns Eisler. From Eisler, he performs six songs from the Hollywood Songbook: his contribution to this summer’s theme, “American Dreams.” Jonas Müller has already won numerous prizes, including as a duo with his piano partner Anna Gebhardt. Since the fall of 2025, the student of Christian Gerhaher has been a member of the Opera Studio of Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut as Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praised him for “vocal elegance and a fine touch of comedy.”

This concert is part of the Kulturkreis tour, which gives the winners of the Music Prize of the German Economy the opportunity to perform at renowned partner festivals – including the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival. The Kulturkreis’s music funding is supported by G. Henle Verlag, the Peter Klöckner Foundation, and Dr. Arend Oetker.

Performers:
Jonas Müller, baritone
Anna Gebhardt, piano

Program:
“Somewhere in the World”

Promise: he happily found the fairer land
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Drang in die Ferne, D 770

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Liederkreis, Op. 24

Reality: where are you, my beloved land?
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Der Wanderer, D 493

Hanns Eisler (1898–1962)
from the Hollywood Songbook:
Five Elegies
An den kleinen Radioapparat

Last hope: now everything must change
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Frühlingsglaube, D 686

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

This concert has no intermission

Tickets from 24.03.2026 | 10.00 am (CET)