Walkenrieder Kreuzgangkonzerte

[1] From 1980 onwards, extensive redevelopment and restoration measures began in Walkenried Abbey, whereby the cloister, which had been open until then, received its leaded windows.

These construction measures under the direction of the then Chief District Director Friedrich-Karl Böttcher, who accompanied the reconstruction until his retirement in 1999, laid the foundation for the cloister concerts.

As of 2015, the Landkreis Osterode am Harz as the sponsor and the Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz as the owner of the monastery complex have entrusted the artistic direction of the concerts to an advisory board.

[4] Since their inception, the Walkenried Cloister Concerts have been arranged by top-class artists and personalities, such as, among others: Abegg Trio, Hermann Prey, Margaret Price, Thomas Quasthoff, Ludwig Güttler, Alban Berg Quartet, Pepe Romero, Norbert Blüm, Göttinger Symphonie Orchester, Gerhard Schöne, Thekla Carola Wied, Götz Alsmann, Dieter Bellmann, Main-Barockorchester Frankfurt, Elke Heidenreich, Captain Cook und seine singenden Saxophone, Henryk Böhm (baritone) and Gerrit Zitterbart, Bachorchester zu Leipzig, Jochen Kowalski and Junges Barockorchester Berlin, Philharmonic Brass Dresden, Giora Feidman and Gitanes Blondes, Qntal, Ulrike Kriener and Gudrun Haag (harp), Bläsersolisten der Staatskapelle Berlin, Vokalensemble VocaMe, Ralf Bauer and Emil Rovner (violoncello), Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Ensemble Frauenkirche Dresden with Matthias Grünert, Ensemble Amarcord, Denis Wittberg (singer) and his Shellac soloists, Staatsorchester Braunschweig in Barockbesetzung, Dresdner Kapellsolisten, Pater Anselm Grün with Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen and Oskar Göpfert, Felix Klieser und Michael Schäfer, Andreas Hartmann mit dem Thüringer-Salonquintett, David Orlowsky Trio, Jörg Faßmann with Lenka Matějáková and Cornelia Osterwald "Barocktrio Dresden-Leipzig", Chursächsische Capelle Leipzig, Staatsorchester Braunschweig in großen Besetzung, Viva Voce [de], New York Polyphony (vocal music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance), Los Romeros, Anne Schoenen and Band "Die SCHOENEN", Günther Maria Halmer and Jörg Fuhrländer (accordion), Bolero Berlin – Berliner Philharmoniker einmal anders, Wilhelm Bruns with the Parforcehorn [de] Ensemble "Les Amazones", Mitteldeutsches Kammerorchester, Ulrich Pleitgen, Figurentheater Gingganz, Bremer Kaffeehaus-Orchester, Schola Gregoriana Pragensis (Prague) and Buddhists of the Tendai School "Gjosan-rjù" (Japan), Gregor Gysi and Friedrich Schorlemmer, Loh-Orchester Sondershausen, Bernd Kaftan (actor) and Michael Schäfer (piano), Giora Feidman and Rastrelli Cello Quartet, Basta (a cappella group), Rapalje (Celtic folk music), Gunter Schoß (speaker) and Frank Fröhlich (guitar), Erzgebirgsensemble Aue, Salonorchester Cappuccino, Capellchor Halle of the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle with the Bach Consort, Gitanes Blondes, Sky du Mont, Frank Vitzhum (countertenor) and Julian Behr (lute), Till Brönner and Dieter Ilg, Thomanerchor Leipzig, MozART group, Stefan Gwildis, Gamain (Celtic Folk Music), Christian Funke (violin) and Stefan Altner (organ), Klenke Quartet, Anne Schierack (vocals) and Frank Fröhlich (guitar), vocal ensemble Niniwe, Brass-Band Federspiel, Peter Hahne, Avi Avital and Aydar Gaynullin, Staatsorchester Braunschweig with Salomo Schweizer, Volker Heißmann and Pavel Sandorf Quartet, wind soloists of the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig, Giora Feidman with Enrique Ugarte and Torsten Münchow, Göttinger Symphonie Orchester with Niklas Liepe, Paul Maar and Capella Antiqua Bambergensis, Tine Thing Helseth and Ensemble "tenThing", Moskauer Kathedralchor [de], Gismo Graf Trio, Ensemble International, Andrea Sawatzki, Canadian Brass, Christoph Grohmann.

The Walkenrieder Kreuzgangkonzerte have been a series of events organised by the Landkreis Osterode am Harz in cooperation with the Förderkreis Kloster Walkenried since 1983.

In 2015, the owner of the property Walkenried Monastery, the Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz (SBK), took over the sponsorship of the cloister concerts from the district of Osterode am Harz.