Ebrach Summer Music Festival

The Summer Music Festival at Ebrach in Franconia) was established in 1990 by Gerd Schaller, who conducts it and is its artistic director.

The Ebrach Summer Music Festival gained international repute above all through the performance and complete recording of all Anton Bruckner's Symphonies with the Philharmonie Festiva conducted by Gerd Schaller and the BRUCKNER2024 project.

Bayerisches Fernsehen, television channel of Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), filmed the abbey church performance of Franz von Suppé's Requiem with the Munich Philharmonic Choir and the Philharmonie Festiva (broadcast by 3sat and other TV stations outside Bavaria).

Revivals of Karl Goldmark's opera Merlin and Johann Ritter von Herbeck's Great Mass in E minor took place in the Bad Kissingen Regentenbau.

The concert recordings were made in collaboration with BR's Studio Franken and released on the Profil label of Edition Günter Hänssler.