“The idea is to get the art song out of its somewhat cultivated, elitist corner without compromising on quality, to get closer to the emotional ember core music and to appeal to a younger audience with scenic forms. The organizers around Tom Wilmersdörffer, Philipp Nowotny and conductor Johanna Malangré succeeded particularly well in the difficult third round of this small but noble festival this year. And we hope that this will succeed again in the fourth year.”
Abendzeitung: “Kulturstern 2020” in the field of classical music for the HIDALGO Festival 2020
“In view of the coronavirus crisis, the theme of the HIDALGO Festival 2020 is almost prophetic: “Failure” in all its facets. The art song as a timeless and text-based medium serves HIDALGO as the core and starting point of the discussion. Boundaries between genres and artistic genres are dissolved, high culture meets niche.”
Federal Cultural Foundation: Funding for the HIDALGO Festival 2020
“The jury was impressed by this consistent and interdisciplinary approach to a tradition that is being redesigned with highly contemporary content and creative approaches. The innovative and contemporary program and location design already proved its worth at its premiere. [des HIDALGO]that the repositioning of the genre of art song takes it back to its origins, which lie at the beginning of the bourgeois era: after all, it has always been a very individual and direct form of artistic expression – beyond forms, conventions and institutions.”
City of Munich: Project grant “Young Art / New Media for Music 2019” for the production “Scrollen in Tiefsee – ein lyrisches Gesamtkunstwerk” (Director: Tom Wilmersdörffer)
