Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival

Two years later, the Latvian violinist and conductor, Gidon Kremer, came to Lockenhaus and gave a "warm-up concert" preceding his Vienese Evening.

[5] Beginning in 1981, Kremer and other musicians began playing chamber music for small audiences in a less commercial, more collegial setting.

[8] By 1987, the Lockenhaus festival group included a European tour and a single American concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

[13] In 2011 Gidon Kremer passed on the artistic direction to the German/French Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt,[14][circular reference] who has been running the festival since then.

Under his directorship the festival is touring again with a small group of artists in venues like the Mozarteum Salzburg, Musikverein Graz, Konzerthaus Wien, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Schloss Elmau.

The Lockenhaus Academy for Chamber Music occurs every other year following a tradition of promoting young musicians and composers.