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Dear visitors and music lovers, tens, and we are particularly glad to note
the progress achieved in the neighborhood
The port of Duisburg celebrates its 300th an- of Duisburg-Marxloh, where the Festival’s
niversary in 2016. As CEO and President of the educational activities touch the lives of pupils
management company Duisburger Hafen AG from immigrant families – children who often
(duisport), I am particularly glad to take up the speak hardly any German at all. The Education
succession of Heinrich Hiesinger as Patron of Program also includes our Discovery Projects,
the Ruhr Piano Festival in a year as momentous designed to include elementary and secondary
as this one for the City of Duisburg and for our school pupils from all walks of life, as well as
region. To celebrate our anniversary, duisport is those who attend the school for handicapped
also gladly assuming the role of Main Sponsor children, located in Buchholz: these projects
of this year’s Festival activities – a function have received a number of awards and are
that was taken up for the first time in 2015 by acclaimed as models of effective teaching and
the NATIONAL-BANK of Essen. As a long-time integration.
member of the Circle of Ruhr Initiatives, I am
familiar with the Festival – its cultural model These excellent examples of social commit-
project – and am thoroughly aware of this ment on the part of the Ruhr Piano Festival
event’s immense value for our region. The Ruhr make all of us at the Circle of Ruhr Initiatives
Piano Festival has become the largest and most particularly proud. As one of the Circle’s for-
important piano event worldwide, thanks to mer co-moderators, I am glad that I was able
long-term support on the part of the Circle of to help ensure that it still holds true to its es-
Ruhr Initiatives and its member enterprises, sential role as the Festival’s General Sponsor. I
and on the part of a great number of private wish to thank all those who have helped make
donors who have emerged since the Ruhr this success become a reality: all members of
Piano Festival Foundation was established in the Circle of Ruhr Initiatives, all of the Festi-
2011. val’s corporate sponsors and private donators,
its partner foundations, selected promoters of
The Festival has thus embarked on a new form individual projects, and, last not least, the As-
of existence as an autonomous institution sociation of Friends and Promoters of the Ruhr
capable of long-term feasibility. Apart from Piano Festival. What would a Festival ever be,
sponsoring provided by more than 50 different however, without its charismatic artists and its
enterprises, Festival Director Franz Xaver Oh- enthusiastic audience?
nesorg (recently honored with the title “Citizen
of the Ruhr Region”) has managed to mobilize Thus, along with you, dear audience, I look
a great number of individual music lovers who forward to this year’s programme of events,
have committed themselves to become bene- which has once more been put together for
factors on a regular basis. It is very satisfying to us with a great deal of know-how and imagi-
note that the Festival thus maintains its status nation. I thank our artists for having remained
as a 100 % privately financed event. With a faithful to the Festival, and I look forward to
top-notch roster of artists, Mr Ohnesorg and welcoming a great number of concertgoers.
his excellent team have continued to uphold Come celebrate with us – that is my heartfelt
the Festival’s superior international reputation. invitation to all of you!
They have also been consistently enlarging
the Festival’s Education Program initiated in
2006: these annually recurring pedagogical
projects now serve as an important long-term
contribution to the Ruhr Region’s vitality. We
can now look back on ten years of successful
work in the Little Piano School; 17 KlavierGärten
are underway in nurseries and kindergar-
10 Klavier-Festival Ruhr 2016
the progress achieved in the neighborhood
The port of Duisburg celebrates its 300th an- of Duisburg-Marxloh, where the Festival’s
niversary in 2016. As CEO and President of the educational activities touch the lives of pupils
management company Duisburger Hafen AG from immigrant families – children who often
(duisport), I am particularly glad to take up the speak hardly any German at all. The Education
succession of Heinrich Hiesinger as Patron of Program also includes our Discovery Projects,
the Ruhr Piano Festival in a year as momentous designed to include elementary and secondary
as this one for the City of Duisburg and for our school pupils from all walks of life, as well as
region. To celebrate our anniversary, duisport is those who attend the school for handicapped
also gladly assuming the role of Main Sponsor children, located in Buchholz: these projects
of this year’s Festival activities – a function have received a number of awards and are
that was taken up for the first time in 2015 by acclaimed as models of effective teaching and
the NATIONAL-BANK of Essen. As a long-time integration.
member of the Circle of Ruhr Initiatives, I am
familiar with the Festival – its cultural model These excellent examples of social commit-
project – and am thoroughly aware of this ment on the part of the Ruhr Piano Festival
event’s immense value for our region. The Ruhr make all of us at the Circle of Ruhr Initiatives
Piano Festival has become the largest and most particularly proud. As one of the Circle’s for-
important piano event worldwide, thanks to mer co-moderators, I am glad that I was able
long-term support on the part of the Circle of to help ensure that it still holds true to its es-
Ruhr Initiatives and its member enterprises, sential role as the Festival’s General Sponsor. I
and on the part of a great number of private wish to thank all those who have helped make
donors who have emerged since the Ruhr this success become a reality: all members of
Piano Festival Foundation was established in the Circle of Ruhr Initiatives, all of the Festi-
2011. val’s corporate sponsors and private donators,
its partner foundations, selected promoters of
The Festival has thus embarked on a new form individual projects, and, last not least, the As-
of existence as an autonomous institution sociation of Friends and Promoters of the Ruhr
capable of long-term feasibility. Apart from Piano Festival. What would a Festival ever be,
sponsoring provided by more than 50 different however, without its charismatic artists and its
enterprises, Festival Director Franz Xaver Oh- enthusiastic audience?
nesorg (recently honored with the title “Citizen
of the Ruhr Region”) has managed to mobilize Thus, along with you, dear audience, I look
a great number of individual music lovers who forward to this year’s programme of events,
have committed themselves to become bene- which has once more been put together for
factors on a regular basis. It is very satisfying to us with a great deal of know-how and imagi-
note that the Festival thus maintains its status nation. I thank our artists for having remained
as a 100 % privately financed event. With a faithful to the Festival, and I look forward to
top-notch roster of artists, Mr Ohnesorg and welcoming a great number of concertgoers.
his excellent team have continued to uphold Come celebrate with us – that is my heartfelt
the Festival’s superior international reputation. invitation to all of you!
They have also been consistently enlarging
the Festival’s Education Program initiated in
2006: these annually recurring pedagogical
projects now serve as an important long-term
contribution to the Ruhr Region’s vitality. We
can now look back on ten years of successful
work in the Little Piano School; 17 KlavierGärten
are underway in nurseries and kindergar-
10 Klavier-Festival Ruhr 2016
